Chapter 1430 1432 [Jurassic Park]
At the beginning of 1989, Guan Xiaoguan took her new husband back to China to visit relatives, and met Uncle Guan.
Xiang Nan didn't get involved, took a look from a distance, and felt that the man was average-looking, and his temperament was not good.
He was relieved.
Guan Xiaoguan did not bring her newlywed husband to visit the company, lest he see the money. After meeting Uncle Guan, she took him back to the United States.
Her husband didn't even know that she had a huge property in the capital. He only knew that she worked as a hotel manager and married him in a fake order in order not to be forced to marry by her family.
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In January 1989, Xiang Nan's previous science fiction novel "Jurassic Park" was successfully sold by CAA to Simon & Schuster, the second largest bookseller in the United States.
Not only helped Xiang Nan win a remuneration of US$4,000 per thousand words, but also won a 20% commission, which can be said to be quite good.
"Jurassic Park" is a novel written by Xiang Nan in 1983. It tells the story of a Chinese scientist in the 21st century who unearthed Jurassic amber from Zigong. After extracting dinosaur DNA, he mixed it with lizard, The DNA of reptiles such as frogs, iguanas, and geckos uses gene cloning technology to create ancient dinosaurs, and builds a Jurassic Park on an island in the South China Sea for tourists to watch.
After the novel was released, it caused a sensation.
However, domestic science fiction literature has always been very unpopular.
On the one hand, science fiction is always associated with popular science, but in fact these are completely different things. "Star Wars", Marvel, and DC's comic adaptation movies are all unreasonable, but they are still successful science fiction works.
On the one hand, the capacity of practitioners is limited. Those who can create do not necessarily understand science, and those who understand science do not necessarily know how to create. Therefore, the creation of science fiction literature is limited, which also makes science fiction have a relatively small audience.
Xiang Nan's "Jurassic Park" is a typical hit. Although the science fiction readers applaud it, thinking that this novel is really great, but the sales volume is at the bottom of Xiang Nan's many novels. Nan did not write a sequel after that.
Unexpectedly, after this novel was introduced to the United States, it became very popular, and quickly made it to the "New York Times" bestseller list, which surprised Simon and Schuster Publishing Company.
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After the novel became popular, major Hollywood film companies have taken a fancy to its commercial value.
Because monster movies have always been very popular in the United States, such as King Kong, Alien, Godzilla, Jaws and so on.
The ancient Tyrannosaurus rex depicted in "Jurassic Park" is the king of monsters. If it can be photographed, it will definitely be popular. At that time, it may be able to create box office miracles like "Jaws", "King Kong", and "Alien".
Because of this, many companies competed for the film and television adaptation rights of this novel, and they all offered high prices for this.
However, Xiang Nan was not in a hurry to sell the copyright, but offered a condition. The film company must guarantee that the production cost of "Jurassic Park" exceeds 60 million US dollars before he will give up the right to adapt the film and television.
Otherwise, even if the price of the script was five million, he would not bother to answer it.
Warner Bros. invested only 35 million US dollars in filming "Batman"; George Lucas and Steven Spielberg directed "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3", and the production cost was only 48 million US dollars; "Back to the Future 2", the sequel to "Back to the Future", the box office champion of the year, cost only 40 million U.S. dollars...
The story of "Jurassic Park" is very innovative and has great commercial value, but no one knows whether it will be popular or not. After all, unlike "Batman", "Back to the Future", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", it has been tested by the market.
Therefore, it is impossible for the film company to gamble with 60 million US dollars. After all, they are not having a good time right now.
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CAA also felt that the conditions offered by Xiang Nan were too harsh, and asked him to lower the cost a little, and set it at 30 million US dollars, which would be considered a big production.
However, Xiang Nan knows that the reason why "Jurassic Park" is popular all over the world is because it uses the most advanced digital special effects technology, which brings the audience an immersive and incomparably real audio-visual enjoyment. And this kind of special effects technology is very expensive, and it is impossible to do it without 60 million.
Furthermore, Xiang Nan asked for a production cost of 60 million US dollars, which in fact also required the film company to bring out the best team to make this film. Otherwise, there is a risk of losing money.
A good team, a good script and good special effects have a greater chance of winning a high box office. In this way, the IP of "Jurassic Park" will not be blinded in vain.
Otherwise, he would rather wait a few more years.
CAA saw that Xiang Nan would not back down, and there was nothing he could do.
Different from domestic economic companies controlling artists, American brokerage companies serve artists. If the artist is unhappy, he can fire the agency at any time, so CAA can only persuade Xiang Nan, but cannot force it.
However, Xiang Nan did not disappoint CAA too much. He then wrote three scripts and handed them over to CAA.
A "Ghost Love", a "Pretty Woman", and a "Home Alone", these three films are all high-scoring movies in the 1990s, and I believe they should be welcomed by film companies.
CAA was overjoyed after receiving the script, and immediately began to sell it vigorously.
In the end, Paramount won "The Ghost", "Pretty Woman" was won by Warner, and "Home Alone" was won by Fox.
Xiang Nan received 600,000 US dollars in authorship remuneration and 5% profit share for this. However, generally speaking, due to the black hearts of Hollywood film companies, even big-selling movies can turn into losses through accounting.
For example, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the North American box office is as high as 610 million U.S. dollars, which is considered a big profit no matter what. But after some operations by Warner Pictures, the film not only failed to make money, but also lost 160 million US dollars.
Thus, any staff member who signed a profit-sharing contract with the film company ended up with nothing in the end. So later they also learned, and directly asked to participate in the income sharing.
But not everyone has this privilege. Unless he has a certain right to speak in Hollywood, it must be him.
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In February of **, "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" was officially broadcast on Yanjing Satellite TV.
Once broadcast, it was well received.
Witty and humorous stories, lively performances, and rigorous and meticulous production make this TV series naturally popular. It is even more popular than "Family Spring and Autumn" broadcast on CCTV at the same time.
(end of this chapter)