Chapter 150 Paramount's Sincerity
(Diligence can make up for the shortcomings, the author's bacteria update at least 10,000 words every day, and I'll be crazy about asking for genuine support!)
Lin Han is actually not sensitive to these sales. What he cares about is how much he can get for so much sales. If calculated based on the total sales of two million copies, his royalties will be capped by 15%, and the price of each book is around 36 yuan.
In other words, in theory, he can get a total manuscript fee of 10 million yuan before tax, including the manuscript fee that has been paid to him.
But this calculation is too ideal. Not every book is sold at the original price. Lin Han himself agreed to discount the novel. The discount range of each dealer is different, and the calculation is complicated.
If these domestic royalties can have nine million before tax, it is a victory. If tax deductions are added, the final result will be only more than seven million. Then Chen Jiaxuan will be given a portion, and Lin Han's total income should be six million.
These six million are his total royalties, and many of them have been sent, and he will get about one million every month in the future.
If that's the case alone, he is actually not a big shot on the writer's rich list, but he also has electronic sales channels and overseas sales revenue, especially Amazon online bookstores with a share of up to 70%.
After silently calculating the money he could get, Lin Han's shooting fund had been completed by about 15%, and the money-making plan had to continue.
Originally, he was not a person who valued money particularly, but now he had to be a wealth-guarding slave. He could not move forward without money and even had no money to shoot movies.
If he uses his big IP "Martian Rescue" to find someone else to raise funds for filming, the difficulties will be relatively high, and he will not be able to fully control the crew by himself.
After the series of things the original owner encountered during filming "Breaking Out of the Solar System", Lin Han understood that only if he firmly grasped the production rights, he would not be fooled by others.
Even if he asks others to invest, he must take the initiative and cannot hand over the power to others, otherwise what awaits him may be a failure.
Of course, Lin Han has spent about three million yuan now, invested 2 million yuan in Fantasy Times magazine, and bought another 1 million yuan to buy a car. Now he doesn't consider buying a house at all.
If you buy a house in Yanjing, Lin Han’s plan to save money can be declared a failure. Although the house you rent is small, it is better to be warm and living alone is enough.
Chen Jiaxuan understood Lin Han's idea, and she also tried hard to help Lin Han realize her dream, so she spoke: "Your task is to write novels well. How to sell them is my business with the publishing house. You just need to let the accounting firm and publishing house verify the sales records."
Just as the two of them were talking, the ding-tinging doorbell suddenly rang.
Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan looked at each other, and didn't know who came to him at this time, "Maybe they are from the property."
Wearing slippers, Lin Han opened the door and found two blonde foreigners standing outside the door with a Chinese, which was a bit embarrassing.
Others were wearing straight shirts, but Lin Han wore loose jerseys and flip-flops, and his hair was not taken care of, and he lay on it in a mess.
"Who are you?" Lin Han took the lead in asking in Chinese. He didn't know the three people here at all, so he looked at the only Chinese next to him.
As if seeing Lin Han’s doubts, the leading blonde middle-aged man said fluently in English: “Mr. Lin, I’m sorry we appeared outside your house so suddenly. This is our presumption. Please forgive me. I am the vice president of Paramount Global Zone. You can call me Jack.”
Foreigners pay attention to making an appointment in advance, which is a polite issue, but they do not abide by it when they arrive in China, which makes Lin Han a little uncomfortable.
Moreover, I have never exposed the community or even the house number. If these three foreigners can find it here, then the rest of them will definitely be able to do it. Maybe it was revealed by the Renmin University Press. Last time I asked them to send their signature books here.
Although he felt a little displeased and the visitor was a guest, he was embarrassed to refuse. He said, "This is not a big deal. Please come in, the family is relatively small."
"Lin Han, who is here?" Chen Jiaxuan stood up from the sofa and then found these three people. "Mr. Cheng? Why did you find this place? Please sit down."
Cheng Huaiyuan also knew that he was very sudden. He explained: "Miss Chen, we came here with sincerity this time. Mr. Harrison flew over from the United States to talk about the movie adaptation plan for "Marls Rescue".
Paramount is famous for its name and has produced many excellent movies. It is one of the most famous film companies in Hollywood.
Chen Jiaxuan whispered to Lin Han to introduce Cheng Huaiyuan's identity, "Zheng Chen over there is one of the heads of Paramount in Asia. I used to negotiate with him, but the conditions given before were not satisfactory, so I didn't pay attention to it."
Lin Han nodded to show that he did not think that "Martian Rescue" had such great charm that could make the busy Jack Harrison come here specifically. Maybe others just came to Yanjing to do a good job and would be the way to see him.
"Mr. Lin, to be honest, I am a huge fan of science fiction novels and science fiction movies. In fact, we are more optimistic when discussing the prospects for adapting this movie. Even if it has a Chinese background, we can just leave the main storyline and change the character background to Europe and the United States like the one used to adapt "Infernal Affairs"."
This world also has "Infernal Affairs" and "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs", which swept the box office and the Oscar-winning "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs" (also known as "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs"), which is obviously the most successful Chinese-language film adaptation in Hollywood.
But Lin Han had already started to complain in his heart. He finally changed "Martian Rescue" to the China Space Administration, turning the protagonist into Chinese. As a result, Hollywood film companies wanted to take the initiative and change these characters back.
Is there really a wheel of history, and an invisible hand that wants to right these things that are off track?
"Mr. Harrison, adapting the script is actually just one aspect. What we value more is whether we can meet our conditions." Lin Han did not say that, such opportunities are hard to come by.
Jack Harrison nodded, "I know your concerns. Now we are willing to acquire your movie adaptation rights and $2 million in game adaptation rights for $5 million. We cannot regress here in the global box office segment, but you can ask us to invest $100 million, and write the first-line Hollywood directors and first-line male actors into the contract."
Chapter completed!