Chapter 780 The Seven Hundred Sixty-One Decision

The next day, Chu Yu, Huang Ming, Zhao Qinyin and Su Yu had a detailed conversation about the production of the two works again!

In fact, there is nothing to talk about. The wealth of the three of them basically came together with Chu Yu. They have no objection whether the investment of the two works such as Spirited Away is high or low! How can it be possible to make money without taking risks?

Their worries are mainly on Chu Yu's side. After all, according to Chu Yu's conception, the investment of nearly 700 million to 800 million yuan is paid by Chu Yu alone. If the performance of the work is not good after it is broadcast, then Chu Yu may suffer heavy losses!

Especially Spirited Away, with an investment of 450 million, calculated based on about one-third of the box office share of the electronic music industry, this work is conservatively estimated to have a box office of 1.3 billion to pay back!

Of course, there are many ways to pay back the cost of animated films. Peripherals, advertising placement, copyright sales, adaptation and authorization are almost the same as the way to get back the cost of serial animation.

But the core of these things is linked to the popularity of the movie, and the popularity of the movie determines the box office and the income of subsequent works.

If the box office hits, it means that the work has a bad reputation and low popularity. Under such circumstances, it is basically very difficult to rely on other means to pay back!

so.

Dragon Kingdom has released hundreds of films so far this year, but only thirteen of them have grossed more than one billion Dragon Kingdom coins!

If Spirited Away has set a box office investment of 450 million yuan, it means that Chu Yu wants to rely on Spirited Away's box office revenue to make up for it. At least this movie will have to enter the box office list of all Dragon Kingdom movies next year. Top ten. Only possible!

It's not that Huang Ming doesn't believe in Chu Yu's strength, but it's true that the film industry is still a bit unfamiliar to everyone. Of course, Huang Ming can forcefully expand his contacts in related fields. After all, he has friends of all kinds. As long as he has the money, he is confident that he can handle things like online arrangements and publicity!

But. After all, I haven't done this stuff before, and my heart is still empty!

However, after talking with Chu Yu for nearly an hour, he wanted Chu Yu to take it easy and reduce the investment amount appropriately. After all, the uncertainty was too great, and he didn't want Chu Yu to lose too much by then!

For a two-hour animated movie, an investment of 100 million yuan is more than enough, we don't need to compete with Tianxing!

Huang Ming's idea is very simple!

But Chu Yu's heart, Chu Yu is very clear, Chu Yu has seen the finished product of the Parallel World version of Spirited Away, and it is only an investment of 100 million. The effect must be worse than Hayao Miyazaki's version.

Including the slam dunk, Chu Yu only took out a quarter of his total net worth, and Chu Yu would not be injured if he compensated for this loss!

What's more. Full compensation? Slam Dunk and Spirited Away, maybe?

Chu Yu was thinking about how many times he could earn in the end!

But it was difficult for him to explain the source of his confidence to Huang Ming!

In the end, Huang Ming, who was worried about gains and losses, left!

In the afternoon, Huang Ming also thought about it!

Who is Chu Yu? Why should I doubt him? Does the investment amount of only seven or eight billion scare you?

"What an embarrassment!" Huang Ming took a sip of coffee, his eyes became bright!

Brother Chu is not afraid, what am I afraid of?

As for Su Yu and Zhao Qinyin, they were basically messing around with Chu Yu. Since Huang Ming and Chu Yu both decided to do this, then they have no objections!

A total of 850 million funds, four people according to the ratio of 89.5%, 8%, 1.5%, 1%, respectively contributed to pool the money out!

Although Su Yu and Zhao Qinyin only contributed about 1% of the investment, one was 8.5 million and the other was more than 12 million. Now, most of the shares given to them by the previous works Take it out and invest in new works!

"It's been a whole year of hard work, and once I go back to a year ago!" Su Bao paid out the money very simply, but it's still heartbreaking!

After all, she had never spent such a large amount of money before, and even the money had only been in her pocket for a few months, and she hadn't taken it out to look at it, so she invested it again like this, and she couldn't help but feel emotional!

"Sister Su, there's nothing to feel bad about. You know that this is an opportunity that Chu Yu deliberately gave us! Without Chu Yu, we would still be street cartoonists and editors." Zhao Qinyin was very calm!

"Speak clearly, you are the one who rushed to the street, and my future is bright!" Su Yu immediately corrected Zhao Qinyin!

Of course, Su Yi understands this truth. Chu Yu paid more than 700 million yuan alone, so he naturally doesn't care about her 20 million or 20 million yuan.

If I make money by myself, my good friends will definitely make money together, but it is not in line with Chu Yu's practice to give money directly, so I specially let the two of them become shareholders when GT animation company was established!

This made sense in name, and it also took care of Su Bao and Zhao Qinyin, including Huang Ming's self-esteem to a certain extent!

Otherwise, how many top executives in the industry can Chu Yu invite to help him manage the company with the 10% shareholding income so far?

But it’s still the same sentence. The reason why Chu Yu has few friends is because he doesn’t trust people easily. Even if the people he invites call him Chu’s father every day, Chu Yu can’t get along with others much. For a long time, there must be discord!

But to help friends, there must be a name. When the company starts to develop, it will pay for the shares, and in the middle of the development, it will use the money to produce works. Otherwise, why can the works be paid dividends after they are profitable!

Everyone understands the truth, and Su Yu is not complaining, but just reluctant!

Although Su Yu is not the kind of person who can give up her limit for money, it doesn't mean she doesn't love money, gentlemen love money, of course she loves it too, but in the future there will be more such things, maybe she will get used to it!

At this moment, the meeting between Huang Ming and Chu Yu ended. The two came out of another room and pushed the door in. Su Yu and Zhao Qinyin immediately sat upright, arranging their hair and clothes slightly, trying to maintain a perfect image !

Of course, this has nothing to do with Huang Ming, the two of them have only been staring at Chu Yu!

"Okay, now we all have a unified opinion." Chu Yu said!

Although other people disagree with Chu Yu and can't stop Chu Yu, but it's good to have no differences anyway!

"Then starting tomorrow, the animation production project of Spirited Away and Slam Dunk will be officially approved!"

"But before that, everyone must be clear about my idea of ​​making these two works. The purpose is to fight against Tianxing!" Chu Yu said calmly.

"So, since it's been decided, it doesn't matter if the relevant news is released in advance. The time for the confrontation will be in April and July next year, but it will start in November now. We can disgust the stars in advance!"

Chu Yu's words were concise and to the point, and his eyes were mainly on Zhao Qinyin!

Zhao Qinyin exhaled, knowing what Chu Yu meant.

"Understood, I will record a video when I get back at night, and tell my fans on Xinmanwang, Twitter, and Weibo about the news of my two new works! Then I will spread some comments that make Tianxing feel uncomfortable! "Zhao Qinyin understands Chu Yu very well!

This guy Chu Yu is sometimes a child, this kind of behavior has no benefit, but Chu Yu is willing to do it!

Although doing so might make Tianxing hate him, but what the hell?

Zhao Qinyin doesn't care about that. As Chu Yu's vest, she not only enjoys the praise that Chu Yu should have enjoyed, but also the hostility from the black people in the animation world and the hostile companies, who came to her in the first place!

"I will also release this news in the name of the company!" Su Yu, who manages the official website account of GT Animation Company, also said at this time.

"Then I'll go to the Internet trolls and some animation commentators to create momentum for the two works first!"

Huang Ming spends most of his days dealing with external companies with Su Yu!

Huang Ming is more responsible for outsourcing companies and technology, while Su Yu is more responsible for negotiating with partners, such as advertising agencies!

"Also, with such a large investment, and judging from your requirements, brother Chu, our company's production capacity may be insufficient," Huang Ming said at the end!

"I think so too!" Chu Yu frowned.

Animation, animation, and screenwriting are indeed important, but the strength of the producer, director, and person who supervises these positions is also very important!

Remakes of martial arts novels are a good example. Different people can produce different feelings!

Chu Yu has the original animation film of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. In theory, he only needs to imitate the finished product, but how should I say it?

Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and paintings are there, but you are not a master among them, you are not even qualified to imitate!

As for Slam Dunk, needless to say, the production level of the original animation is really mediocre. Chu Yu felt that as long as he gave his company's staff and normal animation production funds, he didn't need to talk nonsense, and the production level was better than the original!

Of course, it is limited to painting, and the original production team is not useless, at least the music is really well chosen!

But now, Chu Yu himself also thinks that the production staff under his company are not so interesting!

It's not that they can't do it. As middle and low-level employees, the people under Chuyu Company are very good. After all, grass-roots drawing workers are not the same. It's like farmers farming. If you grow cabbage, you can still grow golden cabbage. ?

But the level of high-level personnel is indeed so poor!

Huang Ming didn't mention this before because it was unnecessary!

After all, the works that Chu Yu presented are some romance animations, nothing like mech fighting, hot-blooded explosions, three-dimensional mobile armor like Attack on Titan, a high-altitude fast shuttle city, spinning, and jumping difficult shots!

At most, it is not the scene where the male and female protagonists kiss and blush. The difficulty is that the protagonist's micro-expressions make him richer, and the difficulty of painting is not the same level!

This kind of animation is the same as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in elementary school mathematics. You let undergraduates do it, and there are so many graduate students and Ph. Ds. Who can make flowers?

It's not that it's impossible to use high-level talents, but it's obviously a waste, so Huang Ming didn't mean to expand the recruitment of high-level talents before!

But now... the situation has changed!

Slam Dunk is a sports competition, at least from the perspective of painting, whether it is the lens or the rendering power, there is a lot of room for high-level talents to play. The difficulty in this world is how to get the money, not how to find it. The person who maximizes the efficiency of krypton gold!

With this investment, Huang Ming must also want to produce a high-level animation that makes the audience want to kneel and kowtow for the level of the production members after watching it!

As for Spirited Away, needless to say, a two-hour animation, the investment of 450 million means that the production cost of the animation per minute is about 3 million Dragon National Dollars.

The production cost of Spirited Away's one-minute animation screen is the production cost of Slam Dunk, which is equivalent to the cost of a flat in a place in the Tokyo area!

Huang Ming felt sorry for the money he spent if he didn't form a decent team!

Of course, animation production is like this. Spirited Away is not an exaggeration. In the parallel world, the production cost of the American animated film Frozen is nearly one billion RMB. The protagonist's hair is really one by one. A total of 400,000 hairs were built, and a software was developed to serve the heroine's hair, which cost tens of millions of dollars!

But the end result is indeed, you get what you pay for!

"Then what do you think?" Chu Yu looked at Huang Ming!

There is a specialization in the art industry, and Chu Yu can only provide some technical support on the animation production screen. Huang Ming has always been the number one contributor to poaching people like this!

Otherwise, why did Chu Yu cooperate with Huang Ming for so many years? A multi-functional talent like him, skilled, bragging, networking, good at communication, and most importantly, he is the only one who can be trusted by Chu Yu!

"If you have money, you can do everything easily! There are people with asceticism in this world, but we don't need that kind of people! What's the point of digging some people for a production fee of hundreds of millions? Animation production companies in the Tokyo area deduct such fees. When many people drink and talk freely with me, they only want to stab the boss behind their backs!"

"It's easy for ordinary high-level talents to pay more money to recruit them, but the most top-notch talents, who are close to the master level, basically have contracts of several years or even ten years on their backs, and they are not equal to the original company's liquidated damages. At least tens of millions to start, and most of them have the company's equity, and I can be regarded as the small half owner of the company, so it is not impossible to forcibly dig it, but the cost is indeed too high!" Huang Ming pondered!

"However, after thinking hard today, I still thought of someone who is a master, but who doesn't have all kinds of contracts on his back." Huang Ming raised his head and looked at Chu Yu.

"Who?" Chu Yu asked.

"Matsuoka Charger!" Huang Ming said directly without being too condescending!

Matsuoka Mitsuru?

Chu Yu thought about it in his mind

Not impressed at all!

Zhao Qinyin and Chu Yu looked at each other, and they were also at a loss!

But Su He thought hard for a while and suddenly spoke!

"Brother Huang, you are not talking about the director who produced the animated film Red Paradise 12 years ago, but its popularity was bleak after it was released, which eventually caused the investor to lose 200 million Dragon National Dollars, and then fell into a slump and basically quit the Japanese animation circle. Matsuoka charge it!"

Su Zhi's words described all the characteristics of this guy!

Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin were a little confused when they heard the words!

"It's that person!" Huang Ming said with a smile.

"This is a loss of 200 million? What's the situation with this guy?" Chu Yu didn't directly veto this person, but asked about the situation!

Under Huang Ming's narration, Chu Yu gradually understood the background of this person!

In fact, it is very simple. The life experience of this guy Matsuoka is similar to that of the great director Chen Kage in the parallel world. After a peak masterpiece animation film (Bawang Farewell j), unsatisfactory works followed one after another.

There is no doubt about your professional level as a director, but the investor has lost money for several consecutive works, what is the use of your talent? A talent that can't make the investor make money is a fart!

In the end, he broke the boat and gambled all his fame and credit, in exchange for the final trust of investors, an investment of 380 million Dragon National Dollars, which lasted two years, and the animation film Red Paradise (The Promise) he produced ended up losing two dollars. 100 million!

In the parallel world, Chen Kage at least has connections. Although there are rumors in the world that Bawang Biej was directed by his father, he is just a name, but there is no factual basis, so I won’t talk about this, but he himself, left by his father. At least his connections didn't make him completely cold!

But Matsuoka Mitsuru from Japan Island is really completely cool. After all, everyone’s situation is different. It’s not that he failed once and has no chance, but failed too many times, so he has no chance again!

Although the director ability in the animation film industry is top-notch in the industry, the other name of box office poison is daunting!

Therefore, the animation production company he signed with was immediately angry because he repeatedly rushed to the street. In the seven years since the Red Paradise, he did not arrange new projects for him, let alone let go of his contract, and directly hid it! Until the expiration of his contract, until now he has not had another chance!

But he really meets Chu Yu's requirements. Matsuoka Mitsuru's previous works hit the street because the scripts failed to catch the needs of the market audience. In terms of animation production level alone, he is worthy of the praise he has received, but He himself is the director and a member of the screenwriting team of the work, and participated in the script creation! So the pot is huge!

But Chu Yu has the script, what he needs is someone who can bring the master animation of Spirited Away to this world!

What is needed is his animation ability, and from this point of view, he really fits the bill!

"Then hasn't this guy already retired? This is the situation!" Chu Yu asked directly.

"It's just what the outside world thinks of him!" Huang Ming sighed!

"It's not that he retired, it's just that no one wants him!"

"Although the contract with the original company was signed for ten years, it expired seven years after the broadcast of Red Paradise. The original company did not renew the contract with him. He has faded out of the Japanese animation industry for so long, and he can't find it. What investor or company has cooperated with him!"

"He is now running a normal-sized supermarket somewhere in Tokyo with his previous savings. Although his life is worry-free... But how should I put it? This kind of life is no different from death to him! Although he is over fifty I am old, but until now I still talk to my friends about my childhood dream of becoming a major animation director in Japan! But if you want him to raise tens of millions to restart the dream of animation movies, he would not be enough to sell his home! "Huang Ming sighed!"

Sometimes, life is so helpless, Matsuoka is far ahead of him in terms of animation production level, but he is now worth hundreds of millions with Huang Ming holding Chu Yu's thigh, and such a talent has been buried in the street for more than ten years! Huang Ming's sigh also touched a lot!

"How do you know him so well?" Chu Yu asked suspiciously!

"Otherwise, do you think that when I go out to drink with my friends at night, is it really just for fun? Although I don't know him, my friend does!" Huang Ming said seriously!

"Like my brother, who works and lives at three o'clock and one line, and then plays games, how can he understand how I have accumulated so many contacts? I am a man who never forgets to improve his level in the animation industry after get off work!"

Huang Ming complained directly and made jokes, not afraid of Chu Yu getting angry!

"How is it? What do you think? Matsuoka Mitsuru is the candidate!"

"Just from what you said, I think it's okay, but I still need to investigate, and they may not be willing to come to our company!" Chu Yu said after thinking about it!