America's Road to Fame

Chapter 174 Accept the punishment

Among the superhero copyrights sold by Marvel to other companies, Spider-Man is the most well-known one. Through the "Spider-Man" trilogy, Sony Pictures has also gained a good box office. Their own copyrights for Spider-Man It is very optimistic, so in William Chen's view, it may not be easy to negotiate with Sony Pictures to take back the copyright of Spider-Man. It is better to go directly to their parent company Sony.

Now it is the subprime mortgage crisis, and the situation of Sony is also not very good. Last year, Sony suffered a large loss. Therefore, according to the investigation of Goldman Sachs, Sony intends to sell some assets to tide over the difficulties.

In recent years, although Sony Pictures has obtained a good box office through the "Spider-Man" series, there are not many other good works. Therefore, it has been losing money for seven consecutive years so far.

Although Chen William is not planning to acquire Sony Pictures, he can still try to spend money from Sony to recover the copyright of the Spider-Man series.

Sure enough, Sun Zhengyi said:

"I have a good relationship with Mr. Howard, the CEO of Sony Corporation. If necessary, I will help you contact him."

The current president of Sony Corporation is Howard Stringer, who is also the first foreign chairman of Sony, but what is interesting is that it was he who took charge of Sony America in 1999, making the predecessor of Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures Industry, bought the copyright of Marvel's Spider-Man series.

But now that he has become the chairman and CEO of Sony, William Chen doesn't know if he can buy back the copyright of the Spider-Man series from him.

It's just that Sony's situation is getting worse after the subprime mortgage crisis, so Howard Stringer also needs to improve the company's performance, otherwise the position will be difficult to secure, so the possibility of buying back the copyright of the Spider-Man series at this time is not small, and he can also buy it. Say, now is the best time to buy back those rights.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Sun, and I hope you can contact me as soon as possible. I hope to meet Mr. Howard Stringer before leaving Japan."

So after this meeting with Sun Zhengyi is over, the next step is to wait for his reply.

After returning to Nozomi Sasaki's house, Nozomi Sasaki went to the kitchen to cook for him herself. William Chen watched her wearing an apron and working seriously.

"I see that you are quite proficient in your movements. It seems that you often do them in normal times."

"Sometimes I don't have time when I'm busy, but I have a lot of free time recently. I've learned Chinese food. You'll have a taste of it later."

Nozomi Sasaki said to William Chen cutely.

William Chen hugged her from behind and said to her:

"Do you like living here, Kiko?"

"It's good. It's more convenient to live here and the environment is better."

"Then I'll buy a house here."

"buy house?"

Nozomi Sasaki looked at Chen William with some puzzlement.

"Yes, I will come to Tokyo occasionally in the future to buy a house. Usually you live in it. After I come, I don't need to stay in a hotel. Just come and live directly. It's very convenient."

"Then this house is not bad."

"That's different. This is rented by the club for you. It feels different from buying your own house. And now that the housing prices in Tokyo have dropped a lot, it happens to be a good time to buy a house."

Nozomi Sasaki knew that William Chen was very rich. After all, she usually followed his news, so she didn't say anything when she heard this:

"It's fine if you think it's good, I'll listen to you, William, and I'll help you take care of the house when the time comes."

"My Xizi is really virtuous." William Chen kissed Nozomi Sasaki on the cheek and said to her, "Then I'll wait and ask if there are any bigger houses here."

"I think it's pretty good that it's so big. It's too big. It's weird for me to live by myself, and it's troublesome to clean up."

Since Nozomi Sasaki said so, William Chen doesn't have to buy a big house. After all, he doesn't have much time in Tokyo. If he wants to be bigger, then he will let her go to the United States to accompany him often in the future.

So after deciding on this, William Chen contacted the sales company of this apartment.

Nozomi Sasaki said before that the house price of this apartment is about 800 million yen per square meter, but that was before the subprime mortgage crisis. Affected by the subprime mortgage crisis, the house price here has fallen by more than 3%, so The current house price is 550 million yen per square meter, and the apartment of Sasaki Nozomi is purchased at around 650 million U.S. dollars.

For Chen Weilian, the money was just a matter of one sentence, so the employees of the sales company came over soon and started to go through the formalities with him.

William Chen directly asked Nozomi Sasaki to follow up the procedure of buying the house, and he was responsible for the payment, so he bought the apartment under the name of Nozomi Sasaki.

"This apartment is too expensive, William, I..."

Knowing that William Chen wanted to buy this apartment in his own name, Nozomi Sasaki said hesitantly with a look of surprise on his face.

"That's it, Xizi, it's more convenient to use your name. You are my woman, so don't make it so clear."

Although Nozomi Sasaki was with William Chen, he liked him more and didn't care much about his money.But Chen Weilian's treatment of her now still moved her very much.

It's just that when the employees of the sales company left, William Chen's face immediately changed:
"By the way, Kiko, I remembered something."

Seeing William Chen's serious look, Nozomi Sasaki asked a little nervously:

"What's the matter? William."

"It seems that what you promised me has not been done."

"what?"

"You forgot, I told you that the credit card I gave you should cost at least 10 US dollars a month. But I found that you haven't spent enough for two months. Do you want to punish me? you?"

"But I often can't think of what else to buy."

Hearing this, Sasaki Nozomi said helplessly.

"Is there still money that can't be spent? You can learn how to spend money from those senior female artists, buy more high-end clothes, go for more beauty treatments, and use the best cosmetics. Isn’t the money easy to spend?”

"I was wrong, dear, I will try my best in the future."

William Chen is quite satisfied with Nozomi Sasaki's attitude, but rules are rules, and they should be punished!

So Nozomi Sasaki felt that the punishment of overwhelming shame was inevitable...

……

Sun Zhengyi didn't make William Chen wait too long. The next day, he called William Chen and had already made an appointment with Howard Stringer from Sony, so that he could go directly to see him today.

The headquarters of Sony Corporation is in Minato-ku, Tokyo, not far away. After William Chen arrived this time, he directly met Howard Stringer, the chairman of Sony Corporation.

At this time, Howard was 68 years old and looked very gentle with glasses.

After knowing William Chen's intentions, he said very directly: "Mr. William, I know you are the boss of Marvel, but you must know that the copyright of Spider-Man is very important to Sony Pictures, and we will not give up. It does, and we already have plans for a sequel."

"Everything has a price, doesn't it, Mr. Howard. I know that Sony's recent situation is not good, and Sony Pictures has been losing money for these years. It can get a sum of money to stabilize Sony. It is the best choice for you and Sony to get through this crisis. Besides, don't you want to hear the price I offer first?"

"Oh? But Spider-Man is not for sale to us..."

"5 million... US dollars, I just need to take back the film and television copyright of Spider-Man. I know that you were the one who bought the copyright of Spider-Man ten years ago. At that time, it only cost 2000 million US dollars. Now I can sell the copyright at this price , and the previous three "Spider-Man" movies also contributed a lot of profits to the company. In this way, you have already made a very large contribution to Sony, isn't it? Besides, I'm afraid the previous three movies "Spiderman", the total income you can get will not exceed this figure, Mr. Howard, now you can get this very important fund for Sony without any effort, I think this is a very good choice .”

(End of this chapter)