Chapter 118

The flying and earth-shattering battle scenes in the later stages of Iron Man require a significantly increased proportion of special effects.

Conservatively estimated, the budget burned solely for the Iron Man armor special effects alone would be 70 million US dollars!

This does not even count other special effect scenes.

Industrial Light & Magic produces good results, but it is too expensive.

In the future, there will be the Iron Man trilogy, The Hulk, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and so on...

The money required to produce special effects for the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe MCU is an astronomical figure!

It seems necessary to build a special effects team of our own.

Fortunately, special effects belong to the post-production phase, so a special effects company can be assembled quickly during the filming process.

As for top-tier industry experts and talent, this is very easy to solve.

Any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

With Ivanka's investment, Xu Can can completely throw money around, poaching people from Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital with high salaries.

Experts with years of work experience can get to work immediately and can also help Xu Can train new recruits.

To use Ivanka's own words:

"Xu, do not save money for me, and do not feel burdened; these are given to you for free, even if they go down the drain, it doesn't matter."

"I just want to see the movie empire you described before I grow old."

Indeed, it is still better to rely on a rich woman.

However, Comrade Know-It-All truly spoils his daughter enough; with such a huge expenditure of money, he seems to have made no inquiries.

Xu Can is too lazy to ponder the matters of the Ivanka family; having money is enough.

That afternoon, he directly sent Happy Hogan to the capital of Huaxia to find a startup studio called MOREVFX.

This studio is the special effects team for the future The Wandering Earth series.

The special effects of The Wandering Earth 2 are already enough to rival top Hollywood standards,

showing what kind of sentiment and belief they have held for so many years while focusing on this field.

With them as the backbone, driven by Hollywood professionals, Xu Can can completely build a proprietary special effects team that is not inferior to Industrial Light & Magic!

Moreover, the heads of special effects companies are fellow countrymen with ideals and ambitions; entrusting this matter to them puts Xu Can at ease.

Domestic entertainment stars are still causing breakups and cheating, still competing for attention on various red carpets, and still finding ways to evade taxes,

yet Xu Can has already steadily built his own entertainment empire in Hollywood?

He is not even 25 years old; what kind of demon is he?

After a long-distance phone conversation, Xu Can shared his vision with the other party and drew a huge pie.

All of this happened during the filming of Iron Man, in a short period of less than one week!

Under Galaxy Entertainment, the Galaxy-Digita1 special effects company was quietly established!

At the same time, senior technical elites from Industrial Light & Magic, DreamWorks, Pixar, Disney, and many other teams began resigning,

and what shocked everyone was that these outstanding talents actually chose to join an unknown startup company?

Galaxy-Digita1's recruitment drive did not arouse the alertness of Hollywood giants.

Their first task is to produce special effects for Iron Man; even if the special effects production is excellent, what does it matter for a movie destined to fail?

Everyone is more concerned about whether The Batman two-part series, produced by Warner Bros. with an investment of 320 million, will achieve success!

The Batman: Begins is set to be released in one week!

Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, and Xu Can, who will make a high-profile appearance as the Joker in the second part!

What kind of such a work will such a powerful lineup bring?

The eyes of the entire North America have already focused on this!