Chapter 297

After a long period of seesaw negotiation, the two sides are getting closer to reaching a consensus. Murphy once again participates in the negotiation with Bantam book publishing house and George Martin, and finally reaches an agreement after three fierce bargaining.

Stanton studio will pay the Bantam book publishing house and George Martin a one-time fee of up to $15 million for the copyright adaptation, but the scope of the copyright transfer is no longer limited to the song of ice and fire: the game of power, but includes the dispute between kings and the storm of ice rain.

In addition to the basic royalty of $12 million, Bantam Books and George Martin also enjoy a 10% profit share in all aspects of TV series revenue.

This is also the most heated part of the negotiation. One side wants to share the whole income, but the other side doesn't want to give it. Finally, they reach an agreement on the profit sharing.

For Hollywood, which relies heavily on sequels and copyright adaptations, such a deal is not a big deal.

At a high price, Murphy certainly won't let go of George Martin easily. According to the agreement, as long as the TV series is set up, George Martin must participate in the screenwriting work, and the screenwriting fee will not be paid separately. Moreover, Stanton studio has the absolute preemptive right to buy the following Novels and the parts that George Martin is working on and hasn't started yet.

Originally, Murphy wanted to do it all at once, but the other side was not stupid. He knew that once the TV series had a good response, there would be room for bargaining with Stanton studio.

With little media coverage, Murphy, on behalf of Stanton studio, signed a formal contract with Bantam book publishing house and George Martin in the Death Star building where CAA is located.

However, the project will not start preparation immediately. For such a huge fantasy epic, the preparation time is far longer than that of ordinary movies. Moreover, compared with commercial movies, they don't attach much importance to scripts. In the production of American dramas, scripts are extremely important.

George Martin originally worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood. His ability and experience in this field are not a problem. However, Murphy will not blindly trust him. Writing a script and writing a novel are totally different things. In addition to being personally responsible for the script review, Stanton studio will also recruit suitable screenwriters, and then spend at least a year to a year and a half to polish the script and formulate the most suitable script Elementary photography sketch.

Murphy has figured out that Stanton studio's work for a long time in the future is to prepare and shoot the power game series, but this is a long-term plan. According to his plan, Stanton studio will complete his new project before the power game.

After finishing the copyright of ice and fire song, Murphy transferred Paul Wilson, who had been involved in the negotiation, back. At the same time, Seth Logan also offered to be his assistant again. The three men completed the first draft of the script and the project plan as soon as possible.

These were sent by Murphy to bill rosis and carafes, and they were also submitted to CAA and 20th Century Fox departments.

After a long time, Murphy's work in Hollywood is different from the past. The new project is invested by Stanton studio, and CAA is responsible for packing. The work is going smoothly.

The share structure of big Hollywood companies is complex, the internal power is restricted by each other, and there is also a set of perfect operation mechanism. Any work can not be set up casually by someone who says it can be set up. This will ensure the return on investment and reduce the possible risks, but on the other hand, the operation is a little slow. Uu1,

Stanton studio's shareholders are only Murphy, but he actually has the final say in investing. Although in the eyes of outsiders, this way of operation is low in risk and has a lot of investment blindness. But running a movie project is really convenient and fast compared to the large company with large volume of Pang Dahe.

After finalizing the first draft of the script, Murphy first went to 20th century fox, because the film needs a suitable distributor, and he also wants to introduce part of the investment of 20th century fox. The most important reason is that the film depends on 20th Century Fox distribution, and the second is that after spending a huge amount of money on the adaptation right of song of ice and fire, even now he is very happy I feel great financial pressure.

It is impossible for him to put all his funds into one basket. This is the simplest truth. Investment is accompanied by risks. The benefits of introducing 20th century fox as a partner far outweigh the disadvantages.

And with kalafes, cooperation will be more convenient.

In the 20th century, Fox also had the intention to invest, and there were not many problems in the issuance. After they promoted the investment review process, Murphy specially called Bill rosis and carafes together and had a serious talk.

"I've contacted everyone on your shooting team."

In the living room, Bill rosis took the coffee from Gail gado and said, "they're ready to join the project at any time."

This is the advantage of having a habitual shooting and production team, which can reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble and make the preparatory work more concise.

"Where are you?" Murphy looked at carafes.Carrafes is holding a glass of lemonade that gelgado gave her. He said, "there's no problem with the issue. The cost of the issue will be 10%. Other aspects need to wait for the approval before making detailed negotiations. However, in the 20th century, fox's huge investment in the kingdom of heaven and X-Men 3: backwater battle can't be recovered in a short time, and devcola is pushing King Kong Wolf independent film project, now financing is a big problem, investment can not reach half of your expectations, only one third at most

"15 million dollars" Murphy frowned. The production cost of his plan is about 45 million dollars. If fox reduces investment in the 20th century, Stanton studio will face more investment pressure.

He needs a certain amount of cash reserves as working capital, at the same time, he needs to deal with some unexpected events, plus the one-time payment of ice and fire song's copyright fee. The pressure of 30 million US dollars is still considerable.

Maybe we can borrow money from the bank. With his reputation after his death, it must not be very difficult.

We can also consider introducing some private equity fund uu2;

in short, after going through the initial difficult stage of obscurity, it will not be very difficult for a director with a global box office of more than 550 million US dollars to get investment.

Murphy nodded. "Fifteen million dollars."

Kalafes put down his glass. "I will urge the company to complete the audit process as soon as possible."

"I need you to be producer again." Murphy is not polite, directly said, "my energy needs to be as much as possible on the director's work, I need a person who can fully trust."

"Yes." Carafes answered first, and then said, "I have no problem this time, but I can't do this kind of specific work in your film every time. Murphy, you need to find or cultivate a trusted producer. "

"I know." Murphy sighed. This kind of person is scarce in Hollywood.

He also knows that calafes is a senior executive of fox in the 20th century, and has the goal of going up. It is impossible for him to engage in specific work in a production group for a long time.

"Oh, yes." Murphy changed the subject. "I've come up with a marketing plan that suits the theme and plot of the film."

As soon as he said this, galgado, who has always been an audience, stood up and took out two pieces of information from the bookshelf, which had been prepared for a long time, and gave them to kalafes and bill rosis respectively.

Murphy smiles at galgado and says, "you see first."

Carafes and bill rosis quickly read it. They have seen the script before. It is not difficult to see that it is a marketing idea based on the plot.

"I think it's operational." Bill rossis was the first to say, "but it depends on the platform of fox in the 20th century."

Stanton studio, a shell company, simply does not have the ability to carry out such a plan.

"It's not operational." Carrafes totally disagrees with Bill Rossi. "It's a very, very good marketing idea." Uu3;

after all, she has a background in social journalism. "As long as the measures are taken, Murphy's plan is likely to cause a social sensation and discussion, and it will be very difficult for our film to get attention unprepared."

Bill rosis thought about it, nodded heavily, "feasible"

"in that case." Murphy said to his two partners, "make it a real plan as much as possible."

Galgado looks at Bill rosis and carafes, and finally his eyes return to Murphy. These three people, well, they are just like each other. They don't care about Murphy's plan, which may involve false propaganda and bring a lot of negative effects.

Listening to these three people continue to discuss the improvement plan, Gail gado suddenly found that he was really simple, very kind, and a real good man.

"Bill, Carla, one more thing." Murphy has stood up. "In addition to the business and box office, I want this film to do something in the awards season."

"You mean" bill rosis understood immediately, "academic awards"

carafes also came to be interested, "it's really a pity that such an interesting film, without stirring up the award season, is made for the sake of awards."

However, it's all next year's business. The three of them just mentioned it and didn't worry.

Bill rosis and carafes leave here soon, Murphy sees them off, and Gail gado is ready to go out.

"Can I bring a copy of the script?" she said before she left. "I told Nate about your story the other day. She was very interested and wanted to see it."

The script has been put on record in the writers' Union and registered in the Copyright Bureau. Murphy nodded, but still warned, "don't show it to too many people, remember to bring it back."

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