Chapter 303: The era of copyright payment has arrived, Penguin Video begins to recover blood

Momo Company, dubbing room.

The production process of *Kung Fu Panda* was very smooth.

In his previous life, the production of *Kung Fu Panda* cost about 100 million US dollars; now, in order to make the movie quality better, Chen Mo invested an additional 200 million.

Not only was the movie quality better, but the production speed was also much faster.

Chen Mo was doing the voice acting for Po in the recording studio.

"Being awesome doesn't cost money, being handsome doesn't cost money."

"Acting chivalrously, handsome and fierce, not asking for returns!"

"I'm not a big fat panda, I'm an invincible fat panda!"

Listening to Chen Mo's voice acting, the staff in the dubbing room were all very surprised.

Because the voice Chen Mo acted out was too compatible with Po's image.

Originally, they were still worried that Chen Mo was not a professional voice actor, and coupled with his voice having a strong sense of youth, would it be a bit abrupt with Po's image.

Now it seemed they had thought too much.

The plasticity of Chen Mo's voice was too strong; just listening to the voice could imagine a cute and honest image.

The production process of *Kung Fu Panda* had always been a fully open process, which meant that the outside world could know at any time how far the animation production had reached.

It was just that Momo Company didn't announce in advance that the lead voice actor was Chen Mo; they only announced to the outside world that the voice acting was in progress.

Hearing that *Kung Fu Panda* had already started voice acting, the media began to boil over again.

"Momo Company actually hasn't given up on producing an animated movie?"

"Oh my, it's almost done?"

"Isn't this just waiting to lose money?"

"I don't understand. Has Momo Company gone crazy?"

"Just wait and see *Kung Fu Panda* bomb at the box office."

Netizens could not understand why, when everyone was bearish on *Kung Fu Panda*, Momo Company still insisted on producing this animated film.

It was obvious that making it would result in a loss.

International reporters were even starting to stir up trouble.

Pixar was also producing an animated film globally during the same period.

After the latest progress on *Kung Fu Panda* was released, reporters immediately interviewed the head of Pixar.

"What are your thoughts on *Kung Fu Panda*, which is about to be released by the well-known entertainment company Momo Entertainment? I hear *Kung Fu Panda* is also a big-budget animated film."

It was clear that the international reporter was deliberately provoking conflict.

"Everyone, please look forward to *Ratatouille*."

The head of Pixar spoke with profound meaning.

That very evening, the reporter published the content of the interview with the Pixar head.

The whole world began to speculate on what the Pixar head actually meant.

However, the public generally guessed the same thing.

That was that Pixar had not directly commented on *Kung Fu Panda*; this attitude clearly showed that they did not consider *Kung Fu Panda* a competitor at all.

They didn't even bother to evaluate it.

With Pixar's attitude, the mockery from around the world regarding Momo Company's move to produce *Kung Fu Panda* grew louder.

Especially from film and television companies in the entertainment industry.

Momo Company's market share in the global entertainment industry was too large; it could be said that they had almost no negative news.

Even if the films and dramas they released were controversial, every single one was a hit.

If Momo Company could release a film with terrible word-of-mouth, then Momo Company's god-like status in the industry would be broken.

Therefore, many entertainment companies were secretly buying news stories globally to kick Momo Company while it was down.

……

"This is too much!"

Wang Jinghua pushed open the door and entered Chen Mo's office, her expression looking very angry.

"What's wrong, Sister Wang?"

Chen Mo found it a bit amusing to see Wang Jinghua so angry.

"Look at how these international media outlets are kicking us while we're down. When we release hit films and dramas, they can't wait to suck up to us every day, but now they are saying the nastiest things possible."

Wang Jinghua rubbed her temples.

This time, she was truly angered by this group of international media.

In the past, even if many media outlets questioned them, they would at least leave some room for reconciliation.

Now, it was different; you could basically not find a single media outlet supporting Momo Company on the surface, and they all seemed eager to step on Momo Entertainment to gain traffic.

"Don't be angry, Sister Wang. Isn't that just how entertainment media is?"

Chen Mo, however, didn't have much of a reaction.

He had also seen the interview with Pixar.

It was undeniable that *Ratatouille* was the biggest competitor to *Kung Fu Panda*.

At the time, *Ratatouille* created a box office of 47. 2 million USD within three days of its release, and three months after its release, the total box office reached 310 million USD.

It was Pixar's third-highest-grossing overseas film after *Finding Nemo* and *The Incredibles*.

Competing with Pixar for box office was indeed a very stressful thing.

However, Chen Mo was not very worried.

Because he had already optimized the script for *Kung Fu Panda* beforehand, making it more story-driven than before.

Besides that, the animation was produced very exquisitely, making it one of the highest-resolution animated films currently, with the details of the fur and clothing done exceptionally well.

Most importantly, there was the addition of Chen Mo's voice acting.

Right now, the world still did not know that *Kung Fu Panda* was personally voiced by Chen Mo.

Once this news was announced, the box office would get a direct boost.

Seeing Chen Mo's unhurried appearance, Wang Jinghua's anger slowly dissipated.

After all, there was no use in being anxious about such things.

Just as Wang Jinghua was reporting some recent film and television data to Chen Mo, Pony Ma called Chen Mo.

"Hey, Momo, Penguin Video has fully started the VIP-only viewing mode since yesterday, and there really hasn't been strong resistance from users; in fact, quite a few users are even defending us!"

Pony Ma's voice was very excited.

Chen Mo's plan had succeeded!

Originally, Pony Ma thought there would be at least some users reacting intensely, but as it turned out, most users accepted the VIP payment model.

The reason was also simple: half of Penguin Video's users were already VIPs.

These users who were already VIPs naturally hoped their rights and interests would be greater.

They even helped Penguin Video scold non-VIP users for freeloading too much.

It made Pony Ma incredibly happy.

"We expect to recover all of our previously invested costs within half a year."

Pony Ma was excitedly crunching the numbers.

Chen Mo gave a hum to indicate he understood; this was about the same as the result he had anticipated.

The copyright effect would soon start to generate large-scale returns.

……

Once Penguin Video started the paid model, the news of funds flowing back in frantically reached the ears of other video websites.

The bosses of several major websites were shocked.

Could copyrights be played like this?

They had thought Penguin Video was just trying to monopolize users.

They didn't expect the real goal was still to come.

PPS, Youku, and Tudou began to follow Penguin Video's approach one after another, opening up the VIP-only viewing mode.

With this, they officially stepped into the era of paid copyright.

At the same time, the crew of *My Love from the Star*, Jun Ji-hyun, was sitting in her chair, feeling quite annoyed.