For Yue Lang's team, Fang Hong plans to invest 50 million yuan. Unlike Zhu Yingdong's project, which was carried out independently, Yue Lang's team's project was supported by some funding from the school where it worked, but the funding was later cut off.
After further discussion, the two parties reached a consensus. Fang Hong still adopted the method of establishing a company and put all the investment funds and the project in this company.
Fang Hong still holds 50% of the equity, while the BGI campus holds 30%, and Yue Lang's team holds 20%. Yue Lang has no objection to this distribution plan. In fact, he doesn't even need any equity as long as the research can continue. It was also clearly expressed in the communication with Fang Hong.
However, Fang Hong firmly opposed it. Obviously, Yue Lang may be an authority in his own field, but he seems to be a layman in other aspects.
You may not want it, you may regard money as dirt, but the team you lead may not want it. Don’t they want it? Especially some young people in the team don’t even own a house of their own.
To take a step back, when the time comes when they feel unbalanced, or go out and start their own business with the results, no matter what, they will make you uncomfortable, and there will definitely be trouble.
Using interests to maintain relationships is the most direct and trouble-free way.
As for the University of Washington, it is not a loss if it accounts for 30%. The project was originally going to be killed. Now that there are investors willing to come in, why not?
If BGI doesn't agree, Fang Hong is very simple, so he won't apply.
Or if the school disagrees, but Yue Lang is willing to resign, Fang Hong can directly invest money to support Yue Lang's continued research.
After finishing the video call with Yue Lang's team, Fang Hong turned to look at the silent beautiful assistant sitting next to him, and ordered: "These two teams, please start arranging the money and contracts, and send people to contact them. "
Tian Jiayi nodded: "Okay, leave it to me."
Unlike Chu Changxing's team's drone project, Kunpeng Technology can predictably achieve results and will release its first-generation product in two months. However, these two scientific research projects in the biological field of anti-aging are much more difficult. There may not be any breakthrough results in ten years.
Even Fang Hong was prepared to prepare for the tens of millions he invested to go to waste. He had no hope of turning it into commercial results within ten years, but why did he still invest? The answer is actually very simple. No matter how bad it is, it has achieved technical reserves and talent reserves, and it is not completely wasted!
You must know that these two projects are placed within the company, and the control of the company is in Fang Hong's hands. In the first round of investment, he will get ordinary equity, and in the next round of financing, he will get absolute control. .
When it comes to investing in such projects, Fang Hong never looks at the short term, but rather looks at the time period of ten or even twenty years.
All in all, investment in this type of field requires that there will be no breakthrough in this field. If there is a breakthrough, Qunxing Capital will definitely occupy a place in it and even lead this industry.
Anyway, I have a lot of money, so I don’t have to worry about wasting the money.
Once results are produced and can be commercialized, it will be a direct win.
After a while, Evelei came to the study. She looked at Fang Hong and said, "Brother Hong, Mr. Cao has come over and is in the living room downstairs."
The Mr. Cao she was talking about was Cao Chenghui, and Fang Hong called him in the morning and asked him to come over.
Eve Lei came over to inform her and walked out of the room. Tian Jiayi also left the study. Fang Hong came to the bookshelf and took out two books, then took them out of the study and went downstairs.
Cao Chenghui, who was waiting in the living room downstairs, soon saw the big boss coming down from upstairs, and also saw Tian Jiayi coming down with her.
Cao Chenghui, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, stood up quickly when he saw him coming. However, Fang Hong, who was walking towards him, raised his hand and pressed it down. Cao Chenghui got halfway up and sat back down again. Fang Hong and Tian Jiayi sat down one after another.
"Boss, what are your orders from me?" Cao Chenghui said immediately. The big boss called him over in person. He felt that there should be something important to give instructions, so he put down what he was doing and came to meet him as soon as possible.
At this time, Fang Hong put the two books he had brought down on the table to play with. Cao Chenghui pushed them forward and said, "Have you read these two books?"
Tian Jiayi also glanced at it curiously, while Cao Chenghui picked up a book, glanced at the title and subconsciously said: "The Three-Body Problem... science fiction?"
The two books that Fang Hong brought over were two full-length science fiction books, "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Three-Body Problem: The Dark Forest." As for the third book, "The Three-Body Problem: The Immortality of Death," it has not been released yet, but it will be published soon. , as expected, it will be published in November 2010 according to the original history, that is, two months later.
After a while, Cao Chenghui looked at the big boss and shook his head: "I haven't seen it, boss. I don't like to watch science fiction."
Fang Hong took a look at the book in his hand and said: "I recently read this trilogy of science fiction series. It is a very good work. The third step will be published soon. It can be regarded as a world-class science fiction series. Go and read it." Bought the rights to this series.”
Upon hearing this, Cao Chenghui immediately responded: "No problem."
At the same time, Ah Hui couldn't help but secretly curse in his heart. He originally thought that the big boss had something important to explain to him, but he didn't expect this? That's it? Such a small matter can be settled with just one phone call.
Fang Hong said unhurriedly: "The film and television changes of this science fiction work must be paid great attention to. I want Yixing Media Group to shake Hollywood in the future. Domestic films cannot do it with just a few "Three Guns". Yes, you can make 10,000 movies like this and you won’t be afraid. You can still comment with curiosity. If you are happy, you may be given a few awards. But if you make a movie like "The Three-Body Problem" or "The Wandering Earth", we will export ourselves. A top-notch sci-fi blockbuster with high values would make him panic to death."
I thought it was not a big deal, but when I heard that Fang Hong had raised this matter to such a high level, Cao Chenghui was surprised and immediately paid attention to it.
Fang Hong added: "I have preliminary understanding that the film and television copyright of the Three-Body IP was bought for 100,000 yuan last year. Find this buyer and buy the copyright at any cost."
In fact, when he thought of the science fiction series "The Three-Body Problem", Fang Hong also patted his thighs and forgot about it!
I just remembered it recently.
Otherwise, Cao Chenghui would have definitely bought the copyright last year.
But the problem is not that big. Anyway, if you have enough money and money, you can solve it. The "Three-Body" series must be won. It not only has potential strong commercial value expectations, but also has the output value of cultural values. "Three-Body" The commercial value of the "Body" movie universe is also expected to be huge. If successfully created, it will bring about a cultural industry chain worth tens of billions.
But now is not the time. On the one hand, the special effects are not up to par, and on the other hand, the country's overall national strength needs to be improved.
Science fiction movies are different from other genres. The success of this genre largely depends on the country's comprehensive national strength. To put it more down-to-earth, even the Chinese people don't believe that they can save the world when they are made now, and they feel too If it is false, it will definitely not be recognized.
No matter what happens, this series of movies will have to wait five or eight years. By that time, the level of special effects has improved, the national strength has also improved, and the Chinese people have become more confident than ever before, especially the younger generation.
That was the time to launch the "Three-Body" movie universe project. From a commercial perspective, it would take five or eight years before there was a market foundation.
After all, if a science fiction movie wants to truly benchmark the standards of the Hollywood film industry, the cost will never be reduced. The production cost will be 700 million to 1 billion yuan at the beginning, and to recover the production cost through the box office means it will take 21 to 30 years. With a box office of 100 million, this is just to recover the cost.
In the current mainland film market, the highest box office is "Avatar" released at the beginning of the year, which took in a box office of 2.016 billion yuan. This is already the limit of the mainland market. It is the presence of Fang Hong in this era that has accelerated Yixing Media Group. The foundation for promoting the construction of 3D screening rooms was obtained.
If the movie "The Three-Body Problem" is released now, the amount of moviegoers in the mainland market is simply not enough to recover the production costs. As for the overseas market, there is basically no need to consider it, because it is impossible for beautiful countries to arrange large-scale movies for you. , I won’t give it to you even if I can make money.
Old and American Hollywood blockbusters are supported by the global market, but domestic films can only rely on the mainland market for a long time. From a commercial perspective, it will be difficult to afford films with a production cost of 1 billion in the next five to eight years because of the revenue. No cost reimbursement!
Compressing production costs means that the quality is not good, and it will fail miserably in the end.
After 2017, the mainland film market can almost support large-scale productions with a cost of 1 billion. Because the market size is in place, Fang Hong has the advantage of foresight, knowing that in 2017, "Wolf Warrior 2" hit 56 A box office of 100 million means that by 2017, the mainland market is already large enough to allow a science fiction blockbuster with a production cost of 1 billion to recover its costs and make a profit.
As for now, it is definitely not possible. We can only buy the IP first and reserve it, and slowly make preliminary preparations. After all, "Avatar" took nearly 10 years from preparation to release.
The film and television adaptation rights of "The Three-Body Problem" were bought by the wife of a mainland director last year. After watching it, she was deeply attracted and decided to buy the film and television rights and let her husband arrange the film. Become famous.
She found the author of the work, Liu, and quoted a symbolic price of 100,000 yuan.
And the salary of Liu's company is 4,000 yuan a month, and the previous novella "The Wandering Earth" received 2,800 yuan in royalties. How many words would be coded for 100,000 yuan? So Da Liu agreed without much thought.
If the original historical trajectory were to follow, the couple who bought the copyright would have made a fortune of 120 million yuan and retired ten years later. It was the boss of the game who paid more than 100 million yuan to buy it.
But now that Fang Hong wants to intervene, there must be nothing wrong with Youzu.
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