Chapter 1085 600 Million TV Copyright Fees!

The Saint Seiya series of toys were put into production in late December, and there was no holiday even on New Year's Day.

The workers don't care. Almost all of them come from the mainland and have experienced the pain of having no money. Now that they have money, they don't care whether they have holidays or not. They are not so pretentious.

What's more, Yin Jun strictly follows the rules of later generations. Anyone who works overtime on holidays will be given at least 50% more overtime pay, and night shifts will receive a 100% salary increase.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiangjiang didn't have the habit of taking weekends off, and if it wasn't for the fact that Sister Le's patience had reached its limit, Yin Jun would have planned to either have Saturday off, or Saturday would be counted as 30% overtime pay.

In fact, the young man has always felt that the work efficiency of a factory has never depended on the number of hours it operates per week.

If you look at the state-owned factories in the 1990s, you will know that after one month of operation, they are not as efficient and productive as a small private factory that is ten times smaller than itself.

Why?

Because the workers are not motivated, they will get the same amount regardless of whether they work well or not, whether they work well or not.

If it were you, would you still be willing to be so stupid and work so hard and still be called a fool?

Private enterprises are different. The boss is responsible for his own profits and losses. If he wants to make money, he must run the factory seriously and run the business.

The same goes for the workers below. The more they work and the better they do, the higher their wages will be. If they don't work well and are lazy, they can just get out.

Comparing the two, how could they not work hard?

Therefore, Dongguan and Nanwan, the first-generation family factories in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, completely defeated the state-owned factory model and became the most important force supporting China's light industry and consumer electronics industry.

In Xiangjiang, this model has always existed, because there are no state-owned factories here, only private enterprises.

Therefore, in the 1970s, various products from Xiangjiang began to sell well all over the world. If the British did not deliberately lead Xiangjiang into a dead end, and relied on the vigorous development momentum of the mainland in the future, Singapore would not even give a shit in front of Xiangjiang. Calculate.

With decades of experience, Yin Jun believes that the efficiency of a factory lies in its people.

On the workers, to be precise.

You need to make them feel that this factory is driven, is fair, can see the fruits of your labor, and pays generously, then they will work hard.

It's not like the Red Sea factory, which squeezes the energy of workers desperately to produce good products.

Yin Jun couldn't stand Baodao's foundry model.

Chinese people are already hard-working enough, and they can still do well without such high-pressure management.

Therefore, factories managed using the model developed by Yin Jun have always been very efficient.

This has been the case since the very beginning of Kirin Printing Factory.

Although Qilin Printing Factory uses mostly recycled paper, the quality of its printing is particularly good. Whether it is "Qilin Daily", "Qilin Weekly" or single editions, the cutting, typesetting, and printing are all first-rate, and this rigorous and serious attitude , not only satisfied the people of Hong Kong, but also won the favor of European, American, Japanese and Korean comic fans.

Especially "Qilin Daily" is completely free, but it is not bad at all compared to newspapers such as "Ming Pao" and "Oriental Daily".

That is to say, there are no plans to operate externally now, otherwise more than 20 newspapers would already want to print their own newspapers and magazines at Qilin Printing Factory.

They are also considered to have great powers. Knowing the printing technology and management of Qilin Printing Factory, they can ignore printing costs to the greatest extent and achieve profits by relying on advertising.

Zhou Yuping mentioned this to Yin Jun that if this part of newspapers and magazines were printed, the profit point of Qilin Printing Factory would be more than 5% higher.

But Yin Jun refused without thinking.

Nowadays, the employment pressure in Xiangjiang is already very high. When 1983 started, it was like an avalanche in all walks of life. If Qilin Printing Factory caused dozens of printing factories to close down, thousands of people would be unemployed. This is not good. .

In addition to Qilin Printing Factory, Qilin Toy Factory is even more powerful.

The stable income of 40 million US dollars can represent how good the toys they make are and how popular they are.

Although a large part of it is due to the popularity of "Transformers", if you make a rough toy, it will break after playing with it for a while, and the workmanship is not fine, how can others keep buying it?

The same is true now when we start making toys from the Saint Seiya series.

After recruiting 4,300 people, the Kirin Toy Factory has a total of 9,500 people.

With a size so close to 10,000 people, it’s not that they are completely distinct, but that they adopt the method of old people leading newcomers.

General manager Cheng Sheng, who worked hard from the grassroots level, asked the old employees to practice the process of making Saint Seiya series toys early on.

When the newly recruited employees joined the company, he directly transferred half of them to the Transformers toy department, while the other half worked on various toy production processes under the leadership of the elders.

Because they are all industrial processes, and they use assembly line operations for newcomers, newcomers do not need to learn too much at the beginning. They only need to learn two or three work steps. One month is enough for them to master it.

Newcomers like this will start to learn more process links after a year or so, and then move to another job.

This is because if you work in the same assembly line job for a long time, the mental pressure will be very great. If you change it frequently, you can not only cultivate more process-round talents, but also keep their mental health.

The cartoon "Saint Seiya" was produced by Japan's Toei Animation.

The workmanship of the Japanese is as excellent as ever, especially when Yin Jun specifically requested it.

In the previous version of "Saint Seiya", the animation effects, especially the fighting effects, were not that outstanding. However, more than 20 years later, the workmanship of the sequel "Celestial World" and so on was much more delicate.

Of course, this is also related to the progress of the times and the advancement of computer special effects. Yin Jun cannot expect to be the same as he will be 30 years later.

But at least in terms of the dazzling effects of fighting, Yin Jun has basic needs.

It's not that the Japanese can't do it, but they're used to working on animation studios and simplifying the process.

Since Yin Jun had a request, they naturally did it more meticulously.

When it officially started broadcasting in the past few days in early January, they had already produced 40 episodes of "Galaxy War".

According to the broadcast rate of two episodes a week, Kylin TV’s inventory is enough.

In December, when he contacted partner TV stations around the world to negotiate for the broadcast of the "Saint Seiya" cartoon, Yin Jun finally understood why in the Internet era, there is so much emphasis on data analysis and the worship of big IPs.

Even if Siniang's movie turns out to be shit, there will still be people who take advantage of the strong appeal of his work and invest hundreds of millions in adapting his new novel into a movie.

"Saint Seiya" is such a big IP.

After more than two years of hard work, as a representative work of the Young Bloods, "Saint Seiya" has countless fans around the world.

This manga by Masami Kurumada has a great starting point. It starts from Greek mythology and incorporates Eastern elements. It is a universal comic.

No wonder he can live comfortably for the rest of his life just by relying on "Saint Seiya".

As soon as people heard that the airing this time was "Saint Seiya", many TV stations didn't even watch the movie, so they made the decision to buy it.

After such a round of negotiations, the global broadcast rights price reached 3 million US dollars per episode, which was like a money grab.

The production cost of "Saint Seiya", including the dubbing of the various versions, is only 200,000 US dollars per episode, and it is also included in the cooperation project with Toei Animation. The price broadcast by Asahi TV offsets the production cost. .

The price of purchasing broadcast rights in Japan is indeed the most expensive in the world, even more expensive than the Disney TV Channel in the United States.

There is no way, who says there are at least 10 million crazy fans of "Saint Seiya" in Japan?

And Japanese animation fans are famous for being generous and generous. After the TV broadcast became popular, the next step was the release of Kirin Culture toys. Toei Animation has the exclusive rights to sell them in Japan. They also Not making a lot of money?

Yin Jun naturally makes more money here.

He didn't even expect that he could earn 3 million US dollars per episode.

If "Galactic War" is effective, then the following "Twelve Golden Palaces", "Big Dipper", "Poseidon", "Pluto"... these animations with at least 200 episodes will be necessary. Bringing revenue of US$600 million to Qilin Culture?

This is still the case when Kirin Culture has integrity. If Yin Jun allows them to continue to use their imagination, in addition to these few orthodox chapters, plus those sequels written by Kurumada Masami, they can easily reach three to five hundred episodes.

If you calculate this carefully, cartoons alone can earn more than 1 billion US dollars!

Don't think that 1 billion US dollars is too much. The broadcast copyright fee for an episode is 3 million US dollars, but it is sold to 138 countries and regions. The average cost per country is just over 20,000 US dollars per episode, which is not expensive at all.

Based on the popularity of "Saint Seiya" in these countries, Yin Jun's doubling of the price is basically acceptable.

However, what the boy was thinking about was not the mere broadcast fee at all, but about selling his doll toys after attracting those fans again with the animated version!

You can only play it for one or two years at most, and the second and third rounds will definitely be cheap.

But if you are selling toys, they are at least on a ten- or twenty-year cycle. Transformers toys have been sold for almost 40 years, and they are still selling them happily!

As long as cartoons continue to be replayed, stand-alone books can still be placed on bookshelves, and then you adapt them into live-action movies, there will always be fans who will continue to buy it!