Chapter 313: Music, Movies, Games
Time is once again rewind to the summer of 2020.
After another large number of songs, Chen Feng repeated his old tricks and used greater investment to create Xingfeng Light and Shadow Studio and Xingfeng Games.
Although he himself has changed his shape, Meng Xiaozhou has managed Xingfeng Entertainment in an orderly manner.
At that time, Chen Feng's industry was still blessed by the Lu family in China, and there were various favorites of large capital overseas, and then there was the list of key songs and talent discovery that he handed over to Meng Xiaozhou, and the development of Xingfeng Entertainment was smooth sailing, without making a detailed list.
In 2025, Xingfeng Entertainment, an entertainment empire based in China and successfully opening overseas markets, will officially reach a market value of $10 billion.
Five years and seven months, Chen Feng created a Disney in the music field from scratch.
But this is not the end, in the same year, Xingfeng Light and Shadow Studio, which has been sharpening a sword for five years, began to emerge.
Directed by the famous director James Diaz, "Across the Stars" was released worldwide.
Special effects, soundtracks, expressions, scripts, casts, production team lineups, publicity and marketing efforts, etc., are all full, and I dare not say that it is unprecedented.
Before 2025, high-budget big-budget productions are the preserve of Hollywood.
Is it Chinese filmmakers who have no money?
Not necessarily.
The combined investment of several big bad movies can also catch up with a big Hollywood production.
So in fact, the investors in Chinese films are quite rich, but they would rather burn the money as paper money at a time, and in the end they all go to waste, and they neither dare nor have the ability to try big productions.
Sometimes they can also riveting a big production, but in the end, they find that the amount of money they spend is not absolutely positively correlated with whether it is rotten or not.
What China really lacks is not money, but people and teams who can spend money well, spend it wisely, and effectively convert money into market value.
Or even if there is such a person and team, investors have no confidence in him, and things are stillborn.
It takes a person like this to stand up, put together the money that many investors can't find anywhere, and then make a work worthy of the investment.
When Chen Feng made "Across the Stars", he did not have any concerns about this at all.
He is not only the chief screenwriter, but also the director, and the investor.
He doesn't spend other people's money, he only burns his own.
This is incomprehensible, especially in the early publicity, when his investment of up to $600 million was put out, it shocked the world's eyeballs.
Some people think he's crazy.
Even James Diaz, who was in charge of burning money, was shocked when he heard the amount of his investment, not knowing what he was going to do, and panicked when he burned more money?
Although I'm optimistic about your script, and our plan is perfect, it's enough to spend 300 million, and you're really not afraid of losing?
There is such a video in the filming documentary of "Across the Starry Sky", Chen Feng comforted others happily, "Don't be nervous, you guys are okay like this, do it well, I don't want to make money, but we can't fool around the film." ”
The end result was a $6 billion box office for "Across the Stars," breaking the 16-year record of James Diaz's 2009 "Asouda."
The film is too strong, too strong.
Others were surprised inexplicably, but Chen Feng took it for granted.
The same "Across the Stars" has proven itself in many timelines in the past.
As long as the propaganda keeps up, it will definitely not be able to pounce.
If it can be released on time on May 25, 2025, it will definitely be a big hit.
The timeline will naturally constrain some patterns.
Even if I lose, I'm not afraid.
This time he has a higher level of production, better pacing, and more impeccable reproduction of scripts due to improved memory.
He also replaced a few extras who played flawed and unsatisfactory in the previous version, which was simply harsh to the extreme.
More than 90% of the special effects in the film are made by thousands of employees in Xingfeng Light and Shadow Studio, using a new intelligent rendering engine that is nearly 80 years ahead of the times.
The horror of this engine lies in the fact that after using the concept of quantum programming, its artificial intelligence learning ability is very terrifying, and it can simulate the reality of the picture almost in all directions into a virtual scene.
In order to cooperate with this engine, in addition to renting the computing power of the national supercomputing center at an astonishing price, Chen Feng even got the prototype of the carbon element chip that had just been completed by the Xingfeng Research Institute next door.
At first, Ryan objected, saying that the chip was not yet stable.
As a result, Chen Feng's backhand was flooded with almost absolutely insulating refrigerant, and then his backhand adjusted the chip structure......
Yes, the chip was unstable before, but now it is stable.
Ryan silently took the new design and refrigerant formula that Chen Feng gave him and left, and muttered something, "You still said that you are not a genius, but you have already planned it." This sped up at least another five years of widespread use, and you're a monster......"
According to the principle of box office sharing, the theatrical release of "Across the Stars" brought more than $1.8 billion in net income to Xingfeng Entertainment, and counting the later Internet on-demand and peripheral expansion revenue, the final long-term income of this film can add up to more than $3 billion.
This is thanks to the successful streaming media genuine payment system implemented by foreign platforms such as Netflix, domestic Tencent, and iQiqi since 2015.
Although there are still a lot of pseudo-art films and television on these platforms, the good things can at least be filling.
In short, also in 2025, Xingfeng Entertainment will once again enter the fast lane of movies and music going hand in hand.
The historic explosion of Xingfeng's film Virgo "Across the Stars" also brought new changes to him.
Chen Feng no longer needs to sell his face to pull famous directors and big names, but these people took the initiative to step on his threshold.
He has an impeccable script, he is rich, he is influential, the Chinese and English markets are fully open to him, and he can also assist the director in controlling the storyboard and rhythm......
Is there a better executive producer in the world?
Nope!
The directors thought that as long as they followed his brainless trusteeship and tried their best to exert their aesthetic skills, they would be able to rub a name in the historical box office list.
Why not?
The old actors are thinking that in his films, they can not only re-polish their acting skills, but also participate in the new film era, experience new technologies, and explore their own limits, even if they don't need to be paid!
Of course, there are also more little fresh meat and little flowers coming to him.
But Chen Feng is very picky and can see through people's lives at a glance.
He knew which fresh flesh flowers were still good for making and which were saved, and which were terminally ill and uncured.
Therefore, he will not refuse everyone, use what can be saved, and stay cool where he can't save.
With a larger scale of investment, more available talents, and more good scripts, Chen Feng comprehensively considered the tolerance limit of the market and decided to produce six to eight films per year.
He plans to create a total of eight cinematic universes.
Of course, he will not spend $600 million on every film, nor will he pursue an explosive box office in every film.
Anyway, he can earn money while standing, it's just a difference between more and less.
He will control the rhythm precisely, and the core purpose has changed from making money to telling a beautiful story while making money, telling delicate emotions within a complete world view, and giving the world food for thought and warning.
He did earn his money standing up.
Under his control, Xingfeng Entertainment has eaten away at half of science fiction movies.
In fact, according to the concept of the past, he should have eaten all the plates of science fiction movies.
But in fact there are none.
There is no shortage of geniuses in the world, only fertile soil that can give birth to geniuses.
Xingfeng Entertainment is leading the industry, and the artistic pursuit of domestic and foreign filmmakers has been reawakened.
Chen Feng taught others how to stand and earn money, and others learned the same, and even outperformed the blue.
Starting from 2028, with the accumulated Neil Brockamp coming up with a sincere work "Resurrection after a Million Years", a new era of movies with a hundred flowers has arrived.
"Resurrection" tells the grand story of an astronaut who was sucked into a black hole but accidentally survived a million years later, and led the human civilization that had been enslaved by advanced civilization for more than 900,000 years to fight against it.
The protagonist reawakens the anger in the hearts of the enslaved earthlings, ignites the earthlings' desire for freedom, and finally breaks the technological barriers established by the advanced civilizations, allowing the earthly civilization to regain its freedom.
The worldview background is still a bit utopian, but under Neil's exquisite narration, it can be justified, and it also uses the new special effects technology provided by Xingfeng Light and Shadow Studio, which can break the blockade that does not exist in Xingfeng movies, and it is well deserved.
After all, Chen Feng handed a knife to others and let others stab him, he was so generous.
In the end, Chen Feng was diluted by his competitors, but he was not angry at all, but happy.
By 2038, Xingfeng Entertainment will launch a total of 48 movies, with a total box office of $137.2 billion.
Chen Feng's drive for the film industry is not limited to the field of science fiction films.
Various other themes, such as reality, love, magic, fairytale, comedy, etc., have all been influenced by his ideology.
His films not only contain conjectures about the future system, but also allusions and criticisms of reality, which can not only bring people an excellent entertainment experience, but also make people think deeply again and again.
Watching his movies is not a waste of time, but a gas station for people's hearts.
This time, Chen Feng is more obedient, and no longer blindly portrays only alien invaders.
Among his eight series, six series depict cosmic crises, such as abnormal cosmic phenomena or the invasion of advanced civilizations.
There are also two series that focus on the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and humans.
There is betrayal, there is reconciliation, but the final foothold is the same.
Due to the species characteristics of the earthlings, the development of human civilization cannot be separated from the help of artificial intelligence, which is the only way for civilization.
At the same time, if artificial intelligence wants to get real take-off and liberation, and has the value of real life, it cannot be separated from the innovation consciousness of human beings.
The two complement each other and are indispensable.
Birth, cooperation, the emergence and intensification of contradictions, reconciliation, moving forward side by side, and moving towards the universe......
This is the ultimate common destiny of humans and artificial intelligence.
If one of them disappears in time, the fate of the other will not be too rosy in the end.
Chen Feng conveys a concept to the stars that may be born in the air.
Since in the end, everyone will still fight side by side and share weal and woe, why not skip the stage of contradictions, directly become comrades-in-arms, and face the common enemy that will inevitably come together?
As for the eighth cinematic universe he finally completed, it was the new version of "Crisis of the Compound Eyes".
In the end, in 2038, the market value of Xingfeng Entertainment has climbed beyond 100 billion US dollars.
In the same year, he did another big thing in the field of entertainment and culture.
Produced by Xingfeng Games, "Compound Eye Crisis", which has been sharpened for 18 years and has a total investment of more than 10 billion US dollars, made a shocking debut.
Xingfeng Games, with an average staffing of 7,000 people, took 18 years to quietly make this game.
In the past 18 years, almost all the top producers and excellent programmers and planners in the world's major game companies have gone back and forth to Xingfeng Games.
One year, someone, with a dream to join this company with a lot of money, heard that the boss had a big plan to make a big production that game people dream of.
Three years later......
Waterma, your plan is too big!
It's been three years!
Don't talk about the closed beta, you're still editing the engine over there, and you're still making up the details of the world view here, what are you going to do?
Six years later, someone completed the graduation exam of the Whampoa Military Academy in the game industry, and finally decided to give up the high salary in his hand and go out to chase new dreams.
Nine years later......
I, Hu Hansan, are back again!
I'm not reconciled, I, He Anqi, must see the day of the game's closed beta.
Well, it's time to start the first phase of the closed beta!
Twelve years later......
The seventy-third revision has just been completed, and the seventy-fourth beta test is open.
Leave.
I'd better go out and make a random mobile game, and then watch the mobile game go up and down in the app store leaderboards.
Fifteen years later......
I, Chen Liangqi, are back again!
Eighteen years later......
7,000 people shed tears of excitement as they watched the game "Crisis of the Compound Eyes", which had a total installation package volume of 177.5T, slowly upload it to the Internet.
More than 330,000 gaming professionals around the world also got the news and wept bitterly.
We came and went, walked back and forth.
We make progress here, get paid here to buy a house, wait in the torment day after day, year after year, and watch our hard work being sprayed by the big boss again and again.
From time to time, the big boss also went down to improve the engine himself, and then he also told us that the engine he asked you to make before was just for you to learn......
I stepped on the horse......
In short, we went from being a young man to being admitted to university.
Our hair turned into a shiny scalp.
Our collagen-ridden faces have turned into crumpled middle-aged faces.
We have gone from a dashing young man dancing lightly to a half-hundred-year-old man with a stubble on his face.
We have dedicated our entire youth to Xingfeng Games.
We are here to learn, to grow again here, to start a family.
I've left again and again, but I've always come back with a lot of reluctance.
Even though I'm away from home and I'm a project leader in a spicy chicken game, I still think of that unfinished dream every time I dream back at midnight.
Now, but we've finally succeeded.
We're bringing players around the world a second home besides Earth!
This is bound to be a super god game that is destined to go down in history!
It's not a game, it's a virtual second home!
It's not just these gamers who are so excited that they're in pain.
Qin Lu, who has entered middle age and is still single, learned the news when she participated in the recording of a variety show.
She cried so much that she couldn't help herself, and eventually even had to interrupt the recording of the show.
It's hard for her.
Music is also part of the game.
Chen Feng wants to give people the strongest sense of substitution and the best game experience.
He wants to convey what he wants to express little by little through the game.
He wants to give people some hints of spirituality, infiltrate a little spiritual power, and then inspire people and inspire the player's desire to fight in real life.
At the same time, he also added a lot of professional knowledge and education and training content.
As long as you want, a primary school student can play in the game to become an undergraduate graduate of various majors.
Some undergraduate students majoring in theory can even "read" to a postdoctoral fellow!
It takes even less time than real-world learning.
Chen Feng also got the simulation classroom that he had personally experienced, and the extermination master Taiban "Teacher Ou Qinglan" took him to play, and combined it with the ideas in the real world, and the reward mechanism was full.
His second world was born in the first world, but it does not rob the first world of productivity, and even helps the first world in turn.
If you want to make a playful person willing to complete boring and painful studies and further education in the second world, so that people can take the initiative to become a better version of themselves, then the person's sense of substitution and emotions must be fully mobilized.
Therefore, Chen Feng's requirements for the soundtrack are also extremely demanding.
Over the years, Zhong Lei, Lu Wei, Katie Swift, and many more Grammy Award and Chinese Music and Art Pinnacle Achievement Award winners have also come and gone in the backing music orchestration of "The Compound Eye Crisis".
Some do it for artistic pursuits, some for currying favor with Chen Feng, and many more for lucrative remuneration.
Zhong Lei and Lu Wei didn't spend much energy on this.
They have their "tasks", and Chen Feng doesn't want them to distract too much attention from this.
In addition, Chen Feng himself also moved a lot of classic songs into it.
But some important theme songs and soundtrack songs have to be sung.
Most of this part of the task was handed over to Qin Lu, a tool man.
Qin Lu has a unique rock voice, and she is very good at rendering a mezzo-soprano with a strong atmosphere, and after intensive training, she has also improved a lot in other aspects.
Progress is a good thing, but it is inevitable that the boss will be arrested as a tool.
Over the years, Qin Lu has recorded at least 400 songs for "The Crisis of the Compound Eye", but if the game is not released for a day, not a single song can be released.
Her life was really hard.
pasted Chen Feng to make her, a person who was originally unknown in history and wasted her talent, live a new life, but the efforts she made for it are also unimaginable to ordinary people.