Chen Zhao didn't want to buy Nafa Twain's movie rights to enter Hollywood.
To be honest, unless he invested in Steven's movies, Hollywood's box office profits were very average.
A Beyond Grade A movie had an investment of more than 100 million US dollars. The filming, production, and release period was one to two years. It was already a huge profit if the box office profit was tens of millions of US dollars. These tens of millions of US dollars still needed to be cut.
It was more likely that the box office alone wouldn't be enough to cover the cost.
They needed to earn money through the copyrights of other things, such as games, TV series, and other products.
These copyrights and products were basically the exclusive profits of big companies.
It was almost impossible for small companies or individual investors to obtain these profits.
For people like Chen Zhao, no matter how rich they were, they couldn't really set foot in Hollywood's true profit point.
Therefore, Chen Zhao wasn't interested in investing in Hollywood movies at all.
Even though Chen Zhao, Steven, and Rasfa had invested in a movie before, it was more out of interest.
It would be best if they could earn money. Even if they couldn't, it wouldn't affect their friendship.
As for saving Nafa Twain, ha … Chen Zhao didn't care about his life or death.
Chen Zhao only felt that it was profitable, so he took action. That was all.
"Nafa Twain and DSN each own 50% of the most valuable copyrights to the 'Master Thief' series. There have been six movies in the series so far, and two of them have suffered losses at the box office. However, the latest one has grossed 830 million dollars worldwide. Coupled with the sale of the peripherals, DSN's profit from this movie has reached 200 million dollars. Therefore, just this series alone requires at least 500 million dollars for you to be able to buy the copyrights. In addition, Nafa Twain is the absolute protagonist of this series. Even if the copyrights are sold, he will still have a say in this movie. At that time, he will definitely ask for a higher salary and a share of the box office. Therefore, you will also need an agreement that requires him to not quit in at least the next three movies in the 'Master Thief' series, and the salary must not exceed 20 million dollars."
Steven knew the rules of Hollywood too well. If Nafa Twain lost the copyrights to the Thief series, he would definitely ask for an exorbitant amount for the next movie to make up for his loss.
As long as Chen Zhao could get this agreement, the value of the Thieving series would increase greatly.
500 million dollars! Chen Zhao's expression changed slightly.
This number was much higher than he had imagined.
"The Extraordinary Life is also a movie series, and the first movie has already been released. It suffered a small loss at the box office, but we've already recovered our cost from the surrounding merchandise. In Hollywood, a movie series is the standard for a blockbuster. As long as the production is not bad, the box office will not be bad. The copyright for this movie series is worth at least two hundred million dollars, and there are a few other movies that are worth a few million dollars to tens of millions of dollars. In total, it's not more than thirty million dollars. It's just a bonus," Steven said.
"I don't have that much cash, but the bank should be happy to lend me money."
For banks, they were never afraid of people borrowing money. They were only afraid of people not borrowing money.
This was especially true for someone like Chen Zhao, who had many high-quality properties under his name.
The Mountain Beer brand alone was worth more than five billion dollars. Chen Zhao still had most of the shares. Even if he had to borrow a few billion dollars, the banks would fight over it, let alone a few hundred million.
"With Nafa Twain's current situation, $650 million should be his bottom line," Steven said.
Steven had given a total price. In fact, this kind of copyright negotiation needed to be done one by one.
"Call your lawyer over," Steven said. "I'll explain it to him."
Steven was Chen Zhao's advisor, but he would not be involved in the copyright sale.
Even he did not dare to face DSN directly.
As long as one was in Hollywood, one could not ignore the existence of DSN.
Only outsiders like Chen Zhao didn't care about DSN at all. DSN couldn't do anything to him.
This was also why Nafa Twain had found Chen Zhao.
Because Nafa Twain didn't know how many of the people who contacted him were sent by DSN.
Then, Alex came with her team of lawyers to talk to Steven.
Alex knew that Chen Zhao and Steven were friends.
After all, Alex had been present at Gerlyn's birthday.
In the afternoon, Chen Zhao and the legal team went to the place they had agreed to meet Nafa Twain.
Nafa Twain had fallen so much that he did not even have a lawyer.
He was holding on. If he continued like this, he would either die in the hands of the loan sharks or compromise with DSN.
But now, Chen Zhao had come to stop him, so DSN had nothing to do.
The negotiation began. Nafa Twain gave a total price of $800 million.
Chen Zhao told the legal team to pack up and leave.
What a joke. This guy thought he was a fool.
With the initiative in Chen Zhao's hands, the negotiation was easy.
Chen Zhao's bottom line for Alex was that the negotiation could fail, but not a single cent more than what she wanted.
Chen Zhao was a capitalist. Nafa Twain was also a capitalist.
Talking about feelings between capitalists? What kind of feelings were there to talk about?
With Chen Zhao's words, Alex felt much more confident.
To Chen Zhao, he would at most earn less money.
Chen Zhao could not earn this hard-earned money.
But Nafa Twain could not.
If the negotiation failed, he would have to accept DSN's exploitation.
DSN's money was not enough to pay off his debt.
To him, the bottom line was to pay off the debt.
The negotiation was in a stalemate. Both sides had different prices. Of course, it was a stalemate.
But Chen Zhao still had the initiative. Alex and the legal team had so many people, so they were more powerful.
Nafa Twain could not do anything alone because Chen Zhao kept his bottom line.
His bottom line was about the same as Nafa Twain's debt, just a bit lower.
"Mr. Chen, I can sign the agreement, but I hope you can raise the price to $700 million."
"That's impossible. I can't pay that much." Chen Zhao shook his head. "If you're not sincere, then our negotiation ends here."
"Mr. Chen, as long as I pay off the debt and redeem 30% of Marina's Restaurant's shares, I'm willing to sell all of them to you at the lowest price," Nafa Twain said, gritting his teeth.
Chen Zhao's heart jumped. If that was the case, he could consider it.
"If you add 30% of Marina's Restaurant's shares, I can consider $700 million."
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