Chapter 367: Consensus reached

"Only the person who wrote it is qualified to say that it is not worth a penny!" Alfred repeated this sentence in his heart several times, and his face immediately turned from blue to white!

Yamauchi Bo had a little pity in his eyes, of course, but he looked at him with a sneer, but he didn't say a word, just crumpled the paper in his hand and put it in his pocket. Nodding to Heikeijiro not far away, someone gave Heikeijiro a check for $200,000, and then walked away, leaving Alfred stunned on the spot.

Heikei Jiro felt a little helpless in his heart, Uda Zhong could go, Yamauchi could also go, but as the initiator of the banquet, he couldn't go! For Alfred, Heijing Jiro now hated the root of his teeth, and it was because of him that Fang Mingyuan left early, so that his plan to talk to Fang Mingyuan after the banquet was completely frustrated!

'Mr. Alfred......' Before Heikei Jiro could finish his words, Alfred had already turned around and walked towards the door of the banquet hall, and the people who had come with him hurriedly followed!

When Alfred walked out of the banquet hall and the door of the banquet hall slowly closed, Alfred clearly heard the long-suppressed laughter coming from the banquet hall! That laughter was like a flying slap in the face, which made his eyes glow! It wasn't until he realized that Weishenme Lin Lian would accept his gift by saying anything, and Weishenme Fang Mingyuan would say that Xiexie himself came to cheer! It turned out that the young man was the famous "Fang"!

After this, what kind of reaction Alfred will have is no longer within Fang Mingyuan's consideration!

On the third day after the charity dinner, Heikei Jiro personally went to Fang Mingyuan's villa in Tokyo Bay and began formal cooperation negotiations with Fang Mingyuan.

After seven days of repeated negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement, Sony will transfer seven production jishu to Deguang Electronics Group free of charge, and send engineers to help Deguang Electronics Group digest and master these jishu, and Deguang Electronics Group will send no more than 100 people to Sony for jishu training in the next five years, and all training costs will also be borne by Sony.

In the next five years, Kumho Film Group will cooperate with Columbia's three-star film company to produce no less than six films, and Fang Mingyuan must personally serve as the screenwriter of these six films! There is a big difference between the two sides in terms of the proportion of investment and dividends.

Fang Mingyuan insisted that for every film, the investment ratio of Kumho Film Group should not be less than 70%, that is to say, Columbia Samsung Pictures can only account for 30%, and correspondingly, the final box office dividend of Columbia shall not exceed 40%!

This is because Fang Mingyuan demanded that the main copyright of every film should be owned by Kumho Film Group! This also means that if a sequel is to be made after a movie is a big sale, Columbia Samsung Pictures must obtain permission from Kumho Film Group, but Kumho Film Group does not need to seek permission from Columbia Samsung Films! And a series of derivative rights arising from this are all owned by Kumho Film Group!

This point, of course, makes Sony feel very annoyed! But Heijing Jiro is also helpless about this, in this part of the copyright, Fang Mingyuan bites very hard, and it is not negotiable at all. Moreover, after investigation, Kumho Film Group's cooperation with Emerald Bird Film Company and DreamWorks is also about copyright, which greatly lacks Sony's confidence in negotiations.

"Fang Jun, as far as I know, when Emerald Bird Film Company cooperated with Kumho Film Group to shoot "Terminator 2", the investment between the two parties was half, and Kumho Film Group also had a precedent of half investment in several other films cooperated with Emerald Bird Film Company!" Heikeijiro said with some annoyance, "Thirty percent investment, isn't it too little?" "Whoever invests more, who will naturally have more initiative in future film shooting!" And the 30 percent investment amount will undoubtedly cause the Colombian Samsung company to lose most of its voice in future film shooting!

Fang Mingyuan shrugged his shoulders and said: "That's no way, the copyright of the "Terminator" series of movies is in the hands of Emerald Bird Film Company, and Kumho Film Group was just a newly established and little-known Hong Kong film company at that time! Moreover, Director Cameron was hired by Emerald Bird Film Company. Under the unequal status between the two sides, we are already very lucky to be able to contribute half of the capital!"

"What about DreamWorks?weishenme, they can also enjoy the treatment of forty-five percent of the investment amount?DreamWorks, its history is shorter than that of Emerald Bird Films, let alone compared to Columbia's three-star films!" Heikeijiro said with some anger. He felt that both himself and Sony were despised by Fang Mingyuan!

Fang Mingyuan spread his hands and said: "It's a pity that DreamWorks does not have a long history, and so far, there are not many film works, not to mention Columbia's three-star studios, which have won Oscars many times. DreamWorks has Spielberg, whose films I have always admired, and I believe that the scripts handed to him will definitely get the best possible results!

Heikei Jiro couldn't help but be dumbfounded, Cameron and Spielberg can be said to be the most famous directors in the Shijie film industry today, and there are indeed not many directors who can be as famous as them! Cameron has been directing films jointly produced by Kumho Film Group and Emerald Bird Film Company in recent years, although he has not signed a contract with the two companies, but he can almost be regarded as a contracted director of the two companies. Not to mention Spielberg, he himself is the owner of DreamWorks! Fang Mingyuan gave special treatment to the two companies because of this, which is also reasonable.

Fang Mingyuan stretched his waist, leaned on the sofa, and said with a smile: "If Columbia Samsung can also have big directors like Cameron and Spielberg with great box office appeal, this investment amount is not negotiable......!

Although Fang Mingyuan did not continue, Heikeijiro already understood what he meant -- it is very difficult for directors like Cameron and Spielberg to find six more people, even if they find one or two! More importantly, now Kumho Film Group does not lack funds, distribution channels, and partners, and it is Columbia Samsung Pictures that needs to cooperate with Kumho Film Group, not Kumho Film Group to rush to cooperate with Columbia Samsung Pictures.

If it weren't for Fang Mingyuan's great interest in Sony's electronic jishu, there would have been no need to put forward this cooperation at all! Since the establishment of the Kumho Film Group Company, all the films it has cooperated in shooting, whether they are Hong Kong films or those shot in Hollywood, have all been high at the box office! If it weren't for the fact that Kumho Film Group had only been established for a short time, and that there were still deficiencies in all aspects except funds and scripts, there would have been no need to cooperate with any film company to shoot and share its own profits!

Heikei Jiro was very helpless about this, but he couldn't get away with it yet! The Columbia Samsung Pictures Company has now become the biggest stumbling block in Sony's finances, and it will not be allowed to turn its losses into profits, and Sony will lose a large part of its huge profits every year in order to make up for its shortfall. And the losses in the past few years have also made Columbia's three-star film company's popularity in the shijie film market worse year by year!

Sony's management is worried about this situation, not only because Sony spent six billion dollars on the acquisition of Columbia's Samsung company, but also because Sony has added hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to make up for the deficit of Columbia's Samsung company. More importantly, Columbia's Samsung company is an important foundation for Sony to develop the film and television industry!

If in the end, Sony had to abandon Samsung Columbia, not only did it lose face, but also the economic loss was incalculable, and it wasted extremely valuable time. This is an important reason why Weishenme Heikeijiro, the third-in-command of Sony Corporation, is directly in charge of the Colombian Samsung Company. In order to revive Columbia's Samsung, Sony's management racked their brains, but the effect was not significant. Heijing Jiro was also forced to hit Fang Mingyuan's head with his idea!

But Fang Mingyuan's conditions are really a little too harsh! Sony's seven jishu free transfers, this is an extremely considerable wealth. You know, several of these seven jishu are unique to Sony, and they have not been licensed to other companies until now.

"Vice President Pingjing, I think soon, DreamWorks' new work will be released, if your company doesn't have enough confidence in me, you might as well come to that time, let's discuss it again? But I want to warn Pingjingjun in advance, at that time, this price will go up again!" Fang Mingyuan said with a smile.

In the end, the two sides reached a consensus on the amount of investment -- Kumho Film Group will invest 65 percent, and Columbia Samsung will invest 35 percent. Columbia-Samsung, which receives 43 percent of the box office revenue, and the rest, including the film rights, is owned by Kumho Film Group. Of course, if Columbia Samsung is using it for its own use, it does not have to consult Kumho Film Group.

At this point, the basic consensus between the two parties has been reached, as for the formulation and implementation of specific contract terms, there will be professionals to be responsible for it, so there is no need for Fang Mingyuan to worry about it!

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