The film industry is a place that cannot be separated from geniuses and worship geniuses, and geniuses can change the ecology of the industry by themselves, such as George Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg, and among the new generation of filmmakers who rose in the nineties of the last century, the genius of New Zealand fat Peter Jackson can be compared with the first two.

In 1993, in order to create special effects for his new film "Angel of Sin", New Zealand director Peter Jackson co-founded Weta Studio with his friends Richard Taylor and Jimmy Selkirk. At the time, the company only had one computer. Jackson is a master storyteller with a lot of outlandish ideas and a penchant for visual effects, and Taylor and Selkirk share his stinking kin and help him bring those ideas to life with his expertise in makeup, sets, and computer special effects. From Hollywood's point of view, "Angel of Sins" is a small-budget movie, but Jackson and his Weta partners have done big things for a small amount of money and made a film that can be considered a classic, and its visual effects can breathe the hearts of Hollywood veterans. However, even so, at the time, Weta was just a small special effects company.

"Angel of Sin" caught the attention of connoisseurs, and Jackson was approached by a Hollywood studio, which was Time Warner's New Line Studios.

At the time, New Line was trying to defeat its most threatening new rival, Dream Entertainment, and was planning to shoot Tolkien's famous book The Lord of the Rings. And let Hollywood genius Peter Jackson direct it.

In fact, New Line's big gamble is dangerous, and with a "Angel of Sin" that costs only $5 million, New Line has Peter Jackson direct this blockbuster. It's really a moonshot adventure in the world of cinema. Look at it from another angle. The Lord of the Rings is actually a film that is over 9 hours long. The $300 million super movie was only screened in three parts because it was too long. What's even more incredible is that the new line also agreed to Jackson's various non-governmental requirements, including that the film should be shot in New Zealand, and the special effects and post-production were also handed over to Jackson's Weta.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy established the pattern for Weta Digital, which Jackson helmed, was responsible for computer special effects, while Weta Studios, led by Richard Taylor, was responsible for the rest. Including concept art, props, costumes, sets, models, sculptures, among which the trump card is the design and production of various monsters and weapons and armor.

Now, Dream Entertainment has taken the rights to shoot the sequel to "The Lord of the Rings" from New Line, but has run into trouble negotiating a contract with Weta Digital. Specifically, in terms of making special effects, Weta Digital asked for a price increase, but Dream Entertainment was unwilling to pay too much. So the sequel to "The Lord of the Rings" was temporarily stranded after filming a part.

For this problem, Yi Feiyang originally wanted to let it go, but it happened that "Iron Man" and "Spider-Man" were fighting, and Yi Feiyang had to reactivate Weta Digital. Hire them at a high price to help shoot some of the more important special effects shots.

This move made Weta Digital think that it had won this unprecedented "tug of war". won the dream entertainment that has never tasted defeat, and is even more open to accept the special effects production of "The Lord of the Rings".

Yi Feiyang can tolerate others taking advantage of him for the first time, but he can't tolerate the second time!

Now that the war between Dream Entertainment and Colombia has ended, the box office income of about 1.5 billion has made Yi Feiyang, who has been more than 6 billion yuan in his own family, soar to the sky and become a well-deserved tycoon of 8 billion. Now that his strength has become stronger, Yi Feiyang feels that he needs to teach this disobedient guy a lesson-Weta Digital Company!

The lesson of Yi Feiyang is very simple, it is to buy it directly!

In fact, it is not new news that Yi Feiyang's Dream Entertainment wants to acquire Weta Digital in the industry, but compared with Industrial Light and Magic, and Apple's special effects, Weta Digital is obviously still a little brother, although "The Lord of the Rings" is doing very well, but it will not spend so much energy to deal with it.

But in Yi Feiyang's view, this is not the case, because Weta Digital has grown quite large after filming "The Lord of the Rings", and the number of employees has doubled to 520 with Weta Digital alone. And the most important reason is that this company has talents that Yi Feiyang values very much, and Peter Jackson is one of them!

If Weta Digital is acquired, then there is no doubt that Peter Jackson, as one of the bosses, will naturally enter Yi Feiyang's command, and the value of accepting such a general is absolutely incalculable!

In this regard, Peter Jackson, as a great director, is of course unwilling. However, Yi Feiyang refused to give up easily, and when he returned to Hong Kong for a "vacation", he entrusted Dures to handle this matter.

After receiving this important task, Dures began to be so busy that his heels could not touch the ground. Because Jackson had rejected the company's acquisition before, Dures and his negotiations did not go very well, the only fortunate thing was that the current Weta Digital was not a future special effects giant, just a new company, in addition to Peter Jackson, the other two company owners Richard Taylor and Jimmy Selkirk were interested in the acquisition of Dream Entertainment.

Here's why they're interested:

First, as the founders of Weta Digital, the two feel that Yi Feiyang seems to attach great importance to the innovation and development of special effects, which gives them a sense of confidant, after all, not everyone in Hollywood is interested in movie special effects, and some filmmakers even despise computer special effects as deceptive animation, mentally retarded audio-visual fraud, so people actually have two different views and views on movie special effects.

Second, Dream Entertainment has strong financial strength and can help Weta Digital expand its technology, which is extremely tempting for the two people who are obsessed with special effects technology, not to mention that Dream Entertainment promises that if Weta Digital is acquired, Dream Entertainment will not interfere with the special effects creation of the two, and will only support it in the back, such a free creative space is unimaginable.

Third, and most importantly, Yi Feiyang gave them very generous acquisition conditions, and with the shares in the hands of the two alone, Dream Entertainment offered a sky-high price of 600 million US dollars and took the money. The two can be said to have no worries about food and clothing in the next life. You can go all out to fight for your ideals. Never worry about life again.

Based on the above reasons, two friends of Peter Jackson, the founder of Weta Digital, were finally persuaded by Dures and moved by his sincerity, and successfully won a controlling stake of 42% at a sky-high price of 600 million US dollars.

Now, the only thing that needs to be done is Peter Jackson, an old rival who flies away. But it's this damn stubborn guy who won't sell anything. Dures understands that it is not happy for anyone to sell the hard work of his own hands in this way. It's just that understanding is understanding, and business still has to be discussed.

But wait until Yi Feiyang comes back from Hong Kong. The deal still didn't work out.

In fact, Dures absolutely did not understand Yi Feiyang's determination to acquire Weta Digital entirely. He understands the complete acquisition, and he knows very well that Yi Feiyang has an indescribable desire to control and does not allow control to fall into the hands of others. But everyone who really does big things has such a desire to control.

This may be the reason why Yi Feiyang has been reluctant to list Dream Entertainment Company for a long time, unwilling to circulate the company's shares in the US market, and unwilling to go public to raise funds......

What Dures can't understand is why Yi Feiyang asserts that movie special effects can dominate or even lead the entire world film industry in the future?!

Could it be that a successful "Iron Man" made Yi Feiyang's mind dizzy?

Although he didn't understand it, Dures was still very convinced of Yi Feiyang's decision, because Yi Feiyang seems to have no record of decision failure in history.

Let's take Google as an example, before Google Network became the big company it is today, many people were not very optimistic about this Internet company that was about to go out of business. But Yi Feiyang did not believe in evil, and not only invested but also acquired it. Last month, Google's first-half earnings report was submitted to Dures, which surprised him by a profit of $600 million in the past six months, and this is only the profit brought by Google's advertising business, not including the profits of other businesses.

After all, network IT has become the largest industry in modern society, and after experiencing the baptism of the Internet bubble, this sunrise industry has replaced the original real estate industry and hotel industry with a faster development rate, becoming the world's largest profit industry. And the acquisition of 42 percent of the equity is done with this money.

Now, Dures doesn't have to worry about the acquisition of Weta Digital alone, because Yi Feiyang is ready to take over this hard bone that can't be gnawed.

To be honest, Dures is looking forward to it, he wants to know what Weta Digital, who can't even handle himself, Yi Feiyang, can do to make that old stubborn Peter Jackson bow down?!

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With the end of the box office war between Dream Entertainment and Colombia, Yi Feiyang defeated the big director Sam Raimi and became a new star in the Hollywood director industry, but as superconductor James Cameron said, Yi Feiyang's next opponent will be the big director Spielberg!

Spielberg, an outlier in Hollywood and even the global film industry, his filming style is different from Sam Raimi's weirdness, disagrees with Peter Jackson's magic, and is different from Cameron's technical type, but is closer to the "humanistic spirit".

Yes, Spielberg is a frequent visitor to the Academy Awards in the United States, because his films are so moving, such as his "Schindler's List", "E.T.", and "Saving Private Ryan", etc., at the core of commercial film packaging, but it is an extremely touching humanistic spirit. Now, Spielberg is preparing to make a science fiction film "Artificial Intelligence" that reflects the future of technology. It is said that Spielberg has been preparing for this film for a long time, but it has not been filmed for various reasons. Now try your best to finish the shooting, and I want to challenge Yi Feiyang in the Christmas file.

In fact, the play "Artificial Intelligence" was released in 2001 in the previous life, but now Yi Feiyang, a butterfly, has flapped its wings, which has delayed the play for a year, but it has undoubtedly given Spielberg more time, so this play may surpass the previous life and become the best of the best.

"The great director Spielberg is preparing to shoot "Artificial Intelligence", challenging the magic of heroes to meet!"

"A friend, an adversary? The story of China Yi and Spielberg having to fight! ”

"Climb to the pinnacle of the king, China is easy to fight again for Christmas!"

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There is a lot of public opinion outside, and they are all encouraging Yi Feiyang and Spielberg to have another New Year's war in this year's Christmas file, but in the eyes of many people. The box office of this big war doesn't matter. The important thing is to compete for next year's Oscars!

As everyone knows. Although Spielberg is a super director, his box office results are not as good as Cameron's, but he is often nominated for Oscars, so the biggest attraction of Spielberg and Yi Feiyang's movie battle is not who has more or less at the box office, but who can win the most Oscars in the future.

For such a poor media, Yi Feiyang didn't have the heart to pay attention, although he also had a plan to shoot a new film in his heart. But he wasn't going to be so cooperative with Spielberg, not to mention that there was something more important he needed to do.

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After a 12-hour flight on a Los Angeles Airlines plane, Yi Feiyang arrived in New Zealand accompanied by his entourage. He has been to many countries in Europe, but New Zealand has never been! He didn't contact anyone on this trip, but came quietly accompanied by two bodyguards, Dures, and Fat Jack Black and others.

New Zealand is one of the most beautiful countries in Europe, with green savannahs and pure white clouds. Therefore, it is also known as the "White Cloud Country".

As one of the world's three major special effects giants in the future, Weta Digital is headquartered in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.

Although Dream Entertainment has a branch in Europe that is in charge of overseas distribution, it is located in France. Therefore, the branch was not notified on this trip. Meeting Peter Jackson is not an easy task, but Peter Jackson is clearly interested in this guy who dominates Hollywood and once beat his "Lord of the Rings" with "Sparta". So after Yi Feiyang was mysteriously busy for a while, it didn't take much time to meet this cow who is known as one of Hollywood's super directors.

Peter Jackson rose to fame with a B-movie film, the horror film "Zombies Play Across the Line", and if I have to evaluate this drama, it is that this film is the most realistic and unbridled work of black humor based on bloody disgusting. The film has won 16 international film awards and science fiction awards at international film festivals, including the Avoriaz Film Festival in France, and director Peter Jackson has since won the title of "Master of Horror".

It seems that many big Hollywood directors became famous or started by shooting horror films, such as Spielberg's "Jaws", Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead", and Yi Feiyang's "Ghost Record" and "Chainsaw". It can be said that horror films are a good platform for upgrading, and many people are stepping up to the throne of big directors from here.

Peter Jackson, like many big directors, is also a big beard, but this bearded man is shorter and fatter, and he seems to eat McDonald's junk food on a regular basis. In fact, many foreign directors almost have the habit of eating McDonald's fast food, which is due to saving time and eating faster when filming. It's just that in Yi Feiyang's view, this habit is very bad, at least after obesity, it is not good for the heart, how to say that sentence, the body is the capital of the revolution!

In Peter Jackson's office, the two looked at each other and judged.

Yi Feiyang didn't know how many thoughts turned in his mind at this moment, if he could invite Peter Jackson to join Dream Entertainment, it would definitely be a rather fatal blow to the rest of his company. It's a pity that such an idea is obviously unrealistic, at least the fat director in front of him has no intention of selling the company.

Thinking about this now is obviously a bit out of place, Yi Feiyang quickly reined in his thoughts, looked at the fat director who became famous in one fell swoop with "Playing with Corpses", and said in a very respectful tone: "Hello, Mr. Jackson! Nice to meet you! ”

Peter Jackson just wondered why China Yi was so interested in his company. And why has it been rumored recently that fantasy entertainment companies continue to acquire this and that, doesn't this China Yi in front of him know that the edge is too revealing will attract jealousy?

Of course Yi Feiyang knows, but in his opinion, no matter how low-key he is, he will only be considered weak and bullied, especially in a crocodile pool like Hollywood, the emphasis is on strength, not about being kind and modest!

So he said very politely, "May I call you Peter?" How can we say that we are also old acquaintances, old friends...... So Peter, you know that I already control forty-two percent of your company, and you should know how serious it would be if I were to go against you from this point of view! ”

Yi Feiyang is not worried, so he can use his current 42% equity to "split" with the fat man, so that he can get a lot of benefits. Of course, his goal was not to split with Peter Jackson, but to complete Weta Digital.

Peter Jackson's face changed slightly, he currently only has an absolute control of 51 percent, although he can have the right to decide on the company's decision-making. It's just that if Yi Feiyang loses all this money, it will still put the fat man in a crisis, which he still knows very well.

Don't think Weta Digital was founded by Peter Jackson, it's his wholly owned company. Foreigners have always liked to raise money to avoid risks, and unless it is a very safe business, they generally need to raise money.

He was founded by financing, so Yi Feiyang was able to acquire 42% of the controlling stake. This obviously gave Peter Jackson a lot of headaches, and he felt that this guy in front of him had driven him to a crossroads with a very straightforward and equally vicious approach.

"Easy ......" Peter Jackson probably spoke in such a tone for the first time in his life, and it felt very awkward, not to mention that the other party had defeated his opponent. There was a look of a strong man breaking his wrist in his expression, which made Yi Feiyang know the worst at a glance: "You don't need to blackmail me, I don't understand why you are trying to buy it wholly." But I'm telling you very clearly, Weta Digital is my brainchild, yes, it's like my son, so no matter what you do, I won't sell it to you easily! ”

No way? Such a resolute attitude?!

Yi Feiyang's eyes widened: "Hey, buddy, if you can't take a breath because you lost the movie competition with me before, then OK, we can sit down and have a good talk; But if you were to make such a decision out of whim, then all I can say is that it's a pity, man, that you made the wrong choice.

Peter Jackson sighed sadly, "I understand what you mean, Yi, in fact, I'm not the kind of person who is willful, so, think about it again, why don't you take a step back and allow you to invest in Weta Digital?" Trust me, Weta Digital will definitely be able to help you make a lot of money in the future! ”

Yi Feiyang: "......"

I greeted your grandmother, and I fell into a trap!

What a step back, you just want to take money out of my pocket to grow your company!

Peter Jackson was really planning to make a splash in order to get more investment. Because he suddenly discovered the fact that this legendary old opponent seems to be really rich, especially this time the box office of "Iron Man" has exceeded 1.5 billion, which is simply a local tyrant! If such an upstart doesn't take advantage of it, it's simply sorry for his parents. (To be continued......)