"So, it will take a long time for the surrounding income to arrive?" Xu Zhi asked with a frown.

David nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, this is actually a long-term benefit, Eric, your movie has already made a lot of money at the box office alone, and the subsequent peripheral income is generally settled once a year, which means that you can get a lot of money every year in the future."

In Hollywood, many small film companies have made a good film by chance, and then they can rely on the surrounding income in the future!"

Xu Zhi smiled and said, "Can the surrounding area last for so many years?"

David said: "Watching the plot of a movie, it is unlikely to last for decades, but more than ten years is generally not a problem. For example, Eric, your "Home Alone", in fact, there is a way to continue forever!"

Xu Zhi smiled: "You mean to make a sequel?"

"Not bad. David gave a thumbs up: "Your movie is currently famous, and the plot is very suitable for a sequel, this is a long-term business." ”

"I'm not going to shoot it for the time being. Xu Zhi shook his head and said, sequels are actually more suitable for the same characters, but movies with different plots, this kind of movie can form a strong market, such as: Spider-Man, Transformers, Thor, Avengers and so on.

But Home Alone is different, even if it is filmed again, the routine is still like this, take the later "Home Alone 2" as an example, the plot is too deliberate.

The same protagonist, still at Christmas, was separated from his family again, and met 2 thieves with familiar faces in New York, thousands of miles away, and it was the same routine, and the child was a thief.

Of course, this is a comedy movie, many times you don't need to think about logic, everyone is happy, and the box office is still good, from the perspective of capital, as long as there is a return, what does the rest care about?

Of course, Xu Zhi is not rich or unprofitable, but even if he wants to shoot the second part, he will have to wait for another two years, and the time of two years has changed a lot.

Xu Zhi said: "David, if you want to cooperate, you can also cooperate, but I have another idea, not only overseas box office revenue, I want to sell out all the peripheral income and the copyright of the sequel to the follow-up movie at one time!"

"All at once?" David was taken aback and said, "Eric, are you sure?"

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Yes, I confirm!"

David said, "Eric, that's not a small amount!"

If it is an ordinary movie, the box office performance is about 10 million US dollars, and at this time, the follow-up peripheral and sequel copyrights are basically sold out at one time.

Distribution companies are generally more domineering, for example, various settlements and channel utilization will be counted on the cost of the producer, and the income is not high, coupled with this invisible cost, the production company is not willing to share it slowly.

But a movie like "Home Alone", which has a box office of hundreds of millions of dollars, wants to buy it out at one time, the investment is too high, even if you know that you won't lose money, but there are not many companies that can come up with so much money at one time.

Xu Zhidao: "I know, this is my idea, I don't know if your company has the ability to take over?"

David asked, "Then what price are you going to sell?"

Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "It's not decided yet, I will find a professional person to set the price, if your company is willing, we can negotiate after the price comes out." ”

David frowned and said: "I don't have the right to decide such a big matter, I need the approval of the board of directors, but a one-time payment is unlikely, but if you pay in installments, the price is appropriate, I think the board of directors should agree." ”

"No! Of course Xu Zhi refused, he wanted to sell it all out directly, just because he didn't want to wait for N years, and this kind of distribution company, the longer the time, the more profits will be deducted, and the professional accounting methods will make you stunned, the box office has already made the other party earn once, it is regarded as a fame, and now it is the best choice to choose a one-time sale.

What's more, he knows that some special time nodes are coming, and if he has a sum of cash in hand, he will make much more money than slowly dividing it.

David said, "Okay, I'll go back and report to the board, but anyway, I hope that in the future, if you make another movie, we can continue to work together!"

"Yes, under the same conditions, I would choose Columbia Publishing. Xu Zhi said with a smile.

……

In February, the boom of Home Alone slowly faded, and the number of screens screened fell from a peak of 3,500 to 200.

In addition to the Titanic in Hollywood history, no matter how popular the movie is, it is short-lived, and those who want to watch it have already finished watching it, and those who don't want to watch it will not watch it again.

In the end, Home Alone ended with a box office of $216 million.

The battle on the screen is over, but the audience is just beginning.

Xu Zhi deliberately spread the news: all the copyrights owned by the little ghost will be sold out at one time.

Such a hot movie sells all the subsequent copyrights, which is rare in Hollywood history, but then again, there are a few movies that are hot at the box office in Hollywood that are not the products of several giants, these companies have their own channels, and operating slowly is the maximization of profits.

As the news spread, Fox, Paramount, MGM, and Columbia, which had already talked to it once, had a confrontation with the lawyer team hired by Xu Zhi, but in the end, either the price was too low, or they didn't want to make a one-time payment, and they never negotiated, and it seemed that these companies had formed an offensive and defensive alliance.

In the luxurious conference hall of the hotel, Xu Zhi received a special client.

"Hello, Mr. Morita!" Xu Zhi stepped forward to shake hands.

The person who came was the most famous CEO Morita Satsuo in the history of Sony Corporation, although he was not tall, but he said with a radiant complexion: "Mr. Xu is younger than I imagined, I have to say, I appreciate you, and even admire, at such a young age, you have such an achievement." ”

"It's over. Xu Zhi said modestly: "In the shopping mall, Mr. Morita is the real elite, you have to admire the ability to run Sony from a small company to the world's top technology company!"

Morita Shofu is a man with an unusually developed business vision and mind.

In 1957, because the "pocket" radio produced was too large, Sony ordered shirts with relatively large pockets and gave them to consumers, which set a record for Sony to sell 1.5 million shirts a year.

And the annexation of Columbia Pictures in 1989 shocked the whole of the United States.

"Haha......" Morita Schoo smiled proudly and said: "There are many reasons for Sony's success, saying that it is biased to say that I am alone, in fact, after investigating Mr. Xu's fortune history, I found that this is the real way to success!"

"What do you mean?" Xu Zhi was a little puzzled.

"Mr. Xu took movies as his first pot of gold, and then developed games such as crane machines, arcade Xiangjiang cubes and tank battles, which is actually the smartest place," said Morita Schoo.

These are all industries without any competition, Mr. Xu is actually the creator of an industry, and those of us are actually just competing with countless people for the fruits that already exist!"

Xu Zhi said: "No matter how high the profit of the game is, there is no scientific and technological content, and it can't compare to Sony's countless patents for so many years, these are the foundation of a company's strength!"

Morita Schov said: "The game, after the appearance of the space invaders of Taidong Company, in fact, I have also studied, it will indeed be a very good market, but this industry is different from the traditional electronic field, and the emphasis is not on the content of science and technology, but on creativity."

Sony's technology is indeed very good, but in the field of games, we are not sure, this point, Mr. Xu's company is really powerful, only a few games, but almost everything is high-quality. ”

"Haha...... , good luck!" Xu Zhi said with a smile.