Based on Xu Feng's selfishness, he actually didn't want Zhou Yan to get involved in Shangmei Factory's affairs.
Although she didn't know much about the specific situation of Shangmei Factory, she knew that Shangmei Factory was in chaos now.
Otherwise, Sheng Chongqing would not have been assigned to be the director of Shangmei Factory, and Jin Guoping would have been given the position of deputy.
Jin Guoping has developed very well in Shangmei Factory over the years, and everyone under his command also respects him. Jin Guoping will definitely be the first to be unhappy when Sheng Chongqing suddenly appears.
If Jin Guoping takes action, Sheng Chongqing will not be able to do anything in Shangmei Factory.
Perhaps Sheng Chongqing wanted to win over Zhou Yan this time, and he also hoped that Zhou Yan could help him.
After all, the current dilemma faced by Shangmei Factory is poor efficiency. As long as the problem of not making money is solved, everything will be easily solved.
And Zhou Yan is the most popular director in the country today. Maybe they can reach a cooperation and learn from Zhou Yan and find a way to make money for Shangmei Factory.
But Xu Feng believed that if Sheng Chongqing could not solve the internal problems of Shangmei Factory, it would be useless for Zhou Yan to cooperate with them. After all, he was not a god and could not solve all problems.
Of course Xu Feng did not say these words directly to Sheng Chongqing. She just said with a smile, "I believe there will definitely be a chance later."
Then the two chatted for a few more words and then hung up the phone.
Not long after, Zhang Youan called.
On the phone, Zhang Youan reported to Xu Feng about his contact with Sony.
As they expected, Sony learned that Tomson wanted to buy the rights to broadcast Celine Dion's concert in China and was very interested. They had already made an appointment to discuss it in person the next day.
"I checked the situation on the phone, and Sony probably wouldn't be too open-minded."
Xu Feng smiled and said, "They must also know that we will not pay too much for the broadcast rights of this concert, and it is useless for them to talk loudly."
"Mr. Xu, have you contacted the TV station over there?"
"Well, I contacted Shanghai TV. They are very interested in this matter. Now we are waiting for us to get the copyright of the concert first."
"It's Shanghai TV Station. I thought it was Yanjing TV Station."
"I contacted Shanghai TV first. They were willing, but I didn't contact Yanjing again. What's the problem?"
"Of course there is no problem. Shanghai TV Station will definitely be better."
Although they cooperate a lot with Yanjing TV Station, objectively speaking, Shanghai TV Station is definitely more suitable.
Apart from CCTV, Shanghai TV is the TV station with the best broadcasting technology in China. Shanghai TV has always been very international and often broadcasts English-language products. Now it is normal to broadcast Celine Dion’s concerts.
In addition, with the coverage of Shanghai TV Station, the current box office potential is better.
"In that case, then you should hurry up and finalize it with Sony."
"Okay, no problem."
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Zhang Youan was very efficient and quickly finalized the concert copyright with Sony.
Sony was very happy to sell the TV broadcast rights of Celine Dion's Radio City concert in China to Tomson for US$350,000.
Originally, Tomson wanted to transfer the copyright to Shanghai TV Station for 400,000 US dollars, making a difference of 50,000 US dollars. However, because the amount involved was not small, Shanghai TV Station would not be able to do it for a while. In the end, they came up with a compromise. As a result, Shanghai TV Station bought the first broadcast rights for 500,000 yuan.
This means that Tomson can also transfer the broadcast rights to other TV stations, provided that the broadcast rights are given to Shanghai TV Station first.
Moreover, the copyright purchased by Shanghai TV Station was for a limited time. After one month, the copyright was gone.
Looking at it this way, Tomson seems to be losing money. After all, 400,000 U.S. dollars has turned into 500,000 yuan, and he has only made back about one-tenth of the cost.
But Xu Feng doesn't worry about it. Anyway, the TV broadcast rights can be sold repeatedly and for a long time.
There are so many TV stations, large and small, across the country. Sooner or later, they will be able to make their money back, it just takes a little longer. Xu Feng doesn't care about this.
Anyway, she didn't want to make money from this.
If this promotion strategy is successful and the box office can exceed 80 million, Han Sanping will not think about raking in the box office, and the millions spent on raking in the box office will be saved.
……
In fact, the repayment of the concert broadcast rights was much faster than Xu Feng expected.
From the time Xu Feng called Sheng Chongqing to the time the concert was broadcast on Shanghai TV, less than a week passed.
If it hadn't taken a while to add Chinese subtitles, the time might have been shortened.
After the concert was broadcast, the ratings were very good, and it was broadcast on Shanghai TV Station for two consecutive days.
Some TV stations saw that the concert was playing well and became interested in it.
This program is great. It doesn’t need to be produced by your own TV station. It saves worry and effort, but I don’t know if it saves money.
Later, a TV station contacted Tomson through Shanghai TV Station and asked how much it would cost to purchase the broadcast rights.
Tomson didn't offer a high price, he only asked for 100,000 yuan.
As soon as the TV station heard that the price was acceptable, they were interested in buying it.
Although the price of a family is not high, if you gather less, you can make more money, and it won't take long to make your money back.
By January 29, when Xu Feng arrived in Yanjing, three TV stations had already expressed their intention to purchase it.
These three are all provincial TV stations, because generally only provincial TV stations are willing to spend so much money to purchase the broadcast rights of a concert.
Later, when the price comes down in the third and fourth rounds, some municipal and county-level TV stations may buy it.
After the concert was broadcast on Shanghai TV, Tomson began to promote it vigorously, and the box office of "Time Traveler" also received a positive impact.
Tomson's original internal assessment believed that the single-day box office of "Space Traveler" would drop to around 300,000 within ten days.
But now nine days have passed, and ten days will pass with one day left, and the box office of "Space Traveler" is still stable at 600,000 to 700,000, and the rate of decline is far lower than previously predicted.
In these nine days, the box office of "Space Traveler" increased by 100 million yuan, and the total box office reached more than 75 million yuan, leaving less than 5 million yuan away from the target of 80 million yuan.
If the current single-day box office can be maintained and no longer decline, it will only take more than a week to achieve the goal. The way they introduced the concert this time really played a big role.
After meeting Zhou Yan, Xu Feng also told Zhou Yan the matter.
Zhou Yan was very happy after hearing this. Today is the studio's New Year's Eve party. This news is quite timely. When the party starts, I can share this good news with everyone.
Originally, Zhou Yan did not want to invite Xu Feng to attend their studio's annual meeting, mainly because the Chinese New Year was approaching and Xu Feng was in Shanghai, so it would be too troublesome for her to make a trip to Yanjing.
It was Xu Feng who knew that there was an annual meeting in his studio and offered to come over and have a look.
Since Xu Feng offered to come, Zhou Yan naturally had no reason to refuse.
Xu Feng arrived at Factory No. 7 and looked around. He couldn't help but marveled, "Not to mention, it really feels like a theater."
"It's still too simple."
With such a short time, it is impossible to transform it as much as possible, and Zhou Yan didn't originally want to transform this place to be too good, just barely enough.
"It's already very good. At least it's very spacious. How can ordinary companies have such a place to hold a party." Xu Feng smiled and sighed, "It's a pity that Shanghai is too far away from here. Otherwise, our Tomson We can hold an annual party with your studio, it will be more lively if there are more people.”
Tomson Group has an annual meeting, but the format is the same as the annual meeting of ordinary companies, that is, everyone has a meal together, and the boss gives out red envelopes to employees. There is nothing special.
It would be so interesting to take the employees to a party with Zhou Yan Studio.
Zhou Yan laughed and said, "My second brother also told me this."
"It's really lively when there are so many people." Xu Feng looked around the factory again, "But there are quite a few of you."
Zhou Yan nodded, "There are quite a few. There are one or two hundred people in the piano youth orchestra alone. There are also about a hundred other employees in the studio, so there are three hundred people."
Xu Feng sighed, "I didn't expect that your studio has more than 300 people. It's not cheap to support so many people."
"It's not low, so I'm working very hard to make money now." Zhou Yan said with a smile.
It’s not that I didn’t know, but I was shocked. In December, when the company was settling accounts, Zhou Yan realized that their studio now spent close to 20 million yuan a year, an average of more than 50,000 yuan a day.
This means that every time Zhou Yan opens his eyes, he has more than 50,000 yuan to spend.
However, such expenses are not unbearable for Zhou Yan.
Those albums of his can make more than this amount of money every day.
Moreover, Zhou Yan no longer needs to use his own small treasury to supplement the expenses of the studio.
Although the studio spends a lot of money, it also makes a lot of money.
Of course, the most profitable thing is movies, such as the filming of "Space Traveler". Although the movie was shot by Zhou Yan, he also received the director's fee, but apart from the director's fee, Tomson did not pay any other money to the studio. Not much to give.
The people and equipment provided by the studio all require money from the producer.
Including post-production costs, Tomson also has to pay the studio.
This money is separate from Zhou Yan's own remuneration for the director, soundtrack supervisor, screenwriter, actors, etc., and is directly transferred to the studio's account for use in the studio's operations.
The production cost of "Space Traveler" was 30 million, of which more than 10 million was given to Zhou Yan Studio. This means that this movie alone brought more than 10 million to the studio this year. , covering more than 50% of the studio’s operating costs.
Their studio shoots more than one movie every year, including helping Huo Jianqi and several other directors to shoot movies, and the producers also have to pay, so the work is not in vain.
In addition to movies, the soundtrack engineering department has also made a lot of money this year, with total revenue reaching more than 6 million.
The band also has a lot of revenue, but most of the band's revenue is extra.
If the orchestra is included, then their annual studio expenses would be more than 20 million. After all, if the orchestra members go abroad, they will spend a lot on travel expenses and accommodation expenses.
However, the band's expenses are covered by performance fees.
Xu Feng knew about Zhou Yan's situation, and the studio's expenses were nothing to him. "Don't cry to me about poverty. You have to know that I know most of the accounts of your studio, and Your own personal account.”
Zhou Yan's studio cooperates closely with Tang Chen. Most of Zhou Yan's personal business has to go through Tang Chen, so Xu Feng knows Zhou Yan's financial situation very well.
What Xu Feng couldn't understand was the business cooperation between Zhou Yan and Zhou Hong.
"I'm not crying for poverty, but I'm really under a lot of pressure. Now the studio's TV drama department has been established, but it doesn't have all the staff. When the people in the TV drama department are recruited next year, the cost will be even greater."
"You can make more money. For your TV drama department, if you can take on one TV show a year, you can cover the expenses. If you can take on two, you can make money."
Xu Feng is right. The TV drama department, like the soundtrack engineering department, is responsible for producing TV dramas. The risk is not high. As long as there is business, these people can definitely afford to support them anyway.
"Just flat spending is not enough. Later I plan to renovate a serious music center, which will cost at least tens of millions."
"Tsk, tsk, does the renovation alone cost tens of millions?"
"Well, after all, the area is not small, and the structure inside may need to be renovated."
"Would it be better to build a new one?"
Zhou Yan shook his head, "It takes a long time to build a new one and the cost is high. The structures of these two factories are relatively complete now. As long as they are renovated carefully, they will not be bad."
The cost of building a new one with a similar area would not increase just a little, but would probably be several times higher, and Zhou Yan was reluctant to spend that money.
"It's better to change it, otherwise this house will be wasted." Xu Feng nodded and suddenly said, "Do you usually pay attention to cartoons?"
Zhou Yan was a little surprised, "Sister Feng, why do you suddenly ask this?"
"Isn't this because I had a chat with Director Sheng of Shanghai TV Station about broadcasting the concert? He is now in charge of the Shangmei Factory, so we talked about this aspect."
Although Xu Feng didn't say it explicitly, Zhou Yan already understood the underlying meaning of his words.
Director Sheng must have not only talked about cartoons, but also him, otherwise Xu Feng would not have suddenly asked him this.
Zhou Yan pondered, "Isn't Shangmei Factory having a hard time now?"
"Indeed." Xu Feng nodded.
Starting from the "Tadpole Looking for Mom" in the 1960s, Chinese animation has had a glorious period and has produced many excellent works, such as "Havoc in Heaven", "Nezha Haohai", and "Three Monks" wait.
However, after entering the 1990s, television became widely popularized. In order to cater to the market, many foreign cartoons were introduced into the country, which had a strong impact on domestic animation. (End of chapter)