Chapter 206 Huge Money

Chu Ge feels that this kind of thing is not that fast. If a project needs to be evaluated, it will take several days just to read your book carefully, not to mention a lot of things that will follow.

But it happened to be a bit of a coincidence.

In fact, Lao Zhu could have been more efficient at the beginning.

Because he transferred Cai Zhijian's film and television company back to his own name in a matter of seconds. With this foundation, he can buy the copyright himself. The price will be whatever the other party quotes, and even if he buys it, he will lose it. It doesn't matter, just repay the favor to Chu Ge.

Finally, Zhu Mengmeng, who was still in the hospital bed and had not been discharged from the hospital, reminded her father: "I don't think they want money. If they sell the warehouse, they probably don't want to sell it. They obviously want to be able to shoot it as soon as possible. Dad, your company I can’t take a picture of this.”

Lao Zhu recalled what Chu Ge meant, and it was indeed like this. He himself had promised that "it would be a shame for me to find a small workshop."

So I gave up the idea of ​​buying it myself and invested instead.

In order to promote "IP" to his old friends, he also deliberately learned about Chu Ge's book, and unexpectedly found that it was much simpler than originally imagined...

The performance of the book itself is very good, so forget it. The important thing is that it is actually famous outside the circle. Outside the circle, the two authors seem to be more popular than the book...

Lao Zhu immediately became happy and directly dialed the number of an old friend: "Lao Xie, haven't you been worried about finding a good project for the past two years? How about recommending an Internet IP to you?"

"Internet IP..." Lao Xie knew very well: "A male channel and a female channel?"

"...Male channel."

"In the past two years, those who filmed male IPs have suffered a lot of compensation. I think it's better to forget it... If it's a female channel, we can still consider it..."

"Aren't there also some that are popular...such as Qing Na?"

"Lao Zhu, you don't understand this. It is the ambitious work of the group. It was carefully crafted, and it was not willing to invest. The quality is extraordinary. Moreover, that book is a rare main character relationship plot network for male videos. Instead of upgrading the battle as the main line, it is much easier to change than the average male channel... This is also the reason why female channels are easier to change than male channels. In addition, the main audience of TV is still female... What is the IP of your male channel? Why not try asking Those who make animation might be more suitable?"

Lao Zhu knows that it is very difficult for practitioners to cheat these days. Everyone knows what they are doing. This is not an era where just brushing up recommendation votes and blowing up a few PPTs is enough. But he became more confident and said with a smile: "The one I want to recommend to you meets your requirements very well."

Lao Xie was not interested, so he reluctantly said, "Oh? Let's talk about it."

"This is a group portrait novel. Although it is an upgraded main line, the color is relatively light. It mainly talks about various characters... By the way, the most popular among them is a heroine-type character."

"Oh?" Lao Xie said with a smile: "Are you so good at boasting that group dramas can be popular on the Internet? You are still writing a heroine on a male channel...could it be that some nephew wrote a book about gambling to fool you? Well, what is the highest popularity index? Does the character have double digits in popularity..."

Lao Zhu only used five words to explain everything: "Top eight on the best-selling list!"

"Eh..." Lao Xie was stunned for a moment.

This time I really got a little more interested. Everyone knows that group portraits are difficult to write. There are many people who claim to want to write group portraits, but most of them don’t even know their grandma. If you can write in the top few, I guess you are really good at writing.

And there is actually a heroine-type character who is the most popular... As long as Lao Zhu is not boasting, it seems that we can really do some research.

Lao Zhu started to add more information: "And the problem you mentioned about female viewers, in fact, quite a few female viewers know about this book. It has its own traffic. Although it is not much compared to the traffic required by TV, it is quite small. It’s easy, ordinary idols may not be more popular than them..."

"Huh? You seem to be making me laugh, Lao Zhu..."

"Go online and read "Love in Early Autumn". It's quite popular, and the man in it is the author..."

Lao Xie: "???"

He had actually heard of Love in Early Autumn... because his son was a gamer who was afraid of marriage and wouldn't even go on a blind date. During this period, he was actually willing to go on a blind date. When he asked, he said it was because he was so sweet by Love in Early Autumn that he longed for love... …

Of course, Lao Zhu is exaggerating that he is more popular than idols, but it is true that there is indeed a certain amount of traffic outside the circle. Lao Xie asked: "After talking for a long time, don't tell me that this couple wants to debut?"

Lao Zhu was startled: "No, no, I'm sure there is no such thing."

"You can't recommend it to me because you really think it has potential, right?"

"Why not? I am very optimistic about it. Not only do I recommend it, I also invest, at least half of it." Lao Zhu smiled and said: "What, I won't cheat you?"

Lao Xie became serious and said, "Wait a moment, I'll let the risk control department make an assessment."

Lao Xie's film and television company is well-known in China. It is not a grassroots team that makes decisions casually. Logically speaking, this evaluation process will take a long time. Coincidentally, when he asked the following for evaluation, the answer he got was: "Mr. Xie, the copyright department of the other party has recommended this book to us before, and we have evaluated it."

Old Xie asked curiously: "What a coincidence...what's the result?"

"The rating given by the team is A... It is good in all aspects, it can meet our needs and plans, and there is no censorship risk. But the main problem is that if you want to make it effective, the investment is too high, and the risk in this aspect is very high. Big. We put it aside after research..."

Lao Xie nodded slightly. This is a problem that even good male videos cannot avoid. No matter how good your book is, it doesn't matter. The scenes are huge and there are many special effects, which makes the cost too high and the risk too high. Once you try to control costs, the result will most likely lose its charm and no one will even look at it.

To put it this way, Lao Zhu really didn't cheat anyone. It's not easy for his own team to get an A rating. It's not a problem with the work itself that it was shelved. And when it comes to "in line with the plan"... this means that it is in line with the annual shooting plan that their company has previously formulated, including ancient costumes, fairy tales, group portraits... isn't this delivered to your door?

The cost issue... Lao Zhu promised half of the investment, and the risks were shared evenly... Although Lao Xie doubted that if he followed this budget, Lao Zhu might not be able to spend half of the investment... It doesn't matter, he is not just looking for one investor, Lao Xie Zhu here finally felt reassured...

Regardless of filming or not, according to this evaluation and analysis, it should be valuable to get the copyright first... For the huge shooting budget, buying the copyright is just a piece of cake.

Thinking of this, Lao Xie waved his hand and directly rejected the evaluation department's shelving opinion: "Go and inquire, we want this copyright. By the way, it's not just the film and television rights. As long as the other party is not a lion, try to get all the rights!" "

With the big leader's simple decision, the proposal that might have been put on hold for a lifetime was started immediately.

This is the difference between Lao Zhu seeking investment recommendations from friends and the company's copyright department working hard to push it out. Even if the work itself is excellent, top-down promotion and regular evaluation and review, it is obviously not a concept or a result...

Inquiry, quotation, counter-offer... After a total of two or three rounds of negotiation, the editor's notice came to Chu Ge: "Chu Ge, Chu Ge, our current offer is three million for the full copyright, five years, The other party agrees, and you need to agree, and it will happen!"

This is the author's right to know and to veto. This is just this power, and it has no part in the negotiation process... This is the result of many authors' collective efforts.

It is said that this three million is just a drop in capital, but for the author, it is really a huge sum of money... and it will only be sold for five years, this condition is really acceptable.

However, Chu Ge was indifferent to the huge sum of three million, and only made one request: "I must participate in the script adaptation, otherwise it will not be sold."

The editor held it back for a long time and only replied with three words, completely destroying the image of the cute girl: "Fuck! Awesome!"

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Note: Directors, screenwriters, stars, etc. that may appear in movies and TV shows are purely fictional. There is no need to look for real-life prototypes. They are indeed purely made up. It's just that writing is one of the main lines of the male protagonist's career, so it is inevitable that these things are needed, and the plot does not account for a big part... There is also no need to match up with Pingzi. Pingzi has never written a group portrait, nor has he expected to make a film or TV show, but he is looking forward to anime, but it's a pity. So many books have never been completed, woo woo...