Chapter 53: The Beginning of the Picture
Chen Hao didn't care much about the appreciation in Yu Dong's eyes, "If the senior agrees, might as well try it?"
"Of course I agree!" Yu Dong said with a smile, "I will immediately go back to adjust the publicity plan, and then get the contract and sign it, even if the cooperation is finalized." ”
"No problem, just let the senior inform me when the time comes. Chen Hao nodded.
"I hope we can always have a happy cooperation!" Yu Dongyi pointed out.
"I also hope that we can always work together happily!" Chen Hao nodded.
Within a few years, Berner was able to become the largest private film distribution company in the country, and Yu Dong's ability is needless to say, and later Berner also began to get involved in film investment and production, becoming one of the five largest private film companies in China.
Maybe the two will become rivals in the future, but the circle is so big, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.
What's more, now Chen Hao must also rely on the other party's distribution ability, Yu Dong's character is also strong, and Chen Hao is happy to see the happy cooperation.
"By the way, senior, did you have something to do with your last trip to Huaying?" Chen Hao asked suddenly.
Yu Dong was stunned when he heard this.
"If it's inconvenient, then forget it!" Chen Hao hurriedly said.
Yu Dong smiled, shook his head and said, "Actually, there is nothing that can't be said, I fell in love with a co-production and wanted to obtain its distribution rights, but I didn't have much advantage in competing with Huaying, and I was despised by the producer!"
"If you want to grab food from Huaying's mouth, there is indeed a gap in Bernard's current strength, but everything is the word profit, as long as you can give the other party enough attractive interest protection, then you can be willing to cut your body and pull the emperor off the horse. Chen Hao said.
"Oh, what kind of interest protection?" Yu Dong looked at Chen Hao inquiringly, his heart moved, and he faintly looked forward to it.
Chen Hao said with a smile, "Does the senior know about the guaranteed account?"
Yu Dong couldn't help but laugh out loud when he heard this, "Hahaha......"
Chen Hao's face twitched when he saw this, because although Yu Dong didn't say anything, he didn't seem surprised, and he didn't have the slightest doubt, obviously he knew what a guaranteed account was.
Damn, this forced pretending to be a failure!
"Brother, I thought I was looking up to you enough, but apparently you're better than I thought. After Yu Dong finished laughing, he looked at Chen Hao and praised, "I didn't expect you to even know about the guaranteed account." ”
"Hehe, it seems that I got an axe in front of my seniors. Chen Hao smiled slightly wryly.
"No, I only recently had such an idea, but I was a little hesitant to implement it. Yu Dong shook his head and said.
"Is it because it's too risky?" asked Chen Hao.
"Yes, you have to pay the film in advance to guarantee the bottom line, plus the costs of copying, publicity, distribution, etc., the total investment will be at least seven or eight million yuan, which is already my entire net worth. Yu Dong sighed.
Chen Hao didn't say much when he heard this, after all, this is a gamble, and the key is not his own business, so it is not convenient to speak about this kind of critical decision.
"I've been hesitating to give it a go, compared to Huaying, if I don't go all out, it's really difficult to have a chance, and I heard the words of my junior here today, the so-called heroes see the same thing, I decided, bet!" Yu Dongfa said fiercely.
Chen Hao's face was a little strange when he heard this, if this is successful, it is easy to say anything, if this fails, you won't blame me!
Yu Dong couldn't help but laugh when he saw Chen Hao's face, "Okay, brother, this is my own business, in fact, I know that I will definitely gamble, from the very beginning, Dongping Xi made up 300,000 development companies are gambling."
It's just that now that the net worth has reached seven or eight million, I am a little timid, in fact, it is good to open it, what is terrible, it is a big deal to start all over again, as long as there is a reputation for connections, it is not difficult to make a comeback. ”
Chen Hao nodded when he heard this, in addition to the very important connections at the beginning of the century, which can give you an excellent start, one of the biggest advantages is the large fault tolerance rate.
Not only in the entertainment industry, but also in the later Internet giants, at the beginning of the century, the competition was not so fierce, you make mistakes, the problem is not big.
Like Penguin, it has been bothered by profit now, and then came up with a stupid trick, which required a fee for registration, until it found that the user registration rate had dropped sharply and quickly terminated this stupid trick.
There were many such mistakes, but in the end, they still grew into a giant of the Internet.
It is because in the early stage of network development, everyone crossed the river by feeling the stones, so the fault tolerance rate is high.
If you let go of the future generations, the environment of fierce competition with each other, I'm afraid it won't be so simple, maybe you can be played to death!
Chen Hao thought about it and made another suggestion, "Senior, if the movie is released at that time, you can make a simultaneous release in the mainland, Xiangjiang, Baodao and Southeast Asia!"
Yu Dong thought for a moment when he heard this, and his eyes lit up, "Haha, junior brother, you are really a talent!"
Chen Hao said that the simultaneous release is not just to look at the momentum and build momentum for the movie, but also to delay the problem that all movies are afraid of now, piracy!
In fact, piracy exists all the time, but after more than ten years of development, everyone has developed the habit of going to the theater to watch movies.
But at the beginning of the century, it was different, everyone had not yet developed this habit, and the lethality of piracy to movies was absolutely terrifying.
And some people do everything for piracy.
Next year, it will shake up the entire mainland film market, and "Hero", which will open the era of domestic blockbusters, will make the problem of piracy known to the whole country.
At that time, there was a theater in Chang'an when "Hero" was released, but it suddenly announced that there was a problem with the copy of "Hero" and it needed to be repaired, so it changed to other movies.
But it was soon discovered that the copy of "Hero" was lost, and soon the theater also called the police, and the person in charge of the copy was questioned by the police.
As a result, this person fell directly from the upper floor and finally died!
At the same time, in order to curb piracy, all the mobile phones, cameras and other equipment of media reporters attending the premiere were confiscated at the premiere, even if it was said that it was a bit overkill to disrespect human rights.
"Hero" also sold the mainland audio-visual copyright at a sky-high price of 17.8 million, and later in order to crack down on piracy, the merchants who obtained the copyright directly paid 4 million yuan to prevent theft.
Even the relevant departments have issued a notice on preventing and cracking down on pirated films such as the movie "Hero" and other illegal audio-visual products.
However, the pirated disc of "Hero" still appeared quickly, and there was actually the words "Huaxia Film Pirate Production Company Assisted in Shooting" on the opening screen, which shows how rampant piracy is.
What's even funnier is that the copyright owner of the "Hero" audio and video has also sold pirated copies himself, and he has come to steal from himself!
It can be said that the series of stories of "Hero" anti-theft is not inferior to the sensation of "Hero".
And "Hero" was able to hit such an amazing box office, and this anti-piracy hype also accounted for a considerable part of the credit.
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After discussing the cooperation with Yu Dong, Chen Hao returned to the studio with Hao Yi easily.
It's just that Hao Yi kept asking Chen Hao why he knew so much, which made him annoyed, so he could only talk nonsense, "Read more books, read more newspapers, eat less snacks and sleep more!"
Hao Yi could only pouting when he heard this, and then looked at the newspaper.
Chen Hao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and inadvertently glanced at the newspaper in Hao Yi's hand, but was suddenly stunned.
I saw a few big words written in the newspaper, "The 3rd Shulei Century Star Beauty Pageant"!