"Mr. Johnson, after this book is adapted into a movie, as long as the technology, cost, director and actors can keep up, it will inevitably be a big hit, I have this money, I will add this feast, if not, I can't join," Li Mo said. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Ladies and gentlemen, the fourth condition is barely a gambling agreement, if the global box office falls below $500 million by then, I don't want any dividends, of course, in order to protect my income, I must retain a certain right to review the script and edit it."

It's a very exciting condition.

Not to mention whether you really invest 100 million US dollars to make a blockbuster, if you want to make it well, the investment will not be less, and when the time comes, in order to share the risk, you must attract more investors to enter, the east is also pulling, the west is also pulling, Li Mo has money in his hands, why can't he enter?

If there really is 500 million US dollars, the box office alone will recoup all the costs, and the film will inevitably have a lot of derivative income by then.

The various deputies were worried that Li Mo would not be able to come up with the money at that time.

And there are a lot of tricks to this investment...... If you are greedy, even blockbuster movies like "Jurassic Park" and "Harry Potter" will hack you so much that you can't get a penny. Li Mo doesn't plan to be greedy, it's enough to be able to intervene, and it doesn't cost to be a real family to maintain production channels and distribution channels? It's still early, so you can negotiate a specific agreement when you are about to shoot.

Li Mo said so much, firstly, in order to be able to delay the filming of the film, and secondly, while dragging it back, it is necessary to sell the film adaptations of these trilogies at a high price.

Li Mo said the fifth condition: "The last condition, the director must be Steven Spielberg. ”

Everyone has no objection either, Spielberg has proven himself through "Jaws", "Contact of the Third Kind", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and "Alien E.T".

It can only be said that inviting Spielberg to be a director will definitely increase the cost of filming, but compared to the possible $100 million, it is nothing.

This is also Li Mo's intention, Lao Si's golden time is in these 20 years, making a popular film, and after the 21st century, Lao Si may be able to be a producer because of his age, and when he becomes a director, he will make a blockbuster as a literary film, and become a literary film, do you still want to sell well?

A representative stood up and asked, "Li, I want to ask, your trilogy is auctioned together, and only one song is written...... With all due respect, what if something happens to you and the rest of the two parts? ”

"Well said, there are too many accidents in this world, in case there is something I can't write about in the past few years, or I die...... This does have to be considered, but after the price is negotiated, we can also sign an agreement. If this happens, and there are still two unwritten, I will use my manuscript fee to pay for two-thirds of your losses. Or maybe I spend the manuscript fee, but it doesn't matter, the more books I publish in the future, and the more I can cover your losses. ”

"Can you tell us about a few of your books?" The Global representative asked.

"With all due respect, they sell creative ideas too. But I can say that these books are all suitable for film adaptations, and the book written at the moment may be a little worse, but if it is well made, it will win you a few little golden statuettes. ”

"Why do you have to auction all three at the same time?" The representative of Warner Bros. frowned and asked, it is indeed a big IP, the problem is that it has become three at once, and it will undoubtedly pay more money to get its film adaptation rights.

"This is Mr. Johnson's proposal, that if the book sells well, the movie will sell more, and the movie will sell well, which in turn will push the book club to sell better. This trilogy is about dinosaurs, and in order to maintain the consistency of its filming and avoid unnecessary copyright disputes, it is best to hand it over to a film company to shoot, so the trilogy was auctioned together. ”

It was not Johnson's proposal, but under the inducement of Li Mo, Johnson said this sentence.

Li Mo said this, and turned his head to look at Hao Like.

Hao Lick understood, walked over and said, "My employer has said that he has asked for it, and now it's time for you to bid." Please write down the reserve price in your heart on paper, and the highest price will win. ”

It's brutal...... But it's normal to be in the United States, and the representative of Universal stood up and said, "Can you give us a phone call?" ”

"Okay."

The delegates stood up and went out to make phone calls.

Li Mo's last few conditions are a little better, mainly the first two conditions, whether it is eight years of delayed shooting, or a production cost of 100 million US dollars, which discourages many film companies, in fact, ninety percent of medium-sized film companies have been eliminated in the face of these two conditions.

After a while, the representatives came back one after another, you looked at me, I looked at you, and wrote their psychological prices on the paper one after another.

Haureck put the note away.

Li Mo opened it and saw that the first one was MGM's, with a bid of two million dollars.

He snorted coldly, it seems that MGM has really fallen.

So what should this trilogy be worth?

First of all, the theme, since the "Gate of Heaven" pounced, the choice of theme has been very narrow, similar themes to Heaven's Gate, and even the Lord of the Rings, everyone dare not shoot, or aliens, because Star Wars is on fire, so in the future, Hollywood has made a lot of alien-themed movies, or monsters, driven by Jaws.

Not to mention how popular the first two Jaws were, the third Jaws still reached more than $400 million at the global box office, followed by the "Alien" series, the "Anaconda Disaster" series, and even the monster theme was smashed, and there are many monster movies.

Can a great white shark compare to a dinosaur?

Secondly, compared with the film copyright of "Jurassic Park" in history, Universal in history only gave the author $1.5 million, and the other is $500,000 in remuneration for participating in the adaptation of the screenplay, but there are still ...... The box office share of the movie is also. This is different from Li Mo's request for capital injection, Li Mo does not inject capital, and if the relevant film company does not get it, it will also ask other investors to inject capital, after all, this is an era when the budget of a blockbuster is only two or three hundred million US dollars.

Universal gave a share of the box office, and whether it was a loss or not, it had to give the author a lot of money, so the price in Universal's mind at that time was not less than six million dollars.

If a million dollars are deducted from the rise in prices, a million dollars are deducted from the further prosperity of the film market, another million dollars are deducted from the disadvantage of the Chinese, and a million dollars are deducted from the long-term factor, then the price of each part should be two million dollars.

There is also one factor to consider, that is, the risk of buying the adaptation rights of the trilogy together, and deducting a part of it, but no matter how it is deducted, it is impossible for it to be worth only two million dollars, not a trilogy, a song is sold separately, and it is not more than two million dollars if it does not share the box office of the movie.

Li Mo put down the MGM paper...... I was going to throw it away, but it was too rude, and when I opened the other papers, there were still a few people who only offered a price of about $2 million, and two people who offered a low price of $1 million, but most people paid more than $3 million.

About the limit, Li Mo opened a note, he looked at the note, and suddenly smiled...... The note did not write the price, but wrote a line: the highest bid plus $80,000, is our bid, in addition, I just had a phone call with Spielberg, he is really interested in your book, and he will come to negotiate with you in person in the evening, we have been working with Spielberg around the world has been very pleasant, please consider this factor.

Universal Pictures has a really good relationship with Lao Si, and the film company itself is also very interesting, its current behind-the-scenes shareholder is the American music company, Universal is constantly making money, and the old club is constantly using the money earned by Universal to transfuse blood for the parent company. In '91, in order to raise more money for the broadcast and cable television business, the American music company sold Universal directly to RB Panasonic.

But RB Matsushita Electric did not find a capable person to manage it, and the huge cultural differences left the new owner at a loss, and five years later, it had to sell it to the Canadian brewing giant Seagram. After Sigram got Global, it was full of ambition to build a media empire, and successively acquired Polygram and several other entertainment companies, but because it was not familiar with the entertainment industry, it quickly suffered and sold it to Vivendi, a water group from France. As a result, Vivendi was riddled with debt and had to sell 80% of Universal's shares to General Electric, which pinched Universal and its national broadcaster together to form a new company, NBCUniversal, which stabilized.

Li Mo didn't know the specifics, but he knew that in a few years, Universal would continue to change hands.

Li Mo put the note down, looked at the other notes, and when it came to Paramount, they bid four million dollars.

This price is not low, and it is equivalent to more than 10 million US dollars in the 21st century...... But then again, Li Mo is talking about a trilogy, and after sharing it, how much is one part? Think of the price Warner Bros. paid for Harry Potter.

Li Mo handed the two pieces of paper to Hao Like, and selected them from these two companies.

Hollick left the representatives of the two companies behind, and the others left disappointed. In fact, the seven major film companies, that is, these two film companies have the best benefits at the moment, Warner has big-selling movies such as the Jaws series, and Paramount has big-selling movies such as the Raiders of the Lost Ark series.

Li Mo stood up, chased to the door of the hotel and said, "Everyone, please stop for a moment." ”

More than two dozen deputies stopped, looking at him strangely together.

Li Mo said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is just my first book......

"Hehe, Li, do you still expect us to raise the price for you?" One of the delegates said angrily.

"No, in this way, I make a promise to you, I plan to write in my hands, for the time being, for these five novels, I will sell their film rights to different film companies. Believe me, they can all be bestsellers and film adaptations. Even if what I write in my hand, it may win awards and will not be a big hit, and if it is well filmed, the box office will not be low. ”

The representative sent by Warner Bros. was very clever, grabbed Li Mo's hand and said, "Li, I look forward to cooperating with you next time." ”

That's business.

Don't overestimate these eight ...... Now it is the seven major film companies, there is enough money, and they can still be acquired, of course, as a Chinese, it will be very difficult to acquire these eight major film companies in the future.

But we can't underestimate them, they are not too influential to be guilty of making enemies with them.

Li Mo sent them to the car, returned to the hotel, looked at the representatives of the two companies and said: "You bid four million US dollars, in fact, in my heart, the actual value of this trilogy is not four million US dollars, but 40 million US dollars, the global box office of the first Great White Shark reached more than 470 million US dollars, last year's Great White Shark was shot relatively poorly, and the global box office is still more than 200 million US dollars, as long as the shooting is good and willing to invest, do you think the sense of substitution of dinosaurs is not as good as that of Great White Shark?" And its derivatives can be compared to dinosaurs? ”

Representatives of the two film companies were speechless.

"However, we Orientals have a saying, contentment and happiness, including when you shoot in the future, I will invest in, and the requirements for dividends will not be too high. Since it's four million dollars, then four million dollars, I hope that the two of you will cooperate and jointly win this copyright...... It also includes sharing this cost, after all, if you want to shoot it well, the investment will be very large. ”

The two representatives each called their own company again, but the contract had not yet been signed, because Lao Si rushed over and he had his ideas.

A few hours later, the bearded old man rushed to the hotel where Li Mo was staying, and hugged Li Mo when he saw him: "Li, alien, let me catch you." ”

The representatives of the two families smiled wryly, Li is not only an alien, but also a difficult little guy.