The signing of Kant Henry was very simple and uneventful. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Kant is a very typical American, although he was surprised that Yin Jun was so young and thought it was a bit incredible that he could write such a deep novel, but Americans are notoriously dislike to explore other people's privacy, so Kant didn't ask much.

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

There is no trouble in terms of contracts, they are all standard forms, and Kant has the heart to get along with Yin Jun, and he has no intention of doing anything about it.

The general upfront payment in the U.S. publishing industry is between 10% and 30%, and in the case of Stephen King and Michael Clayton, the average publisher will give them all the royalties for the first print after they deliver the manuscript.

There are even more exaggerated ones, before they started writing books, they took $1 million in advance, which is called early numbering.

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

Usually he writes an opening few hundred words, which can be exchanged for tens of thousands of advances.

This is also why many of Gu Long's works are written by others - he wrote the beginning, but he didn't have any more thoughts, and simply threw them to friends or gunmen to write.

Since Kant is ready to cooperate with Yin Jun in the future, he will give a 30% advance payment, 2,400 US dollars.

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

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

Yin Jun actually considered that a small publishing house is not conducive to large-scale promotion and marketing, but at least it can ensure 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 for Yin Jun and Tian Jiachun's round-trip air tickets.

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

On top of that, Henry Publishing has branches all over California, and they have a bookstore in Beverly Hills in Hollywood, which is a great deal for the copyright of both books.

Maybe before Yin Jun put the film production on the table, a Hollywood company or director will take a fancy to these two books.

Moreover, after the release of the two movies, crazy fans will choose to buy books with more comprehensive screenings of the plot to watch, which can drive the book's best-selling at that time.

The copyrights of Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong Moss are still in his hands, and he doesn't dare to say much when the time comes, and it should be no problem to sell 5 million copies each -- now is the golden age of book sales, and a best-selling book can sell 3,550 copies in the United States, and Europe is not inferior, and even millions in Japan are not new, so I have to sigh that the progress of the times also has some drawbacks that cannot be overcome for the time being.

Yin Jun is not a waste of time, he got the publishing contract for the two books in the morning, had a meal with Kant at noon, and went straight to the post office with the two female generals and began the crazy postmark work.

After buying the stamps one by one, and pasting them, ask the people at the post office to stamp the postmarks one by one...... Yin Jun spent $1,000, and the three of them worked hard in the post office for a long time before they finally postmarked all the more than 1,000 envelopes in these three large boxes.

Looking at these envelopes, Tang Shuxuan wanted to open them and take a look.

She suspected that many of them were at most the beginnings of Yin Jun's writing, and they were not very detailed ideas, otherwise how long would Yin Jun have been in Xiangjiang?

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

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

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

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

And three or five years later, at that time, I already have the power that others dare not use to do their brains, and these postmark means are just a symbolic meaning.

When Tang Shuxuan drove all the way back to his home, the three of them felt that their arms were extremely sore, as if they couldn't lift them.

However, by the next morning, Tian Jiachun began to feel energetic again, because today they were going to the famous Hollywood sightseeing, and then in the evening they were going to Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps.

Yin Jun is also quite interested, he first wants to see the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.

When Yin Jun went to Xiangjiang in his previous life, he had seen the cottage version of the Xiangjiang Avenue of Stars, but as soon as he walked there, he was stumbled by the strong winds of Victoria Harbor, and the surroundings there were extremely simple, just above the embankment, there was only a shop around the bronze statue of Li Xiaolong, and it was extremely simple, and it was not well operated at all, compared with the genuine Hollywood Walk of Fame seen on TV, it was much worse.

Now that he has the opportunity to come to Hollywood, it is natural that Yin Jun wants to taste his wish.

Even though there are still very few celebrities on the Walk of Fame, it's good to be able to see them.

Tang Shuxuan still accompanied the two to play today, although there are three children at home, there are also nannies at home, and the two older children have school buses 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 work in the afternoon, so Tang Shuxuan doesn't have to worry about it.

In the past few years, Tang Shuxuan has often gone to Xiangjiang, and her husband has been a father and a mother at the same time, and he is really capable of exercising.

Sitting in the car, Tian Jiachun sighed that she couldn't catch up with Sister Xuan in her life, and with Sister Xuan's ability to pick men, she couldn't catch up.

It is only 10 kilometers from Tang Shuxuan's house to Beverly Hills in Hollywood, and it only takes ten minutes to arrive.

Tian Jiachun doesn't like the Avenue of Stars, but the souvenir shop here, and some items related to movie stars and singers, so he pulled Tang Shuxuan to bargain.

Yin Jun is strolling along Hollywood Avenue alone.

At this time, it is the end of June, and the weather on the west coast of the United States is particularly suitable for travel, about 26 degrees, and Hollywood is still close to the mountains, so it is naturally not too hot.

Therefore, there are still a lot of tourists here, not only Americans, but also Europeans, and there are many Asian faces.

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

Whoever sees the most people in front of that star is definitely a superstar.

For example, in front of Vivien Leigh's star, there is never a shortage of people queuing up to take pictures.

and in front of the stars of Elizabeth Taylor, there are also many male fans.

In today's Hollywood, the symbolism is greater than the actual meaning.

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

There is an old saying in China, there are talents from all generations, and each has led the way for decades, and the same is true for the film industry in the United States.

Of the eight major Hollywood film companies from the thirties to the fifties, Lei Dianhua had long since collapsed and turned to the business in the field of television, the United States Film Company was also crumbling, and the Columbia Company was also tossed by Coca-Cola and lost its sharpness.

MGM's situation is not very good, its shareholding is constantly changing, which makes investors feel a little uneasy, and in the film field, in addition to the enduring "007" series, they have not come up with good works for a long time, which is also a problem.

However, the 20th Century Fox, which was sluggish a few years ago, made "Star Wars" that shocked the world two years ago, and it still has a bit of a force.

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

If it weren't for so many copyrights, and if it weren't for the various Disneyland projects to make money, it would not be unusual for them to go out of business in three or five years.

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

It is Warner Bros., this company has been running its own business from beginning to end, without the support of foreign capital, relying on its own Time Warner Group, it has built Warner Bros. into one of Hollywood's top movie giants in one fell swoop.

Time Warner Group was also founded by the four Warner brothers, and this group integrates news, publishing, television, newspapers and magazines and other entertainment projects, and to some extent, Warner Bros. film companies have no shortage of publicity media, which is also an important reason for their continued success.

Then there are the four powerhouses that will be tied with Warner Bros. in the future, so strong 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 conglomerate, News Corporation, and Warner Bros., all have a news media supergiant as a backer, and even say that Time Warner has no way to compare with News Corp. in terms of influence in the world, so Twentieth Century Fox has always received a lot of support.

The second is Paramount, a film company controlled by the entertainment industry supergiant Viacom Group, Viacom owns the CBS television network, owns the MTV music television network, and is also the controlling stake of the American cable network, the largest limited network rating in the United States.

The third is Universal Pictures, which is also owned by the American news and communications media giant Comcast Group, and the great thing about Kongskat is that they are the largest limited television company in the United States, and they are also the second largest communications operator in the United States.

The fourth is Columbia Pictures, in fact, Sony Films, which is backed by Japan's largest consumer electronics giant Sony's film company, has not only Sony, but also the support of Japan's chaebol, which is the face of Japanese companies in the United States, as well as the entertainment and propaganda bridgehead in the United States, it cannot be lost, so the actual strength of this company should be the first Hollywood film company.

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

This is also the reason why Sony Film and Television Entertainment took the lead in the future, and directly formed a consortium to acquire MGM Pictures - in this consortium, Sony is not the largest shareholder, but the rest of the shareholders agree to merge MGM into Sony Film Company, and then hand over Sony to take care of it.

It's just taking care of it, not all of it, and it doesn't belong to Sony Holdings.

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

The next thing to talk about is the Disney Company, which came later.

After entering the 80s, under the leadership of Michael Eisner, Disney has grown by leaps and bounds, and in just 20 years, it has become a major film company that cannot be ignored in Hollywood.

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

Such a development is probably unimaginable to everyone now.

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

This small company, which became famous for its independent films, has done a very good job step by step, and has had good luck, and has launched super classic series of movies such as Electric Drill Horror, The Expendables, Twilight, The Hunger Games, etc., which made them reach 11.4% of the market share in Hollywood and reach the fifth place, which is not easy and very remarkable.

In the future, in the context of film companies relying on large companies and large groups to dominate the world, it is also very interesting to suddenly appear such an outlier as Lionsgate.

What they lack is a whole industry chain around the film, such as TV stations, home DVDs, digital distribution channels and publishing, so if Lionsgate can integrate successfully, then they will undoubtedly be one of the eight major Hollywood studios!

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

This time should not be waiting too long!(To be continued.) )