After watching the performance of the Wenna Band, when Huo Yaowen was about to say goodbye, he suddenly remembered the "Kyushu" cartoon produced by DreamWorks, and said to He Zuozhi: "When will "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" end at half past seven on Saturday night?"

He Zuozhi thought for a while and said: "There are only a few episodes left to be filmed, and if nothing else, it will be broadcast in early February." ”

Now Phoenix Channel, like Radio and Li's TV station, adopts the method of self-made serials, which are broadcast while filming.

There are good and bad ways to use this method, and the advantage is that you can stop losses at any time, for example, like last year's "Lady and Barbarian Wife" written by the screenwriter in the station and starring Wei Qiuhua, because of the poor ratings, the crew stopped filming halfway through the broadcast, and directly made a finale, and then broadcast "Upstairs and Downstairs" starring Michelle.

Self-written and self-made TV series are easy to say, but martial arts adaptations such as "Snow Mountain Flying Fox" are not so easy to stop broadcasting and not filming, because there is the original work, even if the ratings are not good, He Zuozhi did not let Liang Shuyi stop filming.

"That's it......" Hearing that it wouldn't be broadcast until early February, Huo Yaowen thought for a while and asked, "What about Sunday's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?"

"It's coming soon, now it's been broadcast to Zhuge Liang's seven out of Qishan, and he is about to shoot the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin. ”

Huo Yaowen said: "That's okay, the slot at half past seven on Sunday night will be left, and the "Kyushu" cartoon produced by my animation company will be produced soon, and it will be broadcast on the station when the time comes." ”

"Is that the title of the cartoon you brought last year, Chairman of the Board?" He Zuozhi was stunned for a few seconds, and then thought of a few minutes of cartoon he saw last year.

"Yes, this is the fifty-six episodes of the cartoon that I spent more than a million Hong Kong dollars to produce, which is definitely much better than the Mickey Mouse broadcast on Leigh's TV!" Huo Yaowen nodded.

The "Kyushu" cartoon was originally produced by Huo Yaowen while it was broadcast last year, but later Miyazaki came and said that it was becoming more and more difficult to make follow-up animations, and he couldn't do two episodes a week, hoping to delay it for a while and broadcast it after the first season was finished.

Huo Yaowen thought about it for a while and nodded in agreement, after all, "Kyushu" can be said to be a high-quality IP that he spent a lot of energy to create, not only has a large number of readers in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, but also has many book fans in Japan, Southeast Asia and other places.

The first season of the cartoon must be the best it can be in order to be an instant hit, so that the merch products sold in the future can also be more attractive.

"It's just that the money ......" He Zuozhi doesn't care whether the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" or "Kyushu" cartoon will be broadcast on Sunday night, what he cares about is the money that this cartoon will pay.

"Well, let's do it in the form of a cooperative with advertising shares, and how do you send someone to talk to DreamWorks Animation. ”

Fok Yaowen also does not expect to be profitable in Hong Kong, as long as he can recover the cost, even a third is enough, and his target is more in Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia.

The second is the peripheral products, and DreamWorks has reached cooperation with several Hong Kong toy factories, which will specialize in the production of dolls and figurines of well-known characters in cartoons.

He Zuozhi thought about it, this method is very good, you don't need to give money, you only need to divide the advertising money at the same time.

……

After coming out of the TV station, Huo Yaowen went to DreamWorks again, and told Yu Junxiong, the general manager of DreamWorks, about the cooperation with Phoenix TV, and asked him to send someone over to negotiate with He Zuozhi about the specific sharing ratio.

"Yes, I'll arrange for someone to come over as soon as possible. Yu Junxiong nodded in agreement, looking at the boss's face, he hesitated for a few seconds before saying: "Boss, the Kyushu cartoon is almost over now, are we going to start a new cartoon project?"

"Well, it's time to start a new animation project. ”

The "Kyushu" anime is now doing dubbing and subtitling, and the company's artists are starting to relax and prepare for the holidays, and Miyazaki and other animators from Japan have gone back a few days ago to prepare for the New Year.

Although the Chinese New Year is a holiday, it will only be ten days of effort, and when they are all back, the company can't have no work, and consume human and financial resources in vain!

Huo Yaowen asked, "What do you think?"

"I want to make "Journey to the West" in the four famous novels into an animated film!" Yu Junxiong said the dream that he had been pressing in his heart for more than ten years.

"Journey to the West?" Huo Yaowen glanced at the other party suspiciously, he knew that he was the apprentice of the famous Chinese animation master Wan Laiming in Hong Kong when he recruited Yu Junxiong.

Speaking of Master Wan, not many people may know much, but when it comes to the classic cartoon "Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", many people must have seen it, and the image of the Monkey King in it can be said to be the most classic.

And Yu Junxiong is the disciple of Master Wan when he was working as an art director in a Hong Kong film company.

As a disciple of Master Wan, Yu Junxiong knows very well that the teacher is most persistent in his heart, that is, to shoot "Havoc in Heaven", but at that time, the Hong Kong animation market was very, very small, and almost no one spent money to make cartoons.

This also led Master Wan to resolutely resign from the high-paying salary of art director of the Hong Kong Film Company in 1954 and return to work at the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio in the mainland.

Finally, in 1961, he and the three brothers jointly produced the classic cartoon "Havoc in Heaven", and the following year won the "Special Award" for short films at the 13th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia.

These Yu Junxiong naturally knew it for a long time, and while he was happy that his teacher could get his wish, he also wanted to make an animated film with the theme of Journey to the West.

He was deeply influenced by Master Wan in his early years, and he also had a dream of Journey to the West in his heart, so he saw that the boss was a little moved, and immediately opened his mouth and said: "Yes, Journey to the West, as one of our four famous novels in China, is almost familiar to both adults and children, and secondly, there is also a large market in Asia, so I think the company's next cartoon production Journey to the West is the most suitable." ”

"Yes, then the next cartoon produced by the company will be set as Journey to the West, since this project was proposed by you, then I will give you full responsibility for it, Manager Yu, you must not let me down. ”

Huo Yaowen agrees with Yu Junxiong's words, Journey to the West, as one of the four famous novels, whether it is a country in Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea and other places, almost everyone is familiar with it, and the cartoons produced are not worried that no one will watch them.

"Don't worry, boss, I will definitely do the best job in this cartoon! It is definitely no worse than Miyazaki and others!" Yu Junxiong has been the general manager of the company to manage the entire company before, but his own job, or his favorite is to produce cartoons.

It's just that the Hong Kong animation market is barren, and he has been working as an art director in a film company before, if Shangguan Xiaobao hadn't recommended him later, I'm afraid Yu Junxiong would have been doing the job of art director, forgetting the original intention of learning animation production from Master Wan.

……

Three and a half in the afternoon.

Universal Films.

As soon as Huo Yaowen entered the building, he noticed Qingxia and Hu Yinmeng chatting in the hall.

Recently, Huo Yaowen rarely saw the two of them when he came to the film company, mainly because Qingxia and Yin Meng have been filming in Taiwan, which is required by the authorities over there, and they must cooperate with the filming of the movie "Eight Hundred Heroes" to promote the glorious exploits of some countries in the heroic resistance against Japan, which can be regarded as maintaining the ruling of Xiao Jiang.

"What are you talking about?"

This sudden voice startled Qingxia and Yinmeng, and after seeing that it was the boss, he patted his budding chest and said, "General manager, how do you walk without a sound, it almost scared me." ”

"Looks like you're whispering. Seeing the two of them acting as thieves, Huo Yaowen grinned.

"No, no. Qingxia swallowed.

Qingxia has been filming for several years, from the initial immaturity, and gradually turned into a big beauty in Huo Yaowen's impression.

However, because the dream has not changed much, in addition to becoming more and more fashionable in dress and makeup, the temperament of the whole person is still as cold and glamorous as at the beginning.

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