The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Wei Han received an order from Fan Zhe, saying that he wanted to talk to Lewen Group about the essay solicitation of "Steam Daming", which was aimed at the great author.

Prior to this, he was negotiating copyright with Lewen Group, involving hundreds of millions of dollars and involving dozens of works.

There were some twists and turns in the negotiation work before. Lewen Group requires itself to be qualified to enter the venue and to be entitled to share in the copyright, but these obviously involve the bottom line of Dimension Entertainment, so Wei Han rejected all of them, and turned around and bought a few other networks. The copyright of works on the novel website scared the Lewen Group enough, and finally returned to the negotiating table.

And the deal was basically done.

Both parties made certain concessions, and Wei Han, on behalf of the company, accepted Lewen Group's request for a certain share in the later stage. Lewen Group sold 15 outstanding works to Dimension Entertainment for a price of 50 million yuan. This price is much lower than the initial contact. Behind the sharp price reduction, Lewen Group got the right to invest in the adaptation of these 15 works as it wished.

According to the contract, Lewen Group can independently choose whether to invest in the adaptation of animation, games, or film and television in any of these fifteen works. Profit equal to investment ratio.

2% investment rights... This is better than nothing.

But there is no way, Wei Han understood this and told the representative of Lewen Group, that is, Kappa, that this is the biggest bottom line of Dimension Entertainment, and the premise of joining this bottom line is that their copyright prices must be greatly reduced.

In the end, they can only choose to accept it.

Calculated, the average copyright authorization fee for each of the 15 works sold is more than three million yuan. Some are not worth so much, some are almost the same, and some are actually worth far more.

Among these fifteen works, Dimension Entertainment basically selected them. Including "Lord of the Mysteries", "Overcoming Han", "Determining Kyushu", "Scholar's Black Technology System" and other books.

For these purchased works, there will inevitably be corresponding development plans in the future, but for the time being, Dimension Entertainment has already promoted a lot of projects at the same time, and there is not much energy to start related work immediately.

After talking about these things, the negotiation should have been successfully concluded. However, upon receiving a new task, Wei Han quickly thought of a solution.

This negotiation has not yet been signed and has come to an end. With the relatively good cooperative relationship formed with the Lewen Group this time, it seems that they can directly talk about matters related to "Steam Daming".

Moreover, when he was doing this, he also directly contacted Wu Jingtong and told him what he thought - a solicitation of essays involving tens of millions can be regarded as a huge momentum. If you don't take this opportunity to make a big wave of publicity, it would be a waste of money.

At the same time, Lewen Group is also more interested.

The essay solicitation for tens of millions of prizes is also very attractive to many famous gods.

However, combining steampunk with the history of the late Ming Dynasty is not easy to write. Although, in online novels, there are many authors who write well in history, even in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, but there are not many authors who are good at steampunk. Big question.

However, this is not without a solution.

After finding a suitable author, you can ask Gao Yixiang to give the author the entire worldview structure, let him write according to the background of this world, and the job is over.

This will save you a lot of energy for the creator, so that he doesn't need to make the whole setting by himself. In addition, the stories written in this way will better meet the requirements of the game "Steam Daming".

This cooperation, the three departments of Dimension Entertainment, can be described as a joint effort.

Gao Yixiang's "Second World" studio is responsible for content control; Wu Jingtong's marketing department is responsible for promoting "Steam Daming" with the help of the "ten million bonus essay"; Wei Han's copyright department is responsible for the specifics. Copyright negotiation stuff.

The three departments are performing their duties and are working together to advance this work, and the whole thing is relatively smooth. In this way, Fan Zhe can focus on another project with more peace of mind.

That is a movie project under the LOL series, an independent movie of the popular hero "Night Hunter Vayne", and the current tentative name is "Night Hunter".

This film was approved almost when the project of "Demacia: Glory" was just established, and the estimated investment reached 650 million US dollars, which is not much worse than "Glory".

However, the progress of the "Night Hunter" project is much slower than that of "Demacia: Glory".

The main reason is that although Dimension Entertainment can be regarded as rich and powerful nowadays, especially through the game "Taiwu Painting Scroll 2" that has swept the world, it has made a lot of money. However, the money is divided into the hands of Dimension Entertainment through various channels, and after paying a tax, the rest has to support the company's operation and development, and support the expenses of so many projects, there will always be a certain amount of pressure.

If it was last year, Ye Jiayi needed to control the financial pressure and deal with the risk issues more or less when multiple projects were opened in succession.

However, it is not a big problem now.

After "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2", there are two TV series "Martial Arts Master", the drama "Ru Zidi", and the movie "Hell Apartment 2"... The successive success of these works also brought a lot to Dimension Entertainment. Very generous monetary rewards.

The income brought by "Ruzidi" has reached a scale of nearly one billion; "Hell Apartment 2" can earn more than 200 million just from the box office, and other derivative copyrights of this movie will also bring in hundreds of millions. income - a very important part of it is the webcasting on the 'dimension platform'. There are also overseas distribution and marketing of overseas copyrights...

What is more exaggerated than the income of these two works is "Martial Arts Master"

Just one upper part, the overall revenue has reached a scale of 1.4 billion to 500 million. As for the lower part, which has not been online for a long time, it only got 800 million in two weeks of pre-sale. And up to now, the online sales of this work have risen to a scale of one billion, and it is expected to reach about 1.2 billion. Including the TV broadcasting, overseas copyright operation, and derivative copyright operation after the network broadcast is completed... the total is estimated to reach more than 1.6 billion. ,

This means that the two volumes of "Martial Arts Master" will add up to more than three billion in revenue.

From last summer to now, not counting "Taiwu 2", just the development of film and television, Dimension Entertainment's works have also harvested more than 4 billion in revenue.

Of course, it was the popularity of "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" that could support Dimension Entertainment's large-scale development project. But now, it's a completely different situation.

Dimension Entertainment took out the planned VN independent film and made it without any pressure at all.

In fact, it was precisely because the company made a lot of money, and even had so much money that he didn't know how to spend it, that Fan Zhe boldly invested in such a risky thing as "Steam Daming".

As long as the stuff you make is fun, it will hit the street.

It's just an investment of 600 million yuan. If you lose everything, you won't be hurt!

Taking the current economic situation of Dimension Entertainment as an example, if they were a little crazy, they would even have the capital to start five projects of the same scale at the same time—of course, if they lost money, it would be even more miserable.

No matter how crazy Fan Zhe was, Ye Jiayi would not agree with him to take risks that would damage the foundation of the company.

Of course, VN's independent films are not included here.

This was one of the two film projects that Dimension Entertainment and Penguin Films had negotiated for copyright cooperation at the beginning.

According to Fan Zhe's original meaning, this is to start production together with "Demacia: Glory". It's just that Ye Jiayi suppressed this idea at the time, and suggested a little delay, and waited until some funds that had not been received before were collected from the outside before starting the project.

Therefore, this delay lasted for more than four months, and now it is finally opened.

The director of this movie, in fact, Fan Zhe was interested in Ji Jiaxin at the beginning, and planned to let that guy take a half-month rest after filming "Hell Apartment 2", and then he would take over "Night Hunter".

But unfortunately, that guy was not so lucky.

Apart from the previous incident, it was impossible for Fan Zhe to give him this opportunity.

Dimension Brokers sent several of them over. Fan Zhe chose Wang Zhicheng after making a selection.

This is also an old acquaintance of Fan Zhe. When he was filming "Hell Apartment", he was worried that he was not experienced enough, so he found two assistant directors, and Wang Zhicheng was one of them. Later, when he was filming "Martial Arts Master", he also continued to cooperate with Wang Zhizhi.

Wang Zhicheng belongs to the kind of director with little talent. According to his qualifications, he has been in this industry for so many years, and at such an old age, he has not yet become a real director, which originally explained a certain problem.

However, after the success of the "Hell Apartment" movie and the "Martial Arts Master" series, he gained some opportunities by virtue of this, and got the opportunity to direct a TV series. However, this opportunity seemed to prove that he really didn't have any talent as a director.

That Fan Zhedu TV series that I can't remember the name was launched some time ago, and it seems that the results are very bad...

Fan Zhe also specially brought some clips of that play to watch, the whole film seems to be lack of things that make people's eyes shine. In addition, the subject matter is not attractive, there are no special popular actors, and the acting is not good, let alone any good post-production, which makes the whole film very mediocre, with nothing to watch, and it naturally fails.

However, Fan Zhe still found some shining points that belong to the director.

I found that the shooting skills of some shots are still there, and the overall structure is quite good, which shows that the director's skills are still there.

Just no talent.

But this shortcoming was never what Fan Zhe cared about.

Recalling the details of the previous cooperation, Fan Zhe felt that it seemed a good choice for Wang Zhicheng to be the director of "Night Hunter".

As the chief producer, I will inevitably lead the company's team to make excellent designs in the same way that Dimension Entertainment did in the past when it was working on film projects. The next thing is to Wang Zhicheng, let him complete the shooting task according to the plan, there must be no problem.

And as long as he can do this, the quality of the final work will be guaranteed by a whole team of Dimension Entertainment.

After weighing things up and down, Fan Zhe asked Dimension's agent to invite Wang Zhicheng.

After receiving the invitation, Wang Zhicheng accepted it without any hesitation, and he didn't even struggle with the salary.

To be honest, he was surprised.

Previously, after working as an assistant director for Fan Zhe twice in a row, and successively produced "Hell Apartment" and "Martial Arts Master", and after both works were considered successful, he really rekindled his ambition and felt that You can still fight on your own.

However, it was a fight that mustered the last bit of ambition, which ended in disastrous failure.

He seemed to be depressed for a while, but even if he wasn't depressed and looked at it with a rational attitude, he still felt that his career as a director was almost over. After finally gaining some successful qualifications by relying on "Hell Apartment" and "Martial Arts Master", he then got the opportunity to be a serious director and participated in a TV drama project with an investment of tens of millions.

Originally thought that this was a great opportunity for Xianyu to turn around, but he didn't expect that he would die so miserably.

However, it was a great surprise to receive an invitation from Dimension Entertainment!

He never thought that he would encounter such an opportunity after failing one game. Especially after he learned what kind of project it was, the feeling of surprise in his mind became even stronger!

A movie with an investment of 650 million! This counts to nearly 100 million US dollars!

This level of investment, even in Hollywood, is an out-and-out big investment.

However, after the surprise, he couldn't help feeling a little nervous. I even messed up a TV series with an investment of 10 million yuan. Can I really direct such a movie with an investment of more than 600 million yuan?

He didn't know why Fan Zhe chose himself.

In a disturbed mood, he had a meeting with Fan Zhe.

After listening to what Fan Zhe said, although Wang Zhicheng could not say that he had completely let go of his worries and tensions, at least he understood what Fan Zhe was thinking.

Although it cannot be said that he is completely sure, at least he feels that he will not let go of this opportunity and will definitely go all out.