Chapter 553: Dig people up at Wan'an Company
Liu Lang will not stay in the company every day, Lin Guodong as his cronies, but also the general manager of Shengtang's branch in the United States, naturally became the company's second-in-command, his ability is undoubted, after Liu Lang successfully acquired Industrial Light and Magic, he began to take over everything, first set up a distribution department, responsible for the external publicity and marketing of Transformers, and at the same time set up a finance department, responsible for the operation of the company's funds.
Lin Guodong was reappointed, and immediately found two marketing and financial talents through a headhunting company, he had long been concerned about the headhunting market, and he would start operating immediately after Liu Lang took control of Industrial Light & Magic.
The company also has a design department, a painting department, and later Liu Lang personally set up a computer special effects department, these departments are not short of manpower, especially the computer special effects department, is the key department designated by Liu Lang, the person in charge is the person named Edward Cattermole, the painting department and the design department were temporarily handed over to Lucas, after all, he has real talent in these two aspects, and he can also serve the public.
Lucas's current identity is a little embarrassing, he was originally the founder of the company, but now he has become a part-time worker, this is no way, the capital market is like this, Jobs, the founder of Apple, was directly fired from the board of directors, this is the rule of the American capital market.
Lucas also thought about leaving ILM, Liu Lang gave him 7.5 million US dollars, and he didn't pay much for so many years, but he was a little reluctant, Liu Lang had so many ideas, as long as they were realized one by one, it would definitely shock the world, and then ILM would definitely become a money-making company, so he proposed to take out 5 million shares in ILM, hoping to get 20% of the shares.
Future Industrial Light & Magic is a company with a market value of more than 10 billion US dollars, and Lucas's desire to exchange 5 million US dollars for 20% of the shares is simply whimsical, but Liu Lang is not so ruthless, Liu Lang clearly told the other party that 5 million can only hold 5% of the shares, and it can only let Lucas own these shares, and no more than a cent.
"This little guy is so ruthless! I bought 100% of my shares in ILM for $7.5 million, and now I can only exchange 5 million for 5 percent, is there any reason for this?"
Lucas was angry enough, but there was no way, now the company was Liu Lang's, even if he was told that five million could only buy one percent of the shares, he would not hesitate.
Five percent is five percent! Lucas had no choice but to accept his fate.
Five million for five percent of the shares is really Liu Lang's loss, but he also has his own ideas, Lucas is a well-known director in Hollywood, and his fame is also very big after 30 years, Lucas, Spielberg, Cameron are known as the three most famous directors in Hollywood, Chinese audiences know their names, especially his Star Wars series of movies, with a total box office of nearly eight billion US dollars, which can be called one of the highest-grossing movies in world film history, such a huge wealth Liu Lang does not want to miss in vain.
And directors like Lucas have strong connections and can mobilize huge resources, relying on these resources to better break into Hollywood, otherwise no matter how good your Transformers are, they will have to be suppressed by those white people, with Lucas's relationship, I believe everything can go a lot smoother.
In short, Liu Lang has now entered the role of a leader, and when it is time to turn his face, he must put interests first in everything, and he will not give up until he reaches his goal.
A large amount of money has been invested in Industrial Light and Magic, and the Transformers cartoon that has been produced has been officially approved, which has become the most important work of Shengtang Culture this year, and it must land on the TV screen within a month, thus starting the journey of the Templar in the United States.
The project after Transformers is the production of the Toy Story animated film, which will be completed within three years, and Liu Lang has set a standard that this cartoon should break the previous traditional cartoon model and become the first computer-generated 3D movie.
The term 3D movie was the first to be proposed by Liu Lang, and no one knew what it was like except him, even that Edward Cattermor was confused, even if Liu Lang gave them a detailed explanation, few people could understand, let alone how to make it.
Of course, these people alone can't do it, Liu Lang must also be prepared, and personally take Lin Guodong, Lucas and Cattermor to VIE to select talents.
Lin Guodong, Lucas, and Cattermor think that it is too arrogant to go to someone's company to poach people in such a blatant way, will they agree? What if the other party calls the police?
The result was much to their surprise, Wan An brought his son and the vice president in charge of human resources to receive them in person, especially Wan An, who was still happy to know that the other party came to dig a corner, which made them a little confused.
"Could it be that Liu Lang and Wan An are related?"
But it doesn't look like it, the conversation between Wan An and Liu Lang is more like a conversation between people of the same level, Liu Lang respects Wan An very much, and Wan An does the same to Liu Lang.
Of course, Liu Lang knows that digging the other party's "corner" is a bit unauthentic, but there is no way, Industrial Light and Magic needs computer talents, and there are not many such talents, except for those who are only left in college, college students also need to be trained, there is no one who can't become a talent in one or two years, he can't wait so long to make the animation of Toy Story in two years, and the computer is only in Vie, IBM, Apple, Intel, Microsoft These companies have.
In the previous life, Toy Story was an animated film released in 94, and after its release, it set a record of 200 million US dollars in North America and 300 million at the global box office, which was the first animated film with a box office of over 100 million.
According to normal development, this epoch-making film will be born in eight years, and Liu Lang insists on shortening this time to three years, will he also have a "Great Leap Forward"?
Of course not, Liu Lang did this for a reason.
Although the Toy Story movie was released in 94, it actually began to be produced in 91, and it took three years to finally complete, and these three years were mainly spent on screenwriting, character design and computer production, that is to say, the industrial light and magic in the previous life had already mastered certain computer production methods in 91, which should be what Jobs did.
And in this life, Jobs has Liu Lang, and even because of the early emergence of new computer languages, Liu Lang who Jobs does not have.
In terms of technology, it is ahead of the previous life, as for what screenwriters and image design, these are all in Liu Lang's mind, and most of them are placed on Liu Lang's desk, as long as the computer special effects program is developed, this movie will be born in less than a year, Liu Lang said that three years may be long, of course, the premise is to make the computer special effects program.
This is also the reason why he must ask Wan An for help.