I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 177
[Chapter 173: A Little Thing]
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Eric pushed the door and walked into the living room. Drew, who heard the sound, immediately jumped up from the sofa, rushed over and slammed into Eric’s arms with excitement, but after twitching his nose twice, his originally smiling expression, Immediately unhappy.
In Eric’s speechless dodge, Disgust took a deep breath on Eric’s left cheek, stretched out his sleeve and wiped it, before kissing it.
Eric was amused by the girl’s actions, so he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He took two steps forward, dragged the little girl who was wrapped around his waist, and threw it on the sofa. He sat down and asked, “Okay, call me in a hurry. What’s the matter when you come back?” Eric said, having noticed the striking black folder on the coffee table in front of him, he picked it up and opened it, and a copyright transfer contract appeared in front of Eric.
“Heh, the copyright of “Golden Jade Alliance”, your movements are quite fast, I thought it would be good if you can win it after the summer vacation.”
Drew smiled and lay on Eric’s body, with Ai hanging on his chin. Rick’s shoulders: “This is Hollywood. As long as you have money, many things are easier to do.”
“How much did it cost?” Eric took the contract off the metal clip of the folder and asked casually.
“3.5 million,” the girl said the price not confidently, but quickly explained: “It’s just full copyright, permanent, and even some original music copyrights in it belong to us.”
Eric nodded. , If it is true as Drew said, then the price is still acceptable, even if it is used to enrich the Firefly film library, and after “Sleepless in Seattle” is popular, maybe you can invest in a remake of this movie.
Although Eric originally only asked Drew to get the copyright of the film within five years, he can also imagine that the company that owns the copyright finally met a fat sheep who was interested in this old film from 30 years ago. It must be slaughtered hard, five years?
If you don’t sell it, just take it all if you want, it’s just a little more expensive.
Seeing Eric nodding, Drew breathed a sigh of relief and began to explain in a chatter: “This movie was originally made by an investor named Jerry Wald who started his own company, but that guy’s life was bad, He started a film company and made a few good movies, but he died of a heart attack a few years later, and his widow sold the copyrights of several films from his film company to another film company. Later, that A movie company went bankrupt, and after several rounds, it fell into Fox’s hands.”
“Wow,” Eric almost jumped up when he saw the name of Twentieth Century Fox in the document and heard the girl’s explanation.
Drew was talking vigorously, but was startled by Eric’s sudden voice, widened his eyes and asked, “What… what’s wrong, what’s wrong?”
“You mean… this movie is from Bought from 20th Century Fox?” Eric asked again with a bit of luck in his heart.
The girl’s eyelashes flickered
innocently, and she nodded her chin: “Yeah?”
Eric smiled bitterly: “This is bad, I will definitely be hated by Fox in the future.”
Rick just temporarily decided to find a ‘summer part-time job’ for the girl. He didn’t consider the copyright ownership of “Golden Jade League” at all. If it was Warner, Universal or Paramount, which had nothing to do with him, Eric had nothing to do with the other party. Cooperation is a trick. Movies are also a business. If you make money, you need to celebrate. If you are tricked, you need to be appointed.
However, I still did not expect that
the copyright of “Golden Jade Alliance” was actually in the hands of 20th Century Fox.
He is still in the honeymoon period of his cooperation with Fox, and he does not want to make the relationship between the two parties dead. Therefore, when Columbia wanted “Dark War”, Eric explained to Barry Diller in person and made a TV series. Compensation, but the reality is always easy to joke with people, God, the old man really doesn’t want him to have a good relationship with Fox.
If after the release of “Sleepless in Seattle”, the videotape of “Jinyumeng” sold 2 million copies, as the friend said in the previous life, that would be $60 million in sales, which is equivalent to a big-selling movie .
Although film companies always claim that the profit of video tapes is less than 20%, and the remaining 80% or more is cost, but as long as you understand a little bit, you will know that this is nonsense, and the profit margin of video tapes will easily be reduced. It can exceed 50%, which is even higher than the box office profit.
Then, with the “Jinyumeng” video, Eric can get at least 30 million US dollars in income from this business.
Eric can almost think of some people who are going to be furious because of this situation.
Seeing Eric’s changing face, Drew asked curiously, “How is it possible, we paid $3.5 million, and Fox made money, how could he still hate us?”
“Yeah, but we Although it cost more than 3 million, if it is less than a year, we will make 30 million US dollars with this movie, what do you think Fox will think?” The
girl covered her mouth in surprise, Eric asked She won the copyright of the film and said that she could make a fortune. Drew thought it would be good for only one or two million dollars, so when she just said the price of $3.5 million, the girl was still a little nervous. Ten million…
“But… it seems… Eric, Fox’s people don’t know that we bought it. I was afraid that I would come forward directly and be associated with you. I specially found an agent. After he got the copyright It was transferred to me again, UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com From beginning to end, Fox didn’t know that we were going to buy the copyright of this movie…” Drew said, his voice getting lower and lower, she quickly thought, If this movie makes a lot of money with the influence of “Sleepless in Seattle” in the future, as long as the people at Fox have no problem with IQ, they will definitely be able to think of Eric.
Thinking of this, the girl stuck out her tongue: “Then, Eric, what should we do now?”
Eric rubbed his temples and thought about it. “Sleepless in Seattle” will be released at the end of the year, so it must be next year that the video of “Golden Jade Alliance” will create a sales miracle. By then, his contract with Fox this year will also be completed. After the performance is completed, don’t worry that Fox will interfere with the distribution of the movie. At most, when the profit is shared in the future, Fox will play some small tricks and delay it for a while, but Eric is not worried, because the terms of the contract signed last year are all It is very detailed. Once Fox breaches the contract, there is no possibility of winning the lawsuit in court. Eric is not like those filmmakers in his previous life. years of disputes.
“Forget it, that’s it. You can’t spit out the meat in your mouth. It was sold voluntarily by Fox anyway, and we charged such a high price.
” Eric rubbed coquettishly: “However, Eric, there is one more little thing…” (The novel “I Am Hollywood” will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery draw A big gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the “+” sign on the upper right to “Add a friend”, search for the public account “qdread” and follow, hurry up!)
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