The West Gate of Yanda University, also known as the Alumni Gate, was built by the alumni of Yanda in 1926, and now has a history of nearly 100 years.

This is the foundation of China's first university, and Zhang Chu fell in love with this place at a casual glance.

In the early morning, the campus of Yan University was already full of people, and the senior students had already arrived in advance.

At the beginning of September, the green trees on the campus are still green, only a few temperate trees shake off their leaves in the autumn wind, and the sound of Lang Lang's reading is in my ears.

Zhang Chu strolled through it, occasionally spotting the looming pavilions among the lush trees.

According to the map, Zhang Chu walked in the direction of Weiming Lake, green trees, asphalt paths, students walking together, and foreigners riding bicycles past him, this picture looks peaceful and comfortable.

On the lakeside, the old gentlemen and old workers have begun their morning exercises, although they are staggering and gray-haired, but they are in good spirits, and they have become accustomed to exercising under the willow trees by the lake every day.

In the pavilion by the lake, there are already people holding all kinds of books and starting to study, and the atmosphere of learning is quite strong.

The campus of Yan University is very large, Zhang Chu walked in it, so that the map on the mobile phone was combined with reality, and the next four years will be spent here, and there is no harm in getting familiar with it in advance.

As soon as the autumn wind blows, those who have a boyfriend will hug their boyfriend tightly, and those who have a girlfriend will hold their girlfriend's little hand.

But Zhang Chu is awesome, he is not afraid of the cold!

Just when he was infinitely hurt by those couples, Zhou Kang's phone called.

"Uncle Zhou, do you have anything to do with me?"

Zhou Kang, who was in Menglong Culture Media Company, said with some joy: "We now have the preliminary quotations of these companies in our hands, and the conditions are different. If you're not busy, why don't you come to the company and discuss the specific results with us?"

However, Zhang Chu was tortured enough by Yanjing's traffic, and he flatly refused: "It's the same with you on the phone, I'll go to the library to take a look later, I may not have much time." ”

Zhou Kang didn't care, after all, the big employer in the world is the largest, anyway, the contract has not been agreed on, and now it is just a preliminary intention, and he and others are on the negotiation table.

"Huace Film and Television was the first to quote, and this time the price they gave was to sell them two copyrights in a package, a total of 8 million yuan, and claimed to be 10 million yuan. In addition, when promoting TV series and movies, the original book will be promoted by the way, and you will sign the opening of the TV series. ”

8 million yuan is still very attractive to Zhang Chu, who currently has a deposit of only 620,000 yuan, and Huace Film and Television is also the first listed company in China to focus on TV dramas, and the quantity and quality of film and television dramas are very good.

However, Zhang Chu still plans to listen to the quotations of other companies, in case there is a higher one.

"In addition to Huace, there is also Director Xu Ji's studio, who is willing to provide a share of 2 million + 2% to win the film copyright of "Psychological Crime", and Director Xu Ji is also willing to add you to the list of screenwriters. Ciwen's words also want two copyrights, but their price is quite generous, in the form of 4 million + 5 million. ”

Zhou Kang's heart was already happy, he really didn't choose to be Zhang Chu's literary agent alone, and the benefits brought by a writer exceeded those of many others.

The film and television copyright sales of those writers he brought before were very difficult, and even if they were launched, they would beg their grandfather to worship their grandmother's cabbage price, but now those big companies take the initiative to buy them, and their waists can be straightened.

Yida Pictures gave the most money, they wanted the film and television rights of "Psychological Crime", and shouted a price of 12 million. However, the performance of Yida Group is not good now, and I don't know if it will affect the film industry. ”

Zhang Chu carefully calculated in his heart what kind of success he wanted to achieve in this psychological crime.

Do you want to be a high box office?

The box office of suspenseful reasoning thriller works is not particularly high, the audience is mainly male, and this part of the population is more dependent on the quality of word-of-mouth, if the word-of-mouth is not good, it is impossible to have a high box office.

If this "Psychological Crime" is made into a bad movie, Zhang Chu is really a little sorry for the original novel.

"How much do you think the box office of this movie can get? If we cooperate with director Xu Ji, will the 5% box office share exceed 5 million?"

"Director Xu Ji's works over the years have a basic plate, if he chooses actors with both popularity and strength, then there must be a box office of 200 million yuan, and a 2% box office share is almost 4 million. This share ratio plus 2 million royalties, about 6 million. But if it reaches 500 million at the box office, then you can earn 12 million from the movie rights alone. ”

Zhou Kang sighed, Xu Ji has been producing movies in his own studio in recent years, if only he cooperated with Huace or Ciwen and Yida, there is a large company as a guarantee, and Xu Ji's quality, why worry about the box office is not high!

Zhang Chu thought about it seriously in his head and asked, "If you go to the studio with Director Xu Ji now, can you grind the proportion of the share a little higher? 2% seems to be a bit too low." ”

"You are a full man who doesn't know how hungry you are, how many actors can't get a box office CD, let alone an ordinary rookie author. It seems that Director Xu Ji really likes "Psychological Crime", let's talk about your 2%. ”

"I just want to split the movie rights and TV series rights into two products to sell, so as to maximize profits. After all, Huace, Ciwen and Shanying are all mainly TV series, and it is just right for them to buy movie copyrights. ”

Zhou Kang nodded approvingly, "I'll contact them when I go back and give full play to their strengths." In addition, CBS also made an offer, $1 million. If you write the second part of Shenxia, they are willing to increase the price on the premise of excellent quality. ”

"What about the BBC?"

$1 million is almost six or seven million yuan, which is quite gratifying, you must know that "Sherlock" has not yet met the audience.

Perhaps this is the key to the TV station's consideration, most viewers don't know this story, the freshness is very strong, and they won't be guessed at the ending or something.

"The BBC is £800,000, and they need you to translate into English, so I'm worried that the rest of the people will translate it and it will affect the script and the characters. ”

£800,000 is actually about $100, and there is no news from HBO or FOX yet.

Zhang Chu knew that he couldn't be too greedy, the figure of $1 million was considered medium among European and American writers, "Then continue to contact and discuss with them, I hope the price and conditions can be better." You reassure them, just say that I have now started translating Shenxia. ”

Originally, "Sherlock" was a British drama, and what Zhang Chu had to do was just restore, which was simpler than a novel.

"By the way, if I take out Shenxia's English script, will we have more chips here?"

Zhou Kang didn't know whether to doubt or believe, "Otherwise, you can try it, write a scene first." ”

The world of genius, he doesn't understand at all!