Automotive Black Technology Chapter 1184: : Transformers copyright!
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"What film is Director Ma preparing?"
Li Fanyu handed the menu to Zhou Qingyu and asked.
"I know, I know! He found a script for a comic about a car turning into a robot in the Hollywood script library, and said he wanted to buy the copyright and make a science fiction action movie!" Before he could wait. Zhou Qingyu answered, and Qiao Ai, who ordered a lot and bullied her, raised her hand and started to answer.
Pah!
The mobile phone Li Fanyu was holding fell on the table.
"What? Is there anything wrong?" Seeing Li Fanyu's surprised look, Zhou Qingyu asked in confusion.
"Ah! No, nothing,"
Li Fanyu came to his senses and quickly picked up the phone from the plate.
Damn it!
This is too much for you, your mother! When he discovered that the movies in this time and space had changed a lot due to the butterfly effect, the first thing he thought of was the "Transformers" series of movies. But resources were limited at that time. This type of science fiction film required a lot of three-dimensional production, and Zhengshin did not have this resource. If you want to forcibly copy Transformers, the investment will be huge.
But now that Zhengxin has the incredible existence of Benben and can work on various renderings without any pressure, Ma Rao actually also takes a fancy to this subject!
No, this opportunity cannot be missed!
Li Fanyu thought so in his heart.
Transformers, a movie adapted from comics, let’s not talk about the quality and effects. Just talking about the impact on the automobile industry is huge!
In the previous time and space, the first Transformers film received an astonishing amount of sponsorship money from car manufacturers. However, with the popularity of the film, the prototype of Bumblebee, which is the Chevrolet Camaro, and the roadblock of the Decepticon camp, which is the Ford Mustang, became popular in China.
If Optimus Prime’s prototype, the Peterbilt 389 tractor truck, could not be sold in China, it would definitely be very popular.
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It is no exaggeration to say that there are only two movies in the history of movies that have such a profound impact on the automobile industry - the other is the famous "Fast and Furious" that already exists in this time and space.
At this time, Li Fanyu collapsed. Ma Rao's area of expertise in directing should be action films. But I don’t know if it was his own influence that made this guy interested in commercial movies about cars.
Thinking of this, he made an apologetic gesture to Zhou Qingyu and Qiao Ai, picked up the electrochemical device directly, and called Ma Rao.
Because of the time difference, Ma Rao on the other side of the phone seemed to have not yet woken up.
Seeing that the call was from Li Fanyu, although the tone on the phone was a little weaker, he was still very happy: "Hey, Xiaofan, why are you so free and took the initiative to call me?"
"Aha," Li Fanyu laughed, "I was with Qingyu and Xiao Ai, and I heard from them that you are currently preparing for a movie?"
"Hey, you are quite well informed. But...Hi! It's hard to explain in words," Ma Rao on the other end of the phone sighed.
Huh?
Li Fanyu became more energetic when he heard that there seemed to be something unspeakable in Ma Rao's words.
It looks like the preparations are not going well?
"What, what went wrong?" he asked.
Ma Rao sighed and cursed: "Don't mention it, **** it. That film is very promising and suitable for being made into a commercial blockbuster. But the copyright is too complicated. I have been negotiating for more than two months. It’s not done yet.”
"Oh?" Li Fanyu's nose twitched, and he felt that he... seemed to have a chance to intervene!
"Tell me, what is the complicated method? Just now Xiao Ai told me the outline of this script. I feel it is very suitable for our Zhengxin brand marketing. If we can buy it with some money, then we will do it together ! ”
"You kid, you are very smart. I haven't made any move yet, so you came over to play with me and got involved, right?" Ma Rao teased him, and then sighed again. , said: "This copyright originally belonged to Hasbro. After Hasbro made the first batch of Transformers toys, they achieved good sales in the US toy market. Then they were spotted by Japan's T agency and bought some of the toys. Copyright. As T Company's toys became popular in Japan, they were later spotted by H Company. After buying the copyright, they made a world view and gave it to Marvel. Later, they made animations themselves, and later they had disagreements with Marvel. They parted ways, and the animation was left to T Company. However, the Japanese version was no longer available, and Hasbro did it on its own, but some of the copyrights were hidden in the two Japanese companies, and they belong to Three Kingdoms. It’s not easy to get down!”
Li Fanyu sneered at this statement, "Isn't it just a matter of money! How much do they charge?"
"Ha! It's really Jung Shin Lee Dong Ha? This rich man speaks differently. But guess how much they want?" Ma Rao joked.
"How much? Eight million? Ten million?" Li Fanyu probed.
"Shit! Hasbro alone costs five million U.S. dollars! That's it, and it also requires 15% of the movie's box office!" Ma Rao said angrily: "Fuck Yes, for such a movie, the script alone costs more than 10 million US dollars, and it also gets 70% of the box office share. What is left?”
I am the best!
Li Fanyu really didn’t expect that the copyright of such a comic would be so valuable!
"Um, is there any room for negotiation? If you buy the copyright on this condition, you must be very smart!" He said sarcastically.
Li Fanyu prides himself on being rich, but he can’t just waste his money! Damn, the script cost of a movie alone is more than 10 million US dollars, nearly 100 million yuan. Add in the actors' remuneration and production costs, and even the cost of 200 million yuan can be achieved.
If the cost of such a movie is divided between theaters and the director, if the box office does not have a base of more than 1 billion, it will definitely not make any money!
Oh, the copyright owner of the special script still needs a share.
Without a 1.5 billion box office base, it’s a huge loss!
Li Fanyu understood this account instantly.
"Who says it isn't!" Ma Rao smiled bitterly: "Now the sales of Transformers series toys are no longer good. It is estimated that the three companies want to use the copyright to make the last profit. They want to use the copyright fees to recover their previous bad debts Cost, completely throw away the Transformers IP. Obviously what I am interested in is the comic copyright, but I still have to bring the full copyright of toys or something. Do you think it will be popular or not?"
Toys?
Others?
Hmm...
When Jing Ma Rao said this, Li Fanyu was stunned.
"Director Ma, you said what they want to sell is the full copyright?" Li Fanyu asked.
"Yes, it's not just comic copyrights. But you said, I'm a movie maker, why should I buy toy copyrights?"
"Give their family 8 million, without any profit. I want this copyright!" Before Ma Rao could finish speaking, Li Fanyu waved his hand, showing his arrogance.