Whether as a director or a businessman, Lucas is very successful, and naturally he will not refuse this opportunity, so the next day he and Spielberg met Rongle at Lucasfilm!

Rong Le's age surprised them, and the first thing that came to their mind was whether they were tricked by Xiangjiang's film company, but out of professional courtesy, the two still stood up to welcome Rong Le!

"Hello Mr. Rong!"

"Mr. Lucas, director Spielberg, hello!" For today's meeting, Rong Le specially invited a professional translator!

Lucas had a contempt for Rong Le in his heart, so naturally he wouldn't waste any more time, and said straight to the point: "I don't know how Mr. Rong knew about the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?"

Rong Le smiled slightly, and said very gracefully: "This is thanks to last night's game, when I sat in front of the two gentlemen, and heard the discussion of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"!

Lucas and Spielberg suddenly realized how Rongle knew about "Raiders of the Lost Ark"!

Lucas: "I don't mean to offend Mr. Rong, but the investment in this movie is not a small amount, so in order to save everyone's time, I want to know how much investment Mr. Rong can accept?"

Rong Le: "I don't think Mr. Lucas knows that I not only have a film company, but also a record company, a TV station, and I also have a game company, I don't know Mr. Lucas, have you heard of the game "Donkey Kong"?"

When they heard that Rongle owned a TV station, Lucas and Spielberg had already put away their contempt, and then when they heard the game "Donkey Kong", their eyes were already bright, obviously they knew about this game!

"I didn't expect that the popular "Donkey Kong" in the United States was developed by Mr. Rong's company, I always thought it was an American company?"

With the foreshadowing of "Donkey Kong", Lucas and Spielberg have already believed in Rongle's financial resources.

"After hearing the film discussed by the two directors at the stadium yesterday, I happened to have a fund in my hand and wanted to invest in Hollywood, so I had my visit today out of trust in the two directors!"

"If I could, I would like to take a look at the script of this movie, and if the script is appropriate, I think I can accept an investment of $10 million to $20 million!"

Lucas was only now sure that Rongle really wanted to invest!

"Of course you can!" After speaking, Lucas took the script on the table to Rong Le, and the translator Rong Le brought was to tell Rong Le the content of the script page by page.

Rong Le seemed to be listening, but in fact, he had already been out of the world, and when the translator finished talking about the content of the script, Rong Le pretended to ponder for a while before saying: "I like this script very much, I don't know how much investment Mr. Lucas is ready to accept?"

"$20 million!" Lucas said widely, although the cost he discussed with Spielberg before was $18 million in production costs, but who would be afraid of less money? Not to mention that according to Spielberg's habit, the more money you give, the better the shooting will be!

It also includes his careful thinking, 20 million US dollars have been invested, in case the shooting is later, when the cost is exceeded, the teenager in front of him can not continue to add!

Rong Le was slightly stunned, he knew the cost of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", but 18 million US dollars, plus 4 million US dollars in publicity expenses, is the entire investment of 22 million, and now Lucas opens his mouth to 20 million US dollars, which is according to the highest amount he gave!

Shameless!

However, Rong Le did not express an opinion on this, and continued to ask: "So what is the total investment of this play? Are you going to invest in the copyright, script, director, etc., or do you count it alone?"

Lucas: "The total investment is about $30 million, Lucasfilm will come up with $5 million in cash, and then the cost on the American side, we will count it as $5 million in shares, but it does not include copyrights, and in the end Stephen doesn't want to be paid, but he wants 5% of the North American box office!"

Rongle: "Hehe......"

It's really a lion's mouth, 5% of the North American box office dividends, this is already the treatment of Hollywood's top directors, decades later, there are not many actors and directors who can pay dividends from Hollywood, and now Spielberg has gone ahead of everyone!

What's even more annoying is that Lucasfilm actually paid 5 million US dollars from beginning to end, and actually left the previous copyright, Lucas and others may not know, but Rong Le himself knows that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a super big IP, and the copyright of such a big IP wants to be taken away with 5 million US dollars, Rong Le is a little unwilling in his heart, and he still has to fight for it for a while......

"If the movie is successfully released in North America, excluding the copy and publicity costs of the distribution company, it should be about 45% in our hands, and I am not wrong, George?"

"Yes, but this is pre-tax income, but you know that Lucasfilm is not registered in California, and the tax rate is much lower than that in California!"

The tax rate in California is the highest in the whole of the United States, even if the American branch of Rongle is registered, it is no longer California, George Lucas knows this, so he does not hide it in the tax rate!

"George, I've always believed in professional things and leaving them to professionals. So in terms of taxation, we should leave it to a professional organization!"

"That's the best!" George Lucas sighed in his heart, accomplished people, regardless of age, are really not easy to deal with!

"If we go by the percentage of our investment, that means I should end up with about 26% of the North American box office revenue, right?"

"Not bad!" Now that the cooperation has been decided, Lucas naturally will not hide something in this kind of thing: "Find a professional tax company, and if you deduct taxes, it should be about 22% of the box office income!"

"In other words, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" must reach at least $100 million at the North American box office before my investment can recover its cost?

The income of a movie in Hollywood is definitely not only the box office income, but also the products derived from the peripheral are a piece of fat, especially the "Star Wars" series is the most successful in this regard! In later generations, the entire "Star Wars" peripheral products have generated a terrifying 27 billion US dollars! It is more than twice the box office of the movie!

And the videotape is a traditional income head, and later Cheng Long and Li Lianjie broke into Hollywood at the same time, Cheng Long's movie is obviously better than Li Lianjie's blockbuster, but the salary of the two is about the same, why? is because Li Lianjie's film is better than Cheng Long in the videotape rental and sales!

Lucas nodded: "Of course, since it is cooperation, we naturally have to show sincerity, and the proportion is still calculated according to the proportion of investment!"

Rong Le was slightly surprised, although Lucas opened his mouth just now, but now he showed the integrity that a successful businessman should have!

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that if Lucas doesn't even have the most basic integrity, then he can't make his Lucasfilm bigger!

Rong Le moved his body and changed to a comfortable sitting position before speaking: "Okay, then let's talk about the last issue, the issue of copyright!"

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