Chapter 401 "Respect of the World" (two in one)
The previous chapter "Sixty million" has been changed to "Six million".
I said I was not doing it wrong, but I just made a mistake in hand slipping. Does anyone believe it?
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"Demon Hunting" sold 800,000 sets on the first day, and compared with the 6 million sets that will recover, the gap is huge.
It seems that if you maintain such sales results every day, you can achieve your goal in one week, but everyone knows that the speed of the work being sold online cannot be a straight line.
Of course, it is not really that there is no chance at all. If the subsequent trend is better, you may be able to achieve your goal or even make a profit.
But whether it is making money or losing money in the end, Fan Zhe actually doesn't think it's too big.
In the final analysis, there are only three words: you can afford to lose.
Dimension Entertainment has made a lot of money over the years.
Previously, there was a global sales of "Taiwu Painting 2" of 10 billion yuan, and later, "War" had a domestic box office of 3.5 billion yuan and a global box office of 650 million US dollars. These are all big-selling works, which made Weidu Entertainment a lot of money.
Not to mention, the subsequent movie "Demacia: Glory" is expected to have a global box office of over 10 billion yuan, and the revenues assigned to Weidu Entertainment will exceed 3 billion yuan. If the movie IP development is included, the overall revenue will probably be upwards of 4 billion yuan.
With such huge profits, even if "Demon Hunting" loses all 300 million yuan, how can Weidu Entertainment be? It's just a small wound.
Not to mention, no matter how bad you lose, you cannot lose all of it.
Further, if we count the money recovered by "dimensional technology" and ignore the work value estimates of the "dimensional" system, just based on the development costs paid by Dimension Entertainment itself, there is no need to sell 6 million units, and it is estimated that 1.5 million units will be repaid.
Mile's worries are not necessary for Fan Zhe.
He is not worried about losses.
In fact, I have invested so much in the animation "Demon Hunting" and, when I was producing, I kept striving for excellence in the production level, and I didn't consider the commercialization in style too much, the public acceptance, and the style I chose, and the story seemed very avant-garde, at least it was a work that was completely unavailable on the market.
In this case, the results are not that popular, which is actually something imaginable.
What Fan Zhe is even more worried is that under the fact that this performance is not so popular, is it because the animation works produced by his own company are actually not so outstanding?
His mentality is obviously that after becoming rich, he began to seek fame rather than profit.
However, after watching all the movies himself, he basically let go of half his heart - it's still very good!
In addition to the story of the first episode prologue, the story basically revolves around the growth of the protagonist Su, fighting various monsters and enemies along the way, and gradually becoming stronger.
The world view is still the same, the style of painting always maintains an inertia, and the combat scene is the part that Dimension Entertainment is very good at, and it maintains an excellent level.
What else are you worried about?
Anyway, Fan Zhe’s own evaluation: This is a good work.
The other half of his heart also let go after seeing the reputation of the work.
Douban score is 8.8. Among the works of Dimension Entertainment, this is also a relatively high score.
Putting aside the single platform of Douban, the reviews received by "Demon Hunting" are quite good in many social media such as Weibo, official accounts, and Zhihu. There are many people who praise it, and those who criticize it basically won't say it is a bad work. I just think it's too niche, and Dimension Entertainment is self-interesting.
Fan Zhe doesn't care about this kind of evaluation.
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Let the time be longer, November has passed and it is December.
The box office of "Demacia: Glory" fulfilled all the expectations people had about it beforehand.
The global box office of 1.7 billion US dollars has officially reached, and "Glory" has become the fifth largest movie in the world's film history as expected. Converting to RMB, this is a box office of 11.4 billion.
If all the previous judgments on "Glory" were just estimates, then now, when all these became reality, the relevant discussion of "Demacia: Glory" has once again started across the country.
This can be said to be the afterglow of public opinion in previous "Glory", or it can be said to be the climax of a new round.
And at about the same time, "The Demon Hunting" has been online for three weeks.
After the sales of 800,000 sets on the first day, by the second week, when the second episode was updated, it once again ushered in a sales climax.
After all, when it was just launched, the content of the first episode was still free. The membership growth rate of the Dimension Platform has slowed down a lot. Their current paid membership scale has reached 25 million. If this number of annual memberships is maintained, the income from this membership fee alone will be about 500 million per year.
This is the core user plate of the 'Dimension Platform'. These users are visual products produced by Dimension Entertainment and are more die-hard supporters.
Many of them have paid attention to "The Demon Hunting Notes", but the first episode is for free for them, so many people will naturally choose to watch the first episode first to see what orange the work is, and then decide whether to buy the full episode.
Indeed, "The Demon Hunting" is not so popular due to its theme and style. But after all, the production quality is here. Although people who don't like it will not feel anything at all, and even feel a little uncomfortable because of blood and worldview, those who like it will like it very much, and even regard it as a masterpiece.
Therefore, when the first day's sales were lukewarm, the subsequent sales situation was still relatively stable.
After the first week, the total sales reached 1.3 million units; when the second episode was launched, a new climax came, with 700,000 units sold that day, and at the end of the second week, the total sales reached 2.4 million units. Now, in early December and the third week ended, the total sales reached 3.1 million.
If the overall sales situation is relatively stable according to this trend, it may be fine... "Demon Hunting Notes" can really sell 6 million sets to achieve sales targets.
What's more, its global screening copyright operation is also relatively good.
With the hard work of branches in major major markets in the world, it has been played in major markets in almost the world.
With the global screening revenue, Weidu Entertainment can probably recover nearly 100 million yuan. Especially in the European and American markets, "The Demon Hunting" is more popular than any animation work of Weidu Entertainment in the past. Even some European and American paid TV stations have chosen to buy the playback rights of this CG animation at a very good price, and unexpectedly obtained quite good ratings.
This also adds more weight to "Demon Hunting" in the European and American markets, including in the global markets.
Taking into account the current sales of more than 3 million units in China, the total revenue generated by "Demon Hunting" has reached more than 200 million, which is not very far from the cost line of 300 million.
After receiving the relevant financial report, Fan Zhe, as the boss, quickly transferred it to Mi Le, the head of the animation department.
After seeing these data, Mile's depressed mood has improved a little bit.
At the beginning of this year, Weidu Entertainment independentized the animation department, and she also became the leader of the animation department.
After the animation department became independent, they created two works. The animation version of "Hell Apartment" is relatively cheap and simple. The positioning of the work itself is also a supplement to the membership content of the dimension platform with the free membership collection.
In contrast, works like "Demon Hunting" with a major investment are definitely much better than "Hell Apartment" in terms of status and importance.
She still gave great hope for "The Demon Hunting Notes".
The poor sales on the day of launch did put a lot of pressure on her.
She once thought that the first work of Weidu Entertainment that caused losses would come out of her own hands, and it was created by her own leadership after the animation department was independent.
Fortunately, this did not happen.
But despite this, she felt very uncomfortable.
"Demon Hunting Notes" should not lose money. According to the company's strategic development department, the sales of this animation on the dimension platform should ultimately reach 5 million sets - although it does not have 6 million, it can also recover about 200 million revenue. In addition, the copyright sales outside Shanghai are compared with the cost line of 300 million, and there should still be a profit of about 20 million to 50 million. Including the peripheral copyrights, the company can still make a profit.
But think about it, which of the works created by Weidu Entertainment has invested hundreds of millions of dollars and created has caused a frenzy?
Even if it is a small profit in "Demon Hunting", it is probably difficult to reach that level.
As for his reputation, he has a very good reputation and has even been named a masterpiece by many people. As the boss, Fan Zhe is also very satisfied with the quality of the animation.
But so what?
Mile used to be a very unambitious person, but after all, she has already been in the position of the head of an independent department, and will eventually be inspired to develop some enterprising spirit.
She was still a little worried.
However, even though she was a little dull, since the boss still gave her full support, she still felt that she could not give up.
The animation department still needs to show some utterly expressed performance.
So, at the end of this year, she came up with two plans in one breath.
One is the fourth season of "Amber Sword".
The "Amber" series can be regarded as the flagship product of Dimension Entertainment in the animation industry. This series of animation has been made in a total of three seasons in the past few years. In the entire East Asia, whether in mainland China or in the animation power of Japan, "Amber" is the hottest and most outstanding animation at the time.
As a money tree, this work will definitely continue to be developed.
The entire "Amber Sword" series has about six seasons planned, and the fourth season will be developed next.
According to the work plan, this work will be produced and launched next summer.
Taking out this killer weapon is a way to boost morale for Mile's animation department. They still have to reflect their own value and make a work that makes enough money.
"Amber Sword" is such a work that will definitely make money.
There is no doubt that when the project book for the fourth season of "Amber Sword" was handed over to the upper level of the company, the superiors happily approved it, and the funds and resources that should be relocated will be sufficient according to the required specifications.
There is nothing to say about this.
As for her second plan, she was stuck for a while.
The work she is eyeing is also an animation adaptation of an online novel - "The Lord of the World".
The original novel was also a phenomenal work when it was serialized at that time. The author loves diving and established his status as a platinum author through this book.
As for the work of Cuttlefish, Weidu Entertainment has adapted one of the popular TV series "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts" before.
But there are still some difficulties in the adaptation of "The One of the Ones".
One is that the investment amount is quite large.
Although it is a 2D animation, it is not a high-precision CG like "Demon Hunting", due to the fantasy theme, it still requires a certain amount of investment to do it well.
In addition, although the copyright of "The One of the Ones" is in the hands of Weidu Entertainment, the company's copyright marketing department was in negotiations with Lewen Group, among the batch of works it bought, "The One of the Ones" was included.
However, there will be some problems in adapting this work.
Although most of the plots in the original novel are original, including the second-world time travel story with some infinite flow elements, it was also written by the author himself.
But there is one thing that cannot be avoided - the novel mentions many non-original martial arts. Some of these martial arts come from martial arts novels by Jin Yong, Gu Long or others, such as the Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Subduing, and some from Hong Kong comics, such as the martial arts derived from "The Legend of the Emperor", Huntian Baojian.
These things are not original from the novel.
When adapting animations, if you don’t want to destroy the feeling of the original novel, then these things must be preserved. Although you can change all the techniques involving copyright issues, doing so will obviously reduce the effect of the work after missing these memes.
But if you want to keep it, the copyright of these exercises is a problem.
If you don’t want someone to sue for a large amount of money, these things must be handled in advance.
Chapter completed!