rising director

"No accident, yes."

"That's good. Twentieth Century Fox is already complaining about our slow progress. Everyone cheer up. Let's hurry up and get back to the studio to shoot." Wan Xiaohu clapped his hands to boost morale.

As a director, he doesn't need to do the detail work himself, the main thing is to supervise and direct.

To manage a team of hundreds of people, the most important thing is to coordinate, so that the team can be organically combined, rather than separate, scattered, doing their own things, without a unified progress.It is precisely because of the filming of films at a small cost that Wan Xiaohu has accumulated enough team commanding skills.

There will be a huge crew, and the command is orderly.

To be a great director does not mean that you can put a label on your face after making two classic movies and winning a few awards.Whether you can direct the crew and run the entire team according to your own intentions is the standard to measure the director's ability.Some directors can win awards, but they will never be A-level directors, and they will never be able to make A-level big-budget movies.

Can commanding a company be the same as commanding a division?

You can't make blockbuster movies, so where are you going to brag about yourself?

Wan Xiaohu's goal is to become a great director who can make blockbuster movies. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is just a small start. Only by doing this start well can we consider the future.

0335【World of Warcraft】

Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

The white horse passes through the gap, and the stars move.

The filming of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is in full swing, and as the progress increases little by little, 2007 is coming to an end.

This year is a year worth remembering deeply for Wan Xiaohu's life and career.Marriage with Su Ya, from boyfriend to husband, made him more mature than ever.And the birth of Xiao Xiaohu made Wan Xiaohu, who is unrestrained and unrestrained, truly taste for the first time what responsibility is, the responsibility of being a father.

"Little Tiger was born, Jeon Ji-hyun still wants a daughter, Jessica is also pregnant, she said before that she wants three children, Su Ya's parents have also started to urge us to have children, my children will be indispensable in the future! For the future happiness of my son and daughter, we must work hard to make money."

Wan Xiaohu often feels emotional, so he pays more attention to business matters.

In 2007, Golden Harvest Entertainment only produced two commercial films. One was "Question" directed by Liu Yang, which was released in September and achieved a good result of 9 million yuan in the mainland. The total box office was 9430 million, which also made Liu Yang, who was Wan Xiaohu's n film assistant, famous in one fell swoop.

"Question" became popular, and Liu Yang immediately decided to start filming "Question 2: Legend of the Grand Master".But what makes people uncomfortable is that when Hong Kong Meiya Entertainment saw that Ask was making money, they immediately invited Qiu Litao to film "The Prequel of Ask".This kind of movie has no copyright restrictions, and Golden Harvest Entertainment can only watch others follow suit.

Another commercial film of Golden Harvest Entertainment is "Golden Robbery", which Ning Hao has been working on for more than two years.

The main reason why only these two commercial films were released was not that there was no script.It is to avoid risks for financing this year's listing.After more than a year of integration, Golden Harvest Entertainment has become a leading entertainment group in Asia.

At present, its subsidiaries include Golden Harvest Entertainment Co., Ltd., Dandelion Film Company, Flashing Star Brokerage Co., Ltd., Adventure Island Entertainment Company, Tangren Film Production Company, Dandelion Cinema Company, and Golden Harvest Film City Management Company. And a group of subsidiary companies responsible for film production, printing, copyright and management.

Of course, the industries raised this time do not include Golden Harvest Film City Management Company and Dandelion Film Company.Golden Harvest Film City is real estate and the foundation of the industry, while Dandelion Film Company is an investment company responsible for investing in overseas film businesses. Both companies are core businesses.

In this way, when the subprime mortgage crisis broke out, Golden Harvest Entertainment went public and issued shares on time in November.It immediately became a hot spot in Hong Kong stocks, with daily limit, daily limit, daily limit...in just one month.The market value has risen by more than 11 times.

Originally, the market value of Golden Harvest Entertainment Group was 62 billion RMB, but now it is 295 billion RMB. It deserves to be the largest entertainment company in China and even Asia.Even the Shadow Group, which is already preparing for the ice-breaking journey and entering the stock market, is only valued at between 60 billion and 100 billion.

At the same time that Golden Harvest Entertainment was rising, the management team of Tiger Ruiya, who had tasted the sweetness, began to prepare for a new round of listing.

As the private holding company of Wan Xiaohu and Suya, Ruiya Tiger is holding more and more companies.The management team is getting bigger and bigger, in order to ensure the team's combat effectiveness.Absorbed a group of small shareholders, such as several executives from Golden Harvest Entertainment, Sasha Entertainment, and Marvel Comics.

The kingly way to start a company is to monopolize the upstream, and the kingly way to make money is to share interests.

With the status of shareholders, these management personnel naturally spared no effort to work hard for the company and handled the listing of Golden Harvest Entertainment.Next, I set my sights on Time Internet Group.

This is a group company that plans to integrate in the next year. It plans to integrate various Internet companies in the country controlled by Tiger Ruiya into the framework of a group company, seeking to go public in the United States to collect money.

These companies include State Grid Overlord.One of China's four major portal sites, mme time.com started with movie information, China's largest interactive entertainment community Shitieba, China's largest instant messaging software Yaya Voice, China's largest online video website Youku Video, and China's largest blog Time scarf with scarf.

Moreover, under Wan Xiaohu's suggestion, Time Internet Group will also focus on online games in the future, planning to act as an agent for "Cross Fire" developed by South Korea's neowz company, and "Dungeon and Warriors" developed by South Korea's neople company. Xiaohu found that these two future popular games have been developed, but there is no agent in China.

"Our goal is to acquire these two companies, at least to get me the copyrights of these two games!" As a rich man, Wan Xiaohu's principle has always been that I either don't buy it or buy it. Even the copyright is bought together.

"At the same time, please contact me with the creative team of "Warcraft". I want them to help me develop a game. I believe everyone here, even if you have never played "Warcraft", you have heard of it. There is a battle mode in it, which is One person manipulates a 'hero' to fight against other players' 'heroes'."

At the pre-preparation online meeting of Time Internet Group, Wan Xiaohu talked to the computer: "The game I want is the online version of this model, plus some other elements, why not name it "Heroes" alliance"."

Before the senior executives digested it, Wan Xiaohu touched his chin again and said: "Speaking of "Warcraft", I suddenly thought that the film adaptation rights of the online version of this game "World of Warcraft" seem to have not been sold yet. Get out, Adam Ferguson, get Sasha Entertainment's copyright department ready to see if you can get the movie adaptation rights from Blizzard!"

Warcraft, Blizzard, when it comes to these two words, almost half of the game players in the world have heard of them.

Blizzard Entertainment, born in 1991 in the city of Orange County, California, USA, is one of the most famous game companies in the world. ", "do" are produced by Blizzard.

The stand-alone version of "Warcraft" is the most classic, and countless sets have been sold, and its fans around the world are no less than "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter".In 2004, the online version of "World of Warcraft" was launched, conquering the field of online games again.

"Ger, as far as I know. Blizzard and Legendary Pictures are about to reach an agreement on the film copyright of "World of Warcraft". You may not know it. When I was at Universal Pictures, I took a fancy to this copyright. I have never stopped paying attention, and Legendary Pictures and Blizzard have been talking since 2006. They have been talking for a year or two."

"Blizzard has hooked up with Legendary Pictures?" Wan Xiaohu frowned.

"Obviously yes."

"Talk about Legendary Pictures. I don't know much about this company." Wan Xiaohu narrowed his eyes for some reason.

"Legendary Films was founded in 2004 by Thomas Tull. This person is an out-and-out genius. He has a keen sense of smell for movies, especially the adaptation of movies. "Batman Begins" is him. Co-produced by Christopher Nolan."

Adam Ferguson seems to appreciate Thomas Tull very much: "However, his most powerful thing is his eloquence. Before 2004, he was unknown, but relying on his eloquence, he raised 5 million US dollars from private equity funds and established the legendary film In 2005, with Legendary Pictures, which has not produced a single film, he signed a 7-year contract with Warner Bros. to co-distribute 40 films. The implementation also proved that he has the ability to make good films.”

"It seems that he is a talented person. Do you think we can grab the copyright of "World of Warcraft" from Legendary Pictures? If not, can we cooperate with Legendary Pictures. Or, we acquired it?"

"Acquisition is very difficult. There are many private equity funds behind Legendary Pictures. If we dare to touch Legendary Pictures, we will definitely be beaten. Cooperation can be considered. But Legendary Pictures has married Warner Bros. If it’s not Warner Bros., it’s hard to be a third party. All I can say is, try your best to contact Blizzard and get a more suitable price. See if you can impress the other party.”

Wan Xiaohu nodded: "Just try your best, I won't force you."

Wan Xiaohu wants the film copyright of "World of Warcraft", but he is not too strong. This is indeed a treasure, not only a game, but also a grand world.

Blizzard released the earliest version of "Warcraft: Humans and Orcs" in 1994, "Warcraft 1995: Dark Tide" in 2, "Warcraft 1996: Gate of Darkness" in 2, and "Warcraft 1999: Warfare" in 2. Online version".Both versions [-] and [-] have huge background story settings.

"Warcraft 2002: Reign of Chaos" was released in 3, and "Warcraft 2003: The Frozen Throne" was released in 3. The background of the entire world has been extremely detailed.

2004年暴雪终于发行了网络版本《魔兽世界》，2007年1月11日，《魔兽世界》的全球玩家人数已经超过了800万。北美地区玩家人数超过200万，欧洲和国的玩家人数分别突破150万和350万。截止到2007年7月24日已达到900万。

During this period of time, "World of Warcraft" has been updated in many versions. The earliest version is a story, "Entering the Blackwing Lair", "Resurrection of the Blood God", "Battle of Quicksand", "Gate of Ahn'Qiraj" , "Shadow of Naxxramas" and so on.

Later, information sheets began to be released.

In 2007, the first expansion film "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" was released, including "Dark Temple", "Oman", "The Battle of the Sunwell" and other versions.

In 2010, the second expansion piece "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King" was released.

In 2011, the third expansion piece "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm" was released, including "Wrath of Fire", "Twilight Trial" and other versions.

In 2012, the fourth expansion piece "World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaren" was released.

The fifth piece of expansion "World of Warcraft: Lords of Draenor" is expected in 2014.

Once these versions and stories are developed, it is conceivable that they will definitely surpass the existence of the "Lord of the Rings" series, and everyone will salivate.But what makes many people hesitate, including Wan Xiaohu, is whether "World of Warcraft" can be successfully developed, no one dares to guarantee it.

There are too many movies where reality adaptation games fail.