This celebrity is overly enthusiastic!

Chapter 109 Are there really such extraordinary people in the world?

Chen Yuan prepared a PowerPoint presentation and was ready to visit Sony's headquarters to persuade them to invest in his book, "The Edge Walker".

The initial budget was set at $7000 million.

To be honest, even without inviting big-name Hollywood actors, Chen Yuan could have achieved a similar effect by using a large amount of art assets from the "2077" video walkthrough and adding some powerful cheat codes, all forty or fifty million US dollars.

It wouldn't be difficult for Chen Yuan to raise forty or fifty million US dollars from China Film Group and other companies that were trying to give him money.

But that wouldn't make sense; he needed to work with major Hollywood studios.

It's not that Chen Yuan is a Western worshipper, but rather that very few people in China have experience managing large-scale commercial film projects.

In his previous life, Zhang Yimou's Hollywood blockbuster "The Great Wall" featured a host of big-name stars from home and abroad in supporting roles, with Jing Tian as the leading lady.
With a chaotic plot, terrible reviews, and no commercial success to recoup costs, this is a complete failure and a terrible movie by every single aspect.

However, from the perspective of the future development of China's film industry, the great flop "The Great Wall" deserves a lot of credit.

Wanda acquired Legendary Pictures, Universal Pictures (one of the five major Hollywood studios), and co-produced "The Great Wall" with China Film Group. The film was shot in China, and there were many Chinese behind-the-scenes staff members on set.

It has provided valuable experience for many behind-the-scenes film workers in China to participate in super-large projects with more than a thousand participants.

Since then, almost every major commercial film crew in China with significant investment has had people who honed their skills on the set of "The Great Wall".

The owner of the motion capture studio where Chen Yuan worked in his previous life was a big shot in the film industry who had worked on the set of "The Great Wall".

This is why Chen Yuan insisted on collaborating with Hollywood—to learn from their experience in making blockbuster films.

The significance of training a group of behind-the-scenes personnel with experience in shooting blockbusters is far more important than simply making money.

Even if one were to learn the skills now, the pitifully barren domestic film market couldn't support such an investment.
But what you've learned is what you've learned. Even if you can't use it directly, it will still be of great value in helping you shoot low-budget films.

The huge success of "Legend of Seven Swords" led to a more than 80% increase in the stock price of Changhong, the biggest beneficiary, and its market value increased by tens of billions of RMB due to the popularity of the TV series.

This novel and exciting news was widely reported and reprinted by media outlets in Japan and South Korea.

Besides spending 30,000 to 50,000 yuan to build up buzz for promoting "Love Courtyard",
The exposure that Chen Yuan accumulated after obtaining the "Hotspot Controller" in August was all added piecemeal to news reports about the glorious achievements of "Seven Swords Legend" and Chen Yuan's legendary personal resume.

Just like flirting with girls, you can't be impatient at first. You have to let them get used to it slowly and develop their interest and desire.

Then, Chen Yuan seized the opportunity and poured all the attention he had accumulated over the entire month of September, totaling nearly 160,000, into an article introducing Chen Yuan in the morning edition of the Nikkei Asian Review.

Nikkei's content focuses on economic reporting, covering multiple fields such as politics, economics, science and technology, education, culture, and military affairs. It is particularly authoritative in macroeconomics, finance and securities, and industry dynamics.

It holds a significant position among Japanese economic media outlets, and its readership is characterized by high levels of education and high income.
78% of Japanese companies subscribe to Nikkei, and 90% of chairpersons, general managers, and department heads of large companies with more than 300 employees read Nikkei.

This can be considered precise traffic targeting.

After a slow, teasing thrust, Chen Yuan suddenly thrust with all his might, and his secret plan achieved remarkable success.

Chen Yuan's popularity surged in Japanese financial news reports, significantly boosting his profile among Japanese financial professionals. Fuji Television, which had already acquired the Japanese broadcasting rights to "Seven Swords Legend," decided to dub and translate the series for an early broadcast.

Many Japanese companies proactively contacted Chen Yuan, entrusting their advertising business in China to Yuan Universe in an attempt to deepen cooperation. Chen Yuan also took the opportunity to demonstrate his goodwill towards Japan.

Afterwards, Chen Yuan took the initiative to visit Sony's East Asia Business Management Center, which was established in the capital.

The person in charge here warmly received Chen Yuan, and learned that this ruthless man, who single-handedly raised Changhong's stock price by half, wanted to establish a close cooperation with Sony in a novel way.
Not daring to make a decision on its own, it quickly reported the news to the Tokyo headquarters.

Sony Group President and Chief Operating Officer Kunihiro Ando, ​​in a fit of frustration, crumpled up the new performance appraisal system created by a bunch of incompetent people in the HR department and threw it into the trash can.

Ignoring the crumpled paper bouncing on the ground, Kunio Ando vigorously rubbed his worried face.

How did Sony become like this?!
The global economic recession and the bursting of the dot-com bubble put widespread pressure on Sony's electronics business.

The slow pace of internal strategic transformation and decision-making errors are also a major headache. The financial report at the end of this year can still be passed off as a decent one, but the financial report for the first quarter of next year will definitely be very bad.

In his distress, there was a knock on the office door. Kunihiro Ando let out a deep breath and invited him in.

A subordinate responsible for liaising with global business headquarters entered, greeted the staff, and subtly glanced at the crumpled paper on the floor.

Then, he carefully placed a very interesting cooperation proposal, which had been submitted by the East Asia Business Management Center in the Chinese capital not long ago, on the president's desk.

I've seen and heard the name Chen Yuan several times recently, and I have a vague impression of him. He seems to be a very talented media genius from China.

Next to the proposal was a personal resume file of Chen Yuan, thoughtfully prepared by his subordinates.

Kunio Ando glanced at it briefly and couldn't help but show his surprise.

He became an orphan at the age of 14 and wandered around. At the age of 19, he filmed a TV commercial and earned a sum of money, officially entering the advertising industry.

Then, with the money he made from producing a series of excellent commercial television commercials, he created "Kung Fu Panda," which became a global hit last year, and became a film and television tycoon in China at a young age.

Even before the success of "Kung Fu Panda," it had already attracted substantial sponsorship from Changhong Group, China's largest television manufacturer, for his television drama project.
As a result, the TV series became a phenomenal hit in China during the summer just past, and Changhong Group achieved astonishing growth across all its businesses.

Are there really such extraordinary people in the world?

Compared to Chen Yuan's personal resume and the business growth analysis of Changhong Group, this cooperation document submitted by the East Asia Business Management Center is much thinner.

A quick glance was enough to tell that the other party wanted to make a science fiction movie, thought it would be beneficial to the Sony brand, and that's why they approached us.

Is this an imitation of his previous method of gaining support from Changhong Group, only with a bigger appetite, and he's now seeking support from Sony?

He's quite an interesting young man.

(End of this chapter)