I have a lot of achievements

Chapter 542

It is now the beginning of November, and it has been nine months since the establishment of Xizi Films. During this period, Xizi Films self-produced three animation films, all of which are in production, and none of them have been completed, let alone released and released. There are quite a few movies, after all, with the support of a big platform, the money that should be made is indispensable.

Xizi Animation Studio, a subsidiary of Xizi Pictures, and Shanhai Animation Studio, which is in deep cooperation, have different divisions of labor between the two studios. The two studios currently have more than 500 technical members, plus other The combined number of cooperating studios and outsourcing studios is very large. So many people are currently serving three animated films that are being produced at the same time.

The first batch of personnel sent by Shanhai Animation Studio to Neon to participate in the animation production of "The Stranger Mountain and Sea", and the first batch of personnel who went to Pixar to participate in the study and production have returned and joined the production of these three animations.

Initial results have been achieved in team building, and there will be no less investment in this area in the future.

At present, the progress of the three animated films is not bad. The fastest one will complete all production before next summer vacation, and it may be released during the summer vacation. If it is slower, it will be during the eleventh period. Try to release it on New Year's Day.

If it is released on New Year's Day, the production cycle will be about [-] months. For animated films, this is not a long or short production cycle, but if you look at the production quality, it is definitely fast. The main reason In the final analysis, the funds here are really sufficient, and there will be no problems with funds.This aspect can be regarded as catching up with Hollywood animation production, and even Hollywood, including Pixar, not every movie can have enough money to burn.

To be honest, even though Penguin and 8zhan, the other two major shareholders of Xizi Films, were wealthy and powerful, they still panicked when faced with such an exaggerated investment proposed by Meng Fan.However, this situation was alleviated soon after, for the simple reason that the box office of animated movies exploded, and an animated movie with a box office of over 50 billion broke out.

Facts once again prove that in the Chinese film market, as long as it is a sincere film, it is possible to reap unexpected box office. There is a huge market for local animation films in the Chinese market.

From Big Fish to Great Sage to Nezha, everything is like this.It is also worth mentioning that the quality of the series has always been stable, and it has always had very good box office returns.

After seeing or seeing the "miracle" of animation box office, the senior executives of Xizi Films have opinions that they hope to release a film that will harvest the box office earlier, but in the end these ideas will be nothing, and they are all people in the industry. , I know too well what will happen if I follow the trend. A typical example is the one that followed immediately after the Chinese local sci-fi film exploded.Moreover, Xizi Films is still more inclined to make long-term word-of-mouth, and the immediate benefits are still relatively light.

In addition to the animation films made by Xizi Films, there is also the "three-five-year" plan with Pixar. The progress of the first part is faster than here. The first item of today's meeting is about this movie, except Xizi In addition to the management of the film industry, the staff of Pixar also participated in the form of video conference.

The result of the discussion was that it will be released after the Spring Festival. After all, no matter how the cooperation is, there is no way for this film to be released on the Spring Festival.

This release time is one week earlier than the release time in North America, which is not unusual.

After the time was agreed upon, it was about the film's publicity plan. In this area, Meng Fan basically had no right to speak, and laymen didn't understand.

The content of the second meeting is related to the approval of the new year's project. In addition to movies, Xizi Films will also be responsible for the production and distribution of some animation series due to its subsidiary animation studio and Shanhai Animation Studio.The meeting preliminarily decided that three animations (seasons) and one animation film will enter the production stage for the projects approved for next year.

The most important reason here is that the current "capacity" of Xizi Animation Studio and Shanhai Animation Studio is excess.

The last part of the meeting is also the most important part of this meeting, which is about the second Shanhai Animation Festival.

The time is the same as the first session on February 2. After more than three months, it needs to enter the preparatory stage.

Because the Shanhai Animation Festival is closely related to Penguin and Station 8, and Xizi Films is the largest animation film company in China’s animation industry—even if it hasn’t produced any output yet, its scale and its title cannot escape—so Xizi Films is one of the organizers, so the preparatory meeting was held here.The difference is that after the previous two meetings, some people from the industry came in to participate in discussions and discussions.

The first Shanhai Animation Festival was very successful, but in any case there were some chaotic scenes, and because the venue underestimated the appeal of this animation festival or Meng Fan, there were too many accidents and improvisations. Due to the unexpected changes, the second session will definitely have a good control in terms of order, and the scale and other aspects will be larger than the first session.

The selection mechanism is the same as the first session, and it is still divided into two categories: ordinary netizens and practitioners.

As a result of this meeting, the biggest difference is that the time of the animation festival has been changed to one week, during which it will host many evening parties and activities including the opening ceremony and closing ceremony and awards ceremony, cos event, animation concert and so on.

The next step is to coordinate with various departments to arrange the venue, invite guests, and various rehearsals. Another very important link is to invite animation practitioners and related manufacturers and businesses, and set up an animation festival management committee to take charge of this matter. .

The scale of the first session was enough to make the Shanhai Animation Festival the largest animation festival in China. This time, it is going to improve the scale.

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"How is it? Is it okay here?"

After the meeting, Meng Fan met Xing Tage who had been wandering around.

"How about it? You are the largest animation film company in China, and I am qualified to comment." Xing Tage laughed.

Meng Fan asked, "Then are you interested in joining?"

Xing Tage was stunned for a moment, thinking about it, how could his little thoughts escape Meng Fan's eyes.

Meng Fan said again: "How about I arrange an actor and assistant director Dangdang?" He frowned, "Your favorite."

Xing Tage rolled his eyes: "Stop talking nonsense, am I someone who needs to take advantage of this position to do something?" After a pause, he laughed and scolded, "Besides, you are an animation film company, an actor assistant director Who can I set up a red sofa for? For a voice actor, they are all monsters, I can’t bear it!”

Meng Fan laughed, walked out of Xizi Films with Xing Tage towards Damei Studio, and said sincerely: "We just started three animation series projects today, one of which is about love. Fan, are you interested in participating in the screenwriting work? The director and screenwriter that have been confirmed are director Liang Chun who you like very much. When we chatted before, he mentioned to me "Campus Love Refers to Boys" and asked me about it. The plot of the department and other things..."

Xing Tage didn't understand Meng Fan's intentions, so he slapped his helper on the shoulder and said, "If possible, I would like to start working as his screenwriter assistant."

(End of this chapter)