119 The second season of "Emperor Wu".
After Heihuai Capital and Xu's Investment became shareholders, they did not meddle in any management matters except for sending people to supervise finances. This is also one of the conditions for taking shares.
Zhong Yue wants to run the company according to his own vision, rather than being constrained at every turn.
After the successful financing, the company's original department did not make any adjustments, and all his energy was spent on building an app store and the restructuring of Easy Changyou.
After the successful financing of Yisoft Company, Zhong Yue's prestige has also reached its peak, and he does not have to do everything himself as before. Through Black Acacia Capital, he directly poached people from other companies, and then established the app store in the fastest time.
He positioned the APP for easy management to be intelligent. The same is true for app stores, where hardware support is also essential to achieve intelligent services.
Now that he has $200 million in hand, he will naturally not be as stingy as before in terms of hardware investment.
Everything is in full swing, just waiting for the app store to go live.
On the other hand, the reorganization of Easy Changyou has arranged all the staff. Started to renovate the entire floor, as well as buy server hosting.
When he was preparing for financing in Yisoft Company, he transferred most of the funds on the book back to Yichangyou, plus the share of the five games last month, adding up to more than 100 million. The money on hand is quite abundant.
It was in the midst of this hustle and bustle that the time began to enter July. Summer vacation is here.
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On the morning of July 2, Zhong Yue took time out to go to the animation studio. As soon as I arrived at the place, I saw my cousin Liu Nianzhou talking with someone.
"Let me introduce you. ”
As soon as Liu Nianzhou saw him. And he brought the man over. Say. "This is the owner of the studio and the director and producer of "Diwu", Zhong Yue. ”
"Hello, I've admired the name for a long time. The man was about thirty years old, slightly fat, and looked quite honest, and when he heard that he was Zhong Yue, he stepped forward to shake hands with him. The attitude is quite enthusiastic.
Liu Nianzhou introduced him and said, "This is a red eggplant, you must have heard of it." ”
Zhong Yue's eyes lit up, and he held the hand of the red eggplant vigorously and said, "Hello, I have also admired your name for a long time." ”
Red Tomato is the top god in the online literature industry, and Zhong Yue came over today, one of the purposes is to meet him.
The three of them chatted for a while, and Qi Xuefang came over and said. "Director Zhong, people from several video sites have already come. Would you like to come over and say hello?"
Zhong Yue said, "Everyone came to see the sample film today. Let's go together. ”
The first season of "Emperor Wu" has long since ended its broadcast on the Internet. There are 20 episodes in the whole season, with a total of more than 80 million views, even if it is scattered in several video websites, the results are very impressive. With the price of "Diwu" as low as cabbage, several video websites can be said to have picked up a big bargain.
And Director Liu of the TV station did not break his promise, half a month ago, "Diwu" finally appeared on the TV station, although it was only a terrestrial channel. But for animation studios, it was already a bonus. "Diwu", a non-child-oriented, and strong online style animation, they never thought they could be on TV at the beginning.
Since "Diwu" became popular on the Internet, Qi Xuefang and they have worked hard to start producing the second season, because it is a sequel, many of the settings and scenes directly use the first season, and the workload is much less, in less than two months, the second season has a total of 30 episodes, including the later stage, has been produced.
Zhong Yue participated in the whole production process, no matter how busy he was at work every day, he would go to the studio to discuss the plot with Qi Xuefang and them. With the run-in of the first season, the production team has been able to roughly grasp his ideas, so that he has to worry a lot less.
After the news of the completion of the production of the second season of "Diwu" was revealed, people from several video websites contacted the studio one after another, hoping to get the exclusive broadcast rights. With the success of the first season as a foundation, as long as the standard can be maintained, the results of the second season will definitely surpass the first season.
What's more, this is a domestic human-oriented animation, which can be said to be a relatively blank field, and it is currently the only one. Being able to win its exclusive broadcast rights means that it has won a part of the audience who love this kind of animation. Therefore, don't watch the broadcast volume of "Diwu" is far less than those popular TV series, but the influence should not be underestimated.
Zhong Yue invited people from several video websites to watch the sample film together. It just so happened that Liu Nianzhou was going to bring red eggplants over, so he simply arranged it today.
After greeting representatives of several video websites who came to watch the sample for a while, Zhong Yue asked Qi Xuefang to prepare the projector and start watching the film.
Red Eggplant didn't expect to meet so many people, listening to the introduction, they are all people from the largest video sites in China. I can't help but pay more attention to the strength of the studio.
The animation has started to play. The first is a brief replay of the plot, so that people who have not watched the first season can also watch the second season directly without any obstacles.
Red Tomato was quickly attracted to the animation, and after watching a few episodes, Qi Xuefang paused to let everyone take a break. He recalled, in terms of personal feelings, there were still some deficiencies in terms of bridges and rhythms. But the excellent picture and soundtrack set off the atmosphere very well, and this little flaw does not affect the perception at all.
He sighed in his heart that compared to novels, which can only rely on words, animation is much richer in expression, visually, and audibly, giving people a more intuitive feeling and making people more immersive.
Ten minutes later, the animation resumed.
After watching thirty episodes of the anime, a whole day has passed.
Red Eggplant stood up, moved, and sat all day, sore and sore. At this time, he saw someone come in and call everyone from the video site away.
"I'm so hungry, do you want to go out and eat something?" Liu Nianzhou, who was sitting next to him, stretched his waist and said, "I see that Zhong Yue is still busy, let's come back and find him." ”
Red Eggplant heard him say, "Okay. ”
More than half an hour later, the two came back after eating, and sure enough, those people from the video site had already left.
"How is it, has the result been reached?" Liu Nianzhou grabbed a person and asked.
"Guess what the highest bid is?" said the man who was pulled had a bright smile on his face and sold the guanzi.
When Liu Nianzhou saw his appearance, he knew that he must have sold it for a high price, and said, "I can't guess, you can just say it." ”
The dancer said, "Several video websites are all rushing for the exclusive broadcast right, and at the beginning, Lu Shi shouted 700,000 episodes." ”
Hearing this price, Liu Nianzhou was shocked, you must know that in the first season, there were 20 episodes in the whole season, and they were sold to five video websites, with a total of 400,000. Now the price of an episode is almost double that of the first season. This increase is simply exaggerated. (To be continued......)
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