"Now, we would like to congratulate "Baby Girl, Good Mother" for winning the Domestic Animation Special Award issued by Modu Media Group!"
"Please invite Mr. Huang Weimin, a representative of the production company, to come on stage to receive the award!"
Bang bang bang bang...
In the large conference hall of SMG, Director Huang trotted onto the stage, holding up the medal given by Shanghai TV Station and a 50,000 yuan bonus check... the enlarged version.
Behind, a group of media cameras flashed.
Zhang Yuan, on the other hand, sat in the audience with a group of middle-level leaders from Modutai and applauded Huang Weimin.
Originally, Li Ruigang wanted Zhang Yuan to come on stage to receive the award.
But he refused.
First of all, he doesn’t want to expose too much at the same time.
Overexposure will not only not further increase the audience's interest, but will also easily make people bored.
"Why is it him again!"
Similar emotions will arise.
Just like drinking a can of Coke, you feel great.
But I feed you ten cans in a row and you still don’t drink!
Most people, except for serious coke lovers, will feel nauseated.
The same goes for celebrity artists.
One of the main reasons why Liu Qianqian has been undefeated for twenty years and still has a large number of loyal fans every time she appears is because Xiao Longnu often lies flat...
Apart from occasionally flopping around and filming some scenes, this guy rarely appears in variety shows, reality shows, or commercial roles.
I often don't see anyone for months, and when I do see one, it's like the giant pandas in the zoo having fun, with a bunch of people snapping photos and watching.
It was better in the early days, especially after being treated by Hua Yi. This person's business frequency is the same as that of my aunt, once a month is good.
After not showing up for several months, it was like her aunt had not come. A group of media suspected that she was pregnant...
On the contrary, there are actresses such as Da Baobao and Yang Mi who work too frequently and have no interest in the audience.
Zhang Yuan feels that he has been a little too hot recently and does not intend to add fuel to the fire.
Secondly, as the major shareholder of the animation company, I have already made a lot of money.
Coming out to hang out is nothing more than fame and fortune.
If you take advantage of yourself and still take advantage of your reputation, you will at least lose your inner heart and support, or at worst, you will be surrounded and suppressed by the industry.
Even though Jack Ma has mastered the power and queen, he still wants to master the fame.
After mastering fame and fortune, he still wanted to move up...and then there was nothing more.
Letting Huang Weimin, a man who does practical things, come to accept the award and show his face will not only make him "refreshed", but also help unite.
After the small award ceremony, he and Huang Weimin chatted with the director and leaders of Shanghai TV Station about future work plans.
And the first four complete episodes of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" were used as pilot episodes and handed over to the other party.
The film is also the same as the previous "Baby Girl's Good Mother", each episode lasts about 15 minutes.
As an animation using FLASH as the main production software, the production efficiency and cost are actually not high.
Therefore, the picture is not its main selling point, the focus is still on creativity and content.
Zhang Yuan is not in a hurry, just wait for the broadcast effect.
Anyway, the ratings of "Baby Girl, Good Mother" have proven the animation company's ability and given them a taste of the sweetness.
Now, it's time to make a fortune from this sheep and that wolf!
After leaving Shanghai TV Station, Zhang Yuan took Huang Weimin and Nicholas Tse, who had not yet left, to have a meal together.
They both hung out in the Cantonese area, but they quickly became familiar with each other.
But just when the two of them felt that Zhang Yuan just wanted them to make friends, he opened his mouth.
"Next, Ting Feng and I will jointly set up a post-production special effects company in Shanghai."
"The content includes post-production of film, television and animation."
"So I think the two companies can communicate more."
"Oh, that's for sure." Huang Weimin answered immediately.
But I also wonder, if we who make FLASH animation have anything to do with the post-production special effects company?
Zhang Yuan is still an outsider. Although they all use animation, they are not the same animation.
But then, Zhang Yuan's words made him understand that this was not a professional issue, but a planning issue.
"I'm thinking about a question." Zhang Yuan sat up straight and said seriously.
"If a TV animation can be a hit, it will have a large enough audience base."
"So, is there any way to package this TV IP, put it on the big screen, and make it into an animated movie?"
Hiss... Huang Weimin was stunned for a moment, and then his brain spun rapidly.
The pinnacle of domestic animated films is "Havoc in Heaven".
The most recent masterpiece is "Lotus Lamp".
And they all have one thing in common.
That’s IP grabbing!
Classic IP is in the minds and blood of Chinese audiences. It has a strong mass base and is naturally very close to the audience.
In later generations, during the Spring Festival every year, apart from the major New Year films, what types of films are the most popular?
It’s a great animated movie!
During the Chinese New Year, parents take their children out.
It's an adult comedy that dads love to watch, but kids can't understand.
Romance movies are loved by mothers, but children cannot understand them.
Only animated movies are the most suitable family movies for families to watch together.
Therefore, this part has almost become an iron ticket warehouse for theaters.
It is possible to make hundreds of millions to more than one billion every year without hesitation.
The initiator of this big animated movie trend is "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"!
Because this animation is the first national IP of China’s domestic animation after the new century.
"I think..." After Huang Weimin thought for a while, he realized that Zhang Yuan had a long-term vision.
I have thought of ways to take animation to the next level.
"The main thing depends on the broadcast effect of the animation."
"Yes, if the effect is good, we can start planning in advance." Zhang Yuan agreed with his statement.
Don't be too hasty, but think and plan in advance.
"So I let everyone get familiar with each other first to facilitate future cooperation."
Mr. Xie also understood what he meant.
I didn’t expect that my partner would have such great ambitions.
If you don't take action, that's it. If you do, big things will happen.
Chatted with these two about future work plans.
After the meal, Zhang Yuan sent Huang Weimin to the airport, then turned around and went with Mr. Xie. Under the guidance of an agency, they visited several office buildings located in prime locations in the Magic City.
After reading it, Zhang Yuan had only one idea.
“As expected of the Magic City!”
In 2006, the unit price of offices in the Magic City area had reached one yuan per square meter per day.
But the unit is US dollars!
The Magic City is different, and the money spent is different from other local units.
In other words, at this unit price, the monthly rent for a small office of 100 square meters is 25,000.
This does not include property fees, water and electricity fees, cleaning fees and other expenses.
In Lujiazui, the price reached more than 1.3 US dollars.
And Huaihai Road is more than 1.5 US dollars.
The most expensive ones even include luxury office buildings for $2.
Although Pudong and Lujiazui are famous across the country, in fact, the most expensive area in the city is Puxi.
Especially in those years, Pudong was not yet fully developed, and most of the working-age population was in Puxi.
If you rent an office in Pudong, many employees will have to take the ferry or subway across the river to work, which will obviously hinder the recruitment of talents.
In the end, he and Mr. Xie decided to locate the office in the core area of HP District in Shanghai, near Xintiandi.
In later generations, this place was a super luxury area with an average price of 200,000.
"The two floors total 800 square meters, and the unit price is US$1.5..." Zhang Yuan added up.
The monthly rent is 300,000!
You have to pay it every six months.
But there is no way. If you want to become a big company, you can't stay in the suburbs.
The office is the facade, not only the location is good, but the decoration must be top-notch.
In this way, big companies will not lose their status when they come to visit.
Otherwise, a hundred square meters would still be in the suburbs, and all the employees would be in disgrace, and the office would be tempted to turn on fewer lights to save on electricity bills.
Those big film and television companies and brands will immediately exclude you from their cooperation partners.
"Fortunately, I have made a lot of endorsement fees recently." Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
Including rent, decoration and equipment preparation, if you want to get it done within a few months and catch up with the first order of "Magic Phone", the initial investment will be nearly 10 million.
Zhang Yuan has already made plans not to make any money in the first three years, or even to make some money himself.
No matter what, we have to support this company.
After all, this is an important supporting package for him to prepare for those future blockbusters.
Small countries can rely on imports, but big countries must develop everything on their own, otherwise they will easily get stuck.
It's the same in the film and television industry. It's easy to be a gangster.
But if you want to be the overlord of one party, you have to call yourself a system, otherwise you will be restricted everywhere.
After chatting with the agent for a while, Zhang Yuan planned to find a lawyer to do a background check and sign a long-term contract.
After all, there are many pitfalls in renting a house, not to mention being in an unfamiliar place like Shanghai.
Worked until dark.
"Let's go, find a place to have a big meal."
"I heard that there is a good large intestine noodle shop here in Shanghai."
Zhang Yuan looked at him with disgust.
The last time I was in Xiangjiang, I was asked to eat stinky sausage, and this time I wanted to eat large intestine noodles when I came back to Shanghai.
You had sex with your intestines, right?
To put it this way, you and Brother Qian should have something in common. "Forget it, let's do it next time." Zhang Yuan patted him on the shoulder: "I have to eat with others tonight."
"You are so busy...can't you be that little dragon girl?" Mr. Xie smiled sideways.
"No, she and her mother returned to the imperial capital..." At this point, Zhang Yuan felt a little resentful.
Liu Xiaoli watched so closely that she had no chance to make a move.
"It's Zhi Viagra, we have a movie to talk about."
Seeing that he was as busy as a top, Nicholas Tse stopped disturbing him.
But he still didn't give up the large intestine noodles, so he took his assistant and went.
Later he complained that even the large intestines here in Shanghai were on the sweet side and he couldn't get used to it.
What makes him even more unaccustomed is that he said that the intestines here in Magic City are too clean and don’t have that smell...
There's no one like that... If it's tasty, you can just lie behind the pig and eat it.
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Yuan increasingly doubted whether he and Brother Qian were related by blood.
Went to a high-end restaurant by the Huangpu River.
This place was booked by Zeng Zhiwei.
After all, I wanted to ask him to invest money and switch the host and guest during the game.
This jovial guy not only has a good drinking capacity, but also has extremely deep social skills.
Zhang Yuan rarely encounters people who can almost confuse him by going around in circles.
And just like when he came to Shanghai before, Li Ruigang pointed to the mansion on the other side of the river outside the floor-to-ceiling glass.
Zeng Zhiwei also pointed to a community under construction in Lujiazui opposite.
But it's not the famous Tang Cheng Yipin.
But not far away is the World Trade Center Riverside.
"Where did Jialin buy a three-story duplex for investment?"
"I also bought a set."
"Are you interested?"
"Do you have any real estate connections in Shanghai?"
"Hahaha, this property is endorsed by Wei Zai." Zeng Zhiwei said with a smile.
No wonder... Zhang Yuanxin said that he had long heard that veteran Hong Kong actors such as Liu Jialin had started buying properties in the Imperial and Magic Capitals a few years ago.
It turns out that this plate is endorsed by Liang Chaowei, no wonder it has an internal price.
The housing prices in this community are a little cheaper than Tangcheng Yipin, and not as fierce as the other party's hype.
Although Zhang Yuan already had a certain immunity to luxury houses, he was still shocked by this house.
There are three elevators in the apartment Liu Jialin booked, two for the owner and one for the nanny.
The property management also arranges a personal assistant for each household, from taking the car out, to indoor maintenance, and even calling for chicken in the middle of the night... Even if you are hungry and want to eat roast chicken, you can get it done with just one phone call...
For those people in Xiangjiang who have experienced the skyrocketing housing prices, they know very well that there is still huge room for housing prices in the mainland to rise.
So in those days, the top luxury real estates in big cities were crowded with all kinds of Hong Kong businessmen and celebrities.
These people who "got rich first" took advantage of their financial advantages to buy more high-quality assets and became richer.
Zhang Yuan just thought that he had earned so much endorsement fees, which was pretty good.
Until he heard Eric Tsang say that Liu Jialin's house cost nearly 40 million, he felt that he was still poor...
After dinner, Zeng Zhiwei took him to a bar in the city to hang out...it was owned by Liu Jialin.
The decoration alone cost 7 million.
Zhang Yuan sighed, he understood why those mainland artists wanted to go to Hong Kong to develop.
Just seeing how rich these people are makes me greedy!
But they also don’t want to think about why these guys with a sensitive sense of smell come to the mainland to invest in such a large number?
It is because they have seen that in the future, the mainland will be truly full of gold.
A few hours later, Zhang Yuan, who had drank a lot of mixed wine and had his head buzzing from the loud music, left the Golden Cave with Brother Chen.
He didn't like this kind of place.
He prefers the feeling of a few friends enjoying a drink in the courtyard.
But socializing.
He thought the other party would take him to a quiet place to have a good chat.
Unexpectedly, he was taken to a high-end club again.
"Brother, take your pick!"
After sitting down, Zeng Zhiwei pointed at the twenty or so colorful and scantily clad ladies who were led into the private room by the manager.
Wang Gang stayed and everyone else went out... Zhang Yuan suddenly said something in his mind.
"Zhi Weiwei, do you come to Magic City often?"
"Come occasionally."
If you come here occasionally, you are familiar with these bustling places... As soon as Zhang Yuan saw him, he kept coming.
This man is also a famous pervert in Xiangjiang. People say that he has been to all the clubs and bars in Guangdong Province.
This guy and Chen Long often played together when they were young, and you know how crazy they are.
"Don't be shy." Zeng Zhiwei saw that he had not made a move, so he simply waved his hand: "Stay in the first row!"
What follows is the various slutty tricks these women perform.
Sucking the cork of a red wine bottle with your mouth can only be considered a minor skill. There is also a person who directly opened a beer bottle with XX...
Zhang Yuan looked at the wine bottle with the smell of the sea in his hand, feeling a little unable to stop talking.
Zeng Zhiwei on the side drank very happily.
Moreover, Zhang Yuan discovered that this girl liked tall and strong girls, and he was not interested in girls under 1.7 meters tall.
This should be a kind of psychological compensation.
After all, he himself looks just like Wu Dalang, and this person actually played Wu Dalang.
Compared with him, Zhang Yuan is like Wu Song.
Moreover, these women always want to drag him along to "drink the half-full glass of wine together."
Seeing that Zeng Zhiwei was so at home, Zhang Yuanxin said that the entertainment industry is the same everywhere.
"Zhi Weiwei, I'm a little tired from organizing the competition these days and can't play anymore." Zhang Yuan made an excuse before his body was completely covered in makeup and powder.
"You are so young, why can't your body bear it?"
"When I was your age, I could play three or four games a night, hahaha..." Zeng Zhiwei said, using the same method of "really accurate reading of people", and buried his head into the slit of a busty girl. inside.
It's so vulgar... Zhang Yuan covered his face.
Even if we play, can we be a little restrained, at least not so unrestrained.
They were all naked and twisted, and there was really no beauty in them.
And I'm very busy, okay? I have to get up early tomorrow.
Besides, I’m here to talk to you about business...
After Zhang Yuan proposed, he asked the girls to leave temporarily, and then talked about the movie with Brother Chen.
He looked around and suddenly remembered what the screenwriter teacher Wang Hailin said.
A coal boss asked him to meet at a club. He held two girls in his arms and said...
"Our play must be elegant!"
So elegant!
"The budget is about five million, and each of us will take half of it."
"I propose to increase the budget." Zhang Yuan said.
250 per person doesn’t sound good.
"You can show me the script first, so I can discuss it with Huang Bo and Yao Cheng."
"Okay, I'll contact the director and ask him to send him the script." Zeng Zhiwei said happily.
The reason why Zhang Yuan was willing to invest in this drama was not because of the profit.
This film should make money, but I don't think it will be much.
After dividing the account, it would be good to have a few million in hand.
His purpose for this play was to provide work for his men.
Especially Huang Bo.
This person is a smart person among smart people. If he doesn't give enough benefits, it's not so easy to get involved.
At the same time, it can also get some work for later-stage companies that have invested heavily in the early stage.
We chatted for an hour or two and roughly finalized the plan.
"Let's go back and play for a while?" Zeng Zhiwei was gearing up and couldn't wait.
"Be happy, I have to catch a flight tomorrow morning."
"It's a pity. Let's play together next time."
Zhang Yuan had no choice but to agree.
I came to the front desk and helped the person inside settle the bill, leaving an extra 10,000 yuan.
Because from the way he looked at Zeng Zhiwei, someone would definitely have to step in today, and there was a high probability that there would be more than one.
After finishing all this, I left the club and saw a small breeze blowing on the street.
If the flesh is supreme, where will the soul go?
With rents costing hundreds of thousands, mansions worth tens of millions, and women with first-class skills... Magic City seems to be a paradise on earth for the rich.
In this heaven on earth, it is easy for humans to lose themselves.
If it were before, he might also be immersed in it.
But after seeing the careful words and deeds of the Hao family recently, he understood.
If you want to move forward, you have to control yourself, especially what you say and do outside.
After returning to the hotel, I took a quick shower and fell asleep quickly.
The next morning, he went to the airport and rushed to Mango Channel to record "Happy Camp".
"Crazy Stone" is already doing the final promotion before its release... (End of this chapter)