Chapter 408: Where There's a Will, There's a Way [Three More Requests for Subscription]
Giving Life of Pi to Warner Bros.' gold producers is probably the best option.
Only large companies can use big investments and big directors to deal with it, not only in production, but also in distribution and publicity.
In five years, can they really come up with an excellent movie?
Zhang Chu hesitated whether he should take out Ang Lee's version of the movie script and hand it over to David Knight, such a precious thing, if he handed it over casually, it is estimated that no one will cherish it.
"Then wait until they hit the wall before taking it, otherwise they will definitely be disgusted and cut beyond recognition. β
In this world, Zhang Chu is not sure whether the box office and word-of-mouth of "Youth Pi" can be on par with the previous life, but it has to be adapted.
The rights and obligations of the original author have to be discussed in detail by Menglong Culture Media Company, and now Zhang Chu came to the outside of the office, gently pushed open the door and walked in to sit at the back.
"After detailed scoring, the final results are out. Wild Grass Bookstore scored 41 points, Halloween Bookstore scored 47 points, Boya Bookstore scored 53 points, Hui Xinhua Culture Media Company scored 55 points, and Hanlinxuan Bookstore scored 57 points. If there is any objection to the score, you can raise it on the spot, and we will solve it immediately!"
The full score is 100 points, but all the bookstores did not get the passing score of 60, which can only be said that the standards they set are too high, so that these bookstores cannot meet the requirements, and they can only be short and tall.
Hanlinxuan is probably a bookstore with low strength, but Zhang Chu spent a lot of money to hire a special bidding team, so that these professionals can modify it little by little according to the requirements on the bidding book.
Although the Wild Grass Bookstore has feelings, they are simply a grass platform team, and there are no professionals to assist, of course, they are not as good as Zhang Chu.
You get what you pay for, after all, it is difficult to earn back the hundreds of thousands of dollars hired by the team from the bookstore for a while!
The people of Xinhua Culture Media Company in Huizhou Province thought that they were able to catch it, but they didn't expect that the most inconspicuous small bookstore had successfully turned over, which made the representatives turn pale.
The smile on Zhang Chu's face slowly emerged, and the case of defeating the strong with the weak happened from time to time in the bidding, depending on how well the preparations of the two sides were carried out.
Compared with the Xinhua bookstore system in a province, Hanlinxuan is simply insignificant, and it is far away in Jiangcheng and cannot take care of this.
The owner of the Weeds Bookstore sighed, shook his head and said, "There is no objection, every item is scored like that." β
"I had to accept the result, although I had a hunch for a long time. The owner of Halloween Bookstore also shook his head, he thought he would lose to Xinhua Bookstore, but in the end he was cut off by a strange bookstore!
The owner of Boya Bookstore blamed himself, "If only I had found a special bidder, maybe we would have stayed in Yanda......"
As for the bidders on Hanlinxuan's side, they were almost unfazed, and they didn't celebrate the bidding for hundreds of millions of yuan at the beginning, and this project of hundreds of thousands of yuan couldn't arouse their interest.
Student representative Lei Luo's face was very complicated, he was now a first-year graduate student, he had lived in Yan University for almost five years, and he had long been accustomed to the existence of the Wild Grass Bookstore and the Boye Bookstore, and now that the new bookstore had arrived, he was really unaccustomed to it, and he had never heard of what the hell Han Linxuan was!
Seeing this, the staff presiding over the bidding meeting opened his mouth and concluded: "Since everyone has no objection, then we congratulate Hanlinxuan Bookstore on obtaining the physical bookstore with 45 A underground teachers and students supporting life service facilities. We also ask Wild Grass Bookstore and Boya Bookstore to clean up the books within two weeks, and our construction team will renovate them and install fire protection facilities after April 15th. β
Some people are happy and some are worried, Zhang Chu is already thinking in his heart at this time, he will probably have to go to a headhunting company to recruit a store manager and a group of clerks.
It's undoubtedly quite difficult to support a bookstore on your own!
A good man and three gangs, you must find an experienced and motivated store manager, Zhang Chu just wants to be the shopkeeper.
Formulation of various sales plans, sales promotions, and coordination of inventory ratios, as well as daily work appraisal of employees, preparation and processing of financial statements of bookstores, etc.
Opening a bookstore is Zhang Chu's dream, but he doesn't want to be bound by a bookstore, and he doesn't want Han Linxuan to go bankrupt because of his bad business conditions!
"If I hold a signing session here at Hanlin Xuan, will the school leaders be very disgusted?" Zhang Chu thought wildly, if he attracted thousands of readers to come, it was estimated that the entire campus would be occupied.
After all, the university campus is a place to study and live, and too many outsiders will destroy the clean learning atmosphere here, even if there is a barrier to swiping ID cards, it still can't resist the enthusiasm of the so-called "taxpayers".
For a while, there were too many things in Zhang Chu's mind, and fortunately he didn't become the boss right away.
When the rest of the people left, he still had to stay and go through some follow-up procedures with the school, after all, he didn't settle in immediately!
On April 15th, only those bookstores moved out, and the school had to carry out fire protection reforms.
After this process is completed, Hanlinxuan Bookstore can carry out its own decoration, and then put bookshelves or something inside, and it is estimated that the summer vacation is coming after finishing it.
If you really want to open, you have to wait until the start of the new semester, and there is still a long time.
Coming out of the office of the campus asset management department, Zhang Chu did not leave directly with the bidding team, he still had classes here in half an hour.
Walking around the campus, he can occasionally see parents taking the independent entrance examination and students taking pictures, and the quiet and peaceful atmosphere makes him very comfortable.
Just had plenty of time, Zhang Chu simply sat on the bench by the green grass, put his backpack beside him, and took out his mobile phone to call his father to report the good news, after all, Han Linxuan actually belonged to Zhang Bowen.
"Hey, Dad, why are you so noisy over there?" Zhang Chu couldn't help but take the phone away from his ear a little, the noisy sound was too annoying.
Zhang Bowen probably came to a slightly quieter place, "Isn't the house being renovated? What kind of floor heating are you talking about, we will temporarily move to another place to live, and you will have heating when you come back during the winter vacation this year." β
Zhang Chu didn't expect that he would let Zhang Bowen remember his casual words until now, and even took great pains to decorate all the houses, "Then where do you live now?"
"Oh, we just bought a second-hand house, just the beds can come in handy, just move everything in the house directly. When the time comes, we will buy a brand new one at home and use it as a wedding house for you to live in. β
After making money, it was different, and he quietly bought a second house in Jiangcheng.
This is actually normal, although Zhang Bowen's "Basic Deduction Method" is not as good as "Sherlock" in China, it has also stubbornly sold five or six hundred thousand copies, not to mention the TV series adaptation rights sold to CBS (CBS).
Even if the TV series has not yet been broadcast, it does not prevent him from getting it, and after this part of the money is used to buy a new storefront, the bookstore business is booming and he has made a lot of money, so he can afford to buy another house.
Counting their family, they have a small asset, and there are two stores in Jiangcheng, although the old faΓ§ade is not very valuable, but it is still higher than the residential price.
Zhang Chu's house in Yanjing will be able to move in in April, and those furniture and appliances have been delivered one after another, and they only need to move in.
"I'm here to tell you good news, guess what!"
Zhang Bowen smiled disdainfully, "It's already on the news now, okay? I still need you to tell me." It's not that you signed a deal with Warner Bros., and "Life of Pi" is going to shoot them. β
"Although it's not what I want to talk about, how do you know that I want to sign a contract with Warner? We only reached a preliminary agreement today, and we didn't sign a contract at all!" Zhang Chu was a little puzzled, could it be that his own brokerage company revealed it?
When the time comes, will Warner Bros. blame Menglong Culture Media for hyping it casually, the contract has not been signed, and the news has been flying all over the sky!
Zhang Bowen was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously: "You haven't signed yet?" This is really interesting, how does the media know that you want to sign a contract with Warner instead of other companies?"
"That's my problem, and hopefully it won't affect tomorrow's signing. Zhang Chu didn't know which link went wrong, and only hoped that Warner wouldn't change his mind halfway.
"And what good news do you have for me?"
Zhang Bowen's ears were full of the sound of the construction of the house, and although he greeted the neighbors and said sorry, it was really disturbing, and even the bookstore on the first floor was affected.
Zhang Chu said with a smile: "We succeeded, and the bidding meeting just ended." Han Linxuan was awarded a venue contract for the next three years. It's just that it hasn't moved out yet, and it won't be officially open until the beginning of the next semester!"
"Success?"
The buzzing sound sounded in Zhang Bowen's ears, he never thought that his bookstore would one day appear in the highest university!
I never dreamed of it, and now happiness came too suddenly.
"That's right, Hanlinxuan is going to open a branch in Yanda, and you have to come to the scene when the time comes!"
As soon as he thought that the words Hanlin Xuan Yanda branch would appear on the map navigation in the future, Zhang Bowen trembled with excitement, although he had not been to Yanda, but his son was Yanda, and the bookstore was also opened over there.
Previously, when Zhang Chu asked for Han Linxuan's business license and book wholesale license for those things, he thought that this was nonsense, and he didn't stop it at all.
Now there's a huge surprise!
Although the profit generated by this branch may not be half of that of the Delong Plaza branch, the symbolism is different, representing the great strength of Hanlin Xuan.
"I'm going to put an advertisement in the bookstore tomorrow and write out the address and contact number of each branch. β
Zhang Bowen made up his mind, it doesn't matter if someone calls or not, as long as everyone knows that there is a Yanda branch, and it is a branch on campus!