There is no doubt that animation is definitely one of the most profitable entertainment industries.
For example, "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" and "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck" have each created a value of more than 70 billion US dollars.
And "Pokémon", the king of IP, is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Maybe you think Pokémon is a game, but in fact, it’s the animation that makes it deeply rooted in people’s hearts.
Others such as "Dragon Ball" and "One Piece" are worth tens of billions of dollars.
However, most of these high-IP animations exist in the early days and cannot be copied.
In Europe and the United States, it actually relies on decades or hundreds of years of accumulation to achieve that kind of effect, which is impossible in a short time.
In the end, Tangze chose "Peppa Pig", which had quick results and low cost.
The annual revenue of this animation will exceed US$1 billion in the future.
But the production cost for each season is only a few million yuan, which is an absolute money-grabber.
Looking at Lao Wu's sparse hairline who was about to execute it, Tang Ze still said: "Old Wu, why don't you just concentrate on doing animation for me? I can find someone else as my agent."
Unexpectedly, Tang Ze's words seemed to step on Lao Wu's tail. He hugged Tang Ze's thigh and cried on the spot:
"Sir, please don't abandon me, Old Wu. I can still work for many years. I only have the ability to run errands. If you think you are afraid that I will be distracted, then I don't have to be the chairman of Tianze Animation." p>
"Okay..." Tang Ze stroked his forehead and said, "Then you continue to work part-time as a liver for the time being, and when people like Yang Yu and Tian Xiaopeng are recruited and trained, let them take over when the time comes!"
Lao Wu immediately stopped crying and went to carry out Tang Ze's mission with a smile.
However, when Lao Wu was still on the set of "This Man Comes from Earth", the idea of having three thousand beauties in Tangze's harem came up again.
After all, his abilities, Old Wu's, were limited, and Tang Ze had begun to dislike him.
If he can no longer serve Tang Ze, what will Tang Ze do?
Will you be lonely all your life?
This is absolutely not possible!
Even if he, Old Wu, cannot see the day when Tang Ze reaches the top, he does not want Tang Ze to reach the top alone.
Of course, this kind of thing depends on the timing. He can't think of how to build a harem for Tangze yet.
After Old Wu left, Tang Ze shook his head: "This Old Wu has worked so hard for his life, and I don't even want to let him relax!"
After thinking about it, I can only let the company take more holidays in the future.
As for the crew, the preliminary preparations have been completed.
When he moved into the new company and the directors he named for recruitment had almost arrived, the second film could be officially cast and filmed.
In fact, he already has a rough list of actors. It will depend on whether these actors are willing to participate.
At this time, Tang Ze's phone rang again, it was Liu Yifei calling.
Ever since I met Liu Yifei on the phone that day, Liu Yifei would call me every few days.
Either they were just chatting after accepting the endorsement, or they were asking for his opinion.
This kind of relationship is a bit strange. It may be that the other party has a good impression of me, but the content of the conversation is not similar, and it is not even ambiguous.
I guess it’s a netizen, but Liu Yifei didn’t ask for his social media account. Wouldn’t that make communication more convenient?
Is that a best friend?
Later, through some information revealed by Liu Yifei, Tang Ze himself analyzed a reason.
Liu Yifei's mother protected her so tightly that she had almost no friends of the opposite sex, most of whom were at work.
In addition, she was also interested in chatting with the opposite sex, so she chose him by chance.
It seems that she even talked to him secretly without letting her mother know.
If it weren't for the lack of opportunities to talk to the opposite sex, how could Liu Yifei's first love partner in the future be from Bangzi Country?
We still talked about it for more than two years!
Aren’t Chinese people good enough?
In the previous life, because of this news, how many of her fans turned negative and no longer supported her?
The other side said: "Tang Ze, you are so nice. You are on the hot search again. How did you do that?"
"Is there any?" Tang Ze didn't seem to make any big moves.
It’s been more than a week since the deal with Netflix, and it’s already October. The heat can’t still be there, right?
"It doesn't really count...just what you said in the report yesterday, I saw it has become a meme in the post forum."
"Really? I haven't been paying attention to the Internet recently. I'll look for a chance to take a look."
This time Liu Yifei came to express her worries. Her second agent Huang Bin resigned, and now her godfather Chen Jinfei is temporarily in charge.
However, the godfather has no experience and will have to find another agent later.
In this way, she has had three agents in five years of working in the industry, and she can't help but wonder if she is not lovable.
At the same time, she was also worried that "The King of Kung Fu" would be a hit, which would make it difficult for her to get film roles.
In this regard, Liu Yifei said: "You said, if "The King of Kung Fu" fails, will I not be famous?"
"How could it be? You were very popular before you acted in "The King of Kung Fu"!" Tang Ze comforted.
"But now I can't get any movies..."
Tang Ze thought for a while and said: "They are probably all looking at your box office appeal, right? Celebrities also need a certain amount of time to digest their popularity, so there is no need to be in such a hurry!"
"I know..." Liu Yifei's voice was still very low, "But I'm just not happy. When I think about not being able to get a role for half a year, when I think about failure, I just..."
I've been there for a long time and don't know what to pick up.
Tang Ze sighed.
After all, Liu Yifei was too smooth when acting in TV series.
When I first entered the film industry, I realized that TV dramas are completely different from movies, and it’s normal to feel a little uncomfortable.
Movies need better acting skills, bigger connections, and stronger appeal.
As long as the TV series is beautiful enough.
In fact, before "The King of Kung Fu", she also acted in two movies, but her results... were negligible.
In addition, Liu Yifei was not in a good mood today, and Tang Ze didn't know how to comfort her.
He just wanted to invite Liu Yifei to be the female lead in his second movie.
However, after thinking about Liu Yifei's salary, I decided to forget it.
Even though Liu Yifei has never made a movie, she has become famous because of the TV series.
In "The King of Kung Fu", Liu Yifei's salary exceeded 2 million yuan, which is not something he can afford for a movie with a budget of 400,000 yuan.
You can't invite someone and then reject it because of the high salary, or just say your salary is too high, right?
He always felt that it was because Liu Yifei's mother had always managed every aspect of her life.
Liu Yifei definitely has no idea about money. The reason why she can't get a movie is probably because her salary is too high.
After all, it’s only 2007, and not many people earn more than a million dollars.
As for comforting each other that the movie won’t be sold on the street...
In fact, after "The King of Kung Fu", Liu Yifei really turned red and purple.
But in fact, it didn't help her film career much. Not only did the number of people willing to make movies with him not increase, but it also became less.
Instead, it was "Love Announcement" that she took on after nearly two years of immersion, which broke the record for campus love movies in China, and she began to be frequently invited to be the heroine.
Why?
Because "The King of Kung Fu" apparently had a box office of 129 million U.S. dollars, equivalent to about 850 million RMB, Liu Yifei became famous abroad.
But the reality is that this movie costs 500 million, and the box office must reach 1.5 billion before the producer can recover the cost.
Therefore, this is a loss.
Including publicity expenses, we almost lost more than 300 million.
With such a large loss, even large companies like Huayi and Bona will have difficulty with capital turnover.
This resulted in Liu Yifei being unpopular with the producers.
Not only is it expensive, it also doesn’t bring any benefits.
If anyone is interested, they can find out that the producer of this movie is Huayi.
Also since this movie, Hua Yi has never collaborated with Liu Yifei again.
So he doesn't know whether "The King of Kung Fu" is good or bad for her. After all, this movie did bring her national popularity to a new high.
After thinking about it for a while, Tangze didn't want to deceive her, so he said: "It's okay. If you don't have a movie to act in in the future, I will invite you to be the heroine of my movie!"
Hearing this, the person on the other end seemed a little anxious and asked: "The heroine of your second movie?"
Tangze suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
He can't afford it...
Perhaps due to his pride, he did not say that the salary and budget were not enough, but said: "It's a later movie, and I already have a female lead selected for the second one."
"That's it..." The voice on the other side lowered again.
After not chatting for long, Liu Yifei hung up the phone.