China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 554 552. The Japanese must be killed with one sword (two in one)

When they met again, Shitaya Nosei smiled and said, "Cao-kun, look at your rosy face, how does the hot spring feel?"

"Very nice, thanks for the hospitality."

Cao Yu smiled with satisfaction and said: "The agreement we negotiated yesterday is fine and can be signed today. In addition, the several TV series I wrote in the past two years are also good. There should be a market here, Shitaya-kun." Do you want to take a look?"

When taking a bath in the hot spring yesterday, Cao Yu felt that "Dream of Red Mansions" was sold too cheaply, which was not very satisfying.

Therefore, he wanted to sell the Japanese broadcasting rights of five films, "Sword of Sword" 1 to 3, "Palace", and "Flower Bones", to Dongho, so that he could make a profit before signing the agreement.

"Let me see."

I heard that the film was written by Cao Yu himself, so Shitani Nosei was certainly interested.

After opening the promotional video and information, the three leading actors Liu Yifei, Yang Mi, and Zhao Liying were featured, which made Shimatani Nosei immediately decide to introduce these three films.

Cao Yu chuckled and said, "An episode of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars."

"Didn't you see that I was busy?"

On the phone, Chen Chengjie still used the same rhetoric as before.

Cao Yu didn't need investment, and he didn't want Japanese people to play roles in these two dramas.

Shimatani Nengcheng's eyes widened. Your boss Cao is not short of money. Why do you quote such a price?

Isn’t it just $40 million?
Just give it to him!
And those five movies are not bad, and I can indeed make money.

"It's ok."

"Haha, if our two families want to cooperate, of course I need to know something about it."

"what?"

This is called cultural penetration.

"Mr. Cao, your phone number."

"Toei? What's wrong with them?"

"You know all this?"

"It was a call from Huaxia Company, saying there was something important."

Shimatani Nosei has been involved in film and television for so many years. It can be seen at a glance that the investment in these films together is estimated to be only four to five thousand US dollars. You want to sell me more than 46 million US dollars at once?
While the two were bargaining, Cao Yu's secretary came over.

Although it will make more money if it is broadcast in the Japanese country, if it is agreed to, the Japanese side will definitely ask for Japanese elements to be added to the two dramas.

Only then did Cao Yu answer the phone and said "Sorry" to Nojo Shitani, but answered the phone in person.

"Mr. Cao, Dongying"

On the side, Shitaya can understand Chinese. At this moment, his ears wanted to be close to the phone.

"this one"

Shimatani Nosei pretended not to care, but did not continue to negotiate the price. Instead, he said: "I heard that your company is going to shoot two costume films this year. They seem to be called "Celebrating More Than Years" and "The Princess"?"

Just like many later film and television works, I wonder if the director is too lazy and directly uses the style of the Japanese country, deliberately replacing the Chinese with Japanese, or is he really not confident in the 5,000-year-old culture?

Nose Shitani chuckled and said: "I heard that your company's works have a great influence in China and even Korean Bang. If Mr. Cao doesn't mind, we Dongbao can invest in these two films and the two of us will work together to complete them." Shoot."

"Mr. Shimatani, I'm sorry, Huaxia Company is in a hurry."

No, absolutely not. With Boss Cao’s screenwriting skills and his influence in China, we must cooperate with him no matter what.

The five films have a total of more than 200 episodes, and each episode costs 200,000 US dollars. If it can sell for more than 40 million US dollars, it will just make up for the low price loss of "Dream of Red Mansions".

He is very aware of Toei's strength, especially since more of its cartoons are introduced to China.

These five films are not big productions like "Dream of Red Mansions". Why do you pay so much?
Cao Yu does not plan to lower the price this time: "Two hundred thousand dollars per episode is really not much. The special effects and post-production of our films are all done by the American digital field, which is the special effects team of "Avatar"."

Cao Yu's superb acting skills were fully displayed at this moment, playing a double act with Chen Chengjie on the phone.

"Invest? Co-shoot?"

"I'm talking to Dongbao. Don't agree to them yet, and don't refuse. I'll get back to you later."

Just as he was making plans, Cao Yu had already finished making phone calls.

If there are too many of these elements, Chinese audiences will mistakenly think that these Japanese styles are Chinese.

"Want to cooperate with us? Let us put their animations on Fei Ge Video? Do you also want to purchase the copyright of other works of our company?"

If the other party cooperated with Feiyu, wouldn't all my previous efforts and plans have been wasted?

Anyway, no matter what, these always have to be guarded against.

When "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was being filmed, one of the investors was the Japanese state, so the armor worn by some generals later was obviously in the style of the Japanese.

However, it cannot be given away in vain.

"My subordinates learned about it yesterday. They are currently filming two costume dramas. I can invest in them and let our actors also participate in them."

Cao Yu was startled. He had indeed announced at the beginning of the year that he would make these two films, but he didn't understand what Shitaya Nose wanted to do when he mentioned this now.

"Yes, we can make a modest investment, and then let our Dongho artists play roles in it, so that the ratings in Japan will be high in the future."

"Isn't that much? One hundred thousand per episode. This is just for the sake of our cooperation."

After pondering for a while, Cao Yu refused directly: "Our budget has been prepared and there is no need to invest for the time being."

"Cao Jun, do you want to stop thinking about it? Otherwise, our investment can not account for the proportion of your investment, and then we can give us the broadcast rights in Japan, so that you can reduce the risk."

"It's really not necessary. We have no problem investing in this. We will discuss the broadcast rights when the time comes!"

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Shimatani Nosei didn't expect that Boss Cao wouldn't accept the money he gave, so he had to settle for the next best thing: "Well, we can pre-purchase the rights to broadcast these two films in Japan first, as long as the actors under our company are now very popular Masami Nagasawa just plays one role.”

"Nagasawa Masami?"

This woman, Cao Yu, is quite familiar. She has acted in "Tai Ping Huan" with Huang Xiaoming and International Zhang, and also appeared in "Tang Detective 3".

However, he thought about it and finally refused firmly: "We have already decided on the actors. If you don't think the quality of the film is good, you don't have to buy it."

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Shimatani Nosei was speechless again. He really didn't expect that Boss Cao was so unsophisticated that those girls were given away for nothing?

Cao Yu doesn't want to dwell too much on this issue. He knows the plot and prospects of "The Princess" and "Celebrating More Than Years" best. Your money is not needed at all and there are no risks.

He smiled confidently: "Let's talk about the movies "Sword and Fairy". If you don't want them, forget it."

"Yes, of course!"

Although he failed to invest in Feiyu's new drama, Nose Shitani did not want the other party to cooperate with Toei, let alone miss this opportunity to make money.

"What about the price?"

"Just the price you said."

Although he failed to invest in Feiyu Entertainment's new drama, this made Shimaya Nojou a little disappointed.

But this Chinese person is too shrewd and has no choice but to do it, and he is not willing to see the other party cooperate with competitors.

He had some doubts. What he said about Toei on the phone just now was deliberately acted by him, but he had no evidence.

"Then sign the contract."

After the goal was achieved, Cao Yu talked about signing the contract.

The people accompanying Dongbao during this negotiation all felt that this Chinese man was not just cunning in general, but very cunning, and cunning befitting his age.

He took all the benefits no matter what. No wonder he became the richest man in China at such a young age.

Feiyu's entourage was not surprised. Although he got more than 40 million US dollars in income at once, this was just the normal operation of his boss, nothing extraordinary.

Subsequently, the two parties also signed a co-production agreement for the drama "Your Name". Both parties invested US$5 million each, with Feiyu Entertainment accounting for 60%.

In addition, the rights to adapt the movie "Weird Girl" were sold for US$5 million.

Calculating this way, Cao Yu didn't earn a cent, and spent all his money on this animated film, which surpassed "Spirited Away" at the box office.

It's just that "New Three Kingdoms" was not sold in the end, because Nosei Shitani still liked the old version, and it was not worth spending two hundred thousand dollars to buy this new version.

After the contract was signed, Nose Shitani was finally relieved. This way, the other party would definitely not cooperate with Toei.

At a banquet to celebrate cooperation, Cao Yu suddenly asked: "Mr. Shimatani, three of the four girls yesterday don't seem to be from Toho?"

"Yes, their agency has a cooperative relationship with us."

"Well, Mr. Shimatani, I have a small request. Can you not let them receive other people in the future? In addition, please take care of a few more girls. It is best to give them some resources. Also, who has If Jun Muraka is good at acting, how about letting her play the female lead in "Strange She"?"

Shimatani Nosei thought about it and realized that this was not difficult to do. He smiled and agreed, "Of course it's no problem. It turns out that Mr. Cao is quite sympathetic to her."

"This has always been my shortcoming." "Haha..."

After leaving Dongbao Building, Cao Yu originally only had to go to Aihui to talk about the concert.

But after getting in the car, he immediately called the company and asked them to call Toei back and said they could meet the day after tomorrow.

He is not stepping on both sides, but wants to win the online broadcast rights of several animations that are well-known in China from Toei.

The next day, Cao Yu went to Ai Hui Music and saw his favorite female singer, Ayumi Hamasaki, in person for the first time.

This woman is not tall, and her appearance can only be described as okay, but God loves her food, she is born with a good voice, and she is mainly very dedicated. She still insists on working even though her left ear is completely deaf, which is worthy of admiration.

The matter discussed by the two companies is also very simple, that is, Feiyu Entertainment's singers, FNC's singers and groups, and Ai Hui's singers will hold an East Asia tour concert starting from the end of April.

The only problem is the number of people from the three parties.

Aihui has been established for the longest time and has a large number of singers and male and female groups. They proposed to create eight groups of their own, plus ten singers.

Cao Yu thinks that there are too many people. When the time comes, all the income distribution will be taken up by you, and all the songs you sing are in Japanese. How can this be done?
Mainly, Feiyu Entertainment has no other combination to offer except Legend of Phoenix.

After a whole morning of negotiations, it was finally decided that Ai Hui would form two groups with six singers, FNC would form six groups with two singers, and Huaxia would form one group with seven singers.

Each singer or group sings two of their best songs, so the concert is guaranteed to last about three hours.

After finalizing the concert, Cao Yu met with Toei's president Naga Tezuka as agreed.

Fei'e Video has set up a Tokyo branch, and the news of the cooperation between Feiyu Entertainment and Toho has been reported for a long time, and it is not a secret.

As soon as they met, Nagatezuka lamented repeatedly: "Cao Jun, our experience in animation is much better than Toho. It is a pity that we could not cooperate with Cao Jun."

"The main thing is that I am a person of integrity. I can't go back on what I have agreed with them."

Cao Yu smiled and continued: "Nagatezuka, there is nothing to regret, we can also cooperate."

"How can we cooperate?"

"You must have read the newspapers in the past two days. We at Fei'e Video are going to set up a branch in Tokyo. Your animations can be played on this platform. In addition, we want to buy out the rights to play these animations. "

Cao Yu said, taking out a list, all of which were animations that were once popular in China.

Because domestic copyright awareness was not very strong in the past few years, these animations are broadcast on many domestic platforms, and some have no copyright at all. Tudou Video is one of them.

Therefore, Cao Yu bought these copyrights and made Fei'e Video an exclusive broadcast platform.

"this."

After reading the list, Nagatezuka frowned and asked, "What about the other animations? Mr. Cao doesn't want them?"

Toei has produced more than 50 animations since the 1970s, but Cao Yu only listed the twelve most popular ones, which made Nagatezuka a little dissatisfied.

Cao Yu said: "Other animations can be placed on the Japanese platform, but other platforms will not be considered for the time being."

"That won't work."

Nagatezuka shook his head. Although he knew that many video platforms in China broadcast his cartoons, he still wanted to package and sell them all.

Cao Yu smiled leisurely and said: "Haha, actually I have a cooperation proposal. I can personally adapt the animations on my list into movies."

"Really?"

Nagatezuka's eyes flashed and he asked immediately.

"After all, I am also a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, and I own a stake in a theater chain in China. I also have a good relationship with CJ Entertainment on the Korean side. The introduction of movies will not be a problem in the future."

Cao Yu said it casually, but Nagatezuka fell into silence.

The energy of this Chinese man is indeed great, and the resources at his hands are quite formidable. So far, every film mainly written by him has been a hit, which is a miracle in the film and television industry.

The biggest headache for Toei now is how to adapt the original animation for a second time, achieve re-monetization, and recreate Toei's former glory internationally.

Now it seems to be the best choice to cooperate with Cao Yu, a well-known screenwriter.

After thinking for a moment, he finally nodded: "We can cooperate as you say."

"Thank you, President Longshou."

Cao Yu chuckled and stood up to shake hands.

He knows very well that the people born in the 80s and 90s in China are very sentimental. As long as they turn "Saint" or "Slam Dunk" into movies, as long as they are not really bad, they will be successful at the box office.

More importantly, by obtaining the copyright of these animations, we can crack down on other Chinese video platforms.

Among them is Ma Yun’s potato video!

The cooperation between Fei'e Video and Toei has only purchased the film and television rights for the time being, so the news has not been made public, and Toho and China are not aware of it.

"Mr. Ma, Tudou Video will be released at the end of the month, and I will prepare a big gift for you then..."

In the next few days, Cao Yu visited the Japanese country accompanied by several Japanese girls. At the same time, he called Zhang Liangying and FNC to start preparations for the concert.

He also asked Zhou Juan, CEO of Fei’e Video, to personally lead a team to Tokyo to prepare for the establishment of a branch.

"These cherry blossoms are quite beautiful..."

Seeing the cherry blossoms, Cao Yu couldn't help but think of the cherry blossoms at Qinglong Temple in his hometown.

"Onisan, I heard that you are going to set up a branch in Tokyo. How about we switch jobs and go to your place?"

The four girls now admire Cao Yu even more.

This is not only the man's ability to make money and business, but more importantly in bed.

"I don't plan to set up an economic company for the time being. You don't know Chinese. It's better to stay in your current company. However, I have told Mr. Shimatani that I will take care of you and you won't have to accompany other men in the future."

"really?"

As soon as Cao Yu finished speaking, the four girls asked almost in unison, with disbelief in their voices.

Cao Yu smiled and said, "Do you want to accompany other men?"

Village Flower and others: "Absolutely not, Onisan, you are the real man. We here are not as tall as you, not as handsome as you, not as manly as you... But does Onisan intend to let us be your lovers alone?" ?”

"Don't want to?"

"willing…"

Muraka, Nozomi Sasaki and others nodded: "It's just that Onisan wants to visit us more often in the future."

"I will, but, although Tokyo can be very hot sometimes, you can't do anything with other men while I'm not around!"

Although this was Cao Yu's second visit to Japan, he knew that women in Japan were generally unruly and would often get into trouble with water pipe repairmen, drivers, and express delivery people.

Therefore, he wants to take a vaccination in advance, so that as long as a few girls still want to develop in the entertainment industry, they will never mess around.

After staying in Japan for more than a week, Cao Yu returned to New York again on March 27th, because Tudou Video, a subsidiary of Ali, was going to be listed on the market on March 29th.

Because Fei'e Video is setting up a Japanese branch in Tokyo and has reached a cooperation with Toho, Fei'e Video's stock has surged again.

At the close of trading on March 50, the stock price successfully exceeded $51.1 and reached $.

This made Ma Yun feel that the market was optimistic about the video website, and it also made him confident about the prospect of Tudou Video going public.

If the listing is successful, he plans to expand vigorously and produce his own films and variety shows. Now China is grabbing Fei Goose's market.

In the past few months, after Chris Wu joined his own entertainment company, he will launch two or three groups next year. By then, he will definitely be able to tear a piece of meat from Fei'e Video's mouth.

On the morning of March 29th, Ma Yun was wearing a rare suit and leather shoes, and many friends including Mr. Wang of Huayi University, Zhao Yanzi, Youku Gu Yongqiang, Yahoo boss, Liu Chuanzhi and other friends also came to support her.

"Mr. Ma, congratulations..."

Just when these people were discussing with Ma Yun their plans after the listing, they saw Cao Yu walking over with a smile on his face.

"Why is he here too?"

When everyone saw Cao Yu, they thought he was here to cause trouble.

Although Ma Yun didn't like Cao Cao, he came to welcome him, "I really didn't expect Mr. Cao to come. You really kept your word."

"It turns out it was an appointment."

After hearing what Ma Yun said, others came over to say hello, as long as they didn't ruin the venue.

"When we went public, Mr. Ma came here. We were reciprocal. When his company went public, I would come no matter how busy I was."

Cao Yu smiled and said, "And I have something important to tell Mr. Ma."

Ma Yun was curious: "What's going on?"

"Let's wait until it's launched. There's no rush."

Of course, an important gift must play an important role. Cao Yu planned to wait until the market opened and had no choice but to say it.
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