Yanagawa and Huang Wenxun chatted in the office for a while when someone suddenly came and knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Yanagawa's assistant opened the door and came in. He glanced at Huang Wenxun and said, "Chairman, I have something to report to you."
Huang Wenxun was very sensible and said immediately, "If Mr. Liu has no other instructions, I will go back to work first."
Yanagawa nodded, "Well, thank you for your hard work. You can go back first."
After Huang Wenxun left, the assistant said: "Chairman, I just got the news that XomoChina Electronics and BenQ Dentsu are negotiating to transfer the mobile phone production license. Jimmy James, the big boss of Deep Space, personally brought people to Yanjing for talks.
Yes, if there are no accidents, we should be able to negotiate in these two days."
Yanagawa narrowed his eyes, "Are you sure Jimmy James came to discuss the transfer of mobile phone production licenses with Xiamen? Why didn't they come to Yanjing instead of Xiamen or Jinling for such an important matter? How did you get it?
News?"
The assistant shook his head, "It's not clear why he came to Yanjing to talk, but Qi Chenggong from XoC Electronics did come to Yanjing. The source of the news is Qi Chenggong's accompanying team."
Hearing that Qi Chenggong had also arrived, Yanagawa's expression became heavy.
Lenovo contacted Xohua and tried to obtain Xohua's mobile phone production license, but Xohua refused and refused to negotiate with them.
Lenovo later contacted Kejian, and Kejian was willing to talk, but now Korea's Samsung is also in contact with Kejian.
If Deep Space Company is really allowed to reach a cooperation with Xohua Electronics, then Lenovo will be one step slower.
After thinking for a while, Yanagawa stood up and walked towards Yang Qing's office.
…
The morning after the sci-fi themed event started, Yu Dong was writing "District 9" in the office. There was a knock on the door. Yu Dong looked up and smiled when he saw the person coming, "Steven, you're here.
."
"Haha, look what is in my hand?"
Spielberg was carrying a red plastic bag in his hand, and the contents inside were looming and unclear.
When Spielberg came closer, Yu Dong could see clearly through the mouth of the bag what was inside.
"Transformers?"
Spielberg took the toy out of the bag and said with a smile, "Yes, and it is the latest Autobot. I saw this in a small shop on the roadside. It is obviously a pirated toy, but it must be
Not to mention, it’s really cheap, only ten yuan.”
Yu Dong took the toy and looked at it in his hand. This toy was cheap, but the workmanship was rough. However, this toy is not called pirated outside, but called "motherland version".
This series of toys is famous all over the world, and China is no exception. Yu Dong remembers that when he just graduated, Transformers had just become popular in China.
However, there are many names for Transformers, and there are many versions, such as Beast Man, Autobot, Hermit, and Power Rangers.
"Is this the latest model?" Yu Dong asked.
"Of course, it seems that I will give you some knowledge about the history of Transformers when I have time later."
Yu Dong invited Spielberg to sit down on the sofa, and then went to pour him tea himself, "I thought you would come over yesterday. Didn't you say you arrived yesterday?"
"I arrived yesterday, but it was too late when I arrived, so I didn't come over. Did anything special happen at the event yesterday?"
"That's not the case. There is actually no difference between your arrival yesterday and your arrival today."
Originally, Yu Dong wanted Spielberg to arrive one day earlier so that Spielberg could attend the Galaxy Awards ceremony, but Spielberg still had things to do in the United States that he couldn't make it to.
Since I can't attend the Galaxy Awards Ceremony, it doesn't make any difference if I come earlier or later.
Passing the tea cup to Spielberg, Yu Dong looked at the Autobot toy on the coffee table, "Since you know it's pirated, why do you still spend money to buy it back? I remember you said you like Transformers very much, I also
I thought you would be disgusted when you saw this kind of pirated toy."
"It's not a big deal, after all, I didn't lose a dime."
Yu Dong nodded while holding the tea cup. Spielberg is a very pragmatic person, and what he said is very true.
Spielberg blew the foam from the tea cup and said again, "The reason why I bought it back is because I want to talk to you about Transformers."
Yu Dong showed a surprised expression, "Do you want to talk to me? Do you want to cooperate with our company to obtain the copyright of Transformers?"
Spielberg showed a smile and said, "Are you pretending to be stupid with me? I think you should be considered to play the leading role in the next movie I make. Your acting skills are better than many professional actors."
This was obviously teasing Yu Dong, but Yu Dong felt unjust, "What do you mean by this?"
Seeing that Yu Dong didn't seem to be pretending to be stupid, Spielberg was also very surprised, "You really don't know? Your company just got the film and television adaptation rights for Transformers from Hasbro a few days ago. It's Hasbro."
People told me that they could not lie to me, and there was no need to lie to me. To be honest, I had thought about buying the film and television adaptation rights of Transformers before, but you guys beat me to it before I could make up my mind."
Yu Dong raised his eyebrows, he really didn't know about this.
But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem strange. Deep Space Company's business is too broad now, and it's impossible for Yu Dong to know everything.
For example, in the case of purchasing "Transformers", unless Hasbro sells the rights to the entire Transformers series to Deep Space, otherwise, the amount involved in purchasing the film and television adaptation rights alone will not be too high.
Among the many projects in deep space, this is just a small project.
As for why Spielberg thinks that Yu Dong must know, it is also very simple, because the projects operated by Deep Space Company in the past were basically approved by Yu Dong, which formed such a stereotype in Spielberg's mind.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Jimmy should have decided this matter. He did not tell me, but our company will not be filming in the short term, otherwise I will definitely know."
The amount of money involved in purchasing a film and television adaptation is not high, but if you want to film it, the investment will be quite high. You must tell Yu Dong about it.
"I thought it was your decision to purchase the film and television adaptation rights of "Transformers". After all, most people would not have the idea... Of course, Transformers is very popular, but it is not easy to make it into a live-action movie.
Both the script and the technology were difficult," Spielberg said.
What Spielberg said was also what Yu Dong thought. He had indeed thought about filming Transformers before, but it may not be a good time to film Transformers at this stage.
As for purchasing the film and television adaptation rights in advance, Yu Dong had asked people before, but Hasbro demanded that the film be filmed within three years, so the matter was not negotiated. Unexpectedly, Jimmy secretly took care of the matter.
"You want to talk to me about Transformers now. Do you want to co-produce this movie with us?" Yu Dong asked.
"With this idea, even if I don't consider it from a commercial perspective, I also like the Transformers series very much. Now that it is going to be made into a live-action movie, I definitely want to participate."
"I'm afraid I have to wait until I ask Jimmy about this. I still don't know which copyrights of "Transformers" we have purchased, and I don't know if Jimmy has other plans. Let's talk about it after I ask clearly.
It’s a matter of cooperation.”
Spielberg also knew that it was inconvenient to talk now, so he nodded and said, "No problem, we will discuss this matter after you guys have talked. Jimmy should be in Aurous Hill now, right?"
Yu Dong shook his head, "He is in Yanjing now, and there are still some things that he needs to deal with there. He will probably be able to come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but don't worry, I will give him a call to ask about this when I have time in the afternoon."
"There's no need to be in such a hurry. I'll be staying in Jinling for a few more days, and there are several promotional activities for "The Martian" arranged here."
This time "The Martian" will be released almost simultaneously in China and the United States. Spielberg also attaches great importance to the Chinese market, so he has taken the initiative to arrange several promotional activities, and he will bring several creative staff to attend.
The first event will be held in the Deep Space Park tomorrow, which coincides with the science fiction themed event.
As the most watched science fiction movie this year, it is obviously a very reasonable thing to hold promotional activities at science fiction themed events.
In order to cooperate with tomorrow's on-site activities, Yu Dong will also attend, and Deep Space Company will provide ten sets of "Tianwen" models for distribution.
…
Before the afternoon, after Spielberg left Yu Dong's office, Yu Dong called Jimmy.
Knowing that Jimmy was not busy at the moment, Yu Dong started talking about Transformers, "Just now Spielberg came to my office and asked about Transformers. I was also stunned when he asked. Transformers
Did you negotiate the film and television adaptation rights?"
Jimmy laughed, "How can I have the leisure to talk about the film and television adaptation rights of a movie during this time? This is handled by our company's copyright department. Isn't this because you mentioned this matter before? The copyright department just
I keep remembering that it was finally done a few days ago, and I was just preparing to go back and tell you about it this time, but I didn’t expect that Steven was very well-informed. He already knew about it and even ran to tell you."
"The people over at Hasbro told him."
"Well, I know that he has a good relationship with Hasbro. He asked you about this. Does he want to cooperate with us in filming Transformers?"
"He has this idea, but I told him that I need to understand the situation with you first."
"The situation is like this. The film and television adaptation rights of Transformers plus some miscellaneous things cost a few million dollars in total, but Hasbro agreed to pay in installments. In addition, if filming does not start within five years, they have the right
Take back the copyright. The latter condition is nothing. The condition is very vague, and Hasbro will not take it seriously. This is what I think. If our company has no idea of ​​filming within three years, it will definitely not be possible to sell the film and television adaptation rights.
It will be a loss, but we will still pay it in installments.”
"In addition to owning the film and television adaptation rights, can we also obtain surrounding copyrights, or even all copyrights?"
"Nothing is impossible. As long as the money is enough, Hasbro will not refuse, but there is no need for us to spend a lot of money to buy all the copyrights. As for the peripheral copyrights, we do not have the copyrights for the characters in the anime, but
After the movie is produced, the surrounding copyrights are shared."
Yu Dong nodded, "I understand, as long as you have the peripheral copyrights of the movie characters, everything else doesn't matter."
"Actually, I would like to ask you if you have any specific shooting ideas?"
"Not yet."
Jimmy was not disappointed, after all, this was a small project for them.
"It doesn't matter. Since Steven is interested, when I return to Jinling, I will ask him what he thinks. Maybe he will come to us after he has thought about how to shoot. If he can direct, that's not
Is it better?"
"Well, let's talk about this later when you come back. How are things going with you there? Have you encountered any difficulties?"
"There is no difficulty. The general direction has been discussed. The rest is up to Li Kunyao to talk to them. It should not be a big problem. In the afternoon, Li Kunyao and the others will hold a meeting to discuss the details. If there are no problems,
We can start signing the contract tomorrow. Once the contract is signed, BenQ can start making mobile phones."
Hearing that things went very smoothly, Yu Dong was also very emotional. He thought that XomoChina Electronics would be able to survive for a while, but he didn't expect that only a few months later, they decided to give up the mobile phone business.
In fact, this is a good thing for XomoChina Electronics. Now XomoChina Electronics has no spare capacity to support the mobile phone business. If it insists on continuing to support its business, it will only cause their company to consume more, which will in turn affect their traditional business.
development of.
Originally, XomoChina Electronics was still hesitant, but after signing the agreement with BenQ, their mentality began to slowly change.
In the end, they decided to abandon the mobile phone and computer business and focus all their energy on their traditional business, color TVs.
"Li Kunyao should be very happy."
"No, this guy was so excited that he couldn't sleep last night. Whether we make a mobile phone or not is not important to us, but it is of great significance to him. Li Kunyao has always wanted BenQ Dentsu to get out of the shadow of the Acer Group, and
To achieve this, it is not enough to become independent or even be acquired by us. BenQ must have its own brand. Making mobile phones is obviously a fast track."
Yu Dong pondered, "It's a good thing to have passion, but I'm worried that Li Kunyao's head is too hot and he's taking too big a step. Although we are not in a hurry to make mobile phones, since we have already started, we have to pay more attention to other things.
Not to mention, he must have a good grasp of the general direction."
"Don't worry about this, I've been keeping an eye on you, otherwise I wouldn't have come in person this time."
Chapter completed!