Chapter 448 16 million US dollars in North American copyright fees!
"Antique, Director Li, congratulations on the successful listing. The domestic Internet is developing faster and faster, and those of us who make movies are excited to see it."
Yu Dong and Tang An met Gu Yongjiang and Li Guoqing and had a drink together.
"You two are humble. The domestic film industry is also improving every year. Tang Dong's films have sold almost 1 billion in domestic sales, and they have all been exported overseas." Gu Yongjiang said with a smile.
"It's just a science fiction film. If it were another genre, it would be difficult to sell it overseas." Tang An waved his hand and smiled.
General Koo Yong said, "No matter what kind of film it is, as long as it can be sold, it used to be costume films and action films, and now there are science fiction films. One day most of our films will have markets abroad."
Yang Guoqing sighed, "Although I am not a movie maker, I was deeply touched by what Director Tang said in the newspaper a few days ago. No matter what industry, a hundred flowers should bloom, and sticking to one genre will not work."
Yu Dong continued, "Director Yang is right. Recently, it seems that Jingdong is also exploring the book market, and even shouted the slogan that it is not allowed to make profits for five years. This is to compete with you for the market."
"It's just Liu Qiangdong's little trick." Li Guoqing said confidently.
Nowadays, Dangdang is the leader of the B2C platform, and Jingdong is just a follower.
Tang An smiled and said, "Director Li, Jingdong will definitely not be able to take away the book market share in the short term. However, Dangdang has 150,000 book orders every day. Jingdong has cut the price by 20%. If you also follow the price reduction, you will lose a lot every day."
It’s not a small amount of money.”
Li Guoqing frowned, but it was a matter of business secrets, so he didn't give a specific response.
Tang An continued, "Jingdong's current advantage lies in the 3C business. If Mr. Li surrounds Wei and rescues Zhao, he can choose some popular products and reduce the price by about 10%, which will make them lose sight of one thing."
"However, digital products are expensive, costing one to two thousand, three to four thousand, but they are not as good as books that cost tens of yuan each..."
Tang An was talking to himself, then suddenly stopped and smiled apologetically.
"Sorry, Mr. Yang, I'm a bit verbose and embarrassing."
"Dr. Tang is being humble. Your idea is very good." Yang Guoqing smiled nonchalantly.
He didn't care either, even though what Tang An was talking about was their temporary strategy, so there was nothing surprising about it.
As for the cost issue, Dangdang’s listing is a boon and there is no shortage of money.
Tang An casually mentioned that Dangdang later was cannibalized by Jingdong step by step because it did not have enough funds to support the expansion of its 3C business. In addition, the expansion of other industries such as beauty and skin care was not smooth.
After chatting for a while, Tang An approached Wang Wei, chairman of Tudou.com, with a glass of wine.
Tang An has been observing him for a long time. Wang Wei has just found several funds, and it seems that he must have encountered resistance.
His ex-wife was smart enough to file a lawsuit at this juncture before the listing. The court froze the couple's joint property, and the entire process of potato listing was put on hold. Wang Wei had no choice but to go private.
But he has no money. How can he come up with nearly ten million US dollars so easily?
It was fine before being sued, but now that the listing has been delayed, the entire company's prospects are worrying, and its valuation has fallen again and again.
The company may seem quite big, but in fact Wang Wei doesn't have much money. He would definitely not be able to spend nearly ten million US dollars.
Unless he sells part of his 12.4% shares, but if he sells again, he will not be among the top five shareholders.
Tang An doesn't want his 12.4% stake, it's not much.
He would not throw away nearly ten million dollars to help Wang Wei tide over the difficulties for no reason.
The real target is Tudou's major shareholder, who happens to have some business dealings with Tang An.
"Hello, Mr. Wang."
Tang An sat over and said hello with a smile and had a drink.
"Hello, Mr. Tang." Wang Weiqiang cheered up and nodded in response.
"Director Wang, Youku has already been launched on the market, and Tudou must not be far away. I will come to watch the ceremony then."
A rare smile appeared on Wang Wei's face, "I'm sure, I will definitely send an invitation to Director Tang when the time comes."
The two of them were not familiar with each other, so Tang An didn't stay long after being polite.
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The morning banquet ended quickly, and Tang An took Zhou You and the group's legal and financial staff to meet with Columbia Vice President Elizabeth Crotty in the hotel conference room, who also brought a team.
"Hello, Ms. Elizabeth."
"Hello Mr. Tang."
The teams from both sides said hello formally and sat down across from each other at the conference table.
"Mr. Tang, this is our contract to purchase the TV on-demand, digital broadcast, physical media broadcast, toys... and other copyrights of "Edge of Tomorrow" in North America."
Elizabeth's assistant handed over several documents, distributed them to Tang An, and then said.
"For the movie "Edge of Tomorrow," we are very optimistic about the market for home on-demand, digital broadcasts, and physical media broadcasts... and decided to buy out the North American rights for US$7 million."
Tang An frowned, he said it so nicely, but there was no sincerity at all.
These days, the ratio of box office, TV broadcast, digital broadcast and physical media broadcast in the North American film market is about 1:0.6:1.2.
Some popular movies have even higher ratios, and others have even tripled their box office revenue.
But that is a number that will take two to three years or more to reach.
2.2 times the box office revenue, the final box office of "Edge of Tomorrow" is expected to be between 50 million and 55 million.
Although it is not a hit movie, nor is it a horror movie, comedy, which is the largest player in the video tape market, plus Chinese-language movies, should be able to get a figure that is no less than the box office share within a year or two.
Columbia secured a 50% share of "Edge of Tomorrow", which means that the revenue from peripheral copyrights is expected to be US$25 million.
After paying the channel fee to Colombia, Tang An's psychological price is 18 million. Both parties will not suffer, and Colombia will be able to earn a considerable amount of income every year in the future.
"Ms. Elizabeth, according to our investigation, "Edge of Tomorrow" has very good prospects on video websites, pay TV stations and the video tape market, and many fans are already asking when the 1:1 scale exoskeleton mecha in the movie will be available for sale.
, the prospects of the toy market are very objective..."
As he spoke, Tang An motioned to Zhou You to hand them the documents containing the survey data, and also stated the price he wanted.
"$25 million!"
You'll be asked all over the place to pay back the money, and you'll be put through all kinds of tests to see if you can figure it out.
There is also a semi-threatening situation. If we don’t sell to us and find channels ourselves, we will be exploited at all levels.
Tang An also said that both 20th Century Fox and Lions approached him to negotiate as a distribution agent for the next film.
After grinding for an hour and a half, we finally reached an agreement.
The US$16 million will be credited to the account within 10 days after the contract is signed.
Columbia had made a lot of money from those two horror films before, and now it still earns hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, so there is no need to waste time.
“A pleasure to work with!”
“A pleasure to work with!”
ps; I’m not familiar with the North American market. From the information I checked, the ratio should be good. If there is any problem with the data, please feel free to comment...