The Best Director

Clap clap! When Greg Holmes, the founder of Image Engine, signed his name on the order, there was a burst of applause in the bright conference room." The high-level representatives of the two companies all stood up with happy smiles on their faces. Shake hands and congratulate: "Happy cooperation! ", "The flame movie and image engine will have a bright future! "

Wearing a black suit jacket, Wang Yang led the way to Greg Holmes, shook hands with him vigorously, and said with a smile: "I believe that Graphics Engine will become a first-class long-lasting production company soon. But Gray Greg, it depends on you." Greg chuckled, nodded confidently and said, "In a month, I will bring a new look to the image engine." Wang Yang smiled and nodded: "Well, certainly!\

,"Seeing them gently embracing and separating, everyone applauded enthusiastically. Amid applause and laughter, Flame Films finally completed the acquisition and obtained 85% of the shares of the image engine at a price of 6 million. 25% of the stocks are prepared to be donated to talents who are about to join the company; at the same time, 50 million operation and development funds are injected, including purchasing and developing technology, recruiting employees, expanding business, etc.

The North American box office of "Juno" is finally fixed at 212 million, and the overseas box office is also 300 million. The total global box office of 375 million US dollars brings a total of 138 million after-tax income to the flame movie; there is also a hot-selling original sound CD, which has just hit the shelves The 30 million yuan brought by the DVD, as well as the 50 million normal profits from the follow-up peripherals of "High School Musical 2" and other movies and other businesses, if there is no money spent, the cash of Flame Movie can reach 300 million US dollars.

However, the studio currently under construction in Vancouver has invested 50 million; the production cost of "Sweetheart" is 20 million; the upcoming "High School Musical District Ninth District" has already spent 17 million. The film still has $225.5 million in its account.

Next year, Flame Films has a large-scale release plan for multiple films, and it is expected that "High School Musical 3" will bring in at least 100 million in profit, which is enough to handle it well. At present, the production cost of "The Ninth District" is 60 million to 80 million. Of course, a considerable part of the money will be earned by the image engine and fall into the pockets of the special effects team that will be formed soon.

Now the backbone of the company that has been confirmed to join the company includes Sean Walsh, Peter Wools and others. They will all become partners of the company and hold important positions. He will be the computer production director of "The Ninth District" and the captain of the entire special effects team, including convening modelers, cg animators, etc., to spend a lot of money to create a team that can perfectly do the "Ninth District" continuous effects. team.

And Peter Wools will be the director of visual effects." His work focus is to jointly establish a new department "i\u0026b" with Blue Sky Studio, convene programmers and other talents, and research and develop projects including 3D engine, software system, cg synthesis technology, etc.; There is also a core project, which will be the first to become the company's "killer feature" in the development blueprint. The goal is in the near future. If any movie wants the best effect in this area, it will say "find the image engine"!

This project is precisely "Biological Fabrication,

Creative creatures like aliens in "District 9", as well as animals and insects such as wolves, tigers, lions, birds, fish, butterflies, etc., are also the main technology that Blue Sky Studio has been researching. Although the blue sky is a "cute" animation style, and the image engine is a "come alive" realistic style, but many things like the skeletonization of creatures, texture generation and mapping techniques for hair, clothing and other elements, etc., are interlinked. .

The forthcoming establishment of Si Shao” made Chris Wakey and Peter Wools very excited, full of confidence and expectation, and said seriously and jokingly: “This will be the beginning of an image revolution! "

Expanding the company, recruiting talents to form new teams, developing new technologies... These are the jobs of Greg Holmes, Sean Walsh, Peter Wools and others.

And Wang Yang's job is to start to set up the crew of "The Ninth District", and prepare the equipment, venues, props, etc. needed for shooting. One of the things that science fiction movies are different from real-life movies is that many of the props in them need to be designed and specially made, as if Guns and other weapons and equipment, and of course the setting; when the crew completes these preparatory work, Sean-Walsh has also formed an effective team, and then the filming can be officially started. This time is scheduled to be in early September. .

After signing the contract, everyone laughed and chatted happily for a while, and then ended the meeting. After Wang Yang and Max Langt sent Greg Holmes and others away, he returned to the chairman's office and immediately sent the He took off his suit and changed into a summer shirt and trousers. He stood by the large floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the street scene outside. The Heaven's Strongest Abandoned Young Master, the Great Zhou Royal Family will kill the gods in the night to seek the throne of the gods and the seal of the gods. The god will kill the gods at night to kill the gods and seal the throne to seek the demons, to be proud of the world, to be the strongest in the nine heavens, to abandon the youngest, and the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty. If there is no air conditioner, the heat wave would have killed him!

"Go to the beach!" Wang Yang exhaled with a smile, and left the office to go to the beach not far away, where several friends including Jessica, Joshua, Zachary and Erin were waiting for him. As soon as he walked out of the company gate, he saw Nolan walking towards him. Wang Yang raised his right hand, greeted and smiled, "Hey, Chris! Why are you here?"

"Yan." Nolan also greeted, "continued to walk over, and said with a slight smile: "I'll scoop up some documents." It's about "Memory Fragments."

Wang Yang smiled and nodded: "Oh." He didn't know what was going on. The company had too many affairs, which were not within his management. He only knew the approximate progress of "Mr. Hughes".

As early as April, this biographical film has officially started filming in the studio, using the sequence of interior scenes first and then exterior scenes, and the interior scenes are only nearing completion; and Howard Hughes is starring "King of Comedy" Jim Carrey, at that time The media was really surprised by this, the funny, exaggerated body language... Howard-Hughes? unimaginable! But both Nolan and Jim-Carrey said it was a major screen transition.

"Chris..." Wang Yang suddenly sensed something was wrong, and looked Nolan up and down, only to see that he was wearing a white shirt, black trousers, and a black suit jacket. , with a layer of sweat on his forehead, and a water bottle in his hand. He couldn't help laughing suspiciously: "Dude, if it's hot, take off your jacket? "He just looked at it like this, and felt stuffy all over his body.

Nolan shook his head slightly, and said with a smile, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm used to wearing it like this." After a pause, he said humorously, "I won't suffer from heat stroke.\

,""Haha! Then I'm relieved." Wang Yang gave him a shoulder with a smile, pointed in the direction of the beach, and said: "I'm going to the beach to play, my girlfriend and a few friends, paparazzi; swimming , beach volleyball, do you want to come together?" Nolan simply said: "No" Thank you. ", Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "OK, I know. Then go in quickly, the air conditioner inside is very cold! \

,"He patted Nolan on the shoulder again: "Chris, see you later." After that, he walked towards the beach.

The news that Flame Films acquired the image engine and built its own long-term company was reported by some media concerned about the film industry the next day. This is also a new thing, because almost no independent film company will have a long-term department. The reason is simple, they are barely able to maintain themselves, let alone support the development of a sustainable company.

But it doesn't seem to be a surprise that this happened to Flame Films. What independent film company has an animation production subsidiary? At that time, Flame Movie, which had less than 100 million assets, dared to "snake and swallow elephants." Now it is too common to acquire such a small role as an image engine.

But within a few days, a surprising thing happened. According to some gossip media reports, Wang Yang invested in the establishment of a new game development company "Tinder (), and recruited the famous rgp game developer" Part of Black Isle Studios, no one knows what Fantastic Young is going to do, but the source is his blog, which says excitedly: "This is awesome! The company has a large number of excellent employees who are full of talent for games and full of loopholes,—”

After receiving Wang Yang's invitation, Chris Taylor and others considered for half a month, and finally nodded in agreement. But they asked for sufficient creative freedom and stable financial support in the development of the game. Of course Wang Yang agreed. Every kind of creation needs freedom. It's best for a professional, he's just a player.

With an initial investment of 15 million, he took the shares of Pyro, and Chris Taylor and others "invested technology" to own the other 25%. What Pyro has to do now is to find a game publisher to cooperate with: I have negotiated with re company, which has a good relationship with Black Island Studio, to purchase the right to use the game engine.

But these things can be said to have nothing to do with Wang Yang, and his part of the work as an investor has been done." Next, these will be handed over to Tinder, and Paul Amory will also pay attention to the progress and financial situation on his behalf.

"Happy cooperation, Evan" In the spacious and elegant living room, Wang Yang looked at the black-haired white man sitting on the left sofa with a smile on his face, the 29-year-old founder of ggen, Evan Williams. Evan put down the signature pen, a trace of excitement flashed across his face, but it was more of a relaxed tiredness, and finally he could pay off his father's investment! He took a long breath and said with a smile, "Yang, it's a pleasant cooperation, thank you for your recognition of ggen."

Wang Yang waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's no big deal! ggen is a very cool thing, and sooner or later it will become an important role in the Internet. Maybe next year, maybe the next year." But it will. "He said and stretched out his hand to Evan, and said seriously: "Evan, keep doing ggen well! You will all prove yourself. \

,"Evan Williams smiled, filled with joy and gratitude, and since he wrote about the state of the company on his blog "everyone is leaving but me, he's gotten a ton of letters back" including "Father of Spreadsheets" x CEO Daniel Blakelyn, Daniel once stopped a deal that would keep Pyra afloat.

In the letter, Daniel said some words of encouragement, and everyone was saying words of encouragement; but one person besides encouragement also said: "I like ggen" I hope I can become a part of Pyra company. "

"Thank you" Evan shook hands with Wang Yang vigorously, and then said: "Thank you" Thank you! "

The reason why he agreed to the acquisition was because the company needed money, but it wasn’t that it couldn’t survive, so everyone resigned and didn’t use the office any more. All he had to pay was “his salary*… "There are also living expenses such as bandwidth, servers, and rent. Although apart from the number of registered people, ggen is basically stagnant, but he can sustain it.

The reason why I signed this order to transfer 50% of the shares of Pyra Company for 2 million yuan" is that besides the very generous conditions, what is more important is the unique insights and appreciation of the blog from Miracle Yang. Handing over Pyra to him will not ruin the company and ggen will only get better!

"It's nothing. Wang Yang said it again with a smile. Seeing that Evan still had an "affectionate" face, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said, "Please, man, don't come! "Since the entire pyra company is Evan Williams and his apartment, after expressing his interest, Evan came to Los Angeles from San Francisco for an interview. Everything went smoothly. The living room is finished with signing.

He did not choose the 100% acquisition plan, because ggen is going to continue to develop, which is Evan's job, and the second largest shareholder who owns the company's shares, and a person who is employed as a part-time worker, has a mentality towards the company. Quite different, pyra company needs a person full of passion and talent!

"Two, tea and dessert are here!" At this time, Jessica came out of the dining room with tea and dessert. She put the food on the tea table with a smile, and sat down next to Wang Yang.

Both of them said thank you, Wang Yang scooped up a cup of tea and took a sip, looked at Evan-Williams and said with a smile: "Evan, you know I will inject 3 million first. Talk about how to use them to make ggen well? Let me first talk about some of my thoughts, maybe not so professional. ' Jessica looked at him with interest.

Evan shook his head and laughed, Wang Yang pondered for a while, and then said seriously: "I think our top priority now is to redesign the page of ggen, no offense intended, but I think it can be made more beautiful and attractive People." Evan Williams smiled "I don't mind", nodded and said: "I have thought about this too, and hired some professional artists to upgrade, but there is no money."

"Now there is." Wang Yang shrugged with a smile, and continued: "I think ggen is like our home" a home on the Internet, a place to show yourself to friends and strangers. He looked left and right, and said with a smile: "But home, you have to be beautiful, you have to have your own color, you have to be happy...,, we should find a way to make everyone feel that g is his home, and he will be willing." Taking care of this home is like making his g beautiful, and he often goes to Zhang; he also invites friends to "be a guest," Jessica nodded silently.

As he was talking, he suddenly frowned. "Isn't that what it looks like?" While thinking, he said, "We have to find a way to invite everyone to let ggen enter their real life circle, so that our users It will be spread to ten, ten to hundreds, oh, viral marketing!"

"This idea is great!" Aiquan Williams shouted reflexively, his face full of contemplation, and the more he thought about it, he felt more and more reasonable, and said: "Home, blog—wow, this is a very good idea." He Looking at Wang Yang excitedly, he said, "I used to always think about online publishing, which can be published freely and for free, but no, it's not the only one! My God, you should do it"

Wang Yang was a little overwhelmed, so he spread his hands and said, "Well, maybe I went to Stanford." He glanced at Jessica next to him, and saw her smiling happily. He didn't notice any Stanford, so he immediately laughed and said : "Evan, you know our goal is to become an important member of the network, as for the issue of profitability, take your time" I didn't ask for it. "

Evan-Williams was still very excited, as if he had figured something out, he nodded and smiled, "Thank you! Now we have to increase the number of users. If there are more users, I think there will always be a way to make a profit!" Wang Yang frowned. After thinking for a while, he smiled and said, "I heard that when Jessica and I registered, it led to an increase in the number of users." Seeing Evan nodded, he said, "I think that's it. Invite celebrities from all walks of life to open and use blogs, and those who like them will follow...""

Because for the promotion of the website, the news of Wang Yang’s acquisition of ggen was naturally publicized, and he was interviewed by some online media: “I think blogs will penetrate into our lives in the future. It will soon become ubiquitous and everyone will use it, students, housewives, presidents, movie stars..."

In terms of movie stars, he has invited familiar and generally familiar stars including Natalie Portman and Will Smith to open blogs, as well as official blogs from Flame Movie and Blue Sky Studios. blog, to update some lace information that is different from the official website.

That's all he can do for Pyra, such as other re-recruitment of employees, how to develop, how to invite more social celebrities, etc., these are all the work of Evan Williams.

The effect of this round of publicity is very remarkable, the number of registered users has soared, more people know what a blog is, and some attention from gossip entertainment media: "There are many people who are not doing business in Hollywood, but like this started a few days ago. A game company, bought a website a few days later, this is the energetic style of Miracle Yang.”, “We shouldn’t just regard him as a director or a star; don’t forget, he is still a young and successful company Family.

"Brother, seeing your handwriting these days, I suddenly want to be a boss too!" Natalie's excited voice came from the phone, Wang Yang leaned on the railing of the balcony, shrugged: "Okay, why? No?" Natalie over there thought about it: "Well - I want to set up an independent film company! But not now, I still want to study." Wang Yang smiled and said: "OK."

"Well, the name of the company is called, it's called..." Natalie thought for a while, and suddenly said happily: "Yes, the handsome Charlie Film Company!"

"Oh, handsome Charlie, what a great name!" Wang Yang nodded, and asked suspiciously: "But which Charlie? The British one?" Natalie grinned and said, "No, that's not it! Charlie is my dog."

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