Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 119: Generation Break Plan (asking for monthly tickets and rewards)

The total box office of "So Young" came out recently, which is 4.06 million.

After deducting the shares shared by all parties and taxes, Yutu has a profit of about 1 million, which will be used to develop Yutu's internal affairs.

That is to say, use domestic money to support people, recruit professional talents, and expand professional talents in production, screenwriting, games, special effects, etc.

Foreign money is used to purchase equipment to maximize the use of funds.

In the office, Chen Zhixi sighed: "I really didn't expect you to be so good at this. Blood transfusion from the United States is awesome."

She gave a thumbs up to Fang Hong across from her.

She had opposed Fang Hong going to the United States before, but she didn't expect that he would get a large amount of funds from overseas in just a few months.

She also watched the movie, a horror movie. It was a pity that this man could come up with the idea of ​​making such a movie for foreigners to watch.

Can most people think of this? Most people go there to win awards and then come back to show off.

"So don't always question me. Every step I take is carefully considered and rigorously planned." Fang Hong said lightly.

"Bad Genius" has been delayed again and again before.

"Yes, yes, it's my problem."

Chen Zhixi raised his hands in surrender, but there was a smile on his face.

This money is definitely a timely relief for Yutu now, and it can make Yutu much stronger.

"Has the release date of "Beijing Meets Seattle" been set?" Fang Hong asked.

"It's settled. 'The Founding of a Party' is coming out this month, so we have to avoid this movie and schedule it for the summer season on July 7th, competing with 'Wuxia', 'Far Cry', and 'The Inn of the God of Wealth'." Chen Zhixi said.

It’s another co-production with Hong Kong. There are really many co-productions with Hong Kong in this era.

Basically, they are Hong Kong male stars and mainland female stars, and this way of matching is easier to pass the review.

The movie "The Founding of a Party" must be avoided. It is trying to compete with tribute films for popularity. What do you mean?
Huayi also participates in this movie, so it can be said that they have quite a lot of connections. Fang Hong can only let them go for the time being and make an appointment with them next time.

If it wasn't a tribute film, Fang Hong would definitely have to confront them.

There’s nothing else to say, I have money and can afford to lose tens of millions!
"Okay, let's find a few publicity companies to sign long-term contracts, and we also need to set up our own public relations team," Fang Hong said.

He will use this to scold people in the future. Whoever scolds him, he will scold back.

"This costs money." Chen Zhixi said.

"Don't talk to me about money. How much does it cost to set up a PR team? Is one hundred million enough?" Fang Hong asked in a domineering tone.

Damn, so arrogant?

One hundred million is enough, even with one zero less, it all depends on how you do it.

As long as you don't curse at others, it won't cost much to confront them. But if you curse at others madly, it will be a bottomless pit.

"Also, we can't always shoot low-budget films. We need to try to make some big films with special effects," Fang Hong instructed.

"I agree with this." Chen Zhixi did not object, simply because he had money now.

This is not only to train the team, but also to improve technology and break through the blockade.

Since professional talents cannot come to them, they will train them themselves.

In this circle, the behind-the-scenes team is ranked based on seniority, and every big director and film and television company has a fixed team.

These people will not come to Yutu for service. The reason is that although the food here is delicious, they cannot eat at multiple restaurants.

Speaking of special effects, Fang Hong thought of someone: "Has there ever been a person named Yao Qi here?"

This person had contacted him before, and he asked this person to come to Beijing.

"Yes, he saw you were not around, so he told you to contact him when you came back." Chen Zhixi said, wondering: "What does this guy do?"

"I found a special effects artist from Hollywood, and he will be in charge of the special effects department from now on," Fang Hong said.

"You're poaching from Hollywood!" Chen Zhixi was a little surprised. She thought domestic ones would be enough.

There isn't much need for special effects.

"Of course we have to recruit someone from Hollywood. He has a lot of experience. Have you seen the movie 2012? He also participated in the production."

Fang Hong was about to say something to her again: "You need to have a long-term vision and not just focus on the existing successful model."

Low-budget youth films will eventually become outdated!
Judging from Chen Zhixi's resume in her previous life, she rarely made special effects films, mostly genre films.

But they have made great use of the publicity and promotion model!
Of course this does not deny her talent; she just adapted to the Chinese film market environment.

But Fang Hong certainly cannot be like her. Yutu needs to move towards industrialization, that is, a large content system. Only then will it be valuable and have a much larger scale.

"Okay, what you said makes sense." Chen Zhixi shut up and listened to him.

"But we still have to pull it out." Fang Hong said again.

Chen Zhixi couldn't help but be amused by him: "You are such a person, you really want it all."

That is to say, we will continue to make those youth films and low-budget films that follow the trend.

This topic can still be popular for one or two years!

"We have to walk on many legs. If we don't walk, others will walk for us!"

Fang Hong said this and then asked, "How is the matter of me asking you to buy the copyrights of some novels going?"

This was what he had instructed before going to the United States.

Novel copyrights are not expensive now, but with the popularity of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "Scarlet Heart" at the end of the year, novel copyrights began to rise in price.

So in order to save money, you have to seize the opportunity.

TV dramas are meant to be developed. Without developing TV dramas, there is no way to develop the agency business. And TV dramas are better adapted from novels.

Movies don’t promote people, only TV series promote people.

"I bought some, including "Nirvana in Fire", "Ghost Blows Out the Light", "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" and so on. However, I didn't have enough funds before, but I will get more later." Chen Zhixi said.

These novels were not expensive, and I bought them all for a total price of 700 million, of which "Langya Bang" was only 35!
"Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is a bit more expensive, it's 500 million!
"Ghost Blows Out the Light" was a second-hand copy. The person bought it for 10 yuan. Yutu spent ten times the price and negotiated several rounds before buying it.

"Okay, continue to purchase novel copyrights on the market. Within a year, you have to spend 3 to 5 million to purchase novel copyrights on the market. As long as they have some value, buy them all." Fang Honghao said angrily.

"What? Are you crazy?" Chen Zhixi widened his eyes.

3 to 5 million, the entire Yutu company did not make that much money.

This amount of money is equivalent to sweeping away the copyrights of all well-known novels on the market.

Nowadays, the copyright of a popular novel only costs three or five hundred thousand yuan, which is not expensive at all. Three or five hundred million yuan is equivalent to buying the copyright of a thousand novels, and they are all sold out.

The public relations department didn’t say anything before. After all, it was indeed necessary. This is a bit too much. It would be okay to spend less money.

"You will cause market turmoil and drive up the price of the product by doing this," she said.

"I don't care. If you can't spend 30 million in a month, it's your dereliction of duty. I have nothing to do now, so I'll just keep an eye on your spending." Fang Hong pointed.

Now that the situation has opened up in the United States, the box office of "Annabelle" will not be less than 2 million US dollars!

This is just the box office revenue, there is also copyright sharing.

And it's just one movie. There are subsequent movies like "The Purge", "The Conjuring" and "Fifty Shades of Grey". These are entire series and IPs.

This means that he will have a steady flow of funds in the future.

"Chairman Fang, you look really hateful, you know that? You look like a hateful capitalist."

Chen Zhixi was annoyed. It was the first time he had seen someone forcing people to spend money.

Where can she find so many novel copyrights to buy? She can only scavenge through the garbage and probably buy a bunch of junk that cannot be adapted.

"Stop talking nonsense. I just want to see you spend money."

What she didn't know was that this was Fang Hong's "generational plan".

It was to copy all the TV series and movies that became popular later, and buy all the copyrights of the novels.

Anyway, whether to take pictures or not depends on your mood. You have to hold it in your hands and make other people's paths narrower and narrower until there is no way to go.

This is a bit inhumane, but there is nothing we can do about it, the entertainment industry is so cruel.

Fang Hong added: "If you don't like having too much money, why don't you buy the expensive ones? For example, buy masterpieces like "The Story of the Rose" and "The Three-Body Problem". It's so simple!"

What he said was simple. Even if "The Three-Body Problem" changed hands for the second time, the full copyright fee was only 1.2 million yuan. That was 18 years ago. It is not worth that price now because the market has not taken off.

However, it is difficult to buy this even if you have money. Copyright owners nowadays seem to have a lot of trouble, so you can take your time to negotiate!
"The Three-Body Problem?" Chen Zhixi was puzzled.

I've heard of "The Story of the Rose". It's been around for a long time.

Apparently, she didn't even know about the existence of "The Three-Body Problem". The novel became popular only after it won an award in 2015.

The influence is not great now.

"Don't worry about it, just buy it. Spend the money for me. You will be praised if you spend it in advance. If you really can't spend it all, you can buy it abroad. But only buy the copyright of novels, you can't do anything else." Fang Hong said.

"I'm very curious, what makes you so arrogant?" Chen Zhixi was a little speechless. He was so proud of himself just because he had some money.

"A woman, a disobedient woman." Fang Hong said.

(End of this chapter)