"Director Hua Guo's vain attempt to buy the Los Angeles Lakers, the funniest joke of the year!"

"The Lakers are a team of Los Angeles people, and they are absolutely not allowed to be acquired by the Chinese!"

"Does the United States want to reproduce the shame of the 80s, when Japan bought the Rockefeller Center, and more than 20 years later, the Chinese people actually wanted to buy the greatest basketball team in the United States!"

"Boycotting the film of Chinese director Tang An is an insult to Los Angeles and to the United States!"

"Chinese director Tang An has acquired three Hollywood film and television companies in a row, and the Chinese are invading Hollywood!"

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With the announcement of the acquisition of Tang An by Midnight Investment Company and its three companies, Flash Films, Open Road Pictures, and Digital Field, Tang An has become a big topic at the end of the North American summer file.

Originally, these three companies were nothing, and they were not as good as one AMC cinema together.

However, before thinking of Tang An, he boasted that Haikou was going to buy the Los Angeles Lakers, and judging from the fact that these three companies were recently acquired, Lakers fans panicked.

And some racists in the United States are also outraged, and there are frequent news of him being criticized in the newspapers.

Major TV stations are also following the trend, and the hosts of many talk shows have also mentioned Tang An, but most of them are ridiculed, occasionally accompanied by some ridicule.

Tang An didn't have time to deal with them, he was about to return to China, and when he left, all this news should disappear.

After all, he is not from the United States, there are so many stars in film and television and sports in North America, which one is not much more well-known in North America than Tang An.

The people under the acquisition of the three companies were in charge, and Tang An and the major companies began to talk about the DVD, TV, and Internet copyright matters of "Interstellar".

Although Open Road Pictures has the strength to distribute DVDs in North America, it is still a certain distance from large companies.

And after the previous two movies, you can get a higher price this time, and under the trade-off, handing it over to Open Road Pictures may not make much more.

Moreover, it cost a lot of money to acquire the three companies, and the tripartite negotiations on domestic Weibo are basically coming to an end, waiting for the money to be used.

However, Tang An did not choose the distributor Fox, nor the Columbia he had previously worked with, but Disney Pictures.

In a conference room, Tang An signed a contract with Disney Pictures CEO Iger for the sale of the rights to physical media and network media.

In addition to China, the global copyright of physical and online media is valued at $52 million.

This price is not high, after all, with the current trend in North America, the final box office should reach 100 million 23, overseas will only be higher, and the 52 million copyright buyout is not expensive at all.

Of course, it is definitely not just the copyright of a movie that can bother Disney CEO Iger to come forward.

The two parties signed a second contract, under which Disney will license Hantang Media's adaptation of the 1967 animated film "Prince of the Forest" with a 30% preemptive investment right.

That's right, it's that fantasy movie, a full-CG live-action animated movie, Tang An will make a bold attempt.

The fantasy theme is a completely new theme, and the production time is probably almost five years.

Although there is still a gap between domestic special effects and Hollywood, this is not a technical gap.

This gap comes from the concept and style.

It can even be said that the special effects in Hollywood movies, the top domestic special effects companies do not have too many problems at the technical level.

Wumao special effects is jokingly called, and domestic special effects companies have carried the pot for those directors for decades.

In the past two years, Tiangong has offered a high price to dig back several Huaguo special effects talents who can lead the team alone, and they are the world's top special effects talents in terms of management and concept.

This time he won the digital field, Tang An will send a group of people to the digital field every six months to exchange and learn, not to learn technology, which is not lacking in China, but to learn advanced concepts.

The domestic special effects are so deeply misunderstood that the special effects of the decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City in "Love Apartment" can be praised by the audience.

Of course, this is relatively speaking, from the perspective of a professional special effects technician, it is average, not to mention the peak of special effects.

is to add CG after the green screen shooting, render the background, the actors are not stiff, and they are cool and good-looking.

But after all, it is a small-budget TV series, and it can't be of a high standard.

But why that level of special effects is praised by the audience is that the audience, special effects professionals, and directors have different perspectives.

The special effects in "Love Apartment" don't have much technical content, but they are gorgeous enough, and the audience will buy it.

What looks good in the eyes of the audience ≠ good on the technical level.

For the audience, the requirements are very simple, just do it cool and good-looking, as for the technical height, the audience doesn't care at all.

Another, special effects are for the purpose of serving the plot, so "The Great Wall", which is the peak of special effects in Chinese film and television dramas, was scolded for its special effects.

Technically, "The Great Wall" is the best in Chinese films, but it is affected by the plot.

Special effects, like design, need to figure out product positioning, customer needs, product style, and customer aesthetics.

It's the same with special effects, the special effects producer doesn't know what effect the audience wants to see, they can only know from the director.

If the director doesn't know, he will throw a sentence to be spectacular and atmospheric, not to mention the domestic special effects team, you are looking for Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital in vain.

The special effects of "Avatar" allow the domestic gourd to paint the scoop, and it can be made almost exactly the same in seven or eight years, but first there must be a director who must accurately convey this effect, and then he can do it.

It's never technology that's missing.

And the special effects director of Hollywood is involved in the preparation of a movie until the end, so that he can fully understand the film and know what his people should do.

The domestic special effects director will only follow up after the film has been filmed.

Hollywood directors will guide on the front line and accurately convey their ideas, and domestic directors don't understand special effects at all.

Cameron was able to depict a beautiful planet of Pandora and make the special effects crew understand his ideas.

Domestic directors may only say that the planet should be beautiful and spectacular.

How pretty, what type and style of pretty?

What style do you want for plants, backgrounds, magical wind, or what?

What about mountains, water, and animals?

What is the overall rendering style?

The same shot can render more than 10 different styles.

No matter how well you do it technically, it is possible to make it a five-cent special effect.

At present, the technical heads of several departments of Tiangong Wonder are Hollywood's top special effects talents returning to China, coupled with the digital field of Hollywood's first-class special effects company, it is completely certain to complete this "Fantasy Forest".

It's just that it takes a long time, and any wonderful special effects movie needs to be polished for a long time.

There are not many special effects in "Interstellar", "The Martian", and "Edge of Tomorrow".

In five years, thousands of people have polished a wonderful full CG live-action animated movie.

It also took a lot of effort to convince Disney to authorize Tang An, and the movie itself alone lasted nearly thirty hours.

In addition, Disney has not yet released a live-action animation, and it will not be until next year, after the release of two live-action animated films, "Maleficent" and "Cinderella", that Disney really attaches importance to live-action animation.

And the domestic market is also a weapon, with the box office growth rate of the domestic market, as well as Tang An's ability and appeal, the box office is definitely not bad, if Disney's live-action movies are popular in China, it is equivalent to opening up a new huge market for this genre.

Even movies like "Pacific Rim" can be resurrected by relying on the domestic market, and in the case of the mess in North America, Legendary Pictures plans to make a sequel because of the super high box office in China.

Taking the opportunity to expand the domestic market is Disney's ultimate goal.

And there are so many classic Disney animated movies that a "Prince of the Forest" is totally worth such a gamble.

Seeing off the Disney CEO, Tang An is about to leave for China.

"Fantasy Forest" is still just an idea, wait for Tang An to come up with a complete set of plans, including the overall style, animals, exterior style, special effects, the design of all animals, three-dimensional images, and a dynamic video of several of these animals, so that Disney can inspect and determine that Tang An's team meets the technical requirements.

Otherwise, everything is out of the question.

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At Los Angeles International Airport, Tang An instructed Zhao Yi, who came to see him off, the follow-up matters of the three companies, and then boarded the plane back to China.

Acquired 70% of the shares in the digital field and spent 300 million yuan.

An 80% stake in Open Road Pictures cost $23 million.

Midnight invested in a 51% stake in the company, which cost $86.7 million.

A total of $155.8 million was spent.

The overseas copyright was only sold for 52 million US dollars, and this trip to North America was more than 100 million.

After talking about business for several days, Tang An was a little tired.

The company is full of professional filmmakers and marketing planning talents, although there is a professional investment, but there is still one less CNO, that is, the chief negotiator.

There are very few companies that actually have this position, and the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China has an international trade negotiator, who is also a vice minister, and a professional deputy representative.

In private companies, Ah Li is mainly led by Cai Chongxin, the chief financial officer, in some major acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, or the heads of major business units.

The financial director of Hantang Media was promoted by an ordinary manager of the audit department under the finance department two years ago, and he didn't have that ability at all.

However, the chief negotiator of business is still a relatively scarce profession, and it is not easy to find, and it is definitely impossible to be like the character in "The Negotiator", which company will be unlucky.

Get on the plane, take off, and get a good night's sleep.

Yang Mi next door came to quarrel again.

"Brother An. . . Brother An..."

"What's wrong?"

Tang An pulled the curtain open and wondered.

Yang Mi, who was sitting next door, looked at the flight attendant not far away, and the other party walked away very interestingly.

The entire first class cabin was just their group.

The idle and bored Yang Mi asked curiously, "Brother An, you really have to spend five years making a movie." ”

"What's the matter, can't you?"

Yang Mi whispered, "Then you haven't had a movie released in the past five years, and everyone will forget you by then." ”

"Forget it, forget it, besides, it will take two or three years to prepare for the early stage, and it will take two years after the filming, and I will have time to make other films. ”

"Okay, go back, I'm tired. ”

Tang An stopped being verbose, closed the curtains, closed his eyes and went to sleep!