It was tough, but after two days, everyone had an idea.

Laobai invested $60 million and accounted for 30% of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Although the investment of Haimensi Pictures is also 60 million, they take their own resources, especially the distribution channels, to take shares, accounting for 60% and a half of the shares. Of course, the crew will pay for Sun Peng's script as usual, which is also quite a lot of income, but it is nothing compared to the income of the movie......

At least in Sun Peng's opinion, it's really nothing.

The expected investment of 120 million US dollars, the possibility of increased publicity costs, and of course, the priority of the sequel of Hemens, etc., if they want to achieve it, they still need a premise - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" must achieve good enough results in the world, at least in Europe and the United States!

So......

"Xiaopeng, are you sure?"

When the agent heard Sun Peng's proposal, his eyes widened instantly: "Five million dollars in publicity money, this is ...... That's crazy, isn't it? ”

In Sun Ya's opinion, this kid is simply crazy.

If you want to promote "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" as much as possible, Sun Ya can understand, and it is not impossible to make some concessions to Seal Press for this, but pay five million dollars in one go for Seal Press to promote this book?

Subconsciously, Sun Ya wanted to touch her brother's forehead.

"Sister, I'm not crazy!"

Shaking his head to avoid the second sister's right hand, Sun Peng smiled and said, "To put it simply, I just value this set of books more." Besides, five million dollars is not much, if you can make "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" sell that two million more, wouldn't you make back everything? And don't forget, I've got several more books on the back! ”

In Sun Peng's view, this is a pretty good deal.

Especially when the Little Wizard series has already published two books, and the third book will be published at the end of the year, he really can't wait for the Little Wizard to slowly rise! What Sun Peng wants now is to let the little wizard give it a try, if it can also be popular in Europe and the United States in this world, it is natural to feed back its "original" little wizard.

As long as it can be done, what is five million dollars?

In recent years, the publicity and distribution cost of any movie is tens of millions, and the publicity expenses of Hollywood's super productions can even be hundreds of millions of dollars! Although the promotion of the book cannot be compared with the movie, but look at those big names in North America, the promotion of a new book is often millions of dollars in various publicity and public relations expenses, not to mention the more exaggerated Harry Potter series on the earth.

Of course, the little magician's publicity fee is not to mention 5 million, even 50 million is definitely worth it!

However, he also knew that Sun Ya would definitely not believe it before he saw it with his own eyes, so he simply took out five million to promote a wave, as long as there was a successful start, everything that followed would fall into place......

Sun Ya didn't quite understand this, but it didn't prevent her from finally nodding and saying, "Okay, I hope your idea is right...... But that's five million...... Or dollars! Absolutely not so easy cheap seal press! ”

"Uh, what do you want to do?"

Rolling his eyelids, Sun Peng said helplessly.

My second sister is good at everything, very diligent, and very tolerant of herself, but she is a little "stingy" when negotiating with foreign countries. Of course, for Sun Peng, the second sister's "stinginess" must be a good thing, which can ensure her own interests to the greatest extent. But this time, he really couldn't think of what Sun Ya would do to "recover" the "loss" of five million dollars!

"Nonsense, of course let them raise their royalties!"

also rolled his eyes at Sun Peng, and the agent said angrily.

Sun Peng was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Royalties? Sister, my royalties are now the top, right? What else is this? ”

For the current royalties, Sun Peng is already very satisfied.

Whether it is at home or abroad, whether it is a picture book, it is basically the top level in the industry. Of course, this royalty rate is also based on Sun Peng's sales, and he is also at ease. But if you want to go further......

No matter which publishing house, I am afraid it will be difficult to take this step.

"Tsk, so what?"

With a straight nose, Sun Ya pouted and said: "Five million dollars is your money, where does their seal publishing house have a reason to benefit and not pay?" ”

“……”

Hearing the second sister say this, Sun Peng suddenly closed his mouth.

That's right, five million!

Even if it is his own book, and five million dollars is only the current overseas royalties of Sun Peng's two books of Little Wizard, he still feels a little distressed every time he thinks about it.

"Alright, you can leave this matter alone."

With an atmospheric wave of her hand, Sun Ya said proudly: "If I can't go back, I'll go to Europe in person, and I won't waste too long." Even if they are not willing to compromise on royalties, they will have to make Seal Press compensate them in other ways......"

……

After a few days of maneuvering between several Hollywood giants, Sun Peng finally completed the purpose of this trip.

Of course, it only accomplished the purpose for which he came.

In fact, the negotiation of "Zootopia" was the easiest, because Sun Peng gave up the right to invest, and also gave up the requirement for Huaxia Animation Company to participate in the production, and simply provided the script and a theme song, and handed over everything else to Capoca Animation.

In this case, Capoca doesn't really have much bargaining power.

After all, the box office data of "Frozen" and "The Lion King" are there, and the former's peripheral income is also rich and scary, unless Sun Peng really prescribes a condition that makes them unprofitable, unless the brains of the board of directors are collectively in the water, it is impossible for Capoca to refuse this cooperation - in fact, Sun Ya's conditions are far from meeting Francis? Philip their psychological bottom line.

So the rest is just a matter of scrutinizing the details of the contract.

Relatively speaking, the cooperation of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is not particularly difficult, especially after Sun Peng proposed that he could accept the dissolution and share agreement, Haggs Films' concerns have disappeared - they still have more confidence in this set of picture books, and the only concern is Laobai's terrifying share ratio......

The real puzzle is in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Sun Peng's requirements for this movie are much higher than those of "The Lion, the Witch and the Devil's Wardrobe", and it requires more from Haimensi Pictures, but now there is only a first draft, and it has not even been tested on the market......

It's just that after reaching a preliminary agreement, Sun Peng can't stay in Los Angeles anymore.

For Sun Peng, the task of this trip has been completed, and he can't wait to rush back to Huaxia as soon as possible......