Chapter 627 IP Auction Conference (2nd Update)
The hot summer, the hot summer box office market, when July comes, "Jurassic Park" has raised its box office to an almost incredible level!
This sci-fi commercial blockbuster was released for half a month, and the box office was like a snowball in the film market in various regions of the world, and there was no convergence momentum. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The global box office exceeded $1 billion in 11 days, continuing its strong momentum and breaking many box office records: North American opening weekend box office records, global opening weekend box office records, North American first-week box office records, and global first-week box office records, becoming a new record holder for the fastest time to cross the $1 billion box office mark in film history.
Pixar's blockbuster animated "Mind Squad," which just released this weekend, has also become the film's underdog, with "Jurassic Park" becoming the first film since 1995 to cost Pixar Animation the box office title in its opening weekend.
Originally, some regions that have not yet been released have added new impetus to box office growth, and "Jurassic Park" is probably the most popular sci-fi film among Japanese audiences, and their love for monsters like dinosaurs is definitely one of the best!
So "Jurassic Park" also successfully beat anime movies on this magical island, leading the box office of the summer file from the beginning, and contributed almost 6 billion yen to the box office of dinosaurs in a few weeks, which is almost $40 million.
It is even expected to become the box office champion of the year this year, and fight your way out among a number of anime movies!
This is the highest-grossing film in the film adaptation of Lin Han's novel, "The Martian" is relatively restrictive, and the IP is inferior to "Jurassic Park", and the gap between "Immortality" is even more obvious.
Now the film market is uncertain, it is difficult to predict which movie can become popular and which movie will hit the street at the box office, but filmmakers seem to have reached a consensus: if you want the box office to be popular, find Lin Han to buy IP!
Although the price will definitely be very high, the effect is also obvious after buying, look at which of these movies that have bought Lin Han is not making a lot of money?
When "Jurassic Park" didn't conquer cities around the world before, there were second and third generations like Wang Bin who came to the door, and now who doesn't look at the box office of dinosaurs?
From the coal boss to the film company established by BAT, from the old domestic film production company to the top Hollywood company, there are many people who have taken a fancy to Lin Han's IP!
Universal Pictures, Fox, Sony Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Huayi Brothers, Guangguang Media, Orange Entertainment, and Alibaba Pictures are almost all familiar names.
They upset Miao Hong, there were people waiting in the company's living room all day long, and some people even worked tirelessly to track down the filming site of "The Matrix"!
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"Boss, it's not okay to go on like this, your novel is like a beacon in the night, attracting all the wolves, and now they have affected our office, which is not a good thing!"
Miao Hong looked physically and mentally exhausted, don't think that he didn't do anything all day, but in fact, he was responsible for the cooperation between Paramount, Renmin University Press, and Penguin Publishing Group, without this hub, the whole small group would not be able to unite at all.
It can be said that "Jurassic Park" can have such a big success, and he has also made great contributions.
After Lin Han heard Miao Hong's words, he shook his head and said, "Can you speak normally, why does it sound like a crepe." It's impossible for us to be bad with them, but we don't need to be so restrained, they just want to wait in the company, isn't this trying to force us to give them an explanation?"
Anyway, the tea and drinks in the company don't cost a few dollars, and it is okay to provide the employees and CEOs of these companies with summer heat out.
"Boss, have you ever thought of coming up with a novel for them to compete for, which can not only test the current market, but also solve the current predicament, and even raise money for investment, which is simply counted in one fell swoop!"
Previously, Lin Han and Spielberg reached a preliminary agreement on adapting his novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and he is still in negotiations with DreamWorks.
Galaxy Pictures' idea is to invest in film shooting with DreamWorks and bear 30% of the cost, of which Lin Han's novel will be converted at 8% of the cost, which means that Lin Han actually only needs to give 22% of the cost!
This price is actually very conscientious, after all, Lin Han can get a 5% full copyright dividend on a big project like "Jurassic Park".
At that time, he was not as famous as he is now, nor did he have such a good box office performance, in popular terms, Lin Han at that time was just a second- or third-tier writer, and now he has become a top writer, his value is naturally different, and it is normal for prices to rise!
DreamWorks disagrees with the price, hoping that there will be funds to come in to alleviate their cost pressure, but on the other hand, they feel that Galaxy Pictures is too little help for them to even play any positive role in the Chinese film market.
So the staff on both sides are still working on the water, constantly discussing all kinds of details, after all, Spielberg's new project will definitely be a big production, and DreamWorks even issued a slogan of a cost of 200 million US dollars.
Even if Lin Han only needs to come up with 22%, it will be tens of millions of dollars, and almost all of Galaxy Pictures' current money is invested in "The Matrix", and there is almost no extra money to come up with!
Lin Han himself is very rich, but he and Galaxy Pictures are two separate entities, unless they are willing to pay their own money to continue to inject capital, otherwise they have to find more channels to make money.
Of course, "Jurassic Park" sells so well, Lin Han's dividends will naturally not be less, but the devil knows how long it will take for Paramount to settle, and this kind of thing in the entertainment industry is not sure at all!
Fortunately, the filming of the movie did not hand over all the funds at once, but transferred them in batches, which greatly reduced the pressure on Galaxy Pictures.
"There's some truth to what you're saying. Lin Han touched his chin and thought seriously, "We can't finish filming so many movies and TV series, otherwise we will take them out to test the water and make some money by the way." ”
Miao Hong was happy in his heart, his boss is really not the kind of person who eats the old, and now that the IP trend on the market has reached its peak, an ordinary novel can sell tens of millions of yuan, which of Lin Han's books is not a classic, maybe it can set a new high in sales.
He hurriedly echoed and said: "Yes, use the auction method to save those film production companies from coming to us to trouble, so which novel do you think we should take out better, how about "The Three-Body Problem"? This will definitely cause a sensation!"
"The Three-Body Problem is kept for me, this is a trump card, I can shoot at least 3 films, and I can't sell it to others. I want to read it, and let's find some novels that our company doesn't plan to make on its own. ”
Lin Han thought about it seriously, and he immediately spoke: "Just "The Time Traveler's Wife" and "The Wandering Earth", a sci-fi romance, a more shocking short story!"
A considerable part of the readers of "The Time Traveler's Wife" are women, and this kind of touching and heartfelt love story should be very marketable, depending on how the director casts and shoots, at least there is a basic plate.
Although the length of "The Wandering Earth" is very short, it is more than enough to put it in a movie, if the director can really shoot the brake era, the escape era, and the wandering era, it is not a shocking movie, and the emotions revealed in it are also very sincere!
Many readers regard this short story as a masterpiece in science fiction, and even think that it is even better than "The Three-Body Problem"!
This is the most suitable for adaptation into a movie in his short stories, the plot must have a plot, the setting must be set, the picture must have a sense of picture, the length is just right, and there is a god twist at the end.
Therefore, Lin Han can also be called full of sincerity, and he took out such an excellent novel for auction.
Miao Hong thought that Lin Han would come up with works like Resident Evil, but he didn't expect these two works, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was extraordinarily appropriate, taking care of the preferences of most people!
"Both of these works are quite well-known, and there should be many film companies interested. ”
Lin Han glanced at him and asked, "How are you going to do this auction, inviting so many people to auction these two works seems to be a bit of a fuss?"
Miao Hong said confidently: "This is no problem, we don't have to do it ourselves at all, there are others to help organize it." Didn't a cultural industry expo with Chinese characteristics be held in Yanjing recently? They held a Chinese film and television literature copyright auction conference over there, which will be held just three days later!"
"Okay, it turns out that you have been prepared for a long time, just waiting for me to say this. Lin Han shook his head, it is of course a good thing to be able to save time and effort and also be able to appear at this kind of conference held by the state, and have the largest number of buyers.
"It's just a coincidence, I'll get in touch with the organizers over there later. Although they have started to promote it, there are few works that can compare to ours, it is easy to cut a line, and they will probably be very welcome!"
This is to tell the truth, many IP transactions are negotiated between the two parties in private, and few come to the table for auction.
Especially this is the first film and television literature copyright auction, they need to have heavyweight works to town, and now Lin Han has given them this opportunity!
Although it was only three days, when Miao Hong submitted Lin Han's two works to the organizers, the organizers immediately said that they would be the finale of the auction, and promised to immediately update the product catalog and send these messages to all film production companies.
Originally, many film companies that didn't plan to participate in this expo couldn't sit still, and even many Hollywood companies even went directly to Yanjing with high-level filming, they wanted to grab the film rights of these two works!