Around the Spring Festival, various lists are released one after another, attracting a large number of melon-eating people to watch the fun.
For most passers-by, they no longer remember how many times Lao Bai topped the global entertainment industry power rankings, nor how many times he topped the list of rich writers.
Anyway, after seeing the annual revenue estimate of US$1.5 billion, the entire Internet cried "low".
During this Spring Festival, Sun Peng was not idle in Wanquan County. He went to attend the premieres of two movies and helped promote them. At the same time, he also participated in this year's Magnolia Award Ceremony, creating a wave of excitement.
feel.
Then before I knew it, this winter vacation was over.
When the domestic box office of "Tomb Raider 2" passed the 3.5 billion Chinese dollar mark and the overseas box office also reached 300 million U.S. dollars, most box office forecasting agencies set its final box office at 900 million.
to a billion dollars.
Typically high domestically and low overseas.
The performance of "Thor 2", which was released at the same time, was much better. It was more than 200 million US dollars higher in Europe and North America, and more than 60 million US dollars higher in other overseas markets. In China, the sales of "Thor 2" during the same period were also higher.
The box office revenue also reached 2.8 billion Chinese dollars...
"The final result is that the total box office of "Thor 2" will be more than 200 million."
Lin Lin's voice sounded a little disappointed on the phone, but after a pause, she still smiled and said: "But the global box office of more than 900 million US dollars is already very impressive, and now the producers can't wait to start filming "Tomb Raider"
3》... Hehe, do you think I will kill them with a knife? Or should I kill them with a knife?"
"I told you, it's up to you to decide on this film."
Ignoring his cousin's weird tone, Sun Peng responded calmly.
Because he only provided a story outline for the scripts of several sequels, no matter how the "Tomb Raider" series is filmed later, Lao Bai will only get an eight-point share of the global box office. If the producer does not use Sun Peng
For these stories written, the share ratio will even be reduced to about 500%!
This ratio is actually quite low.
To put it bluntly, Sun Peng handed over the copyright of the "Tomb Raider" series to Lin Lin, and he only kept part of the income. Even though this income exceeds that of most screenwriters and original works, compared to Sun Peng's fame
It's definitely missing.
However, Sun Peng, who had already decided to separate from this series, naturally didn't care and simply gave it all to his cousin.
In fact, if Lin Lin could shell out a large sum of money at once, Sun Peng would even be willing to sell all the copyrights directly to her very cheaply. Unfortunately, although Lin Lin also makes a lot of money making movies, she wants to buy "Tomb Raider"
The copyright of the series...even if it was half-sold and half-free from her cousin, she couldn't afford it.
This method is already the best choice.
After chatting with his cousin for a few words, Sun Peng hung up the phone, and then looked at Chen Maolin and Chen Fengzhi: "Both of you, are you sure that the publication of the novel will stimulate the sales of the game?"
"Yes, we're pretty sure!"
Taking a deep breath, Chen Fengzhi said seriously: "In the past six months, our game sales have always been at the forefront of the TT game platform, but there are always many players clamoring to read novels... And we all know that you
There are far more novel fans than game fans! Many players who don’t like RPG games like to read novels. If... ahem, I mean if they read your new book, a large proportion of them will definitely read it.
Why don’t you buy the game and play it?”
"..."
Sun Peng frowned slightly and began to ponder.
In the three games of the "Lao Bai Qun Xia Zhuan" series, Sun Peng has produced more than ten novels? In fact, if you study it carefully, the books by Jin Gu alone have exceeded this number, plus Xiao Yi, Liang Dada
There are probably thirty or forty novels written by others!
Of course, most novels just come up with a story and a certain plot.
But Sun Peng did not originally intend to publish these martial arts novels. Although he also knew that with his current fame and reputation, as well as the huge number of fans of martial arts novels, any one of them should have tens of millions of fans.
...first print!
However, from beginning to end, Sun Peng had no such plan.
Because he knew one thing very well in his heart, and that was the reason why he announced that he would stop writing martial arts - he had already written almost all the truly classic and favorite novels!
"Xiao Li Fei Dao" is a classic, but Sun Peng doesn't like it.
Sun Peng likes "Ma Mingfeng Xiao Xiao" very much, but it is a bit reluctant to call it a classic.
Although Liang Dada's novels are excellent, their high status is mainly because they were written early. They really have to be compared with the masterpieces of Jin Laoda and Gu Dada...
Sun Peng used these novels as games. Although he felt it was a waste, he never regretted it.
But now that Chen Fengzhi and Chen Maolin proposed to use novels to stimulate game sales, Sun Peng couldn't refuse, and he also felt that there were a few books that could be used to show fans the original novels.
So after pondering for a moment, Sun Peng nodded and said: "Okay, if you think it is necessary, I will publish "Seven Weapons"!"
"Ah? "Seven Weapons"?"
"Haha, that's right."
Seeing the bitter expressions on Chen Fengzhi and Chen Maolin's faces at the same time, Sun Peng was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Hey, hey, aren't you still worrying about the seventh weapon?"
The corners of his eyes twitched, and Chen Maolin smiled bitterly and said: "Boss, you don't have to worry about the company's affairs. Naturally, you don't know the resentments in the hearts of the players. Regarding the plot of the seventh weapon, everyone has never given up! If the novel is published, there will still be only
If there are six types, wouldn’t everyone know that we deceived them?”
"Ahem, how can this be called cheating?"
Rubbing his nose, Sun Peng also had a headache.
However, the series of books "Seven Weapons" is indeed quite good. Anyway, Sun Peng had a lot of resentment in his previous life. As for many publishing houses including "Angry Pony" and other books into this series, in Sun Peng's opinion, it is just
Just a way to make up the numbers.
And when he was struggling, Chen Fengzhi continued: "Boss, what about the novels such as "Little Li's Flying Knife", "Book and Sword Enmity", "Blue Blood Sword" and so on? They are all very exciting novels, but we can't
Are they all left to rust and grow hair in the company’s archives? What a waste!”
"But……"
After listening to Chen Fengzhi's words, Sun Peng had one more thing to worry about.
Of course Er Chen could understand this. After all, Sun Peng had already explained the reasons for not publishing before. But now Chen Fengzhi did not hesitate and immediately persuaded him in a low voice: "Boss, if these books are not written, I will
I don’t advise you, but now that I’ve finished writing it, I think it’s good to give fans an explanation…”