Chapter 508: Joining forces with the Shaw Clan

It is not too difficult to convince the shareholders of the new film and television company.

After all, the shareholders of these companies are basically employees who have obtained equity through Lin Qi's equity incentives. There is a huge gap with Lin Qi, the big boss.

If Lin Qi forcibly passes, the worst result will be that some people are unpopular and resign and leave.

It is precisely in order to make employees feel involved that Lin Qi allows the employees and management of major companies to discuss with him such a major event as foreign investment.

What's more, Lin Qi told these shareholders that the investment in Shaw Brothers Film Company was no longer funded by the new venture film and television company, but in Lin Qi's personal name, to rescue Run Run Shaw.

There is no need to occupy the funds of the new start-up film and television companies, and these shareholders naturally have no position to oppose it. You can't object to it, Mr. Lin spends private money.

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Lin Qi's rescue to Run Shaw was very timely, and within a few days, Run Run Shaw had already paid off the bonds and various debt agreements that Sony had come to run.

Subsequently, Run Run Shaw called to thank Lin Qi for his rescue.

"Uncle Shao, it's so polite!" Lin Qi said with a smile, "Next, we don't know if our cooperation in cinema technology can be carried out?"

"There's no problem on my side! As long as you have the equipment on your side and guide us on how to install and use it, there will naturally be no problem! Moreover, how to solve the problem of the new projection system?" Although Run Run Shaw has no bottom on whether the new equipment is reliable. Because, film projection equipment has enough film copy resources to be projected, and after using the new equipment, even if the quality is better, there is a problem with the film source.

"Don't worry about the source of the film!" Lin Qi smiled and said, "Previously, our Felix Animation Company had an animated movie "Fate/Stay Night", which was postponed for a few months in order to better polish it. The film, itself, was made on a computer, and the copy was a digital program from the beginning, mounted on a hard drive. It's just that in order to take care of the film cinema, we were forced to reduce the picture quality and make the first film version!"

"Felix's animated film?" Shaw was not only moved.

Even if he doesn't like to watch animation, in the past few years, Run Run Shaw has watched every animated movie animated by Felix.

Because, Felix Animation has a nickname - the Disney of the East!

The whole of Asia does animated films, and the box office does not reach the level of Felix Animation.

And "fate" is also a big IP, before, after "Court of Avalon" sold 500 million US dollars at the box office, it was successively promoted, "Court of Avalon" is regarded as the prequel and the first part of the FATE series.

The later "Fate" series can be regarded as a feature film.

The big movie "Fate/Stay Night" invested 200 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. It took time, and it was nearly 3 years. And Felix Animation, the current team, can also be called a fantasy level. Not only does it recruit a large number of talented first-class talents in art from China every year, but also the best people are being recruited all over the world.

Many animation production talents want to go to Felix to gild and see Felix's production process, and join Felix.

In this regard, Felix Animation is not afraid of technical leaks.

But Felix's production is nothing more than using computers to make animation, which is also a general trend in the future. Now, it's just Felix that has used this business philosophy in advance.

In fact, the release of "Fate/Stay Night" was postponed before, mainly because the picture quality of the film was too high. Compressing to the point where a film copy can fit requires a significant reduction in pixel resolution levels.

As a result, the movie-going experience declined, forcing the company to stop releasing and instead optimize the image quality of the film film.

After doing so, the company's team was also annoyed...... Nima's, why is it that the animation made by the computer has a higher resolution, but it has to be transcoded to a lower resolution film film?

Can't the film industry directly use hard disk copies to load digital movies?

The idea has been submitted more than once.

This is also the reason why Lin Qi decided to quit the digital film projection system in advance.

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Mid-June.

Two new digital film projection systems assembled from the Shenzhen factory were transported to Hong Kong. After that, it was quickly installed in two Shaw Brothers movie theaters.

Two cinemas have been closed for more than 5 days, much to the surprise of the Hong Kong industry!

Many news media even reported that the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line Company was not operating well, so it was going to lay off employees, close down movie theaters, and sell the real estate of movie theaters to pay off debts.

Of course, Shaw Brothers Film Company carried out a series of rumors, but no one believed it.

Until June 21.

Huang Cianming, the general manager of the new venture film and television company and the general manager of the Shaw Brothers cinema line, attended the "fate/stay night" movie together, and the whole industry was shaken at the press conference in Hong Kong...... Shaw Brothers has actually joined forces with the New Entrepreneurship Department!

"Our Shaw Brothers Cinema Line Company has not done well over the years, the equipment is old, the level of movies is not high, and the audience does not like it. On the other hand, the attendance rate is higher than ours, and the reputation of the movie is also better. Therefore, we learned from the pain and began to gradually upgrade the technology of the Shaw Brothers cinema line. This time, the two movie theaters that were closed for renovation were just to quickly replace the equipment, and in five days, we not only replaced the seats, air conditioning and other systems of the theaters, but also ...... It has also introduced the digital projection system of Xinchuang Electronics Group!" Huang Jianming said with a smile on his eyebrows, "Due to the traditional film equipment, it can only do about 720P and 1080P." However, we have successfully transformed the cinema with a pixel resolution of 2560x1440, which is more than double the pixel of 1080P according to the latest technical standards, which is both the 2K standard. The resolution is higher, which naturally brings the audience a clearer and more shocking effect!"

"The movie 'Fate/Stay Night' was commissioned by our sister company, Felix Animation, to be distributed. "At present, we are producing traditional film copies, which is the mainstream projection technology in cinemas around the world. However, we have also released hard disk copies required for digital projection systems. A single movie with 2K resolution is more than 20GB of hard disk capacity. Compared with the 650MB capacity of a VCD movie in the past, it is more than 30 times larger! Therefore, technically speaking, movies in the digital age should better reflect the essence of blockbusters than traditional movies! Copies contain more information, and they are naturally blockbusters within blockbusters!"

"Shaw Brothers Cinemas is making its debut in Hong Kong, and our 27 cinemas will screen "Fate/Stay Night" at the same time, and the ticket price for ordinary cinemas is 12 yuan. The ticket price of the two newly renovated digital screening halls is 20 yuan!" Huang Cianming also took the opportunity to advertise, "The premiere will be held at 6 o'clock this afternoon." If you want to see the premiere, go buy tickets!"