Saturday, November 8th.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Xu Ke took one or twenty young people, carrying a salute, and walked out of Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport in high spirits, followed by three blonde foreigners, talking and laughing with Xu Ke.

Because of the filming of "A Chinese Ghost Story", the Dark Horse Special Effects Studio, which studied special effects technology in Industrial Light & Magic in the United States, made a special trip back to Hong Kong, not only to produce special effects for "A Chinese Ghost Story", but also to show Chen Ping'an their learning results.

In order to ensure the effect of special effects, Chen Ping'an also invited three people from Industrial Light and Magic, young people who are responsible for guiding the special effects of dark horses, and make the special effects in "A Chinese Ghost Story". Through this film, he wants Hong Kong filmmakers to gradually understand the importance of film special effects to a movie.

Chen Ping'an and Shi Nansheng specially came to the airport to pick up the airport, Shi Nansheng and Xu Ke hadn't seen each other for more than half a year, and Chen Ping'an ...... This is the second time in the past two days that I have come to Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport, and the last time was to send Wang Jie's father and daughter on the plane.

Wang Jie has returned to Taiwan with his daughter, and he also took away the song "A Game, a Dream" to join Li Zongsheng. After Li Zongsheng saw Wang Jie, he specially called Chen Pingan, in addition to thanking Chen Pingan for sending such a good rookie singer, he also hoped that Chen Pingan would send them to Taiwan after digging out excellent Chinese singers.

After more than a year of development, with the efforts of Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian, Tong Ange, Yi Nengjing and others, Taiwan's Dark Horse Records has developed into one of the top music companies in Taiwan.

After Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng embraced, they came to Chen Ping'an, shook his hand vigorously, and said with emotion: "The United States has opened my eyes for more than half a year. Your generosity, boss, will not be in vain, and this time back, I also bring you good news, as well as a message that should be useful. ”

In the car, he told Chen Ping'an the good news he had brought back.

This time he returned to Hong Kong to make the special effects of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the three employees of Industrial Light & Magic were all personally selected by Xu Ke. These three people have a good relationship with Xu Ke, one is divorced and the other is unmarried, and their skills are good. After a long period of observation and conversation, Xu Ke thought that it should be easier to dig up these three people. In terms of salary, Xu Ke believes that Chen Ping'an will not be stingy, and the only concern is to make these three adapt to life in Hong Kong.

"The three of them aren't bent, are they?" In front of Shi Nansheng, Chen Ping'an asked this question, Xu Ke and the dwarf bull driving did not understand, but Shi Nansheng in the passenger seat was the first to react, and turned his head to look out the window.

As long as it's not bent, it's easy to do, and Shang Ge Yunton is the best example. When I first arrived in Hong Kong with him, I felt awkward to see everything, but under the melting of sugar-coated shells, I quickly adapted to and fell in love with life in Hong Kong.

Figuring out the difference between "bending" and "straight", Xu Kele was unsupportable, the dwarf cow laughed so much that he almost didn't have an accident, Shi Nansheng complained loudly, complaining that Chen Ping'an was not a good boss and taught his husband badly.

"There's another piece of news."

"ILM has a computer animation group within it, and Lucas is interested in selling."

The Computer Animation Group is a department within ILM that specializes in full 3D animation, but Lucas is not interested in this technology, he is more interested in creating photorealistic film special effects, so he intends to sell.

"Are you sure!" Chen Ping'an looked at Xu Ke excitedly. If that's the case, if he can buy up this computer animation group, even if the special effects studio he sent out to study at a huge amount of money will be worth nothing—the news is worth a thousand dollars!

Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng glanced at each other: "Boss, you don't really plan to buy it, do you?" ”

"Why not?" Chen Ping'an was indescribably happy in his heart, and grabbed Xu Ke's hand, "How much is he going to sell?" ”

"I've inquired, about 10 million." Xu Ke's work is very detailed, "However, this department has not been able to make a profit, and Lucas wants to make a move, and it is estimated that there is also a reason for this." Boss, do you want to think about it again, this thing is just burning money! ”

Xu Ke is right, special effects are just burning money. If you can bear the burning effect, that is, you will earn back with profits and a blockbuster, and if you can't bear it, you will be burned to death! However, Chen Ping'an can afford to burn and bear it, and he knows the huge market of animation special effects in the future!

The computer animation group that Lucas intends to sell is the predecessor of the famous Pixar Animation Studio. "Toy Story", "Bug Crisis", "Finding Nemo", "Cars", etc. are all from this, and were acquired by Disney for $7.4 billion in 06.

Xu Ke found that what he thought was good news could only be good for Chen Ping'an; On the contrary, the news that he thought might be useful was like pie from the sky in Chen Ping'an's eyes. The boss's thinking ...... Tsk, I really don't know!

On the 37th floor of the World Trade Building, Chen Ping'an had already asked people to clean up the place as the office location of the Dark Horse Special Effects Studio, and according to Xu Ke's request on the phone, he purchased various computers and corresponding equipment, plus the equipment they brought from the United States, after installation and commissioning today, the construction will officially start tomorrow.

Chen Ping'an returned to the office and first called Zhang Ziyang to inquire about the company's book funds.

The second and third phases of the project of the dark horse film and television base in Tseung Kwan O have started, and Chen Ping'an has invested 500 million Hong Kong dollars in the whole project, and borrowed 500 million yuan from Jardine Matheson, according to the construction progress, it will be officially delivered after the Spring Festival next year. A total of 250 million yuan was paid for the purchase of the World Trade Center and Tseung Kwan O plots, and the loan of 200 million yuan was also repaid after the overseas box office of "The Love of People and Ghosts" arrived.

Under Zhang Ziyang's control, the company generally maintains about 80 million of liquidity on its books, and the rest of the funds are used to invest in the property market, and these property units are of course under Chen Ping'an's name. At present, the property units under Chen Ping'an's name, with a total market value of more than 600 million, except for the villas in the mid-levels and more than a dozen high-end apartments in the prosperous area, the others are rented out for rent, which is specially managed by Ye Zhiming, and Chen Ping'an receives hundreds of thousands of rents every month, which is also the source of Chen Ping'an's pocket money.

The investments in "Coming to America" and "Rain Man" did not occupy the company's working capital, which was invested with the box office recovered from "Mythical City" and "Blood Spot", while the investment in "Mythical City" and "Blood Point" did not exceed two million US dollars, which is negligible.

With the start of filming of "Autumn Fairy Tale", "Bloody Heroes", "Magic Jade" and "A Chinese Ghost Story", the company has invested 30 or 40 million Hong Kong dollars one after another, and the local box office has not yet recovered, so the company now only has more than 40 million yuan left on its books, which is not enough to acquire the computer animation team.

"Boss, this is just the books of the film company, and the brokerage companies, distribution companies, theater companies, record companies, and investment companies have more liquidity on the books."

Zhang Guozhong's Dark Horse International Brokerage Company is the worst earnings, but this year's income is also more than 60 million Hong Kong dollars, and the other three companies have all earned more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, among which the investment company in charge of Ye Zhiming has the highest income, reaching 400 million Hong Kong dollars.

Chen Ping'an shook his head, not ready to withdraw funds from these companies: "Forget it, I'll find a loan from Jardine Matheson." ”

30 million US dollars, more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, for the financial resources of Jardine Matheson and the credibility of Dark Horse International, Zhang Ziyang only used a phone call to obtain a verbal consent from the other party, and agreed to meet in the afternoon to discuss the loan in detail.

It is easy to take out a loan, but it is not easy to acquire the computer animation team of Industrial Light and Magic, especially since Chen Ping'an learned from Xu Kekou that Steve Jobs was also interested in buying it.

It's time for Lao Ye to come out!

After the noon reception, Chen Ping'an brought Xu Ke and Ye Zhiming to the office, and asked Xu Ke to tell Ye Zhiming about the Industrial Light and Magic computer animation team, and then told the two of them, and Ye Zhiming came forward and took full responsibility for the acquisition of the computer animation team, striving to win it at a price of less than 10 million US dollars. You can ask Anne Heard for help with the acquisition process, but don't reveal that it is related to him.

Chen Ping'an's special effects team has already studied at ILM, and if he buys the computer animation team, it will easily arouse Lucas's doubts. Seriously, Ye Zhiming came forward, and said that it was introduced by Xu Ke, and then let Anne Heard secretly thread the needle, and the probability of success is very high.

Sold to Steve Jobs and to the little-known Hong Kong man Yip Chi-ming...... All things being equal, Lucas is likely to choose the latter, as he will not be a competitor to ILM.

Just like Chen Ping'an organized a group to study at ILM, there was no point for Lucas after paying enough tuition. If it were an American film company, Lucas would not agree to double the tuition.

This matter will be handed over to Ye Zhiming, and Chen Ping'an believes that there is a high probability that this matter will be done with Ye Zhiming's mind.

After Xu Ke led the young people of the Dark Horse Special Effects Studio back, they quickly put themselves into work, and their work is currently one piece, making zuò special effects for "A Chinese Ghost Story". These young people are equivalent to the Dark Horse International Orientation Commission, and they also receive salaries, and they are full of gratitude to Chen Ping'an and the company. At that time, people paid more attention to faith and righteousness, and Xu Ke was also very good, they all thought that this was an opportunity to prove themselves, to put it in layman's terms...... Victory and defeat are today!

Passionate young people, who forget to sleep and eat when they work, even the three foreigners can't compare to them. It's not that foreigners don't work hard, foreigners' habits are to work hard and have fun after work, so they get off work every day, and then Wang Jing took them to clubbing and going to nightclubs.

In addition to playing the role of the county magistrate in "A Chinese Ghost Story", Wang Jing also has a task to make these foreigners fall in love with Hong Kong and Hong Kong's nightlife.

"Boss, how is it, I didn't let you spend money in vain when I went out this time, right?"

This time he went to study Industrial Light and Magic, Xu Ke followed and benefited a lot, but Chen Ping'an's money was not spent. For this reason, Shi Nansheng said a lot about him, saying that the whole of Hong Kong is Chen Ping'an, try to change the boss, who can tolerate him?

Although Xu Ke is a maverick, he also knows this principle, so during his study at Industrial Light and Magic, he inquired about various news, hoping to help Chen Ping'an. Obviously, this time the news is valuable.

Chen Ping'an smiled and threw him a Gaesba cigar: "Are you interested in being an assistant director for me?" ”

"Assistant director?" Xu Ke frowned, and the phone call from the secretary Amy came in: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Li Lianjie wants to see you, and he is outside the door now." ”R1152