Chapter 345
Cheng Minru and Zhang Lei from the legal department came to the office building of Qidian, and Shang Xuesong, who was the vice president of Qidian, and several people from Qidian greeted them at the door early. (9) VIII] (9) VIII] (9) Read] (9) Book, .2 ≧ ↗
Qidian now has some internal and external troubles, Wu Wenhui doesn't want to fight with the bright times anymore, and attaches great importance to the reception specifications.
"Hello Minister Cheng, I'm Shang Xuesong." Shang Xuesong took the initiative to reach out and shake hands with Cheng Minru.
He is tall, thin and elegant, and his first impression on Cheng Minru is very good.
"The business is always good, and I will look up for a long time." Cheng Minru said to Shang Xuesong after shaking hands with a smile.
After walking into the reception room and chatting a few words, the two sides got to the point.
"Are you planning to buy the film and television rights of "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" and "Celebrating More Than Years", as well as the anime adaptation rights of "Online Game: Melee Mage" and "Legend of the Master"?" Shang Xuesong didn't expect that the original Bright Times was serious.
Cheng Minru pursed her lips and smiled: "Yes." ”
"These books are the hottest books we have started now, and the bright era wants to catch all the most popular books on our website." Shang Xuesong said jokingly.
Shang Xuesong is right, these four are on the list of the most popular books now.
The authors of these four books have both platinum god cat, god-level, and butterfly blue, as well as a new rising direction.
Qidian is not without the idea of running its own website for book copyright, including Shengda Entertainment Strategy, which also includes this part.
It's just that Shengda has now had problems, and basically the prospect of a film and television anime adaptation of Huoshu is still far away.
Therefore, the profit model of Qidian is actually relatively simple, and the vast majority of the profit sources are still shared with the author's subscription, and a very small part is physical books.
As for film and television animation, it only exists in the company's strategy and is not actually implemented.
Cheng Minru listened to Shang Xuesong's words, knew that the other party was joking, smiled and said: "Actually, we have a lot of excellent books in Jinjiang, all of which are in the adaptation plan. It's just that when Mr. Gu was celebrating the New Year, he read some books on a whim, and suddenly had the idea of filming two male frequency adaptation TV series. In fact, as far as the market is concerned, the audience for TV series adapted by female frequency is much larger than that of male frequency. ”
There are two meanings in this statement. First, this is Gu Cancan's idea on a whim, and they are actually not very optimistic. Second, the prospect of adapting the book to the TV series of the male frequency is not necessarily good.
"That's right, Mr. Shang. I don't know if the copyright of these books is in the hands of the website or the author. Cheng Minru asked again.
Shang Xuesong pondered for a few seconds, and still answered honestly: "The copyright belongs to the author, but the website has full agency, which is the same as you Jinjiang." ”
This is not a trade secret, and the author's contract of Qidian can be searched on the Internet.
The right of carte blanche is actually equivalent to taking away all the copyright of the author's book, although the copyright is ultimately in the hands of the author, but the author himself does not have the right to dispose of the copyright of the book.
"Okay, let's get straight to the point," Cheng Minru said: "Our Bright Times plans to buy the film and television adaptation rights of "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" and "Celebrating More Than Years" for 1 million, 500,000 for the anime adaptation rights of "Online Game Melee Mage", and 300,000 for the anime adaptation rights of "The Legend of the Master". What does Mr. Shang think of this price? ”
Among the four authors, god-level, cat-greasy, and butterfly blue are all platinum authors, only the direction is a newcomer author, and the price of film and television adaptation and anime adaptation is of course different.
To be honest, the price quoted by Cheng Minru surprised Shang Xuesong.
Not too low, but too high.
After Qidian Chinese Network became a monopoly, it was not that no one considered adapting some fire books into film and television, and some film and television companies contacted Qidian, but the price was very low, not more than 500,000.
In 2009, the price of 1 million was really not low.
Among the film and television media companies, Bright Times is the one most closely related to online adaptation, and successfully launched "Step by Step", but the copyright of the book purchased at that time did not exceed 500,000.
Shang Xuesong and Wu Wenhui actually have a resistance to buying the copyright of a few books in the bright era.
Shengda's big entertainment strategy, online adaptation of film and television animation is also in the plan, and Wu Wenhui hopes that Shengda can develop these IPs internally.
It's just that he ran for a while, and Shengda had plans for this at first, but now no one even mentions it.
Bright Times wanted to buy the film and television animation copyrights of a few books, Shang Xuesong began to think that the other party came with the mentality of picking up leaks, and now Cheng Minru quoted an unexpectedly high price, which was really unexpected by him, and his next words were disrupted.
As for Cheng Minru's offer, Shang Xuesong wanted to say that it was too low, and it was really difficult to say, so he had to smile and say: "I believe your company came with sincerity, but we need to discuss this price internally." In this way, Minister Cheng might as well come and visit our starting point, we will have a meeting in the afternoon, and we will discuss it again tomorrow? ”
Cheng Minru smiled and nodded.
At the beginning, Gu Cancan told her to quote a high price directly, Cheng Minru was still a little reluctant in her heart, how much did it cost to buy the film and television rights of the book in the bright era, and Liu Cixin's so many films.
However, Gu Cancan said at the time that directly quoting a high price would make Qidian internally entangled, so that their eyes would turn to how much to sell, rather than whether to sell or not.
When it comes to millions of transactions, it is normal to negotiate for a few days, Cheng Minru is not in a hurry, but has a leisurely and leisurely visit the office buildings of Qidian and Shengda accompanied by Qidian employees.
While Cheng Minru and Qidian were negotiating, Gu Cancan was attending the 16th Beijing University Student International Film Festival at Jingcheng University.
The Beijing University Student Film Festival is a cultural activity jointly sponsored by the School of Arts and Media of Beijing Normal University, the National Press and Publication, the Film Channel Program Center, the Huaxia Film Archive, the Huaxia Film Newspaper, the Huaxia Educational Television, the Jingcheng TV, the Jingcheng Radio and Television and many other units.
Founded in 1993, the Beijing University Student Film Festival is the first film festival in China that begins in spring every year. Its authority is widely recognized by people in the film industry, and it is known as an award of international standard in the Chinese film industry.
Many award-winning films have won various awards at the domestic government awards, the Golden Rooster Award, the Hundred Flowers Award and international film festivals such as Tokyo, Berlin and Spain.
Film predecessors Ling Zifeng, famous directors Xie Tieli, Xie Jin, etc. once wrote inscriptions for the college student film festival, hoping that the college student film festival can promote the development of Chinese films.
Although the fame may not be as popular as the three major awards in the domestic film industry {Huabiao Award, Hundred Flowers Award, Golden Rooster Award}, Hong Kong Film Awards, and Tái Wān Golden Horse Awards, it is far inferior to some famous international awards overseas. But since the establishment of this award, its authority has been recognized by the film industry.
This award has become a stage for young directors to try their voices for the first time, and it is also a good opportunity for some well-known stars to be gilded.
In the past, this award was relatively unpopular, but since 2006, radio and television have begun to pay more and more attention to this award.
CCTV's "News Network", "Rén Mín Rì Bào", "Guangming Daily", Beijing TV, Phoenix TV Chinese Channel, "Beijing Morning News", "Beijing Evening News", "Beijing Youth Daily", etc., many heavyweight media began to report on the Beijing University Student Film Award.
Therefore, the gold content of this award has suddenly attracted much attention.
Regarding the issue of the awards of the college student film festival, the judges and contestants are also very clear, these college student judges are actually more susceptible to external influences, regardless of the large number of judges.
Basically, it's relatively simple to win the award of this film festival, and you don't need any subordinate means, no bribes or anything, just buy a bunch of sailors, and blow it hard.
?? Under normal circumstances, I don't particularly want to win the award of this film festival, from the perspective of value, the gold content of the college student film festival award is still not enough, and it is not comparable to the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, let alone the official Huabiao Award.
??? Therefore, many directors and actors are not very concerned about this award.
Gu Cancan didn't put it first before, but this time the film festival warmly invited her, and "Heartbreaker" won a number of nominations, so it is reasonable that Gu Cancan will participate.
?? During the Beijing University Student Film Festival, students with student ID cards can walk into the major exhibition halls and watch the participating films.
The Beijing University Student Film Festival, which began this month, has attracted more than 100,000 college students to watch these participating films.
"Heartbreaker" is undoubtedly the movie with the most viewers.
There are at least more than 20,000 university students. Successively went to the exhibition hall to watch the movie.
Among the exhibited works, it belongs to the king of popularity.
As for the award, Gu Cancan is very confident in winning the award!
Although "Heartbreaker" is a very commercial film, it has been praised at the national level, and the film festival cannot make "Heartbreaker" fail considering a certain impact.
?? Although winning awards has never been based on popularity, the more popular it is, the more difficult it is to win awards, in major film festivals around the world, I often see popular movies and accompany the prince to study.
And some unpopular movies with few audiences are favored by the judges, and in the end, they won a bunch of awards.
For example, when "Xiao Wu" was exhibited at the Berlin Film Festival, there were not many audiences at the scene to see this movie.
But it was inexplicably favored by the judges, and after winning the award, the movie began to become popular.
Although the University Student Film Festival claims to listen to the opinions of some audiences, the right of interpretation is still decided by the expert judges.
Instead of the audience voting for the audition, whoever gets the highest vote will get the prize.
Assuming that whoever wins the award is selected according to the popularity of the film, commercial films will definitely crush literary films without suspense.
Therefore, in order to support the rise of literary and artistic films, the major awards have adopted various mechanisms to suppress commercial films!
For this kind of scene, Gu Cancan is very open, and the Xiangjiang Academy Awards have not awarded Zhou Xingchi for a long time, but most of the movies that won the award are given to Zhou Xingchi's movie shoes?
However, "Heartbreaker" is different from ordinary commercial films, this movie broke the box office of "Titanic", and it has been specially reported at the national level.
Gu Cancan believes that "The Heartbreaker" should be able to win several awards at this college student film festival.
You can't underestimate the news program that plays for 30 minutes every day and never talks about the end of the show.
So she came to the scene in a hurry.
"Gu Cancan, your film has been nominated and exhibited at the College Student Film Festival, and this seems to be your first time participating in the Beijing University Student International Film Festival, is there anything you want to say to the audience?" At the scene of an exhibition hall, the reporter asked around Gu Cancan.
"I'm very excited, but it's all about participating, and a lot of people watching my movies are already the highest praise for me. As for whether I win that award or not, I don't really care. Gu Cancan said with a smile.
???“ Young lady, you are so great! I will always have your back! ”
"Did you make a new movie?
"Little sister, I'm going to give you a monkey ......"
A rough voice suddenly shouted.
The scene burst into laughter, Gu Cancan smiled, waved his hand to the students, and turned around and walked into the venue.
Originally, the attention of the college student film festival can only be said to be general, and this kind of award ceremony in our country has always been inferior to foreign countries, not to mention that the name of this film festival is still the word Beijing before, but this year's session is different, very different.
Who will win each award, a lot of media, a lot of people are paying attention.
After the interview was over, we entered the venue, and the award ceremony officially began.
"Heartbreaker" was originally a movie that had already been released, and whether or not to win the award actually did not help Gu Cancan and the box office of this movie.
But think about it from another angle, Gu Cancan hasn't won any blockbuster awards so far, whether she can get a best director this time, she also has some expectations.
Since the end of March, the Film Awards have set up booths on many university campuses to show films to students and young people throughout Beijing.
In addition, some lectures were also held during the period, and well-known directors and stars were invited to give speeches to literary and artistic young people on campus, and to accept questions.
Gu Cancan, Guan Hu and others are already well-known directors, and during this time, they also took time to communicate face-to-face with some college students on campus.
As a college student film festival, many film and television-related students are very concerned about this award.
When Gu Cancan communicated with the students, he found that there were really a lot of talents here, and during the exchange, he fooled some literary and artistic young people to become interns in the bright era.
Students with specialties such as art, music, computer science, etc., as long as they have "dreams" and "strength", and can accept a starting monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, then ...... It is not difficult to join the bright era.
So during the film festival, Gu Cancan discovered more than a dozen newcomers and joined the team of Bright Times.
Almost everyone who joins the company has a skill.
In addition, there is at least one hobby for film and television, music, comics, animation, games, stage plays or cross talk, and it is a hardcore hobby. In this way, the bright era of students will also be welcomed, and the reserve cadres will welcome you......
All in all, Gu Cancan turned the face-to-face exchange between the film festival and college students into a job fair.
On the 18th, the official results of the Beijing University Student Film Festival were released.
Sure enough, as Gu Cancan expected, "Heartbreaker" won the Best Feature Film Award, and actress Liu Lili, who participated in this film, won the Best Actress.
Wang Qianyuan didn't win any awards, only been nominated.