Hayao Miyazaki, Xun Takada and others saw that Huo Yaowen had not spoken, and they were also very apprehensive, they only switched from Insect Production Animation to Zuiyou Imaging at the beginning of this year, but they didn't expect the boss to change someone temporarily, or Huo Yaowen, a well-known science fiction master in Japan.

After looking at the three of them for a moment, Huo Yaowen asked indifferently, "You are still in charge of the animation production of "Heidi"?"

"Yes, President Huo, there is only one project in the company at present. It's just that there is a lack of funds at the moment, so the production has been temporarily stopped, and the time for the handover with Fuji TV is approaching, so if it is not resolved, I am afraid it will be a little troublesome. Takada said solemnly, he is the director of this cartoon, and he knows the production schedule best, and if he rushes now, he will still have time to deliver the cartoon to Fuji TV.

Huo Yaowen pondered for a moment and said, "Don't worry about the funds, I will be responsible, and I will also help say hello to Fuji TV and try to give us a little extra time." But the three of you will put the project on hold for now, and leave it to someone you think you can do. ”

Gao Tianxun stammered: "This ......"

Odabe Yoichi and Hayao Miyazaki were also nervous, they never expected that the new president would leave them and remove them!

Huo Yaowen didn't notice the expressions of the three of them, took a few comic books from Lin Xiaotang's hands on the side, threw them on the table and said, "Which of you has read this comic?"

The three of them picked it up and took a look.,It's "Kyushu Comics.,This comic has been very popular in Japan in the past two years.,Last year, there was also a card collection activity.,A number of Japanese comic clubs have been learning.。

Gao Tianxun said: "We have all read Kyushu comics, it is a very good comic, the style of painting in it is very special, there is a style of Chinese ink painting, full of charm. ”

From the beginning, to the later drawing of comics, the collection of cards, and now the upcoming adaptation into cartoons, this is a series of plans that Huo Yaowen conceived a long time ago.

Judging from the current situation, Kyushu and manga are both successful, and in the case of movie special effects that cannot meet the standards, animation has become the next focus.

It may be that creating an oriental fantasy worldview is not ideal in Europe and the United States, but in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, which is the country with the most Chinese influence, they are very receptive to this kind of mythical story that is more Chinese and ancient.

"This is a manga series that I publish in a magazine in Hong Kong, and I had the idea of adapting it into an anime for a long time, and this acquisition of Zuiyou Images is to complete this idea. All three of you are the best animators in the company, so I would like to transfer the three of you to Hong Kong to set up a branch office dedicated to this series. ”

Huo Yaowen saw that a few people didn't speak, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about salary, the salary of the three of you who go to Hong Kong to set up a branch is definitely higher than in Japan, and the company will also rent a house for each of you to live in, if you get married, you can bring your wife and children with you." ”

The main purpose of his digging of these three people to Hong Kong, in addition to the production of "Kyushu" cartoons, the most important thing is to cultivate newcomers, Hong Kong's future birth of Hong Kong comics, whether it is "Fengyun" or "Dragon Tiger Gate" or "Legend of the Divine Soldiers", in fact, it is still very good, but it is the lack of talents related to cartoons, it cannot be animated, plus various reasons, this is gradually declining.

Gao Tianxun and the three of them glanced at each other, and they were all very excited about the conditions given by the new boss!

Not only has the salary become higher, but even the rental company of the house has been able to bear the burden of the rental company, and the wife and children can also be taken over, which is almost impossible for even those large companies to compare.

Thinking of this, the three of them hurriedly nodded and agreed: "No problem, President Huo, we are willing to work in the branch in Hong Kong." ”

"Okay, you hand over the task at hand, and go back to Hong Kong with Vice President Lin for a while. ”

After the animation company's affairs were dealt with, Huo Yaowen asked Lin Xiaotang to stay in Japan for a while longer, and after he found a qualified president who could manage the renaming of "Oriental DreamWorks", he would take Miyazaki and others back to Hong Kong together.

As for Fok Yiu-man, he left for Hong Kong the next day.

He originally planned to stay in Japan for half a month, but who knew that there were too many things, and it was already December, and he was in a hurry to fly back.

……

was also when Huo Yaowen had just arrived in Hong Kong by plane.

Fox once again sent a good news to Hong Kong, as of now, the final box office of "1999" after more than three months of release in the United States is as high as 305 million US dollars, and when this box office was announced by Fox, it quickly caused a sensation in the United States!

This not only broke the record of the fastest box office in the United States to break 100 million dollars, but also broke the highest box office record in the United States in a week, the highest box office record in the United States in January, and the total box office record in the United States, and became the first film in North America to break 300 million US dollars for the first time!

After more than three months of screenings, 1,892 theaters in the United States, on average, each theater was able to contribute about $10,000 to the box office of "1999" every day, which not only made those theater owners earn enough, but also allowed them to spontaneously extend the screening time of the movie.

You must know that even now, the daily attendance rate of "1999" is still much higher than that of newly released movies!

This cross-era special effects blockbuster shocked the entire United States like a bomber!

Nowadays, there is no media in the United States that ridicules this as another Fox "Cleopatra", a super production with an investment of up to $40 million, showing its due style and charm!

The critics of the "New York Times" made a special assessment and predicted that according to the current theaters around the world that continue to screen "1999", the film is expected to exceed $330 million at the box office, and George Lucas will also become the first super cutting-edge director in North America to direct a single film with a box office exceeding $300 million.

As for the overseas box office, the largest box office in Europe is currently the United Kingdom, and "1999" has exceeded 73.5 million US dollars in the United Kingdom, becoming the first overseas film box office in the United Kingdom!

And Asia's largest box office warehouse in Japan, where it has exceeded 1.8 billion yen, considering that it has only been released for one month, it is estimated to be around 2.5 billion at the box office, which not only breaks the record of 2.2 billion yen set by "The Exorcist", but is also expected to become the fastest movie in Japan to break 1 billion and 2 billion!

All things considered, the global box office is expected to break $800 million!

I have to say that the commentator of the New York Times has really put a lot of effort into it, and this figure is similar to the analysis of Fox analysts, and not only Fox is ecstatic at such a shocking global box office.

At the same time, film companies large and small in the United States all handed over an olive branch to George Lucas, a great director who became an instant hit, hoping to invite each other to make movies in their own companies!

Warner, which made a lot of money from "The Exorcist", announced that it was very likely to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic "Base Series" or "Galactic Empire Trilogy".

This news quickly caused the boiling of book fans!

As for the remaining six major Hollywood studios, they are also wealthy and have threatened to make bigger science fiction films, some say that they will adapt science fiction master Robert Heinlein's "Starship Paratroopers" and "Star Trek", and some say that they will adapt Evan Hoe's "Virtual Second World".

For a time, newspapers all over the United States were covered by the craze of sci-fi movies that these film companies were going to shoot!

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