Chapter 994: Huge Investment

Yin Jun sent the scripts of the three TV series to Tang Shuxuan, and asked her to negotiate all the cooperation.

This can also be regarded as a weapon on the side of the North American branch, which can help them develop the market and actively explore the market.

If everything is controlled by Yin Jun, then Tang Shuxuan naturally has no prestige, how can a general manager without authority manage a company well?

It's just that the boy added a condition.

"ABC's sports department has an associate director named Robert Iger, and I want him to come to Disney as a director. ”

Tang Shuxuan didn't understand Yin Jun's intentions, but she also kept it in mind and was ready to add this condition to it when negotiating.

With the urgency of ABC's cooperation with Disney now, the transfer of a small department deputy director is not a big problem.

As for Robert Egger, who Yin Jun values, the people above have decided everything, so he naturally doesn't have the right to talk too much.

Coupled with the fact that the Disney TV channel has more power, more room for development, and can give him a lot higher treatment, Tang Shuxuan will not think how much he will resist.

The director of that original Disney TV channel......

Since the boss intends to change people, and it is obvious that he is not capable before, otherwise he would not have let so many production staff and actors leave, this time it is just to take him and shock the Disney people.

After all, "Happy Hotel" and "American Idol" have completely stabilized the morale of the Disney Company, and now it is time to settle the score.

This Robert Egger that Yin Jun wants will be a famous person in the future!

He is the president of Disney after Michael Eisner, and he is also a better professional manager than Michael Eisner.

It was under his leadership that Disney acquired Pixar Animation, Marvel and Lucasfilm, completely making Disney unbeatable and becoming the largest entertainment media group in Hollywood.

And Robert Iger's reputation is very good, not only the internal staff can be in awe of him, but also the relationship with the outside company is also good, and those companies that have been merged into Disney, such as Pixar, Marvel, etc., can exert their power to the greatest extent under his leadership, instead of wasting energy in the internal friction.

Especially Marvel.

If Robert Iger hadn't dared to let go, where would they have the majesty to sweep the world afterward?

Of course, Robert Iger is still too young now, and he still needs more than ten years of training before he can be employed.

But it is also very necessary to recruit him in advance, so that he can hone under his nose, so that he can make better use of his talent, so that when there is any need, he can directly call this talent to the top.

After Yin Jun told him about this matter, his mind fell on the third important thing in North America.

In June this year, Yin Jun sold a 4 million square foot Type B land exchange interest in the New Territories to Wheelock and Swire Group for a sky-high price of HK$3.5 billion.

With this 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, even Shen Bi was full of confidence that Yin Jun would use the money to repay the loan so that the pressure would be less.

As a result, Yin Jun did not go to the HSBC account at all, but directly transferred it to the bank account in the United States as the funds to pave the way for 100 IMAX theaters in North America.

Disney and United Arts Films have their own distribution teams, so Yin Jun asked them to form a team and go to important cities in North America to choose suitable locations to open IMAX theaters.

Because the distribution teams of these two companies will definitely be merged into one, so for their future positions, both teams are working very hard to find a suitable location to open a movie theater.

First of all, the price should not be too expensive.

What Yin Jun needs is to buy the land, and the land is about 100 acres as much as possible, and there are as many as 100 houses, but the capital is only 730 million, which is equivalent to an average of 7.3 million to buy the land, and then build a good cinema.

Fortunately, the projection equipment and sound were paid for by the boss, otherwise they would not have been able to make such a budget.

Even now in October, they have made inspections, budgets and plans for 50 companies on each side, which seems a bit tight, and the location of most movie theaters is relatively remote.

Tang Shuxuan was more careful, let them sort it out, and then sent the drawings to Yin Jun.

The teenagers had read each of them in the past two days, and in the living room of the house, they had spread out a large map of the United States, so that they had made a mark with a pen to see the results they had made as a whole.

The best of the United States is in New York and California.

To be exact, the Northeast, and the West Coast.

The Northeast is the founding of the United States, and most of the 13 states on the Stars and Stripes come from here, and it is naturally the most developed industry and commerce.

California on the West Coast is even more impressive, claiming to be the sixth largest country in the world, meaning that its tax revenue and economic power are already comparable to the sixth largest country in the world.

However, in terms of the box office, the two regions together do not account for 50% of the box office.

The reason is simple.

The United States is a highly developed country, and there are many moviegoers in every big city.

If you say that it is the purchase of luxury goods, sports cars, the number of national books...... Wait, if you want to fight for quality and money, they are definitely not as good as the Northeast and West Coast, but just movies, such cheap movie tickets, so popular entertainment, they really won't lose to anyone.

Therefore, the choice of cinema should not be pointed to these places, but should be seen by region.

The two teams are basically split between the United States, one in charge of the east and the other in charge of the west.

From the location they have demarcated, basically the big cities in the United States have been demarcated, and there will naturally be more economically developed areas, and there will naturally be fewer sparsely populated areas.

From Yin Jun's eyes, he couldn't find any problems.

In the future, the top 10 highest-grossing cities in the United States will be surrounded by their key care, which also shows that they are not eating dry food.

Tang Shuxuan has found a special evaluation agency to evaluate the location of these 100 movie theaters, and basically scores more than 80 points.

That's enough.

Yin Jun's ideas are not 100% accurate at the beginning, he is not so demanding.

As long as there are no mistakes in general, the first step of the experiment can stand firm and inspire the big theaters to see the benefits of IMAX theaters, which is a big achievement.

Even if Yin Jun may build one or two hundred movie theaters in the future, he alone will not be able to promote IMAX and 3D to the world, and only if more theater companies join in, then he can achieve his wish.

After approving the achievements of their work over the past few months, Yin Jun called Tang Shuxuan and asked her to inform the two teams that they could begin the formal purchase and construction.

Prior to this, both teams had actually talked to the owners of these lands, and had a basic intention that as long as the boss agreed to their plan, then they would buy these lands and build these movie theaters within the scope of funds.

Although they don't quite understand why Yin Jun wants such a large site, and after buying it, it is so wasteful to build only one floor of the theater, but these are the boss's money and the boss's decisions, and they can only implement them.

Fortunately, the price of land in the United States is cheap, especially outside the bustling urban area, and the land is even less valuable, that is, the labor is a little more expensive, otherwise the 730 million US dollars is really impossible to get.

Of course, the size and layout of the cinema are all drawn by IMAX, and then personally guided and accepted.

Only in this way can we ensure that the best IMAX look and feel is presented to the audience.

The problem of the movie theater has basically been solved so far, but there is still an important step that Yin Jun needs to work on.

That's the problem with IMAX equipment.

As we all know in later generations, IMAX is probably divided into two systems.

One is a film IMAX system and the other is a digital IMAX system.

In terms of viewing effect, it is natural that the IMAX system of the film is the best.

The kind of seven-story giant screen lined up, allowing you to see the shock of the wonderful world of the movie, is definitely not comparable to ordinary digital IMAX.

Christopher Nolan, for example, likes to shoot on film, and the IMAX system for film is his favorite.

It's a pity that after Nolan's "Interstellar" in 2014, there was no film IMAX system anymore, because it was too costly, and the input-output ratio was not proportional at all.

Basically, if you build an IMAX system on film, the cost is twenty or thirty times higher than that of a digital IMAX system.

That's not all, what's even worse is that the cost of copying each film is frighteningly high compared to the cost of digital copying.

The digital copy is such a small box, and the width of the film copy is 70mm, and the length of the projected film is 1.7 meters per second, and the weight of the film is as high as 400 kilograms for 120 minutes of film copy!

If you show 3,000 screens, you have to spend $180 million to make copies, how much money is that?

It's no wonder that IMAX itself announced that it would stop commercial operation of film IMAX equipment after "Interstellar".

At such a price, the local tyrants can't afford it!

But now, digital IMAX equipment is impossible to manufacture, first of all, the IMAX digital camera, has not been developed.

According to their current cooperation with SONY, Nikon and other companies, it will be at least 5 years before they can see a little light.

So I had to use a film IMAX system.

IMAX's offer to Yin Jun is a complete set of IMAX equipment, excluding film copies, the price is 8 million US dollars, and 100 sets are 800 million US dollars, close to 4 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Don't dislike it's expensive.

If it weren't for the fact that IMAX is Yin Jun's industry, and even the factory is IMAX's own, they basically only calculate 10% of the gross profit, and they can quote a set of 12 million US dollars at this price!

As for the 10% gross profit, it is also a normal thing, after all, as an operating company, although almost all of the shares held by Yin Jun, and the R&D funds are also given by Yin Jun, they need to have their own achievements and pride in success.

At the current pace of construction, at the end of February next year at the most, the cinema will have to be built, and then it will be time to start adding equipment and testing.

You can't start production at that time, you have to start production in December, and then it will take more than 2 months for 100 IMAX machines to be produced.

This means that Yin Jun needs to scrape together $800 million again to IMAX in November, so that they can actively prepare materials before they can start preparing for production.

At the very least, raise $400 million so that families can start working.

It's light to say, but it's not easy to do.

$400 million!

1.92 billion Hong Kong dollars!

It's already October now, and there is only one month to go, can Yin Jun raise so much money?

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