"Old Woman, after I found the contract you signed with Yuewen last time, you didn't even come to see me yourself, just sent a subordinate to dismiss me. Let's see if you're still so arrogant now?" Lin Jia felt great.
Chen Yuanguang asked, "What are you thinking?"
Lin Jia smiled brightly: "Isn't this the best opportunity?
This incident is the best opportunity. We can take this chance to get back all the copyrights for Kuala Lumpur Affairs 2 and the subsequent series.
Let the bullets fly for a while first.
So, you first contact the Gates Foundation side, talk to Trevor, and tell them not to speak out publicly yet. Then you go on Weibo and act tough, saying that the Gates Foundation staff are lying.
Goose Factory definitely won't be able to sit still, especially since you hung up on the Old Woman directly. They will definitely want to activate the breach of contract clause in the agreement, demanding compensation from us on the grounds of causing huge losses to the film's distribution.
Compensation? Fine, our proposed solution is to buy Kuala Lumpur Affairs 2 and the entire subsequent series package.
There's less than a month until the end of the year release. In their haste, they will definitely make the most rational decision."
Chen Yuanguang asked, "The most rational decision? Package and sell everything to us?"
Lin Jia shook her head: "No, sell us most of the revenue rights, keeping a small portion.
This way, they can both break even and enjoy some profit. What if the movie quality is very good, and this negative news isn't enough to completely suppress the film?
So selling us most of the equity and keeping a small portion is the most rational decision.
Of course, it's not impossible for the Old Woman to become enraged and sell all the equity in one go.
But no matter what, we can turn a bad thing into a good thing and make Goose Factory suffer a silent loss.
This is called information asymmetry."
Chen Yuanguang first posted a Weibo:
"I did not lie. I did receive an invitation from the Gates Foundation. The position they offered was Chief Scientist."
"Still bragging? Chief Scientist now? What does a charity organization need a scientist for?"
"Can you stop talking nonsense? They already said it's not true, why are you still being stubborn?"
"Are all our country's scientists like this? What's wrong with this country? They can't even manage basic honesty and trustworthiness. No wonder China's scientific research can't compare to foreign countries."
The latter kind is a classic case of putting down others. The problem with Chinese people is going from an individual case to the whole. If an individual case is bad, the whole is bad. Individual cases abroad just stay as individual cases and never infer that the entire Japanese scientific community is fabricating things just because a Japanese scientist fabricated something.
Being strict with oneself and lenient with others is the norm in China's public opinion sphere.
This matter can be viewed from different angles. From some angles, it's a good thing. Citizens' rare right to supervise is reflected through Weibo. If the supervision weren't stricter, there would be more chaos.
Furthermore, this concerns China and Chinese netizens. How chaotic Japanese research is has nothing to do with Chinese netizens. At most, everyone watches for fun and wishes Japanese research would be as chaotic as possible.
After Chen Yuanguang's Weibo was posted, it was quickly shared by Chinese netizens under Kate's Twitter. Kate is like a hyena seeing a corpse when he sees popularity; this is all money.
Thanks to this incident, his followers increased by ten thousand, and they were ten thousand active followers. He knew how valuable this was.
On Twitter, with ten thousand active followers and posting three times a day, the monthly income is between $400 and $500.
Kate couldn't wait to attract more Chinese followers through this incident: "Is this Chinese person dreaming?
How could the Gates Foundation possibly invite a Chinese person to be Chief Scientist? This is impossible."
Once the tweet was posted, these netizens didn't feel offended. Instead, they treated his words as a royal decree and spread them back to the internal network.
Suddenly, public opinion exploded, and various prominent figures jumped out to express their views.
Some believed that Chen Yuanguang was wrong in this matter and shouldn't be stubborn, but they couldn't deny Chen Yuanguang's talent and contribution in scientific research.
Others said that since he was wrong in this matter, his scientific research might be fraudulent, which further extended to the idea that Chinese scientists were all incompetent.
Even more old-fashioned individuals linked this matter to Chinese education, believing it was due to the lack of integrity education in China's education system.
Chen Yuanguang almost directly dominated the Weibo hot search list.
Zhifei Biological's official Weibo also stepped forward to ride this wave of popularity, posting a Weibo that roughly meant that Chen Yuanguang had integrity issues, and no matter how successful he was in scientific research, Zhifei Biological would not consider cooperating with him.
As soon as the Weibo was posted, righteous netizens reposted it one after another. Zhifei Biological's official Weibo, which previously couldn't break a hundred reposts, had its first repost count reach thirty thousand. The editor responsible for new media operations couldn't close their mouth.
This was a godsend hot topic.
Because he had to deceive Goose Factory, Chen Yuanguang's responses to the calls from Jiang University's president, dean, and professors were all vague and dismissive after he returned.
Goose Factory couldn't stand it anymore. Jenny flew directly to Shenhai to meet with Chen Yuanguang:
"Ms. Lin, how should this matter be resolved? Our contract clearly stipulates that if Party B's actions cause losses to the movie's release, Party B shall bear all responsibility.
Now the movie is scheduled to be released next month, and Chen Yuanguang has stirred up unprecedented negative public opinion.
It's not that I'm asking him to apologize, but that he should apologize. This matter not only affects the movie's reputation but also his own reputation.
He actually said he doesn't care." Jenny was truly furious. Goose Factory Pictures finally had a hit series IP, only to encounter a viral epidemic.
Just when the virus was finally controlled domestically and the second part was ready for release, the original author started causing trouble, and trouble of this magnitude.
Isn't this playing with me?
Thanks to the success of Kuala Lumpur Affairs, Jenny was previously the deputy general manager of Goose Factory Video Content Production Department. Now, the "deputy" has been removed.
Now, due to Chen Yuanguang's negative public opinion, there is a high possibility that the entire IP will be directly ruined. Goose Factory's only self-developed original IP will be ruined. Not only will her "general" title be gone, but she won't even be able to keep her "deputy" title.
Lin Jia smiled and said, "That's right. Isn't it normal for scientists to speak with their achievements? Public opinion is just icing on the cake for scientists; it doesn't matter if they don't have it."
Jenny was about to faint from anger: "What do you mean by that? The movie was originally expected to have a box office of at least three billion, but now, affected by this matter, it will be at least halved, or even reduced to one-tenth."
Lin Jia said, "These are all your predictions, not facts."
Jenny stood up and left: "Then after the movie is released, we'll see each other in court."
Lin Jia tried to keep her: "I have another solution."
Jenny sat down again. If they went to court, she would also be waiting to be fired by Mark. "Tell me."
Lin Jia held up two fingers: "Two hundred million. I'll spend two hundred million to buy this movie and the subsequent copyrights as a package."
Jenny was tempted. It seemed that the movie's box office would be severely affected now, but two hundred million was too low, not even one-tenth of their expected box office.
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