After months of negotiations, Warner Pictures finally reached an agreement with Charlotte's Ghost Party Studios for the film and television rights to the Harry Potter series -

The two companies jointly invested in the establishment of a joint venture called "Hogwarts" for the development of the Harry Potter series of films and related peripheral rights.

Among them, Warner injected real money, as well as its strong issuance promotion and publicity capabilities, accounting for 75% of the shares;

On Charlotte's side, what has been injected into the new company is the film and television rights of the already released "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", as well as the priority of adaptation of the follow-up series.

In addition, various filming materials prepared by Ghost Party Studios for the "Harry Potter" series, including various special effects modeling and the "Hogwarts" castle, are also included in the new "Hogwarts" company.

At the same time, the Ghost Party Studio also got the work of producing post-production special effects for the follow-up "Harry Potter" series, and even the filming of the entire follow-up series, some of the people in charge came from the Ghost Party Studio.

Of course, now that there is a joint venture, Ghost Party Studios will no longer charge a separate fee for special effects for the Harry Potter series.

Their profit is the share share of the joint venture.

And the Charlotte side, or Ghost Studios, will take a 17% stake in the joint venture.

Not much, but not too little – especially considering the possible future prospects of the Harry Potter series.

As for the remaining 8%, 1.5% of them belong to the original author J· K. Rowling.

- After all, the other party is the original author, and there is a screenwriter who is responsible for the entire series.

Even if Warner and Charlotte are black-hearted capitalists, they will not leave the chicken that lays golden eggs.

- This part of the shares is to allow Rowling to give full play to her subjective initiative, but also to avoid some subsequent troubles.

Of course, in the case of share sharing, the royalty given to Rowling will also be reduced accordingly.

This can somewhat reduce the financial burden on Warner's side.

- Even if Warner is rich, it has a big family and a lot of places to use it!

It doesn't hurt to save a little money.

As for the remaining 6.5%, it will be claimed by some relevant friendly partners.

Of course, the other party needs to invest real money.

In fact, Charlotte was initially hesitant to cooperate with Warner to form a joint venture "Hogwarts" to jointly develop the Harry Potter series.

After all, he understands very well the various methods used by the controlling party to dilute equity and squeeze out small shareholders -

Conditions that look good right now could be significantly reduced with a few pushes from Warners.

However, after careful consideration, he decided to accept the challenge.

Because he also has the means to counterbalance Warner's side.

- Even if Charlotte doesn't direct it herself, Ghost Party Studios will eventually go deep into the production of the entire Harry Potter series and carry it throughout.

For both Charlotte and Warner, the original author Rowling is the chicken that lays the golden eggs;

But for Warner, in fact, Charlotte's Ghost Party Studio is also a chicken that lays golden eggs;

As long as it is guaranteed to replace itself, it will cost Warners a lot, and Charlotte believes that the other party will not come to the other side.

Of course, there must be long-term interests, but Charlotte will not give up immediate interests because of this.

- His purpose in winning the adaptation rights of the "Harry Potter" series in the first place was to make a quick buck.

Now although she has become a shareholder by speculating in stocks, Charlotte feels that she can still make quick money.

After all, in order to ensure its dominance, Warner has to some extent depressed the proportion of Spectre Studios' stake in the joint venture.

Charlotte's request is that Warner wants to take the lead, but the proportion of its own shares that have been compressed needs to be converted into cash payments.

In this part, Charlotte was 50 million dollars as soon as she opened her mouth at that time, almost 3/4 of the production cost of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

And considering that the film has already won more than $900 million at the global box office and is about to break the $1 billion mark, Charlotte can be said to have made a lot of money from the series.

- Now the 50 million dollars, if you get it, it can be said to be a net profit.

Of course, the sky-high asking price is repayable.

Although Warner does have money and the name of "Kai Zihua", they still have the ability to bargain.

However, they did not want to give less, on the contrary, they were prepared to give an extra $30 million.

But the conditions are true, by the way, the follow-up development rights of the "Hell Detective" series will be completely redeemed from Charlotte.

- Because they were not optimistic about the series, Warner and DC agreed to work with Charlotte on the plan to jointly develop the "Detective Hell" series, including the sequel later.

But after the box office hit of "Detective Hell" starring Keanu Reeves, the executives of Warner and DC have long regretted their intestines.

They had always wanted to redeem the set, at least the full rights to follow-up development, but Charlotte never agreed.

And this time, taking the opportunity to work with the Ghost Party studio on the Harry Potter series, they wanted to solve the problem in a package.

This time, Charlotte agreed.

However, he only agreed to sell back the development rights of the follow-up series of "Hell Detective", so that Warner could develop it on its own.

But he still did not let go of the copyright income related to the completed "Hell Detective".

Eventually, Warners compromised.

The other party agreed to the $80 million deal.

However, Warner hopes to pay only part of the money, and the rest will be converted into shares in Warner Pictures.

- On the one hand, this is to reduce the pressure on liquidity, and on the other hand, it is a move by Warner to win over Charlotte, an emerging director.

- After all, you are all shareholders of Warners, and the movies you will make in the future will not be ...... in terms of distribution?

In short, "Kai Zihua" is also very cunning many times.

Charlotte eventually agreed.

On the one hand, being able to become a shareholder of Warner will also increase his voice in Hollywood from a certain angle.

After all, before Disney completely acquired Marvel Studios, Warner occupied the top position among the seven Hollywood majors for a long time.

Strengthening the cooperation with Warners is also good for Charlotte, in fact, it is a win-win.

What's more, he really doesn't need to have too much cash lying on his account.

- Because of the tax policy in the United States, the cash that cannot be spent for a while will only contribute to the IRS.

In fact, how to spend money effectively, or at least pretend to spend it, is one of the necessary accomplishments to be a wealthy man in the United States.

And Charlotte, there is no need to pretend-

He does have some plans for investment and spending, and after getting the more than $30 million in cash that Warner finally paid, he will start immediately-