After the meeting, Li Xuemei said to Li Guangyu: "Li Sheng, regarding Atari's acquisition of the Alien game copyright, Universal Pictures Group is urging our group to make a decision as soon as possible. If our group doesn't want it, they will
Sold to Atari."
After Alien became a hit at the box office last year, Atari, the American gaming giant, became interested in the rights to adapt the movie and game.
Now all the copyrights of Alien are in the hands of Spielberg, Jiayi Group and Universal Pictures Group. Among them, Universal Pictures Group has the largest share, so their group has the final say.
Since last year, the U.S. home game console market has begun to decline. The rise of personal computers has seriously squeezed the home game console market. There are even rumors over there that "you are buying a computer for your child to go to college.
Or buy a game console that will make your children lose interest in playing with things.”
Atari itself does not have an epoch-making game, which has caused their business to be severely squeezed by Xingyu Group. They also saw that Alien is very popular around the world, so they hope to acquire its game copyrights and convert them into
Come out and reverse Atari's current unfavorable situation.
The reason why the Xingyu Group has been delaying for so long is because they don't know what the aliens will do when they come out. They asked Li Guangyu about this matter.
It's just that Li Guangyu doesn't know much about this. He remembers that the more powerful game companies are all Japanese. Many of the games he played when he was a child were also developed by several major Japanese game companies. He has never heard that Atari has any powerful products.
Come out.
Li Guangyu asked Li Xuemei to delay this issue for a while, and at the same time get to know some of the situation in this area. This time Atari was really willing to spend a lot of money, and the royalties for purchasing game copyrights have reached 2.4 million US dollars.
This is also the reason why Universal Pictures Group is urging Xingyu Group this time. Universal Pictures Group has already been excited about such a high patent fee. If it were not for the reason of cooperating with Jiayi Group, they would have agreed to Atari's
Acquired.
Li Guangyu asked: "What are the results of your evaluation? Is this game likely to be a big seller?"
"Li Sheng, this time we have a lot of internal differences. One side thinks that aliens have a great influence on the world, and making it into a game will definitely be popular. The other side thinks that this is just a happy movie, and it is not suitable for games.
It is playable and game fans will not buy such a story-driven game. High copyright fees and low-quality games are not worth our investment."
Li Guangyu thought for a moment that there was indeed no news about Atari in the future, and he estimated that they had rushed out of the market when they invested in this. In this case, he simply let them develop it, and his group would still develop its own games as planned.
Li Guangyu said: "Xuemei, our Xingyu Group gave up purchasing the copyright of Alien and gave them to Atari. We will focus on the series of games planned by our group. As for whether Atari can
It depends on their luck if they can turn around."
When Li Xuemei saw that Li Guangyu gave up the copyright acquisition, she estimated that Atari would be in trouble this time. Based on her understanding of Li Guangyu, if the game could make money, Li Guangyu would never give it to Atari.
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As for whether Li Guangyu's judgment is accurate, Li Xuemei has never doubted that the main contribution to the miracles of the Li Group over the years is Li Guangyu. They, the top brass, are just following Li Guangyu's instructions. Even this movie
The investment was all ordered by Li Guangyu.
Jiahe invested countless financial resources and energy in the United States, but the profits they earned in the end were not as good as the profits they earned from investing in this movie. This is the gap.
After Li Guangyu left, Li Xuemei notified Han Huiyi, general manager of the administration department, and asked her to arrange a time to reply to Universal Pictures Group that Xingyu Group would withdraw from the purchase of the Alien game copyright.
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At 9:30 a.m. on March 16, Los Angeles time, Universal Pictures Group President Joe Johnson-Candy received a report from the group's administrative manager about Starlight Group's withdrawal from the copyright acquisition.
He was also disappointed about this. Although the box office success of Alien has brought very generous returns to the group, the US market has been relatively sluggish in recent years. Life for their group has not been easy. He also hopes to complete it as soon as possible.
With this transaction, they can once again have a capital income.
And he knew very well that Xingyu Group didn't have much sincerity in acquiring the copyright in this area. If Atari hadn't suddenly come to acquire this copyright and let Jiayi Group know about it, Xingyu Group would have come over to intervene.
My feet delayed the time for more than half a year.
Moreover, Johnson Candy is very aware of the financial resources of Xingyu Game Group. If they were really interested in acquiring the game copyright of Alienware, they would not delay it until now.
The Li Group is very efficient in everything they do, and this time it obviously doesn't fit in with their style of doing things.
Now he can finally contact Atari. This time the copyright fee makes Johnson very happy, and their Universal Pictures Group can make a lot of money again.
He said to the general manager of the administrative department: "Please contact Atari and tell them that we agree to their conditions for the acquisition of the alien copyright."
In the office of Atari Chairman Tim Irons, his company chairman has not felt comfortable in more than a year.
Xingyu Game Group has put increasing pressure on them, and even cross-industry computer companies have attacked their market, causing their Atari performance to continue to decline.
This time, the acquisition of the copyright for the adaptation of the Alien game made him even more upset. Xingyu Group came over and interfered, making them unable to acquire it. As a result, his idea of changing the company's status quo has been unable to be implemented.
While he was thinking about how the company would develop in the future, one of his employees came in and reported to him: "Chairman, we just got a call from Universal Pictures Group. They accepted our company's acquisition conditions for the copyright of the Alien game adaptation and asked us to
Arrange personnel to go over and conduct follow-up discussions on this matter."
Listening to the report from the company staff, Tim Irons was also excited. After more than half a year, he finally won the copyright of Alien. He believed that this movie would not let him down.
The huge number of movie fans is behind them. As long as Atari releases the game, Atari's situation will be completely reversed.
Tim Aarons said: "You go and reply to Universal Pictures Group. Our company's negotiators will go to Los Angeles this afternoon and will negotiate with them tomorrow."
This employee knew very well how much effort his chairman had put in over the past six months to win the rights to adapt the movie and game, and now he finally had a good result, so it was rare to see him with such a relaxed expression today.
She replied: "Chairman, I will reply to Universal Pictures Group right away. Is there anything special you need to tell me?"
"After you reply to Universal Pictures Group, inform our company executives and the heads of the game research department to hold a meeting in an hour."
This time it's time for Atari to take a big step. He hopes that this movie adaptation of the game will allow their company to replicate the miracle of 1977.