After this conversation, Fred still intends to serve as the art director of "Slumdog Millionaire", which makes Li Xiaole feel a little disappointed, and has no choice but to invite Old Charlie again, and Old Charlie finally agreed to this job, although it is not perfect, and may not be able to surpass the original version, but for the Oscars, Li Xiaole still has a certain degree of confidence, after all, the theme of this movie is much more flattering than "No Country for Old Men", "Rejuvenation" is much more flattering, Hollywood judges are partial to stories of these ordinary little people.

Everything is still going smoothly as expected, Li Xiaole is also preparing for "Slumdog Millionaire" with passion, and is ready to use this movie to stand in the center of the film stage in the world, so that Black Pearl Company can completely break the shackles of capital power on the film world, just thinking about it, Li Xiaole feels his blood boiling.

On the other side of the Atlantic, while the North American box office of "The Incredible Hulk" exceeded 200 million, the global box office also exceeded 400 million US dollars, and the new film "Captain America" is also ready to go, ready to join the box office war in the summer file, everything is developing as Li Xiaole expected.

But when the crew of "Slumdog Millionaire" was about to set off for India at London's Heathrow International Airport, things suddenly took an unexpected turn.

"Why did you turn off your phone!? Something went wrong, something went wrong with the movie~~" Lei Ting rushed in a panic in front of Li Xiaole, who was about to enter the security channel.

"Don't worry, Sister Tingting, speak slowly, what's wrong?" Li Xiaole, whose mobile phone had long been out of battery, tried to make Lei Ting breathe steadily, but he had a faint premonition in his heart, because he had never seen Lei Ting's panicked expression.

"Look at this~" Lei Ting took out her laptop and handed it to Li Xiaole.

Li Xiaole took the computer and saw that the official Sony website on the screen announced with a huge title: "Today, our company is pleased to announce to you that the Indian-themed film "Slumdog Millionaire" directed by Danny Boyle will officially start filming in Bangalore, India today~~~"

What's going on!? Li Xiaole's brain buzzed all of a sudden, and he was stunned for a long time before he reacted, eagerly grabbed Lei Ting's hand and asked:

"Sister Lei, what the fuck is going on? Are they infringing? Haven't we already bought out the copyright of the original author Vikas Swarup's novel? Why can Sony start filming before us? How did they get through the insurance company's copyright review? ”

This is simply a blatant infringement!? Just like the deliberate malicious competition between the domestic "Pen Fairy Horror" and "Pen Fairy", Sony wants to start filming this kind of movie of the same genre and grab a round of box office before their original book is released!? Aren't they afraid to resort to the law themselves?

"No...... It's not like this......" Lei Ting's face darkened, her expression was very uncomfortable, and she lowered her head:

Just two hours ago, the Supreme Court of Madras, India, had ruled that Aga Press, the publisher of QA, had the rights to adapt its work for film and television...... And the author, Vikas Svalup, has lost the case...... The company has just received an official notification from the Supreme Court of Madras asking us to stop filming the film immediately. ”

"How so!? Didn't this lawsuit say that we could win it? Li Xiaole suddenly felt that the anger came up all of a sudden, and his voice also raised a lot, causing many people in the waiting room to look at this side.

Copyright disputes are also very common in films, this lawsuit has actually been fought since three years ago, the Indian government department is extremely inefficient, and it has been pending until now, but almost all the evidence before shows that Yaga Publishing did not get the film and television adaptation rights of "QA" from the author Vikas Svalup.

Why did the Supreme Court suddenly rule against Vikas Schvalup today?

"The court has received new strong evidence, and I suspect that Sony has strong support in India, and they have done a PR ...... And it is likely that they have already found witnesses and evidence, but they have waited until today to produce them...... It's all planned...... They have been ready for a long time...... Just waiting for this time today to give us the fatal blow......"

Lei Ting lowered her head, a helpless expression appeared on her cold face for the first time, she once thought that her intelligence ability and skills could be proud of all opponents, but she never expected that the other party would have more powerful characters, and the other party would cover up these things so well under her eyelids, so that she didn't notice it beforehand......

Li Xiaole was stunned on the spot when he heard this, and suddenly understood what was happening...... The media of the six major studios praised "Slumdog Millionaire" in unison, which was not to create momentum for him at all...... Instead, they were waiting for the day to come, and all of this was arranged.

These people waited for him to spend tens of millions of dollars, set up the crew, actors, rented the Indian Bollywood venue, and prepared everything, and then they used their long-planned fatal move, which choked him by the throat at once...... So ruthless! It's poisonous!

"Director Li, it's time for the plane to take off...... If you don't go through security, it's too late. Dave Patel, an Indian-British actor next to him, didn't know what was going on, and came over to kindly remind Li Xiaole.

"Don't go...... Li Xiaole's face was gloomy and terrifying, and he said in an extremely cold voice.

"What?" Dave Patel thought he had misheard.

"Let's not go to India first, Charlie, you organize everyone to go back to the company first to put down the equipment, and all the staff will go home and be on standby, all of them will stay in the state and wait for my notice at any time." After Li Xiaole finished speaking, he hurriedly trotted with Lei Ting to the direction of the parking lot.

"What the hell is going on?" "What's wrong?" The crew was about to go to India in the first batch, and dozens of people were stunned, and they didn't understand what the situation was. But one thing they can be sure of is that something really is going to happen......

Back in the apartment, Li Xiaole turned on the computer as soon as possible, and checked all the relevant information with Lei Ting, as well as Indian legal documents, hoping to find a little way to change the current situation.

At this time, the major websites were full of news about the two "Slumdog Millionaires".

"Sony obtained the copyright, and Black Pearl was suspected of infringing to shoot a film with the same theme, and was ordered by an Indian court to stop filming and not be allowed to engage in any film and television activities with related themes." "Black Pearl Company's major infringement case~~~ Li Xiaole's new film died abruptly~!" "Sony takes over 'Slumdog Millionaire' and hits next year's Oscars."

Even fans on major film and television forums were stunned, and posted their doubts one after another: "What's going on? Obviously, Li Xiaole announced the filming first, why did this movie belong to Sony again? Who bought the rights? "It's too messy~~It's too messy~~ Did Sony do it on purpose this time? How could it be that they had just started filming as soon as the verdict was announced? Li Xiaole's crew is still in the UK. ”

There are also some fans who hate Li Xiaole who are gloating: "Damn, this arrogant Chinese kid is really not a good thing, he actually made an infringing movie, how dare he be high-profile, now it's up to him to do it." "Okay, maybe this is a good thing for Li Xiaole, even if he shoots it, this kind of theme will definitely be a disaster, I think Sony saved him~~~"

Looking at these, Li Xiaole has slowly calmed down, he has fallen into the trap, he has been pitted by the six major studios so many times, and now he has finally been designed by someone once, even if he is angry now, it is useless, now he has to think about how to solve this problem, turned his head and asked Lei Ting calmly: "Little Sister Lei, can we go and sue them for infringement, after all, Vikas Swarup is the original author." ”

"I'm afraid it's difficult, if it's in the United States, we still have Wagner as a PR, and we can find relevant lawyers to fight against Sony, but India ...... You know that there is a lot of corruption in the administrative organs there, and we don't have any connections over there, so since Sony has already started making its own movie, it must be fully prepared, and it will not be afraid that we will resort to the law at all... Damn it! If I had been paying attention, this would not have happened. Lei Ting said with a cold face, gritted her teeth and blamed herself, very annoyed in her heart, why didn't she notice it before!?

Li Xiaole only remembered Fred's words to remind him at this time, "Todd Hardy will use all kinds of ways beyond the film industry itself to force you to ......" He suddenly realized that he really underestimated the enemy, and the other party did not plan to compete with him through movies at all, but let himself jump into the commercial trap early without realizing it...... Aren't these Wall Street guys the best at this kind of trick?

He invested so much time, energy, and money in this "Slumdog Millionaire", and had high hopes for this work, never expected that he would help others make wedding dresses.

Now what? Stalking with Sony? In terms of social resources, Black Pearl cannot be compared with a giant like Sony, even if it is entangled to the worst, it has no chance of winning, and it is difficult to compensate a huge amount of infringement costs......

Retract the movie? Starting all over again? But now that the end of the year is less than 6 months away, how can he plan from scratch and shoot an Oscar-level movie in such a short period of time?

Filming "The King's Speech" in England instead? No, this kind of theme needs to be authorized by the royal family, and the cycle is about a year whether it is successful or not...... Now go back to the United States to shoot "12 Years a Slave"? Re-establish the project, set up the crew, gather the actors, and rent the venue...... Shooting, post-production, completely from scratch, zero foundation to shoot a film of this level...... It's almost impossible......

"Calm down and think about it...... There's always a way. Li Xiaole kept reminding himself in his heart.