What does an upfront royalty price of at least $3 million mean, generally speaking, a hardcover price of a published novel costs $20-30, and novels above $25 either have a lot of words or are first-line bestsellers themselves, Audrey Niffenegger's last book, The Time Traveler's Wife, sold more than 5 million copies worldwide, which is quite good, but "The Time Traveler's Wife" is her personal point. She is obviously not a first-line best-selling author, and her new book is expected to be priced at about $22 with a small number of words.

In addition, under normal circumstances, the profit of a publishing company to publish a novel is in the range of 25%-35%, even if the profit margin is 35%, and the prepaid royalty price of at least $3 million means that the novel can only be profitable if it sells more than 380,000 copies.

This is almost the bare case, and depending on the actual transaction price, as well as pricing, profit margins, and the proportion of hardcover paperbacks, there will even be cases where the novel will sell more than 1 million copies to be profitable.

Although the United States is the world's No. 1 book sales market, accounting for nearly one-third of the global book market, with a total annual sales of 2.9 billion books in various forms, due to the large number of books, the average sales of each novel are extremely small, and the books that can exceed one million sales are adult novels, and there are only a dozen or twenty novels standing at the top of the pyramid.

"Paul, do you know what the novel is about?" After thinking about it, Lin Yuquan asked out loud, it is undoubtedly difficult to reach millions of copies in the United States, but Audrey Niffenger's place. The female novel can sell 5 million copies worldwide, and her new book is not impossible to achieve, and it depends on the situation of her new book.

"The specifics are unclear, it seems to be a supernatural novel." Paul. Haggis Road.

"Well, well, Paul, don't think about whether or not you're really involved in the fight. Your first job is to figure out what the novel is about and what its qualities are, and then we'll think about it. Lin Yuquan said in a deep voice.

"Okay, boss." Paul. Haggis Road.

"What's wrong, Brother Yuquan?" After Lin Yuquan hung up the phone. Liu Yifei said curiously.

"A best-selling author has published a new book that has caused a lot of competition among publishers. Haggis asked me if I would like to join the fray. Lin Yuquan smiled slightly.

The time came to August 24, and the box office rankings of the new week were released. On the North American box office charts, Quentin's "Inglourious Basterds" earned $38.68 million in 3,137 theaters over the weekend, topping the box office champion, not only surpassing "Kill Bill 2" to become the best opening box office for a film directed by Quentin, but also the first $41 million in Weinstein Pictures' internal performance after "Screaming 4".

Although this is only the first week of release, and there is still a long time before the film is released, such box office results can already be concluded in advance, and "Inglourious Basterds" is bound to become Quentin's second North American box office to break 100 million after "Pulp Fiction".

In addition, "Inglourious Basterds" also recorded good box office results in overseas markets, sweeping a total of $28.12 million in 22 overseas markets. Among them, the box office table in Europe is the most prominent, with $6.27 million in France, $5.87 million in the United Kingdom, and $4.42 million in Germany.

In second place is not another film, it is "The Expendables", which gave way from the previous week's championship, after setting a good box office performance last week, "The Expendables" continued its efforts in the past week, with a box office drop of 47.36%, another $21.98 million. once again beat "District 9", with a total of $74.98 million at the North American box office in two weeks.

In terms of overseas markets, "The Expendables" recorded a total of $30.12 million at the box office, so far. The global box office of "The Expendables" rose to $143.9 million, and the global box office exceeded $200 million.

"The Expendables" is followed by "District 9" at $18.31 million, "The Hangover" at $12.75 million, "Special Forces: Rise of the Cobra" at $11.74 million, "Time Traveler's Wife" at $9.52 million, "Delicious Romance" at $8.68 million, "Wishing Stone" at $6.24 million, "Guinea Pig Agent" at $3.87 million, and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" at $3.26 million.

So far, the cumulative box office of "The Hangover" in North America has reached $222 million, and while surpassing the $208 million "Wedding Hero", there is only $234 million left in front of "Beverly Hills Super Detective", according to the current box office trend. In terms of global box office, due to the release of "The Hangover" in more overseas markets this week, the cumulative box office has climbed to $374 million, successfully surpassing "I'm Crazy for Mary" and becoming the highest-grossing R-rated comedy film in film history in the world. ”

"Smack." When Chris Anderson's words fell, the main conference room of Summit Entertainment immediately burst into warm applause.

"It's good, but the more successful "The Hangover" and "The Expendables" are, the more we have to ensure the quality of the sequel, otherwise there will be no sequels later, and the key to ensuring quality is the script." Lin Yuquan said in a deep voice after clapping.

"Yes, we plan to complete the creation of the script as early as the end of this year, and early next year at the latest, and set it to be released in the summer of the following year." Chris. Anderson Road.

"Yes, we will follow this plan, but in this way, the number of films we will release next year is still not enough, in this regard, one is to dig more high-quality scripts, and the other is to find more gold from the next Toronto Film Festival." Lin Yuquan looked at Chris. Anderson.

"Good boss, we will pay close attention to the implementation of these two aspects of the work, and strive to achieve substantive results." Chris. Anderson nodded.

"I don't have to worry about your errands, I'm waiting for the good news to come as soon as possible." Speaking of this, Lin Yuquan looked at Kevin again. Garnett: "Kevin, is the casting for "Clash of Clans" set up tomorrow? ”

"Boss, Ichiē is ready." Kevin. Garnett smiled.

"Ok, everyone, we have achieved great success this summer, but I hope you can make persistent efforts to create more brilliance, in the next time, we still have a few movies to be released one after another, everyone must not slack off, only by doing everything that needs to be done, we can usher in a truly brilliant year." Lin Yuquan said in a deep voice.

"Understood." "Boss, don't worry." Everyone said.

Paul. Haggis was quick to get things done, and he called in the afternoon.

"Boss, I just met Audrey Nieffinger this morning, and I've already read her new book, Her Terrible Symmetry, which is indeed a supernatural novel, about a pair of twin sisters who receive a will from their aunt who has recently died in London, bequeathing them an apartment near a cemetery in London, on the condition that they must move into the apartment for a year before they can consider selling it. So the sisters came to London from the United States and moved into an apartment near the cemetery, and their arrival disrupted the lives of their neighbors."

Lin Yuquan's face is full of groaning, multiple character perspectives, intricate identity conjugation, twilight love, inextricable bonds between twins, and the triangle of ghost love across yin and yang, to write such a story well, it undoubtedly takes a strong pen to do it.

Audrey Nieffinger has such a pen, but it seems that such a story is difficult to be loved by young readers, and the box office of the film adaptation is estimated to be even worse than the current "Time Traveler's Wife".

The reason is very simple, the whole story should be terrifying or not, and it seems very inconsistent to love, young readers and fans prefer beautiful and romantic love, but whether it is a year-old love or a ghost love triangle between aunts and nieces, it is full of a strong sense of disobedience, at least he doesn't like it very much.

And if it comes to the sales of novels, he is still a little uncertain, but as a senior filmmaker, he can be quite sure of the box office of the adapted movie.

Do you want to get involved? After just a little consideration, Lin Yuquan shook his head, at least $3 million in advance royalties obviously has a lot of risk, and there is no potential for adapting the movie, and the most important thing is that he doesn't even like it, and it is obviously not worth taking a huge risk for such a novel.

"Paul, we will not join the competition, the prepaid royalties are too high, and finally succeed in winning the copyright, it is likely that the gains outweigh the losses, rather than competing for "Her Terrible Symmetry", striving to enhance the influence of the publishing house and absorbing more excellent works is the foundation of development."

"Okay boss." Paul. Haggis replied crisply.

"Ha, this year's results are good, and I am now looking forward to the results of the publishing house next year, come on, hurry up and confirm the novel to be published next summer." Lin Yuquan said with a smile.

"Okay boss." The same thing about Paul. Haggis's tone was noticeably hesitant, and sometimes it was not a good thing to be too successful, because it was too difficult and too difficult to achieve transcendence.

Next year, after hanging up the phone, Lin Yuquan shook his head, if it is false to say that there is no worry, the achievements of Summit Entertainment and Little Bear Publishing House this year are very remarkable, not to mention surpassing, it is not easy to compare, but in his heart is more expectation, is motivation, there will be extraordinary pleasure when there is a challenge, and there will be a sense of accomplishment from the bottom of his heart.

It's September soon, and it's time to watch the Dawning movie performance next, Lin Yuquan smiled slightly, he has a strong confidence in the movies released by Dawning Films in the second half of this year.

What will be the result? It's really exciting! (To be continued.) )