Chapter 471: "Prison Break" Is Favored by Big Companies? (2/4)
Yang Yi has a lot of things, and in the past two days, he also took the time to go to the Sahara Publishing House, and together with Lu Benjie, he received Hu Da and Qiangzi, who were visiting.
Qiyue has a good relationship with the Sahara Publishing House, and has always maintained a state of cooperation, mining excellent online literature for physical publishing, which is also a major business of the Sahara Publishing House.
And Hu Da and Qiangzi came over, mainly to talk to Yang Yi about the electronic publishing authorization of "White Night Walking".
"White Night Walking" was released for a month, and the physical sales unexpectedly squeezed into the top 10 of the monthly list. You must know that this is not a new book list, not to mention, "White Night Walking" is a relatively niche suspense literature, and it can be said that it is a miracle to have such an achievement.
After all, not everyone is willing to read suspense literature, and most readers still prefer literary works or romances with a slightly lighter and sunny plot.
Of course, works like "White Night Walking" that describe the protagonist so terrifyingly, the audience should be narrower, and the reason why it was able to break out in a small way is due to the fact that Yang Yi and Murphy were suddenly exposed to their marriage.
I have to say that this is not the hype they want, although it has caused them a lot of trouble, but in some ways it has brought them benefits! It is no wonder why some people are obsessed with hyping themselves, and even do not hesitate to splash dirty water on themselves!
One month after the release of "White Night Walking", an electronic publication was launched, which was not unacceptable, and the conditions for reading were not bad, so Yang Yi signed a relevant contract with them.
"The day before we left, Global Pictures called our editorial office and said they wanted to buy the rights to your Prison Break. Before leaving, Hu Da relayed a message to Yang Yi.
In Hollywood, the United States is rated among the eight major film and television production companies, and this is not only an evaluation of capital operation, but also in the creation of film and television works and box office income, the global film industry can be called a giant crocodile-like existence.
Of course, the market for Chinese films in this world is even larger, and Global Pictures will naturally not sit idly by, it also has subsidiaries in China, and it is the subsidiary of Global Pictures China that is contacted this time.
According to Hu Da's explanation, the current status of online literary adaptation is still relatively unclear, except for Yang Yi's "Soldier Assault" and "Bright Sword", most of them are petty fights, either the director is a rookie, or the background of the capital is not enough.
Even though the cooperation between Chen Fengchen and Yang Yi has set off a lot of turmoil, causing many old film and television companies to pay attention to online articles, but just like today's global film industry, there are many wait-and-see and few starts!
Global Pictures has been paying attention to "Prison Break" since the beginning of the year, and the current president of China, Xu Zhongwei, is ambitious to shoot it, of course, to use the resources of the parent company, after all, the background of this story is set in the United States.
But they have also hesitated for a long time, they have been watching the popularity of "Prison Break", they have been paying attention to the trend of the plot of "Prison Break", and they even let people use vests to do polls in the book review area.
But there are too many uncertainties in the book that is still being serialized! If it is well written in the early stage, who knows if it will collapse in the later stage? So they waited and watched and dragged it out until now.
It wasn't until now that the online serialization of "Prison Break" is nearing the end, and the global film industry has begun to contact it, but unfortunately, they found the wrong person, unlike other authors, Yang Yi's works and film and television copyrights are all in their own hands.
"I've already given your contact information to the people in Global Pictures, and then, I'll leave it to you to continue talking!" Hu Da and Yang Yi explained clearly, and then said with a smile, "To be honest, our editorial department cheered for a long time last night, and it is a rare opportunity to be favored by Global Pictures, and I hope that "Prison Break" can be filmed as soon as possible, this is a very wonderful story, isn't it?"
Yang Yi is not as optimistic as Hu Da, he doesn't want to sell the film and television rights of his work easily, since the global film industry wants it, Yang Yi has to examine their attitude towards this work.
If you just want to make money by shooting casually, Yang Yi doesn't care whether they are Global Pictures or Universal Pictures, it is not feasible for him to do anything! To shoot, you must show the attitude and investment to make blockbusters.
Still, it's a good opportunity for the Sahara Press.
After Hu Da and Qiangzi left, Yang Yi asked Lu Benjie: "Are the negotiation teams I asked you to set up before?"
Yang Yi is also a big family now, and he doesn't need to negotiate with others alone, like one of the important meanings of his acquisition of the Sahara Publishing House is to let them take care of the copyright of those works for themselves.
"I was ready, I asked headhunters to recruit six senior lawyers and managers in the entertainment industry from all over the country to form this negotiation team. Lu Benjie hurriedly said.
"In the future, we still have to find some people who are familiar with transnational cases and the rules of the European and American entertainment circles, and we must broaden our horizons and take the road of globalization!" Yang Yi said, "But this opportunity is good, let them try, I'm not very free, basically I want to ask them to talk to me and the people in the global film industry for me." ”
Then, Yang Yi listed some of his own standards to be judged by Lu Benjie to give the negotiation team a yardstick.
Before leaving, Yang Yi also asked with interest about the situation of his book fans: "By the way, I told you last time that I was going to hold a book signing, what was the feedback from the book fans?"
Lu Benjie also cheered up, he sat up straight, and said: "After we conveyed your thoughts to the fans, we received a lot of feedback, but because you didn't give a definite time, they were a little worried that you would release the pigeons. ”
Lu Benjie also looked at Yang Yi tightly, and his eyes seemed to convey the worried emotions of the book fans.
Yang Yi was amused, and he said: "Who said that I didn't have a fixed time? I'm just very busy in the past two months, and I can't spare myself! In this way, you can arrange six signing sessions in the first two weeks of May, how about it?"
"Can you confirm the time? Great!" Lu Benjie said with some surprise as he pushed his vintage glasses.
Yang Yi also said with a smile to Lu Benjie: "Because of our limited time, we can only hold six signing sessions for the time being, but it doesn't matter, we will continue to hold them in other cities when we have the opportunity in the future......!"
Yang Yi pointed at Lu Benjie and said: "You can solicit everyone's suggestions on the website and see how everyone is looking forward to this signing will be carried out! Then you collect a few suggestions that are more popular and give it to me, and I will pick three and satisfy them as much as possible!"
Lu Benjie felt that the one in front of him was like Yang Yi last year, but Yang Yi refused to sign the book before, but now, he took the initiative to come up with some more tricks!
Is it because he has now become a public figure and has "broken jars"?
There are indeed reasons for this, but Lu Benjie doesn't know that the reason why Yang Yi has become so friendly is, in the final analysis, because Murphy is pregnant, and his mood in the past few days is like a bright spring, which has been very good!