Wei Han received Fan Zhe's instruction, saying that he wanted to talk to Lewen Group about the essay contest about "Steam Daming", which was aimed at the author of the great god.

Prior to this, he was engaged in a copyright negotiation with Levan Group, involving hundreds of millions of dollars and dozens of works.

There have been some twists and turns in the negotiation process before. Lewen Group requires itself to have the qualifications to enter the market and the qualifications for copyright sharing, but these obviously involve the bottom line of Wedo Entertainment, so Wei Han rejected all of them, and he bought the copyrights of several works from other network sites, which scared Lewen Group enough, and finally returned to the negotiation table.

And this business is basically negotiated.

Both sides gave certain concessions, and Wei Han, on behalf of the company, accepted the request of Lewen Group for a certain later share. Lewen Group sold 15 excellent works for 50 million yuan, and sold the full copyright to Wedo Entertainment - this price is much lower than the previous preliminary contact. Behind the sharp price reduction, Lewen Group has obtained the right to invest in the adaptation of these fifteen works as it wishes.

According to the contract, when any of the 15 works is adapted for animation, games, film and television, the Levin Group can choose whether to invest or not, and the maximum investment limit shall not exceed 2% of the total budget cost, and share the profit equal to the proportion of the investment.

2% Investment Rights...... It's better than nothing.

But there was no way, Wei Han understood that this told the representative of Lewen Group, that is, Kappa, that this is the biggest bottom line of Wedo Entertainment, and the premise of joining this bottom line is that their copyright price must be greatly reduced.

In the end, they can only choose to accept it.

Calculated down, the average copyright licensing fee of these fifteen works sold is more than three million, some are not worth so much, some are almost the same, and some are actually far more valuable.

Among these fifteen works, they are basically selected by Dimension Entertainment. Including "The Master of Mystery", "Covering the Han", "Plotting Kyushu", "Xueba's Black Technology System" and a number of books.

For these purchased works, there will inevitably be corresponding development plans in the future, but for the time being, there are already a lot of projects that Wedo Entertainment is promoting at the same time, and there is not much energy to start related work immediately.

After these talks, the negotiations should have been successfully concluded. However, when he received a new task, Wei Han quickly thought of a solution.

This negotiation has not yet been signed and has come to an end, and with the relatively good cooperative relationship formed with Lewen Group, it seems that it is possible to talk directly about things related to "Steam Ming".

Moreover, when he was doing this, he also directly contacted Wu Jingtong and told him what he thought - an essay involving tens of millions of dollars can be regarded as huge. If you don't take this opportunity to engage in a wave of publicity, it will be a ruinous thing.

At the same time, the Lewen Group is also more interested.

The essay with a prize of 10 million is also very attractive to many famous gods.

It's just that it's not easy to write about combining steampunk with the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Although, in the Internet, there are not a few authors who write historical essays well, and even write good history in the late Ming Dynasty, but there are not many authors who are good at steampunk, and it is a bigger problem to bring the two together well.

However, there is no solution to this.

After finding a suitable author, you can ask Gao Yixiang to give the author the entire worldview structure, and let him write it according to the background of this world.

This will save the creator a lot of effort from having to work on the entire setup himself. In addition, the story written in this way will be more in line with the requirements of the game "Steam Ming".

This cooperation, the three departments of Wedo Entertainment, can be described as working together.

Gao Yixiang's 'Second World' studio is responsible for content control, and Wu Jingtong's marketing department is responsible for promoting "Steam Daming" with the help of '10 million bonus essays'; Wei Han's copyright department is responsible for specific copyright negotiation matters.

The three departments are performing their own duties and jointly promoting this work, and the whole thing is relatively smooth. In this way, Fan Zhe can also focus on another project with more confidence.

It was a movie project under the LOL series, the hit hero'Night Hunter. Wayne's independent film, currently tentatively titled "Night Hunter".

This movie, almost when "Demacia: Glory" was just launched, and the project was approved, with an estimated investment of $650 million, which is not much worse than "Glory".

However, the progress of the project "Night Hunter" is much slower than that of "Demacia: Glory".

The main reason is that Dimension Entertainment is now considered to be wealthy, especially through the game "Taiwu Picture Volume 2", which has swept the world, and has made a lot of money. However, the money is distributed to Wedo Entertainment through various channels, and then the individual income tax is paid, and the rest has to support the company's operation and development, and there will always be a certain amount of pressure to support the expenses of so many projects.

If it was last year, Ye Jiayi would have opened multiple projects in a row, and Ye Jiayi would have more or less needed to control the financial pressure and deal with the risk problem.

However, this is not much of a problem now.

After "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2", it is like the two TV series of "Martial Arts Grandmaster", the drama of "Emperor Ruzi", and the movie "Hell Apartment 2...... The successive success of these works has also brought very rich monetary returns to Dimension Entertainment.

The income brought by "Emperor Ruzi" has reached a scale of nearly one billion; "Hell Apartment 2" can earn more than 200 million just at the box office, and other derivative rights of this film will also bring hundreds of millions of revenues - a very important part of which is to broadcast it online on the 'Dimension Platform'. There is also overseas distribution and overseas copyright marketing......

And what is more exaggerated than the income of these two works is "Martial Arts Grandmaster"

Just one upper part, the overall revenue has reached the scale of 14 or 500 million. And the lower part, which has not been online for a long time some time, has only been pre-sold for two weeks, and it has reached 800 million. And now, the online sales of this work have risen to the scale of one billion, and it is expected to reach about 1.2 billion. Then count the TV station broadcast, overseas copyright operation, and derivative copyright operation after the completion of the network broadcast...... In total, it is estimated that it can reach more than 1.6 billion. 、

This means that the two parts of "Martial Arts Grandmaster" will add up to more than three billion in revenue.

From last summer to now, not counting "Taiwu 2", just the development of film and television, Wedo Entertainment's works have also gained more than 4 billion revenues.

Of course, what was able to support the Dakai project of Wedo Entertainment before was the popularity of "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2". But now, it's a different story entirely.

Wedo Entertainment will bring out the planned VN independent movies to make them, and there will be no pressure at all.

In fact, it is precisely because the company is very profitable, and even has a little money that he doesn't know how to spend it, so Fan Zhe is relieved to boldly invest money to do something as risky as "Steam Daming".

As long as the stuff is made, it's fun, and it's going to hit the street.

It's just an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, and it won't hurt your muscles and bones if you lose it all!

Based on the current economic situation of Wedo Entertainment, if they are crazy, they even have the capital to open five projects of the same scale at the same time - of course, if they lose money, it will be more miserable.

No matter how crazy Fan Zhe is, he won't be like this, not to mention, Ye Jiayi will not agree to him taking risks that will hurt the company's foundation.

Of course, VN's independent films are not among them.

This is one of the two film projects that Wedo Entertainment and Penguin Pictures were ready to establish immediately when they negotiated a copyright cooperation.

According to Fan Zhe's original intention, this was to be produced together with "Demacia: Glory". It's just that this idea was pushed down by Ye Jiayi at that time, and it was suggested that it be postponed a little longer, and wait until some of the money that had not been received before was recovered from the outside before starting the project.

As a result, this delay lasted for more than four months, and now it has finally begun.

The director of this movie, in fact, Fan Zhe was interested in Ji Jiaxin at the beginning, and planned to let that guy rest for half a month after filming "Hell Apartment 2", and then take over "Night Hunter".

But unfortunately, that guy didn't have that blessing.

Except for the previous incident, it is impossible for Fan Zhe to give him this opportunity.

There were several from the dimension brokerage, and after Fan Zhe made a selection, he chose Wang Zhicheng.

This is also an old acquaintance of Fan Zhe, when he was filming "Hell Apartment", he was worried that he was not experienced enough, so he found two assistant directors, Wang Zhicheng was one of them. Later, when he was filming "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts", he also continued to maintain cooperation with Wang Zhicheng.

Wang Zhicheng belongs to the kind of director who is not very talented. According to his qualifications, he has been in this industry for so many years, and at such an age, he has not yet become a real director, which also shows a certain problem.

However, after the successes of the "Hell Apartment" movie and the "Martial Arts Grandmaster" series, he got some opportunities and got the opportunity to direct a TV series. It's just that this opportunity seems to be just a proof that he really doesn't have any talent as a director.

The TV series that Fan Zhedu can't remember his name was launched some time ago, and it seems that the results are very bad......

Fan Zhe also specially brought some clips of the show to watch, and the whole film looks like it lacks something eye-catching. Coupled with the fact that the subject matter is not attractive, there are no special popular actors, and the performances are not good, let alone any good post-production, the whole film is particularly mediocre, and there is nothing to watch, so it naturally fails.

However, Fan Zhe still found some shining points that are exclusive to the director.

found that the shooting skills of some shots are still there, and the overall structure is quite good, which shows that the director's skills are there.

It's just that there's no talent.

But this shortcoming has never been what Fan Zhe cares about.

Recalling the details of the previous collaborations, Fan Zhe felt that it seemed to be a good choice to let Wang Zhicheng be the director of "Night Hunter".

As the chief producer, he will inevitably lead the company's team and make excellent designs in accordance with the past when Dimension Entertainment was doing film projects. The next thing is handed over to Wang Zhicheng and asked him to complete the shooting task according to the plan, there must be no problem.

And as long as he can do this, the quality of the final work will be guaranteed by a whole team of Wedo Entertainment in the back.

After weighing left and right, Fan Zhe asked the Wedo broker to send an invitation to Wang Zhicheng.

After receiving the invitation, Wang Zhicheng accepted it without any hesitation, and he didn't even bother much about the salary.

To be honest, he was surprised.

Previously, after working as an assistant director for Fan Zhe twice in succession, and successively producing "Hell Apartment" and "Martial Arts Grandmaster", and both works were successful, he did ignite his ambition again and felt that he could fight again.

However, this mustered up the last bit of ambition and ended in a fiasco.

He was depressed for a while, but even if he was not depressed and looked at it with a rational attitude, he felt that his career as a director was almost over. finally relied on "Hell Apartment" and "Martial Arts Grandmaster" to get a little bit of successful qualifications, and then got the opportunity to be a serious director, and participated in a TV series project with an investment of tens of millions.

I thought this was a great opportunity for me to turn over, but I didn't expect that I would die so miserably.

However, it was a great surprise to receive an invitation from Dimension Entertainment!

He never imagined that he would be able to encounter such an opportunity after a failure. Especially after he learned what kind of project it was, the feeling of surprise in his mind became even stronger!

A movie with a 650 million investment! That's nearly $100 million!

This level of investment, even if it is placed in Hollywood, is an out-and-out big investment.

However, after the surprise, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. I even messed up a TV series with an investment of 10 million, can I really direct such a movie with an investment of more than 600 million?

He didn't know why Fan Zhe chose himself.

In a nervous mood, he had a meeting with Fan Zhe.

After listening to what Fan Zhe said, although Wang Zhicheng did not say that he had completely let go of the worries and nervousness in his heart, at least, he also understood what Fan Zhe was thinking.

Although he can't say that he is completely sure, at least, he feels that he will not let go of this opportunity and will definitely do his best.

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