Rise of the Richest Man Reborn

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Chapter 1097 Lu Yixuan's Sincerity

The so-called people are old and treacherous, and horses are old and cunning.

It has to be said that Old Devil Morita is indeed a cunning and cunning man.

This sudden remark really pointed to a great ideal that Lu Yixuan has been rooting in his heart for many years, that is, to strive for the opportunity to let "Shangganling", "My Motherland", "Strike the White Tiger Group", "Heroes and Daughters" "These red old movies will one day be screened in North American theaters in a fair manner, so that North American ghosts can carefully feel the voice from the mysterious oriental country through these red old movies.

He has been pursuing this matter all these years, but after many considerations, he has not been able to achieve his wish.

Now the old devil Shengtian came to ask for it, and even exposed this kind of matter that should not be revealed to outsiders so frankly in person, as if he would definitely do something for his partner.

Such a good intention, how can I refuse others!

To authorize "Resident Evil 3" overseas market agency to Sony AV, in fact, this plan has always been on Lu Yixuan's desk.

After all, if you have money, you don't make a bastard, right?

The last time I categorically rejected Akio Morita, it was nothing more than an attitude of unwillingness to compromise.

Anyway, the source of the film is in hand, and the only good business in the world is not afraid that Sony AV will not give in.

Speaking of the truth, the current "difficulty" of Universal Pictures is rooted in the fact that Lu Yixuan took advantage of the trend and deliberately wanted to show a bad image to the outside world, in order to give the outside world the illusion that people have the opportunity to say bad things about Universal Pictures.

At the beginning, Kada’s director “rebelled”, the core special effects production team left, and Apple Technology Company broke the contract and withdrew the factory...

All these series of big actions were almost staged under Lu Yixuan's deliberate connivance.

The old devil Sheng Tian only knew that he conspired with seven other film companies to plot against Universal Pictures, but how could he know that behind the incident, Universal Pictures also gave a very predictable warning about the importance of the source of the film? Seven other Hollywood studios offered some advice.

Now, Sony Video and Video is not only the source of the film in its own hands, but it is difficult to release it.

The other seven established film companies also joined forces to obtain the film source Casoni Video.

The emergence of this deadly ultimate move is actually a lot of credit to Lu Yixuan.

Of course, it is impossible for Lu Yixuan to be honest about these inside stories. I believe that the other seven Hollywood studios will make up their minds even if they come to their senses in the end, and there is no evidence left or right. In between.

To put it bluntly, the saying that shopping malls are like battlefields is not just a nice word.

Even if Old Devil Shengtian really knew the inside story, he could only sigh with emotion that he had really underestimated his opponent. Apart from that, it was very difficult for him to take revenge at all.

Otherwise, if you really have the ability, you won't lose your face now and beg for cooperation again.

"Mr. Morita, Takayoshi!"

Lu Yixuan looked excited, and said excitedly: "Mr. Shengtian, it is better to hit the sun than to choose the day. Since you are so enthusiastic and open, I will not hide it from you. Let me tell you a little bit of my heart!"

"Lu Sang, please tell me."

"Over the past few years, I have been pursuing one thing, which is to look forward to some red old movies in China being released in theaters in various state capitals in North America.

I have a list here, a total of ten red old movies.

I won't talk about other nonsense. Sony Video's channel capabilities in North American theaters are completely unquestionable. In this way, I will also transfer the overseas market agency authorization of these ten old red movies to your company.

I want to make a gentleman's agreement with you, Mr. Morita.

For the box office revenue share of "Resident Evil 3" in overseas markets, we will share it with your company at a ratio of [-]:[-] based on the total box office revenue of ten red old movies.

To put it simply, your company operates these ten red old movies in overseas markets, and for every dollar it earns in overseas markets, it can enjoy a box office share of 3 dollars from the total box office revenue of "Resident Evil [-]".

The so-called pay more for more work.

If Mr. Morita has a way to make these ten old red movies sell for millions or even tens of millions at the box office, there will be more or less, even if Universal Pictures has to pay a large sum of money for this, we will Absolutely accepted this account.

Mr. Morita, look at this condition..."

Akio Morita never thought that Lu Yixuan would turn him into the army immediately.

Although he didn't know exactly what happened to the ten old red movies that Lu Yixuan mentioned, but considering the special social atmosphere in the early years of the Eastern Power, those ten so-called old red movies would not be a propaganda thing. Party friendly piece.

And when you hear the title of a movie like "Shangganling", you can probably already guess the content of the movie.

After all, North America was on the frontal battlefield, plotting regional hegemony with a coalition of millions of countries, but suffered a painful memory of a huge defeat.

Can such an old red movie really have a chance to be screened in the North American theater market?

However, I heard that Lu Yixuan made such an offer that was almost impossible to refuse, the exchange rate of [-]:[-] at the box office!

If it were possible to use these ten old red movies from the early days of the big oriental country to win hundreds of millions of box office in overseas markets, wouldn't Universal Pictures directly pay tens of billions of box office revenue for this?

Akio Morita was not worried that Lu Yixuan would turn his back on him afterwards.

After all, Universal Pictures is still a big creditor of the Sony consortium.

The US$35 billion debt in its hands, if the debt is not wiped out as soon as possible, sooner or later it will be a bottomless abyss that will crush the Sony consortium.

So... Otherwise, let's take a trial in Dongsang's domestic theaters first?

"Lu Sang, the scope of the overseas market you are referring to also includes Dongsang's domestic market, right?"

"Of course, excluding the major eastern countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, all of them can be counted as the overseas markets of Universal Pictures.

Mr. Morita's implication is that you agree with my conditions?

Really interested in acting as an agent for the ten red old movies "Shangganling"?

Mr. Morita, you are really courageous!

Originally, I was thinking, if you really have difficulties, I would like to exchange all the box office revenue of "Resident Evil 3" in the overseas market at an equivalent value with the market investment share in your country's real estate field. The current real estate market in your country The market in the field continues to rise, which is really coveted! "

Akio Morita raised his eyebrows. You are coveting the high return on investment in the domestic real estate market in Dongsang, do you really want to make some quick money?

But having said that, since two years ago, the domestic real estate market in Dongsang has indeed been rising explosively.

As long as the vision is accurate, it is indeed a business that can make a lot of money if you can enter the market with a large sum before the market goes down.

It seems that this Huaxia youth has also been dazzled by the current real estate market in Dongsang Country. He only wants to make quick money, and he doesn't care much about his career.

But it is true, it is only the 35 billion US dollars of fixed assets that the Sony consortium promised to be mortgaged at the beginning. According to market estimates, the market value has skyrocketed by nearly [-] times.

Twenty times, this is already 700 billion US dollars!

Even if the Sony consortium had injected water into the valuation of these fixed assets, it would be at least as high as 400 billion US dollars based on their real value.

400 billion U.S. dollars, which is only two years...

With such a lucrative big business, who cares about the box office income from making movies!

Chapter 1098

Those words stirred up a thousand waves in the heart of old devil Sheng Tian.

Old devil Sheng Tian said that the matter was too serious to make a decision lightly, so he left in a hurry and went back to the country to convene a meeting to discuss the solution.

Lu Yixuan didn't insist on this either.

He now has a relaxed mentality like a cat playing with a mouse when dealing with old devil Sheng Tian.

Given these two absolutely fat baits, he was not at all worried that Old Devil Morita and the Sony Consortium would refuse to swallow the bait.

The only thing is to see how big the Dongsang people's appetite is.

It's the end of the year now.

Master Yimu's second masterpiece "Red Sorghum" has completed post-editing and production, and Master Yimu came to Nanzhen City directly with the sample.

After watching the sample, Lu Yixuan was quite impressed and satisfied, as worthy of being a national teacher in his previous life.

After having the directing experience of the first "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", the level of Master Yimu has definitely been raised to the point of proficiency.

Now that this "Red Sorghum" has been filmed, it is definitely a masterpiece compared to the original film in my previous impression, no matter the image effect or the expression of the moral of the story.

However, he still gave some small suggestions.

For example, some detailed shots that are too earthy to slag can be deleted as much as possible (the "Red Sorghum" by the National Teacher in the previous life was criticized by domestic counterparts because of these small details, even though it won an international award. The attack of criticizing the national teacher to deliberately vilify the image of the Chinese people), to be honest, although these small details are true, they are indeed quite image-destroying after all, and they are of no benefit to the promotion of the plot.

Master Yimu seemed to attach great importance to Lu Yixuan's suggestion, and immediately returned to the mainland with a sample.

"Stubborn Lord" was finally released under a huge advertising campaign.

Still the same sentence, maybe the people in the mainland don’t just need to watch movies these days. Huayi Brothers spared no expense in advertising, which is bound to create the so-called Lunar New Year film market effect in the mainland. The expected effect is not what they expected. so hot.

The box office results of the first week of the film's release, combined with the three major cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, were barely 80.

Such a small amount of box office revenue is really a big loss. They can hardly even earn back the advertising fees they invested, not to mention the promised box office share of the mainland market agency authorization they bought from Universal Pictures. It's all in vain.

This result dealt a heavy blow to Pharaoh.

After all, before this, the big old Wang was full of energy, and he was fooled by the Wang family brothers. He really believed that this movie produced by himself could make a lot of money, at least it could have an eight-figure box office. .

now...

Everyone's hard-earned capital is going to be wasted and they won't be able to make it back!

The news came to Lu Yixuan's ears, Lu Yixuan just shook his head and smiled wryly. He had also seen the samples of "Stubborn Lord", it wasn't that there was a problem with the shooting quality, and now these young and old in the capital just messed up their lives. In fact, the reason is very simple , They just misestimated the popularity of the domestic market, insisted on producing some mainland Chinese New Year movie schedules, and deliberately invested so many resources in publicity, but in fact it was almost useless.

But Lu Yixuan didn't intend to point out anything.

It would be nice to let these self-righteous children from the big courtyard in the capital suffer a little.

Lest they all want to be able to go to the sky, anyone who wants to make a plan to rob other people's business.

There is no such market concept as Lunar New Year stalls in mainland China. No matter what kind of film, it must rely on time and word of mouth to get ahead slowly. A group of young people think that after a while in Xiangjiang and overseas watching, they can Copying the operating mode of the overseas market mechanically, imagining things so simple, thinking that you can do anything with funds and connections in your hands, such ridiculous business logic is simply too arrogant.

Akio Morita soon came to the door again.

This old devil's appetite is really not ordinary.

The two baits thrown by Lu Yixuan before, now this old devil actually took all of them.

The first bait, the ten early domestic films of the Eastern Power, Lu Yixuan gave a list last time, and the old devil Sheng Tian took it back to pick and choose, and after picking up four of them, he promised that the remaining six would be Sony Video and audio can definitely be successfully released in Dongsang's domestic and North American theater markets.

The four old movies crossed out are all too American and Western in content.

However, several dramas like "Shangganling" are still in the list of six.

Lu Yixuan approved of such a small change.

The second bait is to exchange the overseas box office of "Resident Evil 3" for Dongsang's domestic real estate resources.

The answer given by Morita was that the Sony consortium would exchange all the box office earned from the old red movies after deducting them from the box office share of "Resident Evil 3" into domestic real estate resources.

Anyway, in a word, after such a toss, no matter how much overseas box office revenue the six red old movies and "Resident Evil 3" can have in the future, Universal Pictures can no longer imagine earning a penny.

In the best case, in the hands of Boss Lu, there will be more domestic real estate resources in Dongsang.

But in case of an unexpected situation, for example, those six red old movies really hit the overseas box office, the boss of Lu Da may really have to prepare a large amount of money, and in turn, he has to subsidize it to the Sony consortium.

Such a situation, for Lu Yixuan, is indeed a great risk.

After all, he can't guarantee how much overseas box office revenue those six old movies will earn.

If Sony AV goes all out to push it, even if there is a box office of 100 million US dollars, he will have to post [-] million US dollars.

Even with "Resident Evil 3" in front of him, the chances of him having to pay for it himself are not very high...

But it doesn't matter anymore!

It is reluctant that the child cannot catch the wolf.

In any case, if Sony AV really wants to ensure that the six red old movies are popular in overseas markets, it is right to pay a promotion fee.

Anyway, no matter how you calculate it, the chances of getting him to take money out of his pocket are not high.

With the Sony consortium, there is still a claim on the original 35 billion US dollars in fixed assets.

It is really not that easy to successfully obtain these overseas assets. Instead of arguing with the people of Dongsang purely for money in the future, it is quite interesting to have such a small episode in the middle.

Motherfucker, no matter what, I have already made a steady profit.

Chapter 1099 A Little Ambition