"You're also interested in comic movies?"

After Wang Chuanqi was approached by He Xi, he asked in surprise.

He knew that He Xi was an important member of the reserve echelon that Wang Wei planned to vigorously cultivate, why did he suddenly become interested in the extremely difficult manga movie?

He Xi wanted to say that he was not interested in simple comic movies.

But he doesn't have a complete idea of the superhero universe after all, and it's hard to explain it for a while.

So he said "hmm" and said vaguely: "Director Wang asked me to join the copyright acquisition plan, saying that there might be gains." ”

When Wang Chuanqi heard this, he pouted: "Then you are probably going to be disappointed, good copyright, alas, ......"

With a sigh, the melancholy was exhausted.

After Dunhuang's successful financing, in addition to opening a new film and two TV series, and investing in Weibo technology, the biggest plan is to acquire copyrights, or in other words, hoard copyrights.

In the past two years, the projects invested in Dunhuang have all been made by Wang Wei without exception, and the donkeys of the production team are not so pressed.

As for Dunhuang's own script library, well, to be honest, it can only be regarded as better than nothing.

No, Lao Wang has formulated a copyright plan, with him as the core, organizing a small team, ready to hoard the film rights of some works.

Then he discovered that hoarding copyrights is really not a matter of having money or not.

There are so many works that the copyright has been attributed long before the shooting.

Even if you don't shoot it yourself, as long as you have the opportunity, everyone will buy the copyright first, and even if you resell it, you may make a lot of profit.

The problem is that there is a very clear understanding of the importance of copyright in the circle, and it is really difficult for medium and large film companies to get the copyright and let them spit it out.

Especially the Big Five, many of the copyrights that Lao Wang fancied were held in their hands early and tried to get in touch, but there was no possibility of taking them down, so they gave up.

Of course, there are also some works that are not of great interest to the entire Chinese entertainment industry, such as comics!

"You'll know after reading the information." Wang Chuanqi directly stuffed an investigation report to He Xi.

The latter looked at it and smiled dumbly.

This is a detailed report from the birth of the manga, to the current situation, and even to the future prediction, which shows that a lot of thought has been put into it.

However, as a veteran comic book fan, he doesn't need to read the information to know all this.

As a form of cultural communication, the conditions for the birth of comics in different regions are almost the same - they were all born in a period of drastic changes in the social system!

Moreover, it is generally based on the simple pictures of the current disadvantages in newspapers and periodicals as the origin, and then gradually derived the corresponding comic journals and magazines due to market demand.

The most typical ones are American comics and Japanese comics.

The development of the former was related to the Great Depression, when people longed for heroes to come, so comics that could create heroes for them came into being.

The development of the latter was after World War II, the economy recovered quickly, but the cultural consumption industry was in an extremely weak state, live-action film and television could not beat China Entertainment, literature could not beat the traditional Chinese literature market, and there was no choice, and the comics with uncertain market prospects came from behind.

In comparison, Chinese comics are special.

——At the beginning, it was the origin of the caricature of traditional cultural stories, but the accumulation of traditional culture was too strong, resulting in a delay in taking innovative steps;

In the post-war stage of rapid economic development, opportunities and dangers coexisted, and comics were as barbaric and crazy as that golden age, and were considered by the Chinese people to be vulgar in content, and often criticized for it, and the "comic harmfulness theory" began to become popular......

Under all these effects, Chinese comics have missed the best stage of development, and their overall influence has always lagged behind American comics and Japanese comics.

Specifically, the three major comic companies of Longyou, Chasing Light and Ogilvy, which are divided into three parts of the world in the Chinese comic industry, are more or less influenced by American comics or Japanese comics.

Longyou comics are similar to Japanese comics, and works are launched by themes, and excellent works are frequently published on themes such as mythological comics, royal road comics, and science fiction comics;

Ogilvy comics, on the other hand, are obviously in the style of American comics, with a group of superheroes as the pillars to create different stories around these characters;

As for the light-chasing comics, it's both.

The golden period of Chinese comics was very short, and it was not until the 60s, when the first young people who came into contact with comics became the mainstream of society, that the culture of comics gradually expanded its influence and entered the glorious period of comic business.

But the good times didn't last long, after the full popularization of television, the public demand channel began to shift from paper media to film and television, and the crisis of comics came one after another-

"Sales of print comics are starting to decline; And the live-action comics, no matter which country they are in, are all an old pit; If it's not moving, the comic linkage is still playful, and it can be said that it is a comic pill. Wang Chuanqi concluded.

He Xi was noncommittal, focusing only on the cinematization process of comics, especially superhero comics.

- Okay, what Wang Chuanqi said at this point is not wrong at all, the linkage between comics and movies is really full of pits.

The earliest and most successful live-action comic book adaptation movie was Hollywood's "Superman"; Since then, whether it is China Entertainment, Japanese Entertainment, or Hollywood counterparts, they have tried to bring more superheroes to the big screen, and the results are ...... The vast majority of box office word-of-mouth hit the streets.

is not a superhero-themed manga movie, and it didn't even splash a splash.

Anyway, in recent years, everyone has not dared to touch superhero-themed movies anymore, and non-superhero-themed comic movies have all been thrown into the cold palace.

Wang Chuanqi didn't know if this was good news or bad news.

The good news is that because the filmization process is full of pits, except for a few popular superhero characters or comics, the film copyright is firmly held in the hands of the Big Five, and the other film copyrights are changed back and forth between various film companies, as long as they are willing to pay, no one will catch it.

The bad news is also here, what everyone doesn't want, is it really fragrant?

If it weren't for Wang Wei's aura of never missing, Lao Wang would have directly objected.

"According to his request, we have figured out the ownership of most of the superhero movie copyrights, I don't understand why it takes so much effort, does he still want to cover all these copyrights?" Wang Chuanqi muttered casually.

He Xi was stunned, but his heart turned over the river and the sea, and said secretly: Maybe he was really said by you!

A looming huge plan seems to have been glimpsed by him at the tip of the iceberg - if it weren't for the idea of gathering superheroes and building a "superhero universe" for a long time, why bother considering the copyright ownership of so many superheroes?

With a flash of inspiration, I don't know how many times I conceived it in Wang Wei's mind?

I really thought about it too much, and I thought that whether the idea of the "movie universe" could be implemented depends on whether my "answer sheet" is qualified!

- As a result, people probably really just want to take the test.

Hexi has a little hot face!

While his face was hot, he was a little proud.

Compared with the second boss who was still ignorant, He Xi thought silently: Well, I can be regarded as a hero who sees the same thing.

……

Making up the background is more tiring than making up a story~

(End of chapter)