Chapter 189: Copyright takes off, and the wolf in the TV circle is coming
The TV in front of him was playing the most popular TV series "Myth" recently, Li Mu and Liu Yifei were sitting side by side on the sofa, at this time Liu Yifei unconsciously hammered his shoulder, Li Mu saw it, reached under her ribs with two hands, lifted it gently, and put it on the blanket in front of him.
One of the two sat on the sofa, and the other sat on the blanket in front of the sofa, one high and one low, Li Mu put his hand on her shoulder, and then massaged it in a similar way.
"Let my husband serve you well tonight and pinch your shoulders."
Liu giggled, and didn't know if it was the reason why Li Mu put his hand under her side just now.
Helping her massage, Li Mu smelled the smell of her hair, and unconsciously put his chin on the top of Liu's head, Liu smiled and tilted his head back, Li Mu took a kiss, and this kiss turned out to be quite a bit like Spider-Man's girlfriend.
"Are you better?" After kissing, Li Mu asked while pressing.
Liu smiled, "My shoulders are good, but my waist is uncomfortable again."
"Easy to do!"
Saying that, Li Mu pulled Liu up and let her lie on the sofa, and then he pinched and hammered, the most popular TV series was being broadcast on TV, but neither of them was in the mood to watch it, Liu made a very comfortable moaning sound from time to time, and Li Mu slapped her ass casually.
Liu immediately bounced up and made a mess with Li Mu.
After about ten minutes of arguing, the two finally stopped, so the two continued to rely on each other to watch TV.
"Will there be 4 after the filming of "Hurricane Rescue 3" is finished?" Liu asked while holding Li Mu's arm.
Li Mu said: "No, this series is like this, I can't shoot it anymore."
"Oh."
"What, reluctantly?" Li Mu asked.
"No, actually, I didn't really want to shoot this."
"Why?" Li Mu asked.
Liu Yifei did not answer this time, but took a serious look at the plot twice.
In fact, what else could be the reason? Who made the director of "Hurricane Rescue" not Li Mu? The filming period of a drama can range from one or two months to three or four months, and sometimes even longer, Li Mu is not the director, which means that the two will be separated for a long time.
When she was filming "Celebrating More Than Years" before, she felt very uncomfortable, there was nothing tiring from filming, and it was really unbearable to live apart.
But she wouldn't tell him these things if she was killed.
Girls are sometimes so strange, they obviously love you to death, and they can't do without you, but they always talk back.
At this time, the classic dialogue between Gao Yao and Yi Xiaochuan was being broadcast on TV.
"Do you know what kind of bullying I'm being subjected to here, just because I have no money and power, I'm disabled, I'm a TD waste! You're amazing, everyone loves you, what kind of,,,......
"I just want to chase the highest step by step, step by step, step by step, I want to be Zhao Gao!"
"I don't want people to bully me anymore, I can't stand it anymore, I don't want others to bully me, I want to be Zhao Gao, I want to be a ...... I want to be the highest Zhao Gao, the Zhao Gao above 10,000 people under one person!"
Liu Yifei suddenly looked back at Li Mu, Li Mu nodded lightly and said, "I saw it, Teacher Zhang Shi's performance is very exciting."
Although I have watched this clip many times in my previous life, I will still feel very touched when I watch it now.
"The TV drama industry has a lot to do!"
Li Mu suddenly sighed.
Ryu asked, "What did you say?"
Li Mu seemed to be saying to Liu and said to himself: "It's time to shoot a few more TV series every year, and the good time for TV dramas is coming."
Over the years, Li Mu has hoarded a number of high-quality IPs in his hands, such as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "Step by Step", "Langya Bang", "Flower Thousand Bone", "Dajiang Dahe" and so on, but why didn't Li Mu rush to start the project before?
Because the timing is wrong!
It was a bit of a waste to shoot these before.
Let's take the price of the online copyright of the TV series.
06-07
At the time, even if it was a fire drama, the price of a single episode was only a few thousand yuan per episode, and "Soldier Assault" was so popular that a single episode of online copyright only sold for 3,000 yuan per episode.
In 09, it rose to about 10,000 episodes, and this year it rose to 30,000 or 40,000 yuan per episode, and the fire drama has already cost more than 100,000 yuan, according to history, next year it will be 340,000 million episodes, and the fire drama will even be as high as one million, and the year after tomorrow it will be two or three million episodes!
In the past two years, the price of the online copyright of the fire drama has increased several times and several times every year, and when it comes to about 16 years, the online copyright of a TV series can even be sold for a sky-high price of seven or eight million episodes.
"Latent" became like that, why didn't Li Mu sell its network copyright?
"Myth" and "Celebrating More Than Years" were popular before they were broadcast, Youku, iQiyi, and LeTV came to buy them one after another, why did Li Mu insist on not selling them before?
When "Latent" was first launched, Youku came up with 8,000 yuan per episode to buy 8 years of online broadcast copyright, iQiyi and LeTV were each willing to pay 10,000, and the term was also 8 years, so they still felt that they were very generous.
To tell the truth, Li Mu would rather keep the copyright under the box and eat ashes than sell them.
Even after the major shareholder of "Myth", the Demon Shadow Yinghuang, intended to make a deal, Li Mu would rather spend much higher than the market price to buy the copyright into his own hands?
It's because the price of online copyright at this stage is too cheap.
But the good times are coming.
Since the beginning of this year, the state has been continuously intensifying its efforts to encircle and suppress piracy, and the crackdown on piracy will become more and more vigorous in the second half of the year.
Until January next year, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Court will jointly issue a document calling for continued promotion and increased penalties for copyright infringement.
With the issuance of this notice, the price of film and television rights will officially usher in a skyrocketing stage.
In April, Penguin will officially enter the field of director video, Tencent Video was officially established, and by the end of 11 years, the price of online copyright of excellent TV dramas will even soar to more than two million yuan per episode.
So Li Mu just said that it was time to shoot a few more TV series!
But he has so many choices, which one should he shoot first?
Li Mu's first thought was "Palace Lock Heart Jade".
Now Yang Mi and Tong Liya have signed with their own companies, and in their previous lives, they both happened to star in this "Palace Lock Heart Jade".
Especially Yang Mi, "Palace Lock Heart Jade" is undoubtedly a very important work for her, and it is from the corner of Qingchuan that Yang Mi is really popular.
A long time ago, Li Mu handed over the synopsis of "Palace Lock Heart Jade" to the company's screenwriting department, and after the screenwriting department wrote the script, Li Mu arranged for them to publish the version, so the copyright of "Palace" is of course in Li Mu's hands.
Soon, Li Mu thought of "Step by Step" from "Palace Lock Heart Jade" to "Step by Step".
The two TV series on the original timeline were released on the front and back feet, and it seems that the two TV series in this life will still be released on the front and back feet.
The next day, "The Martian" continued to be filmed, during which Liu Siying contacted Li Mu by phone, saying that several video websites had come to inquire about the copyright price again, and the price offered this time was very sincere, and asked Li Mu if he wanted to contact them.
"How much money are they willing to pay this time?"
Liu Siying on the other end of the phone replied: ""Mythology" and "Celebrating More Than Years" are both about 150,000 episodes, and "Latent" has been released for a while, so it should be a little less, 120,000. By the way, these are the prices for 8 years of copyright."
Liu Siying on the other end of the phone feels that this price is already very sincere, and there are still thousands of episodes in 09, but this is more than 100,000 episodes in a year? The tenfold growth rate is that the price of Mr. Li's own villas has not risen so fast!
The prevailing opinion now is that there is definitely a bubble in it, and it's not small!
The phenomenon of more than 100,000 online copyright episodes cannot be maintained for a long time, and it will not be long before the online copyright will fall back to the reasonable price range of 30,000 or 40,000 episodes.
Of course, Liu Siying will not agree with these views, in the long run, the price of online copyright of film and television dramas must be higher and higher, but at the same time, she also feels that the price of more than 100,000 yuan for a single episode is really comparable
OK.
If you press it down again, the new dramas will become old dramas, and the content audience will have watched them on pirated websites, and even if the overall market can rise a little more, these old dramas won't sell much money.
"Wait, wait until next year." Li Mu said.
Liu Siying asked, "There must always be a price that you are willing to sell, and you can't say that no matter how much money you are willing to pay, the copyright in our hands will not be sold, right?"
Li Mu thought for a while and said, "500,000 episodes, 5 years contract, if they are willing to agree, we will sell it."
"Mr. Li, the 500,000 episode you just said?"
"That's right."
Liu Siying on the other end of the phone was stunned, and said in her heart, Mr. Li, if you talk like this, then this business will not be able to succeed at all!
Liu Siying shook her head and said, "Got it, Mr. Li."
Li Mu said: "By the way, I just wanted to find you, this year the company will launch two new TV series, namely "Palace Lock Heart Jade" and "Step by Step Shocking"."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."
Youku meeting room.
""Myth" is so popular, I heard that the ratings broke 7 yesterday."
"Breaking 7 in a single day is really powerful, and now the average rating should be about 6.1, which is very good."
"Li Mu's vision is really not ordinary, when "Latent" was launched last year, we went to negotiate the price, and at that time it was 8,000 episodes, and he said that he would not sell it, but this year, the copyright price has risen to more than 100,000."
"Last year's 8,000 thousand episodes, this year's 150,000, this time he can no longer refuse to sell the deal with the excuse that the copyright price is seriously underestimated, right? Hahaha...... But I still admire him very much, and after years of pressing, the copyright price has increased tenfold."
Several leaders in charge of buying dramas talked and laughed.
iQIYI meeting room.
"The country is going to intensify its crackdown on piracy, and I heard that penguins are also going to enter the video website."
"Seize the window period, increase the purchase of excellent episodes, and strive to occupy a favorable ecological niche as much as possible before the official entry of the penguins!"
"Li Mu currently has four dramas and a number of popular movie online copyrights available for purchase, the "Beijing City Love Story" that is being filmed will wait for a while, "Latent" and "Myth" must be won, "Celebrating More Than Years" has not been broadcast yet, but it is estimated that at least it will not be bad, the previous 10,000 episodes were indeed seriously underestimated, and now there is no reason why 150,000 episodes cannot be won."
"I heard that Youku is also in contact."
"At a critical time, you can raise the unit price to 200,000 episodes, to be honest, I am really optimistic about Li Mu's drama."
"200,000 episodes, the total price of a 50-episode TV series is 10 million! The online copyright of the TV series can be sold for a sky-high price of 10 million, who would dare to believe this before? "Wulin Gaiden" only sold 100,000 in eighty episodes, which was only a few years ago. I don't think the copyright fee is underestimated this time, but it is greatly overestimated!"
"It's really overestimated, no matter how rich Li Mu is, he can get it with a signature-three dramas are 30 million! How could he still refuse this time?"
"Okay, okay, 200,000 episodes is our bottom line, not the final transaction price, maybe they will readily agree to 160,000 episodes."
In the next few days, several video websites have successively found Liu Siying, the manager of Huashang, Youku has released 160,000 episodes, LeTV has 170,000, and iQiyi is the most exaggerated, and it has come out to 200,000 episodes.
But what can Liu Siying do?
The boss is not bad for money, what can she do?
"I'm sorry!" Liu Siying always looked at the other party with a regretful look and shook her head at this time.
This confuses several companies.
Youku:
"150,000 episodes still refuse to sell, which one has reached an agreement with?"
Penguin:
"200,000 episodes, still shaking your head? What is their psychological price? Is it possible that you still want to sell 150,000 episodes? There is no such price in China at this stage!"
"Manager Liu, you give us a thorough explanation, how much does it cost to buy the online copyright of these dramas?"
"500,000, 5 years of contract."
「50…… Wan?"
Whenever this happens, the negotiators of several companies think that the woman in front of them is crazy.
Internet copyright only, 500,000 for a single episode? There is no such price in the whole of China!
"I don't want to sell you and say it directly, 500,000 episodes? How dare you mention it!" Several families all thought the same way, but naturally no one said this explicitly.
In the end, the business naturally could not be discussed.
Soon the news that Huashang was preparing two new dramas spread all over the world, and so far Huashang has released a total of two TV series, but the results are very popular, and the circle is red.
Now there are two new dramas, who knows how many actors and actresses are needed in them? How many celebrities will become popular in the end?
Anyway, Yang Mi, who was filming in the crew of "Beijing Love Story", was moved.
She has debuted for so many years, and she has starred in more than one popular drama, Guo Xiang in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and Qingwen in the new "Dream of Red Mansions", but in the crew of "Beijing Love Story", Tong Liya has many more roles than her.
People play the leading role, and they are still supporting roles!
She can't play the heroine of a popular drama?
So she seized the opportunity to call Li Mu, the meaning is very simple, can she play the heroine in the company's newly prepared drama?
"Director Li, I heard that the company is preparing two new plays, I wonder if there are any roles suitable for me?"
Then Tong Liya also called.
Competing for opportunities, where can we talk about gentleness and humility?
If you don't take the initiative, why should the opportunity hit you on the head?
Even Liu Yifei received a call asking for intercession.
"You have a good relationship with Jiang Yiyan?" Li Mu asked.
Liu Yifei said: "Actually, it's not too good, it's just an ordinary classmate."
Li Mu nodded.
I remember the relevant gossip I heard in my previous life, saying that the Ruoxi candidate that the crew of "Step by Step Shocking" wanted to find the most at the beginning was this Jiang Yiyan, but she didn't like this drama at all, who would have thought that Liu Shishi would become popular with this drama?
Unexpectedly, she watched this drama again in this life.
But Li Mu won't use her.
There are many people who can play Ruoxi, but Li Mu still prefers to ask Liu Shishi to play, although she is a Tang person.
In his impression, Liu Shishi seems to have starred in such a masterpiece that can be called a masterpiece, if he gave the role of Ruoxi to someone else, would Liu Shishi still be Liu Shishi in this life?
As for this Jiang Yiyan, Li Mu and Liu joked:
"You help her intercede and pull the role, aren't you afraid that she will secretly think about sleeping with your man?"
"Huh?"
Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu with wide eyes.
"Haven't you heard of fire prevention, theft prevention, and girlfriends?"