At the staggered drinking party, a middle-aged white man in a black tuxedo was chatting happily with the rest of the people with a glass of whiskey, and the smiling beauty next to him seemed to be a well-known actress on the screen, but at this moment she was leaning on the man and laughing.

"Mr. Nate, there's news from Julian. The assistant's voice rang in Dale Nett's ears.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let me be with you. ”

David Nate pulled his arm out of his female companion's hand and set his glass aside on the small table.

Hollywood has a different drinking party every day, and every time there are various deals made in secret, actors are eager for such parties, whether it is a male or female star, they all dress up deliberately, even if they can't make friends, they strive to make the bigwigs take a fancy to them.

The hot bikini beauties in the pool show off their hot bodies, and there are several model-level male waiters with naked and strong tops next to them, after all, people in this circle are not taboo in meat and vegetarians, and the spring breeze will not take into account the gender of men and women.

The salty sea breeze of Malibu was blowing on him, and David glanced at his assistant and asked, "What did Julian say, did he take that book?"

He is not a person who rests on his laurels, and if he wants to maintain this kind of life, he must continue to produce good works.

Why is it easy for me to let a Hollywood actress accompany me to a drinking party today?

It's not because she wants to get the role from her side, if she can't make a good movie, I'm afraid the lively scene over there will have nothing to do with him!

Assistant Eddie lowered his voice and replied, "Mr. Nate, Julian said that Random House has made sure that it will not be a hindrance. But Zhang Chu is a very stubborn person, and the price is ridiculously high. ”

"How much, tell me?"

"$6 million upside, or $1 million plus 1% global box office dividends. ”

David Nate couldn't help but sneer, "It seems that he has a lot of confidence in this work, but 6 million is too high, who does he think he is? Don't think it's a fluke that you're going to heaven if you write Ben Holmes's fanwork!"

Not to mention Zhang Chu, who is unknown in Hollywood, even those popular works in North America do not have the courage to shout the sky-high price of $6 million.

But David just liked this script, he just wanted to destroy the layout of Lionsgate at will, but he never expected that he would be attracted by the story of "Life of Pi".

Isn't this exactly the kind of film that can hit the Oscars?

Religion and science, faith and reality, the brilliance and darkness of human nature, and one of the two stories represents beauty and cruelty.

These things are so perfectly presented, and the attraction to the Oscar judges is absolute!

It's just that the protagonist of this film is an Indian teenager, and there is nothing outstanding in the supporting roles, so it is impossible to win the actor award.

But its competitiveness in the rest of the awards will probably be relatively large, and many directors who hate the Oscars will like this work!

Eddie, who had been with David Nate for many years, naturally knew what his boss was thinking, and he asked, "How do you get back to Julian?"

"Tell Julian that we can give the original author a 1% dividend on the net profit of the film. If the other person still refuses, arrange a video conversation for me. ”

"Yes, Mr. Nate. A smile appeared on Add's face, and another unlucky guy appeared.

……

In the bidding company, Zhang Chu watched as the professional team was doing the final finishing work, and in an hour they would go to the campus assets office of Yan University to participate in the bidding, and each document would be publicly scored.

He is also a member of the bidding team, but just as a mascot, and the rest is done by professionals.

After preparing for such a long time, whether Hanlinxuan Bookstore can enter the campus of Yenching University depends on today.

"Come on, everyone, whether you succeed or not, there will be red envelopes for everyone at that time!"

Zhang Chu used the simplest means of encouragement, and no amount of rhetoric was as good as giving out some bonus red envelopes.

This is a completely unfamiliar field for him, and using money to let these talents who can bid for hundreds of millions of yuan projects to build a campus bookstore is simply overkill.

But those people just happened to have completed a big project, and now they come to a small project to relax, and they still have money to get.

I didn't know Zhang Chu before, but later I found out that Zhang Chu was a hidden tycoon, and he could earn millions of dollars every month just by selling books.

Although I don't understand why rich people have to toss these days, it is a fool not to make money.

It is the consensus of this era that physical bookstores do not make money, but there are still fools who are willing to spend so much money and time to devote themselves to this field!

"No problem, it's a small thing for us. ”

"All the work is done, now let's get there. ”

The bidding of state-owned assets is a relatively professional matter, involving relevant laws and regulations, and Yanda has entrusted a professional company to deal with the relevant procedural issues, using the comprehensive bid evaluation method.

In other words, the rent price is not their main consideration, and the service plan for Yanda must account for 50 points!

In this regard, Hanlinxuan Bookstore is already at an absolute disadvantage, because the owner of this bookstore is far away in Jiangcheng, and has never had the experience of opening a campus bookstore, and even the works it mainly sells are ordinary works, not academic books.

In fact, Zhang Chu was already vaguely prepared in his heart, and the probability of failure was very high, but he wanted to give it a try.

If you don't try it, you won't be willing to do it for the rest of your life, and when the time comes, I will always tell my children and grandchildren repeatedly: There was a great opportunity in front of me, but I didn't cherish it, and I regretted it until I missed it.

Even if you fail, you can be calm, at least you won't blame yourself for the rest of your life!

Unexpectedly, there were five companies in the conference room participating in the bidding, namely Hui Xinhua Media Co., Ltd., Yatang Bookstore, Wild Grass Bookstore, Hanlinxuan Bookstore and Halloween Bookstore.

The bookstore's business planning and ancillary services became the main scoring items, and the rent quotation only accounted for about 10% of the total score.

Zhang Chu, a young man sitting in the middle of the bidding team, was very conspicuous, and the representative of Yan University, who was in charge of recording the process of the meeting, was looking at him with a surprised face, "Why did he come to bid?"

In Yan University, Zhang Chu is also a little famous, although he has not participated in many activities, his status as a best-selling author among freshmen is still very useful.

It's just that no one can answer this question, although the staff of the campus asset management department of Yan University have heard the name Zhang Chu, but they have not recognized the young man in the chair for a short time.

"In the future, in addition to following the fine tradition of academicization of the campus bookstore, we will also select academic books such as humanities and social sciences, literature and art, ancient books and dictionaries according to the needs of the departments and teachers and students of Yan University, and there will also be a series of innovations, such as optimizing the reading environment, trying to carry out online sales, and students' favorite literary books, etc."

After a brief speech, the representative of Han Linxuan handed over the bidding bag and waited for the on-site scoring after unpacking.

At this time, Zhang Chu's mobile phone vibrated a little, he quietly took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that it was a text message from Zhou Kang, "Urgent, please call back as soon as you see it!"

Representatives of several other bookstores were also submitting bids, and Zhang Chu said to the people next to him: "I'll go out and make a call, and I'll tell you if there's anything later." ”

"It's okay, you go, and the result will come out directly. ”

Zhang Chu turned around and walked out of the back door, and only after coming to the fire staircase did he dial Zhou Kang's phone, and he asked in a low voice: "Uncle Zhou, what's the urgency? I'm preparing for the bidding at this time." ”

In the office, Zhou Kang negotiated with Julian for a long time with the help of a translator, and finally reached a basic agreement, so he hurriedly called to report the good news!

After all, the copyright of "Youth School" depends on Zhang Chu's signature, and the rest have no legal effect.

Julian asked David Nate for advice and gave us a choice of $4 million or $1 million plus a 1% net profit dividend. ”

Zhang Chu snorted lightly, "The net profit dividend is purely to fill the hunger, who doesn't know the bookkeeping ability of these big companies in Hollywood, and the box office sales of hundreds of millions can still give you a whole loss statement!"

"Yes, I also refute it, this kind of dividend is almost impossible to get, and even if you can get it, it is pitiful. "Zhou Kang is not a fool, after being deceived by so many writers and screenwriters, he has long been alert.

"Then what is the final result of your discussion?" Zhang Chu didn't want to know the specific process, and he hurried in to participate in the bidding meeting.

Zhou Kang said proudly: "I know that you have always wanted box office dividends to increase your voice in the script, so the final result of our negotiation was $1 million, plus box office dividends." When the global box office is below $500 million, you can take 0.5% of the global box office dividend, and when the global box office exceeds $500 million, it rises to 1%, not including additional income such as DVDs. ”

Tiered dividends are very common, and Hollywood producers, including David, think that "Life of Pi" will laugh if it can have two or three billion dollars in the world, and they don't dare to ask for too much!

Since Zhang Chu was willing to take these risks himself, of course they would not refuse.

If the box office can really exceed 500 million US dollars, it is cost-effective to give Zhang Chu an extra 0.5% dividend, after all, he earns more.

This is the courage of Hollywood bigwigs, who cut through the mess directly in front of their favorite stories, saving them a lot of dreams at night, resulting in being snatched away by others!

"This condition is not bad, you continue to discuss the details inside, I hope they can build the crew as soon as possible. ”