Chapter 58 The beginning of business layout, IP placement
"Keep it! This is the main horror atmosphere and cannot be cut!"
"Close-ups of characters are also retained!"
"The preparation for the appearance can be removed!"
In the Tianze editing room, Tang Zezheng and Li Dianbing were concentrating on editing matters.
In addition, Tangze will also take care of the soundtrack.
It can be said that Tang Ze did most of the post-production of the film himself.
This is all we can do at the moment. Musicians are not cheap at all, and they are prone to copyright issues.
Tangze does it himself, saving time and effort.
The reason why Karasawa was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to the later stages of the film was because he encountered some good things.
The notice about "Welcome to the Capital" has come down, and indeed a minister will be involved.
But when Tang Ze actively submitted the idea of the MV, it was quickly approved by the superiors without any delay.
Later, the minister personally stated that he was only responsible for steering the MV in a certain direction and avoiding unnecessary elements.
That is to say, he will not participate in the production and is considered an assistant director.
Therefore, in fact, the chief director of this MV is Tang Ze.
In addition, Tang Ze's nationality review is just one step away from the final step. He will be able to get a pure Chinese ID card in at most two months.
However, when the time comes, he may be required to cooperate with some official media interviews, and Tang Ze readily agrees.
In the afternoon, because he had something to deal with, Tang Ze decided on the style of Li Dianbing's movie and left temporarily.
It is now November 10, 2007, and there is only more than a month left before 2008. Time waits for no one.
Therefore, since Tang Ze launched five divine songs and gained the largest future income since time travel, he started his own business layout.
Weibo and Douyin are already under development, no need to say more.
If he wants to build a real entertainment empire, he still lacks a very important link - content supply source.
In this regard, he set his sights on Qidian, a leading novel website.
However, in March this year, Shengda only injected 100 million yuan into Qidian.
Therefore, Qidian's market value has now risen to 150 million yuan, and he cannot afford it.
Therefore, his main goal is to develop a series of destined, high-production-value, high-IP novels, comics, and game adaptation copyrights or agency rights in the future.
Game agents are the main players, which will be the source of part of Tianze’s funds in the short term.
Novels and comics are long-term plans.
To this end, he did not hesitate to use five ringtones to get a huge loan of 30 million from the bank.
After seeing Shenqu's exaggerated profits, the bank easily agreed to lend him money this time.
Counting the 10 million he owed before, a total of 40 million in loans, Tang Ze felt like he was carrying a mountain.
However, money has value only when it flows, and Tangze will probably continue to be in debt in the future.
When taking inventory of income and expenditure, excluding the 8 million injected into the technology company, the 500,000 production costs for the five divine songs, and some scattered expenditures during this period.
Tangze now has more than 31 million yuan at his disposal.
With this money, he has some confidence.
For example, although he can't afford a starting point, he can still fool him. What if he accidentally persuades him?
So just two days ago, he negotiated with Wu Wenhui, the current chairman of Qidian.
At the negotiation table, he launched an acquisition of Qidian with a valuation of 200 million.
This obviously cannot persuade the other party.
So Tangze increased it to 300 million, and added an additional item——
The internal management structure of Qidian will not be changed, and novel authors and companies can share novel copyrights.
For Wu Wenhui, who was originally an author, this is actually an "industry practice" that he has always wanted to change.
At least for now, he is not just a capitalist, he still thinks more about the author.
Therefore, Wu Wenhui was actually moved at that time.
After all, it is impossible for Shengda to transfer the copyright to the author.
But when Tang Ze said that the initial funds could not be provided in one step and that a maximum of 30 million yuan could be injected in one quarter, Wu Wenhui said that he would consider it.
Even though Tang Ze continued to show the profit prospects of the film industry, Wu Wenhui did not waver and kept telling him to give him some time to think about it.
Tang Ze knew that the deception might have failed, but he still had a glimmer of hope and was waiting for the result.
When Lao Wu returned in a hurry, he immediately asked: "How?"
Seeing Old Wu shaking his head, Tang Ze felt slightly disappointed and asked, "Did Wu Wenhui say anything?"
Lao Wu said: "He said that Qidian's current reform of copyright ownership is of little significance. The most important thing is to expand users, which requires enough authors and works."
Tang Ze nodded.
In fact, this is a polite rejection.
Currently, Shengda is still on the rise, with revenue from games alone exceeding 100 million yuan, its own valuation approaching 3 billion, and strong capital.
After all, Qidian is not like Youku, who can rely on his movies to expand its market value.
Therefore, if he wants to impress Wu Wenhui, he can only truly prove his capital.
But now Tianze has 40 million in debt, and he has enough capital.
You can only buy it again when you have money later.
As for him building his own website, it’s unrealistic.
Even if he comes up with all the ideas that are going to be big hits for future generations, someone still has to write them and read them.
If you want to become a big one quickly, you can only rely on the appeal of those great gods and platinum authors.
But now, almost 70% of the market share is monopolized by Shengda. How much will it cost if he recruits people to write?
Just helping those authors pay liquidated damages would cost them their lives.
Rather than doing this, it is better to acquire the website directly.
No longer worrying about the starting point, Tang Ze said: "Put everything else down first, and you can tell me how much copyright I bought."
Lao Wu immediately read: "This time I purchased the copyrights of 5 novels, which cost 3 million yuan, including "Nirvana in Fire", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Zhu Xian", "Celebrating More Than Years", and "The Wind Rises in Longxi".
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"Among them, "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" was the most expensive, costing 2 million yuan. At that time, Xuanting Technology had already reached a verbal agreement with the original author for 1.5 million yuan, so I had to increase the price."
Tangze nodded. In today's era when copyrights are not valuable, if he hadn't been short of funds, he would have bought all the hot IPs in the future.
Like "Celebrating More Than Years", the original work was serialized not long ago, and Tang Ze bought it for tens of thousands of dollars.
Lao Wu continued: "Mr. Tang, you didn't give any instructions on comics. After my inspection, there were few worth buying, so I didn't buy them."
"As for our most important game agent, "Cross Fire" had too much competition, including NetX, Shengda, Tencent, etc., all bidding. The starting price was 50 million, so I gave up."
"No one is targeting "Dungeon Fighter" for the time being, but we successfully won the agency with 8 million."
"That's all."
"Phew!" Tang Ze finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Bangzi’s games are so profitable that almost all of the top 10 most valuable Chinese game IPs in the future will come from Bangzi.
Fortunately, Tencent is now focusing on "Cross Fire".
When Tencent makes a lot of money from "CrossFire" in 2008, it will fully target the stick game market.
At that time, "Dungeon and Fighter", a game that has been ignored for three years, will be acquired by Tencent again.
It's a pity that "World of Warcraft" was taken away by the third city as early as 2005 for 5 million yuan.
Otherwise, this is the real moneymaker in early online games, accounting for 62% of the MMORPG market.
Lao Wu asked again: "Mr. Tang, what should I do with the remaining 20 million yuan?"
Tangze thought for a while and said: "First build a game company and invest 10 million in the purchase and maintenance of servers."
"With the remaining 10 million, I will sort out the 6 million from Huajie Studio and invest all the rest in Tianze Technology. I just hope this money-burning thing can last one more month."
"Okay, Mr. Tang, I will execute it right away."
Seeing that the 30 million he had just received was gone like this, Tang Ze felt heartbroken.
Why is there never enough money?
He can only hope that the movie's box office success will make up for the debt he currently owes.
But sometimes things backfired. What Tangze was most worried about happened, and Bona took action against his movie.
Not long after, a piece of news suddenly surfaced on the Internet:
"Lu Chuan has said that he will use "This Man Comes from Earth 2" to defeat "Don't Stop the Camera!". Is it possible that Tang Ze's new film will be aborted?"
"Tang Ze's troubled directorial career, who did he offend? The editor will show you the darkness behind the scenes of film and television."
"Who is better between "Don't Stop the Camera!" and "This Man Comes from Earth 2"? Just look at how many fans "This Man Comes From Earth 2" has!"