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    To be honest, Li Mingbao took advantage of John this time.  Even though "Home Alone" originally demanded 40% of 20th Century Fox's interests, I feel that "A Better Man" wanted 30% of the profits.  In fact, that¡¯s not the case at all.  One of the reasons why "Home Alone" can command 40% of the profit is that the movie is really good. In addition, the movie is produced locally in Hollywood. The star directors and behind-the-scenes directors are all Hollywood's own people. Li Mingbao just  He's a producer.  ¡°As long as we don¡¯t tell anyone, no one will know whether Li Mingbao is of Chinese descent or where he comes from, which will not increase the difficulty of promoting this movie.  In addition, when Li Mingbao was negotiating, he also negotiated the rights to the film, and 20th Century Fox really needed such a movie to enrich 20th Century Fox's film library.  There are many reasons why Li Mingbao can get 40% of the benefits.  But this is not the case with "A Better Tomorrow". First of all, this movie was not shot in Hollywood. There would be a lot of trouble in just promoting it. Otherwise, Li Mingbao would have handed over the movie to his DreamWorks company in the United States for distribution.  .  ¡°After all, DreamWorks has released some movies now and has relationships with theaters.  Why didn't Lee Ming-pao distribute this film to DreamWorks? It was because it was difficult to distribute such a purely Hong Kong film. Only giants like 20th Century Fox would not care and could still get better quality films.  There is also a screen for movie screenings.  If DreamWorks were to handle it, it would definitely not be as safe as 20th Century Fox.  Generally speaking, a purely Hong Kong movie will not get a very good profit sharing treatment in Hollywood. Boss Zou can confirm that the best treatment he can get here is less than 100%.  twenty.  When Boss Zou broke into Hollywood, Li Mingbao was still a child.  When it comes to relationships, there is no comparison between Li Mingbao and Boss Zou.  But with Boss Zou¡¯s relationship, he is still only being squeezed in Hollywood.  Li Mingbao can get 30% of the profit from John, which is definitely a big gain.  ¡°It was because he knew the market that Li Mingbao threw out nonsense about friendship. In fact, it was just to shut up John¡¯s mouth.  But for such nonsense, Li Mingbao himself didn't know whether John could sell this face.  ¡°After all, when Americans negotiate, they really don¡¯t care about friendship.  But he didn't expect that John would actually give him face and agree to 30% of Li Mingbao's request.  Of course, Li Mingbao also knew that this was not the actual effect of the so-called friendship between him and John.  Rather, John is optimistic about his growth and uses his current interests to exchange for greater interests in the future.  For an old fox like John, if there is no profit factor, friendship can be thrown away at any time. This is like moral integrity, which seems to be very important.  But at some point, it¡¯s time to throw it away. It doesn¡¯t matter whether you want it or not.  Of course, there may be a deeper reason, that is, John is not too optimistic about the prospects of this movie.  After all, this is a Hong Kong movie. Although the filming methods and content are surprising, foreign movies are foreign movies after all. Whether it can satisfy the audience is still unknown. ?????????? If a movie like "Home Alone" can meet the prospect at once, not to mention that a face is worth 10% of the profits, even if Li Mingbao dances in front of John, it will be useless, 1% John will not give up.  As for "A Better Tomorrow", who knows what kind of situation will be encountered when releasing this movie. It is not necessarily a small loss. The profit of 30% may seem exaggerated, but in fact it is nothing. It is better to deepen the relationship with Li Mingbao.  friendship between.  After all, if Li Mingbao¡¯s vision can really be realized, John, who first cooperated with Li Mingbao, will definitely be able to get a suitable share.  John never thought that he could obtain such huge benefits alone.  Because that is unrealistic, and taking the lead is just for share.  Even John understands better that if such a thing is done, Li Mingbao may not be able to cover the sky with one hand. After all, the interests involved are not something that a newcomer like Li Mingbao can take. At most, as the initiator, Li Mingbao will take the lead.  status, it depends on whether Li Mingbao's subsequent strength can control such a situation.  Having obtained 30% of the profits, Li Mingbao¡¯s action this time was considered perfect.  He believes that with the distribution capabilities of 20th Century Fox, his film may have a more satisfactory harvest.  It¡¯s hard to imagine that the North American box office will exceed 100 million, but tens of millions of dollars is possible.  With a box office of 10 million, Li Mingbao can get 3 million, 20 million, which is 6 million, and 30 million, Li Mingbao can get 9 million.  This is U.S. dollars. If nine million U.S. dollars are converted into Hong Kong dollars, that is more than 70 million. In the face of this money, the local box office share?It's just trivial.  Of course, Li Mingbao is not sure whether it can have such a box office.  But when Li Mingbao was discussing the release of the movie with John, he was still busy with another thing, which was applying for a patent.  As early as when Li Mingbao thought of selling movie tickets over the phone in Hong Kong, he thought of an industry that would become popular all over the world in the future, TV shopping.  This thing is definitely a big killer. If it is just for pre-selling movie tickets, it is really a waste of resources.  So before he even pitched the idea, Li Mingbao started applying for patents around the world.  As a new thing, without Li Mingbao's vision of time travel, this thing would not make people feel much.  But as long as Li Mingbao thinks of the heart-wrenching disgusting advertisements like "Just 998, Just 998, Thousand Foot Platinum Take Home", Li Mingbao will know how crazy this thing is.  Li Mingbao gets excited when he thinks that all the TV shopping channels spreading around the world will have to pay royalties to himself.  So when he thought of this thing, Li Mingbao made a detailed plan and asked lawyers to fill the legal loopholes in the patent. After everything was ready, Li Mingbao began to apply for TV shopping and TV shopping peripheral patents around the world.  Although Li Mingbao doesn¡¯t have many people who can complete the task, Li Mingbao does have money. In these days, many things can be bought with money, including the integrity of lawyers.  So when Li Mingbao spent a lot of money, global patent applications became very easy, but it just took time.  Fortunately, Li Mingbao attaches great importance to the United States, so when applying for a patent in Hong Kong, he also applied for a patent in the United States.  With plenty of money to spend, Li Mingbao's patent application was quickly approved.  Not long after Li Mingbao obtained his patent, he heard his lawyer say that a TV station in Florida was doing this thing. Although it was just a prototype, it also involved TV shopping content.  So, this poor TV station broke the law.  This TV station was originally the first TV station to use TV shopping, but at that time, this TV station did not think there was anything wrong with using TV for shopping. As for patents, there was no need to think about it.  Although Americans have always attached great importance to patents, they are actually experimenting with using TVs to buy and sell products. Patents are still far away from them, and they have only just done it, and they don¡¯t know what it means.  But unfortunately, Li Mingbao understood the prospects of this thing earlier than they did, so he applied for a patent.  Even when the patent is still being applied for, this TV station cannot use TV shopping content. It has to wait for the patent to be applied for.  Not to mention that now that Li Mingbao has obtained the patent, if they still want to do this, they are just looking for death.  After learning the specific situation, Li Mingbao's legal team in the United States was as excited as chicken blood, because as long as they take this TV station to court, no matter how good the lawyers hired there are, they will only fail in the face of patents.  share.  Poor originality has no place in front of an evil guy like Li Mingbao.  So when Li Mingbao's lawyer's letter was sent to the TV station, their boss turned green.  Isn't it just to sell something on TV? Why does it violate someone else's patent?  But the accompanying patent information showed that their TV station had indeed violated the patent, so the boss there could only wait for Li Mingbao's verdict with a mentality of a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.  Fortunately, Li Mingbao doesn¡¯t want to make the matter too big. If this patent becomes a stink, how can he still make money?  That's why Li Mingbao told the boss there that he could use the patent as long as he paid the patent fee.  Let the boss, who was almost scared to death, sing Hallelujah every day for a period of time.  Of course, Li Mingbao was still in Hong Kong at that time, so he did not receive sincere thanks from the TV boss.  But now that Li Mingbao has come to the United States, he entrusted his team of lawyers to let the TV station publicize the concept of TV shopping with great fanfare, and also attached a complete set of detailed rules for the development of TV shopping.  For TV shopping, which is still trying to cross the river by feeling its stones, this is tantamount to the status of the Bible in the minds of believers.  Within a week after finishing the distribution of the movie "A Better Tomorrow", Li Mingbao used a team of professional lawyers hired from American Express to start the public relations TV shopping business.  If a new business does not have publicity, its development will definitely slow down.  But since Li Mingbao holds such a patent, he naturally cannot let the patent lie in his safe and become moldy. One day wasted means one day less patent fees. In such a big market, one day less patent fees is a huge amount.  .  So a professional team of lawyers immediately turned into a sales team. Not only did they need to develop North AmericaIn order to expand the market, we also need to open up the European market and even the global market.  Let the whole world tremble under the power of TV shopping.  Li Mingbao is wondering whether those heart-wrenching TV shopping hosts¡¯ bloody speeches will appear in Hong Kong in a year¡¯s time.
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