Chapter 313

As Xiao Hua expected, the next day, American newspapers, even many sports newspapers around the world, published the story that Richard sent a car of ganger to pay the fine

You don't have to think about it. Stern must have been angry again for smashing things in his office.

Ever since Richard joined the league, stern has smashed a lot of things in the office. The TV has changed several times

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Just when everyone thought that the alliance management committee would be furious and impose further sanctions on Richard, the management committee was unusually calm.

They didn't hold any press conference about it. It seems that they didn't care about it at all

On the contrary, there is bad news from the wage negotiations. The two sides have now broken down and the players' Union is preparing to hold a players' strike.

Although it's off-season, in fact, the players don't have no work at all. For example, some charity activities of the team still need players to attend

At present, it is obvious that these activities cannot be carried out. The players' Union wants to strike. This is for the benefit of the players. Which player will take the lead in the world and stand on the opposite side of the players' Union at this juncture

With the news of the collapse of the labor and salary negotiation, there is no concern about Richard's fine. People are more concerned about whether the NBA's new season will be affected by the collapse of the negotiation.

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It's not clear whether there is any influence. Anyway, it has no influence on Richard.

The training is bound to continue, but it's inconvenient for Richard and the trailblazers' teaching assistants to stay in serafaye. Anyway, the training has been on the right track, and Richard's staying or not has little impact.

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Just after returning to Portland with Stevens, Richard immediately got the good news.

Paramount Pictures is going to put violent black on the big screen, so I want to talk with Richard about the purchase of film and television copyright.

In 1994, paramount was involved in basketball movies. He invited Shaq O'Neal and Penny Hardaway to make the basketball movie "hot coach".

At that time, they invested about 20 million dollars in the film, and then the global box office reaped 30 million dollars.

It didn't make much money, but with Jordan's "Big Slam in the air" box office in 1996, and Ray Allen's "one on one" easily reaped $70 million, Paramount Pictures again focused on basketball movies.

The investment in the air slam dunk is 80 million dollars, and the global box office gains 230 million dollars, which is obviously crazy

In the past two months since the movie was released, the director actually wanted to find Kobe Bryant to make it, but he refused. Finally, he couldn't help finding the same class of Ray Allen who looked more immature. At last, they won the global box office of 70 million dollars!

It seems that there is a lot less than the big dunk in the air, but the investment is only 20 million dollars. In terms of income ratio, it is higher than the big dunk

With the sales of these two films, paramount couldn't sit still and took aim at Richard's violent black.

They want to shoot high school papers first. After all, if they shoot high school papers, they don't need to invest too much, at least they can save a lot of money in terms of actors' salary.

In addition, violent black has a very high fan base. Once the film is released, the original fans alone can bring quite good box office revenue.

As long as it's not a shoddy business, it's basically a steady business.

The only thing that will affect the box office is that there may be no stars in the movie, leading to many fans' lack of interest in going to the cinema.

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"Mr. Richard, five million dollars is the limit we can give. You know, the total investment of this movie is only 15 million dollars..." Ron Sheldon, the producer of Paramount Pictures, said sincerely.

Richard put up a finger

This finger is not cheap. In Sheldon's words, it represents at least $10 million.

"Ten million dollars is my bottom line, even 10 million dollars to sell you, are cheap you!" Richard made no concessions.

"Sir, that's 10 million dollars. It's not a small amount!" Sheldon's face was bitter. He thought he could send Richard for $23 million.

But it's obvious that Richard is not so easy to kill. It will cost ten million yuan to bite, not a dime less.

"I know it's not a small number, but you need to know what this 10 million can bring to you. In addition to the stable number of people watching movies, I can also let my players play in your movies, all star players!"

"In addition to Kobe Bryant and Jermaine, there are some high ranking rookies who will play, and the average time for each player is no less than three minutes, how about that?" Richard knocked on the table and said with a smile.When Sheldon heard this, he was shocked

"Are you sure?! Mr. Richard, this is not a joke! "

"Of course, but if you want to take a picture, please take it as soon as possible, just taking advantage of their training in serafaye. If you miss this time point, you won't have such a good chance!" Said Richard with a smile.

Sheldon was stunned. He knew that the 10 million dollars would never be wasted. At present, there are more than 30 players training in West Lafayette, including NBA all star starting level players and NCAA's top talent

If it's true, as Richard said, it's worth ten million!

"Happy cooperation! Mr Richard! "

"We will start casting as soon as possible, and try to start in mid August!" Sheldon stood up with an excited face.

Because there is already a violent black scene, they just need to change the script. This process can be completed in less than a week.

After all, it's just an hour and a half movie, not a big TV series.

As for casting, it may take a little longer, but a month is enough

"Good! Happy cooperation! "

"I wish you box office success in advance!" Richard also stood up with a smile and shook hands with Sheldon.

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In fact, Richard wanted to invest in making movies at the beginning, but thought about it, he'd better not make a fool of himself. Don't make a dream chasing show circle and smash his signboard

Now paramount is willing to take over, and sincere, Richard naturally has no reason not to agree.

As for the box office of the movie at that time, according to Richard's estimation, it will not be worse

But if you want to make a big box office hit, it's not likely. After all, it's just the plot of the high school volume. At that time, it's pretty good to have 40 or 50 million box office receipts.

Maybe the box office will be better when I get to the University

But when paramount wanted to take college papers, the price was another matter. At that time, Richard's disciples estimated that they could form an all-star team. The friendship of paramount was not enough for us $10 million.