Chapter 18 Investment BJ Meets Seattle

In the following days, the publicity continued, but the focus of the publicity changed.

The hot searches on Weibo have become film, television and games, bringing a new trend to the entertainment industry.

Interactive film and games may become the next trend.

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From these hot searches, Yang Hao can tell that Penguin really values ​​the new model of film and television + games. The vigorous promotion is probably intended to attract more capital to enter and make this pie bigger.

In the past few days, Yang Hao's phone rang one after another. Zhang Yishan, Yang Zi, Zhao Liying, Xue Xiaolu, Da Mimi, etc., all those who had some relationship with Yang Hao called to congratulate Yang Hao on the big sales of his game.

The game "It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" is really very popular.

When the phone frenzy ended, Yang Hao always felt that something was missing.

Suddenly Yang Hao realized that Huang Mengying did not call.

"Okay, Yingying, it's fine if you don't come out, but you're the heroine of this game and you didn't even call me. Are you trying to rebel?"

“I may forget who called me, but I definitely remember who didn’t call me.”

"I must teach you a lesson next time," some evil thoughts popped up in Yang Hao's mind.
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A week later, Yang Hao received a call from Vice President Liu.

"Yang Hao, the interactive movie game we produced is a hit," Vice President Liu said excitedly, even speaking incoherently.

"How many copies of the game were sold?" Yang Hao was still relatively calm. He had a feeling that the sales would be hot based on the popularity of the game.

"140 million copies in a week has broken the sales record of domestic stand-alone games."

Vice President Liu thought this game would be a hit, but he didn't expect it to be this popular.

With the performance of this project, he is confident that his position as vice president will soon be promoted to a full-time position.

"By the way, Yang Hao, let me tell you something. The QQ game platform will set up a special section to sell interactive film and game games."

Hearing this, Yang Hao still sighed that his little butterfly had affected the changes in the world. In his previous life, QQ games mainly launched some casual games and some web games, but because of his intervention, such a big change has taken place now. He didn't know whether it was good or bad.

After the call, Yang Hao made a rough estimate in his mind that with 140 million copies, the sales volume was just over 50 million. After deducting 1900% from the platform, he only had % of the profit, which means he only had a share of million. After paying taxes and deducting the production costs, he could only earn about million.

In China, the market for stand-alone games is still too small. For this kind of game, if one person in a university dormitory buys the game, everyone in the dormitory can play it. But if one person wants to watch a movie, he can drag his boyfriend or family members to watch it. One person can often lead two or three people to watch it.

The game is bought by one person and played by three or four people.

If one person wants to watch a movie, two or three people will buy tickets.

As a result, the size of the two products differs tenfold, and the market prospects are vastly different.

My future focus will still be on the film and television industry. This game is just a tool to make money in the short term.

The game became a big hit, and when Yang Hao returned to Beijing Film Academy, he found that everyone was enthusiastic about him.

Ordinary people may not pay attention to producers and investors, but people like Beijing Film Academy, who are at the center of the entertainment industry, definitely pay more attention to investors and producers than to film and television actors.

"Hello, Senior Brother" "Hello, Senior Brother"

Along the way, everyone, whether acquaintance or stranger, greeted Yang Hao with a smile.

"Teacher Xue, what do you want to talk to me about?" I am quite busy right now as interactive film and games are selling like hot cakes. The reason I came to Beijing Film Academy was because of the call from Teacher Xue Xiaolu.

"Come, take a look at this script," Teacher Xue Xiaolu pulled Yang Hao to sit down and pointed at the script on the desk. Script? Yang Hao's heart moved. Could it be the script of BJ Meets Seattle?

Yang Hao was a little excited. In the past few years at the Beijing Film Academy, he had been trying to get close to Professor Xue Xiaolu every now and then, and it was all for this movie.

I opened the script and saw that it was called "Beauty and Destiny".

When Yang Hao saw the title of the script, he was sure that this was Mr. Xue Xiaolu’s famous work Bridget Jones Meets Seattle.

The script was originally called "Beautiful Destiny", but after many twists and turns it was changed to "BJ Meets Seattle".

After watching for about ten minutes, Yang Hao stopped what he was doing.

"Teacher, do you want me to play a role?"

"I'm sorry, Yang Hao, there is no role suitable for you in this movie. The male lead needs to be older. I want you to invest in this movie. Of course, the teacher is not forcing you. You can take a look at the script yourself. If you think it is good, then invest. If not, just refuse directly."

After hearing what Teacher Xue Xiaolu said, Yang Hao's brain started working rapidly.

"This script is good. Low-budget romance dramas should be very popular in the current market. Why is there no one investing in it?"

Teacher Xue Xiaolu smiled somewhat reluctantly.

"It's mainly because the last film 'Ocean Paradise', which was independently directed by the teacher, didn't perform very well. As you know, for a director, if the first film doesn't perform well, it's hard for people to invest in the second one."

The movie "Ocean Paradise" has a very powerful cast, starring Jet Li, Da Meiyuan, and Emblem. This drama flopped, and Jet Li was definitely criticized the most, but part of the responsibility will still be put on the director, which makes the film and television companies in the circle not optimistic about director Xue Xiaolu, which makes it difficult to attract investment.

Seeing that Yang Hao was still thinking, Xue Xiaolu thought that Yang Hao was unwilling to invest and was struggling with how to refuse.

"Yang Hao, don't be embarrassed. It's okay if you don't want to invest. Movie investment is risky, and I can understand that. In fact, it's not that no one has invested in this movie. Jiang Zhiqiang of Hong Kong Edko Films is still willing to invest, but they want to arrange the male and female lead. That's why I hesitated whether to accept their investment."

"No, teacher, I don't mean to not want to invest. Um, teacher, according to your budget, how much does this movie cost?"

Seeing that Teacher Xue had misunderstood, Yang Hao hurried to explain.

As for the film budget, Mr. Xue had already prepared a plan in mind and spoke about it as soon as he opened his mouth.

"It's a low-budget romance film, there aren't any big scenes, the only thing is that it has to be shot abroad, a budget of 2500 million to 3000 million should be enough."

"Okay, I'll invest in this movie, but I'll turn down the investment from Hong Kong. People over there always like to mess around, it's annoying to watch."

Yang Hao waved his hand and said with some pride.

"Hey! Yang Hao, you can't say such things casually, it's not conducive to unity." Xue Xiaolu was very happy to hear that Yang Hao agreed to invest, but when he heard the following irrelevant words, he frowned and taught Yang Hao a lesson.

"Teacher, I can invest, but I can't invest all of it. If I invest all of it, it will be difficult to distribute and promote the movie later. I still have to get China Film, Wanda and Light Media to join in."

In the previous life, Bridget Jones Meets Seattle was basically fully invested by Enlight Films, and China Film was only responsible for distribution. This time, by allowing more film and television companies to enter the market, the pie should be able to be made bigger than in the previous life.

"Teacher Xue, who are you going to cast as the lead actor?"

"I think Yang Mi is pretty good. We had a pleasant cooperation in the last film "It's Over! I'm Surrounded by Beauties". She has also been very popular recently, so she should be helpful in promoting the movie. As for the male lead, I haven't decided yet, but it doesn't matter. For movies, as long as the funds are in place, everything else is easy to deal with."

When Yang Hao heard that it was Yang Mi, he was a little surprised.

If Da Mimi knew this news, she would probably be so happy. At this time, several 85 flowers are trying their best to get into the movie industry. They can earn more than million from a TV series, but they would rather act in a movie with a pay of to million.

Da Mimi even went to the Hong Kong circle for a while for movie resources, and even got herself involved and had a child. I want to save Da Mimi in this life.

(End of this chapter)