"One Piece", serialized by "Manke Show" this year, has once again achieved great success in Xiangjiang, and the sales of "Manke Show" have exceeded 300,000 copies through formal channels, and with the addition of informal channels, the sales volume of each issue has reached 450,000 copies.

The so-called informal channel means that the three southeastern provinces of the mainland are sold by Xiangjiang magazines, especially Guangdong Province, and another informal channel is Taidao Province.

However, the sales of the genuine "Manke Show" are limited by the population base of Xiangjiang, and the sales volume is not high; Therefore, this part of the income alone cannot support the comics department of Wanhui Media.

What really makes money is the authorization to distribute single books overseas, animation, and the comic peripheral system created by Wanhui Comics.

However, Lin Zuhui soon discovered that Wanhui Comics' copycat products were rampant in Asia, which had seriously restricted the profit growth of Wanhui Comics.

For example, "Manke Show", a pirated magazine on Taiwan Island, will appear on the market a month after the publication of a genuine magazine in Hong Kong, and the sales of a pirated "Manke Show" are as high as 300,000 copies, which is slightly higher than the regular sales channels in Hong Kong, which is heart-wrenching.

There are also pirated magazines of "Manke Show" in Xiangjiang, and they are not sold in Xiangjiang, but to the mainland, after all, the mainland is night for a month, and it has no effect.

Magazine piracy is rampant, and single editions are unavoidable, and piracy is rife throughout Asia.

The hardest hit areas are not these, but the piracy around the comics, which is the most serious. Genuine figures, dolls, sympathies, etc., the price is high after all, because he has a copyright fee in it. However, the surrounding area of the cottage is different, almost at the factory price plus a small profit, it appeared in the market.

Although Wanhui Media has a special team in these aspects, it is still inevitable, and the market is about 7% pirated.

You must know that Wanhui Comics has produced four classic IP masterpieces in the past life, and the money earned in a year is only more than 600 million (excluding the income of Hong Kong Comics).

What is the concept of the four IP masterpieces, Lin Zuhui remembers that the IP value of "One Piece" and "Pokemon" in the previous life was tens of billions of dollars.

Wanhui Comics didn't earn a fraction!

Lin Zuhui has also seen a lot of Japanese comics, compared with Wanhui comics, there is not much difference in quality; For example, Lin Zuhui gave a lot of references to the plot concept of "One Piece", and it was also the first time that an element of Japanese comics, astringency, was added to One Piece, and many waves of beauties appeared. The portrait of the protagonist Luffy is almost more than seventy percent similar to that of his previous life.

The quality is definitely no problem.

It's just that the market is not as big as Japan, otherwise no matter how big overseas piracy is, it won't make so much money.

This is still Wanhui Comics, there is almost no 'trial and error', otherwise a project fails, and the loss is one or two hundred million. For example, if "One Piece" is not bought in Xiangjiang and overseas, then Wanhui Media may lose hundreds of millions of project fees.

Lin Zuhui can use the Legislative Council and Executive Bureau in Hong Kong to get the government to strengthen the crackdown on piracy of 'cultural products', but Taiwan Island and Southeast Asia are completely powerless.

On the contrary, it is the Japanese market that has given Wanhui Comics the greatest support; However, there are not many pirates over there, but the traces of imitation are somewhat serious; But anyway, the huge market is there.

In fact, the piracy market in Xiangjiang is even more serious, because there are too many copycat factories here, and even if the Hong Kong government strengthens the rectification in this area, the effect is average. After all, they are about to withdraw from Xiangjiang, so after passing the law, they will not crack down much.

Many factories in Xiangjiang are family workshops, and they are not afraid of being caught at all, after all, the consequences that need to be borne are limited, at most they are fines, and if they are serious, they will be detained for a few days, and then they will continue as usual.

You know, Wanhui Comics' peripheral products are so popular, and there are too many people who take risks.

Lin Zuhui thought about it, how to deal with this matter?

In the previous life, there were many pirated copies in the mainland, in fact, they were all learned from Xiangjiang and Taidao, and these two regions were the ancestors, and Xiangjiang was originally developed in the fifties and sixties with copycat factories.

Lin Zuhui felt that if he wanted to change this situation, he and Mr. Dong proposed that during the financial crisis in 1998, he and Mr. Dong would make a comprehensive and systematic layout of the 'cultural port' and severely crack down on piracy.

At that time, due to the great economic crisis in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government must attach great importance to the healthy development of this industry, and it will definitely make a decisive effort.

Just like in the previous life, after the financial crisis, Mr. Dong rushed to the doctor, and set up a 'Cyberport' and a 'Chinese Medicine Port', all of which wanted to create new economic impetus for Hong Kong during the crisis.

In this life, in 1998, Lin Zuhui's layout of the 'cultural port' system has been in full swing, as long as the Hong Kong government and the mainland support again, they can develop their ambitions. (In order to support Xiangjiang through the economic crisis, the mainland also took great pains to open the free tour of Xiangjiang, which brought a great impetus to the economic development of Xiangjiang, and from this point of view, the mainland attaches great importance to the economic development of Xiangjiang)

Soon, Lin Zuhui decided that he didn't need to worry about the current piracy problem, because he couldn't change much after all.

ATV Group and Wanhui Media have the advantage of 'no trial and error', which greatly reduces the cost of success, because both companies take the classic works of the previous life, and then develop new works, so as to ensure success and do not need to worry about failure.

Therefore, even if the current environment is not good (there are many pirates and the government does not pay enough attention to it), Lin Zuhui's 'cultural port' can develop very well.

The respectful voice of the "boss" Long Jingchang pulled Lin Zuhui back to reality.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "After thinking about it, the company's legal department still has some problems. When cracking down on piracy, we should not always make the target and scope very large, which will be inefficient and ineffective. ”

Long Jingchang quickly understood what Lin Zuhui meant, and said: "What the boss means is to make an example of the chickens, and we are specifically staring at those large-scale companies. ”

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Yes, that's it, concentrate on them, and those family workshops will converge." If you have a large scale, you can also get some of it in and incorporate a part of it, so that the work will be much easier. ”

Long Jingchang's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "I understand, focus on suing those who don't listen to us." Re-authorize a part, in the form of entrustment, so that they can make money, and we don't have to lose a lot. ”

Lin Zuhui said with satisfaction: "That's the reason, so the company recruited some people from the legal department, and then contacted local lawyers to carry out unified action." For example, in Taiwan, we can authorize locals to act as agents and get locals to join in. ”

Although the profits are divided, at least they are not not collected.

In Lin Zuhui's view, it doesn't matter if you can't make a lot of money now, the value of IP is getting bigger and bigger, and the society is also progressing, and the future will be the best harvest season.

A movie of "Detective Conan" can box office hundreds of millions; The game copyright of "Pokémon" may be hundreds, and the total IP value is as high as 85 billion US dollars; The copyright of "One Piece" is also worth a lot of money, worth $20 billion.

The value of these works has not begun at all.

How serious piracy is at present, how great the gains will be in the future.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Long Jingchang said confidently.

In fact, everyone at Wanhui Media did not expect that Wanhui Comics Club would make such a profit, especially the four classic works, which was like being dug up by Wanhui Media to find a treasure.

However, careful people will find that it is not Wanhui Media that has dug up the treasure, but Wanhui Comics has found the treasure preparedly.

To put it simply, at the beginning of the establishment of these four works, the company has already formed a good team, this team has Japanese chief writers and screenwriters, and they are all hired with high salaries (annual salary of more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars), and tens of millions of funds have been invested before the success of the product.

It is clear how the company could have invested so much if it did not have confidence.

What's more, Wanhui Comics has been cultivating local comic artists, and has achieved great results, and after the Japanese chief writer is kicked, the comic works will not be greatly affected by this.

After Long Jingchang left, Lin Zuhui looked pensive.

Do you want to talk to Fei Peng about 'cultural port'?

If you take the 'cultural port' plan he planned, go to Fei Peng. It is believed that with the influence of Lam Cho-fai and the fact that the Hong Kong and British governments can make a profit from it, there will be no problem in writing this plan into the government's policy address.

However, Lin Zuhui still feels that the time is not ripe!

It's not that he has any prejudice against the current Hong Kong government, after all, he has never participated in ZZ opinions.

When is the right time?

First, the Asian financial crisis is the most important; As long as there is a crisis, the government will pay attention to some issues; For example, in the previous life, South Korea was a national policy formulated after the financial crisis - cultural country; For example, Mr. Dong in his previous life was engaged in the 'Cyberport' and 'Chinese Medicine Port' during the financial crisis.

Second, ATV Group and Wanhui Media, these two companies have a mature 'cultural port' system, so that they can lead Xiangjiang in one fell swoop after formulating the general policy, quickly attack the overseas cultural market, and export the 'port culture'.

Therefore, before 1998, it was most important to lay the foundation.

In fact, with Lin Zuhui's identity, it is far more than just affecting the company, but also the entire industry and even the infrastructure of Heung Kong.

Infrastructure:

For example, in the universities and colleges in Hong Kong, Lin Zuhui has a large amount of donations, so they will cater to Lin Zuhui's mind and open new subjects or strengthen the teaching quality of a certain subject.

For example, Wanhui Media and ATV Group have a considerable number of training courses to provide a steady stream of talent models.

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In mid-April, "Economic Daily", "Tiantian Daily" and other media published an article by Lin Zuhui entitled "Cultural Port", which aroused widespread discussion in Xiangjiang.

In the article, Lin Zuhui also specially compared Singapore and Xiangjiang, and boldly analyzed that in ten years, Singapore's per capita GDP will surpass that of Xiangjiang; The reason is that Singapore has a complete technology and industrial industry chain, while this aspect of Hong Kong's industry is moving to the mainland and will gradually disappear.

Of course, this part of the content is just a brief analysis, and the focus is that Lin Zuhui once again completed the comprehensive field of 'cultural port'.

This time, he added games and software, and asserted that the future will be the world of the Internet, based on the "Information Superhighway" formulated by the United States last year.

He pointed out in the article, what can Xiangjiang do?

And the 'cultural port' is the best and least costly way.

In terms of games, the 70s and 80s may have been the world of arcade, handheld, and console games, but after the mid-90s, it will slowly become the world of computer games.

The article also touched on the film aspect, pointing out that last year's "Jurassic Park" became the No. 1 box office in Hong Kong, and its release was not only for Hong Kong, but also the beginning of the fall of the Asian market, and also marked the beginning of the global domination of the American Hollywood blockbuster.

He pointed out that Hong Kong is limited by the fact that the market is too small to replicate the success of Hollywood, but if there is a better idea, maybe Hong Kong films will not disappear in ten years.

As soon as the news came out.

Public opinion in Xiangjiang immediately exploded, and the society was full of discussions.

After all, Lin Zuhui's own success is full of legends, the 20-year-old chairman of a listed company, the world's richest man under 30 years old; Therefore, his words and deeds have attracted much attention, and not only Xiangjiang is paying attention, but the world is paying attention.

Xiangjiang University of Science and Technology immediately invited Lin Zuhui to give a speech at the school, and Lin Zuhui agreed. He is an honorary doctorate and trustee of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the largest donor of the university, with a cumulative donation of 300 million Hong Kong dollars.

And this university is also the hope of Xiangjiang Internet talents, Lin Zuhui seems to remember that in his previous life, Bill Gates came to this school in 1995 to give a speech, before stepping into the mainland.

It just so happened that Lin Zuhui was going to give a speech on the theme of 'Internet'.

It can be said that if he is an Internet entrepreneur, not to mention greater than Bill Gates, at least he can be on an equal footing. For example, if he immigrates to the United States, he can do search engines, Internet shopping, and social software, which is simply beating other entrepreneurs. Of course, he doesn't understand technology, but Microsoft is no longer writing code by Bill Gates, Microsoft is now thousands of programmers.

Of course, he couldn't have emigrated, and he had already separated his eggs in several baskets.

Lin Zuhui believes that in another ten years, he will also be said to be great, because he is a venture capital veteran of the Internet.

.......

The crew of "Resident Evil".

Lin Zuhui's arrival almost made Yuan Liangliang pounce and cry bitterly, she felt that she was fooled by this man, the action movie was too hard to film, and it was a horror sci-fi film like zombies, which hit her recent life even more.

However, Lin Zuhui really didn't fool her, not only gave her a set of mansions in Diligande, which was worth nearly 20 million; And every month, I take time out to fight her and send her to the sky.

Lin Zuhui smiled and greeted director Wu Yusen and action director Yuan Heping, Wu Yusen was invited back from the United States, and he had already gained a firm foothold in Hollywood the year before last, but DreamWorks was the one who cultivated him, and the relationship was still there.

"Director Wu, do you think our movie can be released in Hollywood?" Lin Zuhui asked.

Wu Yusen nodded without hesitation and said, "I think it's no problem, the investment and the subject matter are quite suitable for Haolaiwu." ”

The people around them were incredible, this was the first time they had heard clear news, in fact, it was not uncommon for Hong Kong films to enter Hollywood, but it was Bruce Lee and Cheng Long's patent. is like Zhou Runhua, but he was just invited to Hollywood to film.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "It cost 15 million US dollars, and I can't even touch the threshold of a good dock, and I won't be convinced." ”

Everyone laughed, the budget of the film was finally $15 million, but it was actually almost exceeded, and it was estimated that it would eventually have an investment of $16 million. The biggest investment is the computer special effects and the team that came to the dock, which is really expensive.

In fact, the most convincing thing is the script, which makes Wu Yusen, a good director, choose to come back to film without saying a word, although he has no other shooting tasks in the first half of this year.

This movie was changed by Lin Zuhui in some places, such as the "Red Queen" is not called a supercomputer, but "artificial intelligence", which sounds awesome.

After chatting with several leading actors for a while, Lin Zuhui was invited into the dressing room, because he was going to play a zombie and planned to play crossover.

He is not a serious richest man, he is more exaggerated than the Oracle boss in the United States, others are really playing with women, Lin Zuhui is three wives and four concubines, and there are many lovers.

Therefore, based on this alone, it is impossible for him to have Li Chaoren's reputation, so Lin Zuhui doesn't care now.

Anyway, it's just to play!

Makeup artists also have people who come to the dock, and the Xiangjiang team took the opportunity to learn from the teacher; Lin Zuhui also remarked some opinions on the script, such as the zombie dog is made up of Doberman Pinschims, and the licker and the red queen are computer special effects....

Lin Zuhui's zombie appearance made the whole crew laugh, only did he make up his appearance, but his movements were exactly the same as the zombie movies in his previous life, crooking his neck, his hands stretched back, and his heels propped back, which did show the uncontrolled movement of zombies.

Wu Yusen said solemnly: "What are you laughing at, this is called professional, ready to start!" ”

Inadvertently, he completed another sycophant!

Lin Zuhui's scene only has a few scenes, but he is playing against Yuan Liangliang and was beaten to death by her. The filming went smoothly, but everyone also saw that Yuan Liangliang and Lin Zuhui seemed to know each other and had an unusual relationship.

But fortunately, no one dared to say anything more.

After a bit of drama addiction, Lin Zuhui watched the filming scene on the side and fell into deep thought.

He has a lot of Hollywood scripts in his mind, and the difficult ones must not be plagiarized, but there are still many that can be plagiarized. If you give up because of a loss, it is obviously unreasonable.

Is he short of money?

If there is no shortage, why not shoot it!

Simply, in the name of private investment, shoot a few films a year, and just play the ticket.

The definition of success is very broad, Korean films and Indian films in the previous life can also be regarded as success, and they do not necessarily have to be as successful as Laiwu.

South Korean movies Lin Zuhui has also seen a lot in his previous life, "Monster of the Han River", "Snowpiercer", "Train to Busan", "Parasite" ...... The sticks are so annoying, why give them a way to live.

There are also some low-cost classic movies in Hollywood, which are also used for fun.

It would be a good thing to improve the overall quality of Xiangjiang's films through this leading effect.

The important thing is that he is engaged in the 'cultural port', so he must do a good job in an all-round way, and he must not miss a single lesson.

Thinking of this, Lin Zuhui plans to shoot another Hollywood movie this year, so let's adapt "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", which is more suitable for the current environment.