Chapter 378: Blowout Rhythm (Medium)

After everyone's laughter was over, Baker continued: "Okay, I'm not going to sell it, let's get straight to the point, the main collaboration between Paramount Pictures and Star Group this time is about a new movie, this movie series must be familiar to everyone, definitely familiar to everyone." ”

"This movie is the fifth installment in the Superman series, and the exact name has not yet been determined, but we have decided to give the film's features to Star Group for $100 million, and we will make a down payment of $30 million." Baker saw that everyone was a little anxious, and he didn't make any more sloppy eyes, and directly told the content of the press conference held by the two companies.

Although everyone had already guessed, when Baker said this, the whole venue was silent at first, and then there was an uproar, and all the reporters almost immediately couldn't wait to throw out all kinds of questions, and the huge volume immediately turned the conference room like a vegetable market, and the decoration in the conference room was made according to the decoration of the attraction shed, but there were still many echoes.

"Everyone, please be quiet, please be quiet!" The host immediately said loudly next to him. These reporters are all people who have seen the big scene, although the news made them a little shocked for a while, and only then did they ask those questions, and the host shouted, these reporters also knew that none of them could get any information from such a scene, and everyone immediately quieted down

"The following is the time for reporters to ask questions, please abide by the order of the venue." The moderator quickly emphasized the discipline of the venue before moving on to the next part. There were quite a lot of news media who came this time, so there were many people watching the press conference at the same time, and through various channels, everyone was thundered by the news of this car. Most of the netizens and people in China are optimistic, after all, in terms of technical characteristics, there is indeed a blank in China, and now there are companies that can directly get orders from Hollywood, which is naturally worth rejoicing.

This at least means that in the future, the level of domestic film special effects production will also keep up, and those film companies that don't want to spend money can't find an excuse to shirk. However, most of the people abroad, especially those in the United States, can't understand what happened to Paramount, and some media that didn't come to interview directly published their own comments, and several major newspapers directly used Paramount to describe the cooperation between Paramount and Star Group.

Even some fierce media are directly saying that Paramount will be wiped out, Chinese goods are very competitive in the United States, and many, many American companies have factories in China, and then sell back to the United States, so the American market is full of a large number of mu'm mountain m, but this does not mean that in terms of film characteristics, Chinese manufacturing is also so competitive, as we all know, in addition to Hong Kong movies, Chinese mainland movies are like a slag around the world.

But now Paramount has signed a contract with such a company, and some people in the know know that Star Group and Blizzard Entertainment signed a contract, and the video released by Star Group at that time also surprised everyone around the world who saw it, but accidents are accidents, and there is still a big difference between game effects and movie effects.

Just because you can do a good job in game special effects doesn't mean you can do a good job in movie special effects. And what more people are shocked about is not the question of which company Paramount signed a special effects production contract with, but how did the stunned Superman series of movies run to Paramount? If memory serves, shouldn't it be Warner Bros.'s? This question was also asked by reporters at the scene, and Zhang Yang also wanted to know the answer to this question, but unfortunately, Baker did not say a reason.

And the third thing that is amazing is the production cost of the movie, the overall special effects production is only 100 million US dollars, that is to say, the core production cost of the entire Superman fifth, that is, the future Superman returns movie, will definitely not exceed another dollar.

Zhang Yangduan doesn't know what the specific production cost of the movie Superman Returns is, but it should also exceed another dollar, although it is said that the special effects were made to the Star Group at a price of 100 million US dollars, but Zhang Yang, who understands the contract, naturally knows that this price is simply a fictitious one, and there is a provision in the contract that the final production cost will be 60% of this 100 million US dollars, that is, about 60 million US dollars.

The remaining $40 million will be given to Paramount, and Paramount will do its best to promote the Star Group. The global box office of Superman's Return doesn't seem to be particularly high, but as the first film for Star Group to step into the film special effects production industry, it's nothing to lose, anyway, the production cost of Star Group is almost zero, it's nothing more than the salary of employees, as for wages, without this business, Star Group still has to pay wages! Huang Yi, who was in front of the computer at the moment, was full of sluggishness, he never thought that the Star Group would have 30 million US dollars all of a sudden, and then 70 million! 30 million US dollars is 240 million R Peng! This Star Group surpassed Phantom Technology in one fell swoop. When negotiating with the technical director and president of Star Group, Huang Yi also said that the other party's strength is not as good as Phantom Technology.

It's a good thing, people have 240 million all of a sudden, and it's cash! Even if Huang Yi doesn't know the cost of film special effects production, but as we all know, the high profits of the software industry make people feel terrible, which is almost universal and there is no need to think about it at all.

Like Huang Yi, there are many people who know the Star Group, and there are also many people who are also sluggish, the speed of the rise of the Star Group makes everyone feel a little scary, at the beginning of the Star Group is indeed a place where there is no profit, many people are ready to see the jokes of the Star Group, the Star Group and the matrix security are not quite the same, the matrix security after swallowing the Baiying Security, there is already a big customer of the Agricultural Bank of China, and the enterprise-level users in its hands are charged.

Although matrix security also has security software that users can use for free, but people's profit points are not here, it's nothing more than wasting some servers, nothing, but the Star Group is different, the Star Group seems to have only one free optimization software from the beginning, or developed from the game.

Everyone doesn't know what the profit of the Star Group is, but now the Star Group tells everyone at once that the Star Group relies on what makes a profit! And the development of the Star Group is also a little incomprehensible to everyone. Although high-tech companies have some things in common, especially in terms of computers, but this jump is also a little too big, at first the Star Group seemed to be doing safety, and now it jumps directly to the computer special effects to hum.

And it seems that this computer special effects are quite good, at least much more reliable than the photon defense software that they have not started to make a profit at all, of course, that software is easy to use, but in the eyes of many businessmen, easy to use is easy to use, but what is the use of being free?

Zhang Yang's mouth was grinning at the computer screen, I have to say that most people's thoughts still can't be changed, what did Tencent rely on to make a fortune? Isn't it just free? And the strength of later generations finally dared to argue with Tencent, what did it rely on? Doesn't it rely on its huge installed capacity and user base? Although 360 said that the installed capacity of 300 million was a little watery at that time, Tencent's user water was not small, at least it was normal for everyone to have seven or eight dozen numbers.

However, these people don't understand, Zhang Yang is happy to be harmonious, for example, although Zhang Yang once gave them ideas, but the current focus of Matrix Security is not on the free software, but on their other paid businesses, so the number of free security software installed by Matrix Security is not so rapid now, it is completely dependent on the mutual transmission between users.

Since they themselves are unwilling, Zhang Yang doesn't care, anyway, although he said that he has forty percent of the shares of Matrix Security, but he can't get this share in his hands, with that bit of effort, it is better to develop the Star Group. The press conference of the Star Group is not long, but the sensation caused is quite huge, the domestic newspaper media is fine, but the major foreign newspaper media are almost flooded with this news.

Paramount's influence is the most important of these. Towards the end of the press conference, Zhang Yang suddenly received a call from Chen Xiaowei from the venue. "What's wrong? What are you calling me when you're not in a meeting? Do you want me to come on stage to answer questions? Zhang Yang asked quickly.

"That's not my question, but if you can answer me now, I can guarantee that at the end of today's press conference, there will be an even more explosive news that these reporters are reluctant to leave our company." Chen Xiaowei said with a smile.

"You say." Zhang Yang immediately asked curiously. "That's right, this question is not asked by me, it is asked by Mr. Microsoft's Chief Software Architecture Engineer." Chen Xiaowei said with a smile.

"Bill Gates?" Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Bill Gates to talk to Chen Xiaowei on the phone, after being stunned, Zhang Yang immediately became alert, if there are any other companies in the industry that people attach great importance to, then Microsoft is an absolutely unsparing Kan, although there is no conflict between Star Group and Microsoft at present, but to put it bluntly, there will never be absolute friends in the shopping mall, and there are only absolute interests.

Even if you are a tank company and a condom company, there may be a conflict one day, not to mention that in a sense, the two sides are still peers, especially what Zhang Yang is going to do next, he will definitely collide with Microsoft in the future.

Although Microsoft is not committed to the research and development of the mobile phone system now, as long as Zhang Yang makes certain achievements in making mobile phones, Microsoft will definitely not be left behind! Microsoft is in the operating system industry, just like Tencent in the domestic game industry, brother is rich! Brother is rich, brother also has technology, brother is a copycat, what do you want to do?

What can I do? It can only be served cold! The success of a company is definitely not a coincidence, it is not a coincidence that Microsoft can have today, Bill Gates's excellence is beyond doubt, his achievements have proved his excellence, and now it seems that Bill Gates is not as arrogant as the legend says, but he has not met the person who asked him to come forward in person.

For example, the current Star Group, the total assets are not even as high as Microsoft's profits for more than ten days, even if there is a president of a company like this, Microsoft is afraid that a manager can talk to you directly, but Bill Gates personally contacted Chen Xiaowei, from this point it can be seen that Microsoft still attaches great importance to the Star Group.

"What's the problem?" After getting Chen Xiaowei's affirmative answer, Zhang Yang opened his mouth and asked rhetorically. "The other party just wants to know how our optimization software does it, and Bill Gates bluntly said that they have tested it, and even a new system they are currently developing, your software can achieve a performance improvement of more than 30% if it is used by ordinary users. Ask if we can work together. Chen Xiaowei conveyed Bill Gates' question to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was slightly stunned for a moment, how did he do it, this is also a vain question, this is a secret, it is naturally impossible for the Star Group to tell Microsoft, it is estimated that Bill just asked in passing, and it is estimated that the real problem is the latter one. "Cooperation? How? Did he mention the way? Zhang Yang frowned and asked directly.

"Yes, Microsoft will add the interface of our software built into the new system after the release, and recommend our software to become the first software necessary for the system, and at the same time, our company needs to share the technology of how to optimize the system of photonic defense with Microsoft, as a cooperation, Microsoft will share part of the core technology of the system to us, or we can choose to share the sales share, of course, the proportion of the share cannot be too large." Chen Xiaowei said quickly.

Zhang Yang couldn't help but sneer after hearing this, Microsoft is a good idea. You share the technology with them, and they share the technology with you, but do you think Microsoft might share all the core technology of Pyboron with you? Zhang Yang immediately spoke: "Is all the source code shared?" Chen Xiaowei choked for a moment, and then said: "Of course not, do you think it's possible, they said that they just shared technology with us in terms of system security, so that it would be easier for us to do this." ”

"It's impossible, if it's fair cooperation, remember, I'm talking about fair cooperation, even if Microsoft pays for it, we can help them optimize their new products, but technology sharing can't be." Zhang Yang directly refused, if it was such a cooperation, it would be impossible to cooperate with Microsoft if Zhang Yang was killed. Trapped Photon Defense may seem like a free software, but its core kernel has a lot of secrets. （