Zuo Le watched the first 20 episodes of "Seven Swords" with the persons in charge sent by several websites interested in purchasing the drama, and then held an impromptu bidding meeting in a conference room.
"Boss, what do you think of the quality of "Seven Swords"?" Zuo Le looked at the heads of several websites with a smile.
Zuo Le is very confident in the quality of "Seven Swords", otherwise he would not invite major websites to watch the film and bid for it in such a big way.
And the reality was just as he thought. The heads of several websites were very impressed with the finished product of "Seven Swords" and were full of praise.
"It's great. I haven't seen such an excellent martial arts drama in a long time."
Wang Zide, vice president of Kiwi Fruit, praised it sincerely, his eyes filled with admiration and love.
"Director Zuo wants Jinfeng to hold the cup again this time."
Zhang Honghong, the vice president of Kuyou, is an intellectual young woman in her thirties. She looked at Zuo Le and smiled lightly.
"I kind of regret why I didn't insist on investing in "Seven Swords" at that time."
Li Hai, an old acquaintance of Penguin Vice President, had the most complicated mood among the others, and the regret on his face was visible to the naked eye.
"How much does Director Zuo plan to sell it for? I'm anxious to watch the next 20 episodes."
Different from other companies where only the vice president came, today the currency station’s second-in-command, president Xu Bi, came. This CEO Xu didn’t talk much. When he got up, he went straight to the point and put on a show of "Seven Swords".
》A posture that is bound to win.
The several CEOs sitting here are all industry insiders. The quality of "Seven Swords" is here to show, and no one will do anything to deliberately criticize and belittle it to lower the price.
Well, what's more important is that several companies are now in a competitive relationship. In order to save tens of millions, if you hate Zuo Le, they will turn around and sell to other companies. Isn't it true that you are stealing the chicken but not losing the rice? You just benefited the opponent in vain.
Therefore, a few people never thought of criticizing or belittling, but instead praised Zuo Le and "Seven Swords".
It doesn't matter if you spend a few extra bucks for this. Get the copyright first. Anyway, the money can be recovered from advertisers and users later...
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Zuo Le is very happy for the support from the platform owners. He doesn't care how these platforms make back their capital. He only cares about the price at which "Seven Swords" can be sold.
Zuo Le glanced at Mingyan next to him, Mingyan pulled out a folder and pretended to look at it before saying.
"Everyone, after careful study by the company, the base price we have given for the exclusive online broadcast rights of "Seven Swords" is 8 million per episode."
Several bosses looked at each other and saw that "Seven Swords" has a total of 40 episodes and each episode costs 8 million, which is 320 million. This price is not expensive from the market point of view.
Of course, this is just the base price offered by Shanhe.
"8.2 million per episode."
"8.5 million."
The kiwi fruit was the first to bid, followed by Kuyou. Penguin Li Hai glanced at the two of them and spoke softly.
"One price, 370 million."
Zuo Le took a breath, it turned out to be Boss Ma's Ma Zai, who was generous and raised 30 million in one go.
"380 million."
Mr. Xu of the currency station took a look at Li Hai several times and raised another 10 million.
Zuo Le was secretly happy. Coin Station has made a lot of money selling figures in the past few years.
"390 million."
"400000000."
Penguin, Coin Site Haofu, and the other two websites are not much different, and they are making steady moves.
"430 million." Li Hai remained calm.
Zuo Le was convinced. Others raised the price by 10 million, but Penguin tripled it, which was awesome.
Undeterred by Li Hai's domineering attitude, Mr. Xu of Coin Station added another 10 million.
At this time, the price of "Seven Swords" was nearly 450 million, and several bosses were also very cautious.
Mr. Wang from Kiwi Fruit went out and made a phone call first, and then added 10 million.
Mr. Zhang, who is cool and cool, can still hold on and does not leave, so he adds another 10 million.
Although Penguin Li Hai remains calm, the increase amount has also changed from 30 million to 20 million.
Although Mr. Xu of the currency station did not go out to make a call, he fiddled with his cell phone for a few minutes before adding another 10 million.
Seeing the appearances of several bosses, Zuo Le had a rough idea of the price of the exclusive broadcast rights of "Seven Swords" on several websites.
It should be in the range of 450 to 500 million. Penguin and Kuyou may expect slightly higher, but Kiwi and Coin Station have similar estimates.
Sure enough, when Penguin Li Hai shouted "500 million", Mr. Kiwi King smiled bitterly and kept silent. Mr. Xu of the currency station was a little unwilling, but he did not increase the price.
Everyone looked at the cool Zhang Honghong. This intellectual young woman pursed her lips, took her cell phone and left the conference room. It took about ten minutes before she returned to her seat with elegant and calm steps.
"520 million."
Zuo Le smiled brightly, how could he almost forget that Penguin Video has Boss Ma, and Kuyou also has Dad Ma.
When it comes to throwing money, Kuyou is not afraid of Penguin Video at all...
This time it was Li Hai's turn to go out and make a call. He made the call for a longer period of time, nearly twenty minutes before returning to the conference room.
But what Li Hai didn't expect was that the first thing Li Hai did when he came back was not to increase the price or quit. Instead, he looked at Mr. Xu of the currency station.
"Mr. Xu, it's a pleasure to work with you."
"???"
Just when everyone was full of questions, Mr. Xu’s phone vibrated. Mr. Xu took the phone and went out to answer the call. When he came back, he immediately said that Coin Station and Penguin would cooperate to purchase the copyright of "Seven Swords".
Then he moved the stool next to Li Hai, the two chatted softly, and offered a price of 540 million.
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Penguin Video’s risqué operation shocked everyone else in the conference room.
Especially the two CEOs of Kuyou and Qiguo, they don’t understand how Penguin and BitZone reached a cooperation in such a short time. This is a project worth hundreds of millions.
Compared with them, Zuo Le himself was more happy than surprised.
In recent years, competition among major domestic online video websites has become increasingly fierce. In order to attract user traffic, they have spent heavily on exclusive broadcast rights to buy dramas in recent years. Fewer and fewer TV dramas can be broadcast on multiple online platforms.
Such a result will definitely have an impact on the dissemination of a film and television drama. Many drama producers do not want to limit the copyright to one platform alone.
But there is no other way. The platform only buys the exclusive rights to broadcast, and the money is sufficient. The drama studio cannot just throw the TV series into their hands just to vent their anger.
Today, Penguin and Coin Station can share the online copyright of "Seven Swords". They probably feel that the financial pressure to invest in this drama is too great, so they have joined forces to share some of the pressure and risks.
Zuo Le welcomed this. The cooperation between the two video websites will be more beneficial to the spread of "Seven Swords" online, and more importantly, the money will be more.
He wished that Kuyou and Qiguo would also join forces and continue to challenge Penguin and Coin Station to raise the copyright fee as hard as they could.
But it is a pity that Penguin was able to make the decision to cooperate with Coin Station. A large part of the reason is that Coin Station is not a professional video website, and the competitive relationship between the two is not strong, so they can occasionally join forces.
As for Kiwi and Kuyou, they have been beaten so hard in the past few years that they are almost out of their minds. It is not just that they can cooperate directly. Even if both parties are willing, it will not be done in a short time.
As a result, the copyright of "Seven Swords" was finally won by Penguin Video and Coin Station, with both parties jointly investing 540 million.
In addition to the 300 million previously sold to Dongshantai for "Seven Swords" and excluding the investment dividends given to Dongshantai, Shanhe's crazy profit this time is more than 600 million.
It seems like a lot of money, but if you subtract the investment cost of "Seven Swords", Shanhe actually makes less money from "Seven Swords" than from "Family with Children".
That's all, and this doesn't count the energy, time and even physical wear and tear Zuo Le put into "Seven Swords".
After Zuo Le calculated his calculations, he still felt that it would be better to shoot a sitcom with a small and broad-minded approach...
ps: The next chapter will be released early in the morning, please vote for recommendations...
