American Fortune Life

Standing in front of the window and watching Carl’s car slowly disappear, Andy was a little speechless about Carl’s enthusiasm. In his words, he would make CCA regret it, and he would hit his face with his tinsel !!

McMiller hurriedly walked into the meeting room and sat down in his place, followed by scanning all the colleagues in front of him, although most of them were expressionless, but the gloat in his eyes was more obvious, he could not help but sigh, and No wonder who made himself sneer at the wretched fat man before.

Thinking about McMiller was a bit bleak. The customer he was responsible for had problems and he was going to be fired.

With the sound of footsteps, a middle-aged man, about forty to fifty years old, walked into the conference room.

“Who can tell me what’s going on?” The middle-aged person sat at the top and patted a stack of manuscripts on the conference table. “We can only publish such a wonderful story. Are you kidding me? ? “

Elton. Bull is roaring like an angry bull. As the head of Xuele Publishing in Los Angeles, there is a lot of pressure. Xuele Publishing is a world-renowned publisher and publisher of children’s books. The American version of the series is published by Xuele. The “Dark Fairy” in front of Elton is definitely the first volume of a series, which is completely a new big IP.

But now, someone tells him that their publisher can only publish the first volume of this series, and the latter is irrelevant. This is just a thunderbolt, which makes him not angry.

It took a long time for McMiller to stand up pale, and said carefully, “Sorry, I didn’t maintain good customer relationships.”

Snapped!

Elton patted the table and stood up and growled loudly: “I don’t want to hear sorry, today, today, no matter what you do, I want you to sign me Andy Smith back! You stay, others Please come back. “

Soon there were only two people left in the conference room. The angry Elton slowly calmed down and stared at the nervous sweat-stained Mike. “I don’t care what the cause of the matter is, you must bring the good news Bring it back back! This way … Tell Andy Smith’s agent that we can prepay the manuscript and the royalties can be increased to a maximum of 15%, as long as his book is published in our publishing house, these can be talked about. “

“15%? It’s just that Andy Smith’s agent is very greedy. What if I ask too much?” Mike was very surprised. 15% of the royalties are the treatment that only the top writers would enjoy. Thinking of that fat man The horrible expression of the question was still carefully asked.

“FUCK! You can talk as long as you have a request! Can you take a long-term view? Have you read the manuscript? Idiot, where is this? Here is Hollywood, it is a movie factory! Such an excellent story will make Hollywood film companies rush to it , The movie will be released, and our books can be sold with the big sale! “

“Yes, I’m going to find Andy Smith’s agent right away!” Mike lowered his head, and did not dare to see the editor in chief Elton who screamed again, took the folder on the table in panic, and trot out of the conference room.

Elton, who remained in the conference room, stared at the manuscript on the table for a long time, “I hope everything goes well!”

The funny guy, Andy shook his head with a smile, and set his sights on Carl, who was gloating aside, and McMiller, a representative of Xuele Publishing who was almost about to cry.

“Well, the conditions you have given are very favorable, and you can talk about it. Carl gave it to you.”

I didn’t pay any attention to McMiller’s gratitude, just gave Carr a vague look, then stood up and went up to the second floor. He didn’t want to continue wasting energy. As long as one result was good, the process was left to professional people to do.

After more than an hour passed, Fat Carr walked into the study with a contented insignificance.

“Looking at you like this, it seems to be a good talk.” Andy took off the decorative glasses, and fakely pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers and gently rubbed to relieve the fatigue that did not exist.

“Haha, who am I? I’m vampire Carl. Let the kid look at people at first and don’t give him a hard lesson!” Carl sat happily on the sofa with a look of relief and rejoicing after the revenge. .

Andy took a cigarette from the cigarette case and threw it to Carl, and he lit another one and motioned him to continue.

“15% royalties, $ 1 million in pre-paid manuscripts, hehe, of course, after-tax, they promise to do their best to promote your work, write soft articles for you in the newspaper and expand your influence.”

When Andy could not help laughing, he smiled proudly. After smoking a cigarette and spit out, my heart secretly said, “Lao Tzu is now short of money. This million can ease the economic pressure.”

Most of Andy bought Apple stock, leaving only 400,000 deposits in the bank and 300,000 remuneration paid to him by the “Seventeen” magazine, and giving Carl 100,000 a registered company and leasing office. 600,000 US dollars, the salary of their own babysitter and fitness coach, lawyers’ fees, personal doctors, and various living expenses are not small.

In the United States, the cost of service is not low as long as it is close to people. Andy raised an eyebrow, pretending to be angry. “How’s the company registration going? And why do you bring people to my house?”

Carl completely ignored Andy’s performance and rolled his eyes. “Of course the company has to be registered in Bermuda. California’s taxes are too high! Didn’t you see that too? He looks like he’s going to die, and see you today. If you do n’t, you will rely on me. I really can’t help him, I just brought you to see you. “

Andy pointed at Carl and said very seriously: “Don’t bring strangers to my house in the future, you can get the office as soon as possible, and you will meet in the company in the future.”

Carl nodded and said he knew, looked at the clock on the wall, and seemed to want to leave.

“Stay for dinner. Nelson will come over in a moment. Some things also need your help.” Andy said to him by annihilating the cigarette in the ashtray.

“OK, that’s great, and you can eat delicious Chinese food again.” Karl will not miss it when he hears it.

In the United States, the relationship between a private lawyer and a wealthy employer is not good for a lifetime and belongs to an extraordinary existence.

“Hi, Nelson, it’s really nice to see you.” Carl looked at his old acquaintance, and he still respected Andy’s personal lawyer.

“Hello, Carl, you have gained a lot of weight. Pay attention to your body. Eat less!” Nelson and Carl shook hands and joked.

“Hey, MAN, I’m Dragon Jing, fierce and healthy!” Carl yelled as if you were unbelievable and undressed.

“Okay, okay, let ’s get to the bottom. Nielsen, these are some of my TV show ideas when I write a novel. I want to register for global copyright, is it okay?” Andy passed a few printed documents To Nelson.

Nielsen glanced quickly, the color of surprise in his eyes grew stronger. These pieces of paper wrote the three TV show ideas and specific processes, of which the show of “Daren Show” was the most detailed.

“Boss, you have to say, you are indeed a genius!” Nielsen sighed and looked at Andy sitting opposite him as he sorted out the paperwork. “In fact, it is not necessary to register global copyright. The easiest way is to save it with the screenwriters union, and the copyright protection of the union is for the whole world.”

“No, no, I know the functions of the union, but these are after all just creative and have not been produced as programs, and we do not currently have the resources to produce these programs. I am afraid that in other countries in the future, if similar, It is too wasteful of a lawsuit. “

Andy naturally knows that the copyright protection of the screenwriters union can prevent his interests from being harmed. However, he probably remembers that the production time of the talent show in the United Kingdom and the United States was roughly during the summer vacation of this year, although he wrote the script and these in early May. The creative outline is saved by the screenwriters union, but in the event of a collision, no matter which side will be lost, he is now asking for money, not to pit people.

After listening to Andy’s explanation, Nelson seemed to understand his concerns, but registering globally could not be completed in a short while.

Just when both of them were in deep thought, they heard Carl shouting excitedly. “Wow, it’s a genius idea. Andy, your brain is really great, I love you.”

“Quiet! I know I’m a genius, but can you keep your voice down!” Andy glanced angrily at Carl, annoyed, just startled him just now.

“Oh my god, why do we need one country and one country registration, as long as we find two television stations in the United States and Britain to cooperate, they will definitely be able to find the value in them. Then we can sell them the copyright. It will soon be broadcast. It will become an established fact at that time, and there will be no need for such trouble. “Carl said excitedly.

“Crap, I have thought about this method for a long time, but I hope that my interests are maximized, the creativity of the talent show, and the shadow of some American idols, but FOX spent 67 million US dollars when buying the copyright, and now it proves to be a very small sum. Successful business, but my idea is only on paper, after all, it is unknown how much money can be sold. “Andy gave Carl a distressed glance.

“Isn’t that just business negotiation? The main thing now is that we have to establish our copyright. We can send invitations to several major TV stations to get them to bid together. They know that with such an idea, there will be no creative collision. It ’s a matter of excitement. Carl Fei’s face glowed with excitement, he kept rubbing his hands and paced back and forth in the study, “We should do it in the United States and Britain at the same time, and seize the English market first, when the price is higher.”