Chapter Eighty-Six: Investing in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The day after returning from Xiangjiang, Chen Tianliao took Song Shiqing to inspect his film and television company. Song Shiqing easily brought the rabbit teeth with him.
The film and television company is located in the Xiangri area. It was a factory on the verge of bankruptcy, and the workers were barely paid. Huang Yi rented the entire small factory through the leaders of the municipal party committee, and the rent was a little higher than the market price, and the annual rent could solve the wages of most of the workers. The leaders of the municipal party committee were also happy to lease the factory to solve part of the financial crisis, transport the equipment to another factory, and merge the two factories, and the merged factory was more powerful. Now most of the factory has been moved out, and the office buildings have been vacated to film and television companies.
The company in the grass creation is not very good-looking, and many equipment is not yet in place, and the personnel from the Shencheng Fine Arts Film Studio are enthusiastically discussing the creation and shooting of the "Robot Cat" cartoon in the working area of the factory renovation with the animation experts from the Japanese country. Chen Tianliao saw this scene and nodded with satisfaction. He doesn't want to get involved in their arguments, they are all experts, and the managers are all experienced, so he can't get involved, he just needs to see the results.
After inspecting and encouraging the relevant personnel, Chen Tianliao and Huang Yi returned to the office, and together they went out of Song Shiqing, as well as Su Yongfu, the general manager of Huang Yizhao's film company. Su Yongfu once worked as the deputy director of a large state-owned film factory, and later had a disagreement with the director and was eviscipated as the chairman of the trade union. Huang Yi knew his ability, so he poached him to serve as the general manager.
After everyone gathered, Chen Tianliao said: "I have an idea recently, I don't know how, you can help me with a consultation." ”
Huang Yi smiled: "Say it quickly." You're a genius, and your ideas are definitely not bad. ”
Chen Tianliao said: "I heard that the Central Television Station is going to shoot "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? They have always had the desire to finish filming the four famous novels, but in the past two years, because of political tasks, they have been filming the series of the Great Battle of the Liberation War, and the funds are insufficient. And their script has been produced, the screenwriter is participating in the screenwriting team, and many experts have put forward opinions, and the scheduled chief director is also the director of the previous "Dream of Red Mansions", and is currently starting to coordinate, only the funds are owed. I think we can invest 300 million in the past. The central TV station is responsible for the production, and our people participate in the production, so let's exercise. ”
Huang Yi was dumbfounded: "You have so much money that you have no place to burn, right?"
Chen Tianliao waved his hand and said, "Of course not." I'm definitely going to make money. I have ceded the copyright of domestic TV to Central TV, while the copyright of overseas distribution and peripheral development rights belong to me. I am confident that I will earn back some of my capital and at the same time make our company's brand known. ”
Huang Yi was stunned and said, "How much can you earn back?"
Chen Tianliao said: "This depends on the business operation. In terms of copyright fees, tens of millions of yuan can be recovered, and the development of peripheral products, just from the Japanese market, I should be able to earn back the capital. ”
Huang Yi was taken aback: "Can you really recover so much money?"
Chen Tianliao nodded seriously and said, "It's just more, not less." ”
Chen Tianliao remembered that in his previous life, when the Central TV station finished filming "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the Japanese wanted to buy the copyright, CCTV shouted the price of $10,000 per episode, and the devil finalized the contract without saying a word, which made the staff of the central TV station feel painful, and the opportunity to slaughter a big household was missed in vain. You must know that after the Bangguo TV series became popular, Huaguo later introduced various shoddy TV dramas from Bangguo, and the price of each episode was almost not less than 10,000 US dollars. And a well-made TV series like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" makes no sense that it is only $10,000 per episode.
Speaking of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" complex of the Wa Kingdom, it is impossible not to mention two names: Hn Fumiyama and Yoshikawa Eiji. "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was introduced to the Wa Kingdom quite early, and one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's think tanks, the great Confucian Lin Luoshan of the Wa Kingdom, read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The first person to translate "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" into the Japanese language was HN Wenshan. Hn Wenshan is not a person, but the pen name of the monk Yoshitoru and Tsuki's cousins, and their translation is not a literal translation, but a form of adaptation. Anyway, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" spread in the Wa Kingdom. Later, the appearance of the painting version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" accelerated the speed of circulation.
At that time, not long after the Warring States Period, when the Wa Kingdom had just finished the Warring States Period, the grander war epics from the mainland countries aroused their great interest in reading. Among them, Zhuge Liang was the most popular, he bravely took on heavy responsibilities just for a promise, and his spirit of dedication and death touched the people of the Japanese country. In fact, the Japanese people worship the kind of heroes who do one thing at a time, no matter how difficult it is, and it will be more perfect if they fail tragically in the end. The image of the prime minister resonated particularly with the Japanese people at that time. The most popular among the generals was Guan Yu, and Guan Erye's spirit of loyalty was the spiritual pillar of the samurai class, the foundation of the social aristocracy at that time.
After the modern Wa Kingdom turned to the West to study, the Wa Kingdom once again rose to the Three Kingdoms fever, and it was Yoshikawa Eiji, the first writer of popular novels (that is, popular novels) (equivalent to Jin Yong's status in the mainland), who serialized the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in newspapers from 1939 ~ 1943, making "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" popular again in the Wa Kingdom. Yoshikawa's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was actually a novel based on other translations based on the preferences of the Wakoku people, so it quickly spread in the Wakoku and became the most popular version of the Wakoku. Since then, most of the anime and game works related to the Three Kingdoms have been based on Yoshikawa's works.
The most famous Three Kingdoms film and television work in the previous life was an anime based on the manga "Three Kingdoms", which was serialized by Yokoyama for 15 years and sold a total of about 70 million copies. The famous composer Yokoyama Jinger (not related to Yokoyama Guangmitsu) wrote famous music for cartoons, among which excerpts such as "Dawn of Heroes" often appear as background music in various Chinese film and television dramas. And the theme song "The Legend of the Flowers" composed and sung by Shinji Tanimura for this cartoon is Chen Tianliao's favorite song of the Japanese Kingdom, and there is no one. As for the live-action version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the Japanese people are more than willing but not enough. They really can't make this kind of historical production. In this time and space, animation works about the Three Kingdoms are also emerging in an endless stream in the Wa Kingdom, and Chen Tianliao's "Three Kingdoms" game is an important work in the game industry of the Wa Kingdom. Therefore, there is no doubt about the sale of the TV series in the Wa Kingdom.
Of course, the copyright fee is only a small matter, and the development of game development and game peripherals is the main thing to make money. In the previous life, series such as "Dynasty Warriors", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" were all games with good sales, and the first batch of online games in China also existed Three Kingdoms games, although they were not as famous as the first online game "King of Kings" and the first really popular online game "Stone Age" in the same period. Chen Tianliao can completely let "Dynasty Warriors" come out in advance.
"But that's still too much money. Huang Yi looked distressed, "How much have you invested in the record company!"
Chen Tianliao smiled: "Sister Yi, the times are different. We need to think differently as well. Now Hollywood has set an example for us, high input can lead to high output! Moreover, this is also a willfulness of me as a fan of the Three Kingdoms. The key is that CCTV does not know whether it is willing to cooperate or not. ”
Huang Yi smiled: "With such generous conditions, it's no wonder they don't cooperate!"
Chen Tianliao said: "Sister Yi, then please help me contact the central TV station, if I can, I can also use the relationship between the country and Xiangjiang, and invite a group of experts from the country and Xiangjiang to come over and complete this TV series together." ”
Huang Yi nodded: "Since you like to be a fortune boy, then I will also run errands for you." What's more, it's also good for our company. But there is one thing, such a loss cannot be counted on the head of the film and television company, but the fame must be counted on the head of the film and television company. ”
Chen Tianliao nodded and said: "This is natural, I will do this in the name of my investment company, and then publicize that the investment company is the largest shareholder of the film and television company." ”
Huang Yi's efficiency is very high. After she found the TV drama production center of Central TV, the TV drama production center was very interested in Chen Tianliao's proposal. The TV station does have an obsession with the filming of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the script has been written since 1992, which is comparable to the previous life, and the funds have been raised. However, the plan was temporarily changed and the Liberation War series was remade according to the above task arrangement, and the funds were misappropriated. Now the project has been re-established, but the funds have only been raised to less than 100 million, which is a huge gap with the budget of 200 million. The 300 million yuan offered by Chen Tianliao is obviously very tempting. So the two sides began to negotiate.
While Huang Yi was negotiating, Chen Tianliao also informed Zhuchuan of the situation and asked her to cooperate in contacting the TV station and television production agency of the Japanese State when necessary. Takekawa naturally agreed. At the same time, Chen Tianliao also asked the game department of the Wa Kingdom to start a project to make "The Legend of Kong Ming in the Three Kingdoms", and he was preparing the game structure of "Dynasty Warriors".
As for the family, Song Shiqing and Tuya often play around accompanied by literary and historical experts arranged by Chen Tianliao. Needless to say, the rabbit teeth from the Wa Kingdom, even Song Shiqing, a chick in the capital, has a deeper understanding of the capital under the leadership of experts in literature and history. They knew that Chen Tianliao was busy, so they didn't bother him when he was working.
Chen Mei, who was on the other side, began to have a bright and bright relationship with Gu Quanquan, and Gu Quanquan often came to visit Chen Aiguo and Li Ximei. Chen Tianliao thought about when to propose to let Gu Quanquan move over to live, anyway, there are many houses, and Chen Mei has a car, so Gu Quanquan can also learn to drive, so commuting is not a problem at all. His impression of Gu Quanquan was much better than that of Huang Gaozhi. Gu Quanquan is a docile and obedient Jiangnan man, and even if he is bookish, he is also very considerate. As for Huang Gaozhi, he has now become a playboy in a record company, and even Zhu Wen, who was once imprisoned for hooliganism and turned to a behind-the-scenes production after being released from prison, has quite a lot of criticism about his style.
Thinking of Huang Gaozhi, Chen Tianliao remembered that he hadn't been to a record company for a while. If the negotiations for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be successful, he must let his record company take down the production of the music. Thinking of this, he decided to take a trip to the record label.