Chapter 281： Hollywood

Chapter 281 Hollywood (Chapter Three!)

Signing with Kant Henry was simple, and it was done in a very bland manner.

Kant is a very typical American. Although he is surprised that Yin Jun ’s age is so young, he feels that he can write such a profound novel, which is a bit weird. However, Americans are notoriously unwilling to explore the privacy of others. No more questions.

Yin Jun ’s pen name is the pinyin of his name—jun.

There is nothing troublesome about the contract, they are all in standard format, Kant has a good relationship with Yin Jun, and he has no intention of doing things.

The general advance payment for the US publishing industry is between 10 and 30. If it is Stephen King and Michael Clayton, the general publishing house will give them all the royalties of the first print after they submit the manuscript.

There is even more exaggeration, people have not started to write a book, they took $ 1 million in advance to go, this is called advance ranking.

Of course, there are also such writers in China, and Gu Long enjoys this treatment.

Usually he writes a few hundred words and can get tens of thousands of advance payment.

That's why many of Gu Long's works were written by others. He wrote the beginning, but he didn't have more thoughts, and he just threw it to friends or guns.

Since Kant is ready to cooperate with Yin Jun in the future, he will give a prepayment of 30, 2400 US dollars.

The two parties agreed that it will be listed in the United States within three months from the date of submission, but Kant said that as long as they have finished proofreading, then typesetting and printing, plus publicity, it can be done in one month. .

After all, their Henry Publishing House is a small publishing house, and its management is very flexible, and it also has its own sales channel, which is very convenient for selling books.

In fact, Yin Jun has considered that a small publishing house is not conducive to large-scale promotion and marketing, but at least it can guarantee normal publishing. Anyway, Yin Jun does not rely on royalties-the prepayment of 2400 US dollars is only more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is not enough. Yin Jun and Tian Jiachun's round-trip airfare.

But the big publishing houses either despised these two books, or were too demanding, and now they can only do so.

The most important thing is that Henry Press has branches everywhere in California. Just in Beverly Hills in Hollywood, they have a bookstore, which is a good thing for the copyright of two books.

Maybe even before Yin Jun puts the film production on the table, there are Hollywood companies or directors who have read these two books.

Moreover, after the two films are released, crazy fans will choose to buy a more comprehensive screening of the book to watch, which will drive the book to sell well.

The copyright of Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, and Hongqiao is still in the hands of Yin Jun. At that time, I dare not say that it should be no problem to sell 5 million copies each-now is the golden age of book sales. This best-selling book can be sold in three to five hundred copies in the United States, and Europe is not inferior. Even millions in Japan are not new, so I have to sigh that the progress of the times also has some shortcomings that cannot be overcome temporarily. .

Yin Jun was not a waste of time. In the morning, he got the publishing agreement between the two books. At noon and Kant had a meal, he went straight to the post office with two female generals and started the crazy postmarking work.

After I bought the stamps and put them on, I asked the people at the post office to post them one by one ... Yin Jun spent $ 1,000. The three of them spent a long time in the post office before finally getting more than 1,000 in these three big boxes. Envelopes are all postmarked.

Looking at the envelopes, Tang Shuxuan wanted to open one and take a look.

She suspected that many of them were at the beginning written by Yin Jun, not very detailed ideas, otherwise how long did Yin Jun go to Xiangjiang? I want to wear it every day, can't think of so much?

But Tang Shuxuan has a bottom line after all. Although she is curious, she still knows which things she should not do. She helps Yin Jun to post stamps and hand it to the post office staff.

After all three large boxes were locked again, Yin Jun took a long breath.

In this way, the first step to preserve copyright is complete.

Within the next three to five years, his creativity will not be afraid of infringement by others.

And after three or five years, at that time, I already had the power that others did not dare to distort my brain. These means of stamping were nothing more than symbolic.

When Tang Shuxuan drove all the way home, the three people felt that their arms were sore, as if they could not lift them.

However, until the next morning, Tian Jiachun began to regain his spirits, because today they are going to the famous Hollywood sightseeing, and then at night they have to go to Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps.

Yin Jun is also very interested. He has to go to see the Avenue of Stars above Hollywood Boulevard first.

When Yin Jun went to Xiangjiang in his previous life, he saw the Shanzhai version of Xiangjiang Avenue of Stars, but when he got there, he was staggered by the strong winds of Victoria Harbour There is a shop around the bronze statue of Li Xiaolong, and it is extremely rudimentary. There is no good operation at all. Compared with the genuine Hollywood Walk of Fame seen on TV, it is much worse.

Now that I have the opportunity to come to Hollywood, it is natural that Yin Jun wants to taste his wish.

Even now there are few celebrities named on the Avenue of Stars, but it is good to see them.

Tang Shuxuan still accompanied the two to play today. Although there are three children in the family, there are also nannies at home. Two older children have school buses to go to and from school, as long as the nanny picks up at the door.

The younger daughter went to kindergarten, and her father would pick her up after work in the afternoon, and Tang Shuxuan did not need to worry about it.

In recent years, Tang Shuxuan often went to Xiangjiang, and her husband became a father and a mother.

Sitting in the car, Tian Jiachun sighed that she couldn't keep up with Sister Xuan in her life. With Sister Xuan's ability to pick a man, she was hard to catch.

From Tang Shuxuan's house to Hollywood Beverly Hills is only 10 kilometers, only ten minutes to arrive.

Tian Jiachun's favorite is not the Avenue of Stars, but the souvenir shop here, as well as some items related to movie stars and singers, so he took Tang Shuxuan to bargain.

Yin Jun was walking alone along Hollywood Boulevard.

This is the end of June. The weather on the west coast of the United States is particularly suitable for tourism, about 26 degrees up and down. Hollywood is still close to the mountains, and it is naturally not too hot.

Therefore, there are still a lot of tourists coming here, apart from Americans, there are Europeans, and many Asian faces.

Those who like to take photos in places of interest are definitely not just Chinese but also foreigners.

Anyone who sees the most people in front of that star must be a superstar.

For example, in front of Fei Wenli's star, there was never a lack of waiting in line to take pictures.

In front of the stars of Jade Elizabeth Taylor, there are also many male fans.

In Hollywood today, the symbolic meaning is greater than the actual meaning.

The former eight major Hollywood film companies, and now Paramount still has its headquarters in Hollywood, and the rest are either closed or relocated.

As an old saying in China, Jiangshan has talented people who have been leading the way for decades, and so is the film industry used in the United States.

The eight major film companies in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s, Lei Huahua had already closed down and turned to do business in the television field. The United States Film Company was also crumbling, and the Colombian company also lost its sharpness under the toss of Coca-Cola.

MGM's situation is also not very good, its shareholding changes constantly, which makes investors feel a little uneasy, and in the field of film, in addition to the enduring "007" series, they have not come up with good works. , This is also a problem.

It was the 20th-century Fox that was sluggish a few years ago, and the "Star Wars" that shocked the world in the past two years had a little force.

As for the future of Disney, they are still struggling with serious losses. They are in trouble even in the field of animation, not to mention making live-action movies.

If there is not so much copyright support, or if there are Disneyland projects to make money, it is not uncommon for them to fail in three to five years.

In fact, before Disney's rise, or even after Disney's rise, Hollywood had only one eternal powerhouse.

It is Warner Bros. This company has been running its business from the beginning to the end, without the support of foreign capital, relying on its own Time Warner Group, in one fell swoop to build Warner Bros. into a Hollywood movie giant.

Time Warner Group was also established by the four Warner Brothers, and this group integrates entertainment projects such as news, publishing, television stations, newspapers and magazines. To a certain extent, Warner Bros. film companies do not lack media for promotion, which is also their An important reason for continuous success.

Then there are the top four who are tied with Warner Brothers in the future and are so powerful that it is almost impossible to fail.

The first to bear the brunt is the 20th Century Fox, a film company controlled by the world ’s largest news media group-News Corp., like Warner Bros., has a news media super giant to be a backer. Even The influence of the world, Time Warner can't be compared with News Corporation, so Fox has always received a lot of support in the 20th century.

The second one is Paramount, a movie company controlled by the entertainment industry super giant Viacom Group. Viacom owns cbs television network, owns mtv music television network, or the US cable network with the largest limited network in the United States. The controlling shareholder, Viacom's boss Lei Shidong, is simply a strong man against the sky. From scratch to become a super entertainment tycoon, he has repeatedly created the impossible.

The third is Universal Television, which is also a company owned by the US news and media giant Comcast Group. The great thing about Comcast is that they are the largest TV company in the United States and the second largest in the United States. 'S communications operator, under the merger of the two, is simply in control of the present and the future.

The fourth is the Columbia Film Company, which is actually the Sony Film Company. This film company, which is backed by Japan ’s largest consumer electronics giant, owns not only Sony, but also the support of Japanese chaebols. As a Japanese company The face in the United States and the bridgehead for entertainment promotion in the United States cannot be tolerated, so the actual strength of this company should be the first of Hollywood film companies.

It's just that because sony is a foreigner, Bi Murdoch has another layer, so it can never be king in Hollywood, so Americans don't care about it.

This is also the reason why Sony Film and Television Entertainment will take the lead and form a consortium to acquire MGM Film Company directly. In this consortium, sony is not the largest shareholder, but the remaining shareholders all agree to merge MGM into Sony Movies. Inside the company, it is then left to Sony to take care of it.

It ’s just taking care of things, not all of them, nor does it belong to sony holdings.

Therefore, you can see the word "This is a company belonging to sony" under the portrait of the goddess of the Columbia company holding up the torch, but under the image of MGM's lion roar, the reason is not visible.

The next thing to talk about is ~ www.novelhall.com ~, which is the Disney company that came later.

This company, which is still struggling to survive, entered the 1980s, and under the leadership of Michael Eisner, Disney made rapid progress. In just two decades, it became a major Hollywood film company that cannot be ignored.

Especially after they annexed Pixar and Marvel in one go, they got the biggest piece of the comic hero live-action movie, which directly became Hollywood's largest movie company.

Such a development is probably unimaginable to everyone now.

Of course, the last one, also hailed as one of the most promising to be one of the New Eighth Congress, is Lionsgate Pictures from Canada.

This small company that is famous for its independent movie has done very well step by step, and has good luck. It has launched super classic series of movies such as Electric Drill Fright, Death Squad, Twilight, The Hunger Games, etc. Their market share in Hollywood once reached 11.4 and reached the fifth place, which is very difficult and very remarkable.

In the future, when film companies relying on large companies and large groups dominate the world, the sudden emergence of such a different kind of Lionsgate is also very interesting.

What they lack is a whole industry chain around the film, such as TV stations, home DVDs, digital distribution channels and publishing. If such a whole set of Lions Gate Films can be successfully integrated, then they will undoubtedly be the real Hollywood movie. One of the companies!

Lionsgate brought great surprise to Hollywood, but I do n’t know. When Yin Jun enters Hollywood, what will they look like?

This time, you should not wait too long! (To be continued.) There is no pop-up window, the update is timely!