Burbank is a residential satellite town north of Los Angeles and is also known as the media capital of the world due to its proximity to Hollywood, where many world-famous media and entertainment companies such as ABC have set up branches. At twelve o'clock at noon the next day, Zhou Ming and Tang Lin came here together, and their target was the famous Disney Company.

In the car, Zhou Ming woke up Tang Lin, who complained very dissatisfiedly: "My God, what do you want to do?

In fact, it is normal for Tang Lin to complain, because Zhou Ming went to the hotel room where Tang Lin lived at five o'clock in the morning to wake him up, and after dragging the fifth heir of the Tang family out of the bed, they went all the way south along the intercontinental highway, and finally arrived in Los Angeles after a six-hour drive.

Zhou Ming didn't feel any guilt about this, he just shrugged his shoulders very meaninglessly and said: "This can't be helped, who made the distance between San Francisco and Los Angeles too far, if we don't want to go out early, we can't have lunch in Los Angeles, and Tang Lin, didn't you already make an appointment with Disney yesterday? I think we still have to hurry up all the time." ”

If he could, Tang Lin really wanted to scold Zhou Ming to the death, but thinking about it, he was the only one in the car now, but Zhou Ming also had a very strong bodyguard, so in the end, Tang Lin could only forcibly hold his anger in his heart.

Looking at Tang Lin's appearance of a dead dog, Zhou Ming also smiled and enlightened him and said: "Comrade Tang Lin, this is all for the revolutionary cause of our struggle for inheritance, it's great that when our movie is released, I will share your millions of dividends, now you can give the uncle a smile, right?"

Tang Lin looked up at Zhou Ming and scolded angrily in his heart: If you can't beat you, Lao Tzu must tear your mouth apart now!

But he was unhappy, but he was still unambiguous, and soon under his guidance, they soon arrived at the headquarters building of the Disney Company, which is a very magnificent building, according to what Zhou Ming learned in advance, Disney is a large entertainment group company that integrates entertainment program production, theme parks, toys, books and movies and many other projects.

After passing the security check at the door, Zhou Ming and Tang Lin came to the film distribution department on the tenth floor and met the purchasing manager Roy, an American with small eyes and a high nose, about forty years old.

According to Disney's film distribution system and California law, if a movie that is not made by Disney wants to be distributed through Disney, Disney must first buy the copyright of the film before it can be distributed, otherwise it will easily cause infringement and lawsuits. This is because of this, you must first pass the level of the purchase manager.

Roy was very happy to see Tang Lin, he opened his arms and hugged Tang Lin and said, "My friend, I'm very glad that you came to Los Angeles, I just received your call yesterday, and now I can actually see you here, my God, is it your father's private jet for you?"

Tang Lin shrugged: "I hope so, but unfortunately it is not the case, in fact, I was dragged by someone, and he said that our matter is very urgent." ”

Then Tang Lin introduced Zhou Ming to Roy, who nodded and greeted Zhou Ming, and took them to his office together.

Roy opened the drawer and took out a bunch of keys: "You should have brought all the CDs, right? The office opposite is a simple screening room made up by our film buying department, where the general review of films is carried out." ”

said that Roy was about to take them over, but Zhou Ming stopped him: "I'm sorry Mr. Roy, because our movie is still in production, we haven't recorded a disc." ”

Roy was stunned at the time, and he asked Zhou Ming in surprise: "Are you sure it's in the making, not that you forgot to bring the CD?"

Zhou Ming replied with a smile: "Of course, I don't think these two English words confuse me." ”

Roy glanced at Tang Lin suspiciously, the latter smiled helplessly at him, Roy then put the key back in the drawer, sat down again and said: "It seems that this gentleman has full confidence in his film, so for Mr. Tang Lin's sake, can you tell us about the specific content of the movie?"

"That's fine, first of all, it's an animated movie called Toy Story, which is about the adventures of two toys. ”

Zhou Ming said: "It was in a wealthy family, all the toys can become a world of their own after the owner is gone, the original favorite toy Woody Cowboy, because of the new toy space cop Buzz Lightyear is jealous, worried that he will steal his position, so he tried every possible way to get rid of Bus, and then one accidentally they fell out of the room together." ”

"In order to get home, Cowboy and Buzz went through a lot of adventures, from the barking vicious dog in the neighbor's house to the little child who loved to abuse toys, etc. Zhou Ming said.

"The story of a room full of toys forming a world of its own sounds quite creative, is that your idea? Roy asked suddenly.

Tang Lin shook his head and said, "No, this is this gentleman's idea, I'm just helping him contact the distribution." ”

Roy nodded silently, and then he said to Zhou Ming: "Then this gentleman, let me tell you directly, although your creativity is more interesting, but whether it is a cowboy or a space policeman, this is a very old-fashioned thing, and today's children will not be attracted to them, and your adventure story, to be honest, is too old-fashioned, and there is nothing new, simply put, there is nothing that can catch the audience." ”

"But I don't think so. Zhou Ming retorted, "Mr. Roy, if you think about it, children are full of fantasy, and they will also imagine the world of toys when they leave, and we are now showing this world to them, they will definitely feel novel, and they will like it very much." ”

"And," Zhou continued, "this cartoon is a 3D animation that is all computer-produced, which is very epoch-making, and combined with the Disney brand, I believe it can create a surprising box office." ”

"I believe in that too, but I believe it's because of the appeal of the Disney brand. ”

Roy then went on to say to Zhou Ming: "I can understand your current mood, in fact, many people have a blind admiration for their own movies, after all, for filmmakers, it's like their own children, who wouldn't love their own children? But for me or Disney, my priority is whether this child is good enough, but unfortunately, this answer may be the opposite of you." ”

"Is it because you haven't seen the film?" Zhou Ming asked.

"That's just one aspect. "What's more important is that your story doesn't appeal to me, it's as simple as that." ”

"In other words, my Toy Story can't be distributed through Disney's distribution channels, right?" Zhou Ming asked.

Roy nodded and replied: "I think so, although I have a good relationship with Mr. Tang Lin, I am also Disney's purchase manager, I must be worthy of Disney's remuneration, I can't help Disney buy a bad movie, please forgive me for using this title." ”

"Seriously, I'd love to hope you'd think about it a little more, Mr. Roy. Zhou Ming said.

Roy still shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, it's impossible, I can't find any reason to convince myself." ”

"That's a pity!" Zhou Ming sighed, "So Mr. Roy, what if I want to adopt a cooperative distribution method with Disney, and I don't need you to buy the film?"

"Cooperative distribution?" Roy asked Zhou Ming suspiciously, "Mr. Zhou Ming, do you mean to let the film borrow our distribution channels for distribution, and at the same time you have to bear all the costs required for distribution and publicity?"

Zhou Ming nodded firmly and said yes, Roy gasped, he looked at Zhou Ming in disbelief, and asked Zhou Ming again Is he serious? ”

However, Roy immediately changed the conversation and said: "But I'm afraid it's hard for me to help in this regard, you know, I'm just Disney's buying manager, but your requirements for co-distribution are not up to me alone, I need to communicate with the distribution side, if you really make a decision, can you wait for me here for a while?"

Zhou Ming nodded and said okay, and Roy got up and left the office.

Roy had just left, and Tang Lin said to Zhou Ming very complainingly: "I said you're too anxious, right? I told you, this Roy wants to master Disney shares, and only I can help him, that is to say, he has a request for me, as long as we talk about it in advance, I will definitely be able to convince him, why do you still want to talk about cooperative distribution, and pay them for distribution and publicity?"

Zhou Ming spread his hands and said innocently: "You can interrupt me just now, I don't know." ”

Faced with Zhou Ming's answer, Tang Lin was even more angry: "How do I know that you are planning to do this? I thought you would have something else to do! I said a long time ago, we should communicate in advance before coming here, but you have to come over in such a hurry, I ......"

Zhou Ming didn't bother to listen to Tang Lin's rambling anymore, he leaned directly on the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate, with a posture of different ways and inconsistencies, which made Tang Lin even more angry and vomited blood.

At the same time, on the other side, Roy arrives at the office of Iger, the manager of the distribution department, and he finds Iger and tells him about Zhou Ming and the co-distribution.

Iger was very surprised when he heard this: "How can there be such a thing? Is that Chinese an idiot? Or is he very rich?"

"I think they should have both. Roy said, "I don't know Zhou Ming who made the movie, but I know that Tang Lin, he is from the Tang family, so I think they should have some special movie dreams, or they want to make a third-rate actress at random, and after filming, they remembered that it was not released, and then they thought they were very good, so they could only choose to cooperate in distribution." ”

Iger nodded silently and then asked, "Roy, do you know what they do?" with their intelligence, I'm worried that it's a little trick played by some unscrupulous rival, and you know we haven't run into each other. ”

"Don't worry, my friend, I am familiar with them, and they have also introduced themselves after they came, Tang Lin is an investor, and Zhou Ming, who made a movie, said that he is doing information technology, so he used the computer to make a cartoon, and he didn't dare to bring a disc to show me, I can imagine that it must be a very bad thing. Roy said to Iger.

"Last question, are they your friends?" asked Egger.

Roy replied in the negative, and Iger laughed, "So that means we can make any more conditions? Add one more revenue to the company and ourselves? After all, you know, it's hard to distribute bad things." ”

Roy also smiled: "Of course, since someone has sent us money, why should we refuse? ”