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Including Ronan, there are only four employees left in Shahai Entertainment, Mary is temporarily in charge of the company's day-to-day and financial affairs, and Robert Lee in the marketing department and George Clint in the publicity department have nothing to do for the time being.

Ronan's next plan needs manpower, at least to stabilize these three people.

Salaries must be paid on time, and they come out to work to earn money.

like I'll create a broad development platform for you can only be used to fool recent graduates.

In addition to the salary, it is also necessary to give people some hope.

To be precise, it is easy to think crankily when you are busy.

"George, you've worked in the media industry, you're an expert in propaganda, you're well connected in the media. ”

In the office, Roger held a company-wide staff meeting, "You take care of the relationship with them, we need to use the media next."

George Clint was in his thirties, but he was born old-looking, frowning, and his face was wrinkled like a sixty-year-old man: "Mr. Anderson......"

"Ronan! Call me Ronan. Ronan seemed very relatable.

"We're running a new film project?" asked George Clint.

Mary and Robert Lee also looked at it with concern.

Ronan nodded, "Yes." We instigated a new project to save ourselves. ”

The faces of the three people were full of surprise, and when they saw that someone wanted to ask a question, Ronan preemptively said, "I'll take care of the financial aspects." Starting in February, your salary will be increased by 10 percent, and I promise to pay it on time. ”

These words worked, and the three of them felt a little relieved.

Ronan said to the forty-year-old curly-haired man, "Robert, do you know about the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority?"

"They just set up an office in Los Angeles and are mainly looking at investment projects. The curly-haired man replied.

"Is it just an investigation?" Ronan saw the curly-haired man Rob nodding his head, thought for a moment, and said, "You go and get in touch with the people in the office to find out their impressions of Hollywood." Gather some information about Abu Dhabi, such as investment and the human environment. ”

Robert Lee thought for a moment and said, "I have a friend who often does business with Arabs, and I can let him get in touch with it. He seemed to guess Ronan's thoughts: "Are you going to invest in the Arabs?"

Ronan nodded: "I have a classmate from Abu Dhabi at USC, I have communicated with him in the past two days, the Arab oil tycoon is very rich, and he is waving a check all over the world looking for investment. ”

George Clint chimed in: "Can you attract Arabs to invest in the company......? Ronan, we've just messed up a project. ”

Ronan shook his head: "Directly let Arab funds invest in the company, we may face great pressure." ”

The three immediately understood what they meant, that there was an unusually powerful force in Hollywood, and that they were incompatible with the Arabs.

Ronan continued: "We prioritize film projects, and individual film projects are not that sensitive. The plan needed manpower, and he still fooled the three people to get on the thief ship first: "Three, you are the elders of the Sand Sea, you didn't give up the Sand Sea in difficult times, and you didn't give up on me Ronan Anderson, I am very grateful." ”

"No need to do that, Ronan. Mary replied, "As it should be. ”

Ronan knows the importance of team cohesion, and after talking about feelings, and then talking about reality, he swears: "If you can get the investment this time, each of you can get one percent of the total amount as a reward." ”

The latter plan needs to be carried out by them, and these three are veterans in the industry.

Robert Lee and George Clint glanced at each other, and the latter asked, "Ronan, how much do you plan to raise?"

"My target is tentatively the Arab rich. Ronan pretended to be relaxed: "It's not a big problem to raise millions of dollars. ”

There are candidates such as Ah San.

These three people can stay in the company until now, they must have feelings for Shahai Entertainment, and with the stimulation of money, their spirits are somewhat uplifted.

As soon as the impromptu meeting was over, Ronan rushed to the Peskind branch in Los Angeles with Mary.

Inside the office, Robert Lee said to George Clint, "It feels like Ronan has changed. ”

"Hmm. George Clint sighed: "After a painful failure, it's normal to change. ”

"Hopefully it won't be messed up this time. "Robert Lee has little faith in Ronan.

George Clint said: "Hollywood is all about failure, Ronan has talent, what is lacking is experience." ”

Some of the things are not going to be said to Robert at all, and he has been thinking about quitting his job and leaving recently, but now, let's see what if we can get investment? The Arabs who made their fortune on oil are said to have never taken money seriously.

Ronan took Mary to the Los Angeles branch of Pepsi in Century City, where he met Anthony, the rights buyer, in a meeting room.

Passcard is the largest videotape chain in the United States, mainly engaged in the production, sale and rental of videotapes, and was acquired by Viacom of Summer-Leishidong in the early nineties, and has a vague monopoly trend in the videotape market.

Anthony, who received Ronan, was just a very ordinary copyright buyer, but he didn't look down on Shahai Entertainment very much.

There are many small production companies like Shahai in Hollywood.

"$200,000 is absolutely impossible!" Anthony said in a calm voice, but there was a hint of arrogance in his tone: "The Jedi failed miserably at the box office, and it wasn't worth the price." ”

Ronan, of course, knew that he was overbidding, but he still fought for it as best he could: "Jedi is a unique action movie with the gore elements of B-grade films, and this genre has always been the darling of the videotape market. And there are many precedents for films that have failed at the box office to be successful in the videotape market, such as "The Shawshank Redemption", which has responded very well in the videotape rental market in recent years. ”

Anthony said with a little disdain: "That film has not recovered its cost yet, and it may be profitable in another five years, isn't time a cost?"

Ronan simply asked, "How much do you bid?"

Anthony said coldly: "Eighty thousand dollars." ”

"This can't be!" Ronan put on a look of disbelief: "The production cost of Jedi is as high as six million dollars!"

In fact, this is a normal bid, and in most cases, the basic license fee for a film's videotape is 10 to 20 percent of the North American box office.

The more popular the movie at the box office, the higher the copyright transfer fee, and the sales or lease share.

Shahai Entertainment is Anthony's old customer, but in the face of commercial interests, it is basically useless.

In particular, Shahai Entertainment is about to go bankrupt.

Anthony shrugged his shoulders and said with disdain in his tone: "Mind you, the North American box office of "Jedi" is only $800,000. ”

Such a bad movie that completely failed at the box office could not give Ronan any confidence at all.

But $80,000 is too little.

Ronan said: "In addition to the standards set by the industry association, Shahai Entertainment should not share in the later stage. ”

Anthony frowned and thought, just like B-movies are an important classification in the videotape industry, bloody action movies have a certain market in videotape rental.

"Sell out all at once!" he said, raising an eyebrow, "including TV rights." ”

Ronan deliberately gritted his teeth: "I want $300,000!"

Anthony laughed, his smile full of mockery: "Young man, Shahai Entertainment is about to go bankrupt, and it is impossible for you to offer you a high price if you go to any company." ”

"Shahai Entertainment is not bankrupt yet. Ronan replied without saying anything.

Anthony shrugged his shoulders, as if listening to a joke, and said directly: "$150,000! A one-time buyout of the videotape and TV rights! ”

Ronan groaned for a moment and said slowly, "Okay, $150,000." "You need to pay in a lump sum when you sign the contract for the assignment of copyright," he stressed. ”

Anthony didn't care: "Yes." ”

At the end of the negotiations, the two parties initialed an agreement, and the signing of the formal contract will wait for the approval of the Pepsi side.

According to Mary, this kind of small business of more than 100,000 dollars is basically not unexpected.

More than 100,000 dollars is naturally a small business for a behemoth like Pepsi.

Out of the Passcard branch, Ronan looked back at the nameplate, the attitude of the Passcard buyer made him angry, but there was no way to vent, not to mention that Shahai Entertainment was facing bankruptcy, even at its peak, it was not put in the eyes of the people of Pesda.

The wealth and status of the two sides are not equal at all.

Ronan strengthened his resolve to plan the plan.

Mary then asked, "Is this money start-up capital?"

Ronan smiled and said, "Without this activity funding, how can we attract investment?"

Mary reminded: "Under the contract we signed with the distributor, New Line Pictures is entitled to a 15% royalty. ”

Ronan read the contract, naturally knew this, thought about it and said: "Go through the formal procedures to notify New Line Pictures, and pay the share to delay as much as possible." ”

Mary nodded, "It should be okay to drag it out for two months." ”

Ronan sighed, the distributor is the top of the Hollywood food chain.

Distribution companies not only take a cut from the box office, but also generally take a cut from the surrounding copyright income, generally ranging from 10% to 40%.

"Are you ready with a script?" asked Mary with concern.

Ronan nodded, "Ready." ”

Now that the start-up funds are available, he needs to come up with a convincing project, which is based on a script.