The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Ye Jiayi and Zhang Yanping's first cooperation negotiation on the "League of Legends" movie ended in a rather unsatisfactory way.

The two sides did not discuss any issues, but Dimension Entertainment mentioned the sharing of copyright and ownership of "League of Legends", which directly made Zhang Yanping angry.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. If we were willing to accept the sharing of copyright ownership, we would have negotiated cooperation with companies like Disney a few years ago. If your company has such an unrealistic idea, then We don't need to talk anymore."

What he said is the truth, IP ownership, this is something that Penguin cannot talk to the outside world.

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

For giants like penguins, they are not short of money. On the contrary, this level of IP is the real scarcity.

This point is almost the same for Hollywood film tycoons.

Hollywood has more experience in operating IP and series films than anyone else. At the same time, they are super miserly when it comes to copyright.

Only those copyrights that big companies have eaten in have never been seen spit out by them.

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

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

After talking about the collapse for the first time, Ye Jiayi also basically confirmed this point from Zhang Yanping's attitude and information collected from various sources.

Dimension Entertainment wants to share the copyright of "League of Legends", which is unlikely.

But, in the same way, it is also impossible for Ye Jiayi to just use money as a producer.

Dimension Entertainment is no longer the company that used to do contract work for people. The animation model of "Full-time Master" is just a path that must be taken when the company was established in the early days and lacked funds. At this time, it is absolutely impossible for Dimension Entertainment to be a pure producer.

In this way, the contradiction between the two sides in cooperation will become more acute.

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

Dimension Entertainment wants to make a blockbuster movie, they have the ability to produce it, and they also have high-quality copyrights in their own hands-even if they didn't have it before, they have it now.

For example, it is also a game adaptation movie, and the popularity of "Taiwu 2" is also leveraged. Isn't it the same with this IP? And not to mention the copyright of the movie, all the copyrights of "The Scroll of Taiwu" are in Dimension Entertainment's own hands.

They don't have to do "League of Legends". This is Fan Zhe's personal hobby and sentiment, but it is not necessary in business.

As far as Penguin Pictures is concerned, looking for Dimension Entertainment as the producer does not seem to be a must. They are still in further contact and negotiation with a number of Hollywood film and television companies. Although the negotiation results are not very satisfactory, it is not to the point where it is completely impossible.

As a result, the cooperation between the two parties on "League of Legends" has temporarily stopped.

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

Can you buy several popular heroes in "League of Legends", such as "Vayne the Night Hunter" and "Galen the Power of Demacia" separately?

In this regard, Penguin Pictures is not as firm as before, but their response is still to refuse to sell.

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

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

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

For this reason, she set up a special project department and continued to maintain contact with Penguin Films.

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

Every year, all employees of Dimension Entertainment will be organized on this day to have fun together.

It stands to reason that the annual meeting of most companies will be arranged at the end of the year. When the year is coming to an end, everyone will have a good time, and then the company will have a holiday for the New Year.

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

This year is a year of explosive growth for Dimension Entertainment. In terms of business, it is no surprise that the success of film and television dramas and animation content is no longer surprising. The most important thing is the great success of the game "Taiwu 2", which has made Dimension Entertainment's revenue has swelled to a very exaggerated level.

The entire company's annual revenue this year is almost tens of billions.

Ever since, the annual meeting has become more generous.

There are about six or seven hundred people in the whole company, gathered in a reserved hotel, ten people per table, each table costs about 3,000 yuan for the dishes, wine, fruit juice and other drinks are for personal use Come and pick it up.

In the front, a stage was set up with real-time broadcast on the big screen, just like some high-end evening parties. The hosts on it were several HR ladies and brothers from the company. After the opening remarks, there were songs, dances and sketches. performances like that.

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

A group of actors from Dimension Brokers, such as Chen Yu and Wu Na, have arrived, and a small stage play has been arranged.

In addition, some star singers were invited.

It took a lot of money to organize the whole party.

But the rich and powerful Dimension Entertainment doesn't care at all!

In the various programs of the annual meeting, between various eating and drinking intervals, there are also popular welfare lottery draws.

Dimension Entertainment is very generous on this. Every employee, regardless of rank or position, has all received a shopping card with 1,000 yuan points, which can be used directly as cash.

In addition, the company also prepared a lot of gifts for its employees. It is said that the winning rate covers 100%. If you are unlucky, you can draw something worth tens of hundreds of yuan. If you are lucky, you can get something worth 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.

They didn't make any gimmicks like a Ferrari. It's not that they can't afford it, but it's not interesting. For the same investment, adding a few hundred thousand yuan more gifts is more affordable.

An annual meeting came to an end happily.