Mission Flow

Chapter 157: The Royal Suite

Two weeks passed in the blink of an eye.

Cao Su doesn't have any important affairs in China. Song Jingying, Li Hangyi, and Duan Caiyun are watching the Dragon Ball live broadcast.

In life, he didn't even have a formal girlfriend in Shencheng, and the girls were very tolerant of his time and schedule.

During the period of staying at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, the room was upgraded to the top royal suite. The room rate is $18,600 a night. Expensive is expensive, and it is indeed better than the special dohini suite he lived in before.

Not to mention the view, space, and decoration of the room, but there is a whole set of team serving him, which is very nice. He doesn't need to worry about all kinds of things. His full-time driver, tour guide, and translator, Uncle Hurley, officially declared "Industry".

The butler of the Royal Suite of the Four Seasons Hotel, a beautiful mixed-race young woman, even arranged for him an invitation to a fundraising reception for Cohen, the prosecutor who governs Hollywood justice. However, he is not interested in participating in politics for the time being.

After calling the lawyer Granton for consultation, he donated a small campaign fund of $1,500 in the name of the cactus, which was regarded as a protection fee.

Qiaomei also moved to the royal suite, but stayed with him for a few days before returning to Seoul, South Korea. It is impossible for a star of her level to take vacations all the time. Brokerage companies won't allow it either.

Before leaving, he had cleared all three roads in Huashan.

"Please take a seat, Mr. Keppel." The meeting with Fox producer Jeremy Keppel was still arranged in the Royal Suite of the Four Seasons Hotel.

"Mr. Cao, I'm sorry to disturb you again." Jeremy Keppel was a little restrained, speaking politely.

He is just a wage worker with a medium income, and it has nothing to do with Fox being rich and powerful! He really didn't have a chance to sit in the royal suite of a top five-star hotel.

The beautiful mixed-breeder brought a bottle of 15-year-old Dom Perignon champagne, and after pouring the wine gracefully, he said, "If you have any orders, you can call me." As he spoke, he left the living room of the suite, shaking his little cock.

"Try it, I drink it recently, and I think it's pretty good."

Jeremy Keppel took a sip of champagne under the signal of Cao Su, and he had a preliminary negotiation with Joel Galton, the general manager of Cactus. I roughly understand the mind of this young Chinese rich man. Then said: "

Mr. Cao, we at Fox have no opinion on your idea of ​​co-production. But for box office receipts..."

Cao Su took a sip of champagne and said leisurely, "Tell me about it."

He spent the past two weeks speculating in stocks full-time and made a lot of money. Not paying too much attention to things in Hollywood. I heard that Christmas is approaching, Hollywood's six major productions are all announcing one after another, competing for audiences.

He now kind of understands what Jeremy Keppel told him two weeks ago, that Facebook can also threaten Hollywood. This is not a living example. Playing on Facebook during the Christmas holidays, what movie to watch?

Ha ha!

Cao Su himself thought happily.

His thoughts on the two film projects "The Martian" and "The Female Spy" still hope that Cactus Company will participate in the production. This is a bit thankless compared to pure investment and dividend operations. But it can accumulate experience and bring contacts to Cactus.

Also, he needed Cactus to make a name for itself in Hollywood. This is convenient for him to operate in the country!

So during this period of time, he made a lot of money in the stock market, and he is asking Joel Galton to recruit staff in Hollywood, and the Cactus Company, which will get the company documents, is designed by the bag company for a substantive small production company.

However, Glanton, an Italian-American lawyer who has provided services in Hollywood for a long time, reminded him: co-producer, I am afraid that after the funds come in, Fox can kill him!

A million-dollar set, I will report you a three-million-dollar bill, etc. Halfway through the filming, the funds are exhausted, and it is a high probability event that additional funds will be needed.

Therefore, there must be restrictions on the contract,

The big accounting affairs are required to come in to review the financial affairs, and at the same time, they must take out insurance. Find a big insurance company that is familiar with the rules of Hollywood to buy "full capital" insurance.

This is indeed too magical, to invest in filming, but to buy "finishing" insurance. Can I also buy "end of the book" insurance after reading online articles?

But it's very American.

Everything can be financialized and capitalized. including people.

Cao Su was sure in his heart that the 25-year-old mixed-race family in the royal suite looked a bit like a fair version of Halle Berry, and he estimated that he could sleep with her for $20,000.

Jeremy Keppel said: "Mr. Cao, your optimism about the sci-fi film project "The Martian" has made us interested in investing within Fox. Screenwriter Drew Gundam has a strong desire to become a director. He is also working for This project is running.

Such a sci-fi movie project is an A-level production in Hollywood, with a budget of more than 100 million US dollars. Special effects are expensive! "

Cao Su's ears moved slightly. Uh, this is another profit point that can be replicated domestically! Same as movie theaters.

Jeremy Keppel continued: "Our tentative shooting budget is 100 million. If you are willing to invest 30 million, Fox is willing to invest 30 million. There is still a funding gap of 40 million. Production income Distribution is made according to the proportion of capital contribution.

But this production income refers to the profit after deducting distribution costs and production costs from the box office. It's not that you mentioned splitting benefits based on box office.

The distribution is handed over to Fox, and we execute according to the standard contract of distribution. This is the specific contract. "

Jeremy Keppel handed Cao Su a generous contract.

Cao Su flipped through it for a while. Fox is not willing to take any losses in distribution! The screening schedule, duration, etc. are all tied to the instant box office. Peripheral products, DVDs, copyright fees sold to streaming media, TV, and movie soundtrack music copyrights all account for the bulk of Fox.

"It's really a monopoly giant! It's hard for the small film companies under the suppression, and it's hard for outside capital to come in and make a profit. The left and right are the six big moneymakers with distribution capabilities." After reading the contract, Cao Su couldn't help complaining in Chinese .

Cao Su looked at the fifty-two-year-old white man sitting on the sofa diagonally opposite, and said, "Keppel, I am indeed a layman in Hollywood, but I will spend 30 million dollars to invest in movies, you don't think I Didn't do the preliminary investigation?

As for the production cost, if I don't stare at the crew all the time, can you explain clearly? And the distribution fee will be as much as Fox says or as much?

These are invisible and uncertain numbers, and I need a settlement indicator that can be clearly quantified. As far as I know, there is a precedent in Hollywood for revenue sharing, right? "

Jeremy Keppel nodded, "Yes." This young Chinese rich man is really not easy to fool! Of course, with the joint production, Fox will naturally have a way to teach newcomers how to be cheated. hey-hey.

"Then roughly estimate the cost of production and global distribution, and you can figure out a plan to divide the revenue according to the box office for me."

"Mr. Cao, that will be a step-by-step plan."

"Can."

A day later, Jeremy Keppel returned to the Royal Suite of the Four Seasons Hotel with a new benefit distribution plan.

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