Lin Yuan showed a typical smile. He originally wanted to buy the copyright of "Flirting Scholar" at the original price, but considering that the company had paid so much, he finally paid 10 million.
Make a million for the company.
It’s not that Lin Yuan is generous, but he can’t let the company really work for him for free. Who would work hard for several months to make a product and then sell it to others at cost price without considering any profit margin
Feel at peace with yourself.
In fact, Lin Yuan suddenly decided to broadcast "Flirting Scholar" online, in addition to not having confidence that this movie would be able to make a comeback in the summer season, he also had a deeper purpose -
He wants fame!
Lin Yuan has figured out the reason why "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" could not get a screening. This is the treatment that a "three-no" movie should receive. Since the first movie is destined to be unpopular, why bother to keep watching the theaters for it to be released
What to do if you fail
Lin Yuan wanted the company to continue investing in him to make movies in the future. If the first movie failed, why should he let the company continue to invest in him? It didn't make sense.
So it’s better to go online.
The threshold for online universities is too low.
But precisely because the threshold for online movies is low enough, "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" can attract the attention of more people. If this movie were really released in theaters, everyone's attention would be focused on those blockbusters. Who would buy a ticket to watch a three-no movie
so…
It would be better to use "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" to increase his popularity first, and then enter the theaters when the right opportunity arises. If this movie can be successful in the form of an online movie, then even if Lin Yuan has some qualifications, at least everyone will recognize his identity as a screenwriter.
Not only Lin Yuan.
If this movie can really be successful, the film's creative team and actors will no longer be unknown tools. At that time, the company will definitely support Lin Yuan when he makes a new movie.
This is not the company's fault.
It’s not the cinema’s fault.
Just forced by reality.
However, when Yi Chenggong learned that "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" would not be released in theaters, he inevitably felt a little disappointed.
Every director has a dream of having a theater.
Yi Chenggong’s last film was a low-budget micro-movie that had no chance of being released in theaters.
This time, he thought that "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" would be able to be released in theaters thanks to Representative Lin, but he didn't expect that it would fail in the end.
"Do you know how online universities cooperate?"
Lin Yuan asked Yi Chenggong if the other party had experience in cooperating with an online movie in his previous film.
Yi Chenggong said: "I know a little bit, it can be roughly divided into two types, one is buyout, the other is profit sharing..."
"We choose to split the profits."
Lin Yuan spoke without hesitation.
Although he has no confidence in the counterattack of "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" in theaters, Lin Yuan has great confidence in online video on demand.
Yi Chenggong nodded: "Most production companies will choose to buy out, but profit-sharing also has its advantages. It's just that Representative Lin is better off finding someone to negotiate the specific price. I suggest letting the butler go, he should have connections in this area."
Shen Qing is the producer of "Flirting Scholar".
Lin Yuan called Shen Qing "steward", so Yi Chenggong followed suit.
"Understood."
Lin Yuan contacted Shen Qing directly.
Strictly speaking, this matter has nothing to do with Shen Qing anymore, because "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" is now a movie that completely belongs to Lin Yuan, but Lin Yuan thinks Shen Qing should help contact the video website.
…
When Shen Qing heard that Lin Yuan bought "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" in his private capacity, he felt a little complicated.
Before, everyone thought that the company would lose money by making this movie.
But with Lin Yuan paying for it himself, the movie actually achieved a balance of neither losing nor gaining in an almost weird way
In the end, only Lin Yuan suffered the loss.
At least as far as the company is concerned, it neither makes a profit nor a loss.
Because if you insist, the small loss is actually not worth mentioning.
After all, everyone had been told that the reason this drama was filmed was to accompany the Crown Prince Lin to study.
Representative Lin had a good time, so if he lost the money, he lost it.
It's nothing more than letting the prince take the money and throw it away for fun.
Representative Ke Lin did not waste the company's money...
In the end, he ended up wasting his own money.
At this moment, Shen Qing suddenly admired Lin Yuan a little.
The company paid for Lin Yuan's willfulness, but Lin Yuan ended up paying for the company's indulgence.
It can be seen that Lin Yuan is very principled!
So when Shen Qing heard that Lin Yuan wanted him to help contact a suitable video website to broadcast "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One", he agreed.
Representative Lin is a good person!
Although he is not suitable to be a screenwriter, as a producer, he should do his best to help Representative Lin make a profit.
Investing millions...
It is definitely impossible to get back all the money.
But if I can get back a million or two, it shouldn’t be a big problem, right
Shen Qing has also watched quite a few online movies.
Some online movies that Shen Qing considers to be rubbish can still attract some audiences, which shows that the threshold for this thing is really low.
Although "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" was not very good, Shen Qing at least had fun during the filming process.
He felt that some of the jokes in this movie, although strange, actually had an indescribable magic that made people laugh along, and it was much better than those rubbish.
Thinking of this.
Shen Qing called a friend who worked at a video website and talked about "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One - Fragrance".
at the same time.
The company's film department.
Everyone also knew that Xianyu bought "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" himself, and for a moment they felt similar to Shen Qing.
"In the end, you paid for it yourself?"
"It's like a person who asks others to treat him, and the other person suppresses his sympathy and orders a large table of delicious dishes, but after the meal he pays the bill himself. Maybe it's not an appropriate description, but it's a bit like that, right?"
"We shouldn't have said that about him before."
"Yeah, I just want to have some fun, just for the sake of novelty. To be honest, when the mood strikes, who hasn't wanted to have some fun?"
"Why do I feel like what you said is an excuse you made up after being caught in the anti-pornography crackdown last week?"
"Nonsense, I wasn't caught."
"… "
Perhaps Lin Yuan's willfulness caused dissatisfaction among some people, so when Lin Yuan paid for the movie himself, the public opinion in the film department actually reversed slightly.
What do you think
Lin Yuan is very sensible. He must have understood that his movie would lose money, so he bought the copyright of "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One" to prevent the company from suffering any loss.
"Good boy."
Even Lao Zhou couldn't stop sighing.
If Lin Yuan did not take the initiative to withdraw from the theaters, Lao Zhou and others might have thought that Lin Yuan bought the copyright because he was confident in "A Chinese Odyssey: Part One: Pandora's Box".
But Lin Yuan doesn’t even want the cinema…
This shows that Lin Yuan actually knows that his movie is terrible and he can only release it online to make a profit. Anyway, he has gotten over his addiction to making movies.
This child is honest!