My Animation Era

  Chapter 821 Overlord Clause? (seeking subscription)

  According to Xiao Guo, the reason why the project was initially named "Little Carp Leaping over the Dragon's Gate" was mainly to highlight the allusion of "Carp Leaping over the Dragon's Gate".

   Title title!

   This is a naming method used by many film and television dramas and animation works, which is not uncommon in the industry.

   But Gu Miao felt it was inappropriate.

  This kind of inappropriate, on the one hand, is because the original version of "The Adventures of Little Carp" left a deep impression on him, and on the other hand, it is also because the name is suspected of being a "spoiler".

   Yes, spoilers…

  Little carp leaps over the dragon gate, pondering these six words carefully, there is always a feeling of writing the answer on his face, without that sense of expectation.

   It would be better to use "Adventure" as the title, of course! It doesn't have to be this name, you can also change it, such as "Little Carp Adventure Journey", "Bubble Adventure" and so on.

   In a word.

   "Carp Leaping over the Dragon's Gate" is the core of the story and the source of inspiration for the entire animation. It is not appropriate to appear in the title of the film.

  Guo Hongwei took the suggestion.

  Perhaps in his opinion, the name of the animation is not important at all, what is important is whether the project can be recognized by the master and approved by the company.

  As long as it can be approved, let alone changing the name to The Adventures of Little Carp, even if it is renamed [A Thousand Ways to Eat Little Carp], he has no objections.

   But Gu Miao has said so much, but he has never given a clear attitude on whether he approves the production of this animation.

   This made Guo Hongwei very anxious.

  No matter how nice the words are, it’s nonsense not to approve the budget. I’ve read the plan, and I’ve picked out all the faults that should be picked out. Will it succeed or not?

   "Listen to me first."

  Seeing that the apprentice was a little impatient, Gu Miao replied after pondering for a moment: "Your idea is very good. Normally, I would nod and approve it, but..."

I knew it!

  Guo Hongwei didn’t listen to what he said earlier, he just wanted to know but what?

   "But the company's funds are a bit tight recently, and there is no way to squeeze out enough budget for you." Gu Miao spread her hands, with a helpless expression on her face.

   Really no money!

  Projects like "The Adventures of Little Carp" are usually approved. As long as Guo Hongwei dares to apply, the budget will be approved with his eyes closed, and he will not hesitate at all.

   But now the situation is a bit special.

  The group has just mobilized a large sum of funds to develop Beep Reading, which is the online text business, and there is very little available budget left on the books.

   It's not a small amount.

   Judging from the project plan of "The Adventures of Little Carp", tens of millions must be spent in order to produce the desired effect. If it is only a mere few million, then Gu Miao will not hesitate.

   "Okay, then I'll wait."

  Guo Hongwei was a little disappointed when he heard the words, but he also understood the master. Wanbao’s recent large expenditures are indeed a bit too much, and it is normal for financial constraints.

  “The main reason is that the timing is very embarrassing, and a lot of money has not been recovered, including the box office share of the movie "The Lion King" and derivative copyright benefits..."

  When Gu Miao said this, she also felt very irritable.

   It's numb!

  How long has the movie been released? Splitting the booty at the box office... Can't you hurry up? It's really annoying to be chattering.

   It’s not good at all. After all, the movie "The Lion King" was released simultaneously in many overseas countries. The box office statistics and accounting, including tax payment registration, foreign exchange transfer and other processes are really troublesome.

   It's useless to remind me.

  The work efficiency of foreigners can only be said to be understandable. It can take several years to repair a station. I will be thankful to see the money next year.

  …

  In addition to the box office and derivative copyright income of the movie "The Lion King", which have not been credited to the account for a long time, Wanbao actually has many foreign debts that have not been recovered.

  Who owes Wanbao money?

  Naturally, those partners who came to Wanbao, signed an IP authorization agreement, and printed Wanbao animation character images on their products, hoping to make profits from this.

  Take a certain orange juice drink as an example. It was agreed at the beginning to link the animation "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" to produce about 5 million bottles of orange juice with images of cartoon characters such as Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, and sell them in mainland China.

  The authorization fee is very cheap~

   In terms of conversion, a bottle of orange juice costs about 1 yuan, which is a total of 5 million copyright fees.

  But the orange juice was produced and began to be sold in major shopping malls and canteens. As the producer, the orange juice company owed Wanbao the copyright fee and was reluctant to pay it.

   Playing hooligans, right?

   It stands to reason that the legal department of Wanbao is not a vegetarian, and it is a piece of cake for Jiangchuan Pizza Hut to deal with such a low-level old Lai.

  But if you can’t stand it, they will use the "procrastination formula" to procrastinate with you, and would rather spend the money to the lawyer than return it to you.

nausea!

  It was originally expected that the payment would be paid back in 2-3 months, but it turned out that the lawsuit was forced to go through the process, and it took more than half a year, or even a whole year, to get the payment back.

  In this process, countless manpower and material resources were wasted. Even if he won the lawsuit and got the money, Gu Miao still felt extremely disgusted.

learn from mistakes!

  Gu Miao is not a stupid person. After being **** like this a few times, he also has a long memory.

  Since then, he has changed the rules. All companies that want to cooperate with Wanbao, engage in IP linkage, and purchase authorization, all adopt the model of "pay first and then authorize".

What? Overlord clause?

   If you are unhappy, don’t come to Wanbao for linkage, my friends Wanbao is so domineering, if you have the ability, you can make IP and animation by yourself!

   Don’t really say…

  Wanbao’s IP operation model of “pay first and then authorize” may seem outrageous and unreasonable, but it has indeed solved the problem of being authorized by Lao Lai for prostitution and delaying payment.

  Partners are also very convinced.

The main reason is that you can’t buy it. Except for Wanbao, you can’t find a second one in China. It has super popular products such as "Digimon", "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", "Pokemon", "Yu-Gi-Oh" and "Sailor Moon". IP animation company.

   This is also considered an alternative monopoly.

  Although changing the IP operation strategy barely solved some of the problems, Wanbao invested too much in the online text market, and this move alone could not alleviate the "financial crisis" at all.

   If you want to earn a quick sum of money for the company as soon as possible, you still have to rely on animation works, especially TV animations that are easy to make with "peripheral derivatives".

   Such as "The Adventures of Lolo"!

  As another masterpiece directed by Gu Miao, following "The Prince of Tennis", "The Adventures of Uncle Dragon" and "Bear Infested", there is no need to worry about the ratings.

  Gu Miao's gold-lettered signboard may not be so useful in foreign countries, and foreign children don't know him as a person.

   But in China, especially among children under the age of 16, the name Gu Miao represents "boutique" and "hot style"!

   The ratings must be hot.

  Under such a premise, how to do a good job of peripheral derivatives of "The Adventures of Lolo" and create higher profits for the company has become the most troublesome thing for Gu Miao.

  (end of this chapter)