Jimmy did not let other people in the company negotiate it, but did it himself because he felt that this was the first film and television adaptation of a purely literary work that he had negotiated, and Yu Hua was also a writer he had just signed, which was of great significance.
His contact with Zhang Yimou's team this time will definitely make their company famous in the Chinese film industry.
We talked for several days. At first, Zhang Yimou wanted to pay 15,000 to 20,000 yuan, but Jimmy insisted on 30,000 yuan and did not let go. In the end, Zhang Yimou agreed to the price.
After giving the authorization letter and getting the money, Yu Hua felt like he was in a dream. He just came to Shanghai to see Yu Dong. He was planning to leave in two days, but he didn't expect that he would stay for more than a week and even wrote "Alive"
》The film and television adaptation has been discussed.
He originally wanted to give Jimmy some commission, but Jimmy refused, saying that everything would be in accordance with the contract, and that he would wait until his income from his works reaches more than 50,000 yuan this year.
Yu Dong recently took a vacation for himself. Sometimes he accompanied his parents to visit relatives. When he was free, he took Yu Hua to drink tea and look at the scenery. As for the novel about Da Dan, he has yet to start writing it.
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But not writing doesn't mean that he doesn't take it to heart. In fact, he will think about it whenever he has time.
At first, he actually just wanted to write about Big Egg, but then he thought about it and wanted to add another story about Hongzi. With this idea, the story suddenly became bigger, and so did his ambition.
Got up.
He also thought of Wu Changxin's big family, and wanted to write about the affairs of such families.
If you are very ambitious, your thoughts will become confused and you will not know where to start.
After his thoughts were confused, Yu Dong was a little anxious at first, but then he stopped being anxious at all, thinking that it would be good to relax and wait until he was less anxious before talking about this matter.
Until the end of the holiday, Yu Dong did not write a word.
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When Yu Dong arrived at school, most of the teachers in the dormitory courtyard had already arrived, including Liu Changmin and Feng Ming. These guys were very active when they went home and were equally active when they returned to school.
When he passed by Liu Changmin's dormitory, he looked inside and saw Bi Feiyu playing cards with three veteran players.
"Hey, Feiyu is also at the card table." Yu Dong said with a strange smile.
Seeing Yu Dong, Bi Feiyu seemed to have seen a life-saving straw, and raised the cards in his hand, "Yu Dong, you are here, come and replace me."
Yu Dong pointed to the backpack on his body: "I just returned to school, and I haven't put down my luggage yet. How can I have time to play cards with them?"
"Then you go put your bag away quickly and come over to take my place later. I was brought to the table because I couldn't bear the pestering of these old ladies."
Bi Feiyu had a grimace on his face. Yesterday he was dragged over by Feng Ming and the others when he arrived. At first he refused to obey, but later Feng Ming and the others tried hard to force him to do it and he had no choice but to comply.
Seeing that Yu Dong was indifferent, Bi Feiyu said viciously, "Come on."
Yu Dong rolled his eyes. Bi Feiyu often had a bad temper, but he also liked to act coquettishly, and the way he did so was very different.
Talking fiercely like this is also a way of acting coquettishly.
Another example is that he strained his thigh when he went out for a run. Later, when he saw Yu Dong, he said with a sad face that he had strained his thigh.
At first, Yu Dong asked him how he was hurt with concern. Later, when he did this several times, Yu Dong realized that this guy was acting coquettishly.
Yu Dong waved his hand, "Okay, okay, I'll be here in a minute."
In about a quarter of an hour, Yu Dong finished packing and came over, but Bi Feiyu was unwilling to leave the table.
"I'll play a little longer."
Yu Dong looked at the other three people with a puzzled expression, "What's going on? It's only been ten minutes and he's possessed by a ghost."
Feng Ming said with a smile: "You think this kid doesn't play cards? He is good at counting cards, but he has never had bad luck before. He always got bad cards and didn't want to play. When you left, his luck suddenly came
, of course I couldn’t bear to leave the table.”
"Bang." Yu Dong snorted, expressing his contempt for Bi Feiyu.
This guy kept pretending, I thought he didn't play cards, but I didn't expect that he was also an experienced player.
But this is fine. After this time, if Feng Ming and the others ask him to play cards again, he may not be able to shirk it, so Yu Dong can take a break.
"Come on, do your best." Yu Dong patted Bi Feiyu on the shoulder, turned around and returned to his room.
No one has lived in the house for a month, so it's time to do some cleaning.
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Although Harold has been relatively free these days, he has been very nervous because "Groundhog Day" is about to be released.
He now regrets not using the same name as "One Day" at that time.
When deciding on the name, Yu Dong's "Resident Evil" had not yet come out. Harold felt that the name "One Day" would not bring much popularity. On the contrary, "Groundhog Day" could just cater to the local North American audience.
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Unexpectedly, Yu Dong later published a best-selling book "Resident Evil". It is said that the sales volume has now exceeded 700,000, and it is absolutely certain that it will eventually exceed one million.
The impact of a best-selling book that has sold millions of copies cannot be underestimated.
So in order to remedy the situation, Harold has been asking the company to change the promotion plan for more than half a month, linking "Groundhog Day" and "Resident Evil" together.
Some of the publicity is even highly misleading. Some readers do not read it carefully and think that "Groundhog Day" is the movie version of "Resident Evil".
The February schedule is not good, but there is also an advantage, that is, there are no other strong movies competing with them at the box office during the same period, so "Groundhog Day" with a budget of more than 10 million yuan should basically be able to win Zhou Guan and
Moon crown.
However, what Harold is thinking about now is not at all Zhou Guan and Yue Guan. He hopes that the movie can compete for a place in the annual box office list. Even if it does not get into the top few, it still wants to compete for the top ten.
Everyone is almost sure which movie will be the box office champion this year.
With an investment of more than 40 million, Spielberg's latest masterpiece "Jurassic Park" has already attracted the attention of all parties before filming even started. Even if the film is poorly made, with Spielberg's fame and reputation
The movie's announcement and box office performance will not be bad either.
There was another thing that Harold felt was a pity. Yu Dong was originally invited to attend the film conference, but Yu Dong was celebrating the New Year at home in China and could not spare the time to come.
But all in all, Harold feels that he is quite lucky. He only spent 90,000 US dollars at that time. Now, just the gimmick of "adapting the debut novel of the Resident Evil author" may bring him hundreds of times.
the value of.
Of course, "One Day" is not actually Yu Dong's debut, but who cares?
Chapter completed!