Not only movies, but other industries of Tomahawk Entertainment are also continuously amassing funds.

On the variety show, "Let's Work Together" has been produced to the fourth season, and the popularity of the first three seasons has been accumulating, and it has briefly surpassed the most popular "Dragon Slayer Warrior" several times.

Musically, Xia Ningxuan and Han Lan's new albums have held up the sky, and Han Lan's world tour this year is also crazy to make money. As for Xiaotou, several of its original singers have good popularity, although they are not as exaggerated as Xia Ningxuan and Han Lan, but they have also brought tens of millions of income to the company.

The boy group Xia and the girl group Hyun Ji have ushered in another rapid development in the idol market this year, especially the development of overseas markets. Especially the men's group, Tomahawk Entertainment's men's group has a rather fatal advantage over the men's group of KR country, that is, they don't have to be forced to serve in the military! Perhaps, this is the back of the tree to enjoy the shade.

And because the men's group Xia and the women's group Xuanji are now developing again, their withdrawal time will definitely be postponed. The trainees who were originally used to replace them naturally couldn't just wait, and the trainees who had already reached the debut standard, Tomahawk Entertainment also began to plan a new path for them, preparing to form a new idol group to debut. As for whether it can be popular after debut, it can only be said that it will not be worse than other companies.

These are the basis for the outside world to dare to value Tomahawk Entertainment at 50 billion.

But the next decision of Tomahawk Entertainment obviously wants them to raise this valuation even more.

After the May Day holiday, Tomahawk Entertainment suddenly issued an announcement, announcing the acquisition of three domestic animation studios, the establishment of Tomahawk Animation, and the restructuring of all companies under Tomahawk Entertainment.

Tomahawk Group was established as the parent company, and its wholly-owned holding has three subsidiaries: Tomahawk Pictures, Tomahawk Entertainment, and Tomahawk Animation.

Subsequently, Tomahawk Group and Black Magic Dragon Special Effects Company issued an announcement that Tomahawk Group invested 1 billion yuan to hold 12% of the shares, becoming the third shareholder of Black Magic Dragon Special Effects Company.

And the No. 2 shareholder of the Black Magic Dragon Special Effects Company has also been noticed - Liu Rong! 28% shareholding!

The team at the remaining shares, Black Magic Dragon Special Effects, is clearly reluctant to sell any more. They need capital to scale up and increase their strength, but they don't want to sell the company yet. The reason for attracting Tomahawk Group is also because they have established a good friendship after cooperation during this time, and they trust Tomahawk Group more than other capitals.

This wave of operations by the Tomahawk Group has indeed touched the nerves of many people.

It's not just those boring capital appraisal agencies, but more peers.

Since the independence of Tomahawk Pictures, they have already realized that the current Tomahawk Entertainment has begun to change qualitatively, and now Tomahawk Pictures has only been established for less than a year, and Tomahawk Entertainment has changed from a company to a group, which is a rather terrifying signal! It is not only a great change in strength, but also a manifestation of the overall strategy!

Several companies in the animation industry have also become vigilant, the sudden entry of the Tomahawk Group is really scary, and suddenly there is a strong peer competitor, and everyone is panicked!

Although the Tomahawk Group has no experience in anime, they are powerful! And the three anime studios they acquired this time are not the kind of studios that are on the verge of bankruptcy, but are quite powerful studios in the rising stage! There are still a lot of works on sale!

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Yanjing, the Black Magic Dragon special effects company.

The boss Zhuo Wenyu waited at the door with a group of senior executives of the company ten minutes ago, and when he saw the arrival of the convoy, he hurriedly trotted up to meet him.

"Mr. Han." Zhuo Wenyu personally helped Han Lan open the car door and greeted him with a smile.

Han Lan also smiled when he saw their battle: "Mr. Zhuo, this is your territory, there is no need to do this." ”

"Mr. Han is a distinguished guest, he wants it." Zhuo Wenyu said with a smile, and personally led Han Lan upstairs.

A group of executives followed with smiles on their faces.

It is surrounded by security guards on both sides, heavily guarded.

The Black Magic Dragon VFX team doesn't have a dedicated office building, so they rent a floor here.

The group got on the elevator and arrived quickly.

This is the headquarters of the Black Magic Dragon Special Effects Company, responsible for operations management, project reception, and project production. In addition, they also have a production base in Egret City, which is purely responsible for project production.

The Black Dragon special effects team is currently considered to be the largest special effects company in China, with more than 400 employees in Yanjing and Lucheng. A large part of them are special effects artists, concentrated in Lucheng, and there are relatively few people in Yanjing Head Office.

Many people think that the special effects are so advanced in science fiction, and they are all kinds of digital, which should be very advanced. But in fact, this is a labor-intensive industry, and it is the same type as a mobile phone foundry, except that the workers are changed from the production line to the computer desk.

Don't look at a lot of special effects videos on the Internet, some production teams are just themselves, and there are dozens of people a little more. But if you want to make a big project like a movie, it will definitely not work with fewer people, and you can't do it in the Year of the Monkey.

Computers and various special effects software are just tools, they will not be automated, everything needs to be operated by special effects artists, and sometimes they are even required to draw frame by frame! This is also the reason why special effects are expensive, and the labor cost is very high.

And the special effects industry is not very easy to mix in both domestic and foreign countries, so it can be said that it is struggling. On the one hand, the cost is high, in addition to labor costs, all kinds of hardware and software are very expensive. On the other hand, the film and television industry is also sluggish, don't look at Tomahawk Pictures has made a lot of money in the past two years, but in addition to them, many domestic companies are like that. Moreover, many domestic producers are still unwilling to spend money on special effects, and the main reason why the Black Magic Dragon special effects team can live a nourishing life is that they can receive foreign projects.

But even so, the development of the Black Magic Dragon special effects company has begun to decline now.

Labor costs are rising year by year, and the price advantage of the Black Dragon special effects team in overseas has begun to disappear, making it more and more difficult to compete with foreign special effects teams; At the same time, more and more small teams are appearing in a blowout, and it is becoming more and more difficult to grab jobs.

Party A will not say that the project will be given to you depending on the scale of your company, a movie will often be divided into several or even dozens of projects according to the lens and difficulty level, and the difficult projects will be given to large companies and large teams, and the low-difficulty projects will be given to small teams, which can save a lot of costs.

But it has also greatly compressed the profit margin of a large company like Black Magic Dragon, either only taking on the work that the difficult small team can't do, or having to reduce the price to compete with the small team for the project.

But in fact, due to various cost reasons, it is difficult for large teams to achieve such low quotations as small teams. As a result, many large companies have had to reduce their staff, sell assets, and downsize to reduce costs, and even many teams that have made blockbusters say that they will go out of business.

It's normal to be in this industry, maybe you were still working on the project overnight last week, and you won't be able to receive the project in the next few months, and you won't have any work to do.

At present, Tomahawk Pictures is willing to package the entire movie and hand it over to them to be responsible for special effects, and the price given is also very considerable.

It can be said that with the decline in the competitiveness of Black Magic Dragon special effects companies overseas, the importance of domestic Tomahawk Pictures is increasing. In addition, now the Black Magic Dragon Special Effects Company has received a lot fewer projects than in previous years, and seeing that it is about to be uncovered, it can only open its mouth to Tomahawk Entertainment, and now Tomahawk Group and Liu Rong's funds are shared.

is also why Zhuo Wenyu is now respectful of Han Lan's visit.