Walking back behind the monitor, Li Xingchen glanced back at Wang Zuxian, who was consulting Liang Jiahui.

Nodding slightly.

Wang Zuxian's costume style is very suitable for the role of Nie Xiaoqian.

But after all, he is still a newcomer who has just entered the film industry, and his acting skills are still a little immature.

I don't have a good grasp of the psychology of the characters.

But with Liang Jiahui's on-site guidance, the situation will be much better.

If Zhang Guorong is the ceiling of talented acting skills, then Liang Jiahui is a normal person who can reach the peak of acting skills the day after tomorrow.

As a former Golden Statue actor, he not only has outstanding acting skills, but also has a lot of experience.

It's a great way to mentor newcomers.

What's more, the current Liang Jiahui is full of gratitude to Li Xingchen, and he also has a deep sense of identity with Yanhuang movies, and has a strong Yanhuang spirit of ownership.

It seems that it is still necessary to get a few more talented actors like this.

Find a suitable opportunity to pick up Zhou Xingxing, who is squatting in the kiln of children's programs, so that the other party will also become one of the cornerstones of the development and growth of Yanhuang Films.

"Lucasfilm has already replied, and the computer animation department of their Industrial Light & Magic company is priced at $12 million."

At this time, Luo Song walked in from outside the set and said in a deep voice.

In "A Chinese Ghost Story", there are many stunts, especially 3D animation stunts.

In another time and space, Xu Hark used a lot of tricks to avoid the embarrassing situation of Xiangjiang's lack of computer stunts.

But Li Xingchen didn't plan to use Xu Ke's little tricks.

The poor are interspersed with detours, and the rich are covered by firepower.

He plans to buy the computer animation division of Industrial Light & Magic, the predecessor of Pixar Animation Studios, before Jobs!

Set up a separate company to serve his future film empire.

Therefore, when the crew of "A Chinese Ghost Story" was established, he asked Luo Song to contact Lucas through his parents and make a takeover offer.

"Didn't they agree on a price of 10 million with Jobs?"

Li Xingchen frowned.

ILM didn't really value the commercial prospects of computer animation, especially after Lucas made a name for himself in 1979, and felt that computer animation was just that thing, and it didn't represent the future direction of cinema.

But Edwin. Cartham and John. Lasseter doesn't think so.

Edwin. Catum, the inventor of purely computer-generated films and the founder of the future Pixar Animation Group, has always been the soul of the computer animation department, and he will receive a Turing Award in the future!

And John. Lassett, who moved from Disney to the computer animation department two years ago, became a driver of creativity at Pixar Group.

The two bigwigs were very dissatisfied with Lucas's decision, and they approached Steve Jobs, who had just been kicked out of Apple in September last year, to get Joe to help him buy the computer animation department.

This coincides with the divorce of Lucas and his wife Marcia, and he needs to compensate Marcia for half of his personal assets.

That's about $25 million to $50 million.

So Lucas needs money.

As soon as the parties negotiated, Lucas agreed to sell the computer animation department.

The initial price was as high as $30 million, but with the conspiracy of Joe's gang leader and two internal bosses, the price was reduced to $10 million.

"Jobs ended up bidding $10 million last month, and the two sides are already negotiating the details of the contract, and Lucas means that he is short of money, and if we want to take over, we have to pay more than Jobs, so he opened 12 million."

Luo Song laughed, "But there's good news, Edwin. Cartum was an alumnus of my mother, and John. Lasseter also had a good relationship with my father, and between Jobs and us, they chose us. ”

"They suggested that we sign a contract first, 10 million US dollars, in fact, it is the lowest price that they and Steve Jobs have conspired to come up with in the past six months, even if it is 12 million, we will not lose."

Li Xingchen, who has future information in his mind, of course knows that the acquisition of the computer animation department for 12 million dollars, as well as these two bigwigs, will not only not lose money, but also make a lot of money.

If it weren't for Li Xingchen and Luo Song, Joe's gang leader would have taken down the computer animation department and renamed it Pixar.

Twenty years later, Pixar was acquired by Disney for $7.4 billion.

The asset increase is up to more than 600 times!

And that's just wealth appreciation.

In terms of cultural influence, Pixar will become the global leader in computer stunts, and in terms of technology, it will become a textbook for major colleges and universities.

The videos produced every year are the biggest hits of the Oscars.

For the current Li Xingchen, 12 million US dollars is almost half of his net worth.

Luo Song saw that the dead party had not spoken, thinking that he thought the price was too high, so he said: "I still have more than six million US dollars, if it is not enough, I will sell a few more villas under my name, and there will be a few fewer small stars in the past two years, and I will buy the company with money first." ”

Li Xingchen said with a smile: "If you don't P a female star, wouldn't it cost you your life?" ”

"My dad said that movie animation stunts might be the trend of the future, and he also suggested that we take over the computer animation department, you know, although he has always been unreliable, but he has a very unique professional vision."

Luo Song complained about his father, who was a senior executive in Columbia Pictures, behind his back, and he was not soft-mouthed.

"Since Father also agrees with our acquisition, then we will each pay six million dollars to snatch the computer animation department from Steve Jobs, and the shares will be half of each."

Brothers, settle accounts.

The acquisition of Pixar is mainly based on Roscht's family connections, and Li Xingchen must make his sworn friend a shareholder.

And although Luo Song is not interested in the Xiangjiang film industry, especially for Yanhuang films, and there is no share requirement, he is very interested in the computer animation department.

"Okay, that's it!"

Luo Song clapped his hands happily, this was the first company he won in the Citi film industry, and it was one step closer to his dream of entering Hollywood and sleeping with a female star.

"By the way, after the acquisition of the computer animation department, we will definitely make it a separate company, you name it! I'm only good at P girls, not good at choosing names, and I can't even remember the name of my girlfriend I just had. ”

Hearing this, Li Xingchen laughed: "Then call it Pixar, Pixar Animation Studio." ”

He then wrote Pixar Animation Studio on a slip of paper and handed it to Borscht.

“pixar？ What does that mean? "Roscht hadn't seen that word.

Li Xingchen thought for a while: "The word I created is unique, which is convenient for starting the brand, and you can understand it as to pix, making images." ”

Luo Song smiled: "Then I'll call Lucas back, if you sign the contract, do you go, or do I go?" ”

"The filming task of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is heavy, I can't leave, you go first, after everything is finalized, I will go back to Citi to sign it."

Li Xingchen had no interest in the negotiations.

If it weren't for Citi Transfer, he would have had to bring a lawyer with him, and he wouldn't want to go back to Citi.

After Luo Song left the set, Li Xingchen focused on filming again.

Because he has a finished film in his mind, Li Xingchen's requirements for the lens have reached a perverted level.

Whether it is "The True Color of Heroes" or "A Chinese Ghost Story", he is basically restored frame by frame.

This degree of seriousness, in the eyes of others, has become a sign of Li Sheng's "excellence".

If Li Xingchen is not the boss, I am afraid that the first person to rebel is the gaffer.

Many times, the intensity of the light is wrong, and Li Xingchen will also ask for reshoots, almost every shot has to be NG more than ten times in order to "keep one"!

But under Li Xingchen's on-set style of having a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other.

All the staff who wanted to rebel were directly expelled from the crew by him, as the boss.

The most important thing in Xiangjiang is the film crew.

Anytime and anywhere, there are many people rushing to join this kind of lucrative crew.

As for the tyrant on the set.

Both a boss and a director, which one is not a tyrant?

A few years later, Zhou Xingxing was scolded like a dog by Li Xiuxian, so he almost threw the lunch box in Zhou Xingxing's face.

Zhang Guorong has cooperated with Li Xingchen, he has a good temper and a big coffee position, and he also played a certain role in regulating on the set.

plus the help of Liang Jiahui, as well as the cooperation of several main actors.

Everyone can bear these stars when they see it, so what can't they bear?

So soon all the members of the crew, whether they were staff or actors, were used to Li Xingchen's style.