Chapter 282 Hollywood (3rd Update!)

The signing with Kant Henry was very simple, and it was done in a very ordinary way.

Kant is a very typical American. Although he was surprised that Yin Jun was so young and felt that he could write such a profound novel, it was a bit unbelievable, but Americans are known not to like to explore other people’s privacy, so Kant also Didn't ask much.

Yin Jun's pen name is the pinyin of his own name - Jun.

There was no trouble in the contract, and it was all in a standard format. Kant wanted to have a good relationship with Yin Jun, and he didn't have the mind to play tricks.

The general advance payment in the American publishing industry is between 10% and 30%. If it is Stephen King and Michael Clayton, the general publishing house will give them all the royalties of the first printing after they hand over the manuscript.

There are even more exaggerated ones, people have taken 1 million US dollars in advance before starting to write a book, which is called advance numbering.

Of course, Huaguo also has such writers, and Gu Long enjoys this kind of treatment.

Usually, if he writes a few hundred words at the beginning, he can get an advance payment of tens of thousands.

This is why many of Gu Long's works were written by others - he wrote the beginning, but without any more thoughts, he simply threw it to a friend or the gunman to write.

Since Kant was planning to cooperate with Yin Jun in the future, he gave a 30% advance payment of 2,400 US dollars.

The two parties agreed that it would be listed in the United States within three months from the date of submission of the manuscript, but Kant said that as long as they finished proofreading the manuscript, typesetting and printing, plus publicity, it would be done within a month. .

After all, Henry Publishing House is a small publishing house with a very flexible operation, and it also has its own sales channels, so it is very convenient to sell books.

In fact, Yin Jun has considered that a small publishing house is not conducive to large-scale promotion and marketing, but at least it can guarantee normal publication. Anyway, Yin Jun does not live on royalties-the advance payment of 2,400 US dollars is only more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is not enough The round-trip ticket money for Yin Jun and Tian Jiachun.

But the big publishing houses either look down on these two books, or they are too demanding, and now they can only make do with it.

The most important thing is that Henry Publishing has branches all over California, and they have a bookstore in Beverly Hills, Hollywood. This is a great thing for the establishment of the copyright of the two books.

Perhaps before Yin Jun brought film production to the table, some Hollywood companies or directors would be interested in these two books.

What's more, after the two movies are released, crazy fans will choose to buy books with a more comprehensive screening plot to watch, which will drive the best-selling of the books at that time.

Yin Jun still holds the copyrights of Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong moss, and I dare not say more at that time. There should be no problem selling 5 million copies each—this is the golden age of book sales. This best-selling book can sell three to five hundred and five copies in the United States, and Europe is not inferior. Even millions in Japan are not new, so I have to sigh, but the progress of the times also has some disadvantages that cannot be overcome for the time being. .

Yin Jun is not a time-wasting person. After finishing the publishing contract of two books in the morning, and having a meal with Kant at noon, he took the two female generals straight to the post office and started the crazy work of postmarking.

After buying stamps one by one, after pasting them, the post office staff were asked to postmark them one by one... Yin Jun spent 1,000 US dollars, and the three of them worked in the post office for a long time before finally getting the more than 1,000 stamps in the three big boxes. Envelopes are all postmarked.

Looking at these envelopes, Tang Shuxuan wanted to open one to have a look.

She suspects that many of them are at most the beginning of Yin Jun's writing, not very detailed ideas, otherwise how long has Yin Jun been in Xiangjiang? I want to wear it non-stop every day, but I can't think of so much, right?

But Tang Shuxuan has a bottom line after all. Although she is very curious, she still knows what things she should not do, so she helps Yin Jun paste the stamps and pass them to the post office staff all the way.

After all three big boxes were locked again, Yin Jun let out a long breath.

In this way, the first step of copyright preservation is completed.

In the next three to five years, my creativity will not be afraid of infringement by others.

And after three or five years, at that time, I already possessed the power that others dare not use their brains. These means of postmarking are just a symbolic meaning.

When Tang Shuxuan drove all the way back home, the three of them felt that their arms were so sore and numb, as if they couldn't lift them up.

However, by the next morning, Tian Jiachun began to feel full of energy again, because today they were going to visit the famous Hollywood, and then they would go to Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps, in the evening.

Yin Jun is also very interested. He will first go to see the Avenue of Stars above Hollywood Boulevard.

When Yin Jun went to Xiangjiang in his previous life, he had seen the copycat version of Xiangjiang Avenue of Stars, but when he got there, he was staggered by the strong wind in Victoria Harbour, and the surroundings were extremely simple, just above the embankment, surrounded by only There is a shop around the bronze statue of Li Xiaolong, and it is extremely rudimentary, and it is not well operated at all. Compared with the genuine Hollywood Walk of Fame seen on TV, it is simply far worse.

Now that he has the opportunity to come to Hollywood, Yin Jun naturally wants to have a taste of his wish.

Even though there are still very few celebrities left on the Avenue of Stars, it is good to see them.

Tang Shuxuan still accompanied the two of them to play today. Although there are three children in the family, there is also a nanny at home. The two older children have a school bus to and from school, as long as the nanny picks them up at the door.

The youngest daughter goes to kindergarten, and her father will pick her up after get off work in the afternoon, so Tang Shuxuan doesn't need to worry about it.

In the past few years, Tang Shuxuan has often been to Xiangjiang, and her husband has been both a father and a mother, and he has been trained to be quite capable.

Sitting in the car, Tian Jiachun was lamenting that he would never be able to catch up with Sister Xuan in his life, and it would be hard for her to catch up with Sister Xuan just because of Sister Xuan's ability to pick men.

From Tang Shuxuan's house to Hollywood's Beverly Hills, it is only 10 kilometers away, and it takes only ten minutes.

What Tian Jiachun likes is not the Avenue of Stars, but the souvenir shop here, and some items related to movie stars and singers, so he dragged Tang Shuxuan to bargain.

Yin Jun wandered along Hollywood Boulevard alone.

It was the end of June, and the weather on the west coast of the United States was particularly suitable for travel, around 26 degrees, and Hollywood was close to the mountains, so naturally it would not be too hot.

Therefore, there are still a lot of tourists here, in addition to Americans, there are also Europeans, and there are many Asian faces.

Those who like to take pictures at places of interest are certainly not only Chinese, but also foreigners.

Whoever sees the most people in front of that star must be a superstar.

For example, before Vivien Leigh's star, there has never been a shortage of people queuing up to take pictures.

There are also many male movie fans in front of the stars of Yu Po Elizabeth Taylor.

Today's Hollywood is more symbolic than practical.

Of the eight major Hollywood film companies in the past, only Paramount is still headquartered in Hollywood, and the rest have either closed down or moved.

There is an old saying in China that talents come out from generation to generation, each leading the way for decades, and the same is true for the American film industry.

Of the eight major film companies in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s, RKO has already closed down and turned to the TV business. United Artists is also on the verge of collapse, and Columbia has also lost its vigor under the toss of Coca-Cola.

The situation of MGM is not very good either. Its equity is constantly changing, which makes investors feel a little uneasy. In the field of movies, except for the "007" series that lasts for a long time, they have not come up with good works for a long time. , which is also a problem.

On the contrary, 20th Century Fox, which was in a downturn a few years ago, produced the "Star Wars" that shocked the world in the past two years, and it was a bit of a force.

As for Disney, which will shine in the future, it is still struggling with serious losses. They are even in trouble in their own animation field, let alone making live-action movies.

If it weren't for the support of so many copyrights, if it weren't for the various projects of Disneyland to make money, it would not be uncommon for them to go bankrupt within three to five years.

In fact, before the rise of Disney, and even after the rise of Disney, there was only one eternal strong man in Hollywood.

It is Warner Bros. This company has been running its own business from the beginning to the end without the support of foreign capital. Relying on its own Time Warner Group, it has built Warner Bros. into one of the best film giants in Hollywood in one fell swoop.

Time Warner Group was also established by the four Warner Brothers, and this group integrates entertainment projects such as news, publishing, TV stations, newspapers and magazines. important reason for continued success.

Then there are the four strong players who will be tied with Warner Brothers in the future and are so powerful that it is almost impossible to fail.

The first to bear the brunt is Twentieth Century Fox, a film company controlled by the world's largest news media group - News Corp. In terms of world influence, Time Warner is simply incomparable to News Corporation, so 20th Century Fox has always received a lot of support.

The second is Paramount, a film company controlled by the super giant Viacom in the entertainment industry. Viacom owns the CBS television network, the MTV music television network, and the American cable network with the largest limited network viewing in the United States. Lei Shidong, the boss of Viacom behind him, is simply a strong man against the sky. He started from nothing to become a super entertainment tycoon, and repeatedly created the impossible.

The third is Universal Pictures, which is also owned by the American news and communication giant Comcast Group. Comcast’s strength is that they are the largest cable TV company in the United States and the second largest Communication operators, under the merger of the two, are in control of the present and the future.

The fourth is Columbia Pictures, which is actually SONY Films. This film company is backed by SONY, the largest consumer electronics giant in Japan. The face in the United States, as well as the bridgehead of entertainment and publicity in the United States, cannot be lost, so the actual strength of this company should be the number one among Hollywood film companies.

It's just because SONY is an outsider, and it's one layer away from Murdoch, so it will never be able to dominate Hollywood, so Americans don't care much about it.

This is why SONY Film and Television Entertainment took the lead in the future and can directly form a consortium to acquire MGM Films. In this consortium, SONY is not the largest shareholder, but the rest of the shareholders agree to merge MGM into SONY Films. In the company, it is then handed over to SONY to take care of it.

It is only managed, not all owned, nor owned by SONY.

Therefore, you can see the words "This is a company belonging to SONY" written under the portrait of Columbia's goddess holding a torch, but you can't see the reason for such words under the image of MGM's roaring lion.

The next thing to talk about is the Disney company that came from behind.

After entering the 1980s, this company that is still lingering, under the leadership of Michael Eisner, Disney has advanced by leaps and bounds. In just two decades, it has become a large film company that cannot be ignored in Hollywood.

Especially after they annexed Pixar and Marvel in one go, they even got the biggest piece of cake for comic book hero live-action movies, thus directly becoming the largest film company in Hollywood.

Such a development is probably beyond the imagination of everyone now.

Of course, the last one, also known as the most promising one of the new eight, is Lionsgate Pictures from Canada.

This small company, famous for its independent films, did everything right step by step, and with good luck, it released super classic series of films such as Drill, The Expendables, Twilight, and The Hunger Games in one go. Their market share in Hollywood once reached 11.4%, reaching the fifth place, which is not easy, but also very remarkable.

In the future, under the background that film companies relying on large companies and large groups will dominate the world in the future, it is very interesting that Lionsgate Pictures suddenly appears as an outlier.

What they lack is a whole industry chain around movies, such as TV stations, home video, digital distribution channels and publishing. If Lionsgate can successfully integrate such a whole set, then they will undoubtedly be the real top eight movies in Hollywood. One of the companies!

Lionsgate has brought great surprise to Hollywood, but I don't know what kind of expression they will have when Yin Jun enters Hollywood?

This opportunity should not wait too long!