Chapter 728: Tough
Since the official start of preparations for "Transformers", the news about "Transformers" has not stopped. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
That's a lot of money at $300 million.
However, public opinion has always belonged to the normal category, so Ye Qiu didn't pay too much attention to it.
He has always believed in professional things to be done by professional people.
This time, the director of "Transformers" can also be called a famous Chinese director in the world, Liu Yusheng.
Liu Yusheng was born on Hong Kong Island, in the golden age of Hong Kong Island films, he was famous, and then entered Hollywood, and also made several extraordinary big productions, but unfortunately, after that, Liu Yusheng failed twice, and was abandoned by Hollywood.
However, even so, Liu Yusheng is still one of the world's most famous Chinese international directors.
For "Transformers", the Chinese people still expect more than they question it.
After all, this is Ye Qiu's work, and the toy has become famous overseas.
It's just that Liu Yusheng soon discovered the abnormality of public opinion recently.
"The left hand is changed to the right hand, and the golden holy hand is already invincible!"
"$300 million = 0! Take the investor's money to develop your own company, and it doesn't matter if "Transformers" succeeds or fails?"
"Dianjin Film and Television invested 200 million US dollars, and the cold stone special effects income was 200 million US dollars.
"The Chinese people are proud, they take the foreigner's money in their left hand and put it in their pocket with their right hand!"
"Baby toys, people are stupid and have a lot of money, come quickly!"
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Suddenly, overnight, public opinion began to stop paying attention to the prospects of "Transformers", but instead questioned its Ye Qiu's largesse this time, which was actually a disguised act of enriching one's own pockets.
People say that in the Internet era, there is nothing that cannot be seen, and no matter how dark things are, there will be times when they are exposed, but in fact, in the Internet era, public opinion has become more manipulative.
As soon as these remarks came out, they were still very marketable.
There are even many people who are really proud of it, and feel that Ye Qiu is very powerful in doing this.
You can't say that these reports are all false, because people are also reasonable.
You see, Dianjin Film and Television, Star Animation, are all Ye Qiu's, and the cold stone special effects are also Ye Qiu's.
$300 million invested in "Transformers", of which $200 million was spent by Dianjin Film and Television, and Star Animation was published for the rights, and the special effects cost $200 million.
In other words, Ye Qiu took out 200 million with his left hand, and put it back in his pocket with his right hand.
Of course, it is not that no one questions this voice.
The simplest proof of this is the CG special effects video produced by the cold stone special effects.
However, this CG special effects video was quickly killed by two similar videos of the Magic Tower and Light Magic.
I have to say that the strength of the Demon Tower and the Light Demon is indeed stronger than that of the Cold Stone.
It's also the transformation effect of "Transformers", but the two CG videos that the magic tower and the light and magic took out are called experimental versions, but the effect is much better than that of Hanshi.
In fact, the magic tower and light and magic, this time also made a lot of money, two deformed CG special effects videos, in just a few tens of seconds, cost millions of dollars.
So the media interviewed the heads of the two companies, Magic Tower and Light Magic.
As a result, the two companies of Magic Tower and Light and Magic have said that their technology is the world's top, and after popularizing the knowledge of the so-called movie special effects again, they began to question the strength of Hanshi, and then said that they were very puzzled to spend 200 million US dollars on "Transformers" but ask a special effects company with ordinary technology to produce "Transformers".
Because if it is handed over to the Magic Tower or Light Magic, not only can it achieve the best effect, but it also does not cost as much as 200 million US dollars.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a combination of the magic tower and the light and magic to snipe the cold stone special effects, but netizens don't see it that way.
The so-called seeing is believing, hearing is false, obviously the two CG videos taken out by the Magic Tower and the Light and Demon are better than the cold stone.
And the magic tower and light magic are indeed the world's top film special effects companies, even they say that they don't need as much as 200 million US dollars, so why do Hanshi have such a high price?
Originally, Ye Qiu didn't care too much about these voices, but he didn't expect these voices to still bring some trouble to Ye Qiu.
The so-called forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, like the domestic United Pictures and Wanxing Pictures, after all, the cold stone special effects also have their shares.
Don't say they don't believe those rumors, even if they are true, they are also vested interests, and Huaguo's companies, unlike foreign companies, most of them still adopt family-style management, which is basically the boss's word.
However, Hasbro Toys is different, the equity of Hasbro Toys is extremely dispersed, and the manager system is adopted.
And the key is that the shareholders of Baby Toys themselves have the shareholders of Magic Tower and Light and Magic, and it can be said that the two sides themselves are inextricably linked.
As a result, there were some doubts within the Hasboy Group.
Yes, "Transformers" toys are selling very well, but in order to promote "Transformers" toys, take out 50 million dollars, isn't it too much?
And the key is, why not choose the magic tower, or the cooperation of light and magic, but hand over the special effects of the movie to a special effects company in China?
Of course, this is also the result of the PR of Hollywood special effects companies such as Magic Tower and Light Magic.
Although Smith Chan strongly opposes the use of this method to stop the cold stone special effects, he is only the president of Asia after all.
In such a situation, Hasbro Toys couldn't sit still, and the president of Hasbro Pictures had to make an appointment with Ye Qiu again.
Ye Qiu was annoyed at this moment, in fact, he invited Hasbro to join at the beginning because the biggest partner of "Transformers" in North America was Hasbro Toys.
BabyToys has a good distribution channel in North America, which can be said to be mutually beneficial.
But this does not mean that Ye Qiu will accept the constraints of BabyBaby, in fact, Ye Qiu does not only have such an option as BabyBaby.
Ye Qiu replied directly and forcefully to Baby Pictures.
"Hasboy Pictures can withdraw at any time, and I'm not short of money! It's just that once Hasboy Pictures withdraws its investment, then after the release of the "Transformers" movie, there will be a need to renegotiate about the movie's peripherals. ā
Hasbo Pictures didn't expect Ye Qiu to be so tough, in fact, they invested in the "Transformers" movie, not because of how optimistic they were about this film, but because of the interests of "Transformers" movie peripherals, and the promotion effect that "Transformers" will bring to the sales of toy peripherals.
But I didn't expect Ye Qiu to be so tough.
Baobao naturally knows who Ye Qiu is, and he also knows that what Ye Qiu said is not a lie, Ye Qiu is not short of money, this is for sure.
In the end, Habao still did not withdraw its investment, after all, although the shareholders of the Magic Tower and Light and Demon also have the shareholders of Habao, but after all, they are only a minority.
Cooperating with Ye Qiu is not only "Transformers", but also the marketing of Huaguo.