Chapter 73

In fact, Zhuke himself was quite surprised to be able to win a series of copyrights of "300" so quickly.

Because the author of "300" is the famous comic master Frank Miller!

He has created Batman: Dark Knight, Superman and Batman and other famous comics for DC;

During the marvel period, he participated in the creation of many comics, such as the extraordinary Spider Man series, the superhuman series, the Erica series, the magic four series and so on;

His series of comics of "Sin City" created for Black Horse Comics pushed him to the altar at one stroke.

In the field of American comics, he is a famous figure.

"My impression of Frank Miller is that he is a cartoon master. That's right, but he is also famous for being difficult!"

"In terms of Hollywood companies, they have a bad reputation!"

Zucker couldn't help remembering.

Let's not say anything else, just Bruce Willis's "city of sin" series films. In order to obtain the copyright, the film production company has repeatedly discussed with Frank for as long as one year; In addition, the production company also paid 15% of the North American box office share.

Yes, you are right!

That's 15% of the North American box office share, not the net profit share.

In other words, Frank Miller got more than 50 million dollars from the production company through the series of "Sin City".

This price completely exceeds the film and television copyright of many famous comics!

"The film and television copyright of spider man, I won it, but also spent 10 million dollars."

"Frank is so dark!"

Not only that, frank, who has tasted the sweetness in the movie "Sin City", will be even worse in the future.

"If I want to be a film producer, I must be the first producer!"

"I want to be the director of the film!"

"15% at the box office?"

“No！ No 20% of the North American box office, please don't disturb me

"Even if it's necessary, I'll be the director of the comic adaptation film myself!"

Well, Frank Miller is such a headache for Hollywood studios.

He is a cartoonist. Do you know how to make movies?

Well, even if he knows, how can he compare with those senior Hollywood filmmakers?!

As for this time, Zhuke was able to win the relevant copyright of "300" so quickly and successfully because Frank has not yet opened the later "vampire" mode.

Before 1997, Frank had many cartoon copyrights, one of which was well-known for the film and television copyrights of "Robocop". The others were either too small, or he was still hiding and selling them at a low price.

《300》？

What is that?!

"300" is just one of Frank Miller's many comic book copyrights.

As a result, Zhuke paid only $1.2 million for a series of copyrights of 300.

Well, of course, there's a 3% share of net North American box office profits.

I don't want to give it to you!

But frank, he's not short of money!

If it doesn't work out, he won't sell it.

Frank said at that time: "without the box office share of the film, I would never sell any comic book copyright."

At first, hearing this sentence, Zhuke wanted to slap his face on the spot.

You have a big face!

As a matter of fact, this result has already been unfortunate.

He has money;

There are many copyrights in hand;

He's not worried about not being able to sell many of his comic book rights.

In the original time and space, Frank acted as the producer of "300 warriors of Sparta" with a tough attitude. He was extremely amateur in film production. He delayed the film shooting for more than two years.

His various tough gestures have greatly damaged the interests of the production company.

.......

After a long discussion with Zach, Zach Schneider left Wald with satisfaction.

This time, although he was not able to immediately carry out the film preparation work of "300", he still took a screenplay from Wald pictures.

Not 300!

It's the script for human clearance!

Well, of course, Zhuke, the capitalist, will not let him wait for an empty window of 10 months, but will squeeze him hard.

Among Hollywood's many types of movies, the human clearance project is the one with lower cost, and it happens that Zucker saw its four series in his last life. The production cost of the first film in the series is less than $10 million, but its global box office is close to $100 million.

Even though this income ratio is not as good as the famous "electric saw startle", it is not much different.

"It's not that I didn't want to make" electric saw startling ", but I just heard about it in my last life, but I didn't see it ~!"

When books come to use, I hate less!

In his last life, when he was a student, he liked all kinds of movies in Hollywood, whether they were high-cost popcorn blockbusters or low-cost ones.

However... When I started to work, I seldom saw Hollywood movies.

When you go to the cinema, most of the time you watch domestic comedies. Well, even Hollywood movies are all special effects movies.

...

...

At the end of January 1997.

Zucker left his long stay in Burbank and drove to Silicon Valley early in the morning.

Going to Silicon Valley today is a big deal!

Today, ICQ company will hold its first share expansion meeting, that is, round a financing meeting.

None of the representatives invited to participate in the round a financing meeting is weak. They are either today's Internet giants IBM, Microsoft and Cisco, or large Wall Street investment banks such as ^ *, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.

As a matter of fact, at this stage, ICQ will launch round a financing. Zhuke does not agree.

Well, we are firmly against it!

Because today's ICQ users, just can be more than 4 million, completely did not show its potential in the future. Now to carry out round a financing will only be underestimated by the market.

However, ICQ founding teams such as weisige and wadi hold a firm attitude towards financing.

"The development of ICQ is now in a bottleneck and needs huge development funds."

To this point, Zhuke and weisige hold a common attitude.

"If I want capital, I can make additional investment. Of course, I can even provide the company with interest free loans of US $10 million to US $20 million for further expansion."

But the difference is that, as the founding team, they are not willing to let Zhuke hold 45%, which is enough to threaten their holding shares, and continue to exist.

They are eager to bring in other shareholders in order to check and balance Zhuke, who owns a large number of shares.

For this reason, they will not hesitate to kill 1000 enemies and lose 800!

Well, even if Zhuke has signed a preferential investment agreement with them, which is enough to ensure that the shares will not be diluted, it is bound to be targeted by a number of giant enterprises and even famous Wall Street investment banks!

Man, no matter which one of them, Zhuke can't afford to offend at this stage!

There is no doubt that it is inevitable that Zhuke's shares will be diluted.

Obviously, as the largest individual shareholder of ICQ company, Zhuke and weisige are not as close as they used to be, and even begin to be in the opposite position.

There are irreconcilable contradictions between the two sides.

Of course, this is not unusual.

In most companies, when they develop to a certain stage, the game between the management and shareholders is a normal behavior.

"It seems that it's time for Laozi to make a fresh start."

Zhuke thought in his heart: "it's time for Lingying, an Internet company with a long plan, to come out."

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