On the way to the hotel, Qian Xiuyan asked the staff, "Excuse me, is the hotel we are staying in the same hotel as those celebrity guests?"
The staff smiled and said, "Celebrity guests all stay at the Jinling Hotel. Our company has booked most of the rooms in the Jinling Hotel a long time ago. In addition to giving them to the guests, we also provide some rooms to people like you, Ms. Qian."
Lucky guests, but the number is limited, so you need to come early to check in."
"Isn't it early for me to come?"
Qian Xiuyan felt that she had arrived quite early. After all, the Deep Space Annual Meeting would not start until the 12th, but she had arrived nearly a week early.
"It's getting late. Many guests came on the 4th and 5th."
"Ah, so early?"
The Deep Space Company actually wrote in the invitation letter that they could arrive on the 5th in advance, and the Deep Space Company would be responsible for the food and accommodation from the 5th to the 12th.
Many foreign guests feel that it is not easy to come all the way to China, so they might as well come over early and spend the extra days at their own expense.
But Qian Xiuyan is different. She is just a student. It is not easy to come to Jinling, and she came alone.
Her father actually said that he would come with her because he was afraid that she would not be able to do it alone. Her mother said that she had grown up, and since she was invited by the Deep Space Company, there would definitely be no problems.
Seeing the carefree look of the Korean girl in front of her, Guan Yongqian couldn't help but sigh. This girl went abroad alone before she was eighteen years old. She was really courageous.
Because she can speak Korean, Guan Yongqian was arranged to receive these lucky guests from Korea. After this reception, the little girl in front of her was the most beautiful.
Girls from Goryeo generally have fair skin and are tall, but have average bones. However, the Qian Xiuyan in front of her not only has the first two advantages, but also has good bones and big eyes.
Mainly, he has a very good personality.
It was already very late, and Guan Yongqian might have been impatient if she was being dragged along by others to chat non-stop, but after chatting with the lively Qian Xiuyan for a while, she felt pretty good.
By the time they were halfway through the conversation, the two of them had become quite familiar with each other.
Guan Yongqian asked Qian Xiuyan, "Xiuyan, do your parents really trust you to come here alone?"
Qian Xiuyan grinned and said: "No problem, I have been very independent since I was a child. You see, my hair is quite long now, and it has already passed my shoulders, but my hair used to be very short, like a boy."
As she said that, Qian Xiuyan clenched her fists, looking like "I'm very strong."
"That should be a very beautiful boy." Guan Yongqian smiled and looked outside again. Seeing those who were about to arrive at the hotel, she said: "Although Shen Kong has invited you to attend the Shen Kong annual meeting, but
We don't care what you do specifically. But you have to remember that there are six buses starting from six in the morning and ending at ten o'clock, and there are four buses from two to four in the afternoon. If you want to go to the deep space park,
You can take these buses. If you don’t want to take these buses, you can also take the bus. I will send you a brochure in a while, which will have a guide on how to get to the Deep Space Park."
Qian Xiuyan shook her head, "Forget about the strategy, I will definitely go to the Deep Space Park every day these days. I have already missed a day of activities today, and I will definitely not miss it again in the future, otherwise I will regret it to death."
"What should be given to you must be given to you. In addition to the deep space park, there are other places to go in the guide. If you have time later and you want to visit some attractions in Jinling, you can also follow the guide. Of course, if you are worried
If there is a language barrier, we can help you contact a travel agency, but you need to pay this part of the cost yourself. Some of your compatriots who came earlier formed a team and signed up with a travel agency two days ago, and I heard that they had a good time."
Qian Xiuyan said boldly: "It's boring to find a tour guide. I taught myself Chinese and now I can speak it very well. If I want to go out for fun, I can do it alone."
Guan Yongqian nodded and showed a professional smile.
She knew Qian Xiuyan's Chinese proficiency. The two of them had exchanged a few words in Chinese just now. If she had to use one word to describe Qian Xiuyan's Chinese proficiency, it would definitely be: sparse.
It's really sparse, mainly because Qian Soo-yeon remembers a lot of words, but they can't be connected together.
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When Qian Xiuyan returned to the hotel, Yu Dong was still in the office.
Yu Dong had no intention of working overtime, but Spielberg suddenly came late at night.
Spielberg arrived in Jinling at around nine o'clock this evening. Logically speaking, he was tired from the journey, so he should go to the hotel to rest first and talk about other things tomorrow. But when he heard that Yu Dong was in the office, he had to go to see Yu Dong.
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Yu Dong was originally going to go home after nine o'clock, but he waited for Spielberg until eleven o'clock.
Although it was past eleven o'clock, Spielberg was still in high spirits. It seemed that he had slept well on the plane.
Yu Dong smiled and poured Spielberg a cup of hot tea. He originally wanted to pour a cup of water, but Spielberg requested that he drink tea.
After the tea was handed to Spielberg, Yu Dong smiled and said: "Steven, you can actually come to me again tomorrow. I didn't hear Jimmy say that you have anything particularly important to do here this time."
Spielberg smiled: "Isn't chatting with you an important thing?"
Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "Steven, we are old friends. You can be more direct. You must have something to do when you come to me so late, right? Could it be that you came to me in such a hurry just to get me early?"
A little congratulations on your Academy Award?"
On the 25th of last month, at the 71st Academy Awards that had just been held, Spielberg won the Best Director Award.
"Thank you." Spielberg smiled and said: "Actually, there is really nothing particularly specific, and I came to you just on the spur of the moment. When the plane arrived in China, I don't know why, but I suddenly thought of the future of DreamWorks.
Mainly I was thinking about the animation department. Our animation department has been established for almost five years and has produced two movies. I originally had high hopes for it, but the performance did not satisfy me."
"Steven, you are asking too much."
This is Yu Dong's sincere words. He does not think that the results of these two animated films produced by DreamWorks are not bad.
The North American box office of "Ants" has already been released, with a revenue of more than 90 million US dollars. Although another film, "The Prince of Egypt" has not yet been released, the North American box office has basically been set, with a little over 100 million US dollars.
In addition to the North American box office, the performance of these two movies in other box offices should not be too bad, so the global box office of "Ant Man" should exceed 150 million, and the total global box office of "Prince of Egypt" may exceed 200 million.
The cost of these two movies is less than 60 million US dollars. In other words, these two movies produced by DreamWorks will most likely make a lot of profits at the box office.
With such results, in other film and television production companies, the boss would have been happy, but Spielberg had a sad look on his face, as if the movie had lost money.
Of course, Yu Dong can also understand Spielberg's reaction.
The main reason is that there are two other animated movies that performed very well this year, one is Disney's "Mulan" and the other is Pixar's "A Bug's Life". Put these two movies together, these two movies from DreamWorks pale in comparison.
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However, seeing Spielberg's reaction, Yu Dong couldn't help but sigh. Even a director as successful as Spielberg would inevitably get lost in comparison.
Spielberg waved his hand and said, "We have been preparing for these two movies for a long time. Their results are indeed unsatisfactory, and I am not the only one who is disappointed. To tell you the truth, we were still discussing it a few days ago.
, should we take out the animation department and make it an independent company?"
"Go out independently." Yu Dong took a sip from the tea cup and then looked at Spielberg.
This little old man came to see him tonight. Since he mentioned the company's independence, he definitely didn't just say it casually. He probably wanted Shen Kong to play some role in it.
It's just that Yu Dong is still a little strange. If they were talking about business matters, Spielberg wouldn't come to him specially.
Although Spielberg and Lucas know that Yu Dong is the major shareholder of Deep Space, they will not communicate with Yu Dong at all unless necessary on business matters.
For example, although the previous IMAX matter was brought up by Yu Dong, they discussed the subsequent matters with Jimmy and then finally told Yu Dong the result.
There was also the matter of approving film companies, which was also discussed between Spielberg and Jimmy.
If Spielberg really wanted Deep Space to play a role in this matter, he should naturally turn to Jimmy.
After thinking for a while, Yu Dong asked: "Steven, have you told Jimmy about this?"
Spielberg shook his head and said, "As I said just now, I came to you today on a temporary basis. We only talked about making the animation department independent two days ago, and it has not been finalized."
"Then I suggest you talk to Jimmy. He knows more about the company and can probably give you some good suggestions. I don't know much about these. For example, in our company, many departments used to be crowded.
At the same time, it was Jimmy who later made these departments independent."
Hearing what Yu Dong said, Spielberg smiled and said: "Actually, I want to ask you, does your company have any plans for other animated films in the future besides the Mythical Universe?"
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows suddenly, it turned out that Spielberg came to take over a job from him.
But it stands to reason that DreamWorks has no shortage of scripts, even for animated movies.
Although their animation department has only produced two works so far, they receive so many scripts on weekdays that they are spoiled for choice.
Moreover, even if Spielberg wanted to invite him for a script, it would only be a matter of making a phone call at most. There is no need to come over so late at night to prevent people from sleeping like now.
Yu Dong scratched his head and said, "There is indeed one, but it may not be suitable for you."
"how is it like?"
"Little Wanderer, Motorola asked us to make an animated movie related to Little Wanderer."
"Oh." Spielberg nodded. Although he has not seen "Love Through Time", he still knows about the little boy. After all, the image of the little boy can be seen everywhere in the United States.
Sony and Motorola are trying their best to promote it, and posters and dolls of Little Toy can now be seen everywhere in the United States.
"This is really not suitable for us."
Spielberg is also self-aware that DreamWorks simply can’t make toys now, and they simply don’t have the ability.
Among the animation production companies in the United States today, Disney is probably the only one with more experience in this area, because they just made "Mulan" and it was a great success.
And to be honest, DreamWorks' technology is not top-notch, and Pixar is already one step ahead of them technologically.
This is also what Spielberg is worried about. He is worried that if he falls behind step by step, the technological gap between the two companies will become wider and wider in the future.
Therefore, although he was quite interested in the previous work in Shinhwa Universe, he did not talk about it in detail because he knew that DreamWorks could not do this now.
"Besides the little kid, is there anything else?"
Yu Dong shook his head, "Not yet."
In fact, Yu Dong felt that it was a pity. It would be good if Spielberg really talked to him about cooperation with animation companies. Yu Dong didn't mind getting some shares in DreamWorks Animation. Anyway, he should be able to make a steady profit within ten years.
Compensated.
Yu Dong doesn't remember clearly when his company's popular work "Shrek" was produced, but it should be before 2003, because Yu Dong remembers that when the school was closed and he was at home in 2003, he still watched it
Got this cartoon.
At that time, "Shrek" had already been released in China, so counting the time, "Shrek" was probably released in 2000 or 2001.
If this is the case, then this movie is probably already in production now. If Deep Space Company can get involved at this time, it will be equivalent to making another hugely profitable business. Just this step in the animated movie will not make a loss.
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But looking at Spielberg's appearance, he didn't seem to have any intention of doing so.
After thinking for a while, Yu Dong asked again, "Does your animation department have any new plans recently?"
"There are two movies that have been launched, one is "Chicken Run" and the other is "The Golden City". These two movies should be released at the end of this year or early next year. Some promotions have already started. If you
If you pay attention to the news, you should know.”
"Just these two?"
"Well, these are the only two that have been officially launched, and there are two more that have not yet been fully launched."
Spielberg didn't say what those two movies were called, and Yu Dong couldn't ask.
However, it is not difficult to find out whether DreamWorks has started making "Shrek". There is an original animation for this animation. You only need to find the original author and ask.
Thinking of this, Yu Dong pondered, and without further ado, he planned to contact Jimmy after sending Spielberg away soon and ask him to ask about "Shrek". Maybe he could also be a second-hand dealer and pick up the slack.
Chapter completed!