With the popularity of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", Hong Kong Powerlong Film Company began to be a cutting-edge dark horse in the Asian film industry!

In contrast, Taipei Powerlong can hardly find a presence in the industry.

After Gu Long returned to Taiwan, he intended to rectify the branch of the Baolong Film Company in Taipei.

After Gu Long and Zhang Shaojie discussed, Hong Kong Powerlong Film Company established a classic blockbuster with "big cost, big production, and high technical threshold" as the core.

Taiwan's Powerlong Film Company defines it as investing in "small-cost, small-production" literary films.

A low-cost literary film, the most successful case in Taiwan is Qiong Yao.

Of course, Qiong Yao drama is famous for movies at this time. However, the real take-off of Qiong Yao drama is the adaptation of TV series, "Huanzhu Gege" has swept across Asia, and the ratings in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore, and major regions in Southeast Asia are more than 50%.

Historically, South Korea once watched "Huanzhu Gege", a foreign TV series, beating all Korean TV dramas and provoking most of the media condemnation in South Korea after the release of Qiong Yao's drama "Huanzhu Gege", which caused the whole South Korea to watch "Huanzhu Gege", a foreign TV series. So the South Korean political axe ordered that the time period for the screening of "Huanzhu Gege" be adjusted from prime time to early morning.

That's the case, which also caused millions of people in South Korea to stay up late to watch "Huanzhu Gege", and in the end, under the pressure of the film and television industry, the Korean political axe made the most hooligan and scoundrel decision - to ban any Qiong Yao drama from entering the Korean market.

The "Qiong Yao Drama" was banned from South Korea because of its popularity.

This detail can be seen that Taiwan's film and television works similar to Qiong Yao dramas have great market potential.

"Our Hong Kong Baolong, relying on Zhang Shaojie's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", was adapted into a movie and swept the film industry. Ms. Qiong Yao of Taiwan has also adapted her works into movies and has become an evergreen tree in the film industry. Taipei Baolong, imitating Hong Kong Baolong, this is unrealistic. Only by combining the actual situation of Taiwan's film industry can we invest in literary films similar to Qiong Yao operas. In particular, we attach importance to tapping the film adaptation potential of female romance writers and looking for the next Qiong Yao! Gu Long said passionately, "Do you have the confidence to create a miracle that belongs to Taipei Baolong?" Do you have the confidence to find the next Qiong Yao? ”

"Yes!" "I've wanted to do it for a long time!" "Literary films are indeed in line with the actual situation of Taiwan's film industry! "This is a small profit, and there is a head! ”

The morale of everyone in Taipei Baolong is high.

In fact, the core of literary films and romance films is to find a competitive plot and script.

Qiong Yao's script is a successful template for literary films and romance films.

Because, Qiong Yao's ability to become popular proves that the stories she writes are indeed competitive in the market. And adapting this kind of market-tested story into a movie will undoubtedly greatly reduce the risk. And the listing of the movie can also take advantage of the popularity of the version to form the appeal of the movie box office.

As long as you can successfully find the next Qiong Yao and invest hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, it is enough to create a literary film with a small cost and a big hit in the market.

———————— when Gulong was dealing with the affairs of Taiwan's Baolong Branch, the boss of Wansheng Publishing Company came to visit Zhang Shaojie in the East Building.

"Congratulations, Zhang Shaojie! "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has won the box office champion in Hong Kong and Taiwan for a second time! Earning tens of millions of box office in a week, I'm really drooling with envy! "Yu Donglou's current style is obviously a few notches higher than when I only met him last year.

Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "How can you make money in total, you are a publishing giant who earns millions of NT$, and you are already a brother in the entire Taiwanese publishing industry!" ”

Yu Donglou rubbed his hands and said, "Shaojie, you are shivering, you Brother Yu and me, right?" Brother Yu can be developed, and he relied on the Gulong brothers to appreciate his face before. And Shaojie, you are my second nobleman, after the publication of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", the entire Taiwanese publishing industry was impressed by me. These achievements are yours! Brother Yu knows that in the previous contract signed by "Datang", you suffered a loss, but now the money is mainly earned by Wansheng, and the psychology is unbalanced. However, Brother Yu is not a miser, hey, this is for you! ”

Zhang Shaojie stared at it, and a legal document seemed to be the equity transfer document of Wansheng Company.

Huo, it's really a big deal, 5% of the equity of Wansheng Publishing.

"Hehe, the contract of "Datang", the distribution of remuneration has been fixed! However, Brother Yu, I can give you 5% of the company's equity privately, which can be regarded as compensating you for part of your losses" Yu Donglou looked at him.

Zhang Shaojie naturally knows that the scale of the current Wansheng Publishing Company has reached NT$500 million, and the company is basically free of debt.

The employees of Wansheng are young and strong, and they are still early in retirement age, so they do not need to support a large number of retired employees.

5% of the equity of Wansheng Company is greater than the equivalent of NT$25 million in assets.

At this time, Wansheng Company paid Zhang Shaojie 10 episodes of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" as a manuscript fee.

"Well, you find a lawyer to take a look, if there is no problem, you sign it, and after the notarization is completed. You are the third largest shareholder of Wansheng Company! Yu Donglou said with a smile.

Wansheng Publishing Co., Ltd. is the No. 1 shareholder in the East Building, with an equity ratio of 60%.

Gu Long, on the other hand, owns 20% of the shares.

The remaining equity is held by some former investors and the company's outstanding employees.

If Zhang Shaojie becomes the owner of Wansheng, he will become the third shareholder.

Wansheng is very smart in the Taiwanese publishing market.

In the era of martial arts, he used the "first gunman in the world" before the East Building, and wrote for countless writers and formed friendships. Yu Donglou came forward and invited those famous writers to hand over their manuscripts to Wansheng Publishing, so it became a pivotal giant in Taiwan's martial arts market.

In the 90s, when martial arts was in a downturn, Wansheng also quickly transformed into publishing romance, signing a large number of romance female writers such as Xi Juan and Yu Qing, replacing Taiwan's traditional romance giant Crown Publishing House and becoming the most powerful romance publishing group.

For Zhang Shaojie, it is also very necessary to have the right to speak in the Taiwanese publishing market through holding or cooperation.

After all, in the cultural industry that Zhang Shaojie does, text copyright is a very important foundation.

Popular film and television dramas are inseparable from excellent scripts; Anime and games are also inseparable from text settings and plot settings; Even music needs qualified lyrics

Words are the foundation of all entertainment culture.

On the basis of text copyright, it can be extended to other copyrights.

The competitiveness of Chinese culture lies in the written word and in unleashing the imagination of more than one billion people.

However, the mainland's publishing market is obviously not market-oriented enough to fully unleash the imagination of writers.

After the reform and opening up, the reform progress of Chinese mainland publishing houses is obviously much slower than that of traditional industries. Since the 90s, although some private booksellers have gradually risen, they have always been private booksellers, and they need to cooperate with publishers to buy book numbers in the Chinese market before they can publish books. In general, the discourse power of the mainland publishing market is still dominated by the "national team".

In the early days of the Internet era in the early 21st century, because the threshold of the domestic publishing industry was too high, mainland writers of martial arts, romance, fantasy, and fairy tales began to enthusiastically submit their articles to low-threshold Taiwanese publishing houses.

Taiwan's publishing houses are relatively lenient and do not need to make repeated revisions like mainland publications. As long as the monthly stable delivery of 60,000~200,000 words (1~3 episodes) is mainly like a newspaper serialization, you can get a remuneration of 30~200 yuan per thousand words.

Writing for the Taiwanese market rarely makes a fortune. However, Taiwanese publishing undoubtedly has an enlightening effect on the fantasy publishing industry in the mainland. There are more than 300 mainland writers who can write professionally through diligent writing.

And these early writers who wrote for the Taiwanese publishing market later opened the era of VIP fees on Chinese websites, and also became the main force of the Internet.

In fact, in the early days of the development of online VIP in the mainland, there were very few writers who were willing to accept this model. However, due to the recession of Taiwan's publishing industry, some publishing houses have closed down, forcing authors to not get their due remuneration. As a result, a large number of authors in the traditional Chinese market in Taiwan began to gradually try to make money by signing contracts with websites and publishing paid texts on the Internet.

After years of hard work, the "starting point Chinese network" model of China's Internet has become the world's three major digital publishing standards on a par with Amazon e-paper book publishing and mobile phone publishing in the United States.

This kind of Internet has driven a blowout of popular and fantasy in China, and it will not emerge until the beginning of the 21st century.

However, it was too late!

Zhang Shaojie plans to start in the 80s and solicit a wide range of papers from imaginative writers in the mainland. Before the publishing channels in the mainland are not smooth, those copyrights will be published and operated in the two major traditional markets of Hong Kong and Taiwan. In the future, we will use the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets as a springboard to translate competitive Chinese works into English, Chinese, Thai, Korean and other languages.

Through direct competition in the international market, Chinese works will find a way out

Zhang Shaojie described his plan to Yu Donglou.

Yu Donglou hesitated: "Now the mainland cultural market is so conservative, and all that is published is something serious. Can mainland writers write works that entertain the public? ”

Zhang Shaojie said: "What's wrong, many old mainland writers may not be able to write now." However, young writers, as long as they are asked to read some different types of texts such as martial arts, Xianxia, mythology, romance, Western magic, and other different types of texts, there are always people who write according to the gourd painting! ”

"Shaojie, your idea is good, but you have to consider Taiwan's political factors! Do you think that cross-strait relations have been opened up to the extent that the works of mainland writers can be published on a large scale in Taiwan? Yu Donglou hit him and said, "Not to mention mainland writers, even Chinese writers in Singapore have been arrested, detained, and even deported from Taiwan because of political factors!" ”

"Oh, Taiwanese authorities expelled Singaporean Chinese writers? Who is it! Zhang Shaojie said curiously.

(To be continued)