Hollywood Starts with Animation

London, feels great for Zucker.

Although the air quality in the early morning was average, there was no foggy picture in the movie. Zucker, Victor, and Candy arrived in London at around 10 o'clock last night, so they did not go to the BBC, but stayed in a hotel arranged by them, which was a five-star hotel.

trench!

That's right, the BBC broadcaster gave Zucker the feeling that he was rich, quite rich!

This is not only reflected in the fact that they did not arrange a five-star hotel for the three of Zucker, but even the employees of Wald Films who came to contact them ten days ago lived in this five-star hotel, and the cost is also BBC. take full charge of.

"The BBC is really rich. I won't kill them. It seems unreasonable now."

After Zuke got up, looking at the exquisite and hearty breakfast, he couldn't help but sigh at the two of them. The breakfast was amazing, at least Zucker had never had such an expensive breakfast in his life.

Victor laughed: "Boss, it's true that the BBC has money, but it's mainly because we are citizens of the United States."

Kandi cut a piece of bread and continued: "That's right, after all, people's ancestors were rich, and they always have a natural sense of superiority in the face of the United States. They covered our room fee, nothing more than showing their hard power. ."

While enjoying the food, the three chatted about the next copyright cooperation.

It didn't take long.

The Wald Films staff who arrived in the UK ten days in advance came to Zucker.

"boos, how was your rest last night?"

Her name is Martha Hopkins, she is 40 years old, she is a middle-aged woman, and she is the manager of the legal department and the accounting department of Wald Pictures. She is a very capable woman.

"Very good, just perfect, I don't even want to go back to Los Angeles." Zucker laughed.

"Oh! If you say that, boss, then all the employees of our company will lose a good boss." Martha laughed.

"Hahaha, Martha, I will say that our company is yours the most interesting."

When it comes to complimenting employees, Zucker has always been generous, and he doesn't spend any money anyway.

A hearty breakfast ended in a pleasant conversation between the four.

9 am.

The four Zhu Ke arrived at the BBC Broadcasting Company on time and negotiated with the relevant person in charge of "Teletubbies" on the copyright issue.

The negotiation in the early stage was very smooth and the atmosphere was very friendly, but there was a huge deviation in the final over-price of copyright.

The BBC said: It requires the permanent copyright of "Teletubbies", a one-time payment of 1.5 million pounds, and the contract does not involve any peripheral profits and advertising sharing.

In other words, Zucker got 1.5 million pounds and has nothing to do with "Teletubbies".

How does this make Zucker accept?

The shooting cost of "Teletubbies" is not high, and it is 5 to 7 million pounds if it is dead. The main place is the BBC broadcasting platform.

As soon as "Teletubbies" was broadcast, it occupied the ratings of the British children's channel; not much to say about the advertising revenue, but the annual sales of related books and toys are extremely amazing. Moreover, in the follow-up, the film and television rights were sold all over Europe and the world. The authorized price alone exceeded 200 million pounds.

Such a huge and sweet fat, how can Zucker be willing to only get 1.5 million pounds?

It's too naughty to bully people!

Not angry!

"Mr. Wald, you must know that we are the BBC broadcaster, and we are not afraid of lawsuits. We can broadcast directly after the production is completed." The BBC negotiator said slowly.

His implication was clear.

You have to accept it if you don't accept it.

The big deal is to fight an international lawsuit.

International lawsuits are not trivial, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and require a lot of money. Even if Zucker wins the lawsuit in the end, the money may not be much.

"Ha ha!"

Zucker looked at the BBC representative and sneered: "Yes, you are not afraid of a lawsuit, but we are not afraid, and I am also rich. You may not know that I made a profit of more than 800 yuan from the stock market in one day a few days ago. Ten thousand U.S. dollars."

"Uh......"

Several BBC negotiators were instantly dumbfounded.

Before, they were completely unaware of this news. After all, they are "arrogant" British guys, and Wald Pictures is nothing more than a Hollywood bottom-line company, and the status of the two is completely unequal.

"Ahem...several, let me add that my client, Mr. Zucker Wald, is a wealthy American citizen and a young man who is not stingy with spending money. Young, If you have money, you will be impulsive. Well, you can skip our copyright and force the platform to broadcast, but I think your company does not want to cause a tsunami of public opinion before the broadcast of "Teletubbies". "

Candy is Candy, and his words are quite deadly.

Public opinion tsunami!

Zucker is fully capable of whipping it up!

Because the Yankees and the British have more cooperation in the government, but between the people of the two countries, it can be said that they look down on each other.

The British thought: "You America, used to be our colony, our territory, what are you talking about."

Yankee thinks: "We are the largest country in the world, you British people have long been yesterday evening, what is there to be proud of."

Not much else to say, as long as Zucker is willing to spend money, he can definitely set off a storm of public opinion. This is an unacceptable reality for John Bull, who is desperate for face.

......

The next negotiation went a lot better. It is nothing more than the problem of profit sharing and the sharing of copyright secondary authorization.

Now, the person in charge of the BBC is willing to give Wald Pictures a share because they have seen Zucker's financial resources;

Second, they also don't want to fight lawsuits and face public opinion storms;

The third and most important point is that although they also value the future prospects of "Teletubbies", they are not travelers after all.

In the following days, several negotiations were held again.

Finally a contract was reached.

Contents of the contract: 1. BBC pays a one-time payment of £1 million as copyright royalties;

2. The secondary authorization of copyright, including the subsequent sale of film and television copyrights to other regions or countries, Zucker's Wald Pictures, enjoys 10% of the authorization fee;

3. In the DVD and video tape market released by "Teletubbies", Zucker also enjoys 15% of the profit share;

4. Its peripheral licenses, including but not limited to toys, key mouths, clothing, books, etc. 18 items of authorized profit share 8%.

and many more.

In general, the licensing contract this time belongs to the category of satisfaction, both for the BBC and for Zucker.

After the authorization was completed, Zhu Ke wanted to know about the situation of "Harry Potter", but found that it was not on the market, and the time did not allow, because the company still had a lot of things waiting for Zu Ke and a few people to deal with.

......

London International Airport.

Zucker and the others were waiting for the flight in the waiting room.

"Jonathan Nolan, stop for me! Mum said that when I get to England, I'll do everything."

A strong and slightly angry and helpless voice entered Zhu Ke's ears.

As for the airport, there is always a lot of people talking, and Zucker wouldn't care.

But!

When Zuke turned his head to look over, he was surprised to find that he had actually met the two young people who were talking.

I've seen it in my life!

"" The second one is a little later, sorry everyone. Today, the minister was unlucky. He cut the vegetables into his hands, and the blood was gushing.