Chapter 3: Rising to the Fore (part 2 of 5)
Zhong Lifang is really domineering, according to media reports: single-handedly broke into Manhattan, New York, to fight with six major companies and successfully won the digital domain!
Digital Domain, founded by James Cameron and later acquired by Michael Bay, is now one of the world's top VFX companies.
The reason why Xiaoma wants to acquire Digital Domain is to accumulate momentum and prepare for the listing, and on the other hand, it is Wu Yusen's masterpiece "Taiping Wheel"...
Digital Domain itself is a special effects company created by Cameron specifically for "Titanic", and there are already a lot of related materials, and it will be much easier to use them to make "Taiping Wheel"!
Purchase price: $30.2 million!
And it was filmed in collaboration with India's Reliance Media, India's largest telecom operator - declared bankruptcy in 2019...
Pony Pento acquires all of Digital Domain's core businesses – including film, visual effects, advertising production, virtual human synthesis and other valuable assets.
However, the most surprising thing is that Zhong Lifang announced that she would leave Pony and switch to Orange Imaging before returning to China...
Don't talk about the outside world, even Lu Xiaoran is stunned...
Sister, you're going to roast oranges on the fire!
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A month later, the front page of Fujisun Entertainment's homepage pushed Zhong Lifang's interview:
It's not so much an interview as a promotion for Orange Images.
"I still like to make movies, and it feels more comfortable to be on the set;"
"The pony is a bit complicated inside, with too many voices and too many constraints;"
"I've been working with Lu Xiaoran for three years, he is a pure filmmaker, I've seen everyone in Orange Images, they are all a group of people who want to make movies and are willing to make movies, I like people like this;"
"Orange is currently focusing on TV dramas and film production, and only does content, which is the biggest advantage. ”
"We discussed and then came to the conclusion that in the face of the increasingly stringent requirements of the market and the increasing expectations of the audience, we realized that we needed to devote more, or even all of our energy, to content creation, and artists who were in the rising stage of their careers also needed more professional personal planning and long-term strategic planning. ”
"Therefore, we will suspend the artist brokerage, the current company's artists, will continue to cooperate in the future, of course, will not leave it alone, the company has planned a five-year plan, will work with TV and radio media, media and radio media to create five to six TV series, movies, in addition to the announced film list, Lu Xiaoran also has science fiction attempts;"
"Orange Image itself has a group of stable and high-quality creative teams such as Lu Xiaoran, Xu Zheng, Yang Qing, Ning Hao, etc., and it is a team-oriented company. ”
"Ning Hao will join Orange Imaging as a partner, he has his own mature team, and he already has a new project, called "The Great Gold Robbery", and the script is still being improved;"
"In addition, we have reached a cooperation with Happy Twist, and we will help them film and television many mature dramas of Happy Twist;"
"Different genes create different development directions and business models, Orange has the genes of project managers, and the worst thing about the project system is to do too much management. The advantage of talent management is that although it does not require too much investment, it requires more management, and as talent management becomes more complex, many companies can easily lose more in this area. ”
"There is a natural contradiction between film and television production + artist management: film and television production needs to compress remuneration and costs, while artist agency needs to make a profit. ”
"Orange will not enter the industrial terminal and will not do cinemas, because it requires too much energy, focusing on content production, and the probability of producing high-quality products will be much higher!"
"At present, we have opened a round of financing, which companies are shared, you can see the announcement, I only say the data, the first round of financing of Orange Image is 280 million, and the first round of financing of Orange Ticketing is 460 million!"
"China's film market is promising, last month, the State Council promulgated the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Prosperity and Development of the Film Industry", which is a huge benefit to Chinese films, it is foreseeable that a large number of funds will pour into the film market, in fact, we got the news, from the promulgation of the "Guiding Opinions" in January, in just two months, there have been 280 films submitted for review, and 180 have been determined to be too deep, you must know that only 480 films were released last year!"
"By the way, the current 3D technology is not particularly mature, Lu Xiaoran and a few of them spent half a month to understand the so-called 3D shooting, in the second half of this year, he will take the time to shoot a 3D sci-fi short film, put it on the market, and see how the audience responds, if the response is good, this short film will be expanded into a 120-minute movie, please pay more attention to it then!"
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There is a saying in the circle: Huayi brothers have two hands, Feng Xiaogang + Chen Guofu;
Some people even said, 'Give me Feng Xiaogang + Chen Guofu, and I can also create a Huayi Brother!'
It's true, a top director + a top producer can really support a big company!
Zhong Lifang herself is a top producer, Pony Penteng's pioneering work "The Sky of History", the producer is Li Ming + Zhong Lifang, how sensitive is the scale of "The Sky of History", with Zhong Lifang's efforts, all parties coordinated, and finally broadcast!
Fight to fame.
After that, "Close to You Warm Me", "Sweet Honey", and "The Age We Live In", she served as an independent producer;
In 07, Xiaoma entered the film business, and Zhong Lifang was the producer of the first movie "Anti-Drug Police", and then "Left and Right", "Border Storm", and "Rescue Mr. Wu", all of which she single-handedly created...
Then, in 09, Xiaoma planned to go public, and Zhong Lifang's business changed again and became the company's deputy director, specializing in financing...
Just looking at this resume, I think this woman's real Nima is awesome!
It's almighty!
It can be said that she single-handedly laid down half of the pony's country!
But after all, she doesn't believe in Li, she's not her own person...
The cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks...
Of course, she thanked Li Ming for his kindness and gave her enough authority and a large enough platform to show herself.
However, the inside of the pony is too complicated, and there are too many sounds...
Now it is still in the development stage, there are so many voices, I can't imagine how a group of people will fight for power if it goes public...
She talked to Li Ming all afternoon, and then Li Ming let her go...
Li Dagou is a very resolute person, he can afford to take it, he can put it down, since you don't want to stay here, then let's go, the pony Bento was created by him, as long as he is there, the pony will definitely gallop all the way...
And Orange Imaging has always had business dealings with ponies.,It's a brother company.。
Also, he has always known that Lu Xiaoran covets Zhong Lifang in various ways - the executive CEO of Orange Image has been empty, just to welcome Zhong Lifang!
It's okay, Zhong Lifang is much better to go to Orange Imaging than to join Huayi or something.
It's just that no one expected that with Zhong Lifang's departure, Orange Image immediately started the financing plan, and many investors who were originally optimistic about Pony have bet on Orange.
Before he could speak, Li Li directly posted on Weibo accusing Zhong Lifang of treachery, mocking Orange Image for only picking up ready-made ones, and saying what kind of non-compete agreement...
directly strained the relationship between the two companies.
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