Therefore, the Daqian Film Festival was very successful this time. A large number of newcomers were noticed by major film companies, and many of them were even recruited by Hollywood studios.
However, the Da Qian Movie Studio had actually reaped the most benefits. They had managed to recruit the most outstanding newcomers, further enriching the talent pool of the Da Qian Movie Studio.
For this year's film festival, in addition to the huge flow of visitors, there was also a huge improvement. The number of business partnerships had also increased by several times.
In fact, the main function of the film festival was to build a communication and cooperation platform for film producers and film distributors, so that some excellent films could be distributed to every corner of the world through film distributors.
This was actually somewhat of a public service nature, because Da Qian's movies never lacked distributors. As long as the name of Da Qian's movies was brought out, even if they had not seen a second of the movie, there would still be a large number of movie distributors crying and shouting to release Da Qian's movies.
The ones who really needed this platform were some small film companies. They lacked distribution channels around the world, so they needed this platform to show their works and get the opportunity to be released worldwide.
For example, many Hua Xia Film Festival's films were in a state of internal conflict for a long time. Even in 2020, Hua Xia Film Festival's films had never been released worldwide.
However, with the establishment of the Imperial Capital International Film Festival, many Hua Xia Film Festival had contacted film distributors all over the world. In the end, 16 films reached distribution agreements, and a total of 110 countries were released. This was a level that couldn't be achieved in the future even in 2020.
However, this time, because of the influence of Daqian Film Festival in the world, Hua Xia Film Festival's films were valued to a certain extent and had the opportunity to be released worldwide.
On the other hand, Daqian Film Festival also got some unexpected opportunities.
On the sixth day after the opening of the film festival, Boss Jia was still in the company headquarters, guiding the newly established position department to improve the position system. Suddenly, his secretary placed a request for instructions in front of Boss Jia.
The report was from Daqian Film Festival. It turned out that during the film festival, Hollywood's MGM Studios took the initiative to approach Daqian Film Festival and expressed that they wanted to buy the copyright of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
According to the description in the report, MGM wanted to buy the copyright of the first film of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy. Then, they would use it to make a movie and release it worldwide.
Boss Jia was shocked by this news. This was the first time that a Hollywood film company wanted to buy the copyright of a film based on Hua Xia culture.
However, after thinking about it carefully, he realized that this was normal. After all, the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 had exceeded 20 million copies worldwide. This was enough proof that the fans of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 1 was a huge success because it was free.
Fans of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy, Fairy 2.
This meant that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy had at least 20 million fans worldwide. If it was adapted into a movie, the box office would be at least 200 million US dollars worldwide!
If the players who played pirated versions of the movie were included, the box office might even exceed 500 million US dollars worldwide.
Especially in recent years, MGM's situation had been very bad. Although they could release one or two movies each year, the box office of the movie couldn't exceed 100 million US dollars. This made MGM's situation deteriorate day by day. There were even news that they were going to be acquired. It was normal that they wanted to use the Legend of the Sword and Fairy to increase their value.
Besides, MGM had a history of adapting games into movies, such as Tomb Raider. They were very optimistic about adapting games into movies.
Especially since the story of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy was very good, it was very suitable to be adapted into a movie. Therefore, MGM approached Daqian Film Festival and hoped that they could get the copyright of the movie.
Daqian Film Festival was confused because Daqian Film Festival didn't have the copyright of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy. Even Daqian Games didn't have the copyright of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
The copyright was in the hands of Daqian Film Festival. In other words, all the famous IPs under the Daqian Film Festival were controlled by Daqian Film Festival.
However, Daqian Film Festival didn't dare to make the decision because the Legend of the Sword and Fairy was one of the most famous IPs under the Daqian Film Festival. It should be filmed by Daqian Film Festival instead of selling it to others.
Therefore, Daqian Film Festival didn't dare to make the decision. Finally, they sent the request to Boss Jia, and Boss Jia made the decision himself.
"…" Mr. Jia hesitated. In fact, he didn't plan to shoot the Legend of the Sword and Fairy since he wasn't sure if such a pure Huaxia mythological story could sell well in the global box office.
Although the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy were amazing, the fact that a lot of movies that were modified from games died in the movie market in the future showed that there was a problem.
Therefore, the success of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy depended on the quality of the movie and the audience's acceptance of the culture contained in the movie.
To be honest, Hua Xia movies didn't seem to be very popular in the world, and the chances of them failing were very high. Therefore, Boss Jia didn't dare to film the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
If the movie failed, Daqian Film Festival would have to wait for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms before they could start filming Hua Xia movies again.
If the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a success, it would prove that Hua Xia movies were also viable in the global market. If the movie failed, Boss Jia would have to be more cautious.
However, MGM took the initiative to say that they wanted to film the Legend of the Sword and Fairy, and they offered a high price of 10 million USD for the copyright of the movie.
10 million USD wasn't a lot in the eyes of Daqian Film Festival, but in the film industry, 10 million USD was definitely the highest price.
"What do you think?" Boss Jia threw the question to the CEO of Daqian Film Festival.
"It's hard to say!" The CEO lowered his head and said, "If the copyright is sold and the movie does well in the future, Daqian Film Festival will suffer a loss. If the movie doesn't do well, Hua Xia movies will suffer a great setback in the world. Besides, I doubt that a company from the United States can make a good Hua Xia movie. "
"So you don't think we should sell it?" Boss Jia narrowed his eyes and asked.
"No, as the CEO of Daqian Film Festival, I think we should sell it!" The CEO of Daqian Film Festival made a sharp turn and sneaked a peek at Boss Jia. When he found that Boss Jia didn't seem angry, he said boldly.
"Why?" Boss Jia asked curiously.
"Because this is the biggest deal for Daqian Film Festival since it was founded. Our Daqian IP has never been sold for 10 million USD. This way, our Daqian Film Festival will have a better performance!" The CEO of Daqian Film Festival said honestly.
"Haha, well said!" Boss Jia laughed and said, "In that case, we'll sell the copyright. You can sign the contract with MGM, but you have to tell them that the contract must be signed. If MGM can't make the total box office of the movie exceed 300 million USD, the Daqian Film Festival will take back the copyright of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 1! "
"If they can make the total box office exceed 300 million USD, I'll sell the copyright of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 to them for 10 million USD!" Boss Jia laughed and said.
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