Star Wars can be said to be George Lucas's fame, although he was shortlisted for the Best Original Screenplay Award and Best Director Award at the 46th Academy Awards in March this year for the comedy film "American Painting", but this is only a finalist and has not yet won the award.

All in all, George Lucas was unlucky this year, he finally made a good comedy movie, but he ran into "The Godfather", which is at the top of the major movie rating lists even decades later.

did not win an award, George Lucas was naturally unwilling, and always wanted to make a blockbuster film to shock the world, and it happened that Twentieth Century Fox threw an olive branch to him, a young star director, thinking that the other party's family had a big business, and he wanted to invest no less money, so he chose to join.

And the first film he wanted to make after joining Twentieth Century Fox was "1999 - Our Journey is the Sea of Stars" that made his heart flutter a few years ago.

In the seemingly bizarre and vast universe, there are countless killing opportunities hidden, and each civilization is like a cunning and sophisticated hunter, silently hiding in the depths of the dark forest, holding a shotgun and waiting for the arrival of its prey.

Alpha Star Civilization, Saturn Civilization, Martian Civilization ......

A series of different cosmic lifeforms, the strange and cunning laws of the cosmic dark forest, prompted George Lucas to move the idea of shooting.

It took almost two months for him to say that he moved the people of Twentieth Century Fox to choose to spend a lot of money to make this movie, after all, such a huge movie showing the universe requires more than half a star.

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"General Manager?"

Yao Wenjie saw the boss's eyes fluttering, and couldn't help shouting.

"Forehead ......"

When Huo Yaowen came back to his senses, he glanced at Yao Wenjie, remembered his words before, and said: "Wait for the movie first, I'll think about it." ”

According to the original timeline, "Star Wars" was filmed in 1977, before that, George Lucas deliberately set up an industrial light and magic special effects company in order to shoot this movie, and now there is no hair, who knows if it will be made into a special effects film like Ultraman?

"Yes. Yao Wenjie nodded.

Huo Yaowen looked at Lin Xiaotang, "What about you, Editor-in-Chief Lin?"

"That's the general manager...... Lin Xiaotang handed over the comic book he was holding, and continued: "Didn't I tell you before that I wanted to make the comic book into a colorful painting? This is a color comic book that was just printed in the morning, and the overall effect is very good, but because it is painted, the cost will increase. ”

I took the comic book, and on the cover was a painted demon beast, and on the left it was written: Ancient Fierce Beast Qiqi.

Simply flipped through a few pages, although the color was very poor in Huo Yaowen's opinion, and it was not as delicate as hand-painted at all, but in today's view, it is not bad, at least the character shape has become plump.

"It's not bad, how much has the cost increased?" Huo Yaowen looked up and asked.

"I have calculated that if it is printed in large quantities, the cost will be a little lower, but it is still almost 40 percent higher than before!" Lin Xiaotang sighed and said: "Nowadays, the price of color ink is expensive, even if it is purchased in large quantities, it is difficult to reduce the price. ”

Now the price of a Kyushu comic is the same as the original book, it is five yuan, which is already a high price in today's Hong Kong, and five yuan can buy two bowls of wings.

But if you use color painting, then the price must be sold for at least seven to eight yuan to make the previous profit, otherwise it will be a little unworthy, which is also where Lin Xiaotang is entangled.

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen pondered for a few seconds and asked, "How much does Kyushu Comics sell in Hong Kong every month now?"

"There has been a decline in the last two months, but it has not dropped much, averaging about 15,000 copies a week and about 60,000 copies a month. ”

60,000 copies a month is not bad, Huo Yaowen suddenly thought of something, and asked, "What about Taiwan and Japan?"

"I don't know much about Taiwan this month, but last month Aoki Publishing reported to us a total of 120,000 copies. As for Japan, Kodansha sent us a telegram in March, and the total sales were 390,000 copies. ”

"Japan sells so much!"

Hearing that Japan had sold so much, Huo Yaowen's eyes couldn't help but widen, thinking that Japan, which is worthy of being the originator of otaku, sold 390,000 copies in a month.

"Yes, General Manager, I was also surprised when I heard the news. ”

Lin Xiaotang also feels a little incredible, Hong Kong and Taiwan are both the original Kyushu Weekly sells high, and comics sell relatively low, after all, many adults think that reading comic books is a child's behavior.

But in Japan, the opposite is true, and the original weekly books do not sell much, but comic books sell very well.

Huo Yaowen was surprised at first and relieved that Japan had sold so many Kyushu comic books, after all, the comic market there was already large, otherwise it would not have given birth to the Japanese comic industry, which is enough to affect the world's comic pattern.

didn't think about Riman, Huo Yaowen put his mind on the increase in the cost of painted comics that Lin Xiaotang said just now.

Now whether it is Hong Kong, Taiwan or Japan, comic books are almost all black and white comics as the mainstream, on the one hand, color printing presses are very expensive, ordinary comic companies cannot afford to use, and secondly, the cost of color painting will be greatly increased, which is not conducive to sales.

But if you want to be the leading benchmark in the industry, turning black and white comics into colorful paintings as early as possible is the king.

After all, a painted comic book looks much more enjoyable than a black and white comic book.

It's just that the cost......

Huo Yaowen pondered for a long time, and suddenly said: "In this way, you can go back and communicate with Aoki and Kodansha in Japan later, and ask them if they are willing to jointly host an event." ”

"Activity?

"Truck Campaign!"

Huo Yaowen pulled out this big killer!

"Trucks?"

Lin Xiaotang frowned, and Yao Wenjie on the side was also unclear, and he didn't understand what this episode of cards meant.

"The characters, monsters, weapons, and even buildings in Kyushu comic books are printed as long as they are representative, and they are all printed as cards the size of business cards, or slightly larger. The cards are all painted, and the cards are graded ......"

Speaking of this, Huo Yaowen paused, afraid that the two of them would not understand, so he opened his mouth and explained simply: "You can understand the level as rarity, which can be roughly divided into five types, ordinary, exquisite, excellent, legendary and mythical. As for how to divide it, you just look at what characters the public likes, the more people like it, the higher the card level, for example, Donghuang Taiyi, which can be a legendary card, and the sword god Li Chungang can be a mythical card. ”

"This ......" Yao Wenjie understood what the boss meant, but what is the point of making this card collection activity? Isn't it now a question of discussing the cost of painted comic books?

"General Manager, do you mean to put these cards in a comic book and sell them together?"

Because there was a Kyushu magazine illustration vote before, Lin Xiaotang understood the significance of the boss's card collection activity.

"Not bad!"

Huo Yaowen nodded with a smile and said, "This kind of activity that looks like a collection, I think many people will like it." Speaking of card collection activities, you can set up a prize event for anyone who can collect Sword God cards, or some mythic cards. You can give the card to the owners of the newspaper bookstore and return the money you paid for the book, and then we can take it back from the owners and reimburse the money for the comic book.

As long as we control the production of mythic cards, we won't lose much money. Of course, it is not limited to this one exchange card, for example, if someone collects all the ordinary cards, how many bonuses can be exchanged, exquisite cards, excellent cards, etc., and so on. Of course, if someone can really collect all the cards of the five levels, they can consider giving a grand prize, such as 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, but I think there are probably only a few people who can actually collect all the cards. ”

"I get the general manager!"

Lin Xiaotang now completely understands what the boss means.

If this card collection event is done well, it will be of great help to increase the sales of comic books!

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