Chapter nine hundred and ninety fourth huge investment
Yin Jun sent the scripts of three TV series to Tang Shuxuan, and she asked her to negotiate all the cooperation.
This is also a weapon from the North American branch, which can help them develop the market and actively develop the market.
If Yin Jun controls everything, then Tang Shuxuan naturally has no prestige. How could a general manager without prestige manage a company well?
However, the boy added a condition.
"The sports channel department of ABC has a deputy director named Robert Eiger. I hope he will come to Disney TV to be the director."
Tang Shuxuan didn't understand Yin Jun's intention, but she also remembered it in her heart and was ready to add this condition during negotiations.
Given the urgency of ABC to cooperate with Disney, the transfer of a mere department deputy director is not a big problem.
As for Robert Eiger, who Yin Jun values, the people above decided everything, so he naturally did not have the right to speak too much.
In addition, Disney TV has greater power and greater development space, and can give him a lot of treatment. Tang Shuxuan would not think that he would be so resistant.
The original director of Disney TV channel...
Since the boss intends to replace people, and it was obvious that he was not capable enough before, otherwise so many producers and actors would not have left. This time, he happened to be attacked and shocked Disney people.
After all, "Happy Hotel" and "American Idol" have completely stabilized Disney's morale, and it is time to settle the score.
The Robert Eiger that Yin Jun wants will be a famous person in the future!
He is the Disney president after Michael Eisner and a more outstanding professional manager than Michael Eisner.
It was under his leadership that Disney successively acquired Pixar Animation, Marvel and Lucasfilm, which completely made Disney stand out and became Hollywood's largest entertainment media group.
Moreover, Robert Eiger's reputation is very good. Not only can the internal staff respect him, but they also have good relationships with the outside companies, but also companies that have merged into Disney, such as Pixar, Marvel, etc., can exert their power to the greatest extent under his leadership, rather than wasting energy in internal friction.
Especially Marvel.
If Robert Eiger hadn't dared to let go, how could they have the power to sweep the world?
Of course, Robert Eiger is still too young now and needs to be trained for more than ten years before he can be appointed.
But it is very necessary to recruit him in advance, so that he can hone his skills under his nose, so that he can better use his talents so that whenever he needs them, he can directly call this talent.
After Yin Jun gave instructing this matter, his mind fell into the third important thing in North America.
In June this year, Yin Jun sold the New Territories' land exchange equity book of 4 million square feet to Huidefeng and Swire Group for a sky-high price of HK$3.5 billion.
For the 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, even Shen Bi was confident that Yin Jun would use the money to repay the loan so that he could be less stressed.
As a result, Yin Jun did not go to HSBC's account at all, but directly transferred it to the bank account in the United States, as the foundation for the funds of 100 imax theaters in North America.
Disney and Lianyi Films have their own distribution teams, so Yin Jun asked them to form a team to go to important cities in North America and choose the right place to open an IMAX theater.
Because the distribution teams of these two companies will definitely be merged into one, for the sake of their future location, both teams are working very hard to find a suitable location to open a cinema.
First of all, the price should not be too expensive.
What Yin Jun needs is to buy land, and the land should be about 100 acres as much as possible, and there are 100 companies, but the funds are only 730 million yuan, which is equivalent to an average of 7.3 million yuan and then a cinema should be built.
Fortunately, the boss paid for the projection equipment and audio equipment, otherwise they would not be able to make such a budget even if they were beaten to death.
Even in October, they have already conducted inspections of 50 companies in each party. The budget and plans seem a bit tight, and most of the locations of cinemas are relatively remote.
Tang Shuxuan was more careful and asked them to sort it out, and then sent the drawings to Yin Jun.
The boy has seen it one by one in the past two days, and has spread a large map of the United States in the living room of his home, using it to mark it with a pen to see the overall achievements they have made.
The essence of the United States is in New York and California.
To be precise, it is the northeastern region and the west coast region.
The northeastern region is the foundation of the United States. Most of the 13 states above the Stars and Stripes come from here, and naturally they are the most developed in industry and commerce.
California on the West Coast is even more amazing. It is known as the sixth largest country in the world, meaning that its tax and economic strength are already comparable to that of the sixth largest country in the world.
However, in the movie box office, the two regions combined cannot account for 50% of the box office.
The reason is very simple.
The United States is a highly developed country, and there are many moviegoers in every big city.
If you say you are buying luxury goods, sports cars, the number of national readings... etc., if you want to compete for quality and money, they are definitely not as good as the Northeast and the West Coast, but for mere movies, such cheap movie tickets, and public entertainment methods, they really won't lose to anyone.
Therefore, the choice of a cinema cannot point to these places, but should be viewed in different regions.
The two teams are basically separated from the middle of the United States, responsible for the east and the west.
From the locations they designated, basically all the big cities in the United States have been enclosed, so there will naturally be more economically developed areas, and there will naturally be fewer places with sparse populations.
From Yin Jun's perspective, no problem was found.
In the future, the top ten cities with the most box office in the United States are surrounded by their focus, which shows that they are not a good person.
Tang Shuxuan has found a special evaluation agency to evaluate the location selection issues of these 100 cinemas, and basically scored above 80 points.
This is enough.
Yin Jun’s idea was not 100% accurate at the beginning, and he was not as harsh as he asked.
As long as there is no general error, the first step of experiment can gain a foothold, inspire those large theaters, and let them see the benefits of imax theaters, which is a great achievement.
Even if Yin Jun may build one or two hundred cinemas in the future, he alone cannot promote imax and 3D to the whole world. Only when more theater vendors join in can they achieve their wishes.
After approving these work achievements for several months, Yin Jun called Tang Shuxuan and asked her to inform the two teams that they could start formal purchase and construction.
Before this, both teams actually talked with the owners of these lands and had a basic intention. As long as the boss agrees with their plan, they will purchase these lands and build these cinemas within the scope of funds.
Although they didn't know much about why Yin Jun wanted such a large territory, and after buying it, it was so wasteful to build only one floor of the cinema, but these were all the boss's money and the boss's decision, so they could only implement it.
Fortunately, the land price in the United States is cheaper, especially outside the bustling urban area, the land is even less valuable, that is, labor is a little more expensive. Otherwise, the 730 million US dollars would be impossible to make it.
Of course, the size and layout of the cinema are drawn by IMAX throughout the whole process, and then personally guided and accepted.
Only in this way can we ensure that the best imax visual effect is presented to the audience.
The problem of the cinema has basically been solved at this point, but there is another important step that Yin Jun needs to work hard.
That's the problem with the imax device.
Everyone in later generations knows that imax is probably divided into two systems.
One is the film imax system, and the other is the digital imax system.
In terms of movie viewing effects, the film's imax system is the best.
The huge screens of seven-story high are lined up, which shocks the wonderful world of movies you see, which are definitely not comparable to ordinary digital imax.
For example, Christopher Nolan's favorite is film shooting, and the film's imax system is his favorite.
Unfortunately, after the 2014 "Interstellar" by Nolan, there was no film-based imax system, because its cost was too high and the input-output ratio was disproportionate.
Basically, if you build an imax system for film, the cost is twenty or thirty times that of a digital imax system.
This is not counting. What's even more amazing is that the cost of copying film is also extremely high compared to the cost of copying numbers.
The digital copy is such a small box, and the film copy is 70mm wide, and the length of the film is 1.7 meters per second. After 120 minutes of film copy, the film weighs up to 400 kilograms! The cost is only 60,000 US dollars per one!
If you show 3,000 screens, you have to spend 180 million US dollars to copy. What a praising fee?
It’s no wonder that Imax itself announced that it would stop commercially operating film Imax devices after "Interstellar".
The rich can't afford such a price!
But now, digital imax devices are simply impossible to manufacture. First of all, this imax digital camera has not been developed.
According to their current cooperation with Sony, Nikon and other companies, it will be at least five years before they can see a little dawn.
So I can only use the film imax system.
The quote imax company gave Yin Jun is a complete set of imax equipment, excluding film copies, the price is US$8 million. If 100 sets are US$800 million, which is nearly HK$4 billion.
Don't think it's expensive.
If I hadn't been Yin Jun's industry and even the factories were IMAX's own, they would have basically only calculated 10% of the gross profit. They could have quoted a set of 12 million US dollars to the outside world!
As for this 10% gross profit, it is normal. After all, as an operating company, although almost all of them are held by Yin Jun and the R&D funds are given by Yin Jun, they need to have their own achievements and the pride of success.
At the current construction speed, at most, the cinema will have to be built well by the end of February next year, and then it is time to start adding equipment and testing.
You can't start production at that time, you have to start construction in December, and then in more than two months, 100 sets of imax equipment can be completed.
This means that Yin Jun needs to raise 800 million US dollars to imax company again in November so that they can actively prepare materials before they can start preparing production.
At least raise 400 million US dollars first so that everyone can start construction.
It's lightweight, but not easy to make.
400 million US dollars!
HK$1.92 billion!
It's already October now, and there's only one month. Can Yin Jun raise so much money?
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Chapter completed!