Boss Jia finally agreed to MGM's deal. On one hand, he needed someone to test the waters for him. Since someone was willing to take the risk for him, Boss Jia was very interested to know what kind of recognition and results the Legend of the Sword and Fairy would get in the world.
Anyway, if the movie's results were bad, then Da Qian could push all the blame to MGM and take back the copyright. There wouldn't be too much loss.
On the other hand, as the CEO of the Daqian Culture said, this was the biggest deal in the history of the Daqian Culture.
Although Daqian Culture had taken out a total of more than two billion US dollars last year, this was a result that was accumulated through the sale of various movies, music, animations, peripheral licensing, and other small copyrights in their own copyright library. Previously, the largest single copyright price was only about three million US dollars.
It wasn't that the Daqian Culture couldn't sell things at a high price, but many of the copyrights under the Daqian Culture's control were not for sale. For example, the movie copyright of Pokemon, the movie copyright of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy, the movie copyright of Red Alert, and so on. These huge IPs were famous all over the world, but they were all not for sale by the Daqian Culture. The Daqian Culture had never sold them before.
At first, Boss Jia thought it was a good deal. In the future, the Daqian could film these things themselves, and the Daqian could make money from them.
But later, Boss Jia realized that the Daqian Culture couldn't take care of these things themselves. The Daqian Culture could only film four movies a year, which was the limit of the Daqian Culture.
If they wanted to expand the movie production scale, the Daqian Culture's business would be too big.
Moreover, these IPs hadn't been verified in his previous life. God knows if they would make money or lose money after being adapted into movies. They might even lose a year's profit, just like most movie production companies nowadays.
Although many of their movies had amazing box office results, if one counted the failed works that they had made, they were actually struggling on the edge of profitability every year. About 70% of the movie production companies were not profitable.
Therefore, this time, Boss Jia had thought it through. Except for the important movies that Boss Jia wanted to film himself, the rest of the copyrights would be sold to other film companies around the world. It would be better to let other companies from different channels produce the movies. Da Qian only needed to collect the copyright fees.
This was pure profit without any risk. Moreover, if the Daqian Culture held all the copyrights tightly, it might be boycotted by other industries … In fact, the Daqian Culture had vaguely sensed that the Daqian Culture's peers in many industries were hostile to the Daqian Culture.
In addition, the most important point was that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy was purely a work of Hua Xia Culture. Although there were too many examples of Hollywood trying to change Hua Xia's works and failing miserably, it was always Hua Xia who took the initiative to approach Hollywood, so it felt like they were giving it away for free.
However, this time, Boss Jia actively bought the copyrights of Hua Xia, so he couldn't block this path no matter what. Otherwise, how could he carry out his cultural invasion policy?
In fact, the best way to invade a culture was not to force it on the Americans. Instead, it was to invite people from the United States and other countries from all over the world. Furthermore, they had to spend money. That was the best outcome.
In any case, the movie adaptation rights of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy were sold. On the 12th day of the film festival, Li Gaomei signed a contract with the Daqian Culture and bought the movie adaptation rights of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 1 for 10 million US dollars.
This news instantly lit up the eyes of many companies all over the world. They thought that the Daqian Culture would hold on to the copyright of a top game like the Legend of the Sword and Fairy and make it into a movie in the future. However, they didn't expect the Daqian Culture to not sell it.
Did this mean that the Daqian Culture had changed its policy?
All of a sudden, many film companies took the initiative to approach the Daqian Culture and received instructions from Boss Jia. Except for some of the IP that Boss Jia planned to develop by the Daqian Culture, the other IP was to be sold after checking the buyer's ability. These things wouldn't make any money even if they sold them.
Therefore, in just a few months, the number of IPs sold by Da Qian Culture had doubled compared to the same period last year. It was estimated that the profits would also double compared to the same period last year.
Other than the failure to sell the movie adaptation rights of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy, there was another major event that attracted a lot of attention at the film festival. It was the fundraising of the Grey Ghost of the Pacific Ocean.
In the beginning, when this movie appeared on the fundraising list of the Imperial Capital International Film Festival, it was a very inconspicuous film.
The name of the Grey Ghost of the Pacific Ocean was very difficult to understand, so many investors didn't even watch this movie.
However, things immediately changed when a PV of the movie was released. This PV showed a super large ship that was being furiously modified. At the same time, the general plot and content of the movie were revealed.
It turned out that the movie was going to film the legendary life of the United States' most famous aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise.
The selling point of this movie was still very high. First of all, the USS Enterprise was very famous in the United States. Many people had heard of it, but no one had filmed a real movie about it. This script was very attractive.
Secondly, the movie production company actually planned to continue the production model of the Titanic. In the end, the whole ship was completely destroyed in a big explosion. This gimmick sounded very awesome. Maybe this movie would also have the box office of the Titanic!
Well, it was impossible to get the same box office as the Titanic, but even if it could get half or even one-fourth of the box office, it would still be a great achievement.
Moreover, the production budget announced by the production company was also very high. The total investment was as high as 180 million US dollars. With so much money invested, no matter how bad the movie was, it couldn't be that bad!
All in all, as soon as this PV was announced, it attracted the attention of many Hollywood companies … In fact, not only Hollywood companies, but many investment funds were also attracted and had plans to invest in this movie.
This time, the production company actually took out 60% of the movie's box office earnings to sell. A total of 60,000 shares were sold at 2000 US dollars, which meant that the total investment raised was as high as 120 million US dollars. When the total profit was taken out, the production company could get 1% of the profit per share.
This plan of raising investment made many fund companies exclaim that they were experts. Wasn't this the fundraising strategy of their fund companies? It could actually be used in a movie.
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