The number one soft rice king in the entertainment industry

The other party is also very powerful. The Oriental Cinemas, currently the second largest cinema in China, is not much different from the first cinema, the Huafang Cinemas.The market share is 30.00% [-]. Most of the halls of the most important Oriental Cinema Line are of very good specifications. If the giant screen hall is counted, the giant screen hall of the Oriental Cinema Line is better than the giant screen hall of the Huafang Cinema Line. need more.

Oriental Cinemas is a giant, especially in recent years with very high profits.It is a cash cow, but for capitalists, when the income reaches a certain level, the cash cow can also be sold to others.Especially now that Oriental Real Estate, the parent company of Oriental Cinemas, has a serious financial crisis, Oriental Cinemas has become a lifeline.

"560 billion US dollars, this is our sincerity, we must sign the contract as soon as possible..."

Disney offered an astonishing price. 560 billion US dollars, no counter-offer.In the previous negotiations, Disney only gave a maximum of 495 billion U.S. dollars, and was unwilling to give a cent.

Now an additional 65 billion U.S. dollars has been added, and this price is full of sincerity.Although Oriental Cinemas is a cash cow, it is also a long-term money.If it is auctioned by the bank, let alone 560 US dollars. 460 billion can't be photographed.

According to the people from Oriental Cinemas, there are very few companies in the world that can pay such a high price at one time.Even the Qingyao Group couldn't afford it, but Disney was able to spend so much money, because Disney also had a beneficiary father behind it.

Without any further hesitation, the agreement was signed directly, and the Oriental Cinema officially changed its boss.China's second largest theater chain has become something in Disney's hands.

Disney dreams of owning theaters, but in the United States, it is impossible for Disney to own theaters.Because their laws stipulate that they cannot intervene in theaters, but they can own streaming media, so Disney has its own streaming media platform.

But in China, there is no such regulation.After the rapid rise of the Chinese market, it is no longer a day or two for Disney to be greedy for theaters.So this time I saw the opportunity and shot later.

In fact, not only Disney is greedy for theaters, Qingyao Group is equally greedy, and other giants also want to have their own theaters.But it is too expensive to build theaters.

The construction of theater chains is an industry that takes a relatively long time, costs a lot of money, and is a little slow to recover costs. It is not that giants cannot play theater chains.

With the backing of Oriental Real Estate, it took nearly 20 years for the Oriental Theater Line to achieve its current scale.Now it is directly packaged and bought by Disney.

"Disney's US$560 billion acquisition of Oriental Cinemas, the second largest theater in China has changed hands..."

"Oriental Group sells Oriental Cinemas to repay debts..."

"China's second largest theater chain has changed hands, and Disney has become the new owner with US$560 billion..."

"Arranging theaters, Disney finally has its own theaters..."

"The scale of China's film market has increased dramatically year-on-year..."

When the news broke, Disney also took the initiative to spend money to ask the media to report this matter.Especially touting the significance of Disney spending money.

Got the second largest theater chain in China, and at the same time, the number of giant screens in this theater chain is still the largest.What does this mean? This means that Disney has gained a firm foothold in China and has a cornucopia.

Theaters plus Disney, this is a monopoly in disguise.At that time, Disney's own films will be in its own theaters, and it can increase the number of films in a fair manner.

What Disney can't do in the United States, it can do in China.

Such good news caused Disney's stock to turn from a decline to a rise.Not only did the previous drop rise back, but the market value also rose again.

This is the biggest good news. Getting the theaters will not only make your own films have higher box office in the future, but also suppress Qingyao Group's films.Let’s not talk about film arrangement, just the share ratio, Disney can directly say no to you, and increase the share ratio. Even if Qingyao Group is a giant, it has to hold its nose.

Along with the news and many people's discussions, Huaxia netizens also exploded.

"What's the situation? Why is Disney allowed to acquire Oriental Cinemas..."

"This is a monopoly, what about our anti-monopoly law..."

"In the United States, Disney is not allowed to own theaters..."

"I hope the country will take action..."

"Disney get out of China..."

Netizens also realized the seriousness of this matter after reading the analysis.

This matter is too serious.Disney owns theaters.He has the absolute initiative, not only can increase the number of his own movies, but also suppress the local Chinese movies.Increase the proportion of theater chains, especially the Qingyao Group. Now any fool can see that Disney and the Qingyao Group are sworn enemies.

Online, netizens were outraged.

Qingyao Group, in Su Yang's office, Su Yang also frowned, and Tang Qing also looked serious.

"This is a blatant conspiracy. If you spend money, a giant will always be a giant..."

Su Yang sighed, Disney is not just himself.The people behind Disney are the plutocratic giants of the United States, and they have too much money.

As for Qingyao Group, it is weak.Although the development is rapid, the foundation is too thin.There is no capital backing at all, let alone backing, many domestic capitals are still staring at the cake of Qingyao Group, once they find the right opportunity, they will bite it without hesitation, so now they are facing Disney's conspiracy However, Qingyao Group was in a difficult situation and didn't know how to deal with it.

Chapter 668 The Protracted Battle with Disney: It takes hard work to strike iron

"Is there no good way?"

Tang Qing looked at Su Yang. Now that Disney has acquired the second largest theater chain, this matter has a great impact on Qingyao Group.

Now Qingyao Group takes the initiative when cooperating with theaters in China.The share ratio is relatively high, and the film arrangement is also relatively high.

But now that the theater owner has changed to Disney, things may be different.The proportional share will definitely be lower, and at the same time, the film schedule will definitely be reduced to a certain extent.But Disney didn't dare to directly refuse to make films, after all, Disney bought theaters for business.

"There is no good way. Our competition with Disney is actually a normal commercial competition. It has not reached the point of black hand, nor has it reached the point of tearing face. Although Disney bought the second largest theater chain, there are some things Don't dare to be too blatant. If you really dare to overturn the table, believe it or not, I made their theaters unable to play a local Chinese movie..."

Su Yang said with a smile, which made Tang Qing laugh.

Yes, it's not time to tear your skin apart.It's really embarrassing, in China's three-acre land.There are some ways to clean up Disney. With the influence of Su Yang and Qingyao Group in China, they really have the ability to prevent Disney theaters from playing movies.

If it is a little more shady and uses some bad tricks casually, Disney's theaters will not even be able to open their doors.Two fire inspections in three days can make them collapse.

"Actually, looking at it from another perspective, Disney's purchase of theater chains is also taking the initiative to send the handle to us. It is 560 billion US dollars. If it really loses money by then, it will be fun."

Tang Qing said with a smile, which made Su Yang laugh too.That's right, who said that buying theaters must have advantages.Sometimes opportunities are also crises.If Disney was doing business in China honestly, and everything was done according to the rules, everything would be fine.

If you really use small tricks for bad, it's really too much.This theater might become a burden someday. 560 billion U.S. dollars is also a huge sum of money for Disney.If this investment is lost, it will have a huge impact on Disney's stock.

"Should we also engage in theaters?"

Tang Qing couldn't help but said.After all, if Qingyao Group had theater chains, its advantage would be greater.

"It's not necessary, haven't you noticed? Our country's laws are getting more and more perfect. Sooner or later, we will be like the United States. There will be no intersection between theaters and production companies. We are already eye-catching enough now." The big tree attracts the wind, and it can’t stand out anymore. It’s already very good to have a streaming media platform. People must learn to be content, and the competition with Disney is also a protracted battle. Take your time..."

Su Yang said seriously.Qingyao Group is already a giant.And it is a cultural super giant in China.

It can be said that Qingyao Group is already attractive enough.So some things have to be given up. Even if you know that owning your own theater chain will bring great benefits, you can't do it.

Because Huaxia is paying more and more attention to anti-monopoly matters.Now many Internet investment giants have begun to quietly handle some of their own assets.For example, Penguin has given up some interests before.

Because in China, companies that are too big to fail will not be allowed.The same is true for Qingyao Group, theaters have many benefits, but Qingyao Group will not do it.

The streaming media platform also attracted many people to invest together.Portioned the cake.The same is true for the listing of various subsidiaries in the future.This piece of cake is too big, sometimes you have to divide some of the cake in order to continue to grow and get more.

Protracted war, this competition is a protracted war.For China's cultural industry, the arrival of Disney may not be all bad.

Disney entered China, and Qingyao Group entered Europe and the United States.Next, the competition between the two parties is in the global market, and we must look at the world.

There was a lot of discussion on the Internet, but Qingyao Group's performance was very flat, and all actions were done step by step.

Sony Pictures also quickly reached a cooperation agreement with Qingyao Media, directly sending people to China to participate in the production of "Harry Potter", and this production is mainly based on Qingyao Media, Sony said bluntly It's just a paid one.

There are not many things to do, but the future box office dividends will be divided according to the proportion.At the same time, the investment side directly took out the money according to the contract ratio.

At the same time, Sony Pictures is also preparing to build its own headquarters in Pearl City.This incident made Zhucheng very welcome. After all, Secretary Zhao had been thinking of turning Zhucheng into an Eastern Hollywood some time ago.

If Sony Pictures builds a subsidiary in China and builds an office building.It would be more meaningful to promote this matter, East Hollywood, if this matter is completed, Pearl City will benefit too much.

In addition to "Harry Potter", the Marvel universe plan is also picking up pace.

Japan, Jimeisha, this is a relatively old animation company.But now it has declined, and the current Jimeisha is not very famous in Japan, and there are only two serialized comics under it, and the reputation is not too great.

In Japan, the animation industry is also very competitive.Everyone only sees that Japanese comics are awesome, but they don't know that Japanese comics are even more awesome.

The more developed an industry, the stronger the involution.The same goes for the animation industry. In Japan, there are many people engaged in the animation industry, and there are even more animation companies.

The number of animation episodes produced is also constantly reaching new heights, but good works are becoming more and more difficult to create.Looking at the works on the ranking list, those works that are very popular now are all works that have been serialized for many years.

In this environment, Jimeishe, an established company, now makes very little profit every year.

In the conference room, the people from Qingyao Group and the shareholders of Jimei Society started negotiations again.

This time, Qingyao Group wanted to acquire Jimeishe, establish a new company and acquire a company. After discussing this matter, it finally chose to acquire a Japanese animation company.

And Jimei Club is the final target of Qingyao Group, not because of how strong Jimei Club is.It's not because Jimei Club is cheap, because Jimei Club has something that Qingyao Group wants, which doesn't look valuable to Jimei Club, but in the eyes of Qingyao Group, this thing is very valuable.

"US$3.4 million, this is our company's final offer. I believe that everyone should know how much you are worth. We come here with sincerity. And we have more choices, not just your Jimei Club."

The negotiator of Qingyao Group said seriously.The negotiators don't have too much pressure, because for them, although the items in Jimei Club's hands are good, they are not absolutely necessary. Their main goal is to acquire a Japanese animation company and do a good job for the Marvel Universe plan. Base!

Chapter 669 The True Power of AI Technology: Remake Animation

"President Su, Jimei Club, won..."

In the office, a piece of good news made Su Yang laugh.

Jimei Club, won. 3.4 million US dollars, this price is actually not cheap.Because now the annual profit of Jimei Club is less than 500 million US dollars.This also counts all copyright income, and a lot of income is based on old money.

Jimeisha owns the copyrights of several animations and manga, and these works were once extremely popular.But that's a long time ago.

So this time Qingyao Group spent 3.4 million US dollars, and Jimei Club basically sold it without any hesitation.After all, the premium is too high, and no one can refuse the pie in the sky.

"Go, go to the animation company."

Su Yang stood up and followed the assistant directly to the animation company.

After coming to Department X, the whole department is still busy.Enter a project team, and the people in the project team are sorting out the materials.

"Mr. Su..."

Seeing Su Yang coming in, everyone laughed.

"How is the organization of Jimei Press's materials?"

Su Yang asked directly.

"President Su, it's been sorted out. For us, Jimei Club has three most valuable animations."

The person in charge said with a smile, and directly called up the information.

""Nuclear Battleship", "Steel Wings" and "N-Dimensional War", of which "Nuclear Battleship" has 168 episodes, "Steel Wings" has 384 episodes, and "N-Dimensional War" has 258 episodes. These three works were very famous back then. , all are sci-fi animations, and the plot is relatively good, but the production level is too poor from the current point of view..."

The person in charge said seriously.These three works are the three most valuable works of Jimei Society.All three works are science fiction animations.They were all smash hits back then, but these three works were works in the 80s and 22s of the last century.The latest "N-Dimensional War" was completed [-] years ago.

The production level was not high back then, but this is from the current perspective.Back then, the production level was relatively high.

Su Yang has also seen these three works, both the plot and the setting are very good.At this point, I have to obey the strength of Japanese animation.Especially the strength of the previous anime.

But because it's been too long.Except for some older people in these three works.Young people hardly know it anymore.So the copyright and so on can't be sold for much money, after all, there is no popularity.

Such works are actually worthless.But this is in the eyes of others. In the animation company, these animations are of great value.

Because they can reproduce such animations with AI rendering technology.And it is very simple to reproduce, you only need to set various data, and the rest can be handed over to AI.

In fact, the animation subsidiary has already made preparations before. Even if they can't win Jimei Club this time, they will pay to buy the copyrights of these three animations.

"President Su, we have already produced the relevant materials of the three works. Look..."

A staff member turned on the computer, and there was a reprinted version of the material in it.The appearance of various characters, the new appearance of various equipment, the new models of various buildings, and so on.

Compared with the original version, the information in the remake version is simply not a one-dimensional thing.The various settings of the remake are set according to the current perspective, and everything is extremely cool, just like the characters in the top sci-fi blockbuster.

"Let's try an episode first."

Su Yang looked forward to it, and the staff nodded.Open the AI ​​software directly, and then input the first episode of "Nuclear Battleship" into the program.

Then the AI ​​began to recharge automatically, and the progress bar was like a progress bar for downloading things.Everyone in the project department is waiting patiently.

An hour later, the first episode of "Nuke Warship" was remade.

The staff opened the video after the remake, and when the animation started to air, everyone laughed.

This is a completely new story, with the top-notch picture quality, the coolest scenes, and the battle scenes in the first episode.

Cool and shocking, although there are still some flaws, but it can't hide the shocking scene.After the production is completed, there is a shocking feeling of Transformers.

"It looks like it still needs to be refined..."

Everyone laughed and said after watching the first episode.

"Yes, it needs to be refined, but the workload is much smaller. The dubbing also needs to be re-recorded, but you only need to find a few voice actors and record a few voice samples."

What the staff said made Su Yang nod. The capabilities of AI technology are too powerful, and they have not been fully utilized yet.

Qingyao Group's supercomputer is under planning and construction and is expected to be put into use this year.When the supercomputer is put into use, a remake of an old film like this may only take less than a minute to complete.After all, the computing power of the supercomputer is much stronger than that of the servers currently used by the X department.

It is against the sky to use AI technology to reproduce works.This is not the same as the so-called repair of the streaming platform.Reproduction is equivalent to re-production. The AI ​​system is equivalent to dividing all the pictures into frame by frame, and then re-production of each frame with computer technology to form a new work.

The so-called AI repair of the streaming media platform can only be repaired at a shallow level, which is completely different from the AI ​​intelligent Xuanran technology mastered by Qingyao Group, and it is not a class thing at all.

"Complete the remake and refinement of these three works as soon as possible. At the same time, use funds to purchase old works worth buying around the world."

Su Yang directly ordered to find a more suitable animation, design a new style, and then remake it into a new animation.This technology can completely replace the original 2D works with the current top 3D works, with stronger visual effects.

Not only animations, but also movies, TV series, including games, Qingyao Group will purchase the corresponding copyrights, and then use this technology to reproduce.Remake the classic works twice to make the works glow with new vitality.

This routine is not a new routine, other companies have done it.But the cost of their remake is relatively high, and there is no way to compare with Qingyao Group.90.00% of the work of Qingyao Group's remake can be done by artificial intelligence, and the cost is so low that it can be ignored.