Chapter 665: Dark mythology, the romantic and cheerful Grand Commander

Chapter 665: Dark mythology, the romantic and cheerful Grand Commander

the first two years.

Tencent has made a dark journey to the west "God of War" based on the story of Journey to the West.

Strange and gorgeous, it became famous for a while.

Unfortunately, it was short-lived.

The game stops at the Lady of Bones chapter and ends gloomily.

The planning and production team behind this game left Tencent and founded Game Science Company, referred to as Youke.

Teacher Liu has always been thinking about Lianghua.

Zhou Yutang has also been thinking about the two blossoming of Chinese myth-themed film and television games.

Since the project of "The Return of the Great Sage" was established, there have been plans for derivative peripherals and subsequent games.

It is not a money-making mobile game or web game related to Westward Journey.

It is a high-quality stand-alone game with the theme of Journey to the West.

Domestic 3a is still a blue ocean market, and what Zhou Yutang has to do is to be the first to eat crabs.

It's just that Star Games is still fully promoting "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" and is seriously short of manpower.

This requires additional recruitment, and Zhou Yutang is eyeing the Youke team.

It took a few days to meet the boss of Youke, but I met Mr. Wang Guangguang first in Jiangdong Building.

When they met, Lao Wang's eyes became lemon-shaped, and his tone was full of envy:

"'The Tuner' went straight to 1 billion, and 'The Return of the Great Sage' is going to go up against the sky, and it will break 300 million."

"One billion is a bit difficult."

Zhou Yutang shook his head and laughed: "Mr. Wang watched the Great Sage?"

“I just watched it last night, it’s really amazing!”

As a professional in the film and television industry, he naturally knows the goods. Wang Changtian said with emotion: "The box office will start at least 1 billion, and the later promotion and distribution will keep up, and even... there is hope for even more."

What shocked Lao Wang was that domestic animated films were already in line with Hollywood!

The quality of the movie "The Return of the Great Sage" is excellent in terms of pictures, sound effects, and story. It can even be said to be surprisingly high!

"It took the October team eight years of hard work to achieve what it is today."

Zhou Yutang did not take credit, but was modest: "Of course I have to thank Director Guo."

"Director Guo?"

"Director Guo Xiaosi next door."

Zhou Yutang teased: "If it weren't for him, the box office of The Great Sage wouldn't be so high."

"Tiny Times 4" has a bad reputation. After accurately harvesting fans and specific groups of people, it languished at the speed of light.

In just a few days, the film schedule dropped from 40% to 25%, and there was no base base to speak of.

Most of the extra films fell on the Great Sage.

"After hearing what you said, Zhang Zhao and Guo Xiaosi will probably cry."

Wang Changtian pushed up his glasses. He probably found Zhou Yutang's statement interesting and couldn't help but smile.

"Mr. Wang, why do I hear that you are gloating about others' misfortune?"

"No, don't talk nonsense. Haha!"

Lao Wang endured it very hard, but finally couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Zhao was the boss of Enlight Pictures back then, but was later kicked out of the company due to an internal power struggle. He then turned to join Boss Jia to start LeTV Pictures, and Zhou Yutang was clearing the house for him.

"Speaking of which, I have to thank you very much."

Wang Changtian was in a good mood: "If "Gardenia Blooms" was placed at the same time as the Great Sage, I'm afraid it would be suppressed."

When Enlight officially announced that "Gardenia Blooms" would be released at the beginning of the month, some experts in the film and television industry mocked Lao Wang for losing his mind.

Now it seems that Zhou Yutang's gaze is indeed like a god.

Although Gardenia doesn't have a good reputation, with Chen Kaige's Taoist priest attracting firepower, not so many people pay attention to it.

Gardenia originally went to make money, but now it has achieved its goal of getting rich silently, while Poet Chen's Taoist priest is still going down the mountain.

Wang Changtian was very interested in animated movies and asked a lot about the things behind the scenes of "The Return of the Great Sage".

In fact, Enlight Media had already laid out the animation industry long before Zhou Yutang.

They also joined hands with Xuanji Technology in Hangzhou to create a Qin Dynasty IP movie "Qin Dynasty Bright Moon: Dragon Soaring Ten Thousand Miles".

When it was released in the summer last year, the total box office was less than 60 million. This box office was obviously not enough to recover the investment cost of 40 million.

But Lao Wang still had ambitions, and then Guangguang was preparing to produce the animated film "Big Fish and Begonia".

Now that he has seen the success of the movie "The Return of the Great Sage", Wang Changtian has become more determined to invest in animated movies.

After chatting for a while about the recent film market, the situation was almost going well. Zhou Yutang finally got to the point and said seriously:

"Mr. Wang, if there is a suitable animation project in the future, our two families can work on it together."

"Do it together?"

There was a hint of surprise on Wang Changtian's face, but he was more excited.

He vaguely felt that Zhou Yutang wanted to cause trouble, and it was something big.

"I'm also a shareholder of Guangguang."

Zhou Yutang smiled and poured a cup of tea for Lao Wang, and revealed a little bit about Jiangdong Entertainment’s animation industry layout:

"In the next stage, plans for the Koto animated film have been finalized, including a sequel with a Journey to the West theme and a Fengshen-themed animated film."

"The theme of apotheosis?"

"That's right."

Zhou Yutang smiled lightly.

There is so much content to explore in Chinese mythological animated films.

Apart from the great sage from "Journey to the West", Nezha and Yang Jian are also extremely popular.

Koto Mirai’s scheduled animation theme and supporting dark myth-themed game are being advanced simultaneously.

Jiangdong Entertainment alone cannot develop it even if it is running at full capacity.

Making animated films is different from live-action film and television works. The threshold for the animation industry is higher, the cycle is longer, and the risks are greater.

It took the "Return of the Great Sage" team eight years to hone this shocking sword.

In this case, it is better to recruit allies to develop together and make the entire market bigger.

Huayi, Alibaba, LeTV and other companies have all approached Zhou Yutang before, and all offered generous conditions to reach a strategic agreement.

But the above mentioned people are basically focused on the capital market.

What Zhou Yutang wants to do is the entertainment industry, where content is king.

So I chose Light Laowang.

In this flamboyant circle, Wang Changtian's down-to-earth and low-key style suits him well.

Currently, the distribution of some of Jiangdong Entertainment's films is still handled by Enlight.

International Chapter recently became pregnant, but Wang Feng didn't know why.

His studio posted an article on Weibo with a rather loud tone: "If there is no Zhou Yutang in the mainland film and television industry, half of the country will be lost. By the same token, if there is no Wang Feng in the domestic entertainment industry, there will be no 'Peak Storm' tour." , then the mainland music scene will lose half of its power, and it will be terrible!”

Then, the article also quoted data from the "2015 China Live Music Industry Report", bluntly stating that Wang Feng is the leader in the domestic entertainment music industry.

As soon as this news came out, it instantly shocked half of the entertainment industry!

More of it is cynicism,

"Zhou Yutang is at the height of his power and has a net worth of hundreds of billions, but he doesn't even claim half of the country. How can you, Wang Feng, be compared to the Governor?"

"How many handfuls are there?"

"If we look through Wang Feng's song list over the years, we can find that most of the song titles are very similar to the titles of his good friend Zheng Jun."

"The International Chapter has named him the 'Music Emperor', and half of the country has nothing wrong with him. I wish him all the best."

"I am not guilty of being a pioneer in the gambling industry, but I am a stepmother in the film industry! Are you crazy about wanting to make headlines?"

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Online jokers try their best to make jokes, and most of them are ridiculing and ridiculing.

Wang Feng didn't show up, after all, he never cared whether he made headlines or not.

But his studio quietly deleted Weibo and pretended that nothing happened.

It was only by fate that Wang Banbi was listed on the hot search, but failed to make the headlines, and was overpowered by the godfather of R\u0026B.

In the past few days, except for the great sage who stepped on Lingxiao, the popularity has exploded.

The hottest topic is the Bay Area singer's affair.

Various large-scale WeChat chat records, bed photos, etc. are everywhere, using his notoriety to add a lot of talk to netizens.

The godfather of R\u0026B was very forbearing and kept a low profile for several days before finally holding a media conference.

The chat records between him and the mistress were also published at the meeting and turned into a ppt.

The PPT restores the emotional experience between him and his mistress in detail, with chapters divided into time and place, interactions between the two, and falling in love. It is jaw-dropping.

In addition, he also clarified some false accusations made by his mistress in the PPT, and repeatedly emphasized: "I only love my wife in this life."

Netizens were shocked. This was the first person in history to issue a PPT apology for cheating.

"So, PPT still has such a function?"

Zhou Yutang was in the office and read it several times. It was really eye-opening: "It's well-founded and convincing."

Using PPT to explain, the cheating apology has been turned into a crisis public relations textbook. Even Boss Jia, who is the master of PPT, has to be convinced.

"Boss, everyone is almost here."

Ni Ni placed the file in her hand on Zhou Yutang's desk and was quite speechless when she saw her boss still admiring the classic ppt.

I secretly cursed in my heart. When the fish pond explodes, will I make a ppt for him?

"Ask them to conference room 3."

Zhou Yutang quickly signed a document and stood up.

As Tang Tan is about to start filming, he has held several crew meetings at the company in the past few days.

After all, this movie was shot in Tyrande, so some precautions must be made.

Then, the crew and creators can get into shooting mode faster by doing a little bit of running-in in the early stage.

"Stay here, little deer."

In the past, most governors only took care of beauties, but this time, for the first time, they focused on taking care of Lu Han.

After all, among the main creators, Lu Han may be the one who struggles with his acting skills.

""The Tuner" has been in theaters for three weeks, with a total box office of 875 million, strongly leading the summer season!"

"The latter of "The Return of the Great Sage" has exceeded 100 million in box office on consecutive working days, rewriting the record of domestic animated films!"

The eyes of film and television companies in the industry are full of envy and jealousy, and they all fall on Jiangdong Entertainment.

Pei Kang also found it incredible when he saw the box office report compiled by the China Film Data Department, and murmured: "This is the double insurance he talks about. It just wiped out the summer movie!?"

These two movies, together, basically dominated the first half of the summer season.

Although the box office of "Tiny Times 4" had already reported 354 million at this time, Zhang Zhao of LeTV Pictures raised the French flag in advance and publicly stated:

"The total box office of the "Tiny Times" series has exceeded 1.5 billion, which has achieved expectations. I went to see "The Return of the Great Sage" last night. This film is undoubtedly the benchmark of the contemporary Chinese animation industry. Congratulations, Mr. Zhou."

"Congratulations Yu Tang."

Yang Mi, the number one star of "Tiny Times 4", even showed off her cards and directly booked the tickets for the "Return of the Great Sage" lottery on her Weibo. Guo Xiaosi also gave up resistance.

Journey to the West has always been a popular IP among Chinese people.

Ever since Zhou Xingxing's "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" became a hit, many Journey-to-the-West movies have been approved.

"The Return of the Great Sage" was a box office hit and completely ignited the passion of domestic film and television companies.

I have found the current version of the wealth code.

Tang Yan has just joined the cast of "Westward Journey 3" and is preparing to challenge Zixia Fairy, the goddess of Zhuyin.

Zhou Xingxing’s Xinghui Company then jointly issued an announcement with several film and television companies in the industry,

"The sequel to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, directed by Xu Ke and produced by Zhou Xingxing, has been successfully approved and has entered the casting stage.

The film will be jointly produced by China Film, Shanghai Film, Huayi, Xinghui, Hengdian and other companies, and the total investment is expected to be no less than 500 million! "

This piece of movie information was like a bombshell, exploding in the circle.

In less than half a day, it appeared on Weibo’s hot search list and on the entertainment headlines of major portal websites.

Zhou Xingxing's last movie "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons", which coincides with Zhou Yutang's Chinese New Year, is still mentioned by many people.

"Didn't Zhou Xingxing break up with Hua Yi?"

Ni Ni also saw the news and asked her boss curiously.

"In this circle, interests are the eternal theme."

Zhou Yutang smiled lightly.

Previously, Zhou Xingxing and Hua Yi went to court for a long time over the 80 million for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

Some time ago, the court ruled that Zhou Xingxing lost the lawsuit against Huayi for arrears. It was not established due to the lack of signatures and seals from both parties. Accordingly, all claims were dismissed.

After tearing their skin, they were able to sit together and cooperate again, which Zhou Yutang couldn't do anyway.

Director Xinghui, who is the main controller of the project, has already released the news that he is preparing to cast the top young actor in the industry as the starring role.

Many media have focused their attention on Lu Han of Jiangdong Entertainment.

Now that we have removed the Immortal and the Grand Governor, the top one in the discussion circle is naturally Xiaolu.

At this stage, Lu Han's popularity is terrifying.

He is a loyal Premier League Red Devils fan. Last time he posted a Weibo post congratulating Zhou Yutang on joining Liverpool and looking forward to the Double Red Devils. The number of comments below actually broke the Guinness World Record.

"Xinghui Company has actually come into contact with Xiaolu."

Ni Ni chuckled and said, "I heard from Yang Tianzhen that apart from Zhou Xingxing's project, Lu Han has a lot of film appointments."

"LeTV's "Tomb Raiders" movie project, and Galloping Horse bought the company's B-level copyright, and is planning to cast Yang Mi and Lu Han as co-stars."

"Da Mimi partners with Lu Han?"

Zhou Yutang was slightly stunned.

I joined the group right away. I have been busy cultivating immortality recently, and I also have to manage my time and talk on the phone with Liu Shishi, but I haven’t had much chat with Damimi.

Yang Mi has finished promoting "Tiny Times 4" and will soon participate in the roadshow promotion of Dong Xiaopeng's "Pancake Man".

Next month, there will be "City in Love" co-directed by young directors Dong Leonnian, Han Yi, Fu Tianyu, Ji Jiatong and others.

In order to accumulate connections, Damimi lowered her salary to play the heroine of one of the units.

The outside world says that Zhou Yutang is a model worker. Compared with Damimi, he is just a health care worker.

In this summer season, Yang Mi has three movies to be released, as well as a TV series project. The Desperate Thirteenth Mother is really no joke.

"It's the movie "Blind Witness" directed by South Korea's Ahn Sang-hoon a few years ago."

"Not impressed."

"Kim Ha Neul won the Best Actress award for this movie."

Ni Ni glanced at Zhou Yutang and said unhurriedly: "At that time, you and Lin Yuner were having an affair."

"Just the Blue Dragon Award."

After hearing her reminder, Zhou Yutang suddenly thought about it.

At that time, he seemed to be living and flying with Lin Yoona in South Korea.

That year, the movie "A League of Thieves" co-produced by China and South Korea swept the film markets of both countries. He first won the Blue Dragon Award and then the Golden Horse. He was in the limelight for a while.

Because the genre was suitable and the role was rare, Zhou Yutang asked Pei Yun to acquire the Chinese copyright for this movie.

It is also a film project plan prepared for Liu Shishi.

Later, after comparison, it was found that the script of "The Tuner" of the same type was of higher quality, so the development of this film project was put aside.

Thanks to Zhou Yutang's early layout, Jiangdong Entertainment's film and television copyright library is full of treasures.

The company's internal copyright new business evaluation is divided into several levels: S, A, and B.

S level is the highest, A level is in the middle, and B level is the lowest.

The Chinese version of "Blind Witness" was not ranked high, so naturally it could only languish in Jiangdong Entertainment's film and television copyright library.

For Jiangdong Entertainment, it may be useless.

But for other film and television companies, it is also a rare high-quality project.

Zhou Yutang basically didn't care about projects below Category A. Li Shuang took the initiative and transferred the copyright to Big Dog Brother, which recovered the operating costs and even made a profit.

Boss Jia of LeTV and Zhang Qiang, CEO of Alibaba Pictures, are most covetous of Jiangdong's film and television copyright library.

The former spent a huge amount of money to acquire "Tomb Raiders", TV series and movies, gearing up for a big fight.

The latter even used big data analysis to lock in "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossom" and launched a tug-of-war in copyright negotiations for nearly a month.

The people at Alibaba Pictures were a bit deep in their routines. Halfway through the conversation, they contacted Aunt Liu first and hinted that Liu Yifei would partner with Zhou Yutang to create the first fantasy love IP in China.

After drawing a bunch of cakes, Aunt Liu got interested and asked Liu Tianxian to come and have a taste.

Ali turned around and used Liu Yifei as a bargaining chip, hoping to speed up negotiations with Jiangdong.

"Being too smart."

When it comes to interests, Zhou Yutang is very clear-headed: "Don't even think about it if it's less than 80 million."

The film and television copyright of "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossom" is in the hands of Jiangdong Entertainment, but Jiangdong has too many high-quality film and television resources.

This project can only be put on the back burner.

At that time, the biggest possibility is to exchange resources with powerful film and television companies in the circle and develop together.

It cost two million to acquire the copyright at that time.

Now that the film copyright is sold alone, Zhou Yutang thinks that the price of 80 million is normal.

It's just a little money from Alibaba, the big dog...

"The Return of the Great Sage" is almost a runaway success, and continues to widen the gap with "Tiny Times 4".

Movies such as Journey to the West and Three Kingdoms also have a certain film market in Japan. Zhou Yutang handed it over to Toho Group to distribute in Japan this time.

The night before leaving for Tyrande, he had a video call with the head of Toho Group in Japan,

"Neon box office in the first week 90 million yen?"

The Japanese supervisor and dubbing lineup of the Japanese version can also be called luxurious.

The Japanese supervisor is the son of Hayao Miyazaki, the director of "On the Hill of Poppy" and "Tales from Earthsea", Goro Miyazaki.

As for the dubbing lineup, heavyweight voice actors such as Taketo Koyasu (Ryosuke Takahashi of "Initial D" and Shinsuke Takasugi of "Gintama") were also invited.

We will leave for Tyrande tomorrow, and Da Meiyuan is packing her suitcase.

Zhou Yutang withdrew his eyes from Da Meiyuan's hips, and his mind turned slightly. According to the exchange rate conversion, it is about 5.4 million RMB.

This number is almost negligible for the soaring box office in China.

The main reason is the conservative scheduling of the Toho Group. In that tiny country, only two or three hundred theaters are showing it.

This is also unavoidable, after all, it is not a movie starring Zhou Yutang himself.

However, the word-of-mouth feedback in the Japanese area is not bad.

There has never been a Chinese animated film going overseas before. Compared with the box office, "The Return of the Great Sage" obviously has other more far-reaching meanings.

"Mr. Zhou, the audience feedback from Neon is very good. We will increase the number of screenings in the future."

"Oh, he seemed to have said a lot. What else did he say?"

Zhou Yutang touched his chin.

The translator in the video said with a strange expression: "The person in charge of Dongbao said that if there is a chance, you are welcome to come to Neon. He will definitely entertain you wholeheartedly."

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Huang Xiaochu, who has been active in front of the audience with "Longing for Life", posted a photo of his daughter Duoduo on Weibo.

"Last night, I took Duoduo to the cinema to watch "The Return of the Great Sage". This is the best Chinese animated film, not inferior to the level of Hollywood.

Duoduo was very moved after watching it. She was full of energy when she came back. She borrowed her mother's computer and sat on the bed to write the script because she and a few good friends were going to rehearse a play together. It was a new version of Cinderella. She was responsible for writing the script and starring. I thought she was just talking nonsense, but I didn't expect it to be real. I have to show off!"

At that time, Huang Duoduo in "Where Are We Going, Dad" was also a familiar girl to the audience.

Now that she has grown up, the little girl sits on the bed, holding a computer and writing a script seriously. Judging from the content on the screen, the script is in English.

Zhou Yutang and Da Meiyuan were on the way to the airport by car, and they opened WeChat to take a look.

Huang Sanshi also sent him a congratulatory message, which seemed a bit like trying to get close to him.

He heard from Zhang Ruojun that the recording of that episode of "Longing for Life" almost went wrong.

At that time, Huang Sanshi was ready to transform into Huang Xiaochu and show everyone in the Mushroom House his skills in stewing pork ribs with beans.

A few minutes after putting it in the pot, he picked up a piece of beans and tasted it. Teacher He also tasted the saltiness and prepared to follow up and praise it.

As expected, an accident happened.

Cold knowledge: Eating uncooked beans by mistake may cause gastrointestinal poisoning, stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and there is a chance of dizziness, chest tightness, palpitations and other symptoms.

That night, Huang Sanshi and Teacher He were taken to the hospital by the program crew because of food poisoning, vomiting and diarrhea.

Song Qian was picking vegetables, and Zhang Ruojun was moving bricks and chopping wood beside him, so they managed to escape.

"Sawadee ka."

When Ning Hao boarded Zhou Yutang's private plane, Da Meiyuan couldn't help laughing.

This flowery shirt and beach shorts, the big face that couldn't be covered by sunglasses, and the exaggerated gold necklace on his neck belonged to his true self.

Lin Liang and Chen Xi had already taken the crew behind the scenes to Tyrande.

Ning Hao said he wanted to experience the joy of a private plane.

Zhou Yutang was a little helpless, so he took him along.

"You really feel good."

He was sunk into the wide leather seat, enjoying the attentive service of the exclusive flight attendant, which made him feel flattered. He couldn't help but say to Zhou Yutang:

"Your life is too comfortable."

The netizens' jokes about the Grand Commander's romantic life have been enduring, but only when you are around him can you really experience it, so netizens are still conservative.

The flight attendant on the plane just now was at least the school beauty level of the flight attendant major.

Once she put on the uniform, her voice was sweet and her temperament was gentle, which was fascinating.

At this time, Zhou Yutang was accompanied by the charming Ni Ni and Gao Yuanyuan, the national goddess.

It was really enviable.