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Chapter 47 Finally here
Although I haven't seen the schedule yet, according to Zhang Chen's requirements for his team to accept announcements, they should be promoting the album, and then developing the "Harry Potter" series.

Some time ago, Zhang Chen had received a message from Rowling, saying that Time Warner had found her and wanted to develop the Harry Potter series of movies. However, since the copyright had been acquired by Zhang Chen, Time Warner wanted to have a face-to-face meeting with Zhang Chen.

This is also something Zhang Chen needs to deal with after attending the Grammy Awards.

If the Harry Potter movie is to be released in 01, then according to Rowling's personality, she would need to start casting this year, shoot and produce in 00, and finally release it in 01.

Zhang Chen had also made sufficient preparations for this interview. In addition to Yin Zilan and Xue Yining, two people from his original team who had been following him for a long time, he also brought five security guards and a large legal team that was familiar with the laws of overseas countries.

You have to know that what Rowling sold to Zhang Chen at that time were all the copyrights except the publishing copyrights, not the film copyrights that Warner bought after the "Harry Potter" series became popular, and the peripheral copyrights that were bought later.

In the previous life, Warner only noticed the "Harry Potter" series in 99, but at that time Rowling had already sold the books to various countries in the world, including the United States. So when Warner went to negotiate the copyright, it passively accepted many conditions, and the control was also in Rowling's hands.

However, Zhang Chen found Rowling in 97 when she had just written the book, and obtained all the licenses for a series of money-making products including movies, games, and peripherals.

It can be said to be the difference between "venture capital" and "IPO financing". The former is to invest in a project when the future situation is unclear, while the latter is to accept other people's investment in order to make more money even though the prospects are bright.

There is an essential difference between the two.

Therefore, this popular IP in this life will not be like in the past, where many copyrights were scattered among various companies.

However, it is very difficult for Zhang Chen to fully develop this IP, as many industries are involved. Therefore, Zhang Chen needs to make a choice between cooperating with others to develop it or developing it on his own.

The value of this IP developed in the previous life was close to 300 billion US dollars. I wonder how much it can be developed in this life under Zhang Chen's hands.

"By the way, there was no airport pick-up, right?" Zhang Chen suddenly thought of a topic that concerned him.

"Well, actually, we have arranged for some media from the United States to come to the airport. This is also for the sake of exposure." Yin Zilan on the side answered this question.

Zhang Chen originally wanted to arrange Yin Zilan to be the person in charge of Chenhua Agency, but she refused due to lack of experience. Zhang Chen also knew that this was an excuse, but since Yin Zilan had been with him as an agent for two years and had never received a share from him as a star, Zhang Chen naturally couldn't kick out the old man who had been with her from the beginning when he was about to start his business activities, and instead give his share to a newcomer.

The income of an agent is generally divided into two parts. Domestic agents are still receiving salaries, including Wang Jinghua.

However, with the soaring prices of artists' film and appearance fees, agents' income has begun to come from commissions on the income of their stars. This is the origin of the saying that agents and stars prosper and suffer together.

Yin Zilan has been working diligently with Zhang Chen, a celebrity who is not in business, without any complaints. But it is really unreasonable that Zhang Chen will kick her away when he starts working next year.

So Zhang Chen still let her stay with him, firstly to make sure he was at ease, and secondly to make up for it.

When the time is right, transfer her to Chenhua Agency to be the head.

"Forget it, it's already arranged, so let's just deal with it. We can't let them make a wasted trip." Zhang Chen also had to start adapting to the experience of being a real star. "Tell me the data of the new English album first, so I won't be speechless when they ask me." Zhang Chen put away the newspaper and began to seriously prepare for the next media questioning.

"Currently, 'Natural' has topped the Billboard charts as soon as it was released. If nothing unexpected happens, it will remain at the top of the charts this week. The other two songs will also benefit from this and occupy the 5th and 23rd positions on the Billboard. In terms of album sales, the North American sales data is currently 64 copies, and the global data is about 300 million. This album should be able to break your record, boss."

“Many singers haven’t released their rankings yet, so we don’t know what will happen in the future.” Although the data looks good at the moment, it doesn’t mean they can always dominate the charts.

Time passed quickly as they chatted, but in the end, the 12-hour flight could not bear it anymore, so everyone closed their eyes and began to rest.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already 2 a.m. on February 23rd, Los Angeles time, and tomorrow was the date of the Grammy Awards.

However, Zhang Chen does not have to worry about his tight schedule now, as he has previously purchased a mansion in Beverly Hills, and many awards are presented near Beverly Hills.

Starting from January, the Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Grammy Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Oscars, and NAACP Awards have been held in Beverly Hills.

The Los Angeles International Airport is right next to it, so for Zhang Chen, traveling to the United States will be much more convenient in the future.

But now is not the time to go home and rest. He still has to deal with the media reporters invited by Warner.

"Leon, what do you think of this year's Grammy Awards?" This was the question asked by the reporter who was at the front.

"Everyone, let's talk while walking. Don't block others." Zhang Chen motioned for the reporters to follow him, and then replied: "Opinion? Of course, the more awards we win, the better. I believe all singers hope so."

"So how many trophies do you think you will win out of the six nominations this time?"

"I don't know about that, but I still hope the more the better." Zhang Chen gave the same answer.

When answering this kind of question, no one would believe that any star doesn't want to win the award.

"Then how would you feel if you didn't win any trophies this time?"

"It would be best if I could win an award. If not, that means I haven't done well enough. If I don't get any trophies, I will just try harder next time. I'm still young and there's no rush." Zhang Chen responded to the reporters' questions according to the principle that answering the question is equivalent to not answering the question at all.

But we have to give these reporters some useful reporting materials, otherwise we don’t know how they will edit them after they go back.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chen thought of a piece of news that could be revealed.

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