The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Zhang Yanping was sitting in his office, looking at a report sent by Dimension Entertainment.

He is an executive of Penguin Pictures and is currently in charge of the film and television operation of "League of Legends".

The Penguin Group is a good player in entertainment, not to mention games, they are almost the overlord in the country. In the era of client games, they have gradually surpassed companies such as Shanda and NetEase, becoming the top players in China; and in the era of mobile games, they have even occupied a huge market share, and there are very few domestic game companies that can be compared with them.

Of course, their way of making games is completely different from that of "Taiwu 2", so I won't mention it much.

In the entertainment industry, besides games, film and television is also a very important one.

Although it was an Internet company that started, but with the huge size of the Penguin Group today, their business cannot be completely limited to the Internet, and it is an inevitable trend to continue to spread to the depths.

It is normal to go to the film and television industry.

In the film industry, they also made some good investments and productions.

For example, the two parts of "Charlotte Annoyance" and "Monster Hunt"...

Not to mention the quality of the movie, at least, it is considered a commercial success.

"League of Legends" is a very important copyright held by Penguin Pictures.

Adapting games to movies has been done many times abroad. Like "Resident Evil", "Tomb Raider", "Assassin's Creed", "Warcraft"...

Some are successful, such as the first two; some are not successful, such as the latter two.

"League of Legends", a game that has a certain appeal in the entire global market, naturally has its potential for adaptation. Especially in the Chinese market, it can almost be regarded as a national game. The proportion of young people who have played this game is quite high.

Filming such a game work does have a natural appeal.

However, movies and games are two concepts after all.

For example, "Resident Evil", although the game itself was relatively famous before the movie came out, it was not too famous; while "Assassin's Creed" and "Warcraft", especially "Warcraft", the game created The record of the number of simultaneous online players in the world is as high as 13.1 million in addition to the national server; in China, it is also a famous game with a huge number of fans.

However, does the movie say to pounce or pounce?

Although, domestic WOWER is very powerful, including Fan Zhe himself, who also went to the cinema to contribute a movie ticket. However, although it broke out quite well at the box office in the mainland market, it could not save its overall failure in the global market in the end, so that it is said that the film was a loss in the end.

This means that games and movies are two completely different art forms. If games are not popular, movies may not necessarily catch up; if games are popular, movies may not really be able to do well.

But Penguin has ambitions.

A long time ago, they began to gradually build the so-called "Alliance Universe" and build a related worldview. What they want to do is to be able to produce one commercial masterpiece after another with the theme of each character in "League of Legends", just like Marvel's superhero movies.

To achieve this goal, the first work is the most important.

Back then, Marvel succeeded in making "Iron Man", so they got up, and it is said that if "Iron Man" failed that year, the entire Marvel Studios might be over because of it.

As for the "Warcraft" kind, after the first one fell miserably, the second one immediately became a distant prospect.

This kind of commercial blockbuster that takes the visual effects route requires a huge investment, and hundreds of millions of dollars are common. Of course, making money is a lot of money, but if you lose money, it will be miserable. Even those Hollywood film giants, if they lose a few films of this level in a row, it will be hurting.

Although Penguin is rich, it also has a big business. It is still a very careful consideration to allocate hundreds of millions of capital to invest in a movie.

What's more, Penguin Pictures itself does not have enough production capacity to make such a commercial blockbuster.

Cooperative shooting is an inevitable choice.

At the beginning, they were more inclined to choose the top film companies in the United States, such as the Big Six—oh, now it’s the Big Five—Columbia, Paramount, Disney, Universal Pictures, Warner...

Cooperating with these top film companies is the best solution for Penguin.

But... people are not so willing to do it.

The conditions they offered were too harsh, and I heard that Hollywood's attitude towards foreign capital was quite unfriendly.

Originally, they were planning to look down.

For example, second-tier Hollywood film companies such as Legendary Films, which have always had relatively good cooperation with Chinese capital and were directly acquired by Wanda a few years ago.

However, at this time, Dimension Entertainment was born.

To be honest, Zhang Yanping really didn't think much about Dimension Entertainment at the beginning.

Of course, they made a big hit TV series like "Fantasy Three Kingdoms", and later "Hell Apartment" also achieved good results at a small cost, and the film and television special effects are also very good.

But after all, Dimension Entertainment's ability to produce commercial blockbusters has not really been demonstrated.

For Penguin Pictures, the success of the first "League of Legends" movie is too important. With caution, a more experienced Hollywood studio is the best choice.

But recently, things have changed.

The successive successes of "Taiwu 2" and "Martial Arts Master" made their capital even stronger. Although "Taiwu 2" is a game, the opening animation of this game really left a deep impression on Zhang Yanping. In his cognition, even the best European and American companies can hardly achieve the same effect as the opening animation of "Taiwu 2" in terms of visual effects.

The success of "Martial Arts Master" has further proved their ability in producing visual effects film and television works.

Although, so far, they have not made a high-cost movie blockbuster, but Dimension Entertainment will at least be a good choice.

Especially when the business negotiations of Hollywood companies are not going well.

The cooperation inquiry initiated by Dimension Entertainment was sent by Zhang Yanping.

And now, Dimension Entertainment has also given its own response.

They are interested in participating in this project.

Of course, it is not time to discuss more specific cooperation content. But since there is an intention to cooperate, it is equivalent to taking the first step.

He is going to make an appointment with Mr. Ye and Mr. Fan of Dimension Entertainment.

The update is not stable these days, I apologize in advance...

The main reason is that it is the end of the year, there are too many things to do, and the saved manuscripts are used up, so it is difficult to guarantee regular updates every day.

It's going to be a holiday soon, I will try my best to save manuscripts, resume the regular update of the chapter at 11:00 noon and evening, and see if I can save some more manuscripts.