The expected success of "Evil Power" ratings was naturally a happy thing. The happiest thing was that the "730" theater achieved initial success, and at the second week's investment reception, he received an advertising contract of US$8 million.

Although the gap between US$8 million and "The Voice of America" ​​is very large, it is a good start. "730" is a column focusing on American dramas, and it is more difficult to build its brand. At least you don't expect a drama to establish a reputation. Just like the Jade Emperor TV in China, it was established through 7-8 excellent dramas in a row.

For this reason, Chen Lin presented a "Feast of American Drama" at the TV station's work conference. He planned to shoot three American dramas from the second half of 1999 to 2000, namely: "The Vampire's Day", "4400" and "Lost".

Chen Lin threw the outline of these three American dramas to Lawrence and ordered him to register his intellectual property first. The TV drama department's mission this year and next year is to four American dramas, including "The Force of Evil".

With these four American dramas in hand, the "730" theater can also be famous, thus increasing the overall viewership of the TV station.

After explaining these tasks, Chen Lin took off all the workloads of the TV station and handed them over to Lawrence's team. He and Liu Dehua went to California together to attend the premiere of the "Death" animation.

The three-dimensional animation "Death" has finally been released after 6 months.

Pixar's premiere conference was chosen to be held at the George Lucas teaching building at the University of Southern California.

Chen Lin has attended many ceremonies and had no expectations for this press conference, but he did not expect the surprise to come soon.

There were long queues along the way from the gate of the University of Southern California to the Lucas teaching building. There were thousands of people, 99% of them were Chinese, not only Chinese students from the University of Southern California, but also international students from other universities in California, as well as elderly and children in the crowd. They were all Chinese who settled in California.

Thousands of people lined up in a long row. Each of them either held a comic poster or a portrait of Chen Lin and Liu Dehua. Some children also held five-star red flags in their hands.

When Chen Lin and Liu Dehua got out of the car, the crowd suddenly burst into cheers. When they heard carefully, they were all shouting their names.

"Brother Hua, I didn't expect that we would enjoy the treatment of a national leader." Chen Lin and Liu Dehua looked at each other, and they were also surprised that the scene in front of us was usually only visited by some national politicians, which was so grandly welcomed by the Chinese.

The two of them were surprised and felt a strong warmth. This is a foreign country, and seeing so many compatriots is really touching.

As they walked towards the press conference, they waved to the Chinese compatriots, and they also wanted to shake hands with their compatriots, and a few words of condolences. However, today they came to participate in the event, so it was not good to be late for delays, so they could only wave and bow to everyone to apologize.

The two of them walked into the Lucas teaching building without stopping. As soon as they walked in, they saw George Lucas greeting him.

"Jason, Andy, you are here just right. I'll introduce some friends to you." As soon as Lucas met, he began to introduce several invited guests around him.

"This is director Lang Howard from "Ambition of Fire", "Kidnap the Boy", and "Apollo 13".

"Hello Director Howard, my name is Jason Chen."

When Chen Lin heard the name Lang Howard, his eyes lit up, and he knew the name of the first-line Hollywood director.

Howard is one of the few directors in Hollywood who is popular among filmmakers and is recognized by academics. Because his films are both good-looking and meaningful. Chen Lin has seen the two most famous movies he directed are "Beautiful Mind" and "The Da Vinci Code". Of course, these two movies have not been born yet.

Lucas also introduced another big-name director, Robert Zemegis, the director of Forrest Gump.

The atmosphere of everyone's conversation was still very harmonious, and they exchanged business cards with each other.

Chen Lin felt that this time I came to attend the ceremony and gained a lot of gains from meeting several Hollywood directors, and his connections were accumulated bit by bit.

After a few greetings, I went to a large staircase classroom on the second floor, which was already full of people, including teachers and students of the school, as well as media reporters.

The group immediately won applause when they walked into the classroom. Suddenly, Liu Dehua touched Chen Lin: "Linzi, look at the reporters of domestic TV stations over there." TV, Phoenix TV, a TV station reporter with the logo of Hunan Satellite TV. He also saw an acquaintance among the reporters, Mei Dong, a famous anchor of Hunan Satellite TV.

The two of them quickly waved to domestic media reporters. At this moment, they both felt different when they saw these familiar Taiwanese labels. They felt very intimate.

The two felt intimate, while the feelings of the three domestic media reporters were even more complicated. Mei Dong, a reporter from Hunan TV, felt a very proud feeling in his heart because Chen Lin is from Hunan, just like his child is smart and smart, which will be unanimously praised and envied by neighbors.

The two reporters, Phoenix TV and CCTV, have a sense of pride and a sense of freshness. Usually, they interview major current affairs news abroad, and generally national leaders visit them. However, interviewing entertainment news like Jinyu is indeed rare, and it is also rare for Chinese celebrities to appear in the entertainment news dominated by Hollywood.

Nowadays, there are one and a half more Chinese stars who are famous abroad, except for Bruce Lee, Chen Long, Jet Li, Zhou Runfa, etc. One is Liu Dehua and half is Chen Lin. Because he is considered a celebrity, he can only be called half a star.

"Andy, I love you." Just as Chen Lin and the others waved to the reporter, a blond and blue-eyed American female student shouted loudly among the students below and ran to the stage with a bouquet of flowers.

Two security personnel standing by the rostrum saw that the female student did not threaten her last name, and she was kind and did not stop her from coming up and giving flowers to her idol.

"Andy, I am your fan. I like you so much. I'll give you these flowers."

"Thank you, you are as beautiful as a flower. Can I know your name?"

"Hehe~~My name is Angela, Andy, can you sign me?"

"Haha, of course."

Liu Dehua happily signed her name on Angela's notepad, "Andy, I will always support you, come on." Angela happily ran off the stage with her notebook happily.

After such a small episode, the premiere of the "Death" animation soon began. This press conference was not only to promote "Death", but Pixar also used it to showcase many cutting-edge CG animation technologies. For example, Pixar showed an advanced set of motion capture technology that can perfectly reproduce various movements of real people and animals, which opened everyone's eyes.

After watching it, Liu Dehua whispered in Chinese in Chen Lin's ear: "Lin Zi, after looking at other people's technology, we know why our Hong Kong movies are lagging behind. Hong Kong Film Company is becoming less and less enterprising. Which company is willing to invest in researching these technologies? When will we also have this set of motion capture technology in China?"

"Haha, Brother Hua, we have a big gap in technology with Americans, but we don't have to underestimate ourselves. As long as we realize the gap and work hard, we can catch up." Chen Lin smiled and said: "We will have it in less than three years of motion capture technology. There is a company under my company that is studying this technology."

"What you said is true?" Liu Dehua couldn't help but be curious when he heard Chen Lin's words...

Chen Lin smiled and said that he and Nicholas Tingfeng jointly invested in establishing a "po Chaoting" technology company that mainly focuses on the development of computer special effects. This company is very inconspicuous, so few people know about it.

The reason why he is confident that a set of motion capture technology is developed within three years is based on the participation of Google engineers.

"Linzi, you even have computer technology, I'm convinced you." Liu Dehua couldn't help but pat Chen Lin on the shoulder and exclaimed.

Chen Lin smiled and said nothing about Brother Hua's amazement. The two of them had a short distance for a while, and then focused on the press conference again. One of them was the original author of the animation, and the other was the image spokesperson of the animation. Naturally, they were also the focus of the release. Many questions from the reporters also came to the two.

The press conference was held for two hours, and Pixar had a cocktail party at noon.

At the cocktail party, Lucas conveyed a message to Chen Lin, the boss of Pixar and the head of Apple Computer, Jobs, who asked to meet him.
Chapter completed!