The First Thousand and Thirty-Four Chapters Soundtrack Problem

While having fun with the child, Xiao Yunhai's cell phone rang. It was Bi Kewen's phone.

"Hey, Director Beekwen, how was your rest last night?"

Bikwen smiled and said, "Very good. Xiao, we have three consecutive global box office opening nights, with a total of 294 million US dollars. The reputation in various regions of the world is very good, and the scores are basically above 9 points."

Xiao Yunhai laughed and said, "That's really great. Congratulations, Director Bi Kewen, you have made another good movie. Maybe your "The Lord of the Rings" can break the box office record of "Battle of the Aliens". "

Beekwen said: "If that was the case, it would be great. Thank you, Xiao. Without your full support, The Lord of the Rings would not have achieved such a good result."

Xiao Yunhai said: "You've said it eight hundred times, you don't need to be so polite. The better the results of "The Lord of the Rings", the more I earn, and we are a win-win situation. By the way, how about the box office of "Operation Hurricane"?"

Beekwen said: "$114 million is not bad. Of course, the word of mouth and box office are far worse than ours."

Xiao Yunhai laughed and said: "It seems that we have a solid victory, just to teach Paramount's Hanks a lesson, so that he will not be idle and always find trouble with me. Director Beekwen, I will tell you later. Drive to the hotel to pick you up, and let's go back to America together."

Beekwen said: "Okay."

At ten o'clock in the morning, except for the stars who needed to stay in Huaxia to continue promoting the movie, Xiao Yunhai and the crew took a private plane and returned to Hollywood together.

After coming out of the airport, Xiao Yunhai didn't waste any time and went straight to the company.

At this time, the 62-storey building he bought had been fully renovated, and all the employees of Marvel Comics, Magic Special Effects, Storm Games, and his private investment company had all moved into it. even so,

It is still very spacious, and it is estimated that even if there are another 1000 people, it will be put down.

As soon as he sat on the boss chair in his office, Raul knocked on the door and walked in.

Xiao Yunhai smiled and said, "I just have something to ask you. Have our four directors made the budget for the four superhero blockbusters?"

Raul nodded and said: "It has already been made. Including special effects, it is a total of 2.5 billion US dollars. Among them, "Iron Man" 800 million, "Captain America" ​​700 million, "Doctor Strange" 500 million, " X-Men" 500 million."

Xiao Yunhai frowned and said, "Paramount's action blockbuster "Operation Hurricane" has a budget of more than 1.2 billion, how can we be so small?"

With such a serious person as Raul, he couldn't help laughing when he heard Xiao Yunhai's words, thinking that his boss was really special. The biggest fear of all Hollywood investors is the ultra-high budget. He is lucky, but he dislikes the budget is too low.

"Boss, most of the money for a film like "Hurricane Operation" is spent on the artists. I heard that the director and stars' remuneration alone can reach a terrifying $400 million. Also, for publicity, film companies often They will all make false reports, but in fact, the actual film used is 600 million U.S. dollars. The director and actor's remuneration for our four films combined is less than 400 million, so the budget of each film is not high. "

Speaking of which, Raul sighed: "Hollywood is like this, the poor get poorer, and the rich get richer. There are superstars who can earn 40 million in a movie, and there are extras who can't even eat. There is also a huge gap between the two, and the remuneration of second-tier actors is not even one-tenth of that of first-tier actors."

Xiao Yunhai nodded and said, "It's not like this is the case in the entertainment industry in other parts of the world. Raul, you go and arrange, I'm going to hold a press conference at 4 o'clock this afternoon to announce to Hollywood that our Marvel Comics has officially entered the film industry. industry."

Raul nodded and said excitedly, "Yes, boss."

Just as he was about to turn around and go out, Raul suddenly patted his forehead and said, "Look at my brain, I almost forgot about the real thing when I got excited. Boss, have you seen the Paramount movie "Assassin"? "?"

Xiao Yunhai said: "No. What's wrong?"

Raul said: "Boss, when I was browsing the entertainment website yesterday, I accidentally came across a small website that said that "Assassin" used music from one of your songs in a certain segment. I asked someone to check it. Come on, there is indeed such a soundtrack, and it took about twenty-five seconds."

Xiao Yunhai said in surprise: "How is this possible?"

This world attaches more importance to copyright than in previous lives. After the director completes the post-production of a film, the film company will arrange a special person to check back and forth several times. Anyone involved in the copyright of others will sign a use agreement with the copyright owner. , so as to avoid copyright disputes.

Like the soundtrack used in the movie, it is the focus of the inspection. Generally speaking, this problem will never occur.

Lauer said: "Boss, your album is popular all over North America, and your songs are playing everywhere on the street. I think the melody may be too familiar. They thought it was an old song, so they didn't pay much attention to it."

Songs that are more than ten years old can be used freely in the movie.

Xiao Yunhai nodded and said: "Maybe. Raul, you cut out that paragraph for me. Hmph, if Paramount really dares to use my music as the soundtrack without my permission, then they will be dead. ."

Raul said: "Boss, in this case, I'm afraid we and Paramount will really have no room for reconciliation."

"Reconcile?" Xiao Yunhai sneered: "Raul, if you lose 17 billion US dollars because of someone's intervention, and then you get angry and lose 20 billion US dollars on the bet to that person, you will Won't you be friends with him in the future?"

Raul shook his head and said, "Of course not, unless he returns the money to me. Boss, I understand."

Less than five minutes after Raul went out, Christy walked in with a large stack of documents.

Xiao Yunhai suddenly had a big head and said, "Ms. Christy, how many projects have you invested in?"

Christy smiled and said, "Not many, only eighteen, all of which are small projects that we think can make money. The amount is not large, and the total amount is less than one billion US dollars."

Xiao Yunhai nodded and admired Christy's behavior. Eggs cannot be put in one basket. This is a well-known saying.

However, if you let him read these materials, then thank you for not being sensitive.

Xiao Yunhai said: "Ms. Christy, just give me a report."

Christy showed such an expression as expected, took out two pages of forms, and said, "Mr. Xiao, this is the relevant situation and development prospects of all investment projects, please take a look."

Xiao Yunhai glanced at it and said with a smile: "Ms. Christy, I said that such a small investment is not used to report to me."

Christie said: "Mr. Xiao, don't look down on these small investments. Maybe there will be a financial giant in the future."

Xiao Yunhai said: "Although the probability of this happening is not high, it does exist."

Christie smiled and said: "Mr. Xiao, I will put the information here, please take a look at it anyway. I need to negotiate with someone at noon today, so I will leave first. If there is anything unclear, you can call at any time. ask me."

Xiao Yunhai nodded and said, "Go get busy."

After Christy left, Xiao Yunhai looked at the information on the table and shook his head with a wry smile.

Xiao Yunhai is still very optimistic about the ability of his own economic team, but they are all top workaholics. Every time he comes back, there are countless documents waiting for him to review, which makes Xiao Yunhai a little unbearable.

Thinking that his wife Zhao Wanqing seems to be much better than him in business, and seems to be very interested, Xiao Yunhai thought about bringing all these things back to Huaxia and handing them over to her to deal with, and she can let Christy have anything in the future. Contact her directly.

Yes, just do it.

Xiao Yunhai took out these documents and the documents that had been put in the safe before, and brought them on the plane together when he was about to leave.

After a while, Raul sent the clip of "Assassin" that used Xiao Yunhai's music melody.

Xiao Yunhai listened carefully and found that the above was indeed a small part of the song "billiejean" that he copied from Michael Jackson.

According to the US copyright law, if the soundtrack used in the film exceeds 15 seconds and the music copyright agreement is not signed, the user will be fined up to ten times the value of the original work. If there is no money, then the relevant person needs to go to prison to reflect.

The song "billiejean" has reached tens of millions of hits on the Internet. Including the single and album, it is conservatively estimated to be around 100 million US dollars. If it is ten times, it will be 1 billion US dollars.

And the profit that "Assassin" brought to Paramount is less than 400 million US dollars, even if all the compensation to Xiao Yunhai is not enough.

"Hehe, Hanks is dead now."

Xiao Yunhai never thought of letting him go.

At the beginning because of the copyright issue of superheroes, the two had a bit of an unpleasant fight. Later, Hanks did not give himself face in public at the Oscars. Recently, he used "Assassin" to snipe his "Battle of Chibi". It can be said that Xiao Yunhai and Hanks are already incompatible with each other in the tens of billions of century gambling.

Since you can never be friends, you should just offend to death.

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