Tiangong Yicai is headed by Liu Song, who is the visual effects director of Tiangong Yicai.

This time I came to the United States mainly to supervise the later stages of "The Martian" and to learn from Hollywood experience. I came with money!

After settling the five members of Tiangong Yicai in a villa in Beverly Hills, Cheng Yu'an went to a major film company.

He has not appeared in the company this year.

Bob was surprised by Cheng Yuan's appearance.

"Cheng, I thought you forgot about us."

James Wan is particularly busy this year. He has three movies to be released, the director's "Dead Silence" and "Death Penalty" and the producer of "Saw 4".

"Dead Silence" cost 0 million. It was released in January this year. It started high but started low, with a box office of US$7.84 million in its first week. However, the entire North American market only had 16.8 million US dollars. So far, the box office of "Dead Silence" is only US$0 million.

Get your money back? Big loss!

Another film, "Death Penalty," was even worse. It cost 10 million U.S. dollars. It received 9.5 million in North America and only 17 million globally.

Fox released two films in cooperation with a major film company, and Daniel was about to curse!

Fortunately, there is "Saw 4" to save my respect.

It was released on October 6th, US time, with an opening of 1 million in the first week. Now the global box office has exceeded 50 million US dollars, and it is a foregone conclusion that it will exceed 100 million US dollars.

The "Saw" series has maintained a stable ability to attract money.

James Wan retains 0% of the copyright of the entire series, which also makes him a lot of money and firmly ties him to the "Saw" car.

When Cheng Yu'an first arrived in the United States, the company was just about to arrange for the release of "The Man from the Earth".

The film was acquired from Richard Schenkman.

The price was to give "Buried Alive" to him, an independent director who had been looking for opportunities.

The topic of "Buried Alive" is quite sensitive, so it would be a bit troublesome to release it. Major studios were unwilling to accept it, so the film was given to Lionsgate, which is scheduled to be released next year.

I have mentioned before that the great Russian director Timo Bekmambetov came to Hollywood to look for opportunities. Cheng Yu'an wrote a crime movie script "Killers Have No Holidays" for him. He could tell that it was a good script, but it was a bit different from his approach.

I couldn't deal with it, so I didn't answer it.

Bob bought him the rights to adapt a comic book, "Wanted" by British cartoonist Mark Millar.

Cooperated with Universal and invited Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie.

The budget of this movie is as high as 75 million US dollars, making it the most expensive movie made by a major film company since its establishment.

In this movie, a major film company invested US$47 million, accounting for 75%, and Universal covered all the remaining investment and was responsible for distribution.

The male lead was James McAvoy, who was also found for "Atonement". A major film company has very close ties with British filmmakers.

"Killers Have No Day Off" was given to British director Martin McDonough. It has been filmed and is about to be sent to the Sundance Film Festival.

A lot of things happened this year. Cheng Yu'an listened to Bob's reports to him one by one, interjecting a few words from time to time.

The key lies in Cheng Yu'an's several personal investments.

The first is the investment in "Kung Fu Panda". This film has faced many difficulties. With Cheng Yu'an's capital injection, it is finally coming to an end. Paramount has scheduled a global release next year.

Katzenberg is an old boy who is determined to make money from Cheng Yu'an when he sees that a major film company has a lot to offer.

He said that for only US$100 million, he could gain the friendship of DreamWorks Animation.

Cheng Yuan believes in him!

The Samsung that had cheated him ran away overnight. Investors around the world felt as if they had seen a ghost when they saw him. They wanted to cheat Cheng Yuan's money, but there was no way.

Cheng Yuan already has the preferential investment rights for the follow-up to "Kung Fu Panda" and more than 5% of the income from the entire series, so he has little interest in DreamWorks Animation.

But I am still very greedy for his project.

So he made a simple agreement with Katzenberg. Cheng Yuan would not invest in DreamWorks Animation, but he would have priority investment rights in DreamWorks Animation's next 10 animated films (excluding "Kung Fu Panda" and its sequels), but Katzenberg

Berg required that each investment should not be less than $60 million.

This was already the most money Katzenberg could "cheat" from Cheng Yu'an.

After formulating this agreement, Cheng Yu'an immediately set his sights on "Madagascar" being produced, but was rejected.

I want to eat shit!

Do you need to give money to a sequel that is destined to be a hit? Would DreamWorks be so stupid?

The second investment is Marvel and its "Iron Man".

With Cheng Yu'an's authorization, Bob wanted to invest US$100 million in Marvel. Marvel was very excited, but encountered great resistance.

It has been delayed for several months, but the transaction has not been successful.

Finally, Bob told Cheng Yuan: "Boss, the Marvel acquisition case has already been on the desks of the CEOs of major companies. If we invest in Marvel at this time, they will never sit idly by and ignore it."

When Bob said this, Cheng Yu'an understood that it was still unrealistic to grab Marvel before Disney took advantage of it.

"But Marvel allows us to invest in their movies, and major studios will not interfere with such investment." Bob was originally not optimistic about Marvel, but now he was a little happy that the investment failed.

In the end, Cheng Yuan settled for the next best thing and reached an investment of US$50 million in "Iron Man" with Marvel.

Cheng Yu'an wanted to transfer DreamWorks' set of preferential investment rights to Marvel, but Marvel itself didn't know whether it could survive. Coupled with the secret obstruction of major companies, this method also died.

"Gori strikes so fast!" Cheng Yu'an cursed inwardly.

It was really too late for him to take action. If he had money in 2000, he would have the confidence to take over Marvel.

However, being able to eat "Iron Man" is enough to make Cheng Yu happy, but Marvel's follow-up has nothing to do with him.

After the explosion of "Iron Man", Disney will acquire Marvel at the speed of light, without giving anyone a chance, and it will be fully owned!

It was already three days after the matter with a major film company was settled. Tiangong Yicai and his team also got over the jet lag and began to get involved in work.

Some of the special effects in "The Martian" were handed over to Industrial Light and Magic.

Cheng Yuan packed everyone from Los Angeles to the Industrial Light and Magic headquarters in San Francisco.

The special effects Cheng Yuan wanted were not difficult to produce, and he mainly chose Industrial Light and Magic because of their quality and speed.

Also because the difficulty is not high, Industrial Light & Magic charges quite generously.

But in order to get Tiangong Yicai and his team to steal the master, Cheng Yu'an also spent a lot of money.

Industrial Light & Magic doesn't mind others coming to their company to visit and study, and they enthusiastically received Liu Song and his team.

Nonsense, a group of five people, each person earns 000 US dollars per day, and the five people have to stay at Industrial Light and Magic for at least two months, which is 600,000 yuan. If you don't make money, you won't make it in vain.

But there is no way, domestic special effects started late, and if you want to learn from others, you have to be willing to pay.
Chapter completed!