By the end of February, "The Wandering Earth" had also been released for more than half a month, and the domestic box office exceeded 4 billion yuan, and the outside world estimated that it might be fixed at 4.6 billion yuan.

This film has some flaws, but in any case, it is still very good overall, and it is known as the first year of domestic science fiction films.

Even, everyone has paid great attention to "Magic Capital Fortress", which will be released more than half a year later.

Needless to say, Wu Jing is about to go to the altar with a Wolf Warrior 2 and a Wandering Earth.

Writer Liu Cixin has also received a lot of praise, and everyone is very much looking forward to what the effect of "The Three-Body Problem" will be.

It is a pity for Zhang Yida that the film and television copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" has long been won by director Zhang Fanfan, and in the past few years, the movie has not been made, but was released first by the later "The Wandering Earth".

James Cameron is also very interested in the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" and wants to take it, but the copyright has been granted.

The game copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" is in the hands of Youzu Network, which also makes Zhang Yida feel strange and tyrannical.

The only thing that comforted him was that Ruixiang Pictures, as one of the main investors of "The Wandering Earth", became an instant hit.

It is rumored on the Internet that this is a project that Zhang Yida personally made the decision and inserted a foot in the middle of Ruixiang, which shows the viciousness of Zhang Yida's vision.

The production cost of "The Wandering Earth" is 320 million, and Rui Xiang Pictures invested 100 million yuan, and according to the box office of 4.6 billion, it can be divided into about 435 million.

This is a lot worse than the ten or eight times as speculated by the outside world.

In fact, according to the current account-sharing model, the box office revenue of a movie should follow this formula:

After deducting 3.3% of the business tax and 5% of the special fund for the film industry, the remaining 91.7% is the "divisible box office" of a film, which is further divided by the cinema, the distributor and the producer.

Of this 91.7%, cinemas and cinemas retain 55%, while distributors take 12%, and the remaining 33% is the income of producers.

However, "The Wandering Earth" still has certain follow-up benefits, such as selling the domestic online video playback copyright to Rocket Video and Station B, and the relevant overseas copyright being sold to Netflix, which will be translated into 28 languages and broadcast in the world except China.

Ticket buyers participated in the joint distribution of "The Wandering Earth" and wanted to carry out a large subsidy to attract new customers, but because the National Film Administration put forward new requirements last year, requiring distributors, producers, and theaters not to allow online ticketing platform subsidies, the sales price is the settlement price.

Therefore, the ticket buyer can only develop step by step.

There is still a certain gap between Maoyan and Taopiao, but the gap has been narrowing.

Pindodo, Touronghui, Kuaishou, Shake Vision, Rocket Video, and Station B have all opened the traffic entrance for ticket buyers.

The vast majority of the traffic sources of the ticket buyer also come from the above platforms, and the number of visits to the independent APP is very small.

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The first hit game at the beginning of this year is actually a game called "Dota Auto Chess".

This game is based on the development of the game world of "Dota 2", but the gameplay and method have changed, and the other settings are basically the same as the game settings of "Dota 2".

For example, the battle between chess pieces and chess pieces is a simulated confrontation between Dota 2 heroes, and the equipment upgrade system is also copied from the synthesis system in Dota 2.

Players build a personal in-game economic system and use hero cards to fight, forming an eight-player divided battle situation.

In the game, there are eight chess players, each of whom occupies a board, and each turn the player will build their own army by purchasing pieces from the chess shop, arranging troops on the board, and defending against a mirror attack from one of the other seven random players;

At the same time, the mirror image of your own defensive lineup will also randomly attack the enemy lineup.

The core gameplay of this game is not quite the same as many card games, and it is actually close to mahjong. It has to be said that this design also allows gamers to experience different new ideas.

Since its launch in January 2019, Dota Auto Chess has accumulated more than 5 million game subscribers, with the highest number of concurrent users exceeding 380,000!

It also led to a two-year record number of Dota 2 players, reaching 1 million concurrent users.

Zhang Yida learned that this game was developed by a five-person game studio called "Giant Bird Duoduo", and he fell in love with talents and decided to send Zhang Lan to talk to them about cooperation, and it was best to buy it.

Giant Bird Duoduo and Ruixiang also have some relationship, Ruixiang invested in the game developer Rongcheng Longyuan Network last year and Giant Bird Duoduo is a cooperative relationship.

So, under the recommendation of Li Longfei, CEO of Longyuan Network, Zhang Lan went to Rongcheng and met with a small team of five.

Li Longfei is exquisite, first introducing Zhang Lanrui's identity as the president of the digital content business group, and then introducing the five young people of the Giant Bird Duoduo Studio.

The five young men, all in their early twenties, turned out to be Dota 2 gamers, and this auto-chess game was also figured out by them and a group of players.

In terms of creativity, it is indeed outstanding. However, when it comes to R&D capabilities, it is difficult for a small workshop of five people to support a large-scale project.

It is precisely because of these considerations that they chose to cooperate with Li Longfei, a confidant brother.

Li Longfei didn't expect that he would make a few friends casually and give himself such a big gift.

At this time, he helped Giant Bird Duoduo to sell it, and praised how awesome the game was in front of Zhang Lan, and created a new mode in terms of gameplay.

Zhang Lan smiled and nodded, "Okay, I've seen the excellence of Dota Auto Chess, and I don't need to repeat it too much."

Ruixiang has always attached great importance to game talents, and I hope that the five of you can join Ruixiang and get the blessing of Ruixiang's game development and publishing resources, and I believe that Auto Chess can usher in greater development. ”

A young man with a middle hair shook his head and refused very bluntly, "We don't accept any mergers and acquisitions, we just want to operate this game independently." ”

Li Longfei secretly pulled the sleeve of the middle part, and said in a round game: "What Wang Yuhong means is that he hopes to get Ruixiang's investment, and everyone can make the cake of the auto chess game bigger together." ”

Zhang Lan didn't get angry with these stunned youths, and asked directly about the valuation.

"$100 million, to receive a diluted stake of no more than 20%. ”

Wang Yuhong said confidently that he felt that the price was really not high, and it would be less in terms of the popularity of Dota Auto Chess.

However, Ruixiang is a big company after all, and he thinks he can get a little discount.

Zhang Lan frowned and didn't speak for a long time.

It's not that she thinks the valuation is high, she has a few questions.

Li Longfei started to think, if Giant Bird Duoduo gets Ruixiang's investment, will he get rid of himself and cooperate with Ruixiang alone?

Isn't that a waste of time?