"President, these are so ga production plans we're ready to discuss. They are all co-productions with well-known companies, which can help our company continue to expand its reputation and also make more partners through derivative works."
At the headquarters of Gastar Entertainnt, Takayuki continued to devote himself wholeheartedly to the developnt of Final Fantasy 7.
However, occasionally there are still so things he needs to make decisions about.
Takayuki will control the overall direction of the company, and then leave the remaining managent details to professional managers to handle.
However, there is one authority he has never delegated to others.
That is the authority to decide on derivative works.
As the company develops better and better, every ga under the company is a hidden IP treasure.
For this reason, Gastar Entertainnt has also specially established its own peripheral copyright departnt, sotis contacting manufacturers to produce so ga-related peripherals, such as making plush toys of creatures from Pokémon or producing collectible trading cards.
Through the authorization and self-developnt of these products, it also provides a lot of financial support for ga developnt.
Sotis, just the sales of these peripherals can bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, which is very gratifying.
However, there are only a few IP treasures with profits of hundreds of millions of dollars, such as the Mario series, Pokémon series, and Tetris series.
The peripheral sales of the Tetris series were unexpected to Takayuki.
In the previous life, this ga was the best-selling ga in the world, but its IP value has never been particularly high.
Mainly because the content of Tetris is just a bunch of blocks arranged together, without any particularly attractive features.
You say to make a movie out of it, it's not suitable. Make it into an animated film, it's also strange.
Using it to make peripherals? A bunch of block peripherals doesn't seem particularly appealing either.
So in the previous life, Tetris has always had a significant influence in the gaming world, but it was almost impossible to expand beyond that.
But people in this world seem to really like Tetris.
So far, Tetris sales have exceeded tens of millions.
First is the terrifying installed base of the GB series, with Tetris pre-installed on the GB, GBC, and GBA.
It's suitable for all ages, and you can play anyti, anywhere.
Then related peripheral products began to be produced experintally.
The peripheral production departnt didn't have much hope originally, and they also felt that this thing definitely didn't have the cute image of Pokémon to attract people.
But so Tetris pillows, keychains, and fridge magnets were often out of stock once they were sold.
Everyone will have gas they don't like, and inevitably so gas will have many negative reviews due to not being liked.
But Tetris is the only ga with almost zero negative reviews, and there are hardly any people in this world who dislike it.
And Tetris peripherals are also very popular.
Seeing this situation, the peripheral team imdiately increased production.
Starting from simple peripherals like pillows, keychains, and fridge magnets, they also developed collectible trading cards, Tetris toys similar to building blocks, and even Tetris products in collaboration with luxury brands.
Even makeup collaborations exist, and as a result, Tetris's derivative inco is also terrifyingly high.
Takayuki was sowhat surprised when he learned of this situation, and in the end, he concluded that the concepts of different world inhabitants are not necessarily the sa. So things may not have been popular in the previous life, but they may have different effects in this world.
This ti, the departnt responsible for peripheral derivatives brought several new project proposals, all of which are collaborations with other toy manufacturers and the like. Takayuki glanced at them briefly, made sure they didn't involve anything related to ga content, and then agreed.
However, sothing that caught his attention soon erged.
The application for the production authorization of the Mario movie, and the applying company is a large Arican film and television group.
This film and television group... Takayuki rembers that they were originally targeting himself.
At that ti, this film and television group should mainly have targeted the Russian businessman Tukhalev, and he was just included incidentally.
But after these things gradually subsided, they acted as if nothing had happened, took the initiative to co over to make ands, and hoped to produce Mario series movies.
Their comrcial team obviously saw the potential of the Mario series.
The Pokémon series is more suitable for animation. If you want to make a live-action Pokémon movie, you definitely need high-level special effects. But if you want to make a Mario movie, the cost definitely won't be too high.
This company's plan is quite ambitious.
And the price they offered is also quite sincere.
One hundred million dollars to produce three Mario series movies under license.
Takayuki sighed. The developnt cost of one Mario ga is at most ten million dollars, but the potential IP value of the series is over a billion.
If it were an ordinary company, they would probably not hesitate to sign the agreent.
As long as they sign, they would receive one hundred million dollars, and the other party only wants the production rights of three works, which is definitely a blood bargain.
However, Takayuki drew a big cross directly on this page.
Forget about the Mario series movies. Unless it's a matter of life and death, I won't authorize anything.
Takayuki rembers that in the previous life, there were several so-called cult Mario movies in the film industry.
And that also beca a stain on Nintendo's unspeakable social death.
Takayuki doesn't want to let himself die socially just for this money. Not to ntion that this person was once a rival, even if he is now a partner who wants to make Mario movies, at most he will politely refuse.
Sotis there are many pitfalls between film and ga conversions, and he is not really short of money, so there is really no need to risk using his most valuable wealth.
Now it seems that one hundred million dollars is very high, but in the future, this value will only be higher.
If it's really used to make movies, he must personally participate throughout the process.
He doesn't want the Mario series' reputation to collapse because of a trashy movie.
Building a reputation is not that easy.
After crossing out this authorization application, there are several new project proposals behind it.
And these project proposals all have so very eye-catching marks.
Applications from an organization of the Japanese governnt.
The na is the Japanese Cultural Arts Revitalization Committee, led by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, jointly ford by multiple Japanese cultural industry companies.
They want to apply for so ga characters to be official promotional materials in Japan. At the sa ti, they also hope that Gastar Entertainnt can help produce so very famous works as gas, and they cordially invite Gastar Entertainnt to join the Cultural Industry Revitalization Committee.
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