rising director

He is now holding the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, so don't get too complacent about his day.Occasionally care about the progress of a few movies, or ask about the progress of a few TV series, and then direct "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", conceive "Qin Shi Mingyue", and write movie scripts when I have free time.

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Time entered the end of November.Good news one after another.

The first is the establishment of an offshore company wholly owned by Dandelion, registered in the British Virgin Islands, named Tiger Ruiya International Investment Company.The registered capital of this company is 3000 million US dollars, and the first business is to acquire a small film company located in Santa Monica, a seaside city not far from Hollywood.

The film company is called ssh-enernmen, which translates to Sasha Entertainment. It was established in 1999 and its business scope is film and television production and distribution.However, since its establishment, this company has never made a movie or TV series, nor has it released a movie or TV show.

Its business is only for two neighbors.Lionsgate Films and Summit Entertainment make movie posters and DVD packaging designs, and of course, sell some DVDs themselves.When Tiger Ruiya's agent, an American professional manager James Derek, appeared with a check for 100 million US dollars.

The owner of Sasha Entertainment immediately packed up the company and left Santa Monica with $100 million.

With an American entertainment company.Wan Xiaohu's many ideas came into play.

The second good news is.Dandelion came into contact with Golden Harvest and has made some progress. Although Zou Huai has no intention of selling the company, it is really difficult for Golden Harvest recently. Zou Huai had to decide to sell a batch of about 25% of the shares.It was originally planned to be sold to Superman Li Ka-shing and Shell King Chen Guoqiang, with the participation of Dandelion.Zou Huai is more inclined to cooperate with Dandelion.

After all, both Superman and Shell King are capitalists, not filmmakers, who only care about profits and don't talk about art.Zou Huai has been a filmmaker all his life and has a deep affection for the film industry. He hopes that Golden Harvest is not just a tool of capital.It is the kingdom of movies.

In the end, the two parties reached a preliminary agreement. Dandelion will acquire 16350% of Golden Harvest's shares owned by Zou Huaishou for HK$24.68 million, becoming Golden Harvest's second largest shareholder.At the next general meeting of shareholders, a show of hands will be held to vote whether the plan can be passed, but Zou Huai holds an absolute stake in Golden Harvest, and this is just a routine meeting of a listed company.

The third one is not really good news, but just normal news, that is, the animation studio Wan Xiaohu is preparing for has been established and named Abao Animation Studio.No one knows why Wan Xiaohu chose such a naive name as "A Bao", only Wan Xiaohu knows it in his heart.

Many people knew beforehand that Wan Xiaohu was going to make cartoons. Therefore, as soon as Abao Animation Studio was established, it attracted a large number of applications from animation practitioners.After final selection, a 30-member animation team of Joyful and a 50-member animation team of Qin Shi were officially ready.

"Qin Shi Mingyue" is relatively large, and I don't want to start writing within the year, I just want to write the outline of the story. The story of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" is simple and straightforward. Wan Xiaohu can start writing immediately after explaining the style and content.

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"The story is filmed like this. Big Big Wolf can never catch sheep, but he is always confident, optimistic, and humorous. He is a good man. Red Wolf is a beauty-loving, tigress, especially known for playing with a frying pan..." Wan Xiaohu said to Shooting animation, I am a beginner.

However, he knows how to use people, so he specially invited an art director Zhao Chongbang from Hong Kong to serve as the art director and assistant director of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".This Zhao Chongbang is the director of the next few Pleasant Goat movies. Wan Xiaohu himself doesn't want to make cartoons all his life, so now he has to find someone who can take over for the cartoons in the future.

"Old Zhao, just follow this style. You unify the departments. The scripts for the first few episodes have been prepared, and I will lead people to finish writing them. I will discuss the follow-up plots with Huang Weijian and the others."

"Ok."

Wan Xiaohu immediately found Huang Weijian, and began to discuss the plot with the screenwriting team.

Huang Weijian is not an employee of Abao Animation Studio, but a cooperative unit, the chief screenwriter of a well-known creative team in Yangcheng "Qiqi Creation Studio".Abao Animation Studio contracted the screenwriting task to Qiuqi Creation Studio. At the same time, Wan Xiaohu personally invested more than 200 million yuan and obtained half of the studio's shares.

Directing animation and directing live-action movies are completely different ways. An animation director is the leader of the entire animation production team.

As an animation director, Wan Xiaohu doesn't need to draw every picture himself. Although he has studied fine arts, he is not limited to sketches and meticulous paintings.What he needs to do is to grasp the overall situation and make clear instructions and requirements for character setting, painting supervision, voice actor, sound supervision, etc.

Strictly speaking, it is the same as a film director, leading a team to complete the creative process of a work.

As long as you put your heart into it, it is not difficult to complete the change of identity.

In this way, "Infernal Affairs" ended at the Golden Horse Awards, and "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" took off in the hands of Wan Xiaohu.

0196【Master Dialogue】

On December 12th, the weather was fine. Wan Xiaohu got up early in the morning. Instead of going to Abao Animation Studio as usual, he went to Dandelion first to explain some things.Su Ya has been busy with final exams recently, and Wan Xiaohu has to take on a little more responsibility for the company's business.

The car was driving halfway when Su Ya called.

"Hey, Tiger, I have something urgent to go home in the afternoon. You can go alone for dinner with Zhang Weiping and the others."

"What's the matter?" Wan Xiaohu asked casually.

"My grandpa is sick."

"Ah, is it all right?"

"It's nothing serious. My grandpa is in good health. My dad said it was a relapse of an old injury. After all, my grandpa still has several bullet casings in his body."

"It's good that there's nothing serious, hey, by the way, should I visit?"

Su Ya was silent for a few seconds on the other end of the phone before saying, "If you want to come, come, no one is stopping you."

"Okay, I'll take care of the dinner in the afternoon, and I'll go there after watching the movie in the afternoon. Which hospital are you in?"

"Call me in the afternoon and I'll pick you up."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, the car arrived at the company parking lot.After entering the company, Wan Xiaohu immediately called several executives to the office.Dandelion is not a regular large company. Although there are many companies, the reputation is also big, and the profitability is ridiculously strong, but the scale is still small, and the staffing is chaotic and there is no systematic staffing.

"I told you about the mme time network and the stripping of Dandelion, how is it going?" Wan Xiaohu motioned everyone to sit down.

"Mr. Wan, the procedures have already begun. According to the current procedures, it will take another week to complete the procedures."

"Well. You can handle this matter according to your needs. Now the company's relationship is too scattered, and it must be sorted out in a unified way to keep up with the pace of the times as soon as possible."

Tiger Ruiya is an offshore company registered in the British Virgin Islands by Wan Xiaohu and Su Ya. An offshore company is a company specially used to operate international business.Many large multinational corporations and individuals with high assets regularly use this type of company.Including many domestic state-owned enterprises.If you want to go public in a foreign country, you must also dilute the place of ownership through an offshore company.

Offshore companies are highly confidential. Wan Xiaohu and Su Ya do not want to expose their assets, so they plan to use Tiger Ruiya International Investment Company as a cover to gradually bring all industries under Tiger Tiger's banner. .

This is a very complicated financial instrument.

Wan Xiaohu came to supervise this plan.

Before the time was up, Wan Xiaohu rushed to Abao Animation Studio after finishing dealing with Dandelion. "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" is already in full swing.Wan Xiaohu didn't need to ask any more questions.In fact, Wan Xiaohu himself didn't like this cartoon very much.

Although Impressions of this cartoon went abroad, went to the world, and achieved good results in many countries and regions, but after all, it is too young. He is a great director, making such a young cartoon.A little off.

In fact, he mainly wanted to shoot "Qin Shi Mingyue" for technical accumulation, and take care of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" by the way.

previous track. The idea of ​​"Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" sprouted in 2003, and Wan Xiaohu was one step ahead.The idea of ​​"Qin Shi Mingyue" also sprouted in 2003. Taiwanese writer Wen Shiren conceived it, but only halfway through the conception, Wen Shiren died of overwork.

Wan Xiaohu didn't intend to make excuses for his plagiarism, but he still hoped that he would make "Qin Shi Mingyue" first.It can make Wen Shiren less troublesome. After all, Wen Shiren is also an entrepreneur full of caring, which is worthy of admiration.

However, strictly speaking, the animated version of "Qin Shi Mingyue".It is different from Wen Shiren's creativity and novels. There are only a few references, that is, a small number of plots are borrowed from "Qin Shi Mingyue: Jing Ke Biography", and most of the plots are original.

In short, "Qin Shi Mingyue" will take the route of 3D animation to reserve technology for future [-]D animation films.

The research cycle will be very long, and Wan Xiaohu's investment in it is ten times that of Pleasant Goat.

He stayed in the studio until eleven o'clock when Zhang Weiping called and invited Wan Xiaohu over for dinner.

Zhang Weiping is the chairman of New Picture Film Company. This film company mainly invests in Zhang Yimou's films, "Speak Well", "No One Less", "My Father and Mother", "Happy Time", As for the upcoming "Hero", Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou jointly created it.

The reason why I invited Wan Xiaohu to dinner this time is because of some business cooperation. In addition, Zhang Yimou is going to take "Hero" to Beijing TV to shoot a documentary in the afternoon, so I specially invite Wan Xiaohu to accompany him, to have a dialogue with old and new masters, and to contribute to "Hero" warm up.

When we arrived at the hotel, Zhang Weiping greeted him.

"Wan Dao, welcome here."