Exploiting Hollywood 1980

The latest website: The suggestion put forward by Douglas Jr. made Ronald feel a little bit. He is also a film director and artist himself, and sometimes he doesn't need to spend too much energy on management, he just needs to listen to the opinions of professionals he trusts, and then make a judgment.

In his apartment, Ronald met with his personal lawyer and private accountant.

Attorney Lindsay Dole has not seen her for a long time. She still looks like a college girl, slightly rounder than before.

"You're already a partner?" Ronald asked, looking at the new business card Lindsay gave him.

"Yes, I bring about half of the paid business to the law firm in a year," Lindsay said proudly.

"Congratulations," Lawrence Wang, a private Chinese accountant, also congratulated the young female lawyer.

"Closer to the subject, I think you should accept Atlantic's offer, buy out the proceeds and leave." Attorney Lindsay put forward his own ideas.

"I have a different opinion. The marketing expenses they give are too fake. This is no longer a bill that a professional accountant can see. Even students who have just learned the balance sheet know that there is a big problem." Lawrence Dawei Dissatisfied, this kind of fraudulent method is simply an insult to his professional ability.

"Look, the 5.5 million marketing expenses here are simply too bizarre. Even if they do a lot of posters and stand-up promotions in each theater, it is impossible for a theater to spend close to 10,000 US dollars.

And the distributors didn't do a lot of advertising on TV and mass print, and they didn't do trailer ads before other movies, I think they overstated at least a million dollars here.

There are also distribution costs, mass-produced copies, which can't be that expensive per unit. Even if the publishers go to each family to talk, it will not cost so much.

In total, they overstated the cost of nearly 1.4 million, from which we can get an extra share of about 300,000. "

Ronald looked at Attorney Lindsay.

"I agree with you. But if you want to file a lawsuit, there are several difficulties. First, the film industry's evidence collection has always been the most difficult, marketing materials will be discarded after use, if the movie theater's account has this Compared with expenses, it is difficult for us to convince him or the jury with reasonableness in front of the judge that Atlantic has made false accounts.

second,

Atlantic actually set up a separate project company to handle everything in order to shoot and distribute the film. So even if we win the case, we will face bankruptcy or cancellation of the project company. Going to recourse to his shareholders will face a series of legal troubles.

Third, this amount of money is not too much. To win the lawsuit, you will have to summon multiple theater owners as witnesses, and you will also need to pay for expert witnesses in the film industry. These expenses need to be paid in advance by you. So, it may cost you more to win the relationship than you get in compensation.

Of course, if we win, we can also pursue punitive damages, which will be much higher than your costs. But that's all assuming you can win the case. And if that's the case, you're in the film industry..."

"Will there be no friends?" Ronald continued with a wry smile.

"As a matter of fact, it was very difficult for you to get this part of the dividend. The film company can easily use various inflated costs to make the profit of the entire film disappear. The reason why the Atlantic did not do this is because your The box office of the movie has far exceeded their expectations, so that there is no way to make false accounts to wipe out all the profits.

In addition, they may still want to cooperate with you, so they offer a monthly bonus of 100,000 yuan and the option of early settlement. "

Attorney Lindsay Dole penciled under the numbers in the contract, "So my advice is, take him."

Ronald looked at Lawrence Wang again.

"Attorney Dole is right, I have no opinion."

"Okay, then, let them write the check." Ronald nodded to Lawrence.

Seeing that there was nothing left, lawyer Lindsay Dole got up to leave, "Helen asked you recently, do you want to meet her?"

"Uh... I'm busy in New York this time, so I might not be free." Ronald swallowed, remembering Lindsay's roommate, the temptation of Helen Gable's black uniform, and the feel of the stockings on his legs. saliva.

"Okay, Brooke Shields, eh?" Lindsay also heard the scandal, winked at him, and then went to the office to work on other cases.

Ronald then checked his finances with Lawrence Wang.

"This time the $600,000 is in my account, plus my stock account, am I already a millionaire?" Ronald was very happy. After working hard for a few years, it was considered a small achievement. In the future, he will be a millionaire. Ordinary people are not worried about eating and drinking. But if you want to raise a movie star like Diane or Brooke, you have to keep making money.

"No, you don't count the income, you're already a millionaire." Lawrence opened the report and showed Ronald his stock price.

"The President has relaxed economic policies in recent years. Last year's inflation has dropped significantly to only 3.2%. The economy has begun to recover, and this year's full-year gdp is expected to grow by more than 4%.

Coupled with the implementation of the tax cut bill and various deregulations of the financial industry, more money has entered the stock market. In short, your stock has performed well this year. Since you are buying stocks to get quarterly dividends, I am not advising you to sell at high points.

IBM was the best performer, nearly doubling, while McDonald's and Coca-Cola have both gained more than 50 percent this year. Only Kodak's share price underperformed, falling 10 percent.

So your stock assets have totaled more than $850,000. "Grain

"Oh, is it?" Ronald didn't expect that the stock price had grown so well when he just wanted to earn some dividends and beat inflation. But it's not even a million, eh? "

"Have you forgotten the royalties for your bestsellers?" Lawrence took out another record, "Your 'Word Star for Dummies' has sold so well that the publisher has reprinted it many times, and the royalties have exceeded 150,000. Dollar."

"Ah? So many?" Ronald suddenly felt that he had a promising future for writing books and selling them.

"Yes, it's very interesting. The number of books you have sold has exceeded the software sales of Word Star."

"Oh?" Ronald thought for a while, "Is it because of piracy?"

"Yes, a lot of people who write with pirated textstar software will have to buy your book because they don't have the manual for the original software."

"So with your two incomes, do you still want to invest in any stocks?" Lawrence Wang saw that the prices of the stocks Ronald bought kept rising, and he was already quite impressed by his vision.

"Buy me Coca-Cola," Ronald thought for a moment. "Their competitor, Pepsi, is always working with some underdogs, like Burger King. And they're rich enough to buy Columbia Pictures, I think. They must be making a lot of money."

"You're right." Lawrence looked at Coca-Cola's annual report. The income and profits were good. "In this way, I will buy Coca-Cola shares for you except for your taxes for next year."

Ronald nodded and signed the required documents to confirm.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Before getting up and leaving, Lawrence Wang hesitated and spoke to Ronald.

"Do you remember the case of Chen Guoren?"

"Remember," Ronald remembered the Chinese in Detroit, who was regarded as a native of the East and was beaten to death by two unemployed white auto workers on the street. He also donated 2,000 yuan to him successively.

"The Illinois court verdict, and the two murderers were downgraded from second-degree murder to manslaughter by the white judge.

The prosecutor and the two murderers reached a plea bargain under the arrangement of the judge. Because of the minor offenses, they were sentenced to not serve time in prison and could be acquitted only by paying a fine of $3,000.

The judge also said that the two murderers were good people and should not have been in jail. "

"This..." Ronald looked at Lawrence's yellow skin and guessed the reason in his heart, "It's not fair."

"Yeah, it's not fair. The mother of the deceased, Ms. Chen, also said that if a Chinese person killed a white man, this will never be the final judgment. We Chinese people are very angry because of this, and the two Chinese-American lawyers have also stepped forward to initiate a federal lawsuit on behalf of the deceased to re-prosecute the murderer at the federal level on civil rights grounds of racial discrimination."

"In this way, I will write another check for two thousand dollars, and you will donate it to the deceased for me to handle legal proceedings."

"I'll get it done, thank you, Ronald." Lawrence seemed to have something to say.

"Do you have anything else?"

"I know this matter may be unkind to you, but our Chinatown Chamber of Commerce plans to take to the streets for this matter before Christmas, and let the media do justice for us. You are a famous Hollywood director, Can we also participate, so that we can attract TV stations other than Chinese TV stations to interview."

"It seems that you have a bit of a misunderstanding of my status in Hollywood. Even if I stand on the streets of New York, or at the door of the three major TV stations, no reporter will know me."

"No, you're not with Brooke Shields..." Lawrence asked tentatively.

"I understand your sympathy for your compatriots, but it is impossible for me to cause trouble to Brooke for this kind of thing." Ronald was also very resentful about the blind sentence of Chen Guoren's case, but this did not mean that he could Drag Boogie into the water.

Not to mention Diane himself.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have made such a request. It's just that our strength in Chinatown is too weak to attract the attention of the mainstream media. Several of my uncles have agreed to prepare to unite with the East Ying people in Little Tokyo in the Lower East Village of Manhattan. Take to the streets to protest together.”

"Aren't you... I remember that China and Japan were feuding in World War II, how could you be willing to be with them?" Ronald asked.

"Hey, this also caused a lot of controversy. The uncles all fought with Huihua and Dongying people back then, or donated the ration money they saved.

However, most of America's rulers were white people, and in their eyes, whether they were Chinese, Eastern Ying people, or the recently proliferating Koreans, they all looked the same. All of them are of a completely different ethnicity.

The Eastern Ying people have now defeated the manufacturing industries of America, and now they are also under pressure from the Grand Commander and Congress. In this incident, two workers in the auto industry who were squeezed out of work by the Dongying people regarded us Chinese as Japanese, so they took the initiative to find us and want to unite. "

"Why didn't they protest by themselves?" Ronald didn't understand, there were a lot of Japanese in America, and now the economy is very strong.

"Hmph, they are just defeated countries, we are the victorious countries, the Chinese and the Americans in the United Nations are permanent members of the Security Council, and they have great power. And in the streets and in American politics, we are far better than those East Ying. There are many people with influence. They used to not follow us Chinese people to take advantage of it.”

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