Chapter 906: The Immortal Sword Attacks
The development model centered on Hexi has led to Phoenix Company not being able to produce animation works...≦Although they seem to have many animations and movies at the same time, it is a big deal compared to Zhongxia Company.
With three cities, three animation departments, plus the animation company jointly invested with Zhongxia Company to adapt text adventure games, and DreamWorks, which was born less than half a year ago, Phoenix Company only has five animation production places in total.
Meng Huo now has four directors in his hands. After a period of running-in, these four directors can easily meet his needs. So whether other directors need to join is actually not very important for Meng Huo.
But he still followed Alice in the next few days, contacted her better directors, and signed three more. These three people are excellent directors. Although they are not available for the time being, Phoenix will expand this year!
Adding three directors to be prepared can also reduce the risk of directors leaving. However, after signing these few people, Meng Huo quickly closed the door to "demand". At least in the past or two years, he no longer needs to increase his staff.
In addition to this incident, as the box office of "The Magician of the Early Century" continued to expand, Meng Huo's daily itinerary became busy. He had to attend various discussions, celebrations, and many activities within the Phoenix Company.
Moreover, in order to cooperate with the promotion of "The Magician of the Early Century", he also accepted interviews from some media. He could see his photos in the newspaper for a while, which also made many fans excited.
In this way, the total box office of "The Magician of the Early Century" continued to increase in everyone's envious eyes, exceeding one billion, one and one.4 billion... When it exceeded two billion, many animation companies could not sit still. They announced the production of animated movies.
Not long after, Zhongxia Company made the same decision. On Monday morning, July 22, they suddenly held a new work launch conference.
"In the second half of the year, we will launch a theatrical version of "Flame Boy"!" At the press conference of the new work, Yang Liang announced: "The name of this theatrical version of the movie is "The Sword of Fairy", and all members of the Angel will participate in the creation, and the rest of the production lineup is also very luxurious."
Produced by Zhongxia Company, the lineup will naturally be luxurious.
However, despite watching too much of Zhongxia’s luxury lineup, the production lineup of "The Legend of Swords" also surprised everyone. In addition to the top directors and voice actors, as well as the music and special effects team, the film also experienced an unprecedented change - Joint Investment.
That’s right, the producers of "The Sword of Fairy" include not only Zhongxia Company, but also Star Dream and two major movie theater chain merchants.
The composition of this producer made the reporters at the press conference take a deep breath of air conditioning. It was terrible, and it was really terrible! Zhongxia Company has strong financial resources and never needs other people to share their interests. It is more than enough to create an animated movie with their ability.
However, why do the producers of "The Legend of Swords" have several other companies? The answer is simple, and there is no doubt that this is because Zhongxia Company is pleasing these companies and wants to rely on their resources to gain a firm foothold in the film industry.
The Star Dream can provide the best production team for "The Sword of the Immortal", with excellent news influence and publicity. The two major theater chain companies directly affected the screening after the release of "The Sword of the Immortal" - with these three companies helping. In addition, the super popular animation of the original "Flame Boy" is impossible to become popular without "The Sword of the Immortal"!
"Is this to deal with Phoenix?"
All reporters couldn't help but think that "The Sword of Fairy" is obviously targeting Phoenix. At this pace, it has a great possibility that it will surpass the box office of "The Magician of the Early Century".
"What kind of story is "The Sword of Fairy"?" Meng Huo quickly got the news and was very interested in the content of this mysterious movie: "Isn't "Flame Boy" a martial arts movie?"
He still remembers the theme of "Flame Boy". Although the name contains the word "Flame", this animation is a thorough martial arts animation, which is not related to Xianxia - in fact, the Xianxia works in this world are not particularly mature.
"It's just like the literal meaning." However, Alice, who told Meng Huo about the news of this new work, brought him a piece of unfortunate news. The content of the movie "The Sword of Fairy" tells the story of the story revolves around an unearthed fairy sword.
This fairy sword has supreme power. In order to seize the fairy sword, the martial arts world has caused a bloody storm, and even many hidden sects can't help but come out.
"This is a fairy tale movie!" Meng Huo was speechless after listening to it. The plot of "The Sword of Immortality" can be regarded as a fairy tale movie of his previous life, but there are still some differences - except for the Sword of Immortality, the other major sects still use the martial arts of mortals.
The fairy tale system in this world has not been fully established, but it has already sprouted. No work has fully adopted the world view of fairy tale in its entirety. However, in martial arts novels, adding some fairy tale elements to the martial arts background seems to be becoming more and more popular.
Meng Huo sometimes thinks that if he had not become a cartoonist, he might have been a fairy tale novelist, which would have led to the development of fairy tale works in this world.
"What's the relationship between "The Sword of the Sword" and "The Boy of the Flame"?" he continued to ask Alice.
"From the information revealed at the press conference, this movie should be something like a game copy and will not affect the development of the original plot of "Flame Boy". "Alice flipped through the information in her hand. Although the protagonist of "The Sword of Swords" is the same as "Flame Boy", the main enemies are hidden sects that were born for the Sword of Swords.
These hidden sects do not exist in the original work, and can be regarded as tailor-made for the movie. In fact, the script of the movie has not been revealed yet, and only some simple introductions have been revealed. Alice guessed that the immortal sword will either be destroyed or disappear again (sealed) in the movie.
In this way, the story of "The Sword of Fairy" becomes a copy that has nothing to do with the main line, which is a very smart way to do it.
Meng Huo was not surprised. In fact, Phoenix Company adopted the same approach. The so-called theatrical movies generally do not conflict with the original plot. A few of them are in line with the original ones, and he has not yet created them.
But after receiving the news of "The Sword of Fairy", unlike many people outside the world's predictions, Alice and Meng Huo actually breathed a sigh of relief: "It's great, I thought they were indifferent to the box office of "The Magician of the Early Century"!"
They were not afraid of Zhongxia Company's actions. In fact, with "The Magician of the Early Century" creating such a high box office, Phoenix Company had long expected that Zhongxia Company would not miss this opportunity and used "Flame Boy" to make money.
This is what was expected. If Zhongxia did not do this, Meng Hu and the others would worry about whether the other party had other secret countermeasures.
"The list of producers of "The Sword of the Immortal" is not all bad things, it can at least restrain the stars' dreams."
Meng Huo evaluated the composition of "The Sword of Fairy" and felt that giving Zhongxia and Star Dream a chance to change the status quo can reduce the pressure on Phoenix in other aspects.
In fact, if you only watch movies, the cooperation value of those companies is very high, and they have a very high grasp of the Phoenix Company. Even Meng Huo feels that the box office of "The Sword of the Immortal" is likely to surpass "The Magician of the Early Century".
If that animated film is successful, it will become the most profitable business of Zhongxia Company in recent years. In this case, neither Zhongxia nor the dream of a star will be in a hurry to "fight" with Phoenix Company.
Alice also agrees with this. She is happy: "This movie should be good news for Kako."
In the past two months, with the popularity of "Dragon and Tiger", Kako Takashima's popularity has also increased rapidly, but the increase is not as fast as expected. This is not because she is not good at it. Instead, companies like Star Dream are using various channels to restrict Kako Takashima, and the entertainment industry is unwilling to see the fourth popular female voice actor of Phoenix Company.
This is a side effect of Alice's announcement to the public that she made Kako Takashima famous, and it cannot be avoided. Fortunately, Kako Takashima has experienced many ups and downs in the past, and now she is very stress-resistant, and other people's embarrassment has not caused her trouble.
"How is she doing now?" When Kako Takashima said, something suddenly rang out of Meng Huo: "I heard that an accident happened while she was performing a while ago."
"Well, she sang on the stage and caused a lot of criticism..."
Alice nodded, and she was angry when she remembered that incident. It was a famous star show with a great influence. Kako Takashima was very happy when she was invited. Unexpectedly, after she went on stage, the stage organizer tampered with her microphone and asked her to sing a song in an out-of-tune voice in front of countless audiences.
This kind of vicious suppression has not happened in the Chinese entertainment industry for several years. Everyone knows that such things cannot be done. Once they do it, they will completely destroy a star and offend the company behind the star. So Alice was also shocked after the incident.
Fortunately, Kako Takashima's performance exceeded everyone's expectations. After realizing the out-of-tune, she did not stop panic, but used an out-of-tune voice to finish the whole song. At first, the audience was quite dissatisfied, but after hearing it, everyone heard that the problem was not Takashima Kako, but the instrument.
"Thanks to her persistence, I can stabilize the situation in time." Alice sighed. If Kako Takashima insisted on singing and moved some audiences, she wouldn't be able to deal with the losses caused by this accident.
The stage is the lifeline of a singer. It is a fatal mistake to have a singer breaking his voice on the stage.
Meng Huo's face was a little bad. Although the matter was not directed at him, he still felt very angry: "Did you find out who did it? Is it a star's dream?"
"It should be... I checked for a long time, and all the signs were indicated by them. The director of the star show was Zhao Meng's classmate - this was what I only found out afterwards." Alice gritted her teeth and said: "It's a pity that I couldn't find the exact evidence, otherwise I would have to teach him a lesson!"
The microphone arrangement was completed by the director's orders, but the process was verbal explanation, and there was no definite evidence, which made it difficult for Alice to do. In fact, if she could find evidence to expose the conspiracy of the star's dream, she would not only completely clear Takashima Kako, but also take this opportunity to make her famous in one fell swoop.
"Have you been more prepared now?"
Meng Huo asked again.
"Of course." Alice nodded. She held an emergency meeting after this incident, reminding each voice actor's auxiliary team, especially Kako Takashima. The voice actors are unlikely to encounter this situation in the future, and even if they are prepared, the Star Dream dare not act easily.
"If they were so excessive, I would definitely be able to pull them out!" she assured Meng Huo.
Meng Huo felt a little relieved, and then his face turned cold again: "You just said that the director was the one who led this matter, right? What's his name?"
"Hu Yaotian." Alice looked at Meng Huo strangely: "What are you asking about this?"
He can't teach that director a lesson, right? Although that director was indeed too much, it was impossible to teach him a lesson. He is a person who has nothing to do with the animation industry. Phoenix Company can't teach him a lesson in normal channels.
The abnormal channels are not realistic. First of all, it is not good to use illegal means. Moreover, the other party knows that he offended Phoenix Company in his heart, so he will definitely be on guard. If Meng Huo attacks him and he gets the handle, it will be even more unworthy of the loss.
"What are you doing for the time being, don't worry..." Meng Huo glanced at Alice. How could he not know what she was thinking, but he would not be stupid enough to attack others: "I just want to remember his name first, and there will definitely be a chance to teach him a lesson in the future."
However, Meng Huo also understands one truth: If others bully you at your doorstep, you will definitely suffer greater losses in the future. Voice actors are a very important resource for Phoenix Company and must not be bullied casually.
He really couldn't teach that person a lesson now, but now it's now, and then it's the future. The phoenix four years ago was an ant, and four years later it's already a well-deserved golden phoenix.
In another four years, no one knows how far Phoenix Company will grow - and Meng Huo's memory is amazing. As long as the name he remembers, he will never forget it in the future.
"I almost forgot his memory..." Alice stared at Meng Huo's cold eyes. Although it was still hot, she felt like she was blown by the cold wind. Thinking of Meng Huo's amazing memory, she couldn't help but pray for the director.
"Who are you not good to offend him, but you just want to offend him..."
Chapter completed!