Xueba Fengyun

"This is the first batch of overseas royalty income from the 'Sherlock Holmes' series, the 'Polo' series and the 'Miss Marple' series. As the agent of these three series, the Boys' Club takes [-]% of the pre-tax income. This is after tax deduction The remuneration for the manuscript has already been fully credited into your account."

Zhang Meiqing handed Liu Miao a list of manuscript remuneration.The juvenile club's remuneration is basically paid by bank transfer to avoid some tax troubles.For contracted authors, the financial department of the Youth Club will help to do some reasonable tax avoidance; for non-signed authors, it will naturally follow the rules.The cooperative bank chosen by the Youth Club is China Merchants Bank. After all, this is the commercial bank that Liu Miao thought was the best for personal business and SME business in his previous life.China Merchants Bank was also happy to be able to recruit such a high-quality customer as the Youth Club in Tanzhou, so it took the initiative to reduce some of the bank fees.

"The overseas royalty income is really..." Zhang Meiqing is also an author herself, and she couldn't help being jealous when she saw Liu Miao's royalty income. 'Sherlock Holmes', would like to know about the income of the film and television rights. I remind you, this is the BBC!"

Liu Miao nodded, indicating that she understood.Although this time and space is somewhat different from Liu Miao's original world, there are still many things that have not changed.For example, the British Broadcasting Corporation still maintains the three "firsts" of the world's first wireless broadcasting, the first wireless TV and the first color wireless TV.Because of the seniority of the BBC, their archives are known as the world's first audio-visual archives.As a result, the British Broadcasting Corporation's status in the world is extremely lofty, although the drama series they produce generally only have three to six episodes, and they are basically classified into mini-series series.But the sophistication of their production and the standard of their selection of actors are enough to ensure that any series produced by the BBC can not only bring ratings, but also various TV trophies.

"If it is the BBC, I can lower the income from the adaptation rights. But I ask to share their income in the DVD and video tape market. The requirement is not high, and 10% is enough." Because of the excellent TV dramas of the BBC Therefore, all kinds of videotapes and DVDs produced by bbc are guaranteed to sell well in the rental or retail market.

"Okay, I will convey your intention to them." Zhang Meiqing said that she understood. "Speaking of which, your publishing plan for the second half of the year is really terrible, but thanks to your high output, the Boys Club finally has its own voice in the book publishing market. And combined with your reputation as a great god, we have finally won several books. You're a fairly good newcomer. Although the current sales volume can only show up occasionally on the weekly list, at least it gives our contracted writers confidence in us. In addition, I heard that Kunlun has a lot of opinions on you. Because of your high production and Gu Chongguang's high profile, now the media doesn't pay attention to Gong Yuxiang and Quan Xuenai at all, so the sales of "Singer" and "Concrete Forest" have begun to decline. It seems that the high-level officials in Kunlun are planning to target you. "

"Is it my fault that their sales have dropped?" Liu Miao felt a little unreasonable.

But he also knows that some big-name publishing houses have occupied a large market share for a long time, and they feel that those shares are theirs for granted.Now that sales have dropped, instead of first reflecting on whether there is something wrong with my magazine, I blame those newcomers who are catching up.

"They can do whatever they like. Don't say anything on my behalf at the Youth Club. Let him force you, and the wind blows the hills."

"Wow! What you said just now is so philosophical, who said it?" Zhang Meiqing caught a line in Liu Miao's words.

Liu Miao was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly remembered that this time and space did not have the so-called "Jin Gu Liang Wen", and naturally there would not be the "Nine Suns Manual" in Jin Yong's famous book.

"Oh, that's just what I said casually." Liu Miao hastily prevaricated.

Fortunately, Zhang Meiqing didn't ask any further, so Liu Miao returned to her office with her manuscript remuneration, and began to guess what tricks Kunlun would use to deal with her.

And when Liu Miao walked through the open office area of ​​the editorial department, several new editors were whispering there. "Guess how much the little boss got for the manuscript recently? Tsk tsk, I heard from seniors that about [-]% of the shares in the Youth Club are in the hands of the little boss, and the money was earned by the little boss writing novels. Recently, Dongfang The "Autumn Fairy Tale" that was popular on the TV network is the early work of the little boss. It tortured me to death. When I was reading novels, I was tortured to death. Now I watch TV dramas completely by myself. My mother accompanied me Look, I was crying while watching, I have used several boxes of tissues these days."

"Are you watching too? Little Boss's previous works are actually quite suitable for adaptation of movies or TV series. It's not the kind of pure first love, or the kind of family ethics drama with constant entanglements." Another editor interjected, "I heard It is said that the "Life and Death Love Series Quartet" was sold at one time, but the copyright of his first love trilogy is still in his hand. But let me tell you, the "Second Speed ​​Five" written by the little boss later in our youth club "Centimeter" is the real tear-jerker. I heard from my classmates in the copyright department that the right to adapt the film and series of this work has already been overwhelmed, but the little boss has been biting his tongue. I heard that The little boss himself has invested in a dreamworks animation company, and plans to make animated films first."

"Cartoon? Isn't that what children watch?" an editor was puzzled. "How much can this sell for?"

"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't think that the comics were comics before, oh no, they were comics. I used to think that comics were also for children, at most elementary school students. But I only found out from the comic department that our two comic magazines The sales and sales volume of the biweekly "Sunday" and the monthly "A Dream of Flowers" are at least twice that of our magazine department. Moreover, the main readers of these two magazines are people aged 14 to 25. Children are fine. Therefore, I think small bosses should have great potential in investing in animation companies. I like "Slam Dunk" and "Detective Bao Tsz" on "Sunday", and "The Rose of Versailles" on "Dreams Over Flowers" , These are very suitable for adaptation into animation. If the animation is broadcast on the TV network, I will definitely watch it as soon as possible. Forget it, let’s not talk about it, the editor-in-chief Zhuo Ran has watched it.”

After Liu Miao had sufficient funds, he immediately invested in a dream project animation production company in Tanzhou.Fortunately, China in this time and space has not broken the roots of animation movies, otherwise the embarrassment of being learned by the Japanese and then sold back and becoming popular all over the country would be ugly.However, somewhat similar to that time and space, the comic films of this era still have major problems in the conversion of shots and the control of plot rhythm.But the production company in Japan has just touched the threshold, and there is no way to give too much guidance.

Fortunately, there are quite a few animation professionals in Huaxia. After careful selection, Liu Miao has basically ensured that his animation production company can produce three to four animations at the same time.In addition, an additional department was formed to ensure the production of major animated films.This kind of big animation movie is still a bit different from the theatrical version, because the theatrical version is used to earn money from fans, while the big animation movie is a branch of the movie, and in the end it still has to face the general audience.

At present, DreamWorks is mainly producing "Slam Dunk", "Detective Baoji" and "Sailor Moon", in addition to the animated film "[-] Centimeters Per Second".Among these four works, only "Sailor Moon" has no original work, and of course the original work of "[-] Centimeters Per Second" is just a novel.

For the setting of "Sailor Moon", Liu Miao also specially invited the senior editors of the manga department to a meeting with the production team of DreamWorks, because the plot setting of the animation after the second part of "Sailor Moon" by Naoko Takeuchi in the previous life was somewhat broken. , It is entirely for the purpose of introducing the later Sailor Moon, deliberately designing many bridges that make the main plot fragmented.Therefore, in the setting of this version, Liu Miao directly retained the designs of the nine Sailor Moon and the Moon Princess, and Xiao Xiaoyue's plots were also preserved for the needs of the follow-up plot.

The reason why Liu Miao chose "Sailor Moon" as the starting point of the animation is because "Sailor Moon" has always been jokingly called "girl comics for young girls" (there will be "boy comics for girls" later - "The Prince of Tennis"), So this cartoon easily pleases the largest audience.In the early stage, in order to ensure the ratings, some compromises had to be made in the selection and production of cartoon themes.

"Mom, what's the deal with Oriental TV Network? Should we directly enter the time slot of the simulcast program, or will it be a unified purchase program?" After reading the work progress email from DreamWorks, Liu Miao made a call to own mother.

Ms. Liu was a little confused: "Cartoon is a brand-new type of TV program. The leaders of Oriental TV Network are unwilling to be the first program to eat crabs. They said that they can buy it, but they can only put it on the children's channel to fill the time slot. .”

"Stop program?" Liu Miao didn't expect that the cartoons she had worked so hard to make could only enter the TV network as the most trashy programs, "Forget it! If Oriental TV Network doesn't want to buy it, at worst I'll package it up and sell it to Penguin Anime channel. According to my estimates, we will basically be able to launch an online video station by the end of the year. Our first batch of original content is our cartoons, which can also attract the attention of original comics.”

"Don't worry, I just said that Oriental TV Network is not interested." Liu's mother said quickly, "In fact, I asked a few friends to help me ask other TV networks, and currently the most interested one is United TV Network. They have the most channels, so the demand for programs is also very large. Therefore, they are happy to try new types of programs, and you can talk to them about it." Then, Mama Liu will cooperate with the contacts and contacts on the TV network. The method was given to Liu Miao.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Miao was in disbelief.Among the five major TV networks, the public TV network, as a quasi-national TV network, has always had requirements on the style and direction of the programs, so it is known as the most serious TV network.And the second is the United Television Network, which is the first television network in China, so their programs are very old-fashioned, not as dynamic as the other three television networks.Of course, because of this, United Television Network has the highest comprehensive ratings.Because their shows basically offend no one, anyone who turns on ANN can watch them for a while.