Super entertainment red envelope

Chapter 842 The copyright of "Lord of the Rings" has been taken down!
Unlike in the past, the news of the release of "Harry Potter" did not cause much controversy.

Only some people who have been following the developments in the publishing industry, and a small number of fans noticed and cared.

The main reason is that there is not much publicity.

Whether it's Li Zhifan or Dongfang Entertainment, the current focus of publicity is still on the movie "This Killer Is Not So Cold".

As for the novel "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", relying on the publishing house to post a short social article will not cause much trouble.

Li Zhifan didn't intend to push "Harry Potter" hard at the beginning.

If what he presented was a magical masterpiece like "The Lord of the Rings", it would definitely be hyped and everyone would know about it.

This is not because he has opinions on "Harry Potter", but because he feels that at this stage, "Harry Potter" is not worthy of such promotion, because "Harry Potter" really became popular all over the world after the movie was released. , no matter how well the book sold before, or how high the original author's worth is on the list of writers, it is not worth the fame and fortune gained after the filming.

Moreover, if an IP work has amazed the world from the beginning of the novel, it must be a masterpiece in the world, but "Harry Potter" is more than that.

A month later.

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is officially available in North America.

On the day it was put on the shelves, all major bookstores and online e-commerce companies that carried Li Zhifan's name sold good sales.

It seems that at this time, many overseas fans of Li Zhifan suddenly realized that Li Zhifan has published a new book of Western Fantasy!

So, one pass ten, ten pass one hundred.

Relying on the power of netizens and fans, this news quickly spread among the people, and then appeared in the popular press releases of the Internet self-media, and finally was exposed by major official news organizations.

Step by step, it was hotly discussed, all fans were busy, and Li Zhifan, Dongfang Entertainment and the publishing house did not intervene.

Within a week, 50 copies of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" were sold out.

Among them, Emay, the world's largest e-commerce platform alone, sold 15 copies in three days. It has been out of stock and has not been replenished. Netizens complained about the website's hunger marketing.

Everyone bought this book because of Li Zhifan's personal fame. Only a few people wanted to see how Li Zhifan's western fantasy novels were written. No one bought it because they really liked the book itself.

Because of the honor of "Three-Body Problem", this "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is naturally given high expectations by the public.

But after reading it, word-of-mouth is polarized.

Applause:
"It's actually a magic novel, that's awesome!"

"A cat that can read a map? A wizarding school with cloaks as uniforms? And Muggles?"

"I still don't understand, what is a Muggle?"

"It's people who don't know magic. In Li Zhifan's writing, we are all Muggles!"

"Imagination is very rich. It's been a long time since I've read such a magical novel. I remember the last time I read "Little Witch Sandy" when I was in middle school!"

"It's beautiful, it's beautiful! I just don't know if this grammar has been improved, because it is pure British English, but it is very simple and vernacular, without ancient English words, but even so, Li Zhifan's English writing ability is very strong .”

"..."

In addition, there are many complaints:

"Children's literature? Fairy tales? I'm so disappointed! It's far worse than "The Three-Body Problem"!"

"It's too white, it's completely elementary school students' composition."

"With such a level, why do so many people applaud him?"

"Yeah, all his movies are written by himself, and they are all very good, but this "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"... I can only say that he is not suitable for writing Western Fantasy works, at least in this part , he was unable to write a great work that could be called literature."

"Li Zhifan insists on the whims of the Chinese, but I like reading Chinese fantasy novels very much recently. If Li Zhifan writes a fantasy work, I will support it."

"It has been confirmed that the readers of this "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" should be between the ages of 6 and 12, and the hero and heroine are both children!"

"..."

These discussions naturally aroused the counterattack of some Li Zhifan fans.

But the opposite is thus formed.

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was officially launched in China two months after it was published overseas. In addition to the simplified Chinese version in the mainland, it also includes the traditional Chinese version in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

From the very beginning, Li Zhifan adapted and designed all the characters in the "Harry Potter" series into mixed races. This is also specially designed for the batch of mixed races he signed. Except for boys, these little girls who signed the contract are capable of any A female character.

The pre-shooting work is nearly a year of training.

Li Zhifan completely placed these mixed-race children in the storyline constructed by the novel, and arranged for an acting teacher to teach them how to act as little magicians every day, as if they had really entered a magic academy.

As for the male actors, the company has signed a new group of young actors, all of whom are of mixed race, and they were directly recruited by Oriental Entertainment from China. There are only 7 of them.

Li Zhifan also planned to allow these seven young actors to develop their singing skills in addition to their drama development, and to form a group to debut in the future, and even required each of them to learn a musical instrument.

It is exciting to imagine that his disciples will be all over the world in another ten years.

……

The thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month.

New Year's Eve.

Li Zhifan turned off all his work, set aside a full seven days for himself to rest, and lived a more relaxed year with his family than before.

This Spring Festival Gala sent an invitation to Li Zhifan, the first time was half a year ago, but at that time he was busy promoting the release of "Avatar", and later "Spirited Away", so he turned down the Spring Festival Gala invitation.

Later, when filming "This Killer Is Not So Cold", the Spring Festival Gala program team came to the door for the second time, but was still declined by Li Zhifan.

Just a week ago, the Spring Festival Gala program team visited the thatched cottage three times, but Li Zhifan had made a plan to rest for seven days to be with his family, so he refused again.

But for the New Year, as a working person, I have to send some blessings to everyone.

So Li Zhifan gathered more than a dozen artists in the company, and recorded a song "Gong Xi Fa Cai" together, which was released as the New Year's greeting song of Oriental Entertainment.

In the past few days, the streets and alleys are full of this song, and people all over the country have been brainwashed by this song.

On some video apps, most of the videos use this song as background music.

It can be said that "Gong Xi Fa Cai" is a huge hit now, which makes the Spring Festival Gala program crew very unwilling. If Li Zhifan is willing to use this song for the Spring Festival Gala, even if he brings the dozen or so contracted artists of Oriental Entertainment, anyway. The program group did not give money.

New Year's Eve.

The whole family gathers.

In Chinese families, there are probably very few parents who celebrate the New Year with their children with their father-in-law and mother-in-law.

But it was Li Zhifan's side, because both of them were only children, without them, any of the four old people would become a veritable empty window old man.

Looking at the siblings, Little Cherry and Little Tudou, Li Zhifan often feels that he owes his parents a lot because he doesn't have any brothers and sisters, and he doesn't have much time to take care of his parents.

Especially in such a festival that should have been festive, looking at the elderly parents, I couldn't help weeping.

"Let's eat! Xiao Ke, come and serve the food!"

Except for making dumplings, Li Zhifan cooked all the dishes today.

Moreover, all the dishes he cooks are dishes that he would not eat at home, and it can even be said that the old BJs would not eat the dishes. Some of the southern cuisines-no way, in Huang Xiaochu's cheats, the southern dishes are very good. .

"Hoo hoo, woo woo woo!"

As soon as the dish was brought to the table, Little Cherry couldn't wait to pinch a piece of meat and ate it into her mouth, then nodded her head in praise: "It's delicious, Dad, your cooking is so delicious!"

"Haha!" Li Zhifan was very proud, touched Little Cherry's head with his hand, and said, "It's delicious, eat more later, but don't use your hands? Use chopsticks, have you washed your hands clean?"

"Clean it up!"

Little Cherry took the chopsticks, picked another one, and said while eating, "Dad, will you stay at home and cook? I will support you, so you don't have to go out to earn money."

Hearing this, the whole family roared with laughter. Little Tudou looked confused and didn't know what everyone was laughing at, while Little Cherry looked forward to Li Zhifan's answer in a serious manner.

"Okay! When Dad gets old, it's up to you!" Li Zhifan laughed.

The whole family came to the table, eating and drinking happily.

The Spring Festival Gala broadcast on TV also started on time.

Although they say "don't watch the Spring Festival Gala anymore, don't watch the Spring Festival Gala anymore", everyone will still get used to turning on the TV, but they won't watch it attentively, unless there are particularly popular superstars coming out.

Nostalgia is one of the eternal elements of the Spring Festival Gala every year, and old artists are invited to come out on stage every year.

The two invited this year are actually queen-level, and they have not been to the Spring Festival Gala in 20 years. For these artists, they needed the Spring Festival Gala to increase their popularity when they were young, but with popularity, Patty, who is a big party like the Spring Festival Gala, There is no need.

Now that I am old, although I have a good reputation, my real popularity has fallen to the bottom, leaving only the title of queen, so I once again borrowed a donkey to go downhill, trying to use the Spring Festival Gala stage to develop a second spring of my career.

It's a pity that the Spring Festival Gala is not the Spring Festival Gala 20 years ago, and they have already degraded their strength 20 years ago.

……

After seven days of rest, Li Zhifan returned to work.

At this moment, a piece of great news came - the film copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" was taken down!

"Really?"

Holding the phone, Li Zhifan's hands were shaking with excitement, "That's great, Mr. Cheng, I knew you could do it!"

"In this world, there is nothing money can't do!"

Cheng Wenbin laughed, with the face of a businessman, "We bought 30.00% of their equity and won six seats on the board of directors, so the copyright of "Lord of the Rings" is at hand."

"Oh!"

Li Zhifan sighed, "Sure enough, professional things need to be handled by professional people. Now that the copyright is settled, we can develop the press conference, and then we can operate the next step here."

"Don't worry, I have some good news for you!"

Cheng Wenbin said mysteriously, "It's not just the film copyright of "Lord of the Rings" that we won!"

"Huh?" Li Zhifan was taken aback, "Is it all copyright?"

"Yes!" Cheng Wenbin said proudly, "We need to shoot movies, we need to shoot TV dramas, and we also need to make stage plays. Zhifan, do you have the confidence to do TV dramas as well?"

"This……"

Li Zhifan couldn't laugh or cry, "I'd better make a movie with peace of mind, do one thing first, and talk about TV dramas later!"

"Okay, let's make movies first, after all, movies make a lot of money!"

Hearing Cheng Wenbin's words, Li Zhifan guessed that he must be grinning, and the face of the businessman came to Li Zhifan's mind again.

Only three days later, Dongfang Entertainment announced the news, obtained all the copyrights of "The Lord of the Rings", and was preparing to start producing the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies.

At the same time, the director candidate for "Lord of the Rings" - Li Zhifan was announced!

Hearing this news, countless "Lord of the Rings" fans were crazy, doubtful, praised, puzzled, excited and cursed.

"The wait is finally here! Ah! In my lifetime, I can finally see the movie version of The Lord of the Rings!"

"Directed by Li Zhifan? My God, I believe in his strength, it must be a big drama!"

"What? The copyright was actually given to the Chinese people?"

"It's over, why not an American company in Hollywood?"

"Although Li Zhifan filmed "Avatar", but such an epic masterpiece as "The Lord of the Rings", can he shoot well? Can he restore the original work?"

"I'm not very optimistic about Li Zhifan. If "The Lord of the Rings" is to be made into a movie, special effects are not enough. Don't think that "Avatar" is the best box office movie history. Its plot is not full, and it is also very routine Hollywood Story. I'm not afraid that Li Zhifan can't make special effects, but I'm afraid that Li Zhifan can't control the story of "The Lord of the Rings."

"The story of "The Lord of the Rings" is really difficult to do. As for the part in Elven language, who can do it?"

"If Dongfang Entertainment and Li Zhifan really make this movie and it is widely praised, it will be no problem for Dongfang Entertainment to become a Hollywood giant, and Li Zhifan, the world's number one director, will be firmly seated."

"The key depends on the box office."

"Speaking of the box office is the most powerful counterattack!"

"Don't think that Li Zhifan is the box office guarantee, if the movie doesn't work, it will still hit the street!"

"..."

In addition, everyone in Hollywood was eager to move after hearing the news.

Every actor and every behind-the-scenes staff wanted to cooperate with Oriental Entertainment, and those film companies even hoped to join hands with Oriental Entertainment to create and bring this masterpiece to the screen.

(End of this chapter)