"$958 million? No, the movies under Miramax are not worth the price. If you add Pixar Animation Studio's works, it's almost the same. I can accept this price."

At this moment, Luo Sheng's voice sounded in a conference room at Blue Star Technology headquarters, and sitting opposite him was the head of Disney's negotiator, named Palok.

What is underway is that Bluestar Technology and Disney are negotiating to introduce video playback copyrights to obtain digital copyrights, thereby introducing long video content to the bv video website.

It can be said that this is after several years of secret stalemate between Blue Star Technology and Hollywood, and in the end, the film company could not withstand the big wave of streaming media platforms and came to the door to discuss.

Disney has several film companies, one of which Miramax has produced movies including "The Psychedelic Train" and "The Old Nowhere to Belong".

The negotiations involved copyrights for more than 700 movies, while Disney sold for $958 million.

"Ok, Mr. Luo, do you think this price is unreasonable, so how much do you think?" Palok asked back.

"500 million US dollars." Luo Sheng stretched out his big hand and said calmly.

Hearing him report this number, Palok immediately cursed, but he still acted very gentlemanly, shook his head straight and said, "No, this price is too unreasonable, there is no difference between selling it at a low price. Mr. Luo, Miramax has a large amount of high-quality content, and Flix is ​​also very interested in Miramax's movies and is interested in getting the exclusive digital copyright."

Luo Sheng laughed softly when he heard this, and then looked at Palok and said bluntly: "Don't let Flix come out and suppress me. Exclusively in the Internet industry is not popular. If Disney wants to sell Miramax's digital copyright to Flix exclusively, at most I will go to Flix to ask for a second-level authorization at that time. To be honest, our people are also negotiating with Flix people, hoping to exchange video library resources with each other."

Strictly speaking, there is also a certain competitive relationship between the bv video website and flix, but the models of the two parties are still very different. They have not touched each other's core territory, and naturally there is no life-and-death conflict, at least not for a long time, and now there will be no such conflict.

Luo Sheng doesn't want to enter the core territory of flix, and flix is ​​the same. Both sides do not have the core genes of each other, but they still have a place to cooperate.

Because the content demand is very expensive, this is true for Flix and BV video websites.

Looking at Disney's eating behavior, the price is about 1 billion US dollars.

The entertainment industry is profitable, and it is not wrong at all. Once the movie giant accumulates the film library, the profits will soar and get all kinds of licensing fees.

Even if the digital copyright of Miramax's more than 700 movies is reduced, it will cost 400 million US dollars or 500 million US dollars. Homemade online dramas or movies are often hundreds of millions of dollars, and even tens of millions of dollars is not a small amount. It would be fine if I could make a profit. If I lose, I would lose the rhythm of my grandma's family.

This is just content expenditure, but in fact, the combined operating costs of bandwidth expenditure, human resources, etc. are a terrifying consumption.

Online video business, I really can't afford to burn without strong financial resources.

Whether it is Flix or BV video network, this kind of large-scale money burning is very painful, let alone other petty bourgeoisie.

The two sides talked for a long time, and after constant bargaining, they finally reached a consensus on the price of US$660 million.

On the afternoon of the third day, Luo Sheng and Disney's representative director Palok officially signed the film rental service cooperation agreement, with a contract amount of US$660 million. The content is a 15-year lease contract for 729 movies under Miramax, including "The Old Nowhere to Belong" and "The Psychedelic Train".

All of them are old movies. If they are just released, especially movies with big box office hits, the rental amount of a movie may be as high as tens of millions of dollars or even tens of millions of dollars.

After obtaining the digital copyright of these hundreds of movies, you can watch these complete movie content normally on the BV video website. Consumers can rent movies for $2.99 ​​to $3.99, and the general lease period is 24 hours or 4 hours.

However, Luo Sheng did not expect to recoup the 660 million US dollars of licensing cost by renting these movies to consumers, because it is impossible!

These are old movies. Even if you give thirty years, it is impossible to recover the huge licensing cost of $660 million by giving it thirty years. The reason why you spend this money is to recharge inventory!

The purpose of replenishing inventory is only one - user experience.

Whether users can watch it or not, it is not the point.

The key point is that when a user searches for a movie name on a bv video, and when he just wants to watch it, the website must be able to provide services.

This is very important. Good user experience and rich content are the foundation. As long as the user stays on the bv video network, he will always bring value to the website from other places. The longer the time, the higher the commercial value it brings.

It is far from enough to win the digital copyright of more than 700 movies. Ten times are not enough, and more must be needed.

No need to think that it is impossible to build a huge content ecological foundation without billions of dollars. Luo Sheng will not be stingy with money.

After the contract was signed, this fact was announced to the public on the same day.

In the next week, the style of painting completely changed. Other film companies couldn't sit still when they saw Disney happily taking $660 million away from Blue Star Technology Group.

The second company soon came to talk about the digital copyright lease contract for movies. This company is currently the most successful independent film production company in the world - Lionsgate Pictures.

In the end, Bluestar Technology Group signed a digital copyright lease agreement with Lionsgate Pictures for 257 million US dollars, which is also a 15-year period.

When the news broke, other film companies finally couldn't sit still, including other five Hollywood movie giants.

Damn, go and make money quickly!

Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Viacom, also came uninvited.

There is no way, if you don’t win a lawsuit, your combat effectiveness against the pharmacy team is not much weaker than Disney. It’s not easy to mess with, so let’s make friends with the rich.

...

On the morning of March 28, at the media conference at the headquarters of Blue Star Technology Group, under the camera of many media, the reporters present captured the moment when Luo Sheng shook hands with the vice president of Paramount.

After the handshake, take a photo again.

Today, Bluestar Technology Group and Paramount officially signed a $700 million cooperation agreement, which will provide online rental services for nearly 500 Paramount movies including "Hugo" and "The Godfather".

Compared with the contract of Miramax, a subsidiary of Denis, the film has been reduced by more than 200 movies, but the contract fee has increased by 40 million US dollars.

This result is of course the quality and influence of the movie content. It is obvious that the 500 films under Paramount Pictures are more valuable.

The media reporters who arrived at the scene were very curious about why the two companies had been in court for a year or two, so why the differences could be shelved and the terms and conditions of the agreement were not disclosed further, so the media could only guess.

Range, what's the point of guessing about this? Paramount Pictures saw that the company took away hundreds of millions of dollars in banknotes from Luo Sheng.

I'm so jealous!

Everyone is making money, so if you don’t get it quickly, Bluestar Technology will not buy it at that time, and you will be unable to find the ground even if you cry.

Nothing can match the money in your face.

What's more, the ultimate goal of the previous lawsuit was not to make a fortune?

At the media conference at this moment, Luo Sheng picked up the microphone again and smiled at a media outlet: "We have been talking about various matters with the film company. Paramount is still a valuable partner of BV Video Network. After we decided to launch the movie rental business, we will continue to increase the number of digital movies for BV Video Network."

"We have signed film rental agreements with five of the six major film companies, as well as more than a dozen independent production companies including Lionsgate, to enable them to use nearly 13,580 films, and now there are thousands of movies available for consumers to rent on the BV video website. Apart from that, we do not comment on rumors or speculation."

The non-party at the scene was also filled with emotion when Luo Sheng and Paramount’s vice president were having fun chatting and laughing.

Last year, the lawsuit between the two sides in court was so intense, giving outsiders the feeling that it was incompatible. In the blink of an eye, the style suddenly changed, which made the outside world not react.

The mall does not have eternal enemies, nor eternal friends, but only eternal interests.

...

(ps: Face is not as good as money, rolling around on the ground to beg for money~~)
Chapter completed!