Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 99 Cut off the arm of a mouse, and take away a furry hair

After serving as a shield for Fox and rejecting the advertising invitation of Seagram Liquor, after "taking" the four comic characters for nothing, the copyright of the Avengers in Roland's hands has actually been fully activated, and after seeing the twenty-year-long After the 2% box office dividend, he felt relieved and directly threw the authorization text into the safe left by the deceased father.

  If there is no accident, these things will not be used within ten years, and once the filming starts, the copyright has nothing to do with Marvel.

Just like "Fantastic Four", throwing away one million to make a shoddy movie that is not released can also reset and extend the copyright countdown period. If calculated based on twenty years, the average year is only 50,000, but with 50,000 per year The cost completely drags down Marvel?

  Is there a better deal than this in the world?

  Why do you want to learn from Disney and spend more than 4 billion to acquire Marvel?

   If you don’t save the money you can save, isn’t that just crazy?

  In the previous life, Marvel relied on movies to make a comeback, but once the movies couldn't be made, they only relied on comics, and their market value was only 1.5 billion.

Spending 3 million in 1991 will shrink the market value of Marvel after 18 years by nearly 2.5 billion. Although the annualized rate of return of 45 points is not exaggerated by doubling the investment several times, but —

  Using three million to remove one arm of Disney who sued him back then, Roland will feel much more at ease.

It is true that in his previous life, he was the first to download pirated video clips and infringe copyrights first. He never denied his mistakes, and he also accepted the punishment. Bar?

In "Terminator 2" and "Home Alone 2", after seeing the faces of capital in turn in these two projects, Roland no longer has much affection for these guys. If you have money, you are a grandson, and if you have no money, you are a grandson. You just look good, lose power and reduce dimensionality. Since they have already had such a showdown, why should Roland be polite to them?

  After packing up the copyright contract, Roland also found David and told him that Fox wanted to rent the villa he used last year as the location for the sequel. After listening to Roland's detailed description, David, who had already expected today, smiled and said: "Finally, this day has come, one million is rented to Fox, do you want to love..."

  What?

   This number surprised Roland deeply.

  In his opinion, the rent of the villa's site should be at least three or four million.

   "You...don't want to get back last year's money?"

   "Looking at what Fox is like now, it should have received a lot of sponsorship."

   "Since they decided to go to the Plaza Hotel to shoot, it's impossible not to pay there, right?"

   "It's different from before. It's not that Hollywood is going to shoot at the Plaza Hotel, but they want us to shoot!"

   Roland's words made David laugh, "What does last year's money have to do with the sponsorship Fox received this year?"

   "Why don't you say that there is a big gap between last year's you and this year's you?"

   "Last year, you were not well-known. The reason why they signed the box office bonus contract was to return the venue rent that should be paid to me in a disguised form? Since the money has already been paid, it naturally doesn't matter..."

  David can indeed knock on Fox, but he feels that this approach does not make any sense.

"Home Alone 2" is not Roland's last work. Since he wants to continue playing in this circle, then don't be the first to hit the market—Roland does have a backer now, but the backer is down, relying on everyone to run. I still understand that when you don't have absolute strength, throwing a table and hitting your face will only make others think you are crazy.

  If he was Icahn, then Roland would not need to say that Fox would have obediently paid the rent last year.

   But he is not!

Before he became Icahn or Roland became Icahn, knocking on the table to extort a fortune could only earn some immediate benefits. For the immediate benefits of one or two million to make Fox hate Roland, this deal is not worthwhile. .

   "You have time to think about the rent, so you might as well ask more about Wall Street."

   "If they take us to play, wouldn't it be even more pointless to compete on rent?"

  Hearing what David said, Roland laughed immediately, "David, don't tell me that you are going to liquidate and play finance."

"Roland, what's on your mind? What kind of finance do I have enough money for? Even if I tie you up, we won't be able to enter the market! I just want to hear inside information and follow the trend to buy stocks..." David pretended to be angry and glared at Roland, but before he finished speaking, he laughed too.

  The so-called stock insider information is just a casual remark by him.

  Although his net worth is rich, many of them are real estate.

  Real estate can indeed be sold, but what happens after it is sold?

   Can't even make a living on Wall Street.

   As for Roland?

   Let alone.

Of the 3 million box office bonus paid to him by Fox in advance, more than 1.5 million has been declared and taxed, and the remaining half David helped him start a company and bought Berkshire Hathaway stock , and the other two million box office bonuses that Fox settled for him after the end of the 1991 tax filing period were all thrown to Perelman to buy the copyright.

   As for the "Terminator 2" box office bonus?

With two months of screenings, the global box office of the whole movie has reached 200 million, but the box office bonus is still nothing, because when the contract was signed, it started at 300 million and ended at 500 million. To get the full bonus of 3 million, you have to wait for the movie to reach 500 million at the global box office.

  However, according to Sony Columbia's current urgency, let alone 1991, even at the end of 1992, it still can't settle the bill! Who told this outsider to start overseas distribution? The speed at which the ink was laid out was frustrating. Roland was already thankful for breaking through the 300 million box office by the end of this year and getting the 1 million bonus in the early stage.

As a result, in addition to the 3 million worth of copyright and 1.5 million shares in Roland's hand, he also owed 1 million in taxes to be paid, and the signing of "Home Alone 2" worth tens of millions. contract.

Yes…

  Roland owed another one million to the tax bureau before he did anything.

   With this little assets, do you want to do finance?

   Go out and open a children's bank, use your own profile picture to make some toy banknotes to deceive children, there is still a market!

  However, David's joking words made the little guy sitting opposite him turn his eyes to the calendar beside him.

  Follow the trend?

   Grab the grass! This seems to be a trick!

   If Roland remembers correctly, the little loli who traveled to Scotland and ate round-faced fat chickens every day seemed to have had a lot of trouble in 1991? Although he couldn't remember whether that little loli had become the queen of Gringotts when he traveled through time, but—now, these things don't seem to be important to him, right?

  By the end of this year, Mao Xiong will disintegrate, and the ruble will directly collapse...

  In the face of such a major event, Wall Street, the world's financial center, has embezzled Mao Xiong's wealth for seventy years.

If it was changed to last year, this matter would only stay in his computer hard drive and be missed forever, because he could not explain to David how he knew all this, but now, in cooperation with Perelman's hype After that, when he was about to go to New York to help Wolf King Icahn shoot a large-scale commercial, couldn't he tell David that the ruble would most likely depreciate?

  If David asks where he got the news from?

  Where do you think the ability to predict exchange rate trends is the strongest?

Of course, Roland doesn't want to make transactions that account for 10% of the total annual trading volume of S&P index futures products like the top student in the college entrance examination who graduated from Zhongguancun College of Applied Arts and Sciences. It's enough for others to bite it off, he is not greedy, he just follows the consortium and grabs a hair from the bear's body.

   It’s all useless to earn money but not to spend it.

  In the previous life, when transferring money, many greedy guys were directly shot to death in banks in Germany and France!

  Even Ah San, who was 'simple' playing with currency, was finally liquidated and cried!

  This kind of thing that ruins other countries’ finances is just a matter of finding a loophole. When there is no capital to save enough wealth, why bother to be the hated bird?

  Follow the trend to earn half or a small goal, and solve the embarrassing dilemma of paying taxes without money. As for the others?

  Now that the money invested in Blizzard has already come out, there is no need to fight those giants directly!

   After all, money can never be earned!

   died, but only half of it!

  So, while David was laughing, Roland, who had restrained his smile, said seriously, "Uncle David, I remember it when you said that..."

  “The last time I communicated with Ronald (Perelman), it seemed that he really said that there is something that can be done recently…”

   "Seems to be... rubles?"

   "I can't remember things very clearly. I will call James tomorrow to ask."

   "If he does too, I'm telling you..."

   "Really? Don't forget this matter!" Seeing that Roland said it seriously, David didn't doubt it.

   This is the celebrity effect. It is much more useful to use Wall Street giants to guarantee the ticket than what Roland himself said.

Following David's quick answer, Roland also discovered that with the continuous expansion of his interpersonal circle, it became a matter of course when he talked about many things. Wei must have one ear in and one ear out, even if he doesn't show perfunctory, he definitely won't take it to heart.

   And what about Roland?

  He had 'contact' with the guys on Wall Street, even if it was a big banner, David didn't know it!

  This kind of trust due to professionalism also made Roland realize that many things in the future can be carried out better.

   Want to do something but can't explain it?

   Then just use a 'friend' in the professional field as a shield!

   Roland will not cheat David, and as long as he benefits, David will not verify the authenticity of the source!

   After writing down the matter of pulling bear hair, which is enough to quickly accumulate his own capital, Roland is actually quite busy.

Before, he did have the idea of ​​participating in the script creation of "Home Alone 2", but after the entire movie became a large-scale commercial, Roland lost interest in innovation; instead of thinking there, how to perfectly integrate various advertisements into the During the plot, he might as well stay at home and continue to ponder the book of "Jurassic Park"!

   While he was thinking about how to make the fight between Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops more exciting, Mohamy called him in September and told him the news of the big sale of "RPM Racing".

   "The Super Nintendo was released in North America in August, and "RPM Racing" was the first game to be released at the same time."

   "In one month, our game sold more than 20,000 copies! According to the commission on the contract, more than 20,000 yuan has already been obtained!"

  “According to the feedback from the sales side, many players who bought our game praised the feel of the game.”

   "And this is actually the feedback from you and Steven back then."

   "Thank you very much for your comments. Do you have time recently? I have money, so I can treat you to dinner."

   Seeing that Mohamy was still thinking about the fact that he owed himself a meal, Roland, who heard this, immediately burst out laughing, asking Mohamy, whose annual revenue is less than 10,000 yuan, to treat him to dinner?

   Wouldn't that kill him?

  His money is not enough to make games, there is no need to spend it all for a meal.

   "Why did you invite me?"

   "Everything has to be said on a first-come, first-served basis, okay?"

   "Obviously my movie was released first and became a big hit, so I should be the one to invite you!"

   "Call out all the people in the company. I played the game made by your team, but they didn't know each other. What is that?"

   "When Steven played Atari games, he became familiar with Steve because of the games."

   "At that time, Steve got a lot of food from Steven."

   "Although I don't know if you will give up games to engage in technology, but whether you are making games or changing careers and starting a business again, I hope you will be successful, so... this time, I will invite you no matter what."

  Mohamy, who was already happy to hear Roland's remarks, smiled.

   With the explosion of the two movies, Roland is of course qualified to compete with the high-spirited long-haired guy back then, and he?

  Although becoming a billionaire before the age of 30 is the exclusive historical record of Gang Leader Qiao, but—

  If a person lives without dreams, what is the difference between him and a salted fish?

  Since he started making games, he firmly believes that he can be number one in the world.

  If before, he would still consider money, but now, fun is the first criterion!

  Wait until Mohamy told all the members that Roland was being treated to dinner to celebrate the company's game sales.

  The start-up team, which hadn't even been here for a year, suddenly cheered excitedly.

  The relationship between the founder and Roland is the real reason why these young people joined the company without hesitation.

  Although they have a geek spirit and don’t like the constraints of rules and regulations, but—who doesn’t like stability?

  The founder of the company is rich, or the founder can attract investment, which is what they like to see the most.

  Because only in this way, they can sit back and relax and burst out their inspirational thinking.

After one meal, more than a dozen people from Silicon and Synapse got to know Roland, and it also made Roland see the future Blizzard Big Three for the first time. While chatting with them, the word 'Viking' It is also constantly appearing in his ears.

  Facing a potential investor like Roland who has money and channels, and the point is that he is very special and easy to fool, these young people have no intention of hiding, and directly confessed the "Lost Vikings" project.

   Roland was even happier when he found out that these guys directly regarded themselves as cash cows.

  It's really uncomfortable to be a Kaizi, but to be a Blizzard Kaizi...

  If Roland couldn't yell like Zhu Wushuang and let me go, wouldn't it be a waste of saliva?

   After the reunion, when parting, Roland, who thought he had nothing to do, was stopped by Mohamy.

   "It's dangerous... There is something that I almost forgot to tell you."

   "After I went back that day, I told Cole that Steven was willing to meet, and he was very happy."

   "A few days ago, he sent me another email saying that in December, he will be sent by the company to the Silicon Valley headquarters for a one-month study trip."

   "If possible, he hopes to find a chance to meet Steven."

Note: ① In 1994, in order to keep the copyright film of "Fantastic Four", the actual investment was only one million. It was not released, and only DVD was released. The rejection by the theaters was a "force majeure factor". Even if the film was made, the contract was on schedule. fulfill. ②In "This Is **", Professor Zhang Weiwei, the dean of the ** Research Institute of Fudan University, gave a keynote speech on "How the Soviet Union disintegrated". For the things that came out, Wall Street swallowed the wealth of Mao Xiong for seventy years, and many guys who wanted to "eat alone" either committed suicide or killed themselves by swallowing bombs.

  (end of this chapter)