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The negotiation broke up, and Silver and others left angrily.

After hearing about Jiang Heng's profit sharing conditions, other Hollywood studios also chose to wait and see for the time being.

However, after learning that the risk of lawsuits from "The Matrix" disappeared, film producers from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia came to buy the copyrights one after another.

Considering that the film markets in these places are not very big, and even Japan and South Korea are somewhat sluggish due to the impact of the financial crisis, Jiang Heng sold the copyright of "The Matrix" through a buyout.

This includes not only theatrical releases, but also videotapes, television broadcasts, etc., with a total sales of 8.75 million US dollars.

At the current exchange rate of RMB 8.29 to the U.S. dollar, it is approximately 72.53 million.

When the banknotes began to arrive in his account and there was more and more money in his account, Jiang Heng became more and more excited.

Because the mainland box office box office results are also out, 143 million yuan.

Based on its first weekend box office results, it would be difficult for "The Matrix" to achieve this result.

Fortunately, the later "script dispute case" was selectively reported by the mainland media, which aroused widespread concern among the Chinese people and triggered a small wave of movie-watching craze, which led to the current achievements.

However, there is a cycle of film splitting. If Jiang Heng wants to get the split income, he will have to wait at least three months. If it is slower, it may be a year.

It takes some companies one or two years to produce a major production, which has something to do with the slow arrival of sub-account revenue.

The film needs to pay tax before it can be distributed. The divisible revenue after tax is approximately 91.7% of the total box office. Among them, the producers and distributors received only 37% of the revenue. It was not until the movie "Hero" was released that the revenue of the producers and distributors increased significantly.

In other words, at the beginning of 1998, Jiang Heng's divisible income as a producer and distributor was approximately 33.9% of the total box office revenue, which was approximately 48.477 million.

After deducting 10% of Bona's publicity and distribution expenses, the mainland revenue attributed to Jiang Heng's Youteng Pictures was 43.629 million.

In other words, the copyrights sold so far and the income from the mainland accounts has been confirmed to be 116.15 million yuan, making him a billionaire.

Not to mention that in Hong Kong, the box office of "The Matrix" has exceeded 40 million Hong Kong dollars, surpassing Cheng Long's "Who Am I" and Zhou Xingxing's "Lucky Dragon", and has gone straight to the box office of 50 million Hong Kong dollars. And go.

In the future, there will be another huge amount of income from drawing sub-accounts for the videos.

But what Jiang Heng values ​​most is the film market in North America and Europe.

These two movie markets have large populations, strong audience spending power, and high movie ticket prices. They are the main contributors to the global box office of "The Matrix 1" of US$460 million.

Of course, you don’t have to look forward to that in this version of Jiang Heng.

Although Wu Xianzu and Li Meiqi's original English voices are both fluent, they are Asians after all, and it is really difficult to gain recognition from North American and European audiences.

If Jiang Heng thinks about it, even if it is discounted in half and has a global box office of 200 million US dollars, he will definitely win!

But the crux of the problem was separate distribution in North America and Europe. However, a group of Hollywood film producers wanted to buy it out and take advantage, so the negotiations were deadlocked.

As luck would have it, a film producer from Australia came over to purchase the distribution rights to "The Matrix."

Considering that Australia's population is about the same as that of Taiwan, Jiang Heng sold all the Australian film screening, video tape distribution, and television broadcast rights of "The Matrix" for half a million US dollars.

After the film producers brought the film back, they promoted it and released it in theaters in less than a week. As a result, it directly broke the local box office record because of its novel story, cool special effects, and action scenes.

Now, Hollywood film producers can no longer sit still.

While conducting research on the box office performance of "The Matrix" in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, negotiations with Jiang Heng were launched again.

"40% of the box office share can cover 12% of agency distribution fees!"

"Mr. Jiang, are you kidding? As far as I know, the share of this film in your country's mainland area is not even 40%, but you ask us to ask for so much?" Disney's negotiator almost slammed the table with anger. .

Jiang Heng was not impatient, and smiled and said, "Actually, to be honest, the film "The Matrix" did not fully realize its box office potential in mainland China. This is because the audience there does not have many science fiction concepts. They don’t know much about computers, but it’s different in North America and Europe. They have been influenced by too many classic science fiction blockbusters, and they are more able to understand and accept this film. Believe me, it will definitely be a very dazzling box office once it is released. score!"

Disney representatives were silent. Of course they knew this, even more than Jiang Heng did, but they just didn't want to give the Chinese a share of the box office treatment.

"Mr. Jiang, you have to know that splitting the box office is a very troublesome thing. Not only is the box office statistics troublesome, but the subsequent split income statistics and tax returns are also extremely troublesome. A one-time buyout will completely avoid these problems. Risky!”

Jiang Heng laughed and said, "I'm not in a hurry to make a new movie. If there's any trouble, I just need to hire more lawyers and accountants. No matter how troublesome the accounts are, they will always be settled. You tell me, right?"

When the Disney representative heard this, his face instantly turned ugly.

"Mr. Jiang, I will make the last offer on behalf of the company. It is 20 million US dollars. Even for Cheng Long's film, it is basically at this price. According to the current exchange rate, it is 156 million Hong Kong dollars. Do you really not think about it anymore? ?”

Jiang Heng also darkened his face, "Then I will express my attitude for the last time. I will share 40% of the box office share. If no Hollywood company is willing to cooperate, I would rather not distribute it in North America!"

"Okay, I will report your attitude to the top!"

The Disney representative left in a hurry, and the Columbia company came again, but after a heated conversation, he agreed to Jiang Heng's conditions.

“Happy to work with!”

“Happy to work with!”

At this time, the phone rang again, but it was a representative from Disney, saying that the company was willing to accept Jiang Heng's conditions.

"I'm sorry, I have already reached a cooperation with Columbia Company!"

"Uh, okay then!"

Shortly after hanging up the phone with the Disney representative, Silver from Hua Na Company called, "Jiang Heng, 20 million US dollars, all the copyrights of "The Matrix" in North America and Europe, and the subsequent script development rights, please consider it. This is our greatest sincerity!”

Jiang Heng was amused. This was the content of the previous versions of negotiations. Hua Na's efficiency was too low!

"I'm sorry, Mr. Silver, I also really want to reach a cooperation with Hua Na. However, Colombia offers better conditions and agrees to share the box office share. So, let's cooperate again if we have the opportunity, that's it!"

Before Jiang Heng hung up the phone, he heard a curse word coming from over there and the sound of the phone being thrown to the ground.

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