Li Yi also didn't expect that during his return to his hometown, he would be able to watch two works directly.
It's just that the first of the two works is a bit easier to say, but the movie "Cinema Paradiso" is more acceptable.
But the next one is not a movie, it’s an animation. The key is, it’s because of rabbits.
cartoon? Li Yi scratched his head a little.
It's entirely because he is really confused about anime!
After returning, Li Yi immediately found Lou Jianjun, who had just joined Li Yi's personal film studio as the general manager.
After Lou Jianjun joined the company, he has been filtering the business of Li Yi's film studio these days.
As a result, Lou Jianjun was surprised and smiled bitterly.
Surprised, I was surprised that although Li Yi's personal film studio is small, the studio's assets are very large.
Of course, the so-called assets are mainly the copyrights of Li Yi's movies.
After Lou Jianjun took over, he realized that Li Yi's personal film studio was completely a grass-roots team.
Simply put, in his opinion, the management of Li Yi's film studio is a complete mess.
Therefore, if Li Yi didn't come to him, he would also come to Li Yi. Seeing so many priceless things sitting idle and not being developed at all, Lou Jianjun felt like he wasted his resources.
"Director Li, some of our studio's movies have not been distributed in Waifu. I don't understand why?" Lou Jianjun looked at Li Yi with a puzzled look on his face and asked.
No wonder Lou Jianjun has such doubts. In fact, Li Yi's movies have very high box office. Such movies are all fat and oily.
But what about the result?
Domestic copyright development is relatively easy to say, and is basically entrusted to Oceanwide Films.
However, the overseas copyright has always been in the hands of the studio, and the key is, not one of them has been developed, and no other distribution channels have been found.
From Lou Jianjun's point of view, this was completely unimaginable.
But in Li Yi's personal film studio, this is a fact before his eyes. He doesn't believe that no company is interested in these copyrights, so he asks this question.
Speaking of this, Li Yi also scratched his head.
"Well, as you know, the studio has only been established for more than two years. Domestically, it has been cooperating with Oceanwide Films and left it to them to operate. However, overseas, Oceanwide Films has not developed it yet!
There are quite a few companies that want to get the overseas distribution rights of these films, but they all want to buy them out directly. I was quite busy before, and you are not the only one here, so, haha! "
Lou Jianjun could only shake his head and smile bitterly. What could he say?
Li Yi's meaning is obvious. Before, the studio did not have serious professionals like Lou Jianjun to handle these matters.
In addition, Li Yi's studio is not short of money at all. No, it should not be said that it is not short of money, but there is simply too much capital flow.
Except for the purchase of some real estate, other funds are still lying on the books.
To put it simply, Li Yi's studio has so much money that he doesn't know where to spend it. Even if Li Yi buys real estate everywhere, he still has hundreds of millions of funds lying around.
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In Lou Jianjun's opinion, this is simply bizarre!
"Director Li, with so much idle funds on the company's books, haven't you considered expanding the company's business?" Lou Jianjun asked tentatively.
"You know this. As for me, I'm a professional in making movies, but I'm a layman in running a company. You're here, aren't you? What do you think?" Li Yi didn't hide it, he said bluntly. Frankly speaking, he is not made for this.
Lou Jianjun breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, there are people like Li Yi who hold money in their arms and don't want to move.
If this is really the case, Lou Jianjun will have to consider whether coming here is a mistake.
Fortunately, Li Yi just stood still because he was not good at this aspect of things. This actually gave Lou Jianjun a lot of thoughts.
Lou Jianjun didn't mean to become fat in one bite: "First of all, we have to make use of the resources we have, such as the overseas distribution of your previous movies..."
Li Yi nodded while listening. Hearing what Lou Jianjun said, Li Yi blushed a little.
The main reason is that the company has too many idle resources.
And anyway, every time Li Yi makes a movie, even the domestic part, he makes a lot of money. In addition to spending part of it to invest in Li Yi's own movies at the beginning.
But as his fame grew, soon there was no big expenditure at all, because the movie was basically profitable before filming even started.
As for the company, except for some salary expenses, tax expenses, and some real estate purchased by Li Yi, the rest was basically untouched.
Because there is no shortage of money, there is no rush. As a result, there are too many idle funds and I don’t know how to spend them.
"I recently want to create an animation work. What suggestions do you have? Do you think we should recruit people to set up an animation production department ourselves, or should we acquire an existing animation production company?" Li Yi asked.
When Lou Jianjun heard this, he immediately asked: "It all depends on what you think, Director Li. Is it an animation movie or an animation series? What are the requirements? If you want to make an animation movie, you need to recruit people to set up an animation production department yourself." , is not advisable, because not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, the key is that the produced works are difficult to compare with those animation companies, and the gain outweighs the loss!
In fact, the animation industry is a good investment direction. Our company is not short of funds now. If Director Li just wants to make an animation for fun, then he can just find an animation company to cooperate with him. If he still has other ideas in this regard in the future, , then my suggestion is that you can acquire an animation company, which does not need to be very large...the acquisition price will not be too high, and the same operating costs will not be too high, and as long as it produces a popular works, then it is enough for a small-scale animation company to live comfortably. "
Li Yi thought about it. Although there is only one at the moment, there might be more in the future. Therefore, acquiring an animation company is indeed a good choice.
"Then I'll leave it to you. Well, it's best to have a relatively mature production team. I hope I can just buy it and use it. Do you understand what I mean?" Li Yi asked.
Lou Jianjun smiled and said: "I understand! In fact, there is an existing animation company that I think is quite suitable."
Li Yi asked curiously: "Oh? What animation company?"
"A 3D animated film "Ocean of Childhood" was released during Children's Day this year. I wonder if Director Li has any impressions of it?" Lou Jianjun asked.
Li Yi looked confused and shook his head: "I have no impression!"
"What? Is this animated movie produced by that animation company? A 3D animated movie? This is not something that an ordinary small company can produce, right?" Although Li Yi doesn't know much about the animation industry, animated movies, It’s still 3D, and ordinary small companies really can’t do it.
"Yes, the company that invested in the production of this movie is called Xingman. This company is indeed not small, but that was in the past." Lou Jianjun said.
"Before? "Ocean of Childlike Innocence" failed?" Li Yi immediately understood what Lou Jianjun meant.
Lou Jianjun nodded and said: ""Child's Heart Ocean" was invested by Zhang Haiyang, the boss of Star Comics. Not only that, in order to produce this movie, Zhang Haiyang also took out a loan. Unfortunately, "Childlike Heart Ocean" had high hopes. "Ocean of Childlike Innocence" failed, and Star Comics was on the verge of bankruptcy..."
"Xingman has always made cartoons that are oriented towards children, and they have actually done quite well in this regard. Although they have not made a lot of money in the past few years, they have been able to accumulate a bit of wealth. This is where Zhang Haiyang was born. Reasons to make big anime movies.”
