Wei Han received a command from Fan Zhe, saying that he would discuss the essay contest with Lewen Group about "Steam Ming Dynasty" and was aimed at the author of the great gods.

Before that, he was conducting a copyright negotiation with Lewen Group involving hundreds of millions of dollars, involving dozens of works.

There were some twists and turns in the negotiation work before. Lewen Group asked itself to be qualified to enter the market and to be qualified to share copyrights, but these obviously involved the bottom line of Weidu Entertainment, so Wei Han refused to all of them. Turning around, he bought the copyrights of several other online novel websites, which scared Lewen Group and finally returned to the negotiating table.

And this business was basically negotiated.

Both parties made certain concessions, and Wei Han, on behalf of the company, accepted the requirements of Lewen Group's post-production sharing. Lewen Group sold the full copyright of fifteen excellent works at 50 million yuan, to Weidu Entertainment - this price is much lower than the previous initial contact. Behind the significant price reduction, Lewen Group obtained the investment rights for these fifteen works as they wished.

According to the contract, when adapting animation, games, and film and television in any of these fifteen works, Lewen Group can independently choose whether to invest, the maximum investment limit shall not exceed 2% of the total budget cost, and share the profit equivalent to the investment ratio.

2% investment rights...this is better than nothing.

But there was no way. Wei Han understood that this told the representative of Lewen Group, namely Kappa, that this was the biggest bottom line of Weidu Entertainment, and the premise of joining this bottom line was that their copyright price must be significantly reduced.

In the end, they had no choice but to accept it.

After all, the average copyright licensing fee for the fifteen works sold is more than three million yuan. Some are not worth so much, some are similar, and some are actually far more valuable.

Among these fifteen works, they are basically selected by Dimension Entertainment, including "The Lord of Mysteries", "The Overthrow of the Han Dynasty", "The Strike of the Nine Provinces", "The Black Technology System of the Academic Master", etc.

For these purchased works, there will inevitably be corresponding development plans in the future. But for the time being, there are already a lot of projects that Weidu Entertainment has promoted at the same time, and there is not much energy to start the relevant work immediately.

After talking about these things, the negotiations should have been successfully concluded. However, after receiving a new task, Wei Han quickly thought of a solution.

The negotiation has not been signed yet and has come to an end. With the relatively good cooperative relationship formed with Lewen Group this time, it seems that we can talk directly about the matters related to "Steam Ming Dynasty".

Moreover, when doing this, he contacted Wu Jingtong directly and told his thoughts - an essay contest involving tens of millions was considered to be a huge momentum. If he didn't take this opportunity to do a big wave of publicity, it would be a waste of resources.

At the same time, Lewen Group is also quite interested.

The essay contest with a bonus of tens of millions is also very attractive to many famous masters.

However, it is not easy to write about combining steampunk with the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Although there are many authors who write good historical texts in online novels, there are not many authors who are good at history in the late Ming Dynasty. It is a bigger problem to combine the two well.

However, there is no solution to this.

After finding a suitable author, you can let Gao Yixiang give the entire world view structure to the author, and let him write according to the background of this world.

This will save a lot of energy from the creator so that he doesn't need to make the entire setting by himself. In addition, the stories written in this way will be more in line with the requirements of the game "Steam Ming Dynasty".

This cooperation, the three departments of Weidu Entertainment, can be said to be a joint cooperation.

Gao Yixiang's "Second World" studio is responsible for the content control; Wu Jingtong's marketing department is responsible for the promotion of "Steam Ming Dynasty" with the help of "10 million bonus essay contest"; Wei Han's copyright department is responsible for specific copyright negotiation matters.

The three departments performed their respective duties and jointly promoted this work, and the whole thing went smoothly. In this way, Fan Zhe could focus on another project with greater confidence.

That is a movie project under the LOL series, the independent film of the popular hero "Dark Night Hunter. Vayne", currently tentatively named "Dark Night Hunter".

This movie was almost the same when "Demacia: Glory" was just launched, and the investment is expected to reach 6500 million US dollars, which is not much different from "Glory".

However, the progress of the project "Dark Night Hunter" is much slower than that of "Demacia: Glory".

Mainly, although Weidu Entertainment is now considered rich, especially through the game "Taiwu Painting Scroll 2", which swept the world, it made a lot of money. However, this money is distributed to Weidu Entertainment through various channels and paid personal income tax. The rest also needs to support the company's operation and development. There will always be some pressure to support the expenses of so many projects.

If it was last year, Ye Jiayi would need to control the financial pressure and deal with the risk issues.

However, it is not a big problem now.

After "Taiwu Painting Scroll 2", there are two TV series "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts", the drama "The Emperor of the Ruzi", and the movie "Hell Apartment 2"... The successive success of these works also brought very rich financial rewards to Weidu Entertainment.

The revenue brought by "The Emperor of the Ruzi" reached nearly one billion; "Hell Apartment 2" can earn more than 200 million in just box office accounting, and other derivative copyrights of this movie will also bring more than 100 million in revenue - a very important part of it is to broadcast online on the "Dimension Platform". There are also overseas distributions and overseas copyright marketing...

What is more exaggerated than the income of these two works is "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts"

Just one upper part, the overall revenue reached 1400 million or 500 million. The lower part, which was not long before online, had just two weeks of pre-sales, and it was estimated that it would reach 800 million. Now, the online sales of this work have increased to 100 million, and it is expected to reach about 1200 million. Including the TV broadcast after the online broadcast, overseas copyright operation, derivative copyright operation... the total is estimated to reach more than 1600 million.

This means that the combined income of "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts" will exceed 3 billion.

From last summer to now, not counting as "Taiwu 2", it is just a development in film and television, and Weidu Entertainment's works have also gained more than 4 billion in revenue.

Of course, the previous one was the popularity of "Taiwo Painting 2". But now, it is a completely different situation.

Weidu Entertainment takes out the planned VN independent movies and does not have any pressure at all.

In fact, it is precisely because the company is very profitable and even a little bit too much money to know how to spend it, that Fan Zhe was relieved to invest money boldly to do something like "Steam Ming Dynasty".

As long as the things you make are fun, they are all lost.

Just a few hundred million yuan investment, it won’t hurt your muscles if you lose all your money!

Based on the current economic situation of entertainment, if they are a little crazy, they even have the capital to start five projects of the same size at the same time - of course, if they lose money, it will be more miserable.

No matter how crazy Fan Zhe is, he will not be like this, not to mention that Ye Jiayi will not agree to his adventures that will hurt the foundation of the company.

Of course, VN's independent films are not listed.

This is one of two film projects that Weidu Entertainment and Penguin Pictures immediately prepared to establish when they negotiated copyright cooperation with Penguin Pictures.

According to Fan Zhe's original intention, he wanted to start production with "Demacia: Glory". However, this idea was pressed down by Ye Jiayi at that time, and it was recommended to delay the time a little, and wait for some funds that had not been received before and start the project after it was collected from the outside.

So, the delay lasted for more than four months, and now it is still open.

In fact, Fan Zhe initially believed in Ji Jiaxin, and was preparing to let that guy rest for half a month after filming "Hell Apartment 2" and then take over "Dark Night Hunter".

But unfortunately, that guy didn't have this blessing.

Except for the previous incident, Fan Zhe could not give him this opportunity.

Several of them came to Weidu Brokerage. After Fan Zhe chose it, he chose Wang Zhicheng.

This is also an old acquaintance of Fan Zhe. When he was filming "Hell Apartment", he was worried that he would not have enough experience, so he found two deputy directors, and Wang Zhicheng was one of them. Later, when he was filming "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts", he continued to cooperate with Wang Zhisheng.

Wang Zhicheng is a director with little talent. According to his qualifications, he has been in this industry for so many years and has not yet become a genuine director. This also shows a certain problem.

However, after the success of the movie "Hell Apartment" and the "Master of Martial Arts" series, he gained some opportunities and got the opportunity to direct a TV series. However, this opportunity seemed to prove that he really did not have the talent to be a director.

That TV series that Fan Zhe couldn't remember his name was launched some time ago, and it seemed that his grades were very bad...

Van Zhe also specially brought some clips of the drama to watch. The whole film looked like it lacked something that made people shine. In addition, the theme was not attractive, there were no special popular actors, and the performance was not good, let alone any good post-production, which made the whole film very mediocre and had no points to watch, so it naturally failed.

However, Fan Zhe still found some highlights that are exclusive to directors.

I found that the shooting skills of some shots are still there, and the overall structure is quite good, which shows that the director's skills are there.

It's just that I don't have much talent.

But this shortcoming has never been something that Van Zhe cared about.

Looking back on the details of the previous collaborations, Fan Zhe felt that letting Wang Zhicheng be the director of "Dark Night Hunter" seemed to be a good choice.

As the chief producer, I will definitely lead the company's team to make excellent designs when doing film projects according to the past dimensions. The next thing I will leave to Wang Zhicheng to complete the shooting tasks according to the plan, and there will definitely be no problem.

And as long as he can do this, the final quality of his works will be guaranteed by the entire team.

After weighing the pros and cons of the left and right, Fan Zhe asked Weidu Broker to invite Wang Zhicheng.

After receiving the invitation, Wang Zhicheng accepted it without any hesitation, and even did not worry much about his salary.

To be honest, he found it very surprising.

Previously, after he served as an assistant director for Fan Zhe twice, producing "Hell Apartment" and "Master of Martial Arts" in succession, and both works were successful, he did once again ignited his ambitions and felt that he could still fight again.

However, this fostered a last bit of ambition and ended in a crushing defeat.

He was very depressed, but even if he was not depressed and looked at it with a rational attitude, he felt that his directorial career was probably almost over. He finally gained some success qualifications through "Hell Apartment" and "Master of Martial Arts", and then obtained the opportunity to be a genuine director and participated in a TV series project with an investment of tens of millions.

I originally thought it was a great opportunity for my salted fish to turn over, but I didn't expect that I would die so miserably.

However, this move was really a great surprise to receive the invitation from Weidu Entertainment!

He never expected that after a failure, he would still encounter such an opportunity. Especially after he learned what kind of project this was, the feeling of surprise in his mind became even stronger!

A movie with an investment of 650 million yuan! That's what it takes to be nearly 100 million US dollars!

Even if you invest at this level in Hollywood, it will be a huge investment.

However, after the surprise, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He even messed up the TV series he invested with 10 million yuan. Can he really direct such a movie with an investment of more than 600 million yuan?

He didn't know why Fan Zhe chose himself.

In a nervous mood, he had a meeting with Fan Zhe.

After hearing what Fan Zhe said, although Wang Zhicheng did not say that he had completely let go of his worries and tension in his heart, at least, he also understood what Fan Zhe was thinking.
Chapter completed!