The first cooperation negotiation between Ye Jiayi and Zhang Yanping on the movie "League of Legends" was announced in a rather unsatisfactory way.

The two sides didn't talk about anything, but Weidu Entertainment mentioned the point of sharing the copyright ownership of "League of Legends", which made Zhang Yanping angry.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. If we are willing to accept copyright sharing, then we had negotiated cooperation with companies like Disney a few years ago. If your company has such unrealistic ideas, then we don't have to continue talking."

What he is talking about is the truth, IP ownership, which is something that Penguin cannot talk to the outside world.

"League of Legends" is a game that can be regarded as national level in China and has countless fans in the global market. Its IP value in all aspects is simply a priceless treasure.

For bigwigs like Penguin, they are not short of money. On the contrary, IP of this level is a real scarce product.

This is similar to Hollywood movie tycoons.

Hollywood has richer experience in operating IP and series than anyone else. At the same time, they are super stingy people in copyright.

There are only the copyrights that big companies eat, and they never see them spitting out.

For Penguin, it is absolutely impossible to share the copyright of "League of Legends".

They would rather not do it, and would rather let the LOL movies be buried in the copyright library forever, than take out the copyright and share it with others.

After the first talk collapsed, Ye Jiayi also basically confirmed this from Zhang Yanping's attitude and the information collected from all aspects.

It is unlikely that Dido Entertainment wants to share the copyright of "League of Legends".

But, similarly, if you just use money as a producer, it is also impossible for Ye Jiayi.

Weidu Entertainment has long been the company that used to provide OEM content. The model of "The Full-Time Master" animation is just a path that was necessary for the lack of funds when the company was established in the early days. At this time, Weidu Entertainment will never be a simple producer.

As a result, the contradiction between the two sides in cooperation will be more acute.

Moreover, for both parties, the other party is not a necessary choice in cooperation.

Weidu Entertainment wants to make movies. They have the ability to produce and have high-quality copyrights in their hands - even if they didn't have one before, they have it now.

For example, if you are also making game-adapted movies, "Taiwu 2" is also very popular. Isn't it the same to use this IP to do it? And let alone the film copyright, all the copyrights of "Taiwu Painting Scroll" are in the hands of Weidu Entertainment itself.

They don’t have to do League of Legends. This is Fan Zhe’s personal hobbies and feelings, but it is not a business requirement.

For Penguin Pictures, at present, it doesn’t seem like he is necessary to find Weidu Entertainment as a producer. They are still in further contact and negotiation with several Hollywood film and television companies. Although the negotiation results are not ideal, they are not at the point where they can’t play.

So, the cooperation between the two sides in "League of Legends" has temporarily rested.

Later, Fan Zhe had a sudden idea and asked Ye Jiayi to ask. It was unrealistic to buy the copyright of the entire League of Legends, but is it okay to buy the copyright of a few heroes? Just like Marvel sold Wolverine, X-Men, and Spider-Man.

Can you buy the copyrights of several popular heroes in "League of Legends", such as "Dark Night Hunter? Vayne" and "Demacia's Power? Garen" separately?

In this regard, Penguin Pictures is not as firm as before, but the response they gave is still refusing to sell.

But Ye Jiayi believes that the operability of this is relatively higher.

What's more, even if you can't buy the copyright, it's not impossible to negotiate a cooperation with more appropriate conditions.

Ye Jiayi has no feelings for "League of Legends", but from a commercial perspective alone, this work is still very valuable. If we can talk about it, it will of course be of great help to Dimension Entertainment.

To this end, she specially formed a project department and continued to contact Penguin Pictures.

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At the end of October, there was a big event for the employees of Weidou Entertainment - the company's annual meeting.

Every year, all the employees of Weidu Entertainment will be organized on this day and have fun together.

Logically speaking, most companies' annual meetings will be arranged at the end of the year. The year is about to end, so everyone will be happy, and then the company will have a holiday for the New Year, which is very happy.

Dimension Entertainment is not, it is so unique. The annual meeting is held in October every year to celebrate the anniversary of the establishment of each company.

This year is a year of explosive growth in Weidu Entertainment. It is no longer surprising that the success of commercial, film, TV series, and animation content is the most important thing. The huge success in the game "Taiwu 2" has expanded Weidu Entertainment's revenue to a very exaggerated level.

The annual revenue of the entire company this year is almost 10 billion.

As a result, the annual meeting became more generous.

The whole company, about six or seven hundred people gathered in a booked hotel, with ten people at a table, and each table costs about three thousand yuan, wine, juice and other drinks, and they can even get it by yourself.

In front, there was also a stage with real-time broadcast to the big screen, which was like some high-end parties. The hosts on it were several HR ladies from the company and the young brothers took on it. After the opening remarks, there were performances such as singing, dancing, sketches and other performances.

Half of these performances were rehearsed by the company employees themselves and then made on stage, while the other half was hired by some celebrities.

Like Chen Yu and Wu Na, the group of actors who are in the dimension agents, have arrived and have also arranged a small stage play.

In addition, some celebrity singers were invited.

The whole party was really costing a lot of money.

But the wealthy and powerful dimension entertainment doesn’t care at all!

There are various programs at the annual meeting, various eating and drinking intervals, and also popular welfare lottery.

Weidu Entertainment is very generous in this. Every employee, regardless of grade or position, has obtained a shopping card with a thousand yuan points, which is used as a cash item.

In addition, the company has also prepared quite a lot of gifts for its employees, and the winning rate is said to cover 100%. If you are lucky, you can get something worth tens of thousands or 20,000 yuan if you are lucky.

They didn't make any gimmicks like a Ferrari, not that they couldn't afford it, but that it was meaningless. With the same investment, they would add more gifts of hundreds of thousands of yuan, which would be more affordable.
Chapter completed!