Chapter 20 Chaos in the Entertainment Industry

The final cost of the project "BJ Meets Seattle" was 900 million yuan, of which China Film Group accounted for 300% with an investment of 1800 million yuan, Wanda accounted for % with an investment of million yuan, and the remaining % ( million yuan) was paid for by Yang Hao's personal studio.

After dealing with the follow-up matters of BJ's encounter in Seattle, Yang Hao instructed Yu Li to rent an office location for the studio. The location should not be too remote and the price should be reasonable.

The second week's sales data for "It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" has also come out, and it was almost cut in half, with only 76 copies. According to this daily sales trend, there is not much potential for subsequent sales, and it can only rely on accumulation over time to perhaps sell hundreds of thousands of copies.

Just as Yang Hao was looking at the data report and several documents that needed signatures, the phone rang. It was Mr. Liu from the Penguin Video Department.

"Brother Yang, what are you doing?"

"Busy, what's the matter?"

"Yesterday, Yu Li from your studio came to us to cooperate with us on the drama "Legend of Lu Zhen". What are your plans? Now that "It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" is so popular, why don't you strike while the iron is hot and develop a second series?"

Yang Hao roughly understood the other party's intention, turned the pen in his hand and said,

"There are no plans to develop a second part at the moment. Besides, the first part is still selling well, so why are we in such a hurry?"

Although the sequel to "It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" is also a stable money-making project, Yang Hao really doesn't think highly of it. The development of the first part was only limited by the lack of funds on hand.

No matter how well an interactive video game is made, its upper limit is only 800 to 900 million. But if a movie is well made, it can exceed 1 billion at this point in time.

At this point in time, there are too many good film projects, such as "Detective Chinatown 3" and "Charlotte's Troubles", which were both released in the past two years. If you don't grab them now, it will be too late.

"Brother, you don't know what the current situation in the entertainment industry is like. Now all kinds of monsters are rushing into interactive film and games. Do you know about Tiny Times?"

"Tiny Times, Guo Jinming's novel, who doesn't know this?"

Yang Hao not only knew the novel, he also knew that the adapted movie was starred by Da Mimi. Da Mimi was also very busy, having to film both Tiny Times and Bridget Jones Meets Seattle.

After this movie, Guo Jinming was given a meme, a meme that could be done by tying a dog to it.

"Tiny Times, isn't it going to be made into a movie? Now they have also started an interactive video game project. While they are making the movie, they are going to use the movie footage to create an interactive video game."

"Fuck"

Hearing this news, Yang Hao was stunned. These were all changes that had never happened in his previous life. An interactive movie game in Tiny Times? He was really a genius.

If it is really made into an interactive movie game, thinking about the role played by Da Mimi in it, I really have an urge to play it.

You can use the material from the movie to easily create an interactive movie game for very little money. Combined with the popularity of the Tiny Times movie, you might be able to make a fortune.

"Isn't it surprising? What's even more surprising is that Yu Zheng is currently filming "Wei Jin Fengyun", and he is also going to make an interactive film and game. The film and television industry is very chaotic now. Regardless of whether the content is suitable for adaptation into interactive film and games, it will all be adapted into interactive film and games anyway."

"It would be fine if they put their heart into making it, but it's obvious that they just want to make a quick buck. If they keep doing this, I think the interactive film and game market will die out sooner or later."

“The second part of ‘It’s Over, I’m Surrounded by Beauties’ must be released as soon as possible, otherwise once those people in the film and television industry mess things up like this, this market may be gone.” What Vice President Liu said makes sense. According to the nature of those people in the film and television industry, they will follow suit and shoot whatever is popular, until they kill this market.

Although what Vice President Liu said made sense, Yang Hao still didn't want to develop the second part of "It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" because he really didn't care about the profit.

Vice President Liu on the other end of the phone may have heard Yang Hao's hesitation, so he said.

"How about this, since you don't want to develop the second part, why don't you transfer your 50% copyright to Penguin? We won't take advantage of you. The game and film and television adaptation rights are priced at million."

Yang Hao pondered, copyrights these days were not as expensive as they would be in later generations, and 20 million was indeed a lot. It seemed that Penguin really wanted to develop the second part quickly and did not want to waste time negotiating with Yang Hao.

"Okay, that's settled then. However, you Penguin guys need to give strong support to The Legend of Lu Zhen. I'll let Yu Li connect with you guys later."

There was no loss for Penguin by selling the copyright, and now they had to work together on "Legend of Lu Zhen" and maintain a good relationship, so he simply agreed without hesitation.

After finishing the call with Vice President Liu, Yang Hao picked up a pen and did some calculations on a piece of scratch paper. The interactive film game "It's Over, I'm Surrounded by Beauties" probably brought in a profit of over 50 million yuan. After deducting costs and taxes, there would still be around 40 million yuan left.

An investment of five million was made, and in just a few months, forty million was recovered, with a profit ratio of one to eight. No wonder Penguin is so eager to make a second part.
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A few days later, in the conference room of China Film Group, more than a dozen celebrity artists and their agents sat on chairs with different expressions.

Although the cost of the project "BJ Meets Seattle" is not high, only 30 million, it is jointly produced and distributed by China Film and Wanda. It can be foreseen that as long as the quality of the film is not bad, the theater chain will definitely not be low. This kind of resource is already a high-quality resource in the entertainment industry and has a strong appeal to many celebrities and artists.

Among the dozen or so celebrity artists who came were Haiqing and Brother Xiaoming.

Apart from these two more famous ones, Yang Hao doesn’t know who the other artists are.

Because of Yang Hao, HK's investment was kicked out, and except for Hai Qing, the other actors from the previous life, such as Tang Wei, Wu Xiubo, etc., were all gone.

Yang Hao brought Zhao Liying along for this audition, intending to have her play a supporting role. After all, it was a blockbuster movie, so it would be good to help with the box office.

Yang Hao was planning to let her play the role of Dr. Tang, replacing Li Qihong.

Replacing Li Qihong is also for her own good. Li Qihong's appearance has declined significantly, so it is better not to let her appear in the movie. Let her image of Guo Xiang and Little Pepper remain forever in the hearts of the people born in the 80s and 90s.

During the entire audition process, Yang Hao did not participate at all. He just sat there without saying a word, but Zhao Liying still passed the audition smoothly.

Yang Mi did not attend the audition this time because she had been selected by director Xue Xiaolu in advance.

I don’t know if it’s a preconceived notion, but when the crew chose Brother Xiao Ming to play the male lead, Yang Hao always felt out of place. The image of Brother Xiao Ming is too different from the image played by Wu Xiu Bo in his previous life. I don’t know if the major change in actors will affect the final box office.

Although he felt that Brother Xiao Ming's image did not quite meet the requirements, Yang Hao still believed in Director Xue Xiaolu's casting vision and decided that professional matters should be left to professionals.

Yang Hao had no intention of investing the system's cashback funds in this movie. First, he did not participate in the film, and second, such a large share of the investment was given to China Film Wanda, and investing the cashback funds would be a huge loss.

I just took advantage of this movie to make some quick money and accumulate some cash back funds to use when I make my own movies in the future.

(End of this chapter)