Chapter 264 The Object of Envy by Countless Men and Admiration by Women (Two in One)

The negotiation of "Celebrating More Than Years" is much more complicated and lengthy than the outside world imagines.

After all, it is the most watched project in the industry, a deal worth hundreds of millions, and it's a long and tedious one.

Since the beginning of the "Celebrating More Than Years" crew, TV stations have come to contact them. When the preliminary script review was completed and the actors were ready to start filming, many platforms began to quote.

After that, there was a series of negotiations. Those who did not have enough capital and could not meet the conditions were basically eliminated. Those who remained at the end were all potential buyers.

Until not long ago, the first version of "Celebrating More Than Years" was officially reviewed and completed, which means it can be broadcast at any time.

The battle for the purchase of dramas has completely entered a white-hot stage!

A restaurant in Shanghai

"Gutai, Director Liu, take care."

Xia Cong, the general manager of Blue Whale and the person in charge of the negotiations for "Celebrating More Than Years", personally sent the two middle-aged men to the car, rubbed his face, and let the cold air outside sober him up.

Next to him stood a thin middle-aged man, who was Xiao Jiu, the director of the Blue Whale Film and Television Department, and Xia Cong's deputy in this negotiation.

"Old Xiao, we cooperated well just now."

"No, I'm just helping out, the key is up to you."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, I'll take credit for the project."

"Thank you, President Xia, I think I've gotten to know the bottom of several companies, do you want to call everyone for a meeting?"

"Well, you call someone, I'll contact the boss."

"Okay."

That night, in the Blue Whale meeting room, a group of responsible persons and senior executives gathered. Wei Yang didn't come to the scene, but participated in the meeting via video call.

After everyone arrived, Old Xia presided over the meeting, and then Xiao was responsible for introducing the situation.

With the rapid development of Blue Whale in the past two years, the number of employees in the company has also continued to grow.

From the more than 60 people who Wei Yang just took over, the number has now doubled several times, and the internal department structure and high-level leaders have also made some adjustments, either merged, eliminated, promoted, demoted, or left.

It was during this period that Xiao was promoted to director of the film and television department. His predecessor was incompetent and "parted amicably" with the company.

The director of the Film and Television Department is the largest department of Blue Whale, and he is considered the third in command of the company. He was dismissed without any hesitation, which shocked the entire company and was even reported by the outside media.

Let’s not talk about how the outside world and employees discussed it, but all the senior executives realized the courage of Boss Wei.

In the entire Blue Whale, except for Wei Yang himself, even Xia Cong, the general manager who has always been the second in command, may not be in a stable position.

The project of "Celebrating Yu Nian" is the most important project that Xiao has handled since he became the director, so the pressure is still very high.

If this fails, his fate may be worse than that of the previous director.

Although Boss Wei was ruthless, he still remembered the old feelings. The previous director was an old man in the company and had made contributions, so he didn’t think of letting him go at that time, but gave him a sinecure.

When the latter chose to leave, the resignation package he gave was also very generous, the background check was very decent, and he also helped introduce other companies.

Xiao did not have the qualifications and merits of his predecessor, and the project of "Celebrating Yu Nian" was the top priority. If he did not do well, he might be fired directly.

However, pressure often comes with opportunities!

There have been internal rumors that the company will undergo a certain degree of reorganization after moving next year.

For example, Boss Wei feels that the film and television department is a bit too bloated, and is preparing to split the film and television department into two, reorganizing it into a TV series department and a film department when entering the film market.

At the same time, Blue Whale has always been led by Wei and Xia in recent years, and then the heads of various departments and projects report to the two.

But this model was fine in the early days, but as Blue Whale continues to grow, there are more and more department and project leaders, and it is a bit difficult for them to manage it.

Therefore, Blue Whale has always had the idea of ​​promoting several vice presidents, each of whom is responsible for multiple departments or projects, to share the management pressure of Wei and Xia.

The film and television department has a special status. In theory, there should be only one vice president, Xiao, but he has a little less experience, and it is hard to say whether he can get promoted.

Therefore, the project of "Celebrating Yu Nian" is very critical. If he has made great contributions, he will definitely get promoted, and even rank very high.

Although the specific articles of association of the company have not been disclosed, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the vice president has extremely high authority, and can even be said to be a company giant.

After the promotion, salary increase and bonus are certain, and there may be equity or dividend rewards.

These senior executives know how much money Blue Whale makes. Even if there is only 1% or even 1‰ of shares or dividend incentives, it is enough to make people excited. If Boss Wei considers going public in the future, it will be exciting.

The more Xiao thought about it, the hotter his heart became, and the more passionate his report became, but Wei Yang and many senior executives did not notice his abnormality.

In other words, they did not care about Director Xiao's thoughts at all, and devoted themselves to what he said.

The negotiations for "Celebrating Yu Nian" have basically reached the bottom line, and they are full of sincerity.

Old friend Shanghai TV offered 150 million yuan, exclusive premiere, and confirmed to pay the full amount in one lump sum.

More importantly, it took out the purchase plan for the last two parts of "Celebrating Yu Nian". Under the premise of ensuring the completion of certain conditions, the purchase price of the last two parts will increase step by step, and the prices are 170 million and 200 million respectively.

If Blue Whale completes the conditions it proposed, the trilogy will have a total of 520 million yuan in revenue, and the full amount will be paid.

"What are the conditions?"

When a senior executive asked, Xiao took out the folder and looked at it: "It's probably some guarantees of advertising revenue and ratings. We have calculated that the difficulty is not too great, and the sincerity is still sufficient."

It sounds like a gambling agreement, but it is actually not that level.

Gambling is generally very demanding, and it squeezes you to death, and the conditions of Magic City TV are more like additional clauses to guarantee the lower limit.

After all, the initiative is in the hands of Blue Whale. The conditions set by Magic City TV cannot be too harsh, otherwise Blue Whale is not sure to complete it, and the subsequent contract is equivalent to waste paper.

It can be seen that Magic City TV, which has tasted the sweetness many times in the past two years, trusts Wei Yang very much and has invested heavily.

The general conditions were circulated in the conference room. Some people frowned slightly, and some people were confident, but there were not many objections.

Wei Yang had already read the email and saw that everyone had an idea, so he asked Xiao to introduce the next one.

The next one is also an old friend, Hunan Satellite TV. The conditions offered are exclusive premiere, 320 million directly packaged "Celebrating Yu Nian" trilogy, and paid in one lump sum.

Note that the three series are packaged at one time without any additional conditions.

In other words, no matter how the first season of "Celebrating Yu Nian" performs, the money of Hunan Satellite TV for the last two seasons will be spent together. As long as Wei Yang can deliver two more dramas, no matter how bad they are, they will accept it.

In fact, this routine is very cunning, because they believe in Wei Yang's bottom line, and they also know that Boss Wei will not destroy his own reputation, let alone offend them by deliberately shooting bad dramas.

So this condition seems generous, but it is actually just that, so Hunan TV has other conditions.

That is, 20% of the advertising revenue related to "Celebrating Yu Nian" and a large number of other cooperation will be transferred!

Hunan Satellite TV is the first local satellite TV station, and its advertising revenue is also the highest among satellite TV stations. Even if it is 20%, it is not a small amount.

Other related resources such as variety shows, film and television advertisements are also very important to Blue Whale.

Not only does it generate direct and indirect benefits, but it also helps the company's development in all aspects. Many times, the company does not have this effect even if it spends money.

Hunan TV has used this trick to seduce Wei Yang before, and this time it is more sincere, and the quantity and quality of the resources it has taken out are better.

This is also the reason why it ranks second even though it only bid 200 million less than Shanghai TV. If Shanghai TV is not the most stable partner of Blue Whale, the conditions of Hunan TV should be placed first.

Anyone with a long-term vision knows that some resources are more valuable than real money.

Wei Yang saw that the venue was a little silent, so he didn't say anything and asked Xiao to continue to report the next one, which was also an old acquaintance.

Jiangsu TV pulled Zhejiang Province next door, and the two cooperated to bid 160 million for the first season of "Celebrating Yu Nian" in one go.

Although this price is slightly higher, it is somewhat standard compared to the first two, so it ranks third.

In addition, there is another one, which is the four satellite TV stations headed by Beijing and Tianjin. The bid is 180 million, the highest price, but the payment terms are in accordance with the normal process.

Considering that these satellite TV stations have no obvious bad records of being a deadbeat, and there are 20 to 30 million more, they still entered the finals, but ranked last.

However, the senior executives present knew Wei Yang. When the other companies chose to pay the full amount at one time and had other excellent conditions, the probability of the four satellite TV stations being eliminated was extremely high.

As expected, after Xiao reported the final four platforms, Wei Yang did not think much about it and directly passed the four satellite TV stations.

After that, he talked with several senior executives and quickly eliminated the two Jiangsu and Zhejiang companies.

The rest was very simple. Choose between Shanghai and Hunan Province. Money or resources?

However, because of this, the senior executives on the scene had obvious differences and even quarreled.

"520 million, everyone has seen the sincerity of Shanghai TV. We have cooperated many times over the years, so we still have to talk about friendship."

"Business is business, and if we talk about friendship, how can we make money?"

"Putting friendship aside, who can guarantee that Hunan TV will keep its promise? What if it regrets it? This is 200 million."

"The contract is written in black and white. The last two are in our hands, so we have the initiative."

"That's right, and we have more than just "Celebrating Yu Nian", we also have other projects. They have no reason to be hostile to us. This is a rare opportunity. Now Hunan Province is the only one in power, and even Tangren has joined them."

"Tangren is shit. We sold "Startling by Each Step". Cai... no Sorry, boss, I said something wrong. "

"Let's not talk about other companies, but what if we cooperate with Hunan Province on a large scale, are highly bound, and are controlled by others?"

"Yes, resources are important, but other TV stations can also cooperate. 200 million yuan is enough for us to do a lot of things."

"Several of the top ten TV variety shows are Hunan Satellite TV, and half of the advertisers have cooperated with them. Do you know that reaching a cooperation can make the fame and commercial value of Nazha, Zhenyu, Miss Zhao and the boss rise to a higher level, which is a steady stream of money."

"..."

Both sides insisted on their own opinions, and Wei Yang had a headache even through the screen. Finally, he muted the sound and waited until the group of people were tired of arguing before looking at Lao Xia.

"Boss Xia, what do you mean?"

Lao Xia looked at the two parties staring at him eagerly, shook his head: "I think both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, and this decision must be made carefully..."

After a minute of talking in circles, five words can be summarized-I listen to the boss.

"Director Xiao?"

Xiao was shocked. Lao Xia was a shareholder and the second in command. He could get away with it by pretending to be stupid and loyal, but he was not qualified.

He wanted to say "I listen to the boss", but Wei Yang's first reaction was not to think he was loyal, but to think he was useless and didn't even dare to give a suggestion.

Xiao's mind was spinning wildly, thinking about which one Wei Yang would choose.

Boss Wei has a long-term vision. Although he often talks about cooperative development, he is steady in doing things, values ​​real money, is used to getting the benefits first, and does not agree with high binding.

In this way, the chance of Shanghai TV is greater...

Xiao's lips moved slightly, and just as he was about to speak, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

No, Shanghai TV gave more real money, but strictly speaking, it was paid in installments, and there were additional conditions. Hunan TV gave 320 million in one go.

Boss Wei did not agree with high binding, and the previous few dramas had been cooperating with Shanghai TV. If the "Celebrating Yu Nian" trilogy chose Shanghai TV again, it would violate the cooperation policy of Blue Whale.

"I think Hunan TV is more suitable."

After Xiao finished speaking, he saw some satisfaction on Boss Wei's face, and he was happy that he had made the right bet.

And Boss Wei did not continue to keep the secret and announced his decision.

"Contact Hunan TV, want to buy out the trilogy of "Celebrating Yu Nian" in one go, this price is not enough, at least 50 million in cash, we want 30% of the advertising revenue, and we have to continue to discuss the details of the cooperation project, and try to take the initiative."

If it is another company, basically the price has been negotiated, and it can't go up much.

But Hunan Province has less real money, more of a cake, and Blue Whale has taken out the trilogy as bait, so there is still room for negotiation.

At the same time, the Magic City TV also needs to be appeased, and Blue Whale's new drama will be taken care of later.

Boss Wei's prestige in Blue Whale is beyond doubt, and others no longer have objections to what he has confirmed.

The rest depends on whether Lao Xia and others can get Hunan TV to agree to Wei Yang's request. Blue Whale is still confident.

The initiative is in the hands of Blue Whale, not Hunan Province. If the other party does not agree, "Celebrating More Than Years" will not be sold at a low price. At most, it will cooperate with other platforms.

"Celebrating More Than Years" is now a goddess that everyone pursues. Everyone only hates that they can't marry her, and they don't care whether it is a spare tire...

Today's discussion is not just about the TV premiere rights, but also other copyrights, including DVDs, patch ads, and peripheral authorizations.

In the past, these basically had to wait until the TV series was broadcast or even became popular before they could be sold, but "Celebrating More Than Years" was unusual. Relevant partners came to the door early, and the bids were not low.

Wei Yang didn't need to make too many specific decisions on this. Many of them had been negotiated. The main thing was to report to him and inform the relevant senior management.

Blue Whale did not sell all these copyrights. It only sold a few with particularly high bids. The rest will be discussed after the broadcast.

Even so, the relevant departments of "Celebrating More Than Years" earned more than 30 million in the first season, which greatly exceeded the most profitable "Eastern Palace" before.

The senior executives in the conference room were all smiling. Boss Wei was not a stingy person. The more the company made, the richer their year-end bonus would be this year.

The atmosphere of joy never stopped. After talking about these copyright fees, there was another very important project, which was the online broadcast rights of "Joy of Life".

LeTV purchased the first season of "Joy of Life" for 75 million, or 1.875 million per episode.

Penguin offered 200 million yuan to package the "Joy of Life" trilogy.

So the choice left for Wei Yang was very simple, to sell it separately or in one go, the former is expensive, the latter is worry-free.

Wei Yang of course chose to sell it separately.

Although the price of TV drama copyrights has been rising, the amplitude is controlled and will not jump too much in a short period of time.

But the online broadcast copyright is different. The past two years have been the craziest time, with a different price for each season.

It is now 75 million, and it may exceed 100 million next year. Wei Yang TV station can sell it in a package, but the network platform will never do so. At most, it will add a priority clause.

Wei Yang had already told Xiao about this situation, but Penguin only offered 70 million in a single quarter, which was far from LeTV.

The highest bidder wins, and Boss Wei could only express regret to Xiao Ma Ge.

After the meeting, Wei Yang did a small calculation.

The investment share of "Joy of Life" was not much different from that of "Eastern Palace". Blue Whale took 50% of the main control, Jade Shrimp took 20%, and the remaining 30% was used to attract some partners and raise funds.

A rough calculation of the current amount of expected income, 95% of 50% + 70% of 20%, I probably have more than 200 million in cash, minus very little cost and tax.

Wei Yang's face fell: "I worked so hard, but I only earned this little?"

If others heard this, they would beat him to death, and this was only part of it. Other income in the future might double or more.

However, Wei Yang was still not satisfied, mainly because Fan Xiaopang's little girl made 1 billion every day, which made him excited. Now when he calculated the accounts, the gap was a bit big.

"It would be nice if I could make 1 billion yuan in one go."

Boss Wei is not daydreaming. In the future, there will be many TV series that will be priced at several hundred million yuan, not to mention movies. The film producers of "Wolf Warrior 2" will share more than 2 billion yuan.

The golden age of the entertainment industry is coming. Even if the winter is cold, these few years will be enough to make money...

...

On November 13, Wei Yang's birthday, Blue Whale and Hunan TV reached an agreement.

The latter purchased the trilogy of "Joy of Life" at a price of 380 million + 30% of the related advertising revenue, paid the full amount in one lump sum, and launched multiple cooperation with Blue Whale.

The purchase price of the drama was not announced to the public, but it was stated that it refreshed the highest price in the history of domestic TV dramas.

This also triggered the imagination of the outside world.

According to the latest statistics as of October, in the 2011 Forbes celebrity ranking income list, Wei Yang temporarily ranked second with an annual income of 180 million, and Dayao ranked first with an income of just over 200 million.

Compared with 2010, Wei Yang's data this year is obviously a bit unreliable and much less than the actual income.

Only "Eastern Palace" and "Shan Shan Come" have company income, investment income and personal income that are not less than this number, not to mention other projects.

Moreover, Wei Yang now has not only film and television production and artist income, but also other fields such as financial investment, copyright operation, and commercial operation.

The most noteworthy is Red Shark Game Company, which has achieved profitability this year with many games.

The "Honkai Academy 1" of the miHoYo team, which was highly expected by Wei Yang, actually did not make much money. After all, it was a debut work, and it was more about training the team, cultivating the market, and paving the way for the real money-making "Honkai Academy 2".

However, the game "My Love from the Star" has good revenue data due to its super IP, and the players are very sticky, which can develop in the long run.

In addition, under the command of Wei Yang, Red Shark also represented two games that he had an impression of, and made a fortune.

At present, excluding various expenditure costs, Red Shark's net profit this year exceeds about 50 million yuan.

It is definitely not comparable to those big companies with billions of revenue, but after all, it is a new company with limited establishment time and the team is also growing. It has just got on the right track, and it is great to have so much income.

It is not easy to open a game company. With Wei Yang's guidance and its own national IP, Red Shark can develop steadily.

Now Red Shark has begun to study and design the game "Celebrating Yu Nian".

The subject matter is mainly martial arts and plot, let's see if we can have a wave of film and game interaction in real time. If the effect is good, "The Journey of Flower" can be prepared.

In fact, Wei Yang's biggest regret is that he didn't get the agency of "League of Legends".

When he learned that this game had not been launched in the mainland in the first half of the year, he immediately asked someone to contact him, but he found that he thought too much. Penguin even copied the parent company, and it was impossible to give the agency rights to others.

Wei Yang can only give up. Now he is thinking about whether there are some other games that Red Shark can pick up.

It's a pity that I didn't play games much in my previous life. Except for a few national games, I know little about other games.

"Genshin Impact" was barely coded, could it be that Red Shark copied "Chicken Eating" and "King of Glory"?

The former is easy to say, but the latter, Brother Ma will not sue him and sue him for plagiarizing "League of Legends"...

If all these incomes are added up, the 180 million on the celebrity list will more than double, but I don't know if it counts as financial investment.

But no matter what, after Wei Yang became rich, there were fewer and fewer related marketing and promotions. Many contracts were confidential, and it was difficult for the outside world to understand the specific situation. Even some of the income and assets were unknown to the outside world.

In this case, it is not difficult to understand that the Forbes Celebrity List made a wrong judgment on him.

In the past, Boss Wei’s stall was so big, and he could still estimate some things. Moreover, he was not strong enough, and there were many people who sold information.

Now that his career has been established, he has more projects and companies on hand, and there are all kinds of cross-mixing. Boss Wei himself is sometimes confused and asks his private financial team, not to mention outsiders.

Moreover, his strength has increased, and he has made many connections. People who didn’t care about breaking news will also be afraid and won’t talk nonsense.

No matter how powerful the Forbes rankings are, it is impossible to look through Boss Wei’s account books and contracts, and the estimated data is inevitably watered.

However, no matter how watery it is, it is certain that Wei Yang will make a lot of money when "Celebrating Yu Nian" is sold.

What’s more, the Hunan Provincial TV station keeps it secret, but LeTV does not keep it secret. Boss Jia is holding back every day to fool everyone to reverse the ecology and make LeTV’s stock more evil.

75 million, he even agreed to pay it all at once, but he just asked that the price must be made public and Blue Whale cooperated to build momentum.

This requirement was the same for Penguin. They were a new website and needed to make a name for themselves, otherwise they would not spend so much money.

Therefore, the price of the online broadcast rights of "Joy of Life" could not be hidden at all. Soon everyone knew that the online broadcast rights of the first season of "Joy of Life" were sold for 75 million.

Regardless of whether LeTV's stock price rose or not, Shanda's stock was very favorable anyway.

Chen Tianqiao was so angry that he cursed. He must be happy that the online IP made money, but now he was operating Shanda's delisting, and it was a critical moment.

"Joy of Life" was a major positive for the online novel, and the stock appreciated, so he had to find a way to raise more money.

And Wei Yang, if nothing unexpected happened, would also top the Forbes celebrity income list in 2011, becoming the object of envy of countless men and admiration of women...