Chen Yiyang stayed in Lin’an for a few days. While chatting with Director Rao Zhi, he learned that he was also in Lin’an, so he decided to have a al with him.
"Why did you co to Lin’an?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
"I ca to handle so matters, took on a job, and am preparing to shoot a movie."
"What kind of movie?"
"A movie related to evacuation, kind of a war film?"
"A war film? That’s quite a leap." Chen Yiyang was a bit surprised.
The last movie this guy shot was a cody, and now he’s doing a war film.
"It’s good to have a film to shoot, and this ti the investnt is substantial," Rao Zhi briefly described the project he took over.
"The film is half a task film, but it’s not who took on the task; Gong Fan took it, and his company is also investing.
However, he needs to prepare for Earth Wandering 2, so he handed it over to . I thought with such a large investnt, I should shoot it no matter how hard it is. Such a valuable experience."
Although Rao Zhi spoke lightly, from his appearance, he seed to be under a lot of pressure.
After all, this movie is not only a task film, but Gong Fan also trusts him and has invested in him.
If the movie loses money, he probably wouldn’t feel good about it.
While chatting with Rao Zhi, Chen Yiyang ntioned so recent events he encountered.
"I have so news," Rao Zhi said softly. "Tengxu has invested in Shen Teng’s new movie and is reportedly letting the 101 girl group sing the the song of this movie."
"How did you find this out?" Chen Yiyang was quite curious.
"I attended a gathering recently, with the Happy Mahua team’s directors and screenwriters. I chatted with them and learned this. This movie is actually developed by their team."
Happy Mahua is considered a top cody team dostically, initially focused on offline theater, and then they skyrocketed with My Hero Charlotte.
This also led Shen Teng from their company to beco a leading cody actor in the country.
Now the Mahua team is about to make a second movie, and most industry insiders know that the box office for this movie is going to explode.
For such a movie, Chen Yiyang has no investnt opportunities. Only a giant like Tengxu, which controls the platform, can get in.
"Is this movie already fild?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
"It’s almost done, reportedly only so scenes with the female lead are left."
"Why are the female lead’s scenes fild last?"
Although Chen Yiyang has never shot a movie, he knows so basic knowledge.
Important roles’ scenes are usually shot first. If sothing goes wrong, there’s ti to fix it.
Famous actors pay attention to their reputation.
If issues arise in post-production, reshoots can be done and actors can be found.
If supporting roles are shot first, those actors may move on to their next gig, making reshoots difficult.
"Because of so minor conflicts," Rao Zhi began sharing gossip with Chen Yiyang.
"I heard that this movie’s original male and female leads were Shen Teng and Ma Li. These two have been long-ti partners, working together for many years, and their last movie was also shot by them.
However, this ti the script is adapted from a novel from the United States. The remake rights aren’t with the Mahua team but with a company on Wan Island.
The company is willing to give out the remake rights, but the condition is to invest and appoint the female lead.
Shen Teng definitely wasn’t willing, but he couldn’t do anything about it. They went around for a while and finally agreed to the appointed female lead, and filming the female lead’s scenes just started."
"Remake, an original US novel?"
Suddenly, Chen Yiyang’s mind beca agile.
"What’s the original novel of the movie called?"
"Seems to be called Brewster’s Millions."
After chatting with Rao Zhi, Chen Yiyang wasted no ti and imdiately called his team in the United States, instructing them to quickly buy the remake rights.
"Adjust the budget to 2 million US Dollars." Chen Yiyang directly issued the order.
Then he continued, "Also, help find out, I heard the novel and film’s remake rights are in a company on Wan Island’s hands?"
In the early hours of the next day, Chen Yiyang received a call from his team in the United States.
"Boss, the rights have been purchased, and the contract is signed. A full 1 million US Dollars. As soon as the other party heard that the remake rights of the old movie could be sold at this price, they imdiately signed the contract."
"Did you ask what I told you to?" Chen Yiyang inquired.
"We did ask," the other party replied, "The company on Wan Island previously indeed bought the rights. But their rights happened to expire yesterday.
Moreover, when they bought the rights, they only paid 300,000 US Dollars. And recently, they’ve been negotiating with this US company to renew the rights.
The US company wanted 500,000 US Dollars this ti, while they were only willing to pay 300,000, so it dragged on until now.
After we entered the scene, the US company heard we were willing to offer 1 million US Dollars, so they sold it to us."
"Got it." Chen Yiyang nodded.
He basically understood what happened.
The Mahua team wanted to shoot a new movie and set their eyes on the Brewster’s Millions script.
But at the ti, the remake rights belonged to a company on Wan Island, so they contacted this Wan Island company.
Unexpectedly, not only did this company want to co in and invest to make money, but they also wanted to appoint the female lead.
That would have been fine; what the Mahua team didn’t know was that the Wan Island company’s rights were about to expire.
They were negotiating renewal with the US company but weren’t willing to spend more, and in the end, Chen Yiyang seized the opportunity.
Even though the Mahua team’s new movie is almost finished, if it premieres without the rights, it would naturally constitute infringent.
Now Chen Yiyang, holding the remake rights to the movie, can maneuver well.
Once Chen Yiyang confird that he had bought the rights and looked at the contract photos,
he arranged for soone to bring the contract back to the country.
anwhile, he went to find Rao Zhi.
"Can you help contact the Mahua team? I want to discuss a business deal with them."
"What kind of deal?" Rao Zhi asked curiously.
"Take a look at this." Chen Yiyang showed him the contract photos.
Rao Zhi understood English and quickly finished reading the contract.
"Didn’t the company on Wan Island say the remake rights were with them?"
"Expired yesterday, didn’t renew, and I snatched it."
"Aweso." Rao Zhi gave Chen Yiyang a thumbs up.
Then he quickly beca excited as well.
There’s a big scoop now.
The only reason the Mahua team involved the Wan Island team in this project was because they held the remake rights.
Now that the rights are gone, there’s a good show to watch.
So, Rao Zhi imdiately called Peng Fei, the primary responsible person from the Mahua team, saying that Chen Yiyang wanted to et and have a al with them.
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