Chapter 988 Huge Investment

Yin Jun sent the scripts of three TV series to Tang Shuxuan, and let her negotiate all cooperation.

This can also be regarded as a weapon for the North American branch, which can help them develop the market and actively expand the market.

If Yin Jun is in charge of everything, then Tang Shuxuan will naturally have little prestige. How can a general manager without prestige manage a company well?

However, the young man added a condition.

"ABC's sports channel department has a deputy director named Robert Iger. I hope he will come to Disney Television Channel as director."

Tang Shuxuan didn't understand Yin Jun's intention, but she kept it in mind and prepared to add this condition to the negotiation.

Given ABC's current urgency to cooperate with Disney, the transfer of a mere department deputy director would not be a big problem.

As for Robert Egger, whom Yin Jun valued, the people above had decided everything, so he naturally did not have the right to say too much.

In addition, the Disney TV Channel has greater power, greater development space, and can give him a much higher salary. Tang Shuxuan would not think that he would be so resistant.

The original director of the Disney Television Channel...

Since the boss intends to replace him, and he has obviously seen his lack of ability before, otherwise he would not have let so many production staff and actors leave. This time it is just right to use him to shock the people at Disney.

After all, "Happy Hotel" and "American Idol" have completely stabilized Disney's military morale, and now it's time to settle the score.

The Robert Egger that Yin Jun wants will be a famous person in the future!

He is the president of Disney after Michael Eisner, and he is also a better professional manager than Michael Eisner.

It was under his leadership that Disney successively acquired Pixar Animation, Marvel and Lucasfilm, completely making Disney the leader in the industry and becoming the largest entertainment media group in Hollywood.

Moreover, Robert Iger has a very good reputation. Not only are internal staff in awe of him, but he also has good relations with outside companies. Companies that have been merged into Disney, such as Pixar, Marvel, etc., can all be under his leadership. Under this situation, you can maximize your power instead of wasting energy in internal friction.

Especially Marvel.

If Robert Iger hadn't dared to let go, how would they have the prestige of sweeping the world?

Of course, Robert Iger is still too young now and needs more than ten years of training before he can be used emphatically.

But it is very necessary to recruit him in advance. Let him hone it under your nose. Only in this way can you make better use of his talent, so that you can call this great talent directly when needed. Give top.

After Yin Jun finished telling this matter, his mind fell into the third important matter in North America.

In June this year, Yin Jun sold a 4-million-square-foot Type B land-exchange right in the New Territories to Wheelock and Swire Group for a sky-high price of HK$3.5 billion.

Of the 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars, even Shen Bi was confident that Yin Jun would use the money to repay the loan so that the pressure would be lessened.

As a result, Yin Jun did not use the HSBC account at all, but directly transferred it to a bank account in the United States as funds to pave the way for 100 IMAX theaters in North America.

Disney and United Artists Films both have their own distribution teams, so Yin Jun asked them to form a team to go to important cities in North America to select suitable locations for opening IMAX theaters.

Because the distribution teams of these two companies will definitely be merged into one, both teams are working very hard to find suitable locations for opening movie theaters for their future positions.

First of all, the price cannot be too expensive.

What Yin Jun needs is to buy land, and the land should be about 100 acres, and there should be as many as 100 houses, but the capital is only 730 million, which is equivalent to an average of 7.3 million to buy the land, and then build a cinema.

Fortunately, the projection equipment and speakers were paid for separately by the boss, otherwise they would never have been able to come up with such a budget.

Even now in October, they have made inspections, budgets and plans for 50 cinemas per party, but it seems a bit tight, and most of the cinemas are located in remote locations.

Tang Shuxuan was more attentive and asked them to sort it out before sending the drawings to Yin Jun.

The young man has read them one by one in the past two days, and spread out a large map of the United States in the living room at home, marking them with a pen to see their achievements as a whole.

The essence of the United States is in New York and California.

To be precise, the Northeast and the West Coast.

The Northeast region is the foundation of the United States. Most of the 13 states above the Stars and Stripes are from here. Naturally, it is also the most developed industry and commerce.

California on the west coast is even more remarkable. It is known as the sixth largest country in the world, which means that its tax revenue and economic strength are already comparable to the sixth largest country in the world.

However, in terms of movie box office, the two regions combined do not account for 50% of the box office.

the reason is simple.

The United States is a highly developed country. In every big city, there are many people watching movies.

If you are talking about buying luxury goods, sports cars, the number of people reading...etc., things that require quality and money, they are definitely not as good as those in the Northeast and the West Coast, but only movies, cheap movie tickets, and popular entertainment methods , they really won’t lose to anyone.

Therefore, the choice of movie theaters cannot be based on these places, but should be considered by region.

The two teams are basically divided from the middle of the United States. One side is responsible for the east and the other is responsible for the west.

From the locations they demarcated, basically all major cities in the United States have been delineated. There will naturally be more economically developed areas, and there will naturally be fewer sparsely populated areas.

From Yin Jun's perspective, he couldn't find anything wrong.

In the future, the top ten cities with the highest box office revenue in the United States will all be surrounded by their focus, which shows that they are not just for a living.

Tang Shuxuan has found a special evaluation agency to evaluate the location issues of these 100 cinemas, and basically the scores are above 80 points.

This is enough.

Yin Jun's idea was not 100% accurate from the beginning, and he was not so demanding.

As long as there are generally no mistakes, the first step of the experiment can take hold and inspire those large theater chains to see the benefits of IMAX theaters. This is a great achievement.

Even though Yin Jun may build one or two hundred cinemas in the future, he alone cannot promote IMAX and 3D to the world. Only when more cinema chain operators join in can this be achieved. wish.

After approving their work achievements for several months, Yin Jun called Tang Shuxuan and asked her to inform the two teams that the formal purchase and construction could begin.

Before this, both teams had actually talked with the owners of these lands and had a basic intention. As long as the owners agreed to their plan, they would purchase these lands and build these cinemas within the scope of funds. .

Although they didn't quite understand why Yin Jun wanted such a large site, and it was such a waste to only build a one-story cinema after buying it, these were the boss's money and the boss's decision, so they could only implement it.

Fortunately, land in the United States is cheap, especially outside bustling urban areas. Land is even less valuable, which means labor is more expensive. Otherwise, there is really no way to make this 730 million US dollars.

Of course, the size and layout of the cinema were all drawn by IMAX and then personally guided and accepted.

Only in this way can we ensure that the best IMAX viewing effect is presented to the audience.

The problem of the movie theater has basically been solved at this point, but there is still an important step that requires Yin Jun to work hard.

That's the problem with IMAX equipment.

As everyone in later generations knows, IMAX is probably divided into two systems.

One is a film IMAX system, and the other is a digital IMAX system.

In terms of viewing effects, the IMAX system of film naturally presents the best.

That kind of seven-story-high giant screen is lined up, allowing you to see the wonderful world of the movie, which is definitely not comparable to ordinary digital IMAX.

For example, Christopher Nolan's favorite thing is film shooting, and the IMAX system of film is his favorite.

It's a pity that after Nolan's "Interstellar" in 2014, there is no IMAX system for film anymore, because its cost is too high and the input-output ratio is not proportional at all.

Basically, if you build a film IMAX system, the cost is twenty to thirty times that of a digital IMAX system.

Not only that, but what’s even more impressive is the cost of each film copy. Compared with the cost of digital copying, it is also terrifyingly high.

A digital copy is just such a small box, and the width of the film copy is 70mm, and the length of the film projected per second is 1.7 meters. Calculating a 120-minute film copy, the weight of the film is as high as 400 kilograms! ! The cost is only 60,000 US dollars each!

If you show it on 3,000 screens, you have to spend 180 million US dollars to make copies. What a ridiculous expense is this?

It’s no wonder that IMAX itself announced that it would stop commercial operation of film IMAX equipment after “Interstellar”.

At such a price, even rich people can’t afford it!

But now, it is impossible to manufacture digital IMAX equipment. First of all, the IMAX digital camera has not been developed.

According to their current cooperation with SONY, Nikon and other companies, it will be at least 5 years before we can see some hope.

So the only option is to use the film IMAX system.

The price quoted by IMAX to Yin Jun was US$8 million for a complete set of IMAX equipment, excluding film copies. For 100 sets, it would be US$800 million, or nearly HK$4 billion.

Don't think it's expensive.

If IMAX wasn't Yin Jun's property, even the factory was owned by IMAX, and they basically only calculated 10% of the gross profit. At this price, they could quote a set price of 12 million US dollars!

As for the 10% gross profit, it is also normal. After all, as an operating company, although almost all of them are held by Yin Jun, and the R&D funds are also provided by Yin Jun, they need to have their own pride in achievements and success.

According to the current construction speed, the cinema will be completed by the end of February next year at most, and then it will be time to start adding equipment and testing.

You can't start production at that time. You have to start production in December, and then it will take more than 2 months to complete the production of 100 sets of IMAX equipment.

This means that Yin Jun needs to raise another $800 million to IMAX in November so that they can actively prepare materials and then start preparing for production.

At least US$400 million must be raised first so that construction can start.

It's easier said than done.

400 million US dollars!

1.92 billion Hong Kong dollars!

It's already October, and there's only one month left. Can Yin Jun raise so much money?

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