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Chapter 299 The Entertainment Industry Boss Who Was Furious to Death (9)

After clicking on the two trending searches, Bai Sheng knew what had happened and was speechless.

The situation is basically the same as what is trending.

Shan Wenyan felt that the price Peak Entertainment spent only eight million to buy the copyright of his "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was too low, and he said a lot of sarcastic words.

The second is that his new book will go directly through publishing channels.

He published The Return of the Condor Heroes at his own expense.

At the same time, I set up a crew and prepared to shoot the film myself.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Sheng was naturally quite curious and sent out artificial intelligence to investigate the details again. After a while, more detailed details than the online revelations were successfully found and imported into Bai Sheng's mobile phone.

Then Bai Sheng was even more speechless.

When Peak Entertainment went to buy the copyright, Shan Wenyan offered a price of 80 million, which made the person in charge laugh.

Later, the person in charge of purchasing the copyright bypassed him and negotiated with the novel website where he published the book. After all, when the contract was signed, the relevant copyright already belonged to the website.

Contacting him first is just to give him face.

He doesn't naturally have to negotiate with the copyright owner.

Although The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a work of fairly good quality, whether a work can become a hit also depends on the times. Some works from decades ago when entertainment was scarce could become a hit at the time, but if they were moved to decades later, they would at most be a little bit popular, and it would be difficult to recreate the hit they were back then.

Many TV dramas today are not as popular as they once were. Is it simply because the quality of TV dramas today is far inferior to that of the past? Obviously not entirely!

There are many things to entertain you.

Some have chosen, and have seen more.

The threshold for entertainment needs has naturally increased.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which has been turned into an online novel, can only barely rank in the top 20 in the website's best-selling rankings. In the martial arts section, there is also an author who can compete with it.

It often takes turns to be the best-selling one.

In this case, the offer cannot be too high.

Most importantly, it has been several years since major entertainment groups began frantically scrambling for novel IP copyrights.

The related heat has long faded.

The current novel copyright market is not as hot as it was a few years ago. It's good enough to be able to sell it. The offer of 8 million is only because Bai Sheng specifically asked for it.

The novel website has no objection to this.

Only Shan Wenyan disagreed. He felt that his work just needed some time to spread and would become a classic in a few years. It was too cheap to sell it now for eight million. It would be better to wait a few years before selling it.

Otherwise, you will have to raise your offer.

Or he might use his own copyright as an investment, and at the same time he would also be the screenwriter and would not allow any changes to be made.

However, he is not a big name in the literary world, and the copyright of the novel is not in his hands, but in the hands of the novel website. What is the point of his making these demands?
So naturally it was ignored.

During the process, he even consulted whether he could find a way to sue to get the copyright back, but the result was obviously impossible. Then he fell out with the novel website and had a bad impression of Peak Entertainment Group, thinking that Peak Entertainment Group was taking advantage of his misfortune to suppress the price of his copyright.

It's quite speechless!

But no matter what, he finally received the royalties and copyright fees. It was thanks to those royalties and copyright fees that he was able to publish a new book at his own expense and also formed a crew to film "The Return of the Condor Heroes".

Of course, he definitely doesn't have enough money.

But the crew doesn't pay all the money at once. They start filming first, and then pay more when they make money from selling books.

He is quite confident in himself and feels that the quality of The Return of the Condor Heroes can develop against the times. Even though paper books are no longer the dominant force today, he can still turn things around with the quality of his work and successfully make a fortune.

In order to make more money and suffer less losses.

He refused the publisher's 15% royalty and insisted on publishing the book at his own expense, buying the book number himself, printing it himself, and selling it directly online.

There's no other way. After all, he published the book at his own expense, and the publishing house doesn't make much money, so why should they share their channels with him? Then he can only sell it online by himself. Anyway, it's quite speechless.

Seeing this, Bai Sheng obviously had no interest in cooperating with this guy anymore, so he let him have fun on his own. He then sent an email to inform the department responsible for purchasing copyrights to stop cooperating with him and stop purchasing the copyrights of his subsequent works. He probably wouldn't be willing to sell them, so he let him have fun on his own, whatever he wanted...

We have top-notch artificial intelligence to analyze audience psychology and customize different scripts for different audience groups, so there is no need to worry about a lack of scripts available.

I want to cooperate with Shan Wenyan just to save some trouble.

But he is not indispensable.

Although "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is only one of the ten TV series launched after the Dianfeng video software was put on the shelves, after all, among the ten dramas, only this one bought the copyright of the novel, and the others are original scripts. At the same time, only this one has someone playing tricks.

In addition, there are many people who dislike Peak Entertainment.

Just go with the flow and increase the heat.

Don't be too normal.

So before long, the two trending searches that Bai Sheng didn't take seriously at all quickly moved to the front.

A full 30 to 40 million people clicked in to watch it.

However, the first one to break down in the end was Shan Wenyan, because the plot development was completely different from what he had imagined.

【Eight million is not enough?】

[Don't you see how badly the martial arts market has fallen? It's good enough if someone buys it. This is the first time I've seen someone curse both the owner and the seller after the copyright was sold. Does he think the book he wrote is a world-famous masterpiece?]

[Some authors of famous works are almost starving to death! ]

[Sharing a hot piece of knowledge, most famous works gradually become famous works after the author's death. 】

[I went to watch it, the first episode is almost over, and I still can't tell who the protagonist is. So who is the protagonist? Didn't they say there would be three golden chapters? But after three chapters, why hasn't the protagonist appeared yet? ]

[What do you know? This novel is a classic, don’t even mention the fact that the copyright was sold for eight million.

Even if it is sold for 80 million, that is still too little. 】

[Is the brain above okay? 】

[Please, even in the past few years, when the novel copyright market was the hottest, the most expensive novel copyright was only sold for 60 million, and it was only said to be 60 million, no one knows whether it was actually sold.]

【What do you know? 】

[This is a classic, a classic that has been passed down for centuries! ]

[Haha, I have never seen such a brainless author. Does he really think that what he wrote is a rare treasure? He doesn't want others to make a penny, and he even publishes and sells the book at his own expense. In this day and age, the largest domestic publisher is almost unable to survive, but he still publishes it at his own expense.

Does he think he is a certain Hao Ge? He wrote his own songs from beginning to end, and he wrote his own novels from beginning to end. 】【Wait and see the joke. 】

[Dianfeng Entertainment has a really good temper. That novel website has already said that it will ban him from the entire industry, but Dianfeng Entertainment has not made any move. This is magnanimity.]

[I guess they just don't bother to pay attention. ]

[Wait, this author actually set up a crew to film his new novel. Shouldn’t he set up his own streaming platform and charge for his own streaming? Otherwise, he will be exploited.]

[There is no need to be so harsh. What this author did is not much different from what Summit Entertainment Group did. Summit Entertainment is still acquiring a large number of theaters and launching its own video playback platform at this time. Isn't it because they want to control the output channels?

To sum up, in addition to not wanting to be strangled, the most important thing is probably not wanting to let others make money.

So this author is a bit overconfident.

But you can’t mock others like this! 】

[I understand, but we still need to have some self-awareness. Even Peak Entertainment almost went bankrupt after doing this. If it weren’t for the old chairman’s efforts to save the situation, Peak Entertainment would probably have gone bankrupt and liquidated by now.]

[Please, there is not a single star in the new crew he formed. From the main characters to the supporting roles, they are all unknown guys, newcomers. The most outrageous thing is that the author is also the director, producer, investor and screenwriter.

Come on, does he understand this, he...

Just by looking at this configuration, I can already imagine how bad this drama will be. Does he think he is some kind of genius, an all-round prodigy? 】

[Stupid, stupid, all stupid! ]

【Talent will definitely beat capital. 】

There is no doubt that part of the content was posted by Shan Wenyan himself using a secondary account. There was nothing he could do. After reading the trending searches and the comments from those people, he really couldn't suppress his inner anger. The copyright of such a classic work was only sold for eight million. Is this something a human being would do?

The copyrights of online novels can be sold for tens of millions, so why can't such a classic work of his be sold for 80 million?

If he is not still sane, he is not using a smurf account.

Instead, they just started to argue with each other!
After reading the comments from netizens for a while, he found that most people thought he was overestimating his abilities and were not optimistic about his crew's success, so Shan Wenyan simply turned off his phone and decided to turn a blind eye to it. He also secretly made up his mind to make The Condor Heroes a good one, to slap those people in the face and let them know that their choice was the right one.

There is entertainment from all over the world to rely on.

He just doesn't believe that he can't become an entertainment capital giant.

After that, when his novel was sold, someone read it and found out about the plot of Xiaolongnu losing her virginity. He got so angry and dissatisfied that he started cursing and making such a fuss. I won't go into details, but it was quite a hassle.

In comparison, Bai Sheng's plan went very smoothly and there were basically no setbacks.

The peak video software became an instant hit.

In just one month, it successfully gained 300 million registered users.

Other film and television production companies and entertainment companies no longer dare to make any trouble. They are not on the same league at all. Their current goal is no longer to target Peak Entertainment Group or even to destroy it, but to try to survive in the cracks and find out what types of film and television dramas Peak Entertainment Group is not involved in.

Then, he managed to catch his breath by shooting TV series and movies that were not involved in the Peak Entertainment Group.

Just make a small profit to survive.

Some have even started discussing acquisition with Peak Entertainment Group, hoping that Peak Entertainment Group can acquire their companies and give them some money to live on in their retirement.

At the same time, employees can still keep their jobs.

Isn't it the best of both worlds?

But this does not mean that Summit Entertainment Group has become the industry leader and invincible. It’s just that their opponents have changed, from the original film and television production companies and major entertainment companies to real giants.

That is, those film and television playback platforms.

The top three domestic film and television broadcasting platforms are not only extremely large in size, with market capitalization exceeding that of most entertainment groups, but the consortiums they rely on are even more terrifying, and none of them has a market capitalization of less than one trillion!
He is wealthy and has a great family and business.

It gave them confidence.

Previously, they had never taken Peak Entertainment Group seriously, or even if they did, they only regarded Peak Entertainment Group as their supplier.

After all, the TV series produced by Peak Entertainment Group will eventually be broadcast on their platform.

The only difference is whether it is exclusive broadcast or distributed.

But now, Peak Entertainment Group has quietly launched a video playback platform, and in the early stages it used a free model, and within a month it has gained 300 million registered users. This move is simply like directly tearing the relationship apart and starting a war, yet it has done so silently and made a rapid rise.

What does 300 million users mean?
This data would rank it fourth among domestic video playback platforms. However, other video playback platforms have accumulated so many users over more than ten years, yet it has added 300 million users in just one month.

If it takes another year or two.

It also poses a direct threat to the top three giants.

So, one month after Peak Video was officially launched, other video playback platforms began to target Peak Entertainment Group. However, they did not play any conspiracy or tricks. They just increased publicity and launched some high-quality dramas to consolidate their own users.

And Bai Sheng obviously would not be afraid of fighting.

Just keep pushing the new drama.

Not only did it launch ten new dramas again, but it also officially opened a membership model, a paid membership model.

However, she introduced a charging model.

It is different from any video playback platform.

That is, those dramas that were released before the official launch of the paid model are still available to all registered users. There are no advertisements and no clarity restrictions. Anyone who is a registered member can watch them.

Including the ten exclusive dramas launched at the opening.

Where is the charge?
The charging point is for the dramas released later. For the newly released dramas, the first four to six episodes will still be broadcast for free, but the rest will need to be purchased. It is not an advanced on-demand program, but you must pay to purchase it.

It’s not expensive either, ranging from one to three dollars per episode.

The specific amount will be calculated based on the production cost.

Once you buy it, you have permanent viewing rights. There is no such thing as not being able to watch again when your membership expires. If you buy it in a package, you may even get a discount, which is quite cost-effective.

For people who spend seven or eight hours a day watching TV series, this model may not be very cost-effective. But for people who don't watch TV series very often, but occasionally like a certain series and then buy a membership to watch it, it is absolutely appropriate.

With the launch of this new charging model, the other three major film and television platforms are a little confused. They don't know what this routine is, and they don't know whether this operation is a way to kill themselves or really find another way. So they are a little silent for the time being, and decided to wait and see the direction of public opinion. If someone criticizes, they will quickly join in the fun.

If someone praises you, you will find fault with it.

Anyway, we can’t let Peak Entertainment have an easy time.

Twenty-four hours after the paid model was launched, the official website of Dianfeng Video posted a celebratory banner.

#8 billion in 24 hours! #