Chapter 245: Overseas Footsteps

Fan Cheng is not a person who likes comic animation very much, but growing up in such a country, it is impossible not to know anything about animation, and he still has a few favorite works.

Of course, there are so many national-level works, which he doesn't particularly like but is familiar with, can draw images casually, and even write an outline clearly.

Now that the comprehensive entertainment channel has gradually been established, the production plan for these few works that he particularly likes has also begun to be planned.

First of all, there are several national-level animation works.

"Robot Cat", "Miss Conch", and "Dragon Ball".

Of these three works, "Robot Cat" is the easiest, Fan Cheng's painting skills are not very good but he has undergone some training, which allows him to express what he wants at least when drawing storyboard scripts, at least the drawing skills of a robot cat with simple lines are very easy.

As for the story of the robot cat, it is simpler, in short, it is the brain hole of all kinds of strange props, plus the cowardly Nobita, the sturdy fat tiger and other characters, it can constitute such a long story that has been broadcast for decades and played at dinner time.

The production of this kind of animation is not a sudden good outrageous production quality, but a perennial, long-lasting broadcast above the level.

As for the later "Miss Conch" and "Dragon Ball", the former may not be very popular in China, but it is almost well-known in Japan, and it is a more family-friendly type of anime than "Robot Cat".

And "Dragon Ball" is the pinnacle of hot-blooded comics, even if Fan Cheng is not too interested in animation, he is still very familiar with this animation, from the world's first martial arts club, to Piccolo, Saiyan, Sharu, Majin Buu...... Write out these outlines, and then design characters such as Monkey King, as for what effects can be developed later, it depends on how the future Chinese animators will be produced.

In addition to these three national works, Fan Cheng has at least three works that he personally likes very much, and they are even worse than these three works.

"To", "Slam Dunk", and "Macross Fortress" (mostly theatrical version).

"TO" is also translated as "Baseball Heroes" in China, in Fan Cheng's world, baseball has almost no influence in mainland China, "to" is the only impression of baseball among the vast majority of young people in mainland China, in a country where there is no concept of baseball at all, a baseball work can become popular, which is enough to prove the quality of this work.

As for "Slam Dunk", it is almost the top animation in China and Japan after the top national works, and countless people have been influenced by this work to fall in love with basketball.

The last "Macross Fortress" may be slightly inferior to the previous two sports works in terms of level, but Fan Cheng likes this story very much, in his plan, he knows that he is not good at animation production, especially animated films, but he likes this work very much, and he must put this work on the big screen in the future, even if it may be a live-action film work.

The animation production plan of the entertainment channel, the first quarter production of "Robot Cat" has begun and the broadcast time is scheduled, and the screenplay time of "Miss Conch" and "Dragon Ball" has also begun, and the detailed screenwriting and production will be broadcast on TV in the next two years.

As for the three works that Fan Cheng particularly likes, the plans for "to" and "Slam Dunk" have also begun to start, but compared with the previous three works with relatively simple outlines and a little bit of world view expansion, the production requirements of these two works are much higher.

Among them, the first Slam Dunk has drawn about ten episodes, and the first phase of the photos have also been released, in Fan Cheng's eyes, this series of trailers is far less than the Japanese Slam Dunk in his memory, even if his world slam dunk is only at the level of painting in the nineties, but for the audience in this world, the animation that Fan Cheng took out is simply amazing.

To put it mildly, the audience of this world is tantamount to seeing a whole new world!

To put it more directly, what Fan Cheng took out has innovated the Chinese animation circle, and it is even greater than the impression he created in the music and film and television circles before!

No way, although Japanese music and film and television have a huge influence, and even many genres have influenced the rest of East Asia before Japan came first, but this animation has a greater impact on East Asia, and the world without Japanese animation is completely empty in Fan Cheng's view.

The Chinese animation of this world, the first thing I came into contact with was Disney, it was the cat and the mouse, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, followed by Hong Kong comics, Nie Fengbu frightened the clouds and pierced Lin Bei's legs, the animation style of this world is also like this, the style of American comics and Hong Kong comics is prevalent, and there is no style that Fan Cheng is familiar with in the Japanese at all.

And Fan Cheng has now released this style.

In fact, the author of "Slam Dunk", Inoue Yuhiko's painting level is absolutely beyond Fan Cheng's ability, but a few photos of Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede and gorilla modeling drawings Fan Cheng can still hold it out after holding it in the room for a week, so the newly established animation company under his command began to create works that Fan Cheng said to have a completely different painting style from the United States Hong Kong Manga according to this series of modeling drawings.

In the end, Fan Cheng still seems to have too strong American comic style imprints, but it is already a huge change in the animation circle of this world.

Of course, for Fan Cheng, these are just idle chess, and he basically won't interfere with what the animation industry can develop, and the only thing he is interested in in this regard may be the filming of the film version of "Macross in the future", and he is likely to serve as the director of that work in the future.

It's not that Fan Cheng doesn't want to participate.,I don't want to get Japanese-style comics out.,It's really impossible for people to be all-rounder.,Even if his skills in drawing animated comics can't be called zero.,It's definitely not much.,If you score his drawing ability,I'm afraid the final score on the 100-point system won't exceed 30 points.,Half a bottle of water.,It's already good to boil out a few concept drawings for his subordinates to play.,There's no need to waste time learning animation comics from scratch.。

During this time, the effect of "Battle Royale" being screened abroad also came out.

The 100 million box office in China is just the beginning, and the foreign release of Fan Cheng's work is surprisingly good.

In fact, the box office of this movie in the world before Fan Cheng's crossing was not excellent, as for the value in the world, although there were many movies that were simply crowned as "battle royale" movies after that, but if you really want to talk about the value of the movie, it is not really big, there are not many surprises in terms of storytelling, shooting techniques, etc., but Fan Cheng's "Battle Royale" in this world is a little different.

This world just lacks this kind of film type that is promoted by multiple perspectives, and even in terms of shooting techniques, there are many things that are different from this world movie, and the good popularity and attention make the box office of the movie quite good, and the shooting method that the movie is completely different from this world has also made professionals praise this work, with appreciation in the circle, and at the same time, it has also promoted more people to enter the cinema.

In the end, the film got a total of more than 20 million US dollars at the box office outside of China, including 7 million in the United States, 9 million in Europe, and about 4 million in other regions (many of which are directly sold broadcast rights), relatively speaking, the box office in Europe is higher than that in the United States.

The good box office of this film also benefited from the award-winning of the film, in several low-end film festivals in Europe, this film has won several awards related to creative technology, as for the actor and director awards, there is no gain, professional audiences and judges can see that the quality of this film is good, from the director to the actors, it is not excellent, purely based on the plot and intention to win, and at the same time there are some shining works in the way of shooting.

This is not that those professional judges or even film companies look down on Fan Cheng, but it means that European and American film companies have a lot of expectations for Fan Cheng, and many professional film production and investment companies have heard of this cutting-edge film director in Huaxia.

This is actually very normal, the birth of geniuses will not have too many differences between countries and cultures, small markets and small countries may also give birth to talented and amazing creators, some European and American manufacturers are dedicated to supporting this kind of people, in recent years, the film circles in India and China are what these manufacturers are most concerned about.

After the release of the movie, many manufacturers who were quite optimistic about Fan Cheng found Fan Cheng's side and expressed their willingness to support the investment in Fan Cheng's works. 's movie box office looks good, but Fan Cheng feels that this is not the full strength of his works, with this support, he has the opportunity to sell his works higher at the box office.

These manufacturers have also played a role that Fan Cheng wants them to achieve, compared with the caution of domestic manufacturers about Fan Cheng's two new horror films, foreign manufacturers seem to be much richer, although they are not particularly optimistic, but they still give some funds and help in the future release, and accordingly they also get the benefits of Fan Cheng's side about the release and even the box office.

The only thing that surprised them a little about these manufacturers was that he did not agree to the request for cooperation in the peripheral aspects of new films in the future.

The film peripheral industry is originally a relatively small part of the film industry chain, and it can even be said that if the DVD part of the periphery is removed, unless it is a particularly popular and popular movie, few works can have large peripheral sales, as for DVD?

But what these manufacturers don't know is that what Fan Cheng wants is DVD sales.

"Midnight Bell" and "Curse" are two movies, although they are very famous, but in fact, there is not much exaggeration in terms of box office sales, what is terrible is DVD sales, watching it at home, especially the picture of Sadako crawling out of the TV in Midnight Bell is simply scary, in later generations, the DVD sales of these two movies are several times the box office sales, which is the real suitable way to open the two movies.

Of course, Fan Cheng couldn't have given up DVD sales to others when he knew about this achievement.

With the support of such good news, the movie-related DVDs and even peripherals are also selling quite well, Fan Cheng is from Japan that has made the product peripherals, DVD sales to the extreme, and he is an industry insider, although he is not a professional in doing this, he is also full of tricks for people in the world when developing products, from the hero's pot lid, the heroine's telescope, to the battle royale island's wilderness survival, all kinds of from cheap peripherals to large-scale travel services, a full set of peripheral products around the work。

Maybe these peripheral products can't be sold for too long, but at least within a year or two, relying on the constantly updated word-of-mouth popularity, they can sell quite a good income.

The overseas box office sales of 20 million US dollars finally brought about 50 million RB of income to Fan Cheng's side, because the film has already returned to its original cost, so almost all of this part is earned, plus a large number of fragmentary peripheral income, and finally relying on this movie, Fan Cheng has a total profit of nearly 100 million yuan, this profit figure is simply envious of other companies and directors to death, this is Fan Cheng's first work as a director, the director industry, even if it is a genius, it needs to be learned, and many of the directors' first works are purely for others, under various problem reasons, very few directors can get such a huge profit in their first work.

Overseas is relatively optimistic about "Midnight Bell" and "Curse", but for "Murder on the Orient Express" directed by Fan Cheng in the future, although they are also willing to invest in cooperation and support, the support is no different from the two horror films, which cannot satisfy Fan Cheng.

And the thoughts of overseas investors are also understandable, horror films can be watched all over the world, and adaptations may not have a market if there is no market, and the original work has not been released overseas, so if Fan Cheng wants more support for him directing this work, the first thing to do should be to translate his works overseas.

Fan Cheng also expressed his understanding of the investors' views, anyway, now he is not short of money, after making a decision, he immediately contacted Europe and the United States through Wen Jia's relationship, found several Chinese born in Europe and the United States, and worked in the publishing industry, and asked them to help translate his work, "Murder on the Orient Express" and Poirot's series of works are the works of Europeans and Americans, although Agatha Christie's age is more than half a century different from Fan Cheng's 21st century, Fan Cheng still believes that this work has the possibility of becoming popular in Europe and the United States, because the secret room murder or something is not concerned in Europe and the United States in this world, and Fan Cheng has the opportunity to make up for the lack of a wooden board in Europe and the United States in this regard.