Chapter 1580 Selling Copyrights
So this time, the display arranged by Daqian for newcomers was very successful, and a large number of newcomers were paid attention to by major film companies, and many of them were even recruited by Hollywood's film experience.
However, the most fruitful thing is actually Daqian Movie, which recruits the most top-notch part of these newcomers to further enrich Daqian's talent pool.
This time the film festival, in addition to the huge flow of visitors, there is also a huge progress, that is, the number of commercial cooperation has also increased several times.
In fact, as a film festival, its main function is to build a communication and cooperation platform for film producers and film distributors, so that some excellent film works can be distributed to every corner of the world through film distributors around the world.
This is actually of a public welfare nature, because there is never a shortage of distributors for Daqian's films, as long as the name of Daqian's movies is taken out, even if you haven't seen a second of movie screens, there will still be a large number of film distributors, crying and shouting for the release of Daqian's movies.
The real need for these platforms is for small studios that lack access to distribution around the world and need to showcase their work through this platform to get the chance to be released around the world.
For example, many Chinese movies, for a long time, even in 2020, Chinese movies have always been in a state of nesting and have never been released to the world.
However, with the establishment of the Imperial Capital International Film Festival, many Chinese films have been in contact with film distributors around the world, and finally reached a distribution agreement with 16 films, which will be released in more than 110 countries in total, which is not reached in 2020.
But this time, because of the influence of Daqian films in the world, these Chinese films have been favored by capital to a certain extent and have the opportunity to go global.
On the other hand, Daqian Movies has also got some unexpected opportunities.
On the 6th day after the opening of the film festival, when he was still in the company's headquarters, guiding the newly established rank department and improving the rank system, the secretary put a request report in front of Boss Jia.
It turned out that during the film festival, Hollywood's MGM Film Company took the initiative to find Daqian Films, expressing the hope of buying the copyright of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".
According to the description in this report, MGM wanted to buy the film rights of the first part of The Legend of Sword and Fairy, and then use it to adapt and shoot the movie, and finally release it worldwide.
This news made Boss Jia himself startled, this is the first time he has met a Hollywood film company to buy a film adaptation copyright of pure Chinese culture.
But if you think about it carefully, this is also normal, after all, with the global sales of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2" exceeding 20 million copies, this fully proves that in many people's mouths, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" just relied on the policy of free gifts to achieve great success, which is essentially rubbish, and no fan's assertion is wrong.
Otherwise, how could "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2", which costs as much as $69 a copy, sell 20 million copies?
This shows that "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" has at least 20 million fans around the world, and if it is adapted into a movie, it will be at least $200 million at the global box office!
If you count the many players who play piracy, it is very likely that the global box office will break 500 million.
Especially in recent years, MGM's situation is quite bad, although it can launch one or two movies every year, but the box office has not been able to exceed 100 million US dollars, which makes MGM's situation worse every day, and even repeatedly rumored that it is going to be acquired, and it is normal for them to want to use "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" to increase their value.
Moreover, MGM also has a tradition of changing games into movies in history, such as Tomb Raider or something, and they are also very optimistic about changing games into movies.
In particular, the storyline of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is very good and very suitable for adaptation into a movie, so in the end, MGM took the initiative to find Daqian Movie, hoping to win the copyright of the adaptation.
In this regard, Daqian Movie is confused, because Daqian Film actually does not have the copyright of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and even Daqian Games does not have the copyright of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".
This copyright is in the hands of Daqian Culture, or all the well-known IPs under Daqian are directly operated by Daqian Culture.
But Daqian Culture didn't dare to make decisions without authorization, because "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is one of Daqian's most famous IPs, and no matter how you look at it, it should be filmed by Daqian Movies itself, how can it be sold to others to shoot.
Therefore, Daqian Culture did not dare to make a decision, and the request report was finally sent to Boss Jia, who personally decided.
"......" Boss Jia couldn't help but hesitate, he actually had no plans to shoot "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and he wasn't sure if this kind of pure Chinese mythological story could sell at the box office worldwide.
Don't look at the amazing sales of the game of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", but in the future film market, a large number of games will be changed to movies and die violently, which is very revealing.
Therefore, the success of the movie "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" depends on the level of film shooting and the audience's acceptance of the culture contained in the movie.
To be honest, Chinese movies don't seem to be very popular all over the world, and the probability of hitting the street is still very high. Therefore, Boss Jia has never dared to shoot "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".
Because once it is filmed and hits the street, Daqian Film wants to start the filming of Chinese movies again in the future, just waiting for the results of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" movie.
If the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" movie succeeds, then the film that proves Chinese culture will also work in the global market, and if it fails, then Boss Jia will decide these things more carefully.
But now, MGM took the initiative to jump out, saying that he was going to shoot "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and he also made a lot of bids, taking out $10 million in copyright fees in one go.
Although this money is not much in the eyes of Daqian Films, in the film industry, the copyright fee of 10 million is definitely a ceiling-level number.
"What do you think?" Boss Jia threw the problem in front of the president of Daqian Culture.
"It's hard to say!" The president lowered his head and said, "If the copyright is sold and the future film sells well, then the loss is actually Daqian Movie." If the movie does not sell well, then the film of Chinese culture will definitely suffer a major setback in the world. Moreover, I am very skeptical that a rice company can make a good film of Chinese culture. ”
"So you don't think you should sell it!" Boss Jia asked with squinted eyes.
"No, as the president of Daqian Culture, I think it should be sold!" The president of Daqian Culture made a sharp turn, and then secretly prostituted Boss Jia, and only after finding that the other party did not seem to have an angry expression on his face, he said boldly.
"Why?" Boss Jia asked curiously.
"Because this is the largest order of our Daqian Culture since its establishment, our Daqian IP has never been sold for a high price of $10 million, so our Daqian Culture's performance will be better!" The president of Daqian Culture said honestly.
"Haha, well said!" Boss Jia laughed, "Since this is the case, then the copyright will be sold, you go and sign a contract with MGM, but you have to tell MGM." The contract signed by the film must stipulate that if MGM cannot make the total global box office of the film exceed 300 million US dollars, then Daqian will take back the copyright of The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1! ”
"If he can sell the total box office of more than 300 million US dollars, then I am in charge, and the copyright of The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2 will be sold to them for 10 million US dollars!" Boss Jia laughed.