What should I do if I have a childhood sweetheart who wants to be a singer? Chapter 475 Reaching cooperation and taking the absolute initiative, Tongji
Chapter 475 Reaching cooperation and taking the absolute initiative, Tongji
Obviously, the current situation has been completely reversed from what it was back then.
The limit of three dramas per year in the previous contract was actually a restriction imposed by Station G on Tongji Entertainment.
But now, although the number has increased to five, it is Tongji Entertainment that has taken the initiative.
Under such circumstances, Chi Jiang must be resisting in his heart.
But under the current circumstances, his resistance would not be of much use.
From the beginning of this contract renewal negotiation to now, their G station actually does not have much capital to negotiate conditions.
Even if Chi Jiang knew what Youman said just now, it was most likely a direct statement that they would cooperate with other platforms.
But even if there are only five dramas, their importance to G station now is ranked first.
After all, without Tongji Entertainment, Station G can be said to have returned to its previous situation overnight.
The number of paid members that the entire G station has accumulated over the years will only slowly become less and less.
But for Tongji, even if there is no G station, they can still cooperate with other platforms and even get better conditions.
Tongji's drama no longer appears on Station G. In fact, the impact on them is really not that big, or even minimal.
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"Sister Man, do you mean that besides us, Tongji also plans to cooperate with other companies?"
Chi Jiang asked this question directly.
Although he already knew the answer, he still asked.
The main purpose is to put some pressure on Youman and Tongji Entertainment.
At least from the moral high ground, we can better negotiate some conditions.
"Mr. Chi, you must understand the meaning of what I just said."
"Several other platforms did try to contact us."
"But don't worry, our company's main partner is definitely G Station."
In fact, in the past, although Kiwi Fruit did not send many people to negotiate.
But relevant invitations have been sent out many times.
Youman thought about it for a long time, and after discussing with Xu Ji, he decided to try to cooperate with Kiwi.
Of course, this is also based on the current strength of Tongji Entertainment. Even the two major platforms G Station and Kiwifruit still have the capital to discuss simultaneous cooperation.
Hearing Youman's neither humble nor overbearing answer, Chi Jiang now understood what he was thinking.
In fact, working with Kiwi is not the most important thing.
In other words, based on his understanding of Tongji Entertainment, there are actually not many rigid requirements or related conditions for the platform on which his new drama will be broadcast.
Otherwise, we would not have directly chosen G station for exclusive cooperation.
The reason why Youman took the initiative to bring this up is probably to make Station G feel scrupulous and have a sense of crisis.
Station G is indeed developing rapidly through Tongji Entertainment’s dramas.
Maybe in the future, we can really escape the influence of Tongji Entertainment.
Try to reach long-term cooperation with some other film and television companies, or even start to vigorously develop your own homemade dramas.
In that case, although Chi Jiang himself didn't want to, he was sure that this kind of thing really seemed to be something that some of the top executives at Station G could do.
After all, the conditions provided by Tongji Entertainment and the share ratios in various aspects have reached the highest level in the industry.
For station G, the related income will definitely drop a lot.
The current G station is still inseparable from Tongji Entertainment, but if it really develops to a certain extent.
As the importance of Tongji Entertainment declines, it is estimated that they will really consider this issue.
In the eyes of some senior executives of G Station Company, Tongji Entertainment is obviously not irreplaceable.
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"Manager You, can the number of dramas be increased?"
"How about seven?"
After Chi Jiang hesitated for a while, he knew that it was impossible for Youman to change his attitude on this matter.
Then I started trying to gain some advantages from other aspects.
If it were any other company, it would definitely feel outrageous.
These film and television platforms will generally only reduce the number of new dramas they cooperate with.
After all, this helps reduce risk.
Not every drama can make a profit after buying the copyright.
Even if you have already watched the finished film, or know the general genre and style of the entire drama, as well as the content of the story.
There will still be misjudgements.
What's more, it does seem a bit strange that a drama like this has not even started filming yet but has already started working hard to buy more copyrights.
Of course, neither Chi Jiang nor Youman thought there was anything wrong with this.
After all, in Chi Jiang's view, the more dramas from Tongji Entertainment, the greater the advantage for their G station.
This is not because of his blind trust, but mainly because Tongji Entertainment’s record from the beginning to now is really magnificent.
Basically, there has never been a situation where Station G has lost money because of their dramas.
It was even exaggerated to the point where the expected goal would not have been achieved without a big fire.
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"Mr. Chi, you said this."
"It's really that easy to make a drama."
"We at Tongji Entertainment probably won't be able to shoot that many movies a year now."
Youman said with a smile.
It was an indirect rejection.
Chi Jiang didn't react for a while.
I just casually thought that even for some large-scale film and television companies, the output of five dramas a year is already quite high.
From project establishment, filming, to post-production and then broadcast, the time, manpower and other costs required for a drama are huge.
So what Youman said actually doesn't have much of a problem.
But Chi Jiang knew that Tongji Entertainment was completely different from ordinary film and television companies.
Tongji Entertainment’s high productivity is even so high that it’s incredible.
The key is to maintain quality and quantity, and even Xu Ji's main focus now is on movies.
Therefore, even Chi Jiang, who has cooperated with Tongji Entertainment for such a long time, cannot give a definite answer.
How many new dramas can Tongji Entertainment produce in a year?
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In the end, the cooperation between Station G and Tongji Entertainment was reached.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Compared to when we signed the exclusive cooperation three years ago, Tongji Entertainment is still on the advantage.
But unlike the original contract, which was entirely proposed by Station G, Tongji Entertainment is taking the initiative in many aspects this time.
For example, in the original exclusive cooperation, the limit of three dramas a year was actually just to restrict Tongji Entertainment from starting to frantically film dramas.
After all, although the copyright fee paid by Station G is not high, it can be regarded as directly helping Tongji Entertainment bear the investment cost.
Tongji Entertainment always makes sure profits without losing money.
So Chi Jiang also proposed at that time that if the drama produced by Tongji Entertainment was too perfunctory or had major problems, then their G station could refuse to purchase the copyright.
But now, this point has disappeared and has become mandatory.
Of course, even if it is said to be mandatory, with the current company size and reputation of Tongji Entertainment, it would not be possible to do such a thing.
In addition, the most important thing is that although it is an exclusive cooperation agreement, it is only an exclusive cooperation for five dramas.
The copyrights for other dramas produced by Tongji Entertainment can still be sold to other platforms.
Chi Jiang naturally didn't want this to happen, but it was obvious that Youman would not give in on this point.
As for other aspects, there are some moderate impacts.
But even if it is like this, if we can continue to cooperate, it has actually met Chi Jiang's expectations.
So Chi Jiang was in a pretty good mood.
As for the limit of five dramas, and Tongji Entertainment’s cooperation with other platforms.
In Chi Jiang's opinion, it was within controllable range.
He could see that Tongji Entertainment really wanted to actively cooperate with Station G.
But I also want to increase my bargaining chip through this matter, and there is a way out.
Generally speaking, this cooperation has not exceeded the controllable range that Chi Jiang believes.
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In the next two days, Youman had talks with the people in charge of Kiwi and Tudou Video.
On the Kiwi side, Congzhu, as the president, was a little surprised. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly.
Although the conditions are the same as station G, and there are only one to three dramas.
But these are completely within the acceptable range of kiwi fruit.
The most important thing is that Congzhu has always wanted to cooperate with Tongji Entertainment, and this time he finally made progress.
As long as there is a successful cooperation, if you want to go further in the future, you won't have no options at all.
As for Tudou Video, Vice President Su Liangcai's face instantly turned ugly after hearing the conditions offered by Youman.
It’s not that this condition is too excessive. In fact, given Tongji Entertainment’s current company size and reputation, they can definitely take the gamble.
But Tudou Video really cannot afford such a price.
Including new dramas, before they have the right to broadcast, they will be directly paid a copyright fee that is more than double the production cost.
This is obviously a big challenge to Tudou Video’s cash flow.
At the same time, Su Liangcai didn’t think Tudou Video would be able to pay for the subsequent share of the revenue.
Their company's current main revenue is basically used to fill the holes of a bunch of self-produced dramas.
Most of Tudou Video’s self-produced dramas are basically losing money.
Now faced with such an opportunity, I can only refuse it helplessly.
Even Su Liangcai knew that relying on one drama from Tongji Entertainment might be worth the benefits brought by their seven or eight or even more homemade dramas.
But I still couldn't agree to it.
The main reason is that Tudou Video is already on a road from which it is impossible to turn back.
The senior executives, including him, have invested countless amounts of energy and time into the company's self-produced dramas.
If we stop at this time, we will not be willing to accept the money we have lost and wasted.
They all know that if Tudou Video’s self-made dramas can succeed, then Tudou Video even has great hope of becoming the leader in the film and television industry.
Under this premise, Su Liangcai could only choose to give up cooperation with Tongji.
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"Cong Zong, I didn't expect things to go so smoothly!"
On the plane, everyone at Kiwi seemed to be in a pretty good mood.
Of course, the main reason was Cong Zhu, who actually made relevant mental preparations before coming.
After all, they had basically not had much contact with Tongji Entertainment before.
When it comes to cooperation, it is definitely not as advantageous as station G.
It is very likely that there is a high probability that cooperation cannot be achieved, which is equivalent to a wasted trip.
The result turned out to be surprisingly smooth.
After seeing the conditions offered by Tongji Entertainment, Youman agreed without much hesitation.
If it were any other company, Congzhu would definitely start bargaining.
But Tongji Entertainment, the other party's attitude has been very clear, which is basically the bottom line price, and based on Congzhu's understanding of them, they know that there is no need to continue to cause resentment to the other party.
"But from the bottom up, we are not an exclusive platform to cooperate with Tongji Entertainment this time."
Someone spoke up and reminded me.
Cong Zhu didn't care at all.
"As long as the drama is broadcast exclusively."
"And as long as there is a basis for cooperation with Tongji, who can be sure that all Tongji Entertainment will be broadcast on our Kiwi in the future?"
"I will let people from Xu Ji and Tongji Entertainment know that their dramas will have the best effect if they are broadcast on Kiwi."
What Congzhu values is Tongji entertainment drama.
Just like the previous "Bright Sword" and "My Captain, My Group".
Even if it is not produced by Tongji Entertainment alone.
But as long as there are some traces of the script, the quality of the drama is basically the greatest guarantee.
Under such circumstances, whether the so-called exclusive cooperation is actually not that important in Congzhu's view.
What's a pity is that what Congzhu actually values more is how many dramas Tongji promised to give them every year in the contract.
The number of these 1~3 parts is really too small.
Cong Zhuke has personally experienced how influential Tongji Entertainment’s dramas are.
Basically once the show aired, there were no rivals at the same time.
Naturally, the more dramas there are, the better.
Although Congzhu doesn’t think that every drama produced by Tongji Entertainment will be a hit, such a risk is something that Kiwi can definitely bear.
"I feel that the number at Station G should be much greater than ours."
Congzhu muttered silently.
"President, can Tongji Entertainment film all these dramas?"
"Is it possible that we are just here to make up the numbers?"
Some people are still a little worried.
Although Tongji Entertainment's reputation is there, the contract still shows that Kiwi's position is too passive.
Congzhu directly shook his head in denial.
"Tongji will not take the initiative to ruin his own reputation."
"And their company doesn't need to use such means to make money."
"What's more important is that Tongji Entertainment currently produces more and more new dramas every year, and their productivity is much higher than that of some other film and television companies."
"I don't doubt that."
Congzhu explained patiently.
Of course, she actually had her own reasons for doing this.
Among the group of people who came to Chengdu this time, there must be some company directors among them.
Under such circumstances, Congzhu must of course have the board of directors continue to support his decision.
At the very least, it should not affect the subsequent cooperation between Kiwi and Tongji Entertainment.
Although the contract has been signed, the liquidated damages are not particularly exaggerated.
Baobuqi's board of directors suddenly terminated this cooperation.
Then Congzhu's preparation and planning during this period will be in vain.