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After several months of negotiations, Warner Pictures finally reached an agreement with Charlotte's Ghost Party Studios on the film and television rights of the "Harry Potter" series——

The two jointly injected capital and established a joint venture company called "Hogwarts" for the development of the "Harry Potter" series of films and related peripheral copyrights.

Among them, Warner injected real money and its strong distribution, promotion and publicity capabilities, occupying 75% of the shares;

On Charlotte's side, what injected into the new company is the film and television copyright of the already released "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and the priority of the adaptation of the subsequent series.

In addition, the various shooting materials prepared by the Ghost Studio for the "Harry Potter" series, including various special effects modeling and the "Hogwarts" castle, are also included in the new "Hogwarts" company.

At the same time, the Ghost Party Studio also got the work of producing post-production special effects for the follow-up "Harry Potter" series, and even for the entire follow-up series, some of the people in charge came from the Ghost Party Studio.

Of course, since there is already a joint venture company, the Ghost Party Studio no longer charges a separate fee for special effects for the "Harry Potter" series.

Their profit is the share of the joint venture company.

The Charlotte side, or the Ghost Party Studio, will occupy 17% of the joint venture.

Not much, but not too few—especially considering the possible future prospects of the Harry Potter series.

As for the remaining 8%, 1.5% of them belong to the original author J·K·Rowling.

——After all, the other party is the original author and is responsible for the screenwriting of the entire series.

Even though Warner and Charlotte are both black-hearted capitalists, they will not leave the chickens who lay golden eggs.

——This part of the shares is to allow Rowling to play the most subjective initiative, but also to avoid some follow-up troubles.

Of course, in the case of share sharing, the royalties given to Rowling will also be reduced accordingly.

This can somewhat reduce the financial burden on Warner.

——Even if Warner has money, he can have a big family and there are many places to spend money!

It doesn't hurt to save some money.

As for the remaining 6.5%, it will be claimed by some related friendly partners.

Of course, the other party needs to invest real money.

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In fact, at first, Charlotte was hesitant to cooperate with Warner to establish a joint venture company "Hogwarts" to jointly develop the "Harry Potter" series.

After all, he understands the various methods used by the controlling party to dilute the equity and squeeze out the minority shareholders——

The conditions that look good now can be drastically reduced as long as Warner makes a few pushes.

However, after careful consideration, he decided to accept this challenge.

Because he also has the means to check and balance Warner.

——Even if Charlotte does not direct it himself, the Ghost Party Studio will eventually go deep into the production of the entire "Harry Potter" series and follow through.

For both Charlotte and Warner, the original author Rowling is the chicken that lays the golden eggs;

But for Warner, in fact, Charlotte's Ghost Party studio is also a chicken that lays golden eggs;

As long as it promises to replace one's own side, Warner will pay a great price, and Charlotte believes that the other side will not be foolish.

Of course, there must be long-term benefits, but Charlotte will not give up immediate benefits because of this.

——The purpose of his initial acquisition of the right to adapt the "Harry Potter" series was to make a quick profit by turning hands.

Although stocks have become shareholders now, Charlotte feels that quick money can still be made on her own.

After all, in order to ensure its own dominance, Warner, to some extent, lowered the share of the Ghost Party Studios in the joint venture.

Charlotte’s request is that Warner wants to have the dominant power, but the proportion of its own shares that has been compressed needs to be converted into cash by the other party.

In this part, Charlotte was 50 million US dollars at the time, almost three-quarters of the production cost of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

And considering that this movie has already won more than 900 million U.S. dollars in box office around the world, and is about to break through the 1 billion U.S. dollar mark, Charlotte can be said to have made a lot of money from this series.

——Now the 50 million US dollars, if you get it, it can be said to be a net profit.

Of course, people are asking for prices and paying back on the ground.

Although Warner does have money and has the name "Kaizihua", they still have the ability to bargain.

However, they don't want to give less money, on the contrary, they are also prepared to give 30 million dollars more.

But the conditions are true. By the way, the subsequent development rights of the "Hell Detective" series will be completely redeemed from Charlotte.

——Because they were not optimistic about this series before, Warner and DC agreed to jointly develop the "Hell Detective" series with Charlotte, including the subsequent sequel.

But after Keanu Reeves's "Hell Detective" hit the box office, the top executives of Warner and DC have long regretted their intestines.

They have always wanted to redeem this series, at least redeem the complete follow-up development rights, but Charlotte has never agreed.

And this time, with the opportunity of cooperating with the Ghost Party Studios in the "Harry Potter" series, they wanted to solve the problem in a package.

This time ~www.readwn.com~Charlotte agreed.

However, he only agreed to sell back the development rights of the "Hell Detective" follow-up series, so that Warner can develop a food on its own.

However, he still did not let go of the related copyright revenue of the completed "Detective of Hell".

In the end, Warner compromised.

The other party agreed to the $80 million transaction.

However, Warner hopes to only pay part of the funds, and the rest will be converted into shares of Warner Pictures.

——On the one hand, it is to reduce the pressure on liquidity, on the other hand, it is Warner's move to win over Charlotte, the emerging director.

——After all, you are all shareholders of Warner. Will the movies that you make in the future be distributed...

In short, "Kai Zihua" is often very cunning.

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Charlotte finally agreed with this opinion.

On the one hand, being able to become a shareholder of Warner will also increase the voice of his son, Hollywood.

After all, before Disney completely acquired Marvel Pictures, Warner occupied the top spot among the top seven in Hollywood for a long time.

Strengthening cooperation with Warner is also good for Charlotte. It is actually a win-win situation.

What's more, he really doesn't need too much cash lying in his account.

——Because of U.S. tax policy, those cash that cannot be spent for a while will only contribute to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

In fact, how to spend money effectively, or at least pretend that you have spent it, is one of the necessary accomplishments for being a rich man in the United States.

And Charlotte, you don’t need to pretend—

He does have some investment and consumption plans. After receiving the final payment of more than 30 million U.S. dollars in cash from Warner, he will start immediately ——

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