Chapter 320 Sony’s conditions!
Jerry finally agreed and left, but he kept reminding before leaving.

DreamWorks is a lesson for us. As an employee of Warner, I witnessed with my own eyes the siege of DreamWorks by Warner, led by my brother-in-law, and the other six major companies!

Global distribution capabilities have always been the confidence of the Big Six.

This ability was gained by continuously impacting major markets with previous works. After securing the position, naturally, they don't want anyone else to grab the position.

After Jerry left, Charlize Theron, wearing her bathrobe, sat in Chen An's arms.

"Chen, do you want to be one of the Hollywood Big Six?"

"Do you think it's possible?" Chen An asked with a smile as he looked at the woman in his arms.

Theron smiled and said, "If you were a Jew, I believe you could do it."

Even she knew that no matter how talented the other party was, it would be impossible for him to accomplish this task.

The first part was cleared out, and the existence of the identity has already limited this possibility!

Chen An rubbed his face, not wanting to talk about this topic anymore. "Why don't you continue sleeping? I still feel very sleepy. You really have no sense of public morality to wake me up so early in the morning!"

"You go to sleep. I'm going to exercise. I'm not like you. I have to stay in good shape if I want to continue looking for a job." Charlize Theron broke free from his arms.

Since I am an actress, I should seize the few years when I am young and beautiful to perform.

Actresses face much greater age pressure than actors, and there are countless examples of them retiring due to aging and fading looks!

The acting life cycle of male actors is much longer.

Charlize Theron packed up and went out, and Chen An went to take a nap!

After winning the Oscar, the film was screened in more theaters for a week, and more than a month after its release, it still grossed over 10 million US dollars a week!
Oscar, known as the little angel of the box office, lives up to his reputation!
The box office has now reached nearly 60 million US dollars!
Later, the sale of copyrights was also negotiated. Chen An sold the overseas distribution rights of "No Country for Old Men" to Warner for 40 million US dollars, and then sold the ten-year DVD copyright to Warner for 45 million US dollars!
The overseas distribution rights will be paid directly after the contract is signed, but the disc rights must be paid in two installments, with US$25 million paid first and the remaining copyright fees paid five years later!

After signing the contract, 1.5 million US dollars were directly deposited into the account, and Lightspeed Pictures already had more than million US dollars in its account!
This is even after the production funding for "Insidious" was given and "The Hangover" had already been filmed and completed!

Subsequent box office revenue has not been included yet!
Warner's Batman filming remuneration will be calculated separately.

Now Chen An is ready to go!
We must make preparations for the company's future distribution of small and medium-cost series. For large-scale A-level productions, the company will only bring the six major companies together and will not participate in the production individually!

Make small money by yourself, and make big money together!

Make many friends and make few enemies.

After all, I am a despicable outsider!
With Jerry's help, Chen An acquired a small and medium-sized publishing company that was about to go bankrupt for US$80 million!
This is Chen An’s largest expenditure in North America!
In the past, Pixiu only took in but never gave out!

Eighty million US dollars in one go!

Afterwards, the release of The Hangover was handed over to me!
Of course, it is only limited to the North American market. As for overseas distribution, we will naturally consider it after the movie is released. Only by showing the potential first can we get a higher price!

"Chen, I hope you can control yourself. I have reminded you more than once not to touch the global market."

After settling with the distribution company, Jerry put the ink on his eyes and gave his final advice.

Global distribution is the bottom line for the six major cities.

Chen An nodded and patted the other person's shoulder: "Don't worry, Jerry, I can control myself. Besides, I see that you are quite free recently. Can I find something for you to do?"

"What's the matter?" Jerry asked while driving. After signing the contract, Chen An only wanted to thank the other party and go out for dinner, letting the other party choose the location.

"I'll ask you to accompany me to Sony tomorrow." Chen An didn't say much but reminded the other party.

Jerry raised his eyebrows: "Chen, you are putting me in an unfair position. What do you want to do by letting a Warner employee like me go to Sony?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow!"

Sony Pictures is being taken advantage of by acquiring Columbia Pictures, which was worth more than 5 billion US dollars, for more than 9 billion US dollars!
Not only did they acquire it at a premium, but they also had to pay off all of Columbia's debts. It cost more than 9 billion US dollars to get it!

Fortunately, the parent company Sony has plenty of money!

Chen An brought Zhao Xiong and Jerry to the other party's luxurious and tall company headquarters.

After taking off his sunglasses, Chen An saw a familiar figure, "Hey, Fok, long time no see!"

Fok, with his elegant haircut like a Mediterranean, hurried over with a happy look on his face: "Hey, Chen Sony finally waited for your visit!"

"Huh?" Du Fuke, who was just smiling, glanced and saw Du Jerry, who was smiling next to him, and his face immediately darkened: "Jerry, why are you, a Warner man, following him to Sony?"

Jerry, however, smiled playfully: "Oh, dear Fok, I came here to care about you. You see, all your hair has fallen out, so I came here to comfort you!"

Fok's face darkened: "Without Chen, you wouldn't be much better!"

It's just luck that I met Chen. Just wait and see, Sony is rich and powerful and will poach him sooner or later!

Chen An stopped the two of them from confronting each other. If all three of them were not men, they would have felt like they had entered the women's channel.

"Fok, let's get down to business. I asked Jerry to come here just to have him serve as one of the producers and represent me."

When working with Sony, the other party will definitely send a producer.

Chen An wanted to hand it over to Jerry during the early stage of the crew preparations since he was not there. He could trust Jerry to do the job. The people in Sony Pictures were known to be full of evildoers, and who knew whether they would be able to complete the preparations for the crew!

Fok was a little confused. Isn't he from Warner?
But he didn't say much and took Chen An into the building.

Taking the elevator up to the upper floors, Fok led Chen An into a luxurious office.

A middle-aged man with an Asian appearance was sitting behind the desk, looking at Chen An and others with a kind face as they entered the venue!
Fok introduced Chen An: "Chen, this is Mr. Dongye, the vice president of Sony Pictures."

Chen An smiled and nodded, saying, "Hello, Mr. Dongye, you were the one I talked to before, right?"

Dong Ye nodded and stood up. With his left hand, he invited Chen An and others to sit on the sofa and said, "Mr. Chen, I discriminate against Wen De in Huiyi Point~"

Chen An was a little embarrassed and didn't quite understand. "Mr. Dongye, please use English. After all, we are in Hollywood."

"No problem." Dongye spoke much more fluently now.

"Chen, your script is tailor-made for Sony. Since you are here, it seems that you have agreed to all the conditions I gave you!" Dongye said directly without any hesitation.

The conditions had been negotiated before. Sony and Lightspeed each contributed 80 million US dollars. Sony was responsible for distribution, accounting for 55%, and Chen An accounted for 45%!

This is a treat from Sony!
Yes, this is preferential treatment. The distribution budget for this kind of A-level production accounts for more than one-third of the total production budget, and the other party promises to be optimistic about the script and will distribute it vigorously!
In the previous life, the distribution budget of this movie reached hundreds of millions of US dollars!

Chen An really couldn't afford it, so he could only choose the best conditions offered by Sony and Warner. Sony's offer was even better!
Because of the plot of the script, Sony was willing to offer such conditions, and Chen An couldn't refuse!
(End of this chapter)