China Entertainment: Return to 2007

Chapter 135 The Best Supporting Minion
After nearly two months, I came to Daxia again and once again took the initiative to discuss cooperation with Xu Ge.

This time Leonard and Cohen's tempers have obviously calmed down a lot.

After hearing what the translator said, the two of them politely greeted Xu Ge eighteen times in their hearts.
Then he followed the staff to the lounge in a very gentlemanly manner and waited quietly.

When passing by the crew, Xu Ge noticed the two of them and continued filming without even turning around.

Again, cooperation is not about kneeling down and coming to his territory. It doesn’t matter whether you are a celebrity or a foreign boss.
You have to wait obediently for me!

"Leonard, are you sure you can convince that arrogant Xu Ge this time?

You know, last time he offered a sky-high price of [-] million US dollars! "Drinking coffee, Cohen said boredly.

"There is an old saying in Daxia that everything depends on human effort," Leonard said with a smile while drinking instant coffee: "I firmly believe that as long as the benefits are in place, there is nothing in this world that cannot be sold, including life..."

"Oh, Leonard, I'm curious, how many dollars is your noble life worth?"

Leonard put down the coffee cup, lit a cigar, and took a slow puff: "Cohen, my life is worthless. As long as you give me half of the vault of the Bank of New York, let alone my life, even if you give me I'll stick my butt up, that's not non-negotiable..."

"Oh! My god! Leonard, is your ass encrusted with diamonds or plated? Half of the New York Bank vault?!

Why don't you say you'll get half of the damn White House? ! "

"Oh, Cohen, this is such a good idea! Okay, I have decided that if you want my butt, you must give me that position in the White House!" Leonard said proudly.

Cohen almost spat in his face: "Oh! For God's sake! Come and take away this damn old gangster's criminal tool!"

"Cohen, in the free and democratic America, God has no time to listen to the prayers of the poor. He only listens to the prayers of the upper class."

Cohen: "..."

The two chatted for a long time, until it was almost lunch time, Xu Ge walked in slowly, followed by Ni Ni who acted as a translator.

"Oh! Mr. Xu, long time no see, you really kept us waiting!"

As soon as they met, Leonard immediately laughed loudly.

Ni Ni was translating for a while.

After listening to Ni Ni's words, the smile on Xu Ge's face remained unchanged: "Mr. Leonard, I'm really sorry. I have too many projects at hand and I'm a little overwhelmed. I'm sorry for the poor hospitality."

"Hahaha, Mr. Xu, if you work so hard, the "Monster Hunt" you filmed will be great. I wish you a box office hit!"

"Thank you, Mr. Leonard, for your kind words."

"This beautiful lady speaks English very well. Who is she...?" Leonard gave Ni Ni a puzzled smile.

"This is my girlfriend Ni Ni." Xu Ge said neatly.

Hearing this, Ni Ni leaned close to Xu Ge and directly translated Xu Ge's words: "This is my fiancée Ni Ni."

Leonard Cohen was immediately in awe: "Hello, Ms. Ni Ni! Can we shake your hand?"

Xu Ge glanced at Ni Ni doubtfully: "What are these two foreigners talking about?"

Ni Ni covered his mouth and chuckled: "It's nothing. They praised you for being very discerning and wanted to shake my hand."

Xu Ge hugged Ni Ni's slim waist and laughed heartily: "Mr. Leonard, Mr. Cohen, thank you very much for your compliments. Ni Ni is indeed the best!
But there's no need to shake hands, she's mine! "

Ni Ni translated: "Mr. Leonard, Mr. Cohen, thank you very much for your compliments. Ni Ni is my favorite in this life, and I will not allow any man to have an idea of ​​her."

After Leonard and the other two heard this, they could only regretfully give up.

After a while of waffling, the two sides officially entered the topic.

"Mr. Xu, we are very sincere this time. We have discussed with the head office and are willing to pay US$300 million for "Despicable Me"!
In addition, we can also write your name in the screenwriter column,

So you can truly make a name for yourself in Hollywood! "

As soon as Leonard opened his mouth, he made sincere conditions.

The buyout fee is US$300 million, which is also a truly top price in Hollywood.

And adding Xu Ge's name to the list of screenwriters is definitely a supreme temptation for ordinary Daxia entertainment workers!

After all, it is popular these days that the moon in foreign countries is rounder.
Being able to leave one's name in a Hollywood blockbuster is a dream in the hearts of many people in China.

Sitting next to Xu Ge, Ni Ni translated truthfully. She looked at Xu Ge curiously, wanting to see how Xu Ge would react.

Xu Ge smiled calmly: "Mr. Leonard, I have already felt the sincerity of you and Universal. To be honest, I am very touched by the sincerity."

Leonard smiled and said: "So, you agreed?"

"No no no!" Xu Ge shook his head repeatedly: "Mr. Leonard, I won't talk in circles with you anymore. The status of "Despicable Me" in my heart may not be understood by you or Universal.

In this way, let's cooperate. As long as you can agree to my three requests, I will agree to hand over the adaptation rights of "Despicable Me" to you. "

"Cooperation? Three requirements?" Leonard asked with interest: "Tell me about it."

"First, the agency rights for "Despicable Me" in Asia belong to me!" Xu Ge said calmly: "I don't care about other regions. I must be fully responsible for the release of the movie in Asia!

And I want to share half of the box office profits it makes! "

"Okay." Leonard nodded and agreed.

"Despicable Me" looks like a traditional Western-style animated blockbuster at first glance. According to past experience, 90% of the box office revenue comes from the Western world.

Although Asia has a large population, except for Xia, Japan and South Korea, it really has no box office potential.

Spending half of the profits from Asia in exchange for the rights to adapt "Despicable Me" is definitely a cost-effective deal.

"Second, the "Despicable Me" peripheral licenses in Asia must also be managed by me, and I will also share half of the profits!"

"OK, no problem." Leonard nodded cheerfully.

Copyright in Asia is chaotic, and you can’t get much peripheral copyright.
Being able to exchange this useless piece of shit for the successful launch of "Despicable Me" is worth one word!
"Third, the animation production of "Despicable Me" must allocate at least 1/3 of the special effects shots to Sunglasses Trina!" "Sunglasses Trina?!" Leonard asked blankly: "Which special effects company is this? Company? Why have I never heard of it?"

Translator Ni Ni explained: "This is the top special effects company in Daxia. Although its current level is not as good as that of Hollywood, its basic strength is good.

Doing some ordinary special effects outsourcing work for "Despicable Me" is definitely a breeze! "

Leonard chatted with Cohen for a long time. The two of them were on the phone and checking the computer.

Finally, Leonard nodded and said: "We can also agree to this condition, but the price can only be quoted by the top special effects company in Daxia. In addition, these special effects shots must pass the minimum requirements of Director Cohen.
Otherwise we have the right to change the special effects company! "

"No problem!" Xu Ge laughed happily: "Sunglasses Trina's strength will definitely not disappoint you!"

"Mr. Xu!" After agreeing on Xu Ge's three requirements, Leonard began to speak out his appeal: "The "Despicable Me" project has been started internally at Universal, and the preliminary estimate is that its cost will be as high as 6 million US dollars. We have paid such a big price, and you only rely on a trivial adaptation right to get such a huge benefit. Isn't it unfair?"

"Then please tell me your requirements!" Xu Ge had already expected this, and he motioned for Ni Ni to continue translating.

"We also have three requirements!" Leonard said with a smile: "First, the subsequent film adaptation rights of "Despicable Me" must be sold to Universal. Of course, we are willing to give you a very advantageous condition."

No businessman is a fool. Universal clearly knows how much Xu Ge attaches to "Despicable Me".

Now that the first part has just been launched and the box office is unknown, Xu Ge has offered such a high price.

What if the first part is a box office hit?
Then wouldn’t the second Xu Ge have a truly sky-high price? !
Universal is a film company with a long history and rich experience in related responses.

In order to prevent such bad events from happening, they must of course eliminate the troubles from the beginning.

Xu Ge also understood this truth, so he thought about it and said with a cheerful smile: "Okay, based on the conditions just now, the conditions will increase by ten percent for each film in the future."

"OK!" When Xu Ge nodded in agreement and the conditions he offered were within his heart, Leonard immediately agreed.

“Secondly, the offline copyrights of all subsequent characters in “Despicable Me” must be sold to Universal. Of course, the price is also very generous!”

In Hollywood, for an animated film, the revenue from offline peripheral copyrights is much higher than the box office revenue.

How dare they continue development without obtaining the copyright in advance?
"Yes, according to the previous conditions, the market price will be increased by [-]%." Xu Ge nodded and agreed.

"Third, "Despicable Me" is Universal's absolutely major project this year. In order to ensure a happy cooperation between you and us, and to give you an opportunity to make money,

You must first invest US$1 million to facilitate all the above cooperation!
Of course, all profits earned from "Despicable Me" afterwards can also be distributed to you based on the amount of investment. "Leonard Tuqiong saw this.

Invest $1 million?Get profit share from investment? !

I bother!Only a fool would fall for this!
As we all know, it takes a proficient investor to trick investors in Hollywood.

Judging from the "Harry Potter" series, the Harry Potter movie, which broke global box office records, was actually recorded as negative by Warner Bros.
Investors lost money and lost their pants.
This is even more blatant than a blatant robbery of money!

How could Xu Ge be fooled? !

“Investment is okay, but the share must be divided according to the total box office!
I don’t need much, a 1 million US dollar investment only requires a [-]% return on the total box office. "

In its previous life, "Despicable Me" had a total global gross of US$5.7 million.

A six percent return would be nearly $400 million.

The net profit of close to 240% is enough for Xu Ge to make a lot of money.

Seeing that Xu Ge was not fooled, Leonard couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

If Xu Ge is young and ignorant and falls into this big pit, Leonard must let him have a taste of what it means to lose everything!
"In addition, there is a supporting character in "Despicable Me" that my girlfriend likes very much. I want to retain all its online, offline and subsequent copyrights." Seeing that the cooperation has reached the final step, Xu Ge quietly showed off his tooth.

"Which supporting role?" Leonard asked warily.

"Minions." Xu Ge grinned, his expression full of determination.

Leonard: "..."

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"Minion?" After Leonard and the others left, Ni Ni looked at Xu Ge curiously: "Is this minion really so good? Is it worth it for you to spend [-]% of the global box office of the big movie in exchange for it?"

"Of course it's worth it!" Xu Ge said enthusiastically as he admired the newly signed contract in front of him: "In a few years, Universal will know what it means to lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds!"

In the contract, Xu Ge required [-]% of the global box office share as a condition.

In exchange for all independent copyrights of Minions.

And this also means that the real soul of the "Despicable Me" series, the army of cute and silly little cute people, has officially been captured by Xu Ge.

When "Despicable Me" became a hit at the box office, the Minions suddenly emerged and were loved by hundreds of millions of viewers.
Xu Ge can imagine it.

Universal looks like he wants to cry but has no tears!

It’s no wonder that Leonard would be fooled, after all, who could have predicted it? After "Despicable Me" became a hit, what really became popular was not the protagonist's family, but the stupid minions who knew how to cause trouble?

Xu Ge breathed a sigh of relief after finishing "Despicable Me".

Although I don’t know how far “Despicable Me” can go in this life,
But with Universal’s original team here, there shouldn’t be much of a problem.

And once "Despicable Me" became a hit at the box office, whether he made a big movie out of "Minions" alone or cooperated with Universal and killed him ten times, Xu Ge will definitely make a lot of money. !
"Er Ni, inform Xu Jian of Sunglasses Trina and ask him to come see me immediately!"

"Despicable Me" is of great significance. Now that we have obtained the special effects production project, we must go all out to get all the benefits.

Soon, Xu Jian, who was always following the crew of "Monster Hunt" and working hard on the late stage, received the order and rushed to the director's lounge immediately.

"Brother Jian, how is the special effects production of "Monster Hunt" going? Do you have enough manpower?" A lunch box was thrown to Xu Jian, and Xu Ge opened the lunch box and started eating together.

Xu Jian picked up his chopsticks without disdain, picked up a piece of fried pork with chili pepper, and threw it into his mouth: "Don't worry, Director Xu, we have enough manpower. The entire Mojing Tianhe No. 50 people are all devoted to this project.
The progress is very fast. As long as you complete the filming here, it can be completed in two months at most. "

"Very good," Xu Ge took a bite of the chicken leg and said with a smile, "I will double my headcount immediately and take on another big project for you. It is expected to start at the end of next month."

Xu Jian: "..."

(End of this chapter)