The King of Crossover Entertainment

Yunfeng and Wang Defa set out for the conference room.

As soon as he left the office door, Wang Defa handed Yunfeng a folder and said, "Madman, this is the price estimated by the operations department for licensing the web drama and movie adaptation of "Release That Witch". What do you think when we talk about it?" ”

"Okay." Yunfeng opened the folder and took a look.

What is written above is: The authorization for the web series and movie adaptation of "Release That Witch" is 4 million + 10% of the profit dividend.

He didn't ask how much the company spent on the copyrights of the books that the company discussed with Panda Chinese before, but now looking at the price, the three copyrights of a single online drama, movie, and comic combined together, the buyout cost is at least one More than fifteen million.

Compared with the copyright fees of those popular online novels on Earth, which often cost hundreds of millions, the cultural undertakings on Blue Star are currently developing and the craze for adapting online novels has not yet started, so the copyrights of these popular online novels cannot be sold at very high prices.

It's more like when we were on earth for a few years, I remember there were rumors that the copyright of Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem" was sold for 100,000 yuan, but in 18 years, the buyer changed hands and sold it for 120 million yuan.

It was precisely because Yunfeng had the memory of his previous life and witnessed the development of cultural undertakings on earth that he told Wang Defa and Ma Siyu that Legend Copyright Company was not a second-rate dealer, but a copyright operator.

Copyright operations can be mainly divided into two models.

1. One is group operation, such as China Panda Group, Penguin Entertainment and other large groups with complete industrial chains. Within these groups, various chains can interact and share resources, forming a closed loop and relying on their own resources. A pan-entertainment ecosystem can be created.

2. The other is open operation. Most of the companies that adopt this development model are growing companies. Their internal industrial chains are not comprehensive enough. Therefore, they generally focus on a few links in the full copyright development chain and cooperate with other companies. The companies cooperate to jointly carry out full copyright development, each giving full play to their platform advantages to achieve a win-win situation.

but……

The Legend Copyright Company has just started and has not yet formed a scale, nor does it have any industry, so the only option is cooperation.

Yunfeng and Wang Defa came to the conference room, where sat a woman and two men, both with blond hair and blue eyes.

Wang Defa put on a smile and introduced to Yunfeng: "These two are Mr. Alec and Ms. Arabella from SBC Company. This is Mr. Mike."

Then, he introduced to the three foreigners: "This is President Yun of our legendary copyright company. He is also the cross-border king of novelists and cartoonist Chaoyun Muyu."

When Yunfeng heard Wang Defa introduce himself, three black lines appeared on his forehead.

His current level of writing and painting is still far from being called "home".

The three foreigners all stood up.

Yunfeng first shook hands with Alec and Arabella and said hello.

However, when he arrived at Mike's place, he suddenly hugged Yunfeng, and immediately said apologetically: "Please forgive me for my rude behavior, Mr. Yun, I really like your novel "Let That Witch Go". ”

Yunfeng was really taken aback, but after hearing the explanation and knowing that he was a foreign book fan, he smiled and said: "Hello, nice to meet you, thank you for your support."

It’s good that Chinese is widely spoken around the world, so there’s no need for a translator, even though he can speak English.

When Wang Defa saw Mike's expression yesterday that he wanted to see Yunfeng very much, he guessed that he was a book lover and immediately said, "Let's sit down and talk."

After sitting down.

Mike still looked at Yunfeng intently and said excitedly: "Mr. Yun has such a talent at a young age. The combination of magic and technology, relying on modern science and engineering knowledge and the magical ability of witches to create technological products, is really creative. It’s so amazing, “Release the Witch” is truly a masterpiece.”

Yunfeng was so embarrassed by the praise that he said hurriedly: "Mr. Mike, thank you for the praise."

However, the direct look in Mike's eyes made him a little unnatural. I heard that same-sex couples can get married in England.

Yunfeng immediately entered the topic and said: "I listen to De..."

This was so smooth that he quickly corrected himself: "Mr. Wang said that the three of you want to buy the web drama and movie rights of "Release That Witch"?"

Alec smiled and said, "Yes."

Arabella continued: "However, Mr. Wang said that your company uses authorization and does not directly sell copyrights."

Yunfeng nodded and started to talk nonsense: "Think about it, if a novel with two to three million words is filmed according to the original plot, it will take at least hundreds or thousands of episodes, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive and money-consuming; if If the plot is adapted and the number of episodes is reduced, the original party will have objections, and it will definitely have an impact. "

Having said this, he deliberately paused and then said: "No matter what, there will be risks. Therefore, in order to help you reduce costs, our company has thought of a win-win method."

Wang Defa was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and thought to himself: The madman is deceiving people, and he pays them back one after another.

SBC has adapted several physical novels before, and indeed the two situations mentioned by Yunfeng have occurred.

but……

They have never tried this kind of cooperation.

Acrylic asked: "Then, how does your company charge for authorization?"

Yunfeng smiled and said: "As for "Release That Witch", online drama and movie licensing, 5 million + 15% profit dividend."

Wang Defa breathed a sigh of relief. He had just forgotten to remind Yunfeng not to quote the lowest price at the beginning. Since it was a negotiation, there would be a process of bargaining.

Arabella heard this and asked: "Is it an exclusive license? How many years is the term?"

Yunfeng replied: "It is an exclusive authorization with a term of three years."

According to the copyright licensing rules on Blue Star, with ordinary authorization, multiple people can shoot together, while with exclusive authorization, only one can shoot.

Arabella exchanged glances with Acrylic, and then said, "Sorry, we need to discuss it."

Yunfeng smiled and said: "Please do it, do you need us to avoid it?"

Arabella shook her head and said, "Thank you, you don't have to avoid it."

The two of them called Mike and started discussing quietly in English.

Yunfeng blinked.

Don’t they think we don’t understand English, so there’s no need to avoid it?

Indeed, since the rise of China in the 30s of the new century and Chinese becoming the world's universal language, English has not been a subject in the country. Children born in the 1940s will basically not be able to do it unless they major in English in college.

But Yunfeng is an exception. Even if he doesn't get [Skill Language: Outstanding among the Crowd·Professional Level], it's because his soul comes from the earth and his English has passed Level 4. He may not speak well, but he can still listen.

Wang Defa on the side couldn't understand. The only English he knew was "Yes", "No", "Ok" and "Thank you".

Yunfeng listened calmly for a while, his expression didn't change much, but his heart changed dramatically.

From their conversation, we learned that this Mike was actually an investor.

I'm a good boy.

Book fans invest in film and television versions of their favorite authors' works, and this has happened to them.

On Blue Star, are foreign book fans so "fierce"?

To be honest, I was a little shocked.

After about five or six minutes, the discussion between the three of them ended.

Mike said: "Mr. Yun, I really, really like your book "Release That Witch", and I really want to get the authorization to adapt it for web series and movies, but..."

After expressing his love once again, he changed the topic and said: "After all, this is an investment, so I still have to listen to Alec and Arabella's advice, four million + 10% profit dividend."

In fact, Yunfeng had already heard the result.

The point they were arguing just now was that the license period was too short and the price was too high.

In fact, on Blue Star, the production efficiency of film and television dramas is high and the cycle is short. This is the optimal number of years based on a large amount of data analysis. And when it expires, the exclusive license will be withdrawn. If the filming is not completed, you can continue filming. of.

This price was exactly the price estimated by the operations department. However, Yunfeng did not reply directly and said: "We also need to discuss it, please wait."

Mike smiled and nodded.

Yunfeng and Wang Defa walked to a corner of the conference room.