China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 67 66. Avatar

Although the promotional video of "World of Warcraft" has not been released yet, the vast map, grand story setting, and various 3D characters still attracted Lu Huateng's attention.

This game is completely better than any game he has seen before. If he acts as an agent, he might really be able to seize the market.

He was very tempted, but when he thought of the price of nearly 2000 million US dollars, he felt a little pain.

"How? This game, but it took our team three years to complete it, and it will be available for public testing next year."

Frank is very proud, and he is very confident that his game will definitely become popular all over the world.

"It's not bad, just... your quotation is too high."

Cao Yu nodded, and then said, "Let's discuss it first and give you an answer."

When he came to the reception room, Lu Huateng took the lead and said: "The game is good, but we just repurchased all the shares from IDG in the first half of the year, and the price has exceeded the budget. Enough to take down the agency."

"Penguin will be listed next year, and IDG actually sold its shares? This coquettish operation is definitely a short-circuit of the brain."

Some time ago, Cao Yu was either busy with an entertainment company or with Yang Shuxue. He really didn’t pay attention to this penguin. He didn’t expect Lao Lu to be able to get back more than 7% of the shares.

However, this is also bad for me, so I just smiled casually and said: "Old Lu, this game will definitely become popular, and it is a point card sales model, selling point cards can also drive our Caifubao. "

Having said that, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "Good thing, you have to start early, otherwise you will have to watch others eat meat."

"I understand the truth, this amount of money is not a small number, isn't it?" Lu Huateng naturally understood the meaning, but still hesitated.

"Talk to him later to see if we can sign the contract first, pay the agency fee of 300 million dollars first, and pay the rest before their official test next year."

"Could it be that you plan to let the company go public early next year?"

Lu Huateng's eyes suddenly shone.

He talked with Cao Yu before, and the plan is to go public in June and July of 04. Now for Warcraft, is it really going to be brought forward?
"With Caifubao, after New Year's Day, you can arrange the listing. Are you afraid of lack of money?" Cao Yudao: "And, I bet you will think that the five-year agency time is too little, right? Now, you talk to them, it’s best to sign for eight years, or even ten years at once.”

"Okay! I'll talk!"

For Cao Yu, Lu Huateng still trusts very much now, especially Caifubao, which is completely ahead of the times and has a bright future for development.

Penguin and others relied on Cao Yu's sentence "wasting a year is a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars" to engage in a tug-of-war with Blizzard for more than an hour.

Just when Cao Yu was thinking about whether to shoot "Kung Fu Panda" in China or cooperate with foreign countries, the negotiation finally came to an end.

Blizzard also considered it again and again, and finally agreed to sign the agency contract first, and agreed to pay an agency fee of 300 million US dollars first, and pay the rest within six months.

The share also dropped from the original 22% to 21%, although it was only 1%, the two sides tore for more than half an hour.

The remaining fee has also increased from 1980 million dollars to 1800 million dollars, but the agency period was finally set at six years, and Blizzard refused to agree to eight years. Frank insisted on this point, but he did not let go.

"Oh, my friend, hope we work together!"

After signing the contract, Cao Yu stood up, hugged the foreign devil, and then asked, "By the way, I heard that Blizzard and Universal Pictures belong to the same parent company?"

"Yes."

Frank is also very happy to sign the Chinese market, and in the negotiation just now, he already knew that the Penguin company in front of him has more than 3 million users, which is more than the population of the United States.

From this point alone, he knew that the future share of this game would definitely not be less, so his attitude was quite good.

"My friend, I have a script here. I'll let the company send it over tomorrow. Maybe I can cooperate with them. Please introduce me when the time comes."

"It's an honor."

Frank did not refuse, after all, the two parties were already in a cooperative relationship, and there was no conflict with him in introducing the filming.

And Cao Yu actually wanted to make two-handed preparations. In case James failed to agree, there was also Universal, which was actually a good company.

After leaving Blizzard, Cao Yu didn't go to the hotel, but went directly to Los Angeles.

The world-famous Hollywood is located in Los Angeles, and a row of English letters can be seen on the mountain from a distance, indicating that this is the holy land of the film and television industry.

However, instead of going to a film and television company, they went to a special effects company called Digital Field.

"Old Lu, what do you think of this company?"

Looking at a company logo in the distance, Cao Yu suddenly asked with a smile.

"How about what?"

Lu Huateng didn't understand.

"Hehe, you will understand in the future."

Cao Yu pretended to smile deeply, but didn't say anything.

This special effects company called "Digital Realm", which has produced many masterpieces, will close down in nine years, and was later acquired by a company in Hong Kong, and has cooperated with Penguin many times.

He really wanted to persuade Lao Lu to buy this company, so that Huaxia's special effects could be developed a big step further.

However, it is too early to tell.

Now the company's largest shareholder is the famous director James who once filmed "Terminator" and "Titanic".

When preparing to enter this company, although Cao Yu was quite courageous, he was unavoidably a little apprehensive at this time.

"If you don't try it, how will you know if it will work? Even if it doesn't work, it's not a big deal. Even if you have some disputes with James, maybe you can hype it up."

Thinking of this, Cao Yu took a deep breath, and led Lu Huateng and others who didn't know about it, directly into this well-known special effects company in Hollywood.

"Hello, how can I help you?"

The front desk of this company is a blonde beauty. Seeing Cao Yu and others, she asked kindly.

"Hello, we are a film and television company in Huaxia. We want to cooperate with your company. Please find Director James."

Cao Yu said, handing over a business card.

The blond beauty looked at the business card, and then at these people. She thought it was a special effect cooperation with her company, but she didn't expect to see James.

Is James something anyone can see?
Even Lu Huateng looked surprised and looked at Cao Yu like a monster. James is an international director. Are you here to ask him out like this?
Sure enough, the blond girl said directly: "I'm sorry, Director James is very busy. If you need anything, you can talk to the marketing department first."

"If you talk to the marketing department, then forget it."

Cao Yu shook his head, and then said, "You can call Director James and tell him that I have a script here called Avatar, and ask him to come over as soon as possible."

"Avatar? What is it?"

The blond beauty had never heard of this term, and had no idea what it was.

Moreover, you, a Huaxia film and television company, are you so good in our country?Just let James come?

"It's fine if you don't call, I'll find someone else, and when the time comes, your job may be gone."

After Cao Yu finished speaking, he was about to take people away.

"You wait."

When it came to her own work, the blonde really hesitated for a while and picked up the phone.
In a studio, a silver-haired, slightly thin man was playing with a camera with a few colleagues.

This camera is different from ordinary cameras, but a machine that can shoot IMAX 3D effects. He plans to test this technology in one of his new movies "Deep Sea Heterosexuals".

If successful, it will be a revolution in the history of film.

Suddenly, his cell phone rang, and James picked up the phone impatiently: "What's the matter?"

"Director James, some guests from China are looking for you."

"Guests from Huaxia? You ask someone else to receive them, I'm busy." James's thoughts were all on the camera, and he was about to hang up the phone after speaking.

"He said he has a script called Avatar and wants to be with you"

"Avatar???!!!"

Hearing these three words, James' cell phone almost fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)