PS: Draft, I haven't corrected the typos yet, you can wait for half an hour to read it!

In the past, the Eastern Bloc recruited talent from the United States, mainly for Chinese Americans, especially first-generation immigrants from Asia to study in the United States. Because most of these new immigrants have not yet fully integrated into American society.

In fact, the cultural differences between the East and the West are still very obvious, which is also an important reason why Chinese people often encounter glass ceilings in the American workplace. And the main reason why they choose to stay in the United States is that there are better opportunities for development there. And when the Chinese-speaking cultural circle can provide the same opportunities, most of them are willing to come back and develop, because there is a living environment that they are more familiar with!

The situation at Asia DreamWorks is quite different, with a low presence of Chinese in the American film industry. Although Los Angeles, like San Francisco, is one of the cities with the largest number of Chinese in the United States, the intersection between Chinese Americans and Hollywood is far less close than that of Silicon Valley!

Similarly, Lucasfilm's industrial light and magic special effects studio is based in San Francisco, but it doesn't have a few Chinese employees. Therefore, the team recruited by Asia DreamWorks from the United States is almost all white.

Just as Chinese people rarely get into American culture at the first time after they go to the United States, Americans are unlikely to be really attracted to the city after coming to Hong Kong and take root here! Not to mention that Hong Kong's development level is already at the forefront of Asia, but there are still many gaps compared with the United States.

The most important reason why John Lasseter left Disney was that Disney could not meet his future development plans! and he was willing to come to Hong Kong because he needed to make a perfect computer-animated film to prove his choice.

And now only Li Xuan can provide him with sufficient funds, but when he proves his worth, he is bound to return to Hollywood soon, because it is the center of world cinema!

So if Kung Fu Panda can be a success. John Lasseter will only produce one more animated film for Asia DreamWorks, and two successful productions will be enough for him to convince Disney or other Hollywood studios to invest in him!

The three-and-a-half-year production process of the previous "Kung Fu Panda" was enough for the team of Asian DreamWorks to initially understand how to use computers to make animated films.

And regardless of what happens to "Kung Fu Panda" at the box office next. Asia DreamWorks will continue to invest, in fact, the company's next new project has been completed, and Fang Weimin will participate in the new project as an assistant director.

There is still a big difference between making games and making movies, especially the position of director, which is very professional, and you can't do it without being in this industry for a few years. Fang Weimin can be regarded as the backbone of the young generation of Huhai Art Studio, so he was selected by Asia Dream Factory.

In 1979, Huhai Art Studio began to produce an animated feature film "Nazha in the Sea" after the chaos was rectified, and Fang Weimin was one of the art designers of this cartoon. He then went on to independently direct two 10-minute animated short films.

1982 year. The Huhai Art Studio began filming the first animated feature film "Strange Tales from the Book of Heaven" in the 80s, and Fang Weimin had already been promoted to assistant director of the film at this time! You must know that the two directors of "Strange Tales from the Annals" Wang Shuchen and Mr. Qian Yunda are both old-timers who had already started art production work before the founding of the People's Republic of China!

If Fang Weimin had stayed in the Huhai Art Studio and waited for five or six years until the older generation of directors retired, he would naturally be able to take charge of the overall situation, but he still chose to come out and break through! Of course, this is also inseparable from the seduction of Asian Dream Works, which can not only provide many times higher wages. It can also help him immigrate to Hong Kong.

This temptation was very difficult for the Chinese in the eighties to resist! As long as domestic talents are favored by the Eastern Bloc and launch a solicitation offensive, there are very few cases where they miss! After all, people go to higher places, and water flows to lower places, and the treatment that the Eastern Bloc can provide is far higher than the average level in the Eastern Bloc!

"Ah Biao. You have just joined the company, and you will have to receive a period of training first! This time must not be wasted, and improving your English and computer skills is the top priority! After the internship period is over, you will have a regular assessment!

If your grades are good enough, brother, I can figure it out. The core of our DreamWorks Animation Studio is in Hong Kong, and the branch on the deep sea side will only undertake some minor tasks in the next few years!

If you can be transferred to Hong Kong next year, I guarantee that your salary will start from 6,000 Hong Kong dollars!" Fang Weimin patiently admonished Luo Lubiao.

Fang Weimin will next participate in the production of DreamWorks' next animated film as an assistant director. This also means that Fang Weimin has become a key training object of Asia Dream Factory. The director of the new project is still Lasseter, but this is likely to be his last animated film directed at DreamWorks Asia.

So the team that DreamWorks has cultivated itself will soon need to take charge of itself. Fang Weimin has the heart to do a career, and naturally he will not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he intends to start forming his own team in advance!

You know, there's competition everywhere in the company, and he's not the only seed player at DreamWorks. In the next project, along with Fang Weimin, there is another director. This competitor of his, who came from other TV animation production companies of the ATV Group, is not weak at all!

"Brother Fang, I have memorized everything you said! In the next six months, even if I have a cantilever on my head, I will definitely make up my English and computer!" Luo Lubiao nodded and said.

This time, DreamWorks set up a branch in the Deep Sea Special Zone and recruited more than 50 people in one go. There are more than a dozen new employees who came to the Hong Kong headquarters to visit and study with Luo Lubiao. The reason why Fang Weimin fell in love with Luo Lubiao at a glance is that in addition to the relationship between the two alumni, Luo Lubiao's fluent English communication is also a very important factor!

Luo Lubiao had a story of wind and snow in the Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University and a girl from Shanghai Overseas Chinese University. The girl is bent on studying abroad, and Luo Lubiao wants to live and fly with her beloved. I was also ready to compete for a publicly-funded study abroad place at the school.

It's a pity that this love withered for some other reason before college ended! But Luo Lubiao's English ability has improved by leaps and bounds, and he has not learned dumb English yet.

The two of them who were wandering in sweet love at the beginning used English to talk to each other, so they greatly exercised Luo Lubiao's English ability. Naturally, he didn't expect that good English would become an important boost in his career.

Just after the movie screening. The core production team of "Kung Fu Panda" had an hour of free communication with these new employees from China! Because most of the film's main creative team are blue-eyed and blonde Americans, the scene naturally uses English to communicate.

Among them, only Fang Weimin and two other new colleagues can barely communicate directly with these foreigners in English. At DreamWorks Asia, fluency in English is essential for a quick integration into the team. After all, if you want to learn as much as possible from foreigners, you must take the initiative to accommodate each other!

Therefore, although they are generally excellent in computer technology, they want to make their total budget as high as 70 million US dollars! This kind of money-rich and capricious gameplay can only be played by Li Xuan!

"Lao Luo, it seems that you are also well hidden. There are still backers at the Hong Kong headquarters!" Luo Lubiao had just separated from Fang Weimin, and several other colleagues stepped forward and quipped.

"Brother Fang is also from Huhai Mei Film Studio, he is my senior! He asked me to understand the situation of some old friends, but he is not a backer!" Luo Lubiao is no longer a hairy guy, so naturally he will not confide in the previous conversation between the two without any city government.

"This "Kung Fu Panda" cost 30 million US dollars, and it was converted into more than 100 million yuan, whether it is true or fake? How can an animated film spend so much money!" The others obviously just said casually. All the attention is now focused on the cartoon that we just watched.

"Do you think it's necessary for the company to cheat in front of us? Even if we don't need to do this, we don't need to use this method at all! Our trip tomorrow morning is to visit the rendering farm used to make cartoons!

I've seen reports before. Our country has just developed a supercomputer a few years ago, with a computing power of 100 million times per second. And this render farm is modified with the 'Pearl of the Orient' supercomputer, with a computing power of up to 5 billion times per second!

The cost of this rendering farm alone is as high as 5 million US dollars, which already accounts for one-sixth of the total cost! Didn't General Manager He just say that the production budget for the next cartoon is 25 million US dollars! I guess the main reason for the drop in expenses must be that there is no need to buy a lot of equipment repeatedly!" Another person immediately analyzed.

"You said our company spends so much money. How many movie tickets do I have to sell to recoup the cost?" said another person worried.

In fact, it is not only these newcomers who are worried about the newcomers, the head of the distribution department of Asia Pictures, who have not slept well since flying from Hong Kong to Los Angeles! The production cost of "Kung Fu Panda" is so high, that Asia Pictures has never imagined that it can recoup its costs in the Asian market alone. Only the North American market is the key to determining the success or failure of this film!

Asian Pictures also has its own distribution channels in the American film market, but a big production like "Kung Fu Panda" has only a chance to recoup its costs if it is released on a large scale!

Asia Pictures was initially prepared to work with Disney, after all, for animated films, the profitability of merchandise is sometimes even more important than the box office. And Disney's ability to operate in this area is significantly stronger than that of other Hollywood giants.

But Disney's conditions were extremely harsh, and they were only willing to buy out all the copyrights at a one-time price of $15 million, and they were not willing to split the account at all. So Asia Pictures finally chose to cooperate with Universal Pictures, after all, the two sides had a good start on the release of "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong"!

Universal Pictures has set a budget of $15 million for the advertising campaign for "Kung Fu Panda." Publicity expenses are usually half of the production cost, which has also been a practice in Hollywood for many years in film distribution. But this part of the expenditure is counted on the production side, that is, the total investment of "Kung Fu Panda" has actually reached about 45 million US dollars.

Generally speaking, the producer's actual box office revenue is only about half of the total box office, which means that if "Kung Fu Panda" wants to recoup its cost through the box office, then its box office must reach at least $90 million. And there were less than 10 films in the United States that grossed more than $90 million last year, so the distribution director of Asian Pictures is naturally under a lot of pressure!

In contrast, Li Xuan, the big boss, is more relaxed! Even if "Kung Fu Panda" really loses money, it is not a nerve-wracking thing for him! In fact, he had already planned to accept defeat before, after all, a new thing has to go through all kinds of setbacks from birth to maturity!

Asia DreamWorks is not a wholly owned subsidiary of Asia Pictures, but rather its majority shareholder is Asia Holdings. The financial data of Asia Pictures should be included in the financial statements of the listed company Asia Entertainment Holdings. A $30 million project like "Kung Fu Panda" could devour most of the listed company's earnings in an instant if it fails.

Once this happens, it will be an absolute disaster for Asia Entertainment Holdings. Therefore, it is actually Oriental Holdings that undertakes most of the investment in the "Kung Fu Bear" project, and only Li Xuan's net worth can afford to play such a game!

"Mr. Spielberg, do you think this video developed by the Oriental Graphics Studio can reach the point of being fake?" Li Xuan asked with a smile at the Jewish guy in front of him.

"Kung Fu Panda" is not Li Xuan's ultimate killer, Lasseter can only be regarded as a nobody compared to the character in front of him! Li Xuan just accompanied the most famous Hollywood director to watch "Kung Fu Panda" all the way, and the other party expressed a burst of amazement that Hong Kong companies can produce such sophisticated animation through computers!

But Spielberg is, after all, a figure who has seen big scenes, and that is not enough to completely calm him. What really made him ponder was the 30-second easter egg that was inserted at the end of the film!

A Tyrannosaurus rex with a bloody mouth suddenly burst into the screen, its fierce eyes, sharp teeth, and strong muscles made him feel like he was in the Jurassic era!

The computer technology that the richest man in the world showed him today has completely surpassed the level that Spielberg had previously appreciated in ILM! He had to start taking the script seriously and put it on his lap! )