Demons Beside You (The Demons Beside Me)

Chen Zhao wanted to acquire the film rights from Nafa Twain, not to enter Hollywood.

To be honest, unless you invest in Steven's movie, Hollywood's box office dividends are actually very average.

The investment of a super A-level movie is more than 100 million U.S. dollars. The shooting, production and release cycle lasts for one to two years. The box office profit can be tens of millions of U.S. dollars. It is already a big profit. And these tens of millions of U.S. dollars Box office profits still need to be cut.

The more likely possibility is that the box office alone cannot recover the cost.

It is necessary to make profits through peripheral copyrights such as games, TV series copyrights, and peripheral products.

Such peripheral copyrights and peripheral products are basically exclusive bonuses for large companies.

It is almost impossible for small companies or individual investors to obtain these dividends.

Like Chen Zhao, no matter how rich he is, it is difficult to truly get involved in the real profit points of Hollywood.

So Chen Zhao has no interest in investing in Hollywood movies at all.

Even if Chen Zhao, Steven and Rasfa invested in a movie, it was more of interest.

It's best if you can make money. Even if you can't make money, it won't hinder the friendship between the three of you.

As for saving Nafa Tang En, haha... Chen Zhao doesn't care about his life or death.

Chen Zhao just took action because he thought it would be profitable, that's all.

"The most valuable "Thief" series copyright in the hands of Nafa Twain is 50% owned by Nafa Twain and DSN. This series has currently filmed six films, two of which have suffered losses at the box office, but the latest one The movie has a global box office of 830 million, plus the sales of peripherals, DSN's revenue from this movie has reached 200 million US dollars, so just this series alone requires at least 500 million US dollars to buy the copyright. In addition, Na Fa Twain is the absolute protagonist of this series. Even if the copyright is sold, he will still have a say in this movie. And when the time comes, he will definitely demand higher remuneration and box office share, so you still need an agreement to ask for He will not be able to resign from acting in at least three more "Thief" films in the future, and his salary will not exceed US$20 million."

Steven knows the rules of Hollywood very well. If Nafa Twain loses the copyright of the "Thief" series, then in order to make up for his loss, he will definitely open his mouth in the next movie of the series.

As long as Chen Zhao gets this agreement, the value of the "Thief" series will be greatly increased.

Five hundred million dollars! Chen Zhao's expression changed slightly.

This number was much higher than he thought.

""The Extraordinary Life" is also a series of movies. The first one has been released so far. It suffered a small loss at the box office, but the cost has been recovered from the surrounding products. In Hollywood, series movies have always been the standard for big hits. As long as the production is not bad, the box office will be good. , the copyright value of this series of movies is no less than 200 million U.S. dollars, and there are also several other movie copyrights. The copyright value ranges from a few million U.S. dollars to tens of millions of U.S. dollars, and the total value does not exceed 30 million U.S. dollars. It is an addition. Head." Steven said: "Can you afford that much money?"

"I don't have that much cash, but the bank should be happy to lend me money."

For banks, they are never afraid of others borrowing money, they are afraid that others will not lend money.

Especially wealthy people like Chen Zhao who own a large number of high-quality industries under their names.

The value of the Dashan Beer brand alone has exceeded five billion U.S. dollars. Currently, Chen Zhao still controls most of the shares of Dashan Beer, so let alone borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars, even if it is billions of dollars, the bank will pay for it. He lent money to Chen Zhao and fought for his head.

"Based on Nafa Twain's current situation, around US$650 million should be his bottom line." Steven said.

Steven gave a package price. In fact, this kind of copyright negotiation requires negotiating each copyright.

"Call your lawyer over, and I'll explain it to him." Steven said.

Although Steven serves as Chen Zhao's consultant, he himself is not involved in this copyright transaction.

Because even he didn't dare to face DSN head-on.

Anyone in Hollywood must face the existence of DSN.

There are only outsiders like Chen Zhao who don't care about DSN at all, and DSN can't do anything about Chen Zhao.

This is also the reason why Nafa Tang En came to Chen Zhao.

Because Nafa Tang En didn't know that some of the people who took the initiative to contact him were sent by DSN.

Then Alex came with a team of lawyers and communicated with Steven.

Alex knew that Chen Zhao and Steven had a relationship.

After all, Alex was also present at little Gelin’s birthday last time.

In the afternoon, Chen Zhao and his legal team went to the place they had made an appointment with Nafa Tang En.

Nafa Tang En has been so depressed that he doesn’t even have a lawyer.

He is holding on now. If he continues like this, he will either die in the hands of loan sharks or compromise with DSN.

But now Chen Zhao has come out to intercept Hu, so there is nothing wrong with DSN.

When the negotiations began, Nafa Twain directly offered a package price of US$800 million.

Chen Zhao greeted directly and asked the legal team to pack up and leave.

Just kidding, this guy thinks he's being taken advantage of.

The initiative is in Chen Zhao's hands, and negotiations will be easy.

The bottom line Chen Zhao gave Alex was that the negotiation could collapse, but not even a dime more could be tolerated.

Chen Zhao is a capitalist, and Nafa Tang En is also a capitalist.

Talking about relationships between capitalists is a bullshit relationship.

With Chen Zhao's words, Alex felt more confident.

Because for Chen Zhao, the most he can do is make less money.

Chen Zhao doesn't need to earn this hard-earned money.

But Nafa Twain can't.

If this negotiation cannot be facilitated, then he must accept exploitation by DSN.

The money given by DSN was simply not enough to repay his debts.

For him, the bottom line now is to repay the debt.

The negotiations were very stalemate, and the psychological price levels of both parties were different, so of course it was a stalemate.

However, the initiative is always on Chen Zhao's side, and with so many people in Alex and the legal team, he is even more powerful.

Nafa Twain is unable to survive alone because Chen Zhao always bites the bottom line price.

This bottom line is almost the same as Nafa Twain's total debt, but it's just a little short.

"Mr. Chen, I can sign that agreement, but I hope the price can be increased to US$700 million."

"This is impossible. I can't afford that much money." Chen Zhao shook his head: "If you are not sincere, then our negotiation ends here."

"Mr. Chen, as long as I pay back the money and redeem 30% of the shares in Marina Restaurant, I am willing to sell them all to you at the lowest price." Nafa Tang En said through gritted teeth.

Chen Zhao thought. If this is the case, it is not impossible to consider it.

"If you add 30% of Marina Restaurant's shares, US$700 million can be considered."