my time as a director

"Yes, they just contacted me and offered [-] million to buy out the right to broadcast online."

Du Yang briefly reported on his contact with ByteDance just now.

"Byte beat!"

Li Qian frowned, his mind spinning rapidly.

"This is just the price that has just been released, and there is still room for improvement. It sounds like they are eager to win "囧Mom" before the Spring Festival has passed, and if they add [-] million, they will probably agree."

Du Yang thought that Li Qian was dissatisfied with the price of [-] million, and continued, "Not only "囧Mom", the other party also wants to cooperate with us for a long time. They want all the movies that have been finished so far, and they want to follow up. The ambition is not small. It seems that they want to use the epidemic as a great opportunity for Byte to break through the barriers of short videos.”

Li Qian shook his head, "Go back. No matter how high the price is, I will refuse it. No matter which platform comes to discuss similar cooperation, I will also refuse it."

"Why, isn't this a good opportunity?"

Du Yang was puzzled, "I don't know when the movie theaters will be able to resume work in a short period of time. One more day of stress will bring more risks. Although the income is definitely not as good as the box office revenue, six to seven hundred million is acceptable."

"囧Mom" invested [-] million yuan, if it can be sold for [-] million yuan, there will be a profit of [-] million yuan, and there is no need for publicity costs.

If the box office is 30 billion, the share that can be obtained, minus the cost of publicity and distribution, will not be much more than [-] million in the end.

Of course, it must be more than 30 billion.

"Do you still remember that Chen Wulai and I discussed cooperation to create a closed loop of the film industry? In fact, he and I discussed two plans that day, and that was just one of them."

Li Qian told Du Yang about another plan that he had never told anyone about, and it was also a super crazy plan.

"Chen Wu's ambitions are more than that. He also wants to make video websites replace movie theaters and become a new screening terminal, so that movies can be shown on video websites."

"This..."

Du Yang's pupils shrank. She has been in the industry for 20 years, how could she not know the consequences of the realization of this plan.

Twenty years ago, all filmmakers required movie theaters. The previous distribution companies really talked about the next movie theaters after drinking until they vomited on the wine table and added various public relations.

Movie theaters are grandpas, and film and television companies are grandchildren.

If video sites replace movie theaters, it will be countless times more harmful than traffic idols on the big screen.

Du Yang didn't persuade him any more. It's a trivial matter for a movie to be broadcast exclusively on the Internet. If all of them do this, the epidemic will end in a short time and become normal. It will be a transformative event, and it will not benefit them thing.

......

When Du Yang and Li Qian were reporting, it may be that Byte had discussed this with Du Yang before, and Du Yang was also a little moved, which gave Byte a great deal of confidence.

The Spring Festival is coming soon, and a film like "囧Mom" itself is suitable for the Spring Festival.

News suddenly popped up on the Internet that Byte intends to buy the copyright of "囧Mom" and let viewers watch it online for free.

Byte is building momentum.

Netizens were really excited. They thought that this year’s Spring Festival would be locked at home. There would be no other entertainment activities or even movies. They didn’t expect ByteDance to give such a big gift.

"Damn it, Byte is giving benefits?"

"Can "囧Mom" be watched online? This movie is what I look forward to the most during the Spring Festival, and I plan to take my parents to watch it together."

"It's enough to watch all the movies in the Spring Festival file online. You can't go to the cinema, and you don't have much to do during the New Year."

"Byte is really a conscientious capitalist. It's not cheap to buy the copyright of "囧Mom". At least it can sell for 40 billion at the box office!"

"The byte is awesome, I will apply for the job after the new year."

......

It is also the first time that theater movies have been screened online, which has attracted the attention of the entire industry.

However, Du Yang issued a statement on behalf of the company, denying the incident, and said that he would work with the film industry to face the epidemic together.

This time Byte made a big oolong, which made netizens confused again.

Co-authorship is all byte's wishful thinking, and they don't plan to sell copyright at all.

After repeated inquiries from Byte to no avail, they could only stop marketing, and then issued a statement saying that it was all outside speculation.

Although this matter was disclosed by Byte, they have never announced it. It is only some self-media who say "rumours".

However, Byte will not let go of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After the cooperation failed, they found other film and television companies and wanted to buy film copyrights.

The share of domestic video sites has basically been fixed, and long-form videos are divided among Penguin, Ali, and Baidu.

The short video is shaken and fast, plus the watermelon under Byte and so on.

Both Douyin and Xigua are owned by Byte, but Douyin is a real short video, at most 1 minute, while Xigua can post several minutes or even longer videos.

This time, I obviously smelled an opportunity, and wanted to use this exclusive screening of theater movies to open the door to the long video market.

At the same time, it is also an opportunity for publicity and drainage. Buying a film for hundreds of millions is equivalent to advertising.

......

After Du Yang announced that there was no such thing, Xu Zheng immediately called to inquire about the situation.

Li Qian didn't go into details on the phone, but asked everyone out to talk about it in detail.

When he told the second plan that Chen Wu had discussed with himself, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, and Wu Jing all stared wide-eyed.

"This is crazy. How can video sites replace movie theaters? Movies that are not shown on the big screen are still called movies!"

Ning Hao found it incredible that this so-called plan was simply the most ridiculous thing he had heard this year.

"Penguin's ambition is too big, it's just wishful thinking, Chen Wu doesn't know what a movie is at all!" Guo Fan shook his head.

Video websites replace movie theaters, which is something that no film practitioner has ever thought about, and everyone scoffs at it.

However, Xu Zheng hesitated and said, "This plan is definitely not feasible, but at this special time, it is not impossible to sell to video sites, at least it can reduce some losses."

Time is money. Although "囧Mom" is a comedy, the cost is not low. Xu Zheng's director, screenwriter, actor's remuneration, plus Wang Baoqiang's remuneration are sky-high.

At a cost of [-] million yuan, every day of delay is a loss. If the cinema cannot be opened within half a year, the loss will be a huge sum. Xu Zheng thinks it is not impossible to sell to Byte, at least they and Penguin are still rivals.

Although Li Qian was a little unhappy, he still joked, "If brother Zheng is not afraid of being blocked by all theaters across the country, he can try it."

"Why block me?" Xu Zheng was a little confused.

"Movie theaters all over the country started to promote "囧Mom" more than half a month ago. It took a lot of manpower and material resources. If you can't make it to the theaters, it won't be shown. That's not to put them together." Li Qian said.

"Uh..." Xu Zheng also thought about it. The promotion of "囧Mom" was not only because of their spending money, but also for many offline promotions and screenings, and the cinemas also contributed their best.