Why did Lin Mu acquire several special effects companies? Because the focus/core technology of each special effects company is different, a single one cannot fully meet the needs of the forest.

By March 20, Hope Film and Television Company had successfully acquired three special effects companies, paying $4.5 billion and $3.7 billion respectively.

So far, Lin Mu has wholly acquired a total of 4 special effects companies.

One is the Shadow Special Effects, which specializes in armor and weapon crafting, miniature carving, large-scale scenes, sets, costumes and other large-scale or miniature props. Worth $2.5 billion.

One is Blu-ray special effects, core technology: CGI animation technology, model shooting, all-digital high-definition camera technology. Worth $4.1 billion.

The third is Weta Digital, with its core technology: Massive program, a comprehensive solution for animation and VFX creation, directing, and rendering custom agents. It also allows artists to quickly create bones, motion, AI, geometry, clothing, textures, materials, and controllers. Proxies make it easy to create 3D characters, crowds, or other objects, which greatly speeds up the work of animators. Worth $3.7 billion.

A total of $10.3 billion was spent!!

Equivalent to 9.1 billion yuan!!

When Hope Film and Television Company announced the news to the world at one time, it immediately caused a sensation around the world. And this incident seems to have touched the sensitive nerves of Americans, and countless media have reported it.

"The newborn calf of the Chinese boy is not afraid of tigers and wants to enter the special effects market."

"Is it audacity or stupidity? Hope or Destruction? How far can young Chinese directors go? ”

"The attack of Huaxia Films!! Start with special effects!! ”

"Spending a huge amount of money to acquire a special effects company, the transformation of a young Chinese man from director to boss."

"It's just looking for a dead end! Hollywood's major film companies don't know the benefits of special effects companies, but why don't they set up special effects companies under their umbrellas? Running a special effects company is no small feat. ”

But. Although there are many Americans and Hollywood filmmakers who feel that it is a great insult for an American company to be bought by the Chinese, there is not much reaction from film companies such as Universal and Columbia. Because they know that the special effects company is a pit. A pit that is easy to get into people, but there is a pit that is not easy to get up.

The daily consumption of the special effects company is too large, and if the special effects company is placed under the film company, the film company will bear the huge consumption hole of the special effects company, because it means more cost burden and drags down the company's legs.

Originally, making a movie was a big gamble, and you didn't see that many promising big-budget movies have suffered a box office waterloo, and it is possible to lose 100 million or hundreds of millions of dollars. Last year's "Fake Gods 2" is a good example of this, with a shooting cost of $17.5 billion and a global box office of $17.3 billion. Yield: -11%.

At that time, it can be said that it had great hopes for the global company, but it did not expect to dig a big hole and plant the global company a lot.

Making movies is very risky, and you need to be cautious when entering the industry, so it is better not to try to burn money like a special effects company.

But this is for Hollywood studios, and for Lin Mu, it's a different story.

Making movies at a loss?? For Lin Mu, losing money is not an easy task.

It is also a rare thousand-year-old traverser like Lin Mu who has the ability and confidence to play so big.

For this kind of money-burning behavior of the woods. The Hollywood companies expressed their incomprehension or gloating.

"That Chinese kid thought that he could make a few money-making movies and play big, but unfortunately he didn't know the height of the sky."

"It is estimated that he threw most of his assets in it, and it is estimated that he will lose all his underwear."

"At that time, no company will ask them to do special effects, and it is estimated that he will lose money."

Just when these people are secretly having fun. Lin Mu himself was also secretly cool: "These s-forces didn't prevent me from buying a special effects company at all, it just happened that the goods were so cheap." It's just a cheap sale. Huaxia is now short of talents and technology, and has the technology and talent reserves of these companies. Huaxia's special effects will also develop faster.

When the news that Lin Mu spent nearly 10 billion yuan to acquire 3 special effects companies came back to China, it suddenly caused a big earthquake in the entertainment industry.

Relative to the schadenfreude of people in the entertainment industry in North America. Domestic fans and people in the entertainment industry are extremely excited!!

"Lin Mu is really awesome!!"

"Domineering side leak!! If you don't cooperate with them, you can buy them directly!! ”

"I hope that film and television companies will begin to plan for the future, from props to digital technology, everything is available, and Lin Mu's vision surpasses many people."

In addition to this, there are also countless people who have paid attention to the issue of Lin Mu's assets, and the acquisition of the special effects company cost 9 billion yuan, so I hope that the value of the film and television company is at least more than 20 billion yuan.

A person who started from scratch and earned such terrifying assets in less than 5 years is simply ashamed of countless 'successful people'.

Countless young people idolized him! Countless girls regard him as Prince Charming!

If Lin Mu writes an autobiography or something, it is estimated that it will be more popular than any book.

On March 21, Hope Film and Television Company announced another news: "Restructuring and integration of three special effects companies." ”

The three companies were broken up and reorganized to form a special effects company with prop technology and digital technology as the main body, supplemented by its decentralized technology, covering the main fields of film special effects.

The company is named Hope Digital, and in addition to Lin Mu, the chairman who owns the majority of the shares, the managers also include Peter Jackson, the founder of the original Weta Digital, and of course, some former company managers.

In order to motivate them, Lin Mu deliberately allocated 10% of the equity to them.

The whole special effects company retains most of the talents of the three special effects companies, and after the reorganization and integration, it has a total of 20 senior special effects engineers, 50 intermediate special effects engineers, and 500 professional talents.

The company's headquarters did not move back to China, but remained in Hollywood, Los Angeles, to maintain its original atmosphere. And it is hoped that the digital company will implement the asset division with the hope film and television company. They do not belong to each other.

On April 12, 2008, Hope Digital Effects Company was officially announced.

The location was settled near the Hollywood Hills, and the 10-story building there was rented for work offices and research institutes.

On the same day, the six major film companies also sent people to congratulate, but no one knew if they were sincere or not. The star actors who have a little relationship with Lin Mu are here, Robert Downey Jr., Brian and others. (To be continued.) )