Entering April, the box office account of "The Return of the Great Sage" was finally transferred from the number of companies to the accounts of Bona, as high as 899 million, which is really dizzying.

Bo Na deducted 107.9 million agency distribution costs, as well as a total of 100 million publicity and distribution expenses advanced, including 80 million before the release of the film and 20 million after the release, all of which need to be shared with the bright three-seven.

The final amount transferred to the accounts of Longlin Studio is 691 million yuan, which is an astronomical amount for ordinary people. Although Lu Lin knew a long time ago that he belonged to a large amount of money, when he saw the specific figures, he couldn't help but lose his mind for a while.

From May last year to now, I've been working hard for nearly a year, and sometimes it's really hard to think about it. There is a name of two billion directors, no mansion, no sports car, no agent, and a Volkswagen Bora when he goes out.

It's almost okay materially, anyway, I've gotten used to it over the years. The most frustrating thing is that he has a bunch of grand ideas for the future, but his own money is not in his hands.

It feels like ants crawling from theater to theater. Then gather from various theaters to Zhongshu Company, and then slowly queue up to pass the customs, and gather into a mountain of gold in front of you.

If you have money, you will take revenge on the poor days of the past. But what Lu Lin is most worried about and wants to buy right away is the film and television adaptation rights of those classic online novels.

The special effects studio is going to open one day earlier and one day later. But it's better to buy the film and television adaptation rights of the novel early, and buy more and hoard copyrights. Anyway, it's only been 11 years now, and compared to a few years later, the copyright of the great god is not too expensive.

In fact, 13 years ago, no one bought the copyright of online novels. Especially for fantasy online texts, film and television adaptation is extremely difficult.

For example, "Breaking the Sky", which Wanda Pictures later hoarded, announced in 14 years that it would release a big movie with an investment of more than 100 million, but Lu Lin did not see any movement in the movie before he crossed over 18 years.

made a TV series, and a trailer persuaded him to quit. The characters in it actually ride horses, which is about fifty or sixty miles of speed, what is enough to do in the world of "Breaking the Sky"?

It's obviously a fantasy novel, but it has a strong martial arts style, and it's too easy to be a fan to fool! Even the special effects of the flying sword of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" are stronger than riding a horse! As for the nirvana that the protagonist Xiao Yan relied on to survive in his growth - "Buddha Fury Fire Lotus", there must be no need to count on it.

Lu Lin had a plan in his heart, and the film and television adaptation rights of "Breaking the Sky" had to be bought first. Then learn the Hollywood screenwriting model and get a team of screenwriters.

I have to say that in terms of film and television drama creation, there is a big gap between China and the United States, especially in the area of screenwriting. Behind any American drama is a team of screenwriters, while in China, screenwriters are basically self-employed, and the gap between the two is like an assembly line factory and a handicraft workshop.

Usually an American drama will have about 10 screenwriters to discuss the plot together, and the plot must be refined to every minute, and every six minutes there must be an eye-catching "breaking point" to prevent the audience from changing the stage, and then 2 screenwriters will go to another room to write specific lines, and the rest of the screenwriters will continue to advance the story.

But in China, it seems that they all refuse to cooperate alone. Even if there is occasional cooperation, it is also a break up when the drama is popular.

In fact, Chinese screenwriters are not without a team, and many screenwriters have gunmen behind them. However, because the living environment of China's screenwriter profession is too poor, most of the gunmen are inexperienced and have limited skills.

Overseas, the script investment in film and television dramas generally accounts for 10%-20% of the total investment, but the income of domestic screenwriters can only account for about 5% of the total investment. The income of a first-line screenwriter is not as good as that of a second-tier director, and even worse than a third-tier actor.

Chinese producers attach too much importance to stars, believing in the so-called "box office appeal", and smashing 70% or 80% of the crew's investment on sky-high paid stars.

As for the storyline, the lines are full of loopholes, the lines are embarrassing, and the special effects are reduced to two cents and five, which is a small problem. In other words, understanding a big production as inviting a bunch of big stars, this kind of production concept is also drunk.

Hey, the more I think about it, the more problems I have, let's first stock up on a batch of online novel film and television adaptation rights that can make special effects blockbusters!

At least "Breaking the Sky" must be bought first, and when "Ten Cold" is finished and announced to enter the post-special effects stage, the movie version of "Breaking the Sky" can be prepared. If the time comes, it should be released in time for the Chinese New Year at the end of the year.

Of course, he didn't participate in the fact that "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" and "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" were released on the same day. You can consider setting the schedule on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the fight will be broken, and the invincible New Year.

The specific purchase operation is to ask Song Ge, who has just resigned from Wanda Pictures and joined Longlin Studio, to execute, who asked him to buy "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the past and deal with Singularity, and he is familiar with the road.

Saying that Lu Lin's operation really surprised Song Ge. The first thing the new boss does when he gets rich is not to buy a mansion, buy a luxury car, recruit troops and expand the studio. Instead, let him first hoard the film and television adaptation rights of classic fantasy online texts, this is a big ambition, this is to create a "Lu's universe"!

Although I feel that it is a bit risky to blindly make a big production, Lu Lin made a fortune by making blockbusters, and Song Ge is not easy to persuade anything. Take the financial staff of the studio and go to the singularity to buy the copyright.

Because the price was cheap and the boss asked him to buy in bulk, Song Ge first picked ten online masterpieces such as "Dou Breaking the Sky", "Douluo Continent", "Tomb of the Gods", "Zichuan", "Panlong", "Star Change", "Covering the Sky", "Buddha is the Way", "Yang God" and "Back to the Ming Dynasty as a Prince".

The first nine books were prepared for Lu Lin, but the tenth book of "Hui Ming" was a project prepared by Song Ge for himself.

After chatting with Lu Lin about Chinese film and television dramas entering the Southeast Asian market a while ago, Song Ge pondered carefully for a long time after going back, and felt that it was a very good idea to make high-quality historical dramas.

The book "Hui Ming" adopts the writing technique of presenting the real era through the eyes of fictional characters, and its works are relaxed, the plot is exquisite, and the fans are wide, so it should be a good test of the waters.

When Song Ge came to the crew of "Ten Cold" with the film and television adaptation rights contract of ten online articles and handed it to Lu Lin, Lu Lin was overjoyed. flipped through the contract and found that there was an extra copy of "Hui Ming".

Song Ge said: "In terms of fantasy novels, they are all according to your requirements, pick those with good data and good reputation, and some are still serialized but also bought." I want to start this project after the various departments of the company are formed, and make a high-quality historical drama, I believe that there should be a very good market in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia!"

Lu Lin smiled and said, "That's right, if you have nothing to do, you can popularize historical knowledge for them!"