Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 485 The Millionaire
The suggestion made by Douglas Jr. touched Ronald's heart.He is also a film director and artist himself. Sometimes it is not necessary to spend too much energy on business, just listen to the opinions of professionals he trusts, and then make a judgment.

In his apartment, Ronald met with his personal lawyer and private accountant.

It's been a long time since I saw Lawyer Lindsay Dole, she still looks like a college girl, slightly rounder than before.

"Are you already a partner?" Ronald asked, looking at the new business card Lindsay gave him.

"Yes, I bring about half of the paid business in a year to the law firm." Lindsay said proudly.

"Congratulations," Lawrence Wang, a private Chinese accountant, also congratulated the young female lawyer.

"Come back to business, I think you should accept Atlantic's offer, take the money to buy out the proceeds and leave." Attorney Lindsay put forward his own ideas.

"I have a different opinion. The marketing expenses they gave are too false. This is no longer a bill that a professional accountant can see. Even students who have just learned the balance sheet know that there are big problems in it." Lawrence commented Dissatisfied, this kind of fraud is simply an insult to my professional ability.

"Look, the 550 million marketing expenses here are simply too bizarre. Even if they made a lot of posters in each theater, Lihui's promotion, it is impossible for a theater to spend close to [-] dollars.

Moreover, the distributor did not place a lot of advertisements on TV media and popular paper media, nor did they advertise trailers before the screening of other films. I think they have at least falsely reported more than 100 million US dollars here.

There are also distribution costs, and the unit price of mass-produced copies cannot be so expensive.Even if the issuers talk with each other, it won't take so much.

In total, they falsely reported a cost close to 140 million, from which we can get an extra share of about 30. "

Ronald looked at Lawyer Lindsay.

"I agree with you. But if you want to file a lawsuit, there are several difficulties. First, the collection of evidence in the film industry has always been the most difficult. Marketing materials will be discarded after use. It is difficult for us to convince him or the jury with reason in front of the judge that Atlantic Company made false accounts.

Second, Atlantic actually set up a separate project company to handle everything in order to shoot and distribute the film.So even if we win the case, the project company will go bankrupt or be deregistered.If he goes to pursue his shareholders, he will face a series of legal troubles.

Third, the amount of money is not too much. To win the lawsuit, you have to summon multiple theater owners as witnesses, and you have to spend money to hire expert witnesses from the film industry. You need to pay in advance for these expenses.Therefore, it may cost you more to win the relationship than the compensation you get.

Of course, if we win, we can also pursue punitive damages, which will far exceed your cost.But that's assuming you can win the case.And if that's the case, you're in the film industry..."

"Will you have no friends?" Ronald continued with a wry smile.

"In fact, it was very difficult for you to get this part of the dividend. The film company can easily use all kinds of inflated costs to make the profit of the entire movie disappear. The reason why Atlantic did not do this is because your The box office of the movie has far exceeded their expectations, so that there is no way to make fake accounts to wipe out all the profits.

In addition, they may still want to cooperate with you, so they offered a bonus of [-] US dollars and the option of early settlement. "

Attorney Lindsay Dole drew a line under the number of the contract with a pencil, "So my advice is, accept him."

Ronald looked at Lawrence Wang again.

"Attorney Dole is right, I have no objection."

"Okay, that's it, let them write a check." Ronald nodded to Lawrence.

Lawyer Lindsay Dole saw that there was nothing else to do, and got up to leave, "Helen asked about you recently, do you want to meet her?"

"Uh... I'm very busy in New York this time, so I might not be free." Ronald thought of Lindsay's roommate, Prosecutor Helen Gable's temptation in a black uniform, and the feel of the stockings on her legs, and swallowed saliva.

"Okay, Brooke Shields, huh?" Lindsay also heard the scandal, winked at him, and then the office was busy with other cases.

Ronald then checked his finances with Lawrence Wang.

"This time the $60 has been credited, plus my stock account, am I already a millionaire?" Ronald was very happy. After several years of hard work, it is considered a small achievement, and he will become an ordinary person in the future. People don't have to worry about eating and drinking.But if you want to support a movie star like Diane or Brooke, you have to continue to make money.

"No, you don't count this income, you are already a millionaire." Lawrence opened the report and showed Ronald his stock price.

"The President's economic policy has been loose in recent years. Last year's inflation has dropped significantly to only [-]%. The economy has begun to recover, and this year's annual GDP is expected to grow by more than [-]%.

Coupled with the implementation of the tax cut bill and various deregulations of the financial industry, more funds have entered the stock market.All in all your stock has done well this year.Because you buy stocks because you want to eat quarterly dividends, so I didn't advise you to sell at a high point.

IBM was the best performer, nearly doubling in value, and McDonald's, and Coca-Cola, both have seen their share prices rise by more than 50.00% this year.Only Kodak's share price did not perform as expected, falling by [-]%.

So your stock assets have a total of more than 85 US dollars. "

"Oh, is that so?" Ronald didn't expect that the stock price would have such a good growth when he just wanted to earn some dividends and outperform inflation.But it's not yet 100 million? "

"Have you forgotten the royalties from your bestseller?" Lawrence pulled out another record, "Your 'Word Star For Dummies' has sold so well that the publisher has reprinted it several times, and the royalties have exceeded $15 .”

"Huh? So many?" Ronald suddenly felt that his writing and selling books had a bright future.

"Yes, it's very interesting. The number of books you have sold has already surpassed the sales volume of Wordstar's software."

"Oh?" Ronald thought for a while, "Is it because of piracy?"

"Yes, many people who write with pirated Wordstar software will buy your book because they don't have the manual of the genuine software."

"So with your two incomes, do you still want to invest in any stocks?" Lawrence Wang saw the rising price of the stocks Ronald bought, and already admired his vision.

"Buy me a Coca-Cola," Ronald thought for a moment, "their competitor, Pepsi, always works with losers, like Burger King. And they're rich enough to buy Columbia Pictures, I think. They sure make a lot of money."

"You're right." Lawrence looked at Coca-Cola's annual report. The income and profit were good. "In this way, I will buy Coca-Cola stock for you except for your tax payment for next year."

Ronald nodded and signed the required documents for confirmation.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Lawrence Wang hesitated before getting up to leave, and said to Ronald.

"Do you still remember the case of Chen Guoren?"

"Remember", Ronald remembered the Chinese in Detroit who was regarded as a native of Japan and was beaten to death by two unemployed white auto workers on the street. He even donated 2000 yuan to him successively.

"The Illinois state court came down and the two killers were downgraded from second-degree murder to manslaughter by that white judge.

Under the arrangement of the judge, the prosecutor and the two murderers reached a plea deal. Because the charges were minor, they were sentenced not to serve a sentence, and they could be released without charge by paying a fine of three thousand dollars.

The judge also said that the two killers were good people and should not be in jail. "

"This..." Ronald looked at Lawrence's yellow skin and guessed the reason in his heart, "It's not fair."

"Yeah, it's not fair. Ms. Chen, the mother of the deceased, also said that if a Chinese American killed a white man, this would never be the final verdict. We Chinese are very angry because of this matter, and the two Lawyers of Chinese descent have also stood up and initiated a federal lawsuit on behalf of the deceased to re-prosecute the murderer at the federal level on civil rights grounds of racial discrimination."

"In this way, I will write another check for two thousand dollars, and you will donate it to the deceased for legal proceedings."

"I'll take care of it, thank you, Ronald." Lawrence seemed to have something to say.

"Do you have anything else?"

"I know this matter may be an unkind request to you, but our Chamber of Commerce in Chinatown plans to go to the streets for this matter before Christmas and let the media uphold justice for us. You are a famous Hollywood director, Can you also participate, so that we can attract TV stations other than Chinese TV stations to interview."

"It seems that you have misunderstood my position in Hollywood. Even if I stand on the streets of New York or in front of the three major TV stations, no reporter will recognize me."

"No, you're not with Brooke Shields..." Lawrence asked tentatively.

"I understand your sympathy for your compatriots, but it is impossible for me to cause trouble for Brooke for this kind of thing." Ronald was also very upset about the blind judgment of Chen Guoren's case, but this did not mean that he could Drag Brooke into the water.

What's more, I still have Diane.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have made such a request. It's just that our Chinatown is too weak to attract the attention of the mainstream media. My uncles have agreed to join forces with the Dongying people in Little Tokyo in the lower East Village of Manhattan, Take to the streets to protest together."

"Aren't you... I remember that China and Japan were feuds in World War II, why are you willing to be with them?" Ronald asked.

"Hey, this also caused a lot of controversy. The uncles all fought with Huihua and Dongying people back then, or donated the ration money they saved.

However, most of the rulers of America are white. In their eyes, whether they are Chinese, Dongying, or the recently increased number of Koreans, they all look the same.They are all of a completely different race from them.

The Dongying people have now defeated the manufacturing industry in America, and now they are also under pressure from the commander-in-chief and Congress.In this incident, workers in the two auto industries who were overwhelmed by Japanese people mistook us Chinese for Japanese, so they took the initiative to find us and want to unite. "

"Why don't they protest by themselves?" Ronald was a little puzzled. There are also many Japanese descendants in America, and the economy is very strong now.

"Hmph, they are just the defeated country, we are the victorious country, the Chinese and the American people in the United Nations are both permanent members of the Security Council, and they have a lot of power. And on the streets and in the American political arena, we are far better than those Japanese People have a lot of influence. They used to follow us Chinese to pick up cheap."

(End of this chapter)