"Brother Guodong, do you have any contact with that Industrial Light and Magic recently?"

Liu Lang asked.

"I contacted them half a month ago, and they are also very interested in our Transformers and want to work with us to make cartoons, but I have also talked to several other production companies, and Industrial Light & Magic has no advantage in terms of price compared to them!"

Lin Guodong said.

"How's that going now, is there any business?"

Liu Lang then asked.

"Compared with other production companies, they are really a lot worse, not because their production level is not good, but the production cost is much higher, of course, the effect is better than other companies, but the profit of this kind of animation itself is not too high, if the production cost does not go down, there is not much profit!"

After all, comics are still a niche, Marvel sells more than 1.3 million copies of comics every year, and the profit is only more than 10 million US dollars, unlike blockbuster movies starring stars, often the cost of one is as much as several million dollars, if it is a big hit, there will be tens of millions of dollars in revenue, and a movie is comparable to Marvel's profit in a year.

Of course, this is the reason of the times, and it was not until the Internet era in the twenty or thirty years that many of Marvel's images were made into movies, and the revenue of more than a dozen films reached tens of billions of dollars, which was the golden age of IP images.

"Gordon is right! The salary in the comic industry in the United States is still very high, especially those designers, the salary level is more than the ordinary middle class, the cost of our Transformers is very low, the main thing is that all the production is carried out in China, and the labor cost alone takes a big advantage, of course, the heaviest thing is the design, so many images are designed by Liu Lang alone, replaced by Marvel, which requires at least hundreds of people, but even so, we can't ignore the cost control, we must control the cost within the minimum range. ”

As a successful businessman, Huo Tianting is particularly sensitive to costs, and once the costs are not controlled, it will lead to a series of problems and even drag down the operation of the entire company.

"The person in charge of this industrial light and magic is the great director Lucas, the Star Wars movie he produced seven years ago is infinitely beautiful, no one has ever seen such a beautiful movie picture, the box office in the United States has reached 400 million US dollars, and there are more than 300 million US dollars overseas, such a box office performance is unprecedented, until now no film can achieve such an achievement, but the cost of his film is not low, reaching 20 million US dollars, hehe, it is simply a pile of gold, because of this, this industrial light and magic completely regardless of the cost, I have also met with that Lucas, listening to his tone, is to build Industrial Light & Magic into the best company for film and television special effects.

But now Hollywood movies are all star-oriented, what special effects do you need? This industrial light and magic has not had any business to do for several years, and now these people are eating their old books, and I think it won't be long before it will go out of business!"

Lin Guodong shook his head and said.

"Shut down! Hehe, just right!"

Liu Lang was very happy in his heart.

Industrial Light & Magic is indeed going to go out of business, according to the historical development of this year, they will be acquired, and it is the famous "Joe Gang Leader" who acquired them, "Joe Gang Leader" turned Industrial Light & Magic into Pixar Company, but even if it was "Joe Gang Leader" After the acquisition, Pixar did not achieve much in a few years, but only produced a few short films, even if these short films won numerous awards, the influence was too small, until a Toy Story came out in the 90s, so that Pixar's name suddenly became synonymous with top-notch special effects, and since then it has reached its peak.

In this life, Liu Lang intervened strongly, and of course he would not let Pixar run away.

Everyone ate and drank, and talked about Liu Lang's schooling, Huo Tianting and others of course hoped that Liu Lang would go to Stanford to go to school, because Stanford is in California, hundreds of kilometers away from Los Angeles, and it takes less than an hour to get there by plane.

While everyone was eating, sirens were heard from time to time, and occasionally a few gunshots were heard, and it seemed that the Los Angeles police were on duty again.

Huo Tianting and the others didn't have any expressions, they didn't think it was strange to stay in Los Angeles for a long time, but Sun Hu was very nervous, and they all said that the United States is heaven, how could there be a shootout in heaven? It's incredible!

A group of people were eating, when suddenly there was a knock on the door to the room.

"Well, who is it?"

Lin Guodong got up and opened the door, and a middle-aged man about forty years old stood at the door with a glass of wine in his hand and a smile on his face.

"Excuse me, I'm Chen Huayang, the owner of Huibin Building, I heard that Mr. Huo is coming to dinner, so I came to toast a glass of wine!"

"Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Chen!"

Huo Tianting saw this person and hurriedly stood up.

"Come on, Mr. Chen, let me introduce you to a distinguished guest, it is this little friend, Liu Lang, the most famous genius prodigy in our country, who is now in the United States to prepare for college!"

Huo Tianting pointed at Liu Lang and said.

"Liu Lang?"

This Chen Huayang showed a trace of incomprehension.

"A little kid?"

Chen Huayang was a little unhappy in his heart, this child looked like he was about ten years old, Huo Tianting was not playing tricks on himself, but he suddenly found Liu Lang sitting on the main seat, could it be that he was a descendant of a high-ranking official in the mainland?

"Liu Lang, this is Boss Chen, a role model in Chinatown, and Mr. Chen is still a friend of Miss Mo!"

When Chen Huayang was still thinking about it, Huo Tianting introduced the other party to Liu Lang.

"Oh, it turns out that Mr. Chen is still a friend of Sister Mo, fortunately!"

Liu Lang stood up and said with a smile,

"Huh?"

Chen Huayang was taken aback, the other party's tone was a child's voice, but the tone was not what a child should look like at all, and it was .........!

"Kid, do you know Moran?"

The other party was curious.

"Sister Mo is a hero of the country, and she went to Los Angeles with me to participate in the Olympics the year before last, of course we are friends!"

Liu Lang replied.

"Well, Moran was indeed in China a few years ago......... Her kung fu is good, and she is a first-class master in our Hongmen, but it's not good to always show up as a woman......... Little friend, you know Moran, it seems that he must be a descendant of a national bigwig, how did you get here?"

Moran is the captain of the country's high-level guard team in the country, and the people who can know Moran must also be the descendants of the big guys, no wonder Huo Tianting has to give up the main position to him.

"Mr. Chen, Liu Lang is not a high-ranking official......... Okay, you don't believe it, just ask Miss Moran! Come, let's have a drink with Mr. Chen!"

Huo Tianting didn't say anything to the other party, and took everyone and each other to drink.