"How to cooperate?"

Li Lin asked, and he admitted that he was moved.

With the two masterpieces of "World of Warcraft" and "Diablo" to cooperate with AOL Time Warner, from the perspective of the construction itself, it is very tempting.

The only thing to consider is the reaction of Universal Films.

But in the mall, the last thing to think about is its reaction.

Angered by AOL Time Warner, you may be besieged by the national media, suppressed by the other party in terms of propaganda, of course, you will not blatantly reject you, blatantly rejecting you is a monopolistic behavior, a paper accusation is up, even a newspaper will not be able to eat and walk around.

But if you don't refuse, it doesn't mean that they can't do it, they can raise the price of your advertising fee, and then tell you with a smile that the economy is in a recession now, so the price will be raised.

If you refuse, that's your own business, and it has nothing to do with others, and even if you make a fuss, they will have a reason to speak. If you don't refuse, then you will be slaughtered, even if your movie makes a lot of money, you will be surprised to find that a large part of your profits are swallowed up by the bottomless black hole of propaganda when you finally settle the profits.

But what does it bring to off Universal Movies? At most, Universal Pictures will arrange a big production zuò to fight you in the ring when your movie is released and crush you.

From here, it can be seen that AOL Time Warner and Universal Pictures are not at the same level in terms of deterrence.

But it's normal to think about it, no matter how powerful Universal Pictures is, it's also a film company. And AOL Time Warner is the current hegemon of the American media market, with a great reputation, and the two are not one heavyweight.

"You give us the copyright. We are responsible for investing, producing and distributing the products, and we account for 80% of the box office revenue. "Steve. Keith took a breath and made his own terms.

"Where's the perimeter?"

"Of course, the surrounding area is responsible for the investment, and we share it with Blizzard."

"Huh."

Li Lin smiled, "Don't you think you're too greedy?" ”

"Greed? I don't think that we are responsible for investing, making, and distributing, and you are responsible for collecting money, are we greedy? "Steve. Keith said, "Lee." We take all the risks, and of course we take the lion's share of the profits. ”

"But you don't want a big head, you want everything." Li Lin has a new understanding of this greedy poisonous snake. He is not only greedy, but also arrogant.

Who doesn't know that the sales of the movie in the periphery are not weaker than the box office of the movie, and only a small part of the box office dividends are given, completely eating up the share that belongs to him in the periphery. He is playing Li Lin like a monkey.

The question is, is Li Lin a monkey?

No.

So he's not going to work with AOL. He sought the rights to adapt World of Warcraft and Diablo not only for profit, but also to make his voice heard in Hollywood.

The collaboration proposed by AOL Time Warner completely drowned out his voice.

"Sorry, Steve. Thank you, Mr. Case, for your kindness, but I'm having a great time working with Universal Pictures so far, so your proposal was rejected after my careful consideration! Li Lin replied to Steve with formulaic content. Case, don't wait for him to finish, Steve. Keith had already grunted and hung up.

"I'm really impatient."

Li Lin looked at Dudu's mobile phone. Instead of immediately throwing it back into his pocket, he made a phone call and called Qi Xiangdong.

"A commissioner from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce just invited me to become an intermediate member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce." Li Lin said in a deep voice: "Do you think it is necessary for us to join?" ”

"What's going on?"

"That's right."

Li Lin told him what had just happened. Asked, "Do I want to be an intermediate member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?" ”

"It's up to you."

After thinking for a while, Qi Xiangdong said: "If you are only based in China and put down roots here, then it is better not to join the American Chamber of Commerce." ”

"But if you want to make a big difference internationally, then joining the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and using the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to get around the world is a great need."

"After all, the United States has signed trade agreements with so many countries around the world, and although American businessmen are also subject to the restrictions of various countries' policies, this restriction is much smaller than ours."

Li Lin's eyes lit up when he heard this, he already had an idea, "In this case, you immediately ask people to go to the United States to establish a charitable fund to prepare for the upcoming tax avoidance." ”

The IRS wanted to collect his taxes, how could he possibly let them get their way.

If you want to collect taxes, okay, you can, but what you collect is just a little bit, too much, don't even think about it, Li Lin will not hand over the money he has earned to the IRS.

"What about the direction of the charity fund?" Qi Xiangdong asked.

"Of course, it's the out-of-school children in Huaxia." Li Lin said confidently: "Most of the funds are used for the out-of-school children and disaster victims in China. ”

He will not use the money he earns to benefit other people's society, but to benefit and benefit the Chinese society, of course, what should be done is still to be done.

"A small part of the funds are used for medical research in Europe and the United States, didn't I donate a sum of money to ALS in the United States last time? You have someone register a purse company in an offshore company, and then you buy a medical research institution and receive donations from my charitable foundation to this medical research institution. ”

Qi Xiangdong took a deep breath, and it was obvious that Li Lin was unwilling to pay taxes to the IRS, so he took various measures to avoid the loss of wealth.

Of course, he doesn't care, he has been in this circle for a long time, and he knows very well what those who claim to donate all or most of their wealth to charities in Europe and the United States are secretly doing on the surface.

They easily used various methods to return most of the assets they donated to their own hands, and after the baptism of charity, this part of the funds even became magnificent.

There are even some people who have turned their charitable funds into a business and made a lot of money on them.

The most common way to do this is to buy a medical research institute with a leather bag company and donate to it through a charitable foundation to donate to patients around the world.

Due to the particularity of medical research institutions, they do not need to report to the public the whereabouts of their funds and the origin of their funds.

In this way, they can easily return the funds to their own hands, not only that, but they can also really set up a medical research institution, once a new drug is developed, they can immediately obtain the drug patent of the medical research institution through patent replacement, at this time they can choose to sell the patent to the pharmaceutical company or set up their own pharmaceutical company to make a profit.

Of course, the vast majority of wealthy people choose to sell patents rather than run pharmaceutical companies.

However, this is only a way for the European and American tycoons to secretly avoid taxes, and more ways to avoid taxes have been sunk under the surface of the water, and the media controlled by the media group are very wise not to touch these chains of interests, and the media that are not controlled by the media groups simply do not have the energy to track down these hidden chains of interests.

In fact, in Li Lin's previous life, Citibank's overseas secret accounts would not have been exposed by the media if it had not been for the needs of certain groups, which plunged some of the favorites who ran for the presidency into scandals and their approval ratings plummeted.

"In addition, the gold medal group has the qualification to be listed!" Li Lin asked.

"Yes."

It takes three years of good operation to go public, and Gold Group has met this condition, it does not need to go public through backdoor listing like other emerging companies, and it can meet the needs of listing on its own.

"Mr. Li wants to go public? Domestic or American? ”

It has always been common for large groups to go public in the United States, because the capital in the United States is more active and larger, and more capital can be raised for the group.

"Domestic."

Li Lin said without hesitation: "American capital is not optimistic about the entertainment industry, investment funds generally believe that entertainment production is a sunset industry, and the American market is indeed as weak as they think." ”

"But the Chinese market is different, here, film is a sunrise industry, and people are more fond of it."

It is a pity that the Internet industry is generally financed in the United States, so that China cannot share the dividends generated by the growth of Internet companies.

That's why they set their sights on the entertainment industry, especially movies.

In Li Lin's previous life, Huayi, with an annual income of 1.1 billion, had a market value of 37.1 billion, which shows that Huaxia Capital's proximity to the entertainment industry can be seen.

"Moreover, the listing in Huaxia can send a signal to the top management of Huaxia: although I have become an American citizen, the gold medal group is still an enterprise of Huaxia."

Li Lin doesn't want to give up such a big market in Huaxia, in the final analysis, the roots of the Gold Group are still in Huaxia, and as for the American market, it is just a branch that extends the past.

It is unwise to give up your roots when the branches are not enough to support the entire tree, and even if the branches can support the entire tree, it is also unwise to give up the roots.

To put it simply, it is Li Lin's snake and mouse at both ends.

Others join the American Chamber of Commerce and become intermediate members of the American Chamber of Commerce; The company stayed in Huaxia to be listed, attracting a large number of Huaxia capital, making him unimpeded in Huaxia.

"Apply to go public now?" Qi Xiangdong asked again, "Do you need to notify other shareholders?" ”

"Of course, I will notify, but I will prepare for the listing while notifying." Li Lin said with a smile: "They have long wanted to go public, and only when they are listed, can the stocks in their hands be justified in collateralizing a large amount of funds for other purposes." ”

For them, banks are money bags, and they can lend huge amounts of money with a little means, but these funds need to be collateralized, and they can't go overboard, so they want to go public, and let the value of their stocks swell, and then lend more money within the banking system. (To be continued......)