American Fortune Life

Carl truthfully understood Andy's arrangement, he was not a child, he was not decentralized and had no emotions. Andy had been able to kick him off without a foot in his worst of luck, and he had chosen to stick with himself during Andy's silence for a long time and was proud of himself.

However, there is still a loss inside, not because his power shrank, but because of Andy's speed of growth, now Andy is no longer the child with naiveté a few months ago, wisdom still, but mature, the capital unwittingly deepened, and between laughter and rage separated his power and left him no way to get emotional. After all, Andy also made him take his place on the board of directors of the main summit entertainment company.

This is undoubtedly a boost to Carl's identity. Whether Hollywood's power comes from the amount of resources in hand, or that phrase, opportunity is the gold here!

Andy watched his feet on the desk, shaking his legs, lazy lying on the boss chair drinking coffee, and Carl was dreaming, and the teenager in his head was thin, deep in his eyelids, depressed, and crying to himself had gone away.

“Carl, what are you thinking?” Andy had a curly mouth and a smile on his face, his eyes bright, looking a little faint Karl, asked softly.

“Hmm? No... Nothing, just a few things from before, Andy, you're grown up, you're mature.” Carl didn't hide his feelings.

“Oh, you fat fuck! Man, it's always good to learn to grow up. What do you think?” Andy scolded.

“Will you respect me a little? I'm the manager of the company. You've been dead fat all day. The fat scream will affect my prestige! You little freak!” Carl had a couple of twitches in the corner of his eyes, but remembering when he first met Andy, he called himself Fatty and gave him the nickname himself, he returned.

Andy's mouth was smoked and he snorted arrogantly, and Carl said this infarct, and Andy couldn't find it all over his memory, but pretended to be angry.

When Carl saw Andy's angry expression, the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, and he just smiled and coughed slightly, turning the subject off, and said with a smile: “A while ago, I cut off a project in 20th century Fox, and you didn't know, angry they almost went crazy on the spot. ”

Andy looked at the fat guy in Deser and was curious, "Tell me. ”

“Hey, wasn't your music record part of the money called in a while ago, plus the copyright fee for the novel called by Xuele, when the company already had more than 8 million dollars, I was trying to acquire the copyright for some old movies, but after you published the novel in The Observer, Xuele Publishing was a little worried that our cooperation with them would be interrupted, running here three or two times, to connect with each other.

In a chat, I learned that a writer named Ray Claylton wrote a series of teenage magic novels in 1995, was only recently lobbied for success by the Lecture Publishing House, was arranging for publication, and at first I didn't really care until I heard that Fox was contacting the writer to buy a movie copyright for the novel, and I asked the Lecturers to take a printed book, and after reading it, I decided to buy the movie copyright, hey, Fox just wanted to buy the copyright for $5 million, and most importantly, they didn't agree with Ray Claylton writing their own script.

When Ray Claylton happened to be in Los Angeles, I immediately contacted him through the learners and bought him with 5.5 million plus the conditions to participate in the script. Oh, when the Fox crowd found out, they yelled at me in front of Ray Claylton, it didn't make any sense. It was embarrassing! ”

Andy listened to Carl, always feeling that this Ray Claylton was a little familiar, but couldn't remember the more detailed information, and frowned slightly and asked: "What book is it? ”

“Percy Jackson and the Burglar of the Fire..." One series, but only 3 at present. ”

Andy Shu opened his eyebrows and smiled, turns out it was this series, okay, pretty good, could make a fortune. After all, when the movie came out, the publicity was also paved, the first box office was good, and the second one was shot again, and then, no more, the special effects of burning money were huge.

“Oh, just by name, the story of the modern man interwoven with Greek mythology, damn, can't be a journey to slaughter a child after a bunch of unrestrained Greek gods and mortals... It's a movie company's favorite subject, business effects, nice, fat fuck, you have the guts!” Andy pretended to be the judge.

“Awesome! Just listen to the name to guess the main line of the story, Andy. You're good, you're a genius!” Carl listened to Andy's analysis and looked stunned. He really admired Andy's genius. He hadn't read the book. He could analyze the main line of the story by listening to only his name. Nima was so awesome.

“This is not an impulsive thing, mainly because you are an example, I didn't understand at the time of the purchase of the copyright of Twilight City at a high price, but who would have thought, turning around, that it would increase the value by 50% immediately, thinking about what you said, Hollywood is going to be more and more looking for some good IP in the future, and I certainly won't let go of this opportunity, it's not that, 20th century Fox has contacted me, hoping to talk to me, huh, what do you think? ”

Andy's corner of his mouth curled, his nose whispered a slightly indetectable soft-hearted, mysterious smile, and said: "Oh, talk, what can I say? We're not a movie company, we bought the copyright just to turn around, you can talk to them, the money can be transferred without being too high, just $78 million, and then... To split the first box office, I think they will eventually agree that the Fox family has 50 years of copyright, no rush! ”

“Oh, I know what to do! By the way, you're right here. I've read a book recently, and I think it's a good story, but I asked about the sale, and, uh, it's kind of a poker game. Look, is it necessary to buy it?” Carl YIN smiled cheaply, but suddenly something occurred to him. He stood up and walked to his desk and took a book out of his briefcase.

Andy took over the book Carl handed over, looked at the bloody cover and wrote "World War of the Zombies," and couldn't help but smile and look up at the fat man standing beside him, laughing and shouting, “Do you think this book is going down the street? ”

“Yeah, what's the problem? We've only bought 100,000 copies in the United States for two weeks.” Carl looked innocent in the face and asked.

“No way...” Andy looked at Carl with amazement, confirming that he wasn't kidding, quickly turned around and looked, yes, just like the original story, after being bought at a high price by Peter the Slug Man in his previous life, and working with Paramount on a movie, the box office sold, remembered it should be a bestseller book, how could it be a street trip?

“Are you sure this book only sells 100,000 copies?” Andy looked at Carl again, frowning and asking.

“Sure, sure, I'm more interested in the story of the zombie subject, so I'm wondering if such a good story shouldn't be so tragic. ”

Andy closed the book, his fingers knocked in writing, his eyebrows wrinkled, and he thought, for whatever reason, this is an excellent novel, the copyright Pete obtained in the last 10 years, which seemed to have cost nearly 10 million, and a lot of restrictions were set on the adaptation of the movie script, and he looked at the author's name again, yes, Max Brooks.

As for why sales were so poor, Andy really didn't want to understand. If there was no answer, he didn't want to, stretching his eyebrows, taking his feet off the table, sitting up straight, and seriously saying to Carl, "Buy the copyright! As soon as possible, maybe now this kind of poker situation is just brief, this is a good book, we can spend a lot less money buying it now! ”

“Okay! I've got this author on the phone and I'll be in touch with him in a minute. There shouldn't be a problem, but how much is the right price?” Carl sees the importance Andy attaches to this novel and is excited about it. It's also a demonstration of his ability to work. He really enjoys his current job and his salary is high. He knows that Andy gave him everything, but more so because of the emotional bond between him and Andy, Andy chooses to use him. Carl hopes that his ability to work will make Andy appreciate and trust him.

“Um... half a million?” Andy frowned slightly, holding on for a dozen seconds, and finally his teeth laughed.

Carl's mouth was pounding, his head was full of black lines, and he looked down at Andy with a scornful smile and whispered, “You're a lot tougher than I am... ”

Andy listened to Carl's sarcasm, embarrassed and disguised: “Why don't you contact the author first and see what his own bid is, and buy it if it's appropriate, I hope he doesn't talk about the lion, it's all out of the street, and he'll be glad someone bought his movie copyright, huh. ”

Karl looked at Andy, who was talking to himself, more than he was, and shook his fat head lightly and was powerless to throw up.

“You... What's that look on your face? I'm doing this for our company. If you spend less, you spend less!” Andy forcibly explained that he would not admit to his jian business, Ben Xing.

“Boss, this is the book. He's not a new writer. Valentine knows. Half a million? Oh, you think that's possible?” Carl looked down at Andy with disdain.

“You asked me what the offer was! You fat fuck, don't look at me like that! Damn, well, be sure to take the copyright off this novel, but don't act too hasty and let the lion talk... ”

Andy's not finished yet. Carl looked at him with an oblique eye, and he seemed to say, are you teaching me how to negotiate?

Andy rolled his white eyes, put his feet back on the table, leaned against the boss's chair, looked at the ceiling, and hummed without anger.