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"As long as you understand."

Qin Dong felt relieved when he heard this.

The dark side of business these days is not ordinary darkness, it is the same in every industry.

Although Qin Dong doesn't know about the shady things in the singing industry, he is a movie director and knows a lot about the shady things in movies.

Take Warner Music's brothers, Warner Pictures, both of which are subsidiaries of Time Warner Group.

It’s just that Warner Music is one of the five giant companies in the music industry, and Warner Pictures is one of the six giant companies in Hollywood. The six Hollywood giants are actually the top giant companies in the global film and television industry.

Since Warner Films released Qin Dong's first globally released movie "Source Code" a few years ago, it has maintained close cooperation with Qin Dong in the following years. Warner has basically invested in and invested in all subsequent movies shot by Qin Dong.

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It seems that Warner Films and Qin Dong are very good, but in fact Qin Dong doesn't trust Warner Films at all and has always been on guard.

Because for money, these companies dare to do anything.

Let’s take Warner Pictures’ top IP, which has allowed Warner to earn more than 10 billion US dollars from the movie series [Harry Potter], which officially completed its full release more than a year ago.

The novel "Harry Potter" was adapted into a movie, and eight movies were shot. The global box office alone exceeded 10 billion U.S. dollars. Coupled with the huge peripherals, this is a chain worth hundreds of billions.

As the leading actors in this world's top IP series of movies, they are also the three protagonists in the novel, from the child protagonist in the first movie to the young protagonist in the eighth movie more than a year ago:

Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe.

Rupert Grint plays Ron Weasley.

Emma Watson plays Hermione Granger.

These three leading actors have been acting since they were children, and they are still starring in this series of movies as adults.

As the saying goes, when a person becomes popular, there will be more time.

Seeing that the "Harry Potter" movie made so much money for Warner, the three leading actors wanted to raise prices with Warner and increase their remuneration.

Even though the three of them had already signed a contract with Warner Bros. for eight films, for the sake of money, the three leading actors banded together and would stop acting if they didn't get an increase in their pay.

As a result, an uproarious incident occurred, and Warner, under pressure from public opinion, had no choice but to agree to increase the salary.

So the contract for the seventh and eighth movies became a basic salary of US$1,500, plus 10% of global profits.

The three leading actors were very satisfied and thought they had received high remuneration. After all, the [Harry Potter] series of movies has been very popular at the box office.

When it was first released, the box office was 7.8 billion, but by the movie's subsequent sequels, the box office had already exceeded 1 billion.

The profit of each movie starts at several hundred million. Each leading actor gets a 10% dividend, which is tens of millions of dollars. Adding the basic salary of 15 million US dollars, this is the possible salary of a movie.

With more than 50 million US dollars, the three leading actors were very excited and proud of the success of their joint effort.

How does Warner Pictures operate?

As one of the six giants in Hollywood, how can we be willing to be forced to pay more by three actors who took advantage of the huge fan base of "Harry Potter"?

So the seventh and eighth movies of [Harry Potter] were filmed together, becoming the upper and lower parts of the seventh movie.

It won't be released until it's filmed.

When these two episodes of the film are completed, it also means that the film adaptation of the world's most famous fantasy novel [Harry Potter] has officially come to an end.

From now on, the stars of this series of movies, especially the three leading actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, no longer need to star in this series of movies.

Warner Pictures, which had achieved its goal, waited until the seventh movie was released, with a box office of more than one billion U.S. dollars, and after accounting, the movie suffered a loss.

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So the three leading actors only received a basic salary and no profit dividends, because the movie was a loss and there was no profit at all, so naturally there was no profit dividend.

As the three leading actors in the [Harry Potter] series of movies, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, these three have already become top global superstars. Well, they are [Ha

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Because the fan base of this series of movies is so huge, it has created the top stars of the series of movies. After leaving this series of movies, it is a matter of opinion as to what level of star a star belongs to.

The three leading actors, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, were naturally unwilling to receive only a basic salary of 15 million. They felt that they had been deceived by Warner and came to ask for money.

, Warner ignored it.

So the three leading actors filed a lawsuit, but when the court faced Warner's bill, it found that it was flawless. The movie's promotional expenses were as high as several hundred million, plus the movie's cost of 200 million. It concluded that such a huge expenditure would not be possible unless the movie

The box office exceeded US$2 billion, otherwise Warner Pictures would indeed be losing money based on box office alone.

As a result, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson lost the lawsuit, and Warner Pictures did not need to bear any costs.

This is the incident between the "Harry Potter" star and Warner Bros. that caused quite a stir a few years ago.

It also once aroused global discussion.

This kind of operation makes ordinary people more aware of the darkness of business operations.

Even Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, the three world-famous stars, have suffered in the face of big companies, let alone others.

If you don't have the strength to face big companies, you are a small fish, waiting to be eaten.

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"Honey, thank you. I didn't expect that you would give me shares, and there were so many. You didn't tell me in advance, and you didn't even tell me about my song copyright..."

Although it was a celebration banquet, Qin Dong only walked around with Martin and Warner Music Vice President Chris Cook at the beginning to get to know each other.

At this moment, Qin Dong and Taylor were staying in the corner, talking quietly.

Taylor's big sky-blue eyes stared at the man closely, and the lust in his eyes was obvious. It was love and touching.

I won’t go into details about shares, let’s talk about song copyright. As a superstar in the music industry, Taylor is already 24 years old. How could he not understand the importance of this copyright?

Unfortunately, Taylor joined Big Machine when she was still a teenager. At that time, she was not valued by other music record companies. It was Big Machine that gave her the opportunity.

But because of this, the contract that Taylor signed with Big Machine resulted in all song copyrights belonging to Big Machine Records.

If one day in the future, Taylor has a falling out with Big Machine, or does not renew her contract, then Taylor will no longer be able to sing the albums and songs in the albums that Taylor released, otherwise he will be waiting to be sued.

Even if many of the songs were composed by Taylor Swift herself, it would be useless because according to the contract, the copyright of the songs she sang belongs to Big Machine Records.

As long as the contract is violated, there is no possibility of losing the case.

Today, Qin Dong directly transferred the copyright of all the songs in all Taylor's albums to Taylor for the price of one million US dollars. How could it not make the woman fall in love with the man in front of her even more deeply?

No woman would not love a man who treats her wholeheartedly and has plans for her future.

"Shhh...what's the relationship between the two of us? There is no need to say thank you. When I go back tonight, I will be your father..."

Qin Dong stretched out his hand and gently signaled that there was no need to say more.

Then the joke started.

He raised his eyebrows at Taylor and smiled evilly.

"As you command, my master..."

Taylor's charming face showed a smile, and she immediately understood what the man meant, but she was not shy and agreed directly.