Chapter 528 "Dragon Balls"
After reaching an investment agreement with Tsuburaya Production Company, Yang Wendong called Fang Xianming and said: "In addition to the recent acquisitions of several companies in Hong Kong, let me conduct a detailed investigation of the information on various types of companies in Japan. ;
Including retail, cinemas, real estate, chain bookstores, etc., in principle, they can complement our existing business. ”
"Okay." After Fang Xianming agreed, he asked: "Yang Sheng, are you ready to invest in Japan?"
Yang Wendong nodded and said: "Yes, I have this idea, but the scale will not be very large at first. It is just to facilitate existing businesses to enter the Japanese market. This market will be very big in the future. Although it is not as good as the United States, it will be important to some of our businesses." It may be bigger than the United States.”
After Japan's development in the 1950s and 1960s, after entering the 1970s, the economy will begin to take off, and per capita income and total GDP will begin to develop rapidly. Such an incremental market will have the most opportunities;
However, Japan's domestic electronics, plastics, paper and other industries are also very developed, which is the foundation for their growth. Although these businesses under the Changxing Group also have opportunities to develop in Japan, Yang Wendong is not sure if he wants to compete with the local giants;
On the contrary, in terms of culture, although Japan’s animation culture will become stronger and stronger in the next ten or twenty years, the competition between this industry will not be so exclusive. Unlike TV, if you buy this, you will not be able to buy that. As long as comics and cartoons are good-looking, consumers can watch them all;
Therefore, in the next ten years, the priority will be to open up Japan's cultural market. If this is successful, we will gradually consider other industries. There is no need to touch other industries, such as real estate, for the time being, because Japanese real estate took off in the 1980s. , investing now will only waste funds, it is better to invest in Hong Kong. In terms of retail, be prepared to follow the trend and see if there are any opportunities.
Fang Xianming said: "I understand. I will immediately arrange for someone to go to Japan to collect relevant information."
"Okay." Yang Wendong said again: "As for theater chains, let's pay attention to Japan's fifth largest theater chain in terms of daily activity."
Yang Wendong is not very familiar with the history of Japanese film development, but he knows a lot about Hong Kong. The most famous future fraudster Chen Songqing once invested in Japan's Nikkatsu Film Company;
It is said that in the early 1970s, due to economic problems, this company had to turn to shooting certain movies that men liked, and even became a giant in this field;
Yang Wendong is not interested in Japanese movies. What he cares about is that Japanese film companies all own their own theater chains, just like Hong Kong. As the fifth largest film company, Nikkatsu must have a lot of theater chains;
If you can take a stake or even acquire it, you can not only prepare for Hong Kong movies to enter Japan in the future, but also wait for the future appreciation of the Japanese real estate market.
Fang Xianming agreed: "Okay."
In the following days, lawyers from both parties successfully signed a contract in Japan, and Tsuburaya Company's account also received US$1 million from Changxing Group;
According to the agreement, after receiving the money, Tsuburaya Production Company will immediately start filming new Ultraman series. At the same time, Changxing Culture will also send people there to study. Of course, it is not the filming of Ultraman, but other comic projects. Tsuburaya The production company is not the only one showing Ultraman.
On March 20, Yang Wendong came to the floor of Changxing Culture Company again;
After Zhang Zhiyuan took the boss around, Yang Wendong smiled and said: "There are a lot less people here. It seems that we can add more people to some of our core programs?"
Zhang Zhiyuan replied: "Yes, "Peppa Pig" has also achieved some success overseas, so we are also stepping up the production of more plots here, and the same is true for "Black Cat Sheriff";
However, we also discovered that there are some differences in language and culture, so our animations may be understood differently in Europe and the United States. ”
"So you want to set up content creation centers in Europe and the United States?" Yang Wendong is also a smart man, so he naturally understands his subordinate's intentions.
Zhang Zhiyuan replied: "Yes, although we try our best to attract Chinese from Southeast Asia in Hong Kong, compared with Europe and the United States, this number is still too small, and the level of education is higher in Europe and the United States;
If we can have content production centers in Europe and the United States, and even comics are produced there, it will speed up creation for us, but the downside is that labor costs in Europe and the United States will be much higher. ”
"It doesn't matter. Not all industries care about labor costs." Yang Wendong agreed: "Go to the United States and the United Kingdom to establish two branches, and then recruit experienced people locally to create new plots."
For industries with higher profits such as automobiles, Red Bull and other high-end beverages, film industry, cultural industry, etc., they do not care much about the gap in labor costs. In the past life, many of these companies were also in developed countries;
Even if these industries want to do well, they will definitely need a large number of talents, and places where a large number of talents gather will inevitably have high rents, high living costs, and expensive labor;
As long as the direction of development is correct, even the labor costs in Europe, America and even Northern Europe are nothing. In this era, Northern Europe also has a large number of manufacturing industries.
Zhang Zhiyuan smiled and said: "Okay, I will make arrangements right away."
Yang Wendong added: "Now the company's many comics are developing quite well. Both the funds and manpower are sufficient. I want to prepare for the next comic. Please call Wu Hailin over and let's discuss it together." Comic Industry It is the cultural industry that is most likely to succeed and does not have to rely on other Even if it is someone else's creativity, the copyright of comics published while working for the company belongs to the company, and the main customers of comics are children and teenagers. They generally do not have a sense of home and country, and they like whatever looks good. This also makes it convenient to open various The country’s market;
On the contrary, like television and movies, it is difficult to overcome the thinking limitations of adults of other peoples. Even Hollywood is not good enough in this era. It was not until the rise of blockbusters in the 1990s that they relied on various high-tech special effects to be successful. But This kind of movie is also extremely costly and risky;
As for Hong Kong movies, relying on Li Xiaolong and several top stars in the future, they can barely do it, but they rely heavily on these people, especially Li Xiaolong.
Although I will definitely cooperate with Li Xiaolong on a mutual basis, it is very unsafe for a company's industry to rely heavily on one person, but the film industry is like this, and there is nothing you can do about it.
"I'll go get ready now. Yang Sheng, you go to the conference room first and wait." After Zhang Zhiyuan finished speaking, he hurriedly called for someone.
After a while, Zhang Zhiyuan, Wu Hailin and several other project managers in charge of content came to the conference room;
Yang Wendong first asked: "Is "Journey to the West" completely over?"
A few years ago, Yang Wendong asked Changxing Culture Company to produce Journey to the West, and he occasionally participated in it, just to roughly copy the CCTV version of Journey to the West in the 1990s. Although it cannot be the same, it is almost enough;
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The length of this comic is not low, but after all, it is not a plot like "Conan" that can be infinite, so it will end in a few years, so that's about it.
Wu Hailin replied: "Yes, the Chinese New Year is over. The four Tang monks went to Lingshan to obtain the scriptures, and the story is over."
"Then start preparing for animation production. The results of this comic are pretty good. The animation will definitely be popular at least in the Chinese area." Yang Wendong said with a smile.
In the past life of Journey to the West in the Mainland, the live-action version in the 1980s and the animated version in the 1990s were very popular, and I don’t know how many times it was played in the Mainland;
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Now that there is no mainland market, we have to rely on overseas Chinese. The market is not huge, but it is enough.
Wu Hailin said: "Okay Yang Sheng, we have the original version of the comic, and we have started preparing to make animation very early. It is estimated that it will be on TV in the middle of the year."
"Okay, from now on our comics will basically be on TV gradually." Yang Wendong asked again: "Now the mainland will not cooperate with us. Animation production requires a lot of manpower. Is there a problem with this?"
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Wu Hailin replied: "Don't worry, Yang Sheng, this is no problem at the moment. The comic school we established three years ago now compensates more than a hundred professional painters every year. Their creative abilities may not be very good, but they can draw repeatedly as required." It’s still possible.”
It is not difficult to convert comics into animation. Most of the paintings are repetitive. At most, the mouth and eyes can be moved to match the voice;
But there is really too much content, and the workload is too heavy and very tedious, so it is very appropriate to leave these things to newcomers who have just graduated.
"Okay, then I'll wait to see the cartoons on TVB." Yang Wendong nodded, and then said formally: "Everyone, a high-quality comic company must have constantly innovative themes;
"Journey to the West" is over, and someone must follow up, so I am planning to release a different "Journey to the West". ”
"A different "Journey to the West"?" Many people, including Wu Hailin, were stunned for a moment, not understanding what the boss meant.
Wu Hailin asked: "Yang Sheng, what is this different Journey to the West like?"
"It has the same background as modern society. There are also people such as Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie. It is a modified version of the devil." Yang Wendong smiled and said: "The plot of the story is like this. There is a mythical beast between heaven and earth called Shenlong. It can achieve anything. Wish, as long as someone gathers the seven dragon balls, it can be summoned
The story begins with Sun Wukong, but he is a child, he."
This new story is naturally "Dragon Ball", the masterpiece of the previous Japanese manga master Akira Toriyama;
Now, after years of development, Changxing Culture already has many experienced story writers, painters, channels, etc., so it is time to take out some classic comics from the previous life and let them play freely.
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