Chapter 96: million copyright fee
The Southeast Asian market covered by Hong Kong films does not refer to the 11 countries in Southeast Asia, but also includes East Asian markets such as Green Island, Southern Dynasty, and Guizi.
The Vietnamese monkeys have not yet emerged from the quagmire of war. Although the battle with us has stopped, they are still constantly attacking Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. The film markets of these four countries are basically hopeless. Green Island has been abandoned by Wang Yaowei due to censorship issues.
The lack of these five countries and regions seriously affected the copyright transaction. Even so, Wang Yaowei still sold the copyright fee (including the video tape copyright) for 6000 million.
If it weren't for this red carpet show, 50 million would be good.
Pay hundreds of millions in copyright fees?
Liu Hongmin had overthought it before.
Wang Yaowei was overthinking it. They all overestimated the quality of "Shaolin Soccer".
"Shaolin's Kid" is indeed good, and even opened up the genre of martial arts comedy with child stars. However, compared with adult stars, child stars obviously lack appeal and are the kind that you can watch or not watch.
But the celebration party still has to be held. After all, earning 10 million with just a few hundred thousand is something worth celebrating.
With the participation of representatives from the theaters, the celebration banquet became much more lively. When they heard that Liu Hongmin was the author of Shao Bao, they immediately surrounded him.
It turned out that they had all watched Shao Bao's TV series, and now that they had met the original author, they all came to chase his idol.
Lan Jieying accompanied Liu Hongmin throughout the reception. Seeing Liu Hongmin so popular, she couldn't help feeling happy.
Originally, Liu Hongmin didn't know how to deal with these people, but when the theater representatives asked him about his thoughts when he created Shao Bao, Liu Hongmin immediately became eloquent and talked nonstop.
Liu Hongmin drank as he talked, and by the end of the dinner, he was already drunk and walking a little crookedly. Fortunately, Lan Jieying was there to support him, so he didn't make a fool of himself.
Wang Yaowei booked a room at the Peninsula Hotel in advance, and Zou Shifang and Lan Jieying sent Liu Hongmin back to the room.
After helping Liu Hongmin take off his coat and putting him on the bed, Zou Shifang asked, "Aying, please help take care of him. I'll go downstairs and send him off and come back."
Lan Jieying nodded, "Okay, Brother Fang, you go ahead and do your work."
Zou Shifang hurried downstairs and sent all the theater representatives away with Wang Yaowei.
When he returned upstairs, he could not knock on the door. He vaguely heard the sound of water inside, which should be Lan Jieying taking a shower. He thought he would come back later, so he booked a room for himself. As a result, he lay on the bed and fell asleep.
Lan Jieying was indeed taking a shower, but when she was halfway through, Liu Hongmin barged in. It turned out that she had not locked the bathroom door just now because she was afraid that Liu Hongmin would get into an accident.
Liu Hongmin was unbuttoning his hands in a daze, when he suddenly realized that the faucet was on, and he pulled open the shower curtain.
In this way, both of them saw each other without reservation. After a while, Liu Hongmin came to his senses first and slowly closed the shower curtain with reluctance.
He quickly relieved himself, "Sorry, I didn't know you were in there."
Just when Liu Hongmin wanted to go out, a hand pulled open the shower curtain and pulled Liu Hongmin in.
Before Liu Hongmin could figure out what was going on, he was hugged...
The next morning, Liu Hongmin woke up from his sleep and felt something pressing on his chest. He lifted the quilt and saw a crystal arm, which scared him.
"What's wrong?" Lan Jieying opened her eyes in a daze, and saw Liu Hongmin looking at her in surprise, feeling a little shy.
Liu Hongmin tried hard to recall what happened yesterday. It seemed that he had some memories, but he also felt that he remembered nothing.
Shit! How did I lose my memory after drinking so much?
"What's wrong with you?" Lan Jieying propped himself up and looked at him in confusion.
Liu Hongmin couldn't hold back his excitement and turned over to press her under him, and was immediately overwhelmed by the waves.
Zou Shifang woke up in the morning, took a shower and prepared to call Liu Hongmin. As he went upstairs, he saw a waiter in the elevator holding a set of women's clothes.
When they got upstairs, the waiter politely let him go first. Zou Shifang got into the elevator first, and the waiter followed him.
This made Zou Shifang feel a little strange. When he arrived at Liu Hongmin's door, he was about to raise his hand to open the door when the waiter stopped. "Are you delivering clothes to this room?"
The waiter smiled and nodded, "Yes, sir."
Zou Shifang was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that he asked Lan Jieying to take care of Liu Hongmin yesterday. Unexpectedly, Lan Jieying did not go home last night and took care of Liu Hongmin all night.
The waiter asked, "Sir, are you also looking for this room?"
"Yes, my boss is in here."
The waiter gently reminded: "Then sir, you'd better wait a while before coming back. The lady inside may need to change clothes."
Zou Shifang suddenly realized, "You are right, I will come back later."
The waiter waited until Zou Shifang left before ringing the doorbell.
Liu Hongmin opened the door and took the clothes when he heard the waiter say, "Sir, your friend will come to see you in a while."
"Thank you!"
Liu Hongmin sent the waiter away, closed the door, and quickly walked back to the room.
"Hurry up and change your clothes. Old Zou will be here soon."
When Lan Jieying heard this, he also became flustered, as if he was a mistress who wanted to avoid the original wife.
Liu Hongmin was stunned for a moment, "It's not that urgent..."
Lan Jieying did not slow down, "If Brother Fang knew I was here, he would definitely think too much."
"What does he have in mind?" Liu Hongmin stared at her and said, "Or do you not want to be with me?"
When Lan Jieying heard this, he immediately rushed over to protect Liu Hongmin, "Of course I am willing."
"That's fine. You're the boss' wife now. Are you afraid of a worker like him?"
Lan Jieying couldn't help laughing, "Yeah!"
The reason why she didn't want Zou Shifang to know about their relationship was actually because she lacked a sense of security. After all, Liu Hongmin's roots were in the mainland and he was not planning to develop in Hong Kong, so he couldn't give her a sense of security.
But after hearing what Liu Hongmin said, she decided to date Liu Hongmin temporarily and see how the situation develops.
Liu Hongmin didn't think too much about it. He just thought that since both of them were like this, it was important to give her a status.
When the two of them had almost finished packing, Zou Shifang came over again. When he walked out, he saw the two of them holding hands, and Zou Shifang's face suddenly became bright.
You boy, you told me to keep myself clean, but you ended up playing around like that!
But who made Liu Hongmin single?
He could only envy her in his heart, and then decided to let his wife dress up after she arrived in Hong Kong. Our wife is not ugly, she will definitely be a great beauty after dressing up.
While at the hotel, he ordered Wang Yaowei and Xu Xiaoming to go to the company for a meeting.
After Xu Xiaoming arrived at the company, Liu Hongmin took the three giants to the conference room.
"Brother Wang, when can the money from the Southeast Asian cinemas be transferred to me?"
Wang Yaowei thought for a moment and said, "I will urge them. All the money will be in their account within a month at most."
Liu Hongmin said: "When the accounts are almost settled, we will take out two million Hong Kong dollars to give bonuses to the main creators of the crew and the company employees. You discuss the bonus ratio and then notify me."
"Okay, boss."
(End of this chapter)
