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"Twentieth Century Fox?"
Chu Huan hung up the phone, feeling a little complicated. She never thought that 20th Century Fox would want to buy her investment share in Li Xiaolong's movie!
There is really nothing in this world that cannot be traded.
But Chu Huan has to admit that Twentieth Century Fox is shrewd. Now anyone can see that as long as Li Xiaolong can continue to maintain the level of "Enter the Dragon" in the next movies, he will not worry about the box office in the European and American markets.
Nowadays, investing in Li Xiaolong's movies is basically a business that guarantees a profit without losing any money.
Chu Huan thought for a moment and said to Xu Yi: "Go and call Ma Jizu from the investigation team. By the way, ask him to bring the information about Twentieth Century Fox."
Xu Yi nodded, went out and made a phone call, and called Ma Jizu downstairs.
After a while, Ma Jizu came to Chu Huan's office with a bag. At this time, Ma Jizu was wearing a gray suit. In order to set off his temperament, he even wore gold-rimmed glasses.
"boss!"
Ma Jizu stood opposite Chu Huan respectfully.
"sit down!"
After Ma Jizu sat down, Chu Huan asked, "How do you feel after a few months?"
Ma Jizu said concisely and concisely: "At the beginning, I was a little uncomfortable with it, but as I became familiar with the work, I got used to it."
Chu Huan nodded with satisfaction. Ma Jizu's character is like this. If it works, it will work. If it doesn't work, it won't work.
"How much does the company know about Twentieth Century Fox now?"
In the past few months, the investigation team has been doing a total of five things.
The first thing was naturally the task assigned by Chu Huan when the investigation team was first established, which was to conduct an internal audit of Jiaku Consulting Company to avoid letting some indifferent people join the company.
The second thing is to secretly investigate the employees of all companies under Chu Huan's name, including the information of middle and high-level people. The purpose is also to allow Chu Huan to know more clearly the information of these employees, mainly focusing on the work level, so that Chu can
I would like to better understand who these people are, who are working hard, who are capable people, who are just waiting to die, etc...
The third thing is to collect information about major companies in Xiangjiang and know more about the development directions and plans of these companies, which can help Chu Huan better understand the situation of various industries in Xiangjiang.
The fourth thing is to collect information about major companies around the world, also to allow Chu Huan to easily understand the international economic development situation.
The fifth thing is to investigate matters that Chu Huan specifically handed over, such as the matter about home video recorders that Chu Huan told the investigation team and operations team to jointly investigate.
Ma Jizu was so busy during this period that he didn't even have time to go home.
In addition, the investigation team has been recruiting people. In just a few months, the number of people in the investigation team has exceeded 500, and the number of people is still expanding.
These people include people from Yu She Detective Agency, which is now regarded as a peripheral organization of Jia Ku Consulting Company. However, no one knows about this except Chu Huan, Ma Jizu, Yu Toubiao and She Zaiming.
Even Bao Tianming didn't know.
Naturally, Chu Huan no longer expected Ma Jizu to know any inside information about Twentieth Century Fox. He only needed to know some information that had been publicly disclosed.
Ma Jizu did not delay, and directly took out the information about Twentieth Century Fox from his bag, and said to Chu Huan: "The current situation of Twentieth Century Fox is not very good. It can be said that it is heavily in debt, especially in Chase Bank.
The loan is about to expire, and there are also projects currently underway at Twentieth Century Fox..."
Ma Jizu then talked about the ongoing projects of Twentieth Century Fox, but before Ma Jizu could finish speaking, Chu Huan immediately interrupted Ma Jizu.
"Wait a minute, you said 20th Century Fox invested in a project called "Star Wars"?"
Chu Huan asked with a somewhat excited expression.
Ma Jizu didn't understand why Chu Huan was so excited about a project that had almost become a laughing stock in Hollywood, but he still took out the information about the "Star Wars" project separately.
"According to the information we collected, George Lucas, the director of "Star Wars", wrote a script called "Apocalypse Now" after filming "North American Graffiti". At that time, Columbia was quite interested in this script.
But later, for unknown reasons, Colombia was no longer interested in the project.
Reluctantly, George Lucas went to other film companies, including Warner Brothers, Paramount and other eight major Hollywood film studios. However, the Hollywood film companies at the time commented on the script because the subject matter was too controversial, and the film
The budget was too easily exceeded, and I felt that such a film had no future.
Helpless, George Lucas could only give up "Apocalypse Now" and start planning the "Star Wars" project instead. Last year, George Lucas' agent Jeff Berg contacted United Artists Vice President of Production David
Chasman, but David Chasman did not disagree with the project.
Then Jeff Berg contacted Universal Pictures, which had previously cooperated with "American Graciousness", because George Lucas still had a movie contract with Universal Pictures at that time. However, when they collaborated on "American Graciousness", the two parties cooperated
It was not pleasant. At that time, Lucas asked for a production cost of 3 million, probably because he was not optimistic about the current global science fiction film market. So in the end, Universal Pictures President Lew Wasserman said: We will not make science fiction films, which led to conflicts between both parties.
The partnership breaks down.
Finally, Jeff Berg found Alan Ladd, Jr., the production director of Twentieth Century Fox. Alan Ladd Jr. was very optimistic about the project and helped Twentieth Century Fox invest in the film.
Because Ladd was still interested in Lucas' project, Universal Pictures officially withdrew from the film's follow-up.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for the specific terms of the cooperation between the two parties, we have not yet inquired."
Ma Jizu helplessly preached to Chu Huan.
Chu Huan naturally understood this. These contract terms must be very confidential. According to the current situation of the investigation team, it is impossible to investigate clearly.
"Is there any other information?"
"Yes!" Ma Jizu continued: "After George Lucas received the funds from Twentieth Century Fox, he did not start filming directly. Instead, he established a special effects company called Industrial Light and Magic. Answer to Fox
It also wanted to better showcase the special effects in the movie, and also made a request to Fox for additional film production costs, which was raised from the previous US$3 million to US$8 million.
Fox has also fallen into this trap, and now it can’t get rid of it even if it wants to. According to the news we have received, the president of Fox once tried to discuss the proposal of cooperating with other film companies on this project, but was directly rejected by the other party.
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And now many Fox executives are not satisfied with this project!"
After finishing speaking, Ma Jizu closed his information book and said: "This is the only information we have collected now!"
Chu Huan was so satisfied that she almost jumped with satisfaction.
Unexpectedly, because of Warner and Golden Harvest's saucy operation, he would actually find out about "Star Wars".
This is actually why Chu Huan doesn’t know the film industry as well as those reborn big names in Hong Kong entertainment industry.
In Chu Huan's impression, it always felt that movies like "Star Wars" should have been released in North America a long time ago, so when Kelly was asked to find a good Spielberg, she subconsciously gave George Lucas to him.
forgotten.
Now if 20th Century Fox hadn't been interested in Li Xiaolong's movie, I might have missed this chicken that lays golden eggs.
Take it, must take it!
Before his rebirth, Chu Huan could always see those North American Hollywood film companies, each and every one of them playing dirty cultural export tricks to collect money from Chinese people.
Originally, if you just made some science fiction movies, action movies, disaster movies, etc., it wouldn't matter.
But later on, I was really confused, thinking that if I just made some disgusting movies casually, Chinese people would have to passively accept it.
For example, before Chu Huan was reborn, Marvel's "Shang-Chi" was extremely ugly, and "The Eternals" was directed by an old man who couldn't straighten his back because his spine was bent!
But there are still people in China who are trying to clean up these movies, and they are not afraid of having children with no buttholes after taking this kind of money!
The most irritating thing is that foreigners just film like this, but there are still some so-called elites in China who have no bottom line when making films that disgust their own people.
That's right, Chu Huan is talking about that movie about the silly boy playing shit!
Well now, I have a chance to get the North American national IP of "Star Wars".
Imagine that a few decades later, North Americans are proudly shouting on the Internet that they have the national IP of "Star Wars".
We Chinese netizens replied to them in a secret way: The boss behind your national IP is us Chinese!
That picture will definitely be interesting!
Of course, these are just side benefits, and for Chu Huan, if he can get the IP of "Star Wars", it means that Chu Huan has won a super IP worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
According to later records, the total box office revenue of the "Star Wars" series of movies has exceeded 10 billion US dollars, and the peripheral revenue has reached a terrifying US$100 billion!
"Okay, I know this!"
Chu Huan suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked Ma Jizu calmly.
"What's going on with the home video recorder?"
Although the "Star Wars" IP can reach a value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future.
But that was for the future after all, and Chu Huan was more concerned about the home video recorder now.
Ma Jizu said: "The investigation team now has fifty people investigating this matter in Japan. They have obtained preliminary information on a group of JVC's core R&D personnel and have handed this information to the operations team. The operations team now has
They should be arranging a plan to poach people!"
Later, Ma Jizu wanted to report specific matters to Chu Huan, but Chu Huan refused. Since the matter had been handed over to the investigation team and operations team, Chu Huan chose to believe them. This was also an inspection of them.
!
After Ma Jizu left, Chu Huan thought for a moment and called the number of Li Xiaolong's villa.
"Ah Huan, what's the matter?"
Li Xiaolong asked with a smile after hearing Chu Huan's voice.
"Let's go to Los Angeles together tomorrow!"
Chu Huan said such a simple sentence.
The IP of "Star Wars" deserves another trip to Los Angeles.
But we can't let Twentieth Century Fox feel that we are too urgent.
So Chu Huan needed a reason to go to Los Angeles at this time.
"It's great to go to Los Angeles. Let's go and have a good talk with Warner's executives then!" Li Xiaolong thought that Chu Huan went there for his new movie.
Chu Huan smiled and said, "Let's talk about it on the plane tomorrow!"
Li Xiaolong flew to Los Angeles this time actually for his new movie. Now Li Xiaolong's new movie has been decided, and it will be a series of movies called "Dragon Warrior".
In Li Xiaolong's concept, this movie will be a series of movies, and the content will focus on the story of Chinese workers in North America at the end of the 19th century.
This movie has also been confirmed to be shot in western North America!
This time Li Xiaolong went to Los Angeles to discuss all matters related to this movie with Warner.
"But Ah Huan..." After Li Xiaolong got over his excitement, he awkwardly told Chu Huan, "Mr. Zou will also go to Los Angeles with me tomorrow!"
"Dragon Warrior" is Li Xiaolong's first film shot in North America after returning to Hong Kong, and Zou Wenhuai will definitely follow.
Chu Huan said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, I won't fight with Mr. Zou!"
Li Xiaolong thought that this was not necessarily the case...
The two chatted for a while and then hung up the phone.
Chu Huan then called Xu Yi in and told him that he would fly to Los Angeles tomorrow and that all matters concerning Xiangjiang would be postponed.
Xu Yi said worriedly: "Boss, the store location of the Toy City flagship store will soon be signed with "Fantasy Comics" for sale. In addition, the signing ceremony between "Fantasy Comics" and major shopping malls in Hong Kong will also be held soon.
, Aren’t you going to stay and take charge of the overall situation?”
Toy City "Toy City" can be said to be the biggest project of "Fantasy Comics" this year, with a total investment of 130 million Hong Kong dollars. Now Chu Huan wants to leave Hong Kong at this critical time. Xu Yi is not sure why.
Chu Huan said with a smile: "It would be better if Kamikura Yasuo and Zhong Zhichen do this!"
An investment of 130 million is certainly not small, but now what Chu Huan is going to talk about is a super IP that will create a value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future. Looking at it this way, an investment of 130 million is not enough.
Of course, Chu Huan still wants to see if Kamikura Yasuo and Zhong Zhichen can handle this matter well!
Xu opined that Chu Huan was resolute, so it was hard to say anything.
Then Chu Huan asked: "How much money does the company have that it can mobilize now?"
Although Chu Huan previously left US$8 million in working capital for Deep Sea Investment and Starry Sky Investment, which were responsible for North American business, he spent US$2 million to buy Spielberg from Universal Pictures. At the same time, Spielberg's new movie
"Jaws" is already in the preparation stage. It cost US$400,000 to purchase the rights to the novel and the production cost of the film was US$3 million.
Coupled with other expenses, Chu Huan's accounts at five investment companies in North America now only have 2.5 million US dollars left!
It is definitely not enough to win the "Star Wars" project, so Chu Huan still needs more funds.
As for the reserve fund that Chu Huan had kept for himself before, as well as the mental damage compensation given by the three major newspapers, and the 35 million Hong Kong dollars taken from Tianhua Toys and Rising Sun Toys this time, Chu Huan has all been taken away.
Huan put it into the account of Jiaku Consulting Company as the company's operating funds. Chu Huan only had HK$5 million in pocket money left in his personal hands at this time.
Xu Yi asked: "Boss, are you asking about all companies, or?"
Chu Huan thought for a while and said: "Yunhai Chain, Brother Audio and Video, except "Fantasy Comics"!"
Yunhai Chain's current logistics company has been established, and the first batch of employees have been trained, and they are ready to continue to expand their stores.
Funds cannot be moved!
Brother Audio and Video is now fully engaged in research and development of home video recorders and rapid expansion, and their working capital cannot be touched either.
"Fantasy Comics" is preparing for Toys "R" Us, and the funds cannot be used, although Chu Huan knows that "Fantasy Comics" still has tens of millions in reserve funds.
Xu Yi immediately understood and said: "Jiahu Textile has 30 million Hong Kong dollars in its account that can be used, Huhua Real Estate has 20 million Hong Kong dollars in its account that can be used, and Hang Lung Real Estate has 50 million Hong Kong dollars in its account.
There are 60 million Hong Kong dollars in the account of Black and White Image that can be used. As for "True Report"..."
Chu Huan interrupted directly: "Forget it about "True Report"."
The role of "True News" is not to prepare how much cash to give Chu Huan, but how to speak out for Chu Huan in the future.
Originally, the most important expenditure for Black and White this year was the establishment of the studio, but Chu Huan had already prepared the funds for the establishment of the studio.
So the money for black and white images is no longer needed.
On the contrary, the two cinemas acquired by Taipei cost 23 million Hong Kong dollars for black and white images!
But even so, Black and White Image has become the company with the most cash flow in Chu Huan's hands, more than Jiahu Textile, Huhua Real Estate, and Hang Lung Real Estate.
In fact, there are historical reasons for this. After all, when Chu Huan acquired these three companies, these three companies themselves had a lot of loans that needed to be repaid.
Coupled with the downturn in the real estate industry in Xiangjiang this year, it is good to have these liquidity now.
"These four companies add up to a total of 160 million Hong Kong dollars. If converted into U.S. dollars, according to the current exchange rate, it is almost 30 million U.S. dollars!"
Because of the oil crisis, even the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar has undergone some slight changes.
"30 million US dollars? That's enough!"
After getting this number, Chu Huan was completely relieved.
"Inform Luo Jichang from Jiahu Textile, Lu Qi from Huhua Real Estate, He Bingguang from Hang Lung Real Estate, and Fang Jianhui from Black and White Image, and ask them to prepare the funds for me. I will give you the exact amount required. I will call you then.
!”
Chu Huan didn't know how much the production cost of the "Star Wars" movie was, and Chu Huan didn't know what kind of contract George Lucas signed with 20th Century Fox.
But one thing Chu Huan is sure of is that Chu Huan wants the ownership rights of George Lucas, Industrial Light and Magic, "Star Wars" and "Star Wars" peripherals!
This is bound to cost a lot of money!
Xu Yi nodded and said: "I will inform them soon!"
Chu Huan nodded with satisfaction.
After returning to the Repulse Bay villa, Chu Huan told Cao Yunchang that he would leave Xiangjiang tomorrow for Los Angeles.
When Cao Yunshang heard that Chu Huan was going to Los Angeles not long after returning from Los Angeles, he couldn't help but curiously asked Chu Huan what he was going to do.
"Apex Pictures found a good project, I want to go and take a look in person!"
Chu Huan preached to Cao Yunshang like this.
Cao Yunshang naturally knew about Apex Pictures, so after hearing what Chu Huan said, he was no longer curious.
"How long will it take to go this time, and what things should I prepare for you?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Cao Yunshang asked while helping Chu Huan pack her clothes.
"We're not sure yet. Let's see what happens when we get there!" Chu Huan sat cross-legged on the bed and spoke softly.
"Oh!" Cao Yunshang nodded casually, and suddenly looked up at Chu Huan curiously: "Where are the white boxer briefs I bought for you before, why can't I see them?"
Well?
It seems that it was originally placed in Lin Qingxia's box.
"It should have been thrown away when we were in Taiwan!" Chu Huan said lightly.
Cao Yunshang didn't pay attention and just continued to pack Chu Huan's clothes!
...
The next day!
Chu Huan came to the VIP hall of the airport, waiting to board the plane. This time Chu Huan went to Los Angeles without any of the women around him. He only brought Qin Peng and others with him.
Within a few minutes, Li Xiaolong and Zou Wenhuai also came to the hall.
"Ah Huan, I didn't expect you to come so early!"
After seeing Chu Huan, Li Xiaolong seemed very happy, leaving Zou Wenhuai behind and went straight to Chu Huan's side.
Zou Wenhuai did not take the initiative to greet Chu Huan. When facing Chu Huan, Zou Wenhuai's eyes showed a rare look of victory.
He received a call from Li Xiaolong last night and learned from Li Xiaolong that Chu Huan was going to Los Angeles today.
What Zou Wenhuai was thinking was similar to what Li Xiaolong was thinking. They both believed that Chu Huan went to Los Angeles this time to personally discuss with Warner about the investment in the movie "Dragon Warrior".
However, in Zou Wenhuai's view, Chu Huan was just doing useless work this time.
Because no matter what Chu Huan says, Warner cannot agree. After all, giving up the investment share to Chu Huan means that Warner itself will make a lot less money, which is impossible for Warner to accept.
Zou Wenhuai was also happy that Warner stood in front of him and bore Li Xiaolong's anger.
As for Chu Huan's previous request to cooperate with Jiahe and borrow the studio and Japanese distribution channels, Zou Wenhuai has already figured it out. Anyway, the black and white videos under Chu Huan's name now have their own distribution channels, and they are also building their own Tseung Kwan O.
On set.
Basically, there is no longer any cooperative relationship with Jiahe.
As for whether Chu Huan's black and white images will continue to target Jiahe because of this incident, it is no longer important.
After He Guanchang's reminder, Zou Wenhuai also re-established his self-confidence at this time. Chu Huan was able to grow up under the pressure of Shaw Brothers and Jiahe.
His Jiahe is much better than the original black and white image, so naturally it will work!
"I didn't have anything to do, so I came here early!" Chu Huan said with a smile.
Since Zou Wenhuai didn't take the initiative to say hello, Chu Huan naturally couldn't take the initiative to say hello to Zou Wenhuai.
He just smiled and chatted with Li Xiaolong.
Soon the announcement in the airport lobby rang, Chu Huan and others were preparing to board the plane!
On the plane, Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong sat together.
Don't ask why two people who didn't buy their tickets at the same time could still sit together. There is nothing in this world that money can't solve.
Zou Wenhuai was sitting behind the two of them.
"Ah Huan, I have thought about it. After we get to Los Angeles, I will go to Warner with you. Then we must force Warner to accept your investment!"
Li Xiaolong preached to Chu Huan seriously.
Zou Wenhuai, who was sitting behind the two men, was in pain and helpless.
Chu Huan smiled and shook his head and said: "Brother Long, you have forgotten what I told you before. The matter between Warner and Black and White is between us. You should not get involved. No matter what, you and
Warner still has three films scheduled, so don’t get involved in these things."
Zou Wenhuai was sitting in the back. Although he didn't like Chu Huan because of their competitive relationship with Chu Huan, he had to admit that Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong were true friends.
At this time, Chu Huan still refused to let Li Xiaolong get involved in this matter.
When Li Xiaolong was about to say something else, he was interrupted by Chu Huan: "Okay, this matter has been settled. Brother Long, please don't mention it again, otherwise, I will feel that you look down on me!
"
After hearing what Chu Huan said, Li Xiaolong didn't know what to say.
"By the way, there's something I forgot to tell you before!" Chu Huan said suddenly.
Li Xiaolong asked: "What happened?"
"It has nothing to do with the cooperation with Warner, but one thing you have to remember is that the copyright of the movie "Dragon Warrior" must remain in your own hands!"
Li Xiaolong today is already different from what he was in history. Even Chu Huan doesn't know what level Li Xiaolong will achieve in the future if he did not pass away last year.
Since Li Xiaolong's "Dragon Warrior" is a series of movies, no one knows whether it will be shot in three episodes or whether there will be a follow-up.
And even if there is no follow-up, there may still be a remake. If the copyright of this series remains in Li Xiaolong's hands, there will be great maneuverability in the future.
There are many such operations in Hollywood, the most famous ones being Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible" series and Vin Diesel's "Fast and Furious" series.
The copyrights of these two movies are in the hands of the two of them, not in the hands of a certain film company.
It is precisely because of these two series of movies that the two of them have always been among the top stars in Hollywood.
More importantly, Brother Audio and Video is already researching home video recorders. When the home video recorders come out, the video tape market will immediately become a turmoil. By then, I can definitely cooperate with Li Xiaolong in the video tape market.
Li Xiaolong’s movies have always been very popular in the video tape market!
Li Xiaolong didn't know that Chu Huan was thinking so much. He just thought that Chu Huan was thinking about him, so he nodded seriously: "I know!"
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It was already the next morning when everyone arrived in Los Angeles. Andrew Morgan personally came to pick up Li Xiaolong and Zou Wenhuai. However, when he saw that Chu Huan also came with them, his face immediately dropped and he said dissatisfied.