Winning the new financial era

Chapter 609 Auto Chess

By the end of February, "The Wandering Earth" has been released for more than half a month, and the domestic box office has exceeded 2 billion yuan. The outside world estimates that it may be fixed at 40 billion yuan.

This film has some flaws, but in any case, it is still very good overall, and it is known as the first year of domestic science fiction films.

In addition, everyone has paid great attention to "Magic City Fortress", which will be released more than half a year later.

Needless to say, Wu Jing, a Wolf Warrior 2, plus a Wandering Earth, are almost on the altar.

Writer Liu Cixin has also received a lot of praise, and everyone is looking forward to the effect of "Three-Body Problem".

To Zhang Yida's regret, the film and television copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" has long been taken by director Zhang Fanfan. After so many years, the film has not been made yet, and instead, "The Wandering Earth", which was filmed later, was released first. .

James Cameron is also very interested in the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" and wants to win it, but unfortunately the copyright has already been granted.

The game copyright of "Three-Body Problem" is in the hands of Youzu Network, which also makes Zhang Yida feel that it is a waste of money.

The only thing that comforts him is that Sharp Pictures, as one of the main investors of "The Wandering Earth", has become a big hit.

There are rumors on the Internet that this is a project that Zhang Yida made the decision himself, and Rui stepped into the middle of the project, which shows Zhang Yida's vicious vision.

The production cost of "The Wandering Earth" is 3.2 million yuan, and Ruixiang Pictures invested 1 million yuan. According to the 46 billion box office split, it can be divided into 4.35 million yuan.

This is quite different from the ten times or eight times guessed by the outside world.

In fact, according to the current accounting model, the box office revenue of a movie must follow this formula:
After deducting 3.3% business tax and 5% special funds for the film industry, the remaining 91.7% is the "distributable box office" of a film, which is divided among the cinema, distributor and producer.

Of the 91.7%, movie theaters and theater chains keep 55%, while distributors get 12%, and the remaining 33% is the income of producers.

However, "The Wandering Earth" still has certain follow-up benefits. For example, the domestic online video playback rights are sold to Rocket Video and Station B, and overseas related rights are sold to Netflix, which will be translated into 28 languages. Played worldwide except in China.

Ticket Man participated in the joint release of "The Wandering Earth", and originally wanted to provide a large subsidy for attracting newcomers, but because the National Film Administration put forward new requirements last year, the distributors, producers, and theaters were not allowed to provide subsidies for online ticketing platforms , the sales price is the settlement price.

Therefore, Ticket Man can only develop step by step.

There is still a certain gap between Maoyan and Taopiaopiao, but the gap has been narrowing.

Pinduoduo, Touronghui, Kuaishou, Doushi, Rocket Video, and Bilibili have all opened up traffic portals for ticket buyers.

Most of the traffic sources of Ticket Man also come from the above platforms, and the visits of independent apps are very small.

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The first hit game this year is actually a game called "Dota Auto Chess".

This game is developed based on the continuation of the game world view of "Dota2", but the gameplay and method have changed, and other settings are basically the game settings of "Dota2".

For example, the fight between chess pieces is a simulated confrontation between heroes in "Dota2", and the equipment upgrade system is also copied from the synthesis system in "Dota2".

Players build a personal economic system in the game and use hero cards to fight, forming an eight-player separatist battle situation.

In the game, there are a total of eight chess players, each occupying a chessboard. In each round, players will buy chess pieces in the chess shop, form their own army on the chessboard, and defend themselves from seven other random players. A player's mirror attack;

At the same time, the mirror image of your own defensive lineup will also randomly attack the enemy lineup.

The core gameplay of this game is not the same as many card games, it is actually close to Mahjong.It has to be said that this design also allows game players to experience different new ideas.

Since the launch of "Dota Auto Chess" in January 2019, the cumulative number of game subscribers has exceeded 1 million, and the highest number of simultaneous online users has exceeded 500!
It also directly caused the number of "Dota2" players to hit a new high in two years, reaching 100 million online at the same time.

When Zhang Yida learned that this game was developed by a five-person game studio called "Ju Bird Duoduo", he became interested in talent and decided to send Zhang Lan to discuss cooperation with them, preferably to acquire it.

Juduo Duoduo and Ruixiang also have some relationship. The game developer Rongcheng Longyuan Network, which Ruixiang invested in last year, has a cooperative relationship with Juduo Duoduo.

So, under the recommendation of Longyuan Network CEO Li Longfei, Zhang Lan went to Rongcheng to meet with the small team of five.

Li Longfei is slick and slick. First, he introduced Zhang Lanrui as the president of the digital content business group, and then introduced the five young people in the giant bird Duoduo studio.

The five young people were all in their early twenties, and they were all Dota 2 gamers. This set of auto chess games was also conceived by them and a group of players.

In terms of creativity, it is indeed superior.But in terms of research and development capabilities, it is difficult for a small workshop of 5 people to support large-scale projects.

It is precisely because of these considerations that they choose to cooperate with Li Longfei, a close brother.

Li Longfei didn't expect that he would give himself such a big gift by befriending a few kids casually.

At this time, he helped the giant bird to sell more, and praised how awesome the game was in front of Zhang Lan, and created a brand new model in terms of gameplay.

Zhang Lan nodded with a smile, "Okay, I have already seen the excellence of Dota Auto Chess, so I don't need to repeat it too much.

Ruixiang has always attached great importance to game talents. I hope that the five of you can join Ruixiang and get the support of Ruixiang's game development and publishing resources. I believe that Auto Chess can usher in greater development. "

A young man with a parted hair in the middle shook his head and refused very bluntly, "We don't accept any mergers and acquisitions, we just want to operate this game independently."

Li Longfei secretly tugged on the sleeves of the middle part, and smoothed things over: "Wang Yuhong means that he hopes to get investment from Ruixiang, and everyone can come together to make the cake of the auto chess game bigger."

Zhang Lan didn't get angry with these stunned people, and directly asked about the valuation.

"1 million US dollars, accepting a dilution of no more than 20% of the shares."

Wang Yuhong said confidently, he thinks the price is really not high, it is even less than the popularity of Dota Auto Chess.

However, Ruixiang is a big company after all, so he thinks it can be slightly discounted.

Zhang Lan frowned and didn't speak for a long time.

It's not that she thinks the valuation is high, but she has a few questions.

Li Longfei started thinking, if the giant bird Duoduo got the investment from Ruixiang, would he get rid of himself and cooperate with Ruixiang alone?
Didn't I have been busy for nothing?
(End of this chapter)