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"Thank you." Adam smiled and thanked the man in front of him who became more and more familiar with him.

"It's just a trivial matter. By the way, I haven't congratulated you on breaking the 8000 million box office of your new movie." Shay waved his hand, and then solemnly congratulated Adam's movie "Little House" in the past November. Achieved breakthrough 8000 million, close to 9000 million beautiful results.

Looking at this young man who is only about 20 years old, he has achieved amazing achievements in many fields in just a few years. When he wanted to make a movie, he thought in his heart that Adam has such an outstanding talent in writing, why bother to spend that energy on making a movie, if he has the time to write a book, not to mention continuing to break through tens of millions of sales, even a million sales Enough to earn an income that many authors can't even imagine.

However, Adam told him again that as long as it is what he wants to do, there will be no failure. A movie with a cost of only a million or so has an exaggerated box office of nearly 9000 million. With the arrival of the month, "Little House" does not have much power, and in the end it can only stay around 5000 million US dollars. As far as he knows, because of the popularity of this movie in North America, a large number of foreign distributors want to introduce it. The flash that Adam bought has no overseas distribution channels yet, but even if it is bought out, it is enough to earn more than [-] million yuan. In this way, relying on box office revenue alone, this horror movie can contribute more than [-] million yuan to Adam.

And we must know that in the United States in the 90s, when the official video disc market was the most prosperous, generally speaking, the income of film companies in the video disc market was in a ratio of 1:1 to the income of movie box offices, so this film was able to allow Adam to brazenly win nearly $[-] million in income is comparable to Adam writing a novel with tens of millions of sales.

This made Shay, who has been in the film distribution industry for decades, feel mixed feelings. You must know that in the past year, New Line Films, which made a fortune thanks to the movie "Jurassic Park", instantly became the hottest in Hollywood. For an independent film company, the profit of just one film far exceeds the sum of all the films released by Warner Films, a subsidiary of the behemoth-like parent company, for a whole year.

Don’t think it’s an exaggeration. In the early 90s, Warner Films’ annual net profit was only a few hundred million dollars. That’s why two or three consecutive big investment films by Hollywood film companies may bankrupt the entire film company, including the top five.And the profit of "Jurassic Park" is astonishingly large. First, the box office revenue of the film will reach [-] million US dollars, and the DVD market is expected to contribute nearly [-] million US dollars. The two together will have a profit of [-] million US dollars. Even more huge copyright income, these can only be regarded as pediatrics. In order to promote, there are more than [-] copyright products related to "Jurassic Park". , and the income in this area will not stop because the movie screening is coming to an end. Although it has been greatly reduced compared to when the movie was released, it is still surprisingly large.

Therefore, in the current situation, whether it is Warner or New Line, for Adam, who controls the fate of the sequel, it is absolutely the rhythm of whatever he wants.

Of course, although Adam also understands something in his heart, he will not use this to make various harsh demands on Warner. After all, he does not want to make a fortune, but wants to develop for a long time. For him, who is just a newborn in Hollywood, there are places where he needs to rely on Warner, one of the top five.

For example, the purchase of the copyright of "X-Men" this time, not to mention relying on Warner, Shay only spent a symbolic price of 50 US dollars to buy the copyright of Marvel's most popular comic characters, and it is simply Big gift package type, not only including the well-known professor husband and wife, Wolverine and Xiaojianjian, if it can be like the previous life, the part-time job can make a lot of money, but no one knows what will happen in the future, after all, they hold a lot of copyrights DC's father, Warner, is also playing the good cards together.

But these are things to consider in the future. After all, it is impossible for Adam to make related comic book adaptation movies in the past one or two years, whether it is technology, funding, or timing.

"It's just luck. By the way, I don't know what to think about the pseudo-documentary genre." Adam responded casually, and then suddenly switched to another topic.

Hearing Adam's words, Xie Yi didn't react at once, and replied after a few seconds of stunned: "Are you talking about the type of movie you made? Fake documentaries are really good, especially in horror movies. It can greatly enhance the audience's sense of substitution, and maybe it can really become a genre."

"I still have a pseudo-documentary in my hand, I wonder if you are interested?" Adam didn't pay attention to Xie's words, looked at the Tyrannosaurus rex model on the table, and continued to talk about his thoughts.

Hearing what Adam said, Shay frowned slightly, a little puzzled: "I remember that Glitter has distribution channels in North America, why should you give it to me?"

Adam picked up the Tyrannosaurus rex model and played with it in his hand, while raising his eyebrows slightly and said, "I don't know if you've heard about the disappearance of Quest that has been widely circulated recently?"

The mystery-seeking disappearance that Adam mentioned was brewing in September, and as it spread, it gradually attracted the attention of millions of people, because these missing persons all disappeared in order to explore the secrets of witches. Therefore, it is also called the "disappearance of the witch". People like Shay who must read the major newspapers every day don't know about the disappearance that is raging now. He didn't react for a while when he heard Adam's words. After he reacted, he immediately shuddered.

He widened his eyes, and looked at the indifferent young man in front of him in disbelief. He always thought that Adam had come to this point purely by virtue of his extraordinary talent. A young man with such a reputation like him would not be addicted to alcohol. It's unbelievable among beautiful women, but in any case, she entered the society before entering the campus, and her mind must be simpler.

However, if what he imagined in his heart is true, he can only say "willing to surrender", but thinking that in the past few years, whether it is the so-called "Wizard Whirlwind" or the "Yu Xing Incident" that was raging at the beginning of the year, there may be some The trace of Adam's shot, if it is true, then this young man is too scary.

He was dazed for a moment, then considered the words and said, "You also directed this movie?"

Adam shrugged and said with a smile: "You are joking, how could it be me."

Adam's answer made Shay feel a little better, but then Adam continued: "With my current fame, it is not suitable for me to be contaminated with this movie, but I have reasons to push this movie, but for now I have There are too many involved, so I can't get involved in the distribution. If you are interested, I can let your company distribute it. I only take 15.00% of the box office plus DVD revenue, and I am willing to give up the right to film sequels, and in We are willing to fully cooperate in publicity.”

Adam said word by word, although 15.00% income is a bit high for Shay, but considering Adam's ability to turn stones into gold, and the successful cases of pseudo-documentaries just shown to him, there is still a He has already done a huge amount of publicity. After he takes over, as long as he follows this process, he will never lose money, and there is even a great possibility that their new line company will make a lot of money.

You must know that although New Line made a lot of money with "Jurassic Park" in 1993, there were no plans to release any movies in 1994, and the release was still the same as before. The movie, this untitled horror movie, if it can have a box office appeal like "The Little House", it will definitely be a great thing for their company.

Even if he knows that the public opinion pressure that this movie may bring after its release will damage their company's image, it doesn't matter. For their company, as long as there is a good movie, the image is worthless, especially in the face of For a work that may make them tens of millions of dollars, what is a little bit or two?

"Of course there is no reason not to accept the money delivered to your door, but you still need Adam's help for the subsequent publicity." Xie Yi agreed without any further thought. Although it is not clear what other plans Adam has, but with him As far as it is concerned, there are only benefits, and since this is the case, there is no reason to give up.

"Of course, after signing the publishing contract, I will ask Tonares to send you a copy of our publicity plan. How to do it is up to you, how?" Adam concluded one thing, and I am very satisfied. Although I lost part of my benefits by doing so, firstly, I was able to win over Xie Yi, a partner who still needs a long-term cooperation, and secondly, I was able to take advantage of myself in this matter.

"Thanks in advance." Shay said with a smile, and then switched to another topic: "I heard that some venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital are very optimistic about the technology company you founded, maybe you have to be prepared gone."

The great success of Eden 2.0 and the huge influence of Eden in this disappearance incident have made Wall Street see the great potential of emerging Internet companies, and have cast an olive branch on Nirvana, especially after entering November, Carol has already received meeting requests from many venture capital companies, and another matter planned by Adam is also proceeding step by step, but according to Adam’s thinking, it’s not time yet, so it’s better to go through it first One more Christmas.

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