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Stallone didn't make many movies in the past few years. He went to business.

First he opened a hotel, but failed and went bankrupt.

Later, he started a business and opened a beverage company, which mainly sold some drinks that strengthened yang and replenished yin, but it was also a mess.

Later, he bought a magazine and published a magazine.

That was in 2005, and we had entered the Internet media era. The print media was in a slump, and others were thinking of ways to quit, but he squeezed in.

As you can imagine, this business failed again.

He also played with painting and held art exhibitions as a painter...but he couldn't sell it at all, and his transformation failed.

what to do?

He married a supermodel for the third time and gave birth to three daughters. For the sake of family livelihood, he had no choice but to return to his old career and return to the film industry in a big way in the past few years.

First, he filmed "Rocky 6" and "Rambo 4" to regain the attention of movie fans through two classic movie series. Then he cooperated with Lionsgate Pictures, obtained a platter of investment from Jieyu Media, and launched " The Expendables project.

A huge success.

This announced Stallone's official return.

In addition to the two series he found "The Expendables" and "Escape Plan", as a talented filmmaker, Stallone is sure to have many more projects.

This made him a sought-after actor in Hollywood.

Even if Stallone's movies are not so prominent at the box office, they are very popular in the DVD market. He is almost the most popular Hollywood star in the DVD market.

Action actors already have great appeal and sales advantages in the DVD market.

It just so happens that Warner is the undisputed overlord in the DVD field.

In this regard, it is difficult for MSI Universal to compete with Warner, and Stallone is about to be snatched away by Warner.

Zhou Buqi didn't pay much attention to it at first.

I feel that he is just an actor, and he, a big boss, cannot be allowed to lower himself to invite Stallone to dinner and extend invitations.

Unexpectedly, I met him during my vacation in Spain.

Then it is necessary to resolve this matter smoothly.

No matter what, Zhou Buqi still holds the title of CEO of Ziweixing Global Group. When the opportunity comes, he has to do something.

Moreover, Stallone's significance is indeed great.

Warner focuses on the DVD market, while Zhou Buqi focuses on the streaming media market. The film and television streaming media industry is the subversion and continuation of the past film and television DVD industry.

Stallone is also a symbolic figure in Hollywood action movies, and things are rare and valuable.

Here, Zhou Buqi made a request, and his face was big enough. Stallone thought about it briefly and quickly made a compromise.

He is negotiating with Warner to collaborate on 5 films in the future, and the signing fee is US$12 million. If Ziweixing Global can provide a signing fee of US$10 million, he can then cooperate with MGM or Summit Entertainment.

Zhou Buqi agreed with a smile, "Deal."

Stallone also had his own plans and pretended to sigh, "If the path of making movies doesn't work, I might have to do business with Mr. Zhou in the future."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "No, I will definitely succeed in making a movie."

…

Planes streaked across the sky.

Zhou Buqi and his party returned to the capital, and Mai Feixue once again set foot on the land of the motherland. She immediately cheered, "It's still true that our own land is solid!"

"Not sleepy anymore?"

"Sleepy."

"Then go back and rest, and report to the company tomorrow to reimburse some bills." Zhou Buqi realized something, paused, and warned, "You are not allowed to reimburse for things you bought yourself."

Mai Feixue whispered: "If you don't reimburse me, I won't have the money to pay you back."

Zhou Buqi was amused by her, "You don't have to pay it back!"

Return to the city from the airport and take Mai Feixue back to her apartment first.

This is the beauty of the location of Ziweixing's headquarters. It is located within Wangjing. It is the first commercial center from the Capital Airport to the capital city. The road is smooth and I happened to pass by.

Zhou Buqi himself went straight to the Sohu Media Building to meet Ren Yuxin and several of his important assistants, including Ma Xiaotiao, the former chief designer of Penguin Games.

This trip to the UK also yielded certain gains, which allowed Zhou Buqi to firmly recognize Ren Yuxin’s game strategy development ideas and to find an industrialized path to realize creative ideas.

Creativity cannot come out through inspiration as in the traditional sense. This model is too inefficient.

Just like EA, in the past few decades, it has acquired dozens or hundreds of game studios, and then basically closed them down one after another. One of the important reasons is the exhaustion of creativity.

When a game development studio cannot develop creative games, it will become a cost burden with no output, and there will be a huge hidden danger of closing down and laying off employees.

We need to find a way, just like the Hollywood film industry, to create ideas like an assembly line.

In fact, it is the imitation idea of ​​Stitch Monster.

As Zhou Buqi gets deeper into the game industry, his understanding becomes richer and richer. He becomes more and more able to understand why the Penguin game business in his previous life, under the leadership of Ren Yuxin, was able to thrive and quickly become the number one in the country. , and became the world's number one, making Penguin the world's largest gaming giant.

Plagiarism and copying are certainly criticized, but there is indeed a very powerful underlying industrial creative logic here.

This is a game concept with strong localization characteristics. It is suspected of taking tricks and shortcuts, but it is indeed a way to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and achieve results quickly!

It’s like writing an online novel.

It is extremely difficult for an author to create a genre of his own, especially in the early days when it is difficult to gain recognition from readers. But if you follow the trend of writing, you will find that others have created the "mortal flow" and achieved great success, cultivating the reader's mind. At this time, writing novels about mortals by myself is equivalent to taking a shortcut, and the difficulty of success is greatly reduced.

Two months ago, when Zhou Buqi was designing Changyou's management structure, he once wanted to use American Don Mattrick as the leader. After all, his resume was too glorious, having played in EA and Microsoft games. It plays an extremely important role and has an international perspective.

Now it seems that it really should be reconsidered.

Ren Yuxin seems to be more important!

Don Mattrick has a standard American thinking game concept. Maybe he can do a good job, but he is following the old ideas of the past... Ren Yuxin is different. His approach has a distinctive The localization feature is an absolutely innovative move. Looking at the world, it is basically the only one.

Things are rare and valuable!

At least this is quite similar to Zhou Buqi's concept. At least relying on the stitching idea of ​​imitation, a large number of mobile games can be quickly produced like an assembly line.

Then in this blank market of mobile games, we quickly seize the territory and occupy the minds of users.

Especially nowadays, the performance of smartphones is relatively poor, and mobile games are mainly casual games.

Casual games are often relatively simple to develop and have greater vitality than large-scale games. Small games such as Tetris and Super Mario have remained popular for decades.

Zhou Buqi should have a good chat with Ren Yuxin and entrust him with important tasks. He should not only focus on the domestic game market, but should also give him permission to focus on international strategies and use his game-making ideas to guide Changyou in the near future. A few years ahead.