Chapter 257: Newsworthiness
In the afternoon of the same day, the media team of CCTV came to the hotel and started this interview in the living room of the suite where Fan Zhe lived.
The team's photographers, assistants and other staff set up the scene, and the reporter in the lead, who looked to be around twenty-seven or eighteen years old, had a good face, just a 'CCTV face'.
He stepped forward with a smile, shook Fan Zhe's hand, and introduced himself: "I am a reporter from CCTV TV, Yuan Ran." ”
"Hello."
"This interview is a bit rushed, I sent you the outline before, I don't know if Mr. Fan has read it?"
"I've seen it, it's no problem."
"That's good, we'll basically follow the outline later, and I won't ask any inappropriate questions, so you can rest assured. We will be on our plane back to China tonight, and I estimate that we will be able to do this interview in the next few days. ”
"Thank you for your hard work."
chatted for a while, and the filming arrangement of the interview was quickly completed.
The two sat separately on the sofa, and the interview officially began.
An interview didn't take too long, it only lasted about an hour and a half, and after it was over, the two sides shook hands and ended, and then Li Zhen also took the group of people from CCTV to have a meal together.
Fan Zhe and Ye Jiayi didn't go, this kind of dinner, with their rank, there is no need to condescend.
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Yuan Ran, a reporter from CCTV, hurriedly embarked on the journey back to China after having a meal under the banquet with Li Zhen and others.
For them, this interview with Fan Zhe was a complete accident.
It is true that China's policies and environment in cultural industries such as games, comics, and movies tend to be relatively conservative compared to the mainstream of the world. But at the end of the day, everything is moving towards being more open and inclusive. Even if there are some repetitions, sometimes driving and reversing, but overall, it is still improving.
For example, the E3 exhibition, this year's top domestic official media such as CCTV also sent a reporting team. The content of E3 will also be broadcast in the evening news broadcast.
This is actually a demonstration of attitude.
Before Yuan Ran came to E3 this time, he saw the name of Wedo Entertainment on the list of press conferences, and he also knew that this company was from China.
However, he didn't pay much attention to it at first.
Although he has heard a little bit about the company 'Dimension Entertainment' in China, he doesn't know much about it, only that this is a company that does film and animation, and he has never seen any of their works.
Such a company suddenly made a game, and then ran to E3, Yuan Ran was very unimpressed with this at first.
Many domestic companies like to do this. made a game, spent some money, thought of a way, put it on such a famous exhibition abroad, and even dredged the relationship to get an unimportant award, and then used it as a name to return to China to hype, export to domestic sales, and get a batch of stable.
In fact, not only games, but also many industries like to play like this.
In Yuan Ran's opinion, the so-called "Taiwu Painting Volume 2" of Wedo Entertainment is probably just this way.
As a result, Yuan Ran, as the reporting team dispatched by CCTV, focused on the E3 exhibition itself, and it was over as a comprehensive report.
As a result, I didn't expect that in the 'garbage time' at the end of the first-hand pre-exhibition press conference, Wedo Entertainment brought a huge surprise to the world.
Yuan Ran immediately realized the huge news value contained in this.
"An unknown Chinese company in the game industry, its new work shocks the world!"
"Carry forward the traditional Chinese martial arts, and the best pioneer of cultural output!"
"On the art of games, the best embodiment of Chinese Wenhua!"
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He thought of a number of titles that he could use at once.
So, he immediately found a way to contact Wedo Entertainment and sent out an interview invitation.
With the finished footage, he returned to China happily.
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was delayed for a day, Fan Zhe simply accompanied Ye Jiayi to visit Los Angeles at night and slept in a room at night.
In another day, Ye Jiayi will continue to stay in the United States and negotiate with major overseas agents. And Fan Zhe will embark on a journey back to China and go back to continue filming "Martial Arts Master".
The current filming progress of "Martial Arts Grandmaster" is already very tense. The difficulty of filming martial arts scenes is much higher than expected. blindly advancing the speed can easily lead to injuries to the actors, and the filming will stagnate as soon as they are injured; Taking care of the body, that is either to reduce the difficulty of the movement and reduce the effect, or to spend more time shooting slowly.
Even if you use a stand-in, it is impossible to use all the shots, and in order to ensure the finished film, many shots still need to be played by the actors themselves.
If he hadn't had the foresight to find a professional and reliable sports medicine team in advance, this matter would have been more troublesome.
After he went back this time, he was ready to stay in the crew and stop asking about the world until all the filming work was over.
I guess I got it in August.
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After Fan Zhe returned to China, Ye Jiayi packed up her mood and began to negotiate with all parties.
The rest of the development and finishing work of "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2" can be completed in half a month or a month.
Ye Jiayi hopes that before that, he can talk about the release of "Taiwu 2".
Wedo Entertainment has spent a lot of money lately. Especially the acquisition of Xinmo Media, the billions invested are all real money.
This can actually be regarded as a big bargain, if Xinmo Media is normal and good, if it wants to win this company, the price to pay will be at least three or five billion. Even in the end, it is to strip the film library and copyright library of Xinmo Media, and as long as Weiwei Entertainment distributes the system, it can complete the acquisition at a price of about 1.5 billion.
After the acquisition of Xinmo Media, the company's original debts were also transferred to the head of Wedo Entertainment, but this part of the problem is not particularly big, and some are dealt with by financial means.
The premise is that Wedo Entertainment can continue to be successful.
The second season of "Amber Sword" and the third season of "Evolutionary Four Billion Ensemble", the launch of these two works has solved the company's financial needs.
And if you want to continue to maintain the expansion rate and make this year's revenue and financial report look better, then "Taiwu 2" cannot afford to lose.
On the day Fan Zhe left the United States, Ye Jiayi completed contact with EA and UB.
EA gave Ye Jiayi a very bad feeling, although the price they offered was good, the agency fee reached 30 million US dollars, and the sharing ratio was also 37 points of the industry rules, and 70 million was invested in publicity......
However, their attitude clearly lacks the sincerity to go further.
"This is our final offer, our price to any game company, they can't refuse, you think about it, I believe if you are smart enough, you will accept."
After these words, there was almost no room for continued negotiations, as if it were an ultimatum.
On the other hand, UB's offer is lower, but its attitude is more sincere and better, at least more likely to negotiate.
Keep talking, I wonder if you can get better terms from UB than EA.
However, on the third day, when Ye Jiayi had just finished talking with UB representatives and was relatively satisfied with their conditions, Activision people came.