Chapter 141 Patents for TV Shopping
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To be honest, Li Mingbao took advantage of John this time. Don't look at "Home Alone" originally asked for 40% of the benefits of the Twentieth Century Fox Company, and I think that "The True Color of Heroes" is very profitable.
Actually, that's not the case at all. One of the reasons why "Home Alone" can get forty percent of the benefits is that this movie is really good, plus this movie is produced locally in Hollywood, and the star directors are all run by Hollywood's own people behind the scenes, and Li Mingbao is just a producer.
As long as you don't say it, no one will know whether Li Mingbao is Chinese or where, and it will not be much more difficult to promote this movie. In addition, when Li Mingbao talked about it, he also got the copyright of the film to talk about it, and Twentieth Century Fox really needed such a movie to enrich Twentieth Century Fox's film library.
For a variety of reasons, Li Mingbao can get forty percent of the benefits. But now "The True Color of Heroes" is not like this, first of all, this movie was not shot in Hollywood, and there will be a lot of trouble in promoting it alone, otherwise Li Mingbao would have handed over this movie to his DreamWorks company in the United States.
After all, DreamWorks is now a bit of a movie, and it also has dealings with theaters. Why didn't Li Mingbao give this movie to DreamWorks at the beginning, it is because such a pure Hong Kong film is difficult to do, and only a giant like Twentieth Century Fox will not care, and can still get a better number of movies and screens.
If DreamWorks were to do it, it would never be as secure as Twentieth Century Fox. A pure Hong Kong movie, generally speaking, can't get any good treatment in Hollywood, which Boss Zou can confirm that the best treatment he can get here, that is, less than 20%.
When Boss Zou broke into Hollywood, Li Mingbao was still a child. When it comes to the relationship, Li Mingbao and Boss Zou are completely incomparable. But with Boss Zou's relationship, there is still only a share of being squeezed in Hollywood. Li Mingbao can get 30% of the benefits from John, which is definitely a big gain.
It was because he knew the market that Li Mingbao threw out any nonsense such as friendship, in fact, in order to plug John's mouth. But for such nonsense, Li Mingbao himself doesn't know whether John sells this face or not.
After all, when the Yankees negotiate, they really don't pay attention to friendship or friendship. But I didn't expect John to really give face and agree to Li Mingbao's request of 30%. Of course, Li Mingbao also knew that this was not the actual effect of the so-called friendship between him and John.
Rather, John is optimistic about his growth, exchanging the benefits of the present for greater benefits in the future. For an old fox like John, if there is no factor of interest, friendship is something that can be thrown away at any time, which is like discipline, which seems to be very important. But at some point, it's just throwing it away, it's a matter of discipline or something, it doesn't matter if you want it or not.
Of course, there may be a deeper reason, which is that John is not too optimistic about the prospects of the film. After all, this is a Hong Kong movie, although the means and content of filming are very surprising, but foreign movies are foreign movies after all, and it is still unknown whether they can satisfy the audience.
If you can meet a promising movie like "Home Alone", not to mention that a face is worth 10% of the benefits, even if Li Mingbao dances in front of John, it is useless, and 1% John will not give up. And "The True Color of Heroes", who knows what kind of situation this movie will encounter, it is not necessary to lose a little money, the interests of Sancheng look exaggerated, but in fact it is nothing, it is better to deepen the friendship with Li Mingbao.
After all, if Li Mingbao's idea can really be realized, John, who cooperated with Li Mingbao at the beginning, will definitely be able to get a suitable share. John never imagined that he would be able to gain such a large amount of profit alone. Because that's not realistic, taking the lead is just for the sake of share.
Even John understands better that if such a thing is done, Li Mingbao may not be able to cover the sky with one hand when he is there, after all, the interests related to this are not something that a newcomer like Li Mingbao can eat, at most, as a starting person, Li Mingbao will occupy a dominant position, and it depends on whether Li Mingbao's future forces can control such a situation.
got 30% of the benefits, and Li Mingbao's action this time can be regarded as perfect. He believes that with the ability of Twentieth Century Fox, his film may have a more satisfying harvest. It is unthinkable that the North American box office will break 100 million, but tens of millions of dollars is possible.
If the box office is 10 million, Li Mingbao can get 3 million, 20 million, that is, 6 million, 30 million, and Li Mingbao can get 9 million. This is US dollars, nine million US dollars into Hong Kong dollars, that is, more than 70 million, and the local box office share is insignificant in front of this money.
Of course, whether it can have such a box office, Li Mingbao is not very clear. But when Li Mingbao was discussing the release of the movie with John, he was still busy with another matter, that is, applying for a patent.
As early as when Li Mingbao first thought of selling movie tickets by phone in Hong Kong, he thought of an industry that would become popular all over the world in the future, TV shopping. This thing is definitely a big killer, and if it's just for the sake of pre-selling movie tickets, it's really a waste of resources.
So before the idea was thrown out, Li Mingbao began to apply for patents around the world. As a new thing, if it weren't for Li Mingbao's traversing vision, this thing wouldn't make people feel much. But as long as Li Mingbao thinks of the disgusting advertisements like the heart-rending ones as long as nine hundred and ninety-eight, as long as nine hundred and ninety-eight, and a thousand feet of platinum to bring home, Li Mingbao knows how crazy this thing is.
Thinking that the TV shopping channels that spread all over the world had to pay royalties to themselves, Li Mingbao would feel excited when he thought about it. So at that time, as soon as he thought of this thing, Li Mingbao formulated a detailed plan, and asked a lawyer to fill in the legal loopholes of the patent.
Although Li Mingbao does not have many people who can complete the task, Li Mingbao has money, and many things can be bought with money these days, including the lawyer's discipline. So when Li Mingbao threw a lot of money, it became very easy to apply for a global patent, but it just took time.
Fortunately, Li Mingbao attaches great importance to the United States, so he applied for a patent in Hong Kong and a patent in the United States. With a lot of money, Li Mingbao's patent application quickly came down.
Not long after Li Mingbao's patent was obtained, he heard his lawyer say that there was a TV station in Florida that was engaged in this thing, although it was only a prototype, but it also involved the content of TV shopping.
So, the poor TV station broke the law. Originally, this TV station was the first TV station to use TV shopping, but at that time, this TV station didn't think there was anything wrong with using TV to shop, and as for patents or anything, there was no need to think about it.
Although the Yankees have always attached importance to patents, they are actually doing such things by using TV to buy and sell products, and patents are still a long way from them, and they only do it, and they don't know what that means. But the pity is that Li Mingbao understood the prospect of this thing one step ahead of them, so he applied for a patent.
Even when the patent is still being applied, the TV station is not able to use the TV to shop for content, and it has to wait for the patent to be filed. Not to mention that now that Li Mingbao has obtained the patent, they still want to do this, they are purely looking for death.
After learning about the specific situation, Li Mingbao's lawyer team in the United States was as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, because as long as this TV station was sued in court, no matter how good the lawyer hired there was, in the face of the patent, there would only be a share of failure.
Poor originality, in front of Li Mingbao, the evil guy, is completely useless. So when Li Mingbao's lawyer sent a letter to that TV station, their boss's face turned green. Isn't it just selling something on TV, how can it violate someone else's patent? But the attached patent information shows that their TV station did violate the patent, so the boss there can only wait for Li Mingbao's verdict with a lamb to the slaughter mentality.
Fortunately, Li Mingbao didn't want to make a big fuss, if he made this patent smelly, then how could he make money? So Li Mingbao signaled that the boss over there could use the patent, as long as he paid the patent fee. Let the boss, who was almost not scared to death, sing hallelujah every day for a while.
Of course, Li Mingbao was still in Hong Kong at that time, so he didn't receive sincere thanks from the TV boss. But now Li Mingbao has come to the United States, so he entrusted his own legal team to let the TV station publicize the concept of TV shopping with great fanfare, and it also comes with a complete set of TV shopping exhibition rules. For TV shopping, which is still feeling the stones, it is tantamount to the status of the Bible in the minds of believers.
After finishing the work of the movie "The True Color of Heroes", within a week, Li Mingbao used the professional lawyer team invited from Yuntong to start the business of public relations and TV shopping.
If a new event is not promoted, then his exhibition will surely become slow. However, since Li Mingbao holds such a patent, he naturally cannot let the patent lie in his safe, and if he wastes a day, he will be charged one day less in the patent fee.
As a result, a team of professional lawyers immediately became a sales team, and they needed to develop not only the North American market, but also the European market, and even the global market. Let the whole world tremble under the obscenity of TV shopping.
Li Mingbao wondered if there would be bloody speeches hosted by those heart-rending TV shopping hosts in Hong Kong a year from now.