Chapter 173: A Little Thing

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Eric pushed open 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 his originally smiling expression twitched his nose twice. Immediately unhappy. In Eric's speechless dodging, 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.

"Oh, the copyright of "Golden Jade Alliance", you are still quite fast, I thought it would be good for you to win it after the summer vacation."

Drew grinned and lay on Eric's body, his chin hanging on Eric's shoulder: "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 as Drew said, then the price is still acceptable, even if it is used to enrich the Firefly film library. Besides, after "Sleepless in Seattle" becomes popular, it may be possible to invest in a remake of this film. What about movies. 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Seeing Eric nodding, Drew breathed a sigh of relief and began to explain in a chatter: "This movie was originally made by an investor named Jerry Wald who started his own company, but that guy's life was bad, He started a film company and made a few good movies, but he died of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, went around a few more times, and 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 the matter, is there something wrong?"

"You mean... this movie was bought from Twentieth Century Fox?" Eric asked again with a bit of luck in his heart.

The girl's eyelashes flickered innocently twice, and she nodded her chin: "Yeah?"

Eric smiled bitterly: "This is bad, and Fox will definitely hate it in the future."

That night, after being entangled by the little girl, Eric decided to find a 'summer part-time job' for the girl. He didn't consider the copyright ownership of "Jin Yumeng" at all. Ramon and Eric have no cooperation with the other party. If you cheat, you will cheat. Movies are also a business. If you make money, you need to celebrate. If you are cheated, you need to be appointed.

However, I still didn't expect it,

The copyright of "Golden Jade Alliance" is actually in the hands of Twentieth 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" videotape, Eric can earn at least $30 million 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 spent more than three million dollars, but if it's less than a year, we've made $30 million with this movie, what do you think Fox would think?"

The girl covered her mouth in surprise. Eric asked her to take the copyright of the movie and said that she could make a fortune. Drew thought it was only a million or two million dollars, so he just said the price of 3.5 million US dollars. At that time, the girl was still a little nervous, if she could really earn 30 million...

"But... it seems... Eric, Fox people don't know that we bought it. I was afraid that I would come forward and be associated with you. I specially found an agent. After he got the copyright, he transferred it to I, from the beginning to the end, Fox didn't know that we were going to buy the copyright of this movie..." Drew said, her voice getting lower and lower, she quickly thought that if the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" was released in the future "The influence has made a lot of money, as long as the people of Fox have no problem with IQ, they can definitely 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 case in court. Eric is not like those filmmakers in his previous life. years of disputes.

"Forget it, that's it, the meat in the mouth can't be spit out. Anyway, Fox sold it voluntarily, and we also charged such a high price."

"Hey," Xiao Nizi also hugged Eric in a coquettish manner and rubbed her cheeks: "However, Eric, there is one more little thing..." (The novel "I Am Hollywood" will be published on the official WeChat platform There are more fresh content on the website, and there is also a 100% lucky draw 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!)