Starting as an arms dealer, I am the overlord in South America

Chapter 82

The Westin Hotel

"Mr. Louis, I believe that our cooperation will be very pleasant."

Looking at the smile on the old man's face, Louis almost couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Mr. Wasserman, you are right."

He shook hands and said something indifferently.

Then he watched Wasserman get into the car and leave.

""Old fox!"

Looking at the taillights of the car going away, Louis rolled his eyes and said unhappily.

Just as he had expected, these film and television companies are thinking about the long-term, and want to collect copyright fees by selling DVD discs.

For example, if a movie sells 10 million discs, and charges copyright fees at 1.5 yuan per disc, it means that there will be 15 million US dollars in revenue.

Of course, this copyright fee is not fixed, it is charged at 12% of the sales of discs.

For Universal Pictures, which has thousands of times more film resources, it can earn at least hundreds of millions of dollars a year by selling discs through copyrights. If it encounters influential movies such as Jurassic Park and Titanic.

In addition, Hollywood movies have a lot of influence in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Asia, and it is possible to make hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

You know, the box office revenue of Hollywood movies is only a part, and a large part depends on peripheral and image copyrights.

Relying on disc sales is more cost-effective than selling copyrights before.

After all, if Louis sells copyrights directly, he will only give a copyright fee of tens of millions of dollars a year at most.

Although he complained that this group of people were cunning, for For Louis, it was nothing.

From another perspective, the revenue share from the sale of optical discs was equivalent to tying several major Hollywood companies to the chariot of Blue Ocean Electronics.

This would greatly help promote DVD players.

Compared with the revenue from the sale of DVD discs, selling DVDs was more profitable for him.

Of course, as DVDs became more popular and more and more people owned DVD players, the revenue from the content market would also explode. It was not impossible to sell 1 billion DVD discs a year.

By that time, he had already made his first pot of gold.

At most, he could just acquire a film company.

With the arrival of Wasserman, several major Hollywood companies visited 997 in succession in the next three days.

As he expected, they all proposed to charge copyright fees based on sales volume. After Hollywood film companies shot movies before, they sold the copyright of the images, and they could roughly guess how many videotapes a movie could sell, so they naturally knew that it was more cost-effective to charge copyright fees based on sales volume.

Some proposed a 15% share, and some proposed charging copyright fees based on 25% of the sales price, all of which were rejected by Louis.

12% is the upper limit. If you are willing to cooperate, sign the contract. If you are not willing, forget it.

Anyway, we have reached a cooperation with Universal Pictures.

Universal Pictures has produced thousands of movies over the past few decades. The reprints are enough to meet the market demand.

Seeing that Louis is so tough, the major film companies are not satisfied, but they also know that after the official sale of DVD, it will inevitably impact their previous video tape copyright income, and they are technically superior.

Once DVD players enter the US market on a large scale, the sales of VSH video tapes will drop drastically.

So in the face of this situation, the major film companies have to cooperate no matter how dissatisfied they are.

In the end, several major Hollywood film companies chose to sign a content copyright cooperation.

After signing the contract, Louis asked Henry in Columbia to go north to discuss the following issues.

At the same time, he considered setting up a DVD content company in the United States, mainly to burn Hollywood movies.

Of course, Columbia will also set up a DVD content production center, mainly for other regions in Latin America.

Soon it was November 30th.

This day is the time when DVD is launched in Columbia.

Sales outlets have been opened in major cities such as Cartagena, Bogota, Barranquilla, Medellin, Bucaraman and Cali.

With the promotion of television stations, newspapers, etc.,

2,000 units were sold in three days.

Nearly 10,000 discs were sold.

The price of each DVD in Colombia is 2.65 million pesos, which is equivalent to 2,788 US dollars.

This price is undoubtedly high for Colombians whose monthly salary is only one or two hundred US dollars.

But Colombia is a polarized country, that is, the poor are very poor, and the rich are very rich.

And the rich people in Colombia are not ordinary rich.

Selling 2,000 units in three days is a good start. (agbf)

In addition, the DVD sales channel has reached cooperation with retailers such as Walmart, Costco, and Target, and will sell in the department stores under these retailers. The price for these retailers in the United States is 2,620 US dollars per unit, and the suggested retail price is not more than 3,000 US dollars.

If they sell it at $2,950 per unit, they can make $330 per unit.

As for the price of DVD discs, this is not uniform.

After all, the price of A-level movies, S-level big-budget movies and ordinary movie DVD discs is definitely different.

The DVD of an ordinary movie may only sell for $10 per disc, but if it is a movie like Star Wars, it will cost more than $20 per disc.

In order to get a good start in the US market, Blue Ocean Electronics specially invited Michael Jackson to endorse and shoot a promotional advertisement, spending millions of dollars. At present, he is also in a popular state and can be said to be the most popular singer in the world.

Although millions of dollars were spent on advertising, the effect was still very good. On

December 15, Blue Ocean DVD was officially launched in the United States. In just one week after the launch, 100,000 units were sold, and the sales of DVD discs exceeded 1 million.

In the second week, sales not only did not decline, but increased significantly, reaching 180,000 units.

By January 15, just one month after the launch, 560,000 DVD players were sold in the United States, and the sales of DVD discs reached an astonishing 3.5 million.

In other words, DVD players achieved sales of 1.4672 billion US dollars, and DVD discs achieved 52.5 million US dollars.

It can be said that it has made a very good start.

As DVDs became popular in the United States, the Columbia factory began to recruit workers on a large scale for production and assembly.

After the Blue Ocean DVD made a good start, Louis did not care about it. Henry just had to follow the route he set.

Back in Columbia, Louis received a call from Michelle, and the military base in Shaluotu had been repaired.

And Shaluotu also paid the last balance of 100 million US dollars.

Cartagena.

Louis at home opened the system.

Found the weapons and ammunition that he had bought for Shaluotu before.

Then choose to materialize, and find the small border town of Najran in the southwest of Shaluotu on the map provided by the system. Michelle built a military base here.

The appearance of the military base can be seen from the system map.

Two long runways can be seen.

There were some buildings and barbed wire fences around.

He did not materialize immediately, but called Michel first. After learning that it was already night there, Louis sent the remaining 200 Leopard 2 main battle tanks and

300 BM270 self-propelled rocket launchers.

RSD-30 ballistic missiles,

2,000 AIM-54 Phoenix air-to-air missiles and 100,000 rockets were materialized at the base.

After materializing, Louis called Michelle and said,"The stuff has arrived at the base. Notify Sand Camel and have them transport it away as soon as possible.""

""Okay, boss!"

Liyad.

Prince Sultan, who was about to go to bed, received a call from Michelle. (To read the exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

"Mr. Prince, your country's second batch of weapons has arrived in Najran, please transport them as soon as possible."

"What? Already arrived?"

Prince Sultan was surprised.

Wait.

Najran is a small border town.[]

If so many weapons and equipment were transported in, why didn't the border troops report it to him?

Although he was puzzled, he did not ask.

Instead, he readily agreed:"I will arrange for someone to transport them tomorrow."

The next morning,

Prince Sultan entered the palace and reported to King Fahd about the arrival of the second batch of weapons.

Upon learning that the second batch of weapons and equipment had arrived, Fahd was very happy.

"I'll go with you."

Prince Sultan was not surprised.

Among the weapons and equipment transported this time, tanks and rocket launchers were not the most important, but the RSD ballistic missile.

This is a national treasure.

With one warhead, it can hit tens of thousands of kilometers.

With a range of tens of thousands of kilometers, it can hit any country in Europe from the Camel Kingdom, and it can also hit the coastal areas of the Maple Leaf Kingdom and Samba Kingdom in America.

How can you not be excited about such a treasure, and there are 30 of them?

Riad is not far from Najran. It only takes about an hour to get there by Black Hawk helicopter.

Not only did they go there, but Mishur in Riad also took a flight all the way there.

The helicopter landed at the base.

After the helicopter stopped on the ground, King Fahd and Prince Sultan couldn't wait to get off the helicopter and walked towards the RSD-10 ballistic missile launchers parked in the distance.

Seeing the giant missile with a diameter of more than 1 meter, King Fahd's face flushed with excitement.

"Thank you so much, Michel. With this magic weapon, we, the Camel of Sand, no longer have to fear other countries."

Prince Sultan excitedly shook Michel's hand and said excitedly.

Michel smiled and said,"Yes, Mr. Prince, you are right. With this ballistic missile, I believe no one dares to provoke your country again."

At this time, King Fahd also came over. After hearing what Michel said, his face showed joy, and he said to Michel solemnly,"Mr. Michel, thank you to your boss on my behalf. At the same time, please tell him that he will always be the most distinguished friend of our Camel of Sand."

Michel nodded after hearing this,"Mr. King, I will convey this to my boss."

Afterwards, King Fahd dispatched troops to transport the tanks and BM270 self-propelled rocket launchers and other air-to-air missiles and rockets, and then dispatched his own troops to form a strategic security force.

This strategic security force is a newly formed force. It was established not long ago.

After placing an order with Louis, it was drawn from the elite of the Royal Guard.

This force is not large in number, less than 3,000 people, but it is the most valued force of the entire Shaluo Camel Royal Family, and all of them are loyal to the royal family.

After learning that Fahd transported this batch of ballistic missiles to the underground base in the capital,

Michel suggested that strategic-level ballistic missiles like this should be separated to avoid being wiped out in one go.

"Michelle, you are right, we should indeed separate them."Fahd and Prince Sultan both readily accepted his proposal.

Afterwards, they were divided into three and transported to three different underground missile launch bases.

Michelle suggested again:"Mr. King, Mr. Prince, I suggest that you can test-fire one. On the one hand, you can announce to all countries in the world that your country has strategic strike power and deter some ruffians.

On the other hand, you can also test the firepower and range of ballistic missiles provided by our company, so you can rest assured and kill two birds with one stone."

King Fahd's eyes lit up, and he said happily:"Michelle, you are right, we should test-fire one." Little guy

, you got the treasure, won't you show off?

Michelle complained in his heart

"So where should the target location be?"

Hearing this, Michel said:"Your Majesty, I think there is a better location."

"What position?"

"The Mediterranean Sea, the waters near the Kingdom of Israel."

Prince Sultan's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly:"King, Michel is right, we should shoot at the Mediterranean Sea. The Kingdom of Israel is too arrogant. They really think that we Arabs are made of mud. We must kill their prestige."

Although Sand Camel did not participate in the subsequent Middle East wars.

But as a member of the Arab countries, they all hate the Kingdom of Israel.

But their strength is not enough.

Now that they have such a magic weapon, they must deter the Kingdom of Israel.

King Fahd thinks so.

And he also wants to improve the status of Sand Camel in Arab countries through this test launch, so that everyone knows that Sand Camel is the boss of Arab countries.

"Okay, let's go to the Mediterranean Sea, the waters near Rafah."

After the test launch site was determined and the missile was delivered to the base, there was an instruction manual. Although they had never operated it before, they could still operate it according to the instruction manual.

At the same time, after listening to Michel's suggestion, Prince Sultan specially invited dozens of media reporters to the scene.

There were media from Shaluo and some overseas media.

Outside the Riyadh launch base, there was a gathering.

At this time, there were more than 20 minutes before the launch. The reporters who arrived saw the soldiers with live ammunition.

They couldn't help wondering what happened and what they were invited to do.

However, this question was soon revealed.

As an exciting event, King Fahd personally pressed the launch button.

"Boom!!"

A huge tail of smoke sprayed out, dragging white smoke quickly into the sky.

Three kilometers away.

In the press area

"Wow, look, what is that?"