Liu Lang will not stay in the company every day. As his confidant and the general manager of Shengtang's American branch, Lin Guodong naturally became the company's second-in-command. His ability is undoubted, and Liu Lang successfully acquired
Industrial Light & Magic then began to take over all matters. It first established a distribution department to be responsible for the external publicity and marketing of Transformers, and also established a finance department to be responsible for the company's fund operation.
There used to be these two departments, but over the past few years Industrial Light and Magic has been half-dead, and the people in the department have almost disappeared. Lin Guodong was re-appointed and immediately found two marketing and financial talents through a headhunting company. He had been paying attention to headhunting for a long time.
Market, just wait for Liu Lang to take control of Industrial Light and Magic and start operations immediately.
The company also had a design department, a painting department, and later Liu Lang personally established a computer special effects department. There was no shortage of manpower in these departments, especially the computer special effects department, which was the key department designated by Liu Lang. The person in charge was Edward?
Cattermole's people, the painting department and the design department were temporarily handed over to Lucas. After all, he had real talent and knowledge in these two areas, and he could convince the public if he took charge.
Lucas' current identity is a bit embarrassing. He was originally the founder of the company, but now he has become a part-time worker. There is no way to help it. The capital market is like this. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was directly fired from the board of directors. This is the United States.
Capital market rules.
Lucas also thought about leaving Industrial Light and Magic. Liu Lang gave him US$7.5 million, which was not much compensation after so many years. However, he was a little reluctant to let go. Liu Lang had so many ideas, and as long as they were realized one by one, he would be sure to do so.
It would shock the world, and Industrial Light & Magic would definitely become a profitable company by then, so he proposed to invest 5 million in Industrial Light & Magic, hoping to get 20% of the shares.
In the future, Industrial Light and Magic is a company with a market value of over 10 billion U.S. dollars. Lucas's idea to exchange 5 million U.S. dollars for 20% of the shares is simply fantastic. However, Liu Lang is not that heartless. Liu Lang clearly told the other party that 500 U.S. dollars would
Wan can only hold 5% of the shares, and he can only let Lucas hold these shares, not even one more cent.
"This little guy is so cruel! He spent US$7.5 million to buy 100% of my shares in Industrial Light & Magic, but now I can only exchange 5 million for 5%. Is this justified?"
Lucas was very angry, but there was nothing he could do. The company now belonged to Liu Lang, so even if he was told that five million could only buy 1% of the shares, there was nothing he could do.
Five percent is five percent! Lucas can only accept his fate.
Five million in exchange for 5% of the shares was really a loss for Liu Lang, but he also had his own ideas. Lucas is a well-known director in Hollywood. Thirty years later, his reputation is also very big. Lucas
, Spielberg, and Cameron are known as the three most famous directors in Hollywood. Chinese audiences all know their names, especially his Star Wars series of movies, with a total box office of nearly 8 billion U.S. dollars, which can be called the world's film history.
One of the highest-grossing movies, Liu Lang didn't want to miss such a huge fortune.
Moreover, directors like Lucas have strong connections and can mobilize huge resources. With these resources, they can better enter Hollywood. Otherwise, no matter how good your Transformers are, they will still be suppressed by those white people.
, with Lucas’ relationship, I believe everything will go much smoother.
In short, Liu Lang has now entered the role of a leader. He will fall out when it is time to fall out. He must put interests first in everything and will not give up until he achieves his goal.
The investment of a large amount of money has put Industrial Light and Magic on the right track. The completed Transformers cartoon has been officially approved and has become the most important work of Shengtang Culture this year. It must be on the TV screen within a month. This is the beginning of the development of Shengtang.
America's Journey.
The next project after Transformers is the production of the Toy Story animated film. This project must be completed within three years, and Liu Lang has set a standard. This animated film must break the previous traditional animation model and become the first computer-produced film.
3D movies.
Liu Lang was the first to come up with the term 3D movie. No one except him knew what it was like. Even Edward Cattermole was confused, even though Liu Lang gave them a detailed explanation.
How many people can understand it, let alone how to make it.
Of course, these people alone couldn't do it. Liu Lang also had to be prepared and personally take Lin Guodong, Lucas and Cattermole to Wan'an Company to select talents.
Lin Guodong, Lucas and Catmull felt that it was too arrogant to go to another company to recruit people so blatantly. Would they agree? What if the other party called the police?
The result was far beyond their expectations. Wan An brought his son and the vice president in charge of human resources to receive them personally. Especially Wan An, who was happy even though he knew that the other party was poaching, which made them a little confused.
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"Are Liu Lang and Wan An related by blood?"
But it didn't look like it. The conversation between Wan An and Liu Lang was more like a conversation between people of the same level. Liu Lang respected Wan An, and Wan An also respected Liu Lang.
Of course Liu Lang knew that poaching the other party's "corner" was a bit unethical, but there was nothing he could do about it. Industrial Light and Magic needed computer talents, and there were not many such talents. Except for those who were already college students, college students were the only ones left.
It still needs training. There is no one who can’t become a talent in one or two years. If he wants to produce the Toy Story animation within two years, he really can’t wait that long. And the only successful companies in computers are Wannan, IBM, and Apple.
Only companies like Intel and Microsoft have it.
In the previous life, Toy Story was an animated film released in 1994. After its release, it set a record of 200 million U.S. dollars in North America and 300 million global box office. It was the first animated film to have a box office of over 100 million, creating a pioneering era of computer production.
, occupying a place in world film history.
According to normal development, this epoch-making film will take another eight years to be produced, but Liu Lang insists on shortening this time to three years. Does he also want to make a "Great Leap Forward"?
Of course not, Liu Lang had a basis for doing this.
Although the movie Toy Story was released in 1994, production actually started in 1991. It took three years to finally complete. These three years were mainly spent on screenwriting, character design and computer production.
, that is to say, Industrial Light and Magic in the previous life had already mastered certain computer production methods in 1991, and this should be what Jobs did.
But in this life, Liu Lang has everything that Jobs had, and even because new computer languages appeared in advance, Liu Lang has everything that Jobs didn't have.
Technology is ahead of the previous life. As for screenwriting and image design, these are all in Liu Lang's mind, and most of them are placed on Liu Lang's desk. As long as the computer special effects program is developed, it will take less than a year.
This movie will come out of nowhere, and the three years Liu Lang mentioned may take longer. Of course, the prerequisite for this is to develop a computer special effects program.