Chapter 292 A super IP worth hundreds of billions of dollars (7K chapters, please subscribe)

   "Twentieth Century Fox?"

  Chu Huan hung up the phone, feeling a little complicated, never thought that 20th Century Fox would want to buy his investment share in Li Xiaolong's movie!

  There is really nothing in this world that cannot be traded.

  But Chu Huan has to admit the shrewdness of 20th Century Fox. Now anyone can see that as long as Li Xiaolong can continue to maintain the level of "Enter the Dragon" in the next movie, then he will not worry about the box office in the European and American markets.

  Investing in Li Xiaolong's films now is basically a business that can make money without losing money.

  Chu Huan thought for a while, and said to Xu Yi: "Go and call Ma Jizu from the investigation team. By the way, let him bring up the materials of 20th Century Fox."

  Xu Yi nodded, went out to make 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. To set off his temperament, he even put on a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

"boss!"

   Ma Jizu respectfully stood opposite Chu Huan.

"sit down!"

  After Ma Jizu sat down, Chu Huan asked, "How do you feel after a few months?"

   Ma Jizu said succinctly: "I was not used to it at the beginning, but after getting familiar with the work, I got used to it."

  Chu Huan nodded in satisfaction. Ma Jizu's character is like this, if he can do it, he can't.

   "How much does the company know about 20th Century Fox's information?"

  In the past few months, the investigation team has been doing five things.

  The first thing, of course, was the task assigned by Chu Huan when the investigation team was just established, 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 the companies under Chu Huan's name, including the information of the middle and high levels. It is also to let Chu Huan know the information of these employees more clearly. I would like to know better who these people are, who are working hard, who are capable, who are just waiting to die, etc.

  The third thing is to collect information on the major companies in Hong Kong. Knowing more about the development direction and planning of these companies can help Chu Huan better understand the situation of various industries in Xiangjiang.

  The fourth thing is to collect the information of major companies around the world, also for the purpose of making it easier for Chu Huan to understand the international economic development situation.

  The fifth thing is to investigate the things that Chu Huan specifically explained, such as the matter about the home video recorder that Chu Huan told the investigation team and the operation team to investigate.

   Ma Jizu was so busy 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 the investigation team has exceeded 500, and the number is still expanding.

  These people include people from the Fish and Snake Detective Agency. Now the Fish and Snake Detective Agency is regarded as a peripheral organization of Jiaku Consulting Company, but except for Chu Huan, Ma Jizu, Yutoubiao, and Sheziming, no one knows about it.

  Even Bao Tianming didn't know.

  Chu Huan now naturally doesn't expect Ma Jizu to know any inside information about 20th Century Fox. He only needs to know some information about 20th Century Fox.

Ma Jizu didn't delay either, and directly took out the materials of 20th Century Fox in his bag, and said to Chu Huan: "The current situation of 20th 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 currently ongoing projects at 20th Century Fox."

   Then Ma Jizu talked about the ongoing projects of 20th Century Fox, but before Ma Jizu finished speaking, Chu Huan immediately interrupted Ma Jizu.

   "Wait, you said 20th Century Fox invested in a project called Star Wars?"

  Chu Huan asked excitedly.

   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 have collected, George Lucas, the director of "Star Wars", wrote a script called "Apocalypse Now" after he finished filming "North American Landscape". At that time, Columbia was more interested in this script. But for unknown reasons later, Columbia was not interested in this project again.

Reluctantly, George Lucas went to other film companies, including Warner Bros., Paramount, and the eight major Hollywood film studios, but at that time, Hollywood film companies commented on the script as too controversial, and the film The budget was too easily overrun to think such a film had any future.

Helpless, George Lucas had no choice but to give up "Apocalypse Now" and start planning the "Star Wars" project. Last year, George Lucas' agent, Jeff Berg, contacted United Artists Vice President of Production David Chasman, but David Chasman didn't disagree with the project.

Then Jeff Berger contacted Universal Pictures, which had previously cooperated with "Grasp of North America", because George Lucas had a film contract with Universal Pictures at that time, but when cooperating with "Gift of North America", 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 sci-fi film market, so in the end, the president of Universal Pictures, Lu Wasserman, said: We do not make sci-fi films, which leads to conflicts between the two parties. The partnership breaks down.

  Finally, Jeff Berger found Alan Ladd Jr., the production director of Twentieth Century Fox. Alan Ladd Jr. was very optimistic about this project, and he contributed to Twentieth Century Fox's investment in this film.

   Because Ladd is still interested in Lucas's project, Universal Pictures also officially withdrew from the film's follow-up.

  As for the specific terms of the cooperation between the two parties, we haven't found out yet. "

   Ma Jizu helplessly preached to Chu Huan.

  Chu Huan naturally understood this point. 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 funding from Twentieth Century Fox, he did not directly start filming. Instead, he established a special effects company called Industrial Light and Magic, and gave Fox the answer. It is also to better show the special effects in the movie. At the same time, it also asked Fox to increase the production cost of the movie, which was increased from the previous $3 million to $8 million.

Fox has also fallen into this pit, and now even if they want to get rid of it, they can’t get rid of it. According to the news we got, the president of Fox once tried to discuss with other film companies about the proposal of cooperating with this project, but they were directly rejected by the other party. .

  And now many senior executives of Fox are not satisfied with this project! "

   After finishing speaking, Ma Jizu closed his data book and said, "These are the only materials I have collected now!"

  Chu Huan was so satisfied in his heart that he almost jumped up with satisfaction.

   Unexpectedly, because of Warner and Golden Harvest's showy operation, he would let himself know about "Star Wars".

   It's actually because Chu Huan doesn't know as much about the film industry as those bigwigs who are reborn from Hong Kong entertainment.

In Chu Huan's impression, it always feels that movies like "Star Wars" should have been released in North America long ago, so when Kelly was asked to find Spielberg, she subconsciously gave George Lucas forgotten.

  If 20th Century Fox hadn’t been interested in Li Xiaolong’s films now, I’m afraid I would have missed this chicken that lays golden eggs.

   Take it, you must take it!

  Before being reborn, Chu Huan could always see those Hollywood film companies in North America, one by one, playing dirty cultural export routines to collect money from Chinese people.

   Originally, if you honestly make some science fiction movies, action movies, disaster movies and so on, it doesn’t matter.

   But in the back, he really drifted away, thinking that he would shoot some disgusting films casually, and the Chinese people would have to accept it passively.

  For example, before Chu Huan was reborn, Marvel's ugly "Shang Qi", and "The Eternal Race" directed by the old and the young who couldn't straighten their backs!

  However, there are still people in China who launder the ground for these movies, and they are not afraid that after taking this kind of money, they will have children without assholes!

  The most irritating thing is that foreigners make films like this, but there are still some so-called elites in China who make films that disgust their own people, and there is no bottom line.

  That's right, what Chu Huan was talking about was the sloppy boy playing shit!

   Now it's all right, I have a chance to get the North American national IP of "Star Wars".

  Imagine, when decades later, North Americans proudly clamor on the Internet that they have the national IP of "Star Wars".

  We Huaguo netizens secretly answered them: Your national IP, the boss behind the scenes is us Huaguo!

   That picture will be very interesting!

  Of course, these are just incidental benefits, and for Chu Huan, if he can get the IP of "Star Wars", it means that Chu Huan won a super IP worth 100 billion US dollars.

  According to the records of later generations, the total box office revenue of the "Star Wars" series has exceeded 10 billion U.S. dollars, and the peripheral revenue has reached a terrifying 100 billion U.S. dollars!

   "Okay, I know about this!"

  Chu Huan suppressed the excitement in his heart, and asked Ma Jizu calmly.

   "How's the VCR thing going?"

  Although the IP of "Star Wars" can reach a value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future.

   But that is the future after all, Chu Huan is more concerned about the home video recorder now.

Ma Jizu said: "The investigation team now has 50 people investigating this matter in Japan, and has obtained preliminary information on a group of JVC's core R&D personnel, and has handed over the information to the operation team. It should be a plan to poach people!"

Later, Ma Jizu wanted to report the specific matter to Chu Huan, but Chu Huan refused. Since the matter has been handed over to the investigation team and the operation team, Chu Huan chose to believe them. This is also an investigation of them. !

  After Ma Jizu left, Chu Huan thought for a while and called 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 is such a simple sentence.

  The IP of "Star Wars" deserves to fly to Los Angeles again.

  But it can't make 20th Century Fox feel too urgent.

  So Chu Huan needs 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 executives!" Li Xiaolong thought that Chu Huan was there for his new movie.

  Chu Huan laughed and said, "Let's talk about it on the plane tomorrow!"

   Li Xiaolong’s flight to Los Angeles this time is actually for his new movie. Now Li Xiaolong’s new movie has been finalized, 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 of it will focus on the story of Chinese laborers 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 the film with Warner.

   "But A Huan." After Li Xiaolong was excited, he said to Chu Huan in embarrassment: "Mr. Zou will go to Los Angeles with me tomorrow!"

   "Dragon Warrior" is Li Xiaolong's first film shot in North America after returning to Xiangjiang, and Zou Wenhuai will definitely follow.

  Chu Huan said indifferently: "Don't worry, I won't fight with Mr. Zou!"

  Li Xiaolong said in his heart that this is not necessarily the case.

  The two chatted for a while, then hung up the phone.

   Then Chu Huan called Xu Yi in and told him that he was going to fly to Los Angeles tomorrow, and that everything about Xiangjiang was postponed.

Xu Yi said worriedly: "Boss, the location of the flagship store of FD Toy City is about to sign a sales contract with "Fantasy Comics", and the signing ceremonies between "Fantasy Comics" and major shopping malls in Xiangjiang will also be held soon. , won't you stay and preside over the overall situation?"

   Anti-Dou 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 is going to leave Xiangjiang at this critical moment, Xu Yi doesn't know why.

  Chu Huan said with a smile: "It's good that Yakuo Kamakura and Zhong Zhichen can do this matter!"

  An investment of 130 million yuan is naturally not small, but what Chu Huan is going to talk about now is a super IP that will create a value of 100 billion U.S. dollars in the future. Looking at it this way, an investment of 130 million yuan is not enough.

  Of course, Chu Huan still wants to see if Yasuo Kamakura and Zhong Zhichen can do a good job in this matter!

  Xu Opinion Chu Huan's attitude is firm, so it's hard to say anything.

   Then Chu Huan asked: "How much money can the company mobilize now?"

Although Chu Huan had left 8 million US dollars in activity funds for Deep Sea Investment and Starry Sky Investment, which was in charge of the North American business, it cost 2 million US dollars to buy Spielberg at Universal Pictures, and now Spielberg's new movie "Jaws" is already in the preparatory stage. The rights to the novel cost $400,000, and the movie cost $3 million to make.

  Including other expenses, now Chu Huan has only 2.5 million US dollars left in his five investment company accounts in North America!

   It is definitely not enough to win the "Star Wars" project, so Chu Huan still needs more funds.

As for the reserve funds that Chu Huan had kept for himself before, as well as the mental damage fees given by the three major newspapers, and the 35 million Hong Kong dollars he took from Tianhua Toys and Rising Sun Toys this time, all of them have been taken by Chu Huan. Huan put it in the account of Jiaku Consulting Company as the company's operating funds, and Chu Huan only left pocket money of 5 million Hong Kong dollars 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: "Cloud Sea Chain, brothers audio and video, except for "Fantasy Comics"!"

  The current logistics company of Yunhai Chain has been established, and the first batch of employees have been trained, and the next step is to continue to expand the store.

   Funds cannot be moved!

  Brothers Audiovisual is currently working **** the research and development of home video recorders and rapid expansion routes, and their working capital is also immobile.

   "Fantasy Comics" is preparing for the Toys R Us event, and the funds cannot be moved, although Chu Huan knows that "Fantasy Comics" still has tens of millions of reserve funds in its account.

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 Properties' account has 50 million Hong Kong dollars that can be used." Use, there is 60 million Hong Kong dollars in the account of black and white images that can be used, as for "True News."

  Chu Huan directly interrupted: "Forget about "True Pao."

  The role of "Zhenbao" is not how much cash to prepare for Chu Huan, but how to speak for Chu Huan in the future.

  Originally, the most important expenditure for black and white video this year is the establishment of the studio, but the funds for the establishment of the studio have already been prepared by Chu Huan.

  So there is no need to use the funds for black and white images.

   On the contrary, the two movie theaters acquired by Taiwan made the black and white video use 23 million Hong Kong dollars!

   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, the three companies themselves had a lot of loans to repay.

  Combined with the downturn in the real estate industry in Xiangjiang this year, it is not bad 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 about 30 million U.S. dollars!"

  Because of the oil crisis, even the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the U.S. dollar has undergone some slight changes.

   "$30 million? Enough!"

  After getting this number, Chu Huan was completely relieved.

"Notify Luo Jichang of Jiahu Textile, Lu Qi of Huhua Real Estate, He Bingguang of Hang Lung Real Estate, and Fang Jianhui of Black and White Video, and ask them to prepare all the funds for me. I will call you when the time comes. !"

  Chu Huan didn't know how much the production cost of the movie "Star Wars" was. At the same time, Chu Huan didn't know what kind of contract George Lucas signed with 20th Century Fox.

   But there is one thing that Chu Huan is sure of, that is, George Lucas, Industrial Light & Magic, "Star Wars" and the peripheral ownership of "Star Wars", Chu Huan wants it all!

   This is bound to cost a lot of money!

  Xu Yi nodded and said, "I'll notify them in a while!"

  Chu Huan nodded in satisfaction.

  After returning to Repulse Bay Villa, Chu Huan told Cao Yunshang that he would leave Xiangjiang tomorrow and go to Los Angeles.

   When Cao Yunshang heard that Chu Huan was going to Los Angeles not long after he came back from Los Angeles, he couldn't help but curiously asked what Chu Huan was going to do.

   "Apex Pictures found a good project, I want to go and have a look in person!"

  Chu Huan preached to Cao Yunshang like this.

  Cao Yunshang naturally knew about Vertex Pictures. Hearing what Chu Huan said, he was not curious.

   "How long will you be going this time, and what should I prepare for you?"

  Cao Yunshang asked while helping Chu Huan pack his clothes.

   "I'm not sure yet, let's see what happens when we get there!" Chu Huan sat cross-legged on the bed and said softly.

   "Oh!" Cao Yunshang nodded casually, and suddenly looked up at Chu Huan curiously: "The white boxer underwear I bought for you before, why can't I see it?"

Uh?

   It seems that it was put in Lin Qingxia's box at the beginning.

   "It should have been thrown away at Taiwan!" Chu Huan said lightly.

  Cao Yunshang didn't care either, but continued to pack Chu Huan's clothes!

  Next day!

  Chu Huan came to the VIP lobby of the airport and waited to board the plane. This time, Chu Huan did not bring any women with him to Los Angeles, but only brought Qin Peng and others by his side.

   Within a few minutes, Li Xiaolong and Zou Wenhuai also came to the hall.

   "A 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 from Li Xiaolong he knew that Chu Huan was going to Los Angeles today.

   What Zou Wenhuai thought was similar to what Li Xiaolong thought was that Chu Huan went to Los Angeles this time to personally discuss with Warner about the investment in the movie "Dragon Warrior".

   But in Zou Wenhuai's view, Chu Huan was just doing useless work this time.

  Because no matter what Chu Huan said, it was impossible for Warner to agree. After all, giving up the investment share to Chu Huan meant that Warner would make a lot less money, which was unacceptable for Warner.

   Warner, who was happy with Zou Wen, stood in front of him and bore Li Xiaolong's anger.

As for Chu Huan's previous request to cooperate with Golden Harvest and borrow the studio and Japanese distribution channels, Zou Wenhuai has already figured it out. Anyway, the black and white images under Chu Huan's name now have their own distribution channels, and they are also building their own Tseung Kwan O. studio.

  Basically, there is no cooperative relationship with Golden Harvest.

   As for whether Chu Huan's black and white images will continue to target Jiahe because of this incident, this is no longer important.

  After He Guanchang's reminder, Zou Wenhuai also re-established his self-confidence at this time. At the beginning, Chu Huan could grow up under the joint pressure of Shaw Brothers and Jiahe.

  His Golden Harvest image is much better than the original black and white image, so naturally it’s okay!

   "There is nothing left and right, so I came here early!" Chu Huan said with a smile.

  Since Zou Wenhuai did not take the initiative to come over to say hello, it is naturally impossible for Chu Huan to take the initiative to say hello to Zou Wenhuai.

   Just laughing and chatting with Li Xiaolong.

   Soon the announcement in the airport lobby sounded, Chu Huan and others were ready to board the plane!

  On the plane, Chu Huan and Li Xiaolong sat together.

  Don’t ask why two people can still sit together if they didn’t buy the tickets at the same time. There is nothing in this world that money can’t solve.

   Zou Wenhuai was sitting behind the two of them.

   "A Huan, I've made up my mind. After arriving in Los Angeles, I will go to Warner with you. At that time, we must force Warner to accept your investment!"

  Li Xiaolong preached to Chu Huan seriously.

   Sitting behind the two of them, Zou Wenhuai was in pain and helpless.

Chu Huan shook his head with a smile and said, "Brother Long, you forgot what I told you before. The matter between Warner and black and white images is between us, so you should not participate. No matter what, you and Warner still has three movie contracts, so don't get involved in these things."

  Zou Wenhuai sat in the back. Although he didn't like Chu Huan because he was in competition 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 participate in this matter.

When Li Xiaolong wanted to say something, he was interrupted by Chu Huan: "Okay, this matter is settled, Brother Long, don't mention it anymore, otherwise, I will feel that you look down on me! "

  Hearing what Chu Huan said, Li Xiaolong couldn't say anything more.

   "By the way, there is something I forgot to tell you before!" Chu Huan said suddenly.

   Li Xiaolong asked, "What is it?"

   "It's okay to cooperate with Warner, but you have to remember that the copyright of the movie "Dragon Warrior" must remain in your own hands!"

  The current Li Xiaolong is already different from the one in history. Even Chu Huan does not 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 there will be three episodes in the future or whether there will be a follow-up.

   And even if there is no follow-up, there may be a remake. If the copyright of this series remains in the hands of Li Xiaolong, it will be very operable in the future.

   There are many such operations in Hollywood, the most famous ones are Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible" series and Vin Diesel's "Fast and Furious" series.

  The copyrights of these two films 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 stood in the ranks of Hollywood's first-line stars.

  More importantly, Brother Audiovisual has already been researching home video recorders. When home video recorders come out, the video tape market will immediately roll up a bloodbath. At that time, I can completely cooperate with Li Xiaolong in the video tape market.

   And 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, but thought that Chu Huan was thinking of himself, and nodded seriously: "I know!"

When everyone arrived in Los Angeles, it was already the next morning. Andrew Morgan personally came to pick up Li Xiaolong and Zou Wenhuai, but when he saw that Chu Huan also came together, his expression immediately drooped, and he preached dissatisfiedly. .

   "Why are you here?"

   Woke up late again, so embarrassing to death, there is another chapter, at 11 am~

  

  

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