Chapter 592: "Prison Break" Seeks Buyers
Creating a comic company is gradually on the agenda in Li Chencan's imagination.
If you are a comic company, you need resources and the like, and now Li Chencan has a way to get it, as for the next survival state of this comic company, it is also very simple, because although Li Chencan does not have any details of the complete comics - he has not seen them, but Li Chencan can write a little bit of a comic that needs attention according to some of the animations he has seen, and some movies he has seen, and then let the copywriters write the story and hand it over to themselves. And then they gave the stories to some painters to draw them.
Then, take what they draw and run it...... These things are very simple to operate.
After Li Chencan valued this, he also began to prepare, but he is indeed seriously understaffed now, and his own words, many times he has to be responsible for the launch of many new things, and he also needs to review many things, and he can't let some people mess with it...... In short, Li Chencan has a lot of things to do day by day.
This preparation is now some preliminary efforts, and it will not be completed in a short period of time.
It won't be long before Li Chencan will go over to shoot "Batman: The Dark Knight".
"Batman: The Dark Knight" is a very important movie, in the Batman trilogy, this movie is the most acclaimed and the most influential, if Li Chencan can't make this movie, then his restoration of the "Batman" trilogy in this world will be a little lacking. Of course, now Li Chencan wants to make "Batman: The Dark Knight", there is really no problem. The main problem is that he wants to really make the influential "Batman: The Dark Knight", rather than just make a movie to deal with the audience.
To deal with the audience is to deal with yourself.
Since you plan to truly restore the charm of "Batman: The Dark Knight". Li Chencan had to do his best to be strict with himself, and asked himself to devote all his thoughts to the shooting of this movie.
For the problems of many industries, Li Chencan can't think too much about it.
Li Chencan's current involvement in too many industries is indeed too many, to the point that he himself can't count them quickly, and if you add comics, this is even more of a huge thing...... This is indeed the birth of a super entertainment empire, and now they have more than a billion dollars in assets. If you count the copyright value of these films, this number can be increased by a large margin, which is the ability of Li Chencan in various industries now.
This is also the birth of an entertainment empire that Li Chencan is trying to build.
"Comics?" After Wei Ansheng heard Li Chencan's thoughts. Recently, he has been so busy that his feet don't touch the ground, not only did he not feel unhappy, but on the contrary, Li Chencan could see some excitement in his expression. Truly. He was very excited when he heard Li Chencan's thoughts.
"There's a need for something like that." Wei Ansheng said: "Our current superhero movie "Batman" has gradually become famous, and everyone says that the film "Batman" belongs to adults, so in this case, as long as we develop comics, the two fan groups can also integrate and transform each other and promote each other!" ”
Indeed, this is the case. Comics and movies are often mutually reinforcing.
Li Chencan nodded and said, "That's what I thought." Another thing I'm thinking about now is that I have a lot of other superhero ideas in my head, so if we set up a comic company, we can find a bunch of artists to bring the stories of these superheroes to life. Hearing this, Wei Ansheng looked at Li Chencan with a somewhat strange look: "There are so many superheroes, are you planning to shoot them yourself?" ”
He's really worried...... If Li Chencan plans to continue filming superheroes, he probably won't have much time.
Li Chencan shook his head: "No...... I'll just shoot "Batman" and leave the rest to someone else. ”
Li Chencan feels that among all the superhero movies, the one who is really suitable for him is Batman.
In fact, there are many entanglements in other superhero movies, such as the human-machine contradiction of Iron Man, and he himself is indeed a rich and handsome man similar to Batman who relies on technology, of course, it can also be said that Spider-Man's entanglement, he himself has become a hero who can protect the world, but his own life has been messed up...... It's very tangled, but what Li Chencan really feels is Batman, and Batman involves not only the entanglement of one person, but also the entanglement of the world.
"Oh, that's good." Hearing that Li Chencan didn't want to shoot so many superhero movies by himself, Wei Ansheng nodded, and then, the matter of the comic company was gradually put on the agenda.
As for the name of the comic company......
After thinking about it for a long time, Li Chencan said to Wei Ansheng: "In this way, let's call it Magic Comics Company." ”
He remembered Marvel in his previous life, but he directly used Marvel Company, which felt weird, and after thinking about it for a long time, Li Chencan planned to call it Magic Comics Company, but in English, these two seem to be the same word...... Therefore, in terms of English name, Li Chencan's film company has become Marvel Comics Company, which makes Li Chencan a little depressed, but the Chinese name of this company must be Magic Comics Company.
Although Li Chencan didn't read comics in his previous life, he basically knew a lot about Marvel's movies, and he had watched most of them......
At a time when things like the comic company began to start construction and gradually became noisy, Li Chencan and the others are now facing another matter.
Li Chencan watched the first ten episodes of the first TV series "Prison Break" filmed by his own storm TV series production company...... Because there is no pressure on the financial side anyway, "Prison Break" simply filmed ten episodes directly, anyway, it can save a little money, and now the TV series has been filmed for ten episodes, and it is really time to negotiate the price with the TV station, but the initial record is not too good.
Because now, TV dramas are being rejected by several pay TV stations......
Li Chencan's positioning of "Prison Break" is very clear, this TV series has a tight rhythm and a lot of information, and one episode can include many other things, which is not at all comparable to the short saliva drama in the parents, and this TV series is not something that those free TV stations can cover.
At present, this kind of TV drama production method in the United States is completely commercialized, and the production company has to provide the TV network with a script outline, which includes the general plot of the TV, the main character settings, the relationship between the characters, the scene settings and other basic content.
Even if the creative outline is approved by the TV network, in order to ensure the "right of first refusal", the TV network should also pay the production company a fee for the filming license, which generally accounts for 70 to 85% of the cost of the TV series. In this way, the TV production company only needs to bear a small part of the investment risk. In this way, the production company can not only spread the risk, but also ensure that the TV is tailored to its own needs.
Then, after the first round of broadcasts, the American drama is surveyed according to the audience ratings of a professional ratings research company, and if the ratings are high, the TV series will continue to be broadcast, and the next season will be booked before the end of this season. On the contrary, TV dramas with average audience response or low ratings will be brutally eliminated by the market, or even suspended from broadcasting.
However, in recent years, this model has gradually undergone some changes, that is, some TV drama production companies also have a model that is to have TV drama production companies produce TV dramas first, and then look for TV station buyers and seek cooperation with TV stations.
This approach shifts all the pressure to the TV production company, and it is not tailor-made by the TV network for the TV production company...... Therefore, there may be some problems with this model, but the benefits are also very obvious, that is, this production method is less interfered with by TV stations, and it is very likely that high-quality products will appear, and in this way, TV drama production companies can get more income from TV dramas.
With such benefits, there have been many TV drama companies that have independently produced their own TV dramas over the years, but in that case, they have to find their own buyers.
"Prison Break" is like that, now you need to find a buyer yourself...... But now, several major pay TV stations in the United States seem to be a little difficult to get started with "Prison Break", and more people who want to buy the copyright of "Prison Break" are those free TV stations.
There are now several major free-to-air TV stations in the United States, although these TV stations charge cable maintenance fees, and then there are family packages, the family package of $20 a month can receive the least number of stations, which is the poor package, and the family package of $70 a month is the general package...... These stations charge a maintenance fee, but they are advertised.
Purely without advertising, there are real pay TV stations, and there are only five largest pay TV stations in the United States, and the others are all broadcast. Movie or other TV series that are not very popular, "Prison Break" is indeed a bit blind in those places.
Li Chencan's goal is to make "Prison Break" broadcast on one of the five major pay TV stations, but the current HB TV station and CWV TV have made it clear that it is not easy to arrange the launch time of "Prison Break", so they refused to broadcast "Prison Break".
If "Prison Break" can be broadcast on these TV stations, it is basically a sharing model, if it is bought out, Li Chencan himself will not agree anyway, if a TV series like "Prison Break" is bought out, it will be too wasteful. (To be continued......)