In early 1989, Guan Xiaoguan took her newlywed husband back to China to visit relatives and met Uncle Guan.

Xiang Nan didn't interfere and took a look from a distance. He felt that the man was average-looking and had a not-so-good temperament. He was submissive, listless, and looked like he was being treated poorly.

He was relieved.

Guan Xiaoguan did not take her newlywed husband to visit the company, fearing that he would take advantage of his wealth. After meeting Uncle Guan, she took him back to the United States.

Her husband had no idea that she had such a huge property in the capital. He only knew that she was working as a manager in a hotel and she had a fake marriage with him in order to avoid being forced into marriage by her family.

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In January 1989, Xiang Nan's previously published science fiction novel "Jurassic Park" was successfully promoted by CAA to Simon & Schuster, the second largest bookseller in the United States.

Not only did he help Xiang Nan get a royalties of US$4,000 for 1,000 words, but he also got a 20% commission, which can be said to be quite good.

"Jurassic Park" is a novel written by Xiang Nan in 1983. It tells the story of Chinese scientists in the 21st century who excavated Jurassic amber from Zigong, extracted dinosaur DNA, and mixed it with lizards. The DNA of frogs, iguanas, geckos and other reptiles was used to create ancient dinosaurs using genetic cloning technology, and a Jurassic Park was built on an island in the South China Sea for tourists to watch.

After this novel was released, it caused a sensation.

However, domestic science fiction literature has always been very unpopular.

On the one hand, science fiction is always associated with popular science, but in fact these are completely different things. "Star Wars", Marvel, and DC comic book adaptations are all unreasonable, but they are still successful science fiction works.

On the one hand, the abilities of practitioners are limited. Those who can create may not necessarily understand science, and those who understand science may not necessarily be able to create. Therefore, the creation of science fiction literature is limited, which also makes science fiction novels have a smaller audience.

Xiang Nan's "Jurassic Park" was a typical success but not a hit. Although readers of science fiction novels applauded and thought this novel was really great, the sales volume ranked last among Xiang Nan's many novels. Therefore, this project After Nan, I didn't write any more sequels.

Unexpectedly, after this novel was introduced to the United States, it would become very popular and quickly appear on the New York Times bestseller list, which surprised even Simon & Schuster Publishing Company.

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After the novel became popular, major Hollywood film companies took a fancy to its commercial value.

Because monster movies have always been very popular in the United States, such as King Kong, Alien, Godzilla, Jaws, etc.

The ancient Tyrannosaurus rex depicted in "Jurassic Park" is the king of monsters. If it can be filmed, it will definitely be popular. By then, maybe we can create movies like "Jaws", "King Kong", and "Alien" A box office miracle.

Therefore, many companies competed for the film and television adaptation rights of this novel, and they all offered high prices for it.

However, Xiang Nan was not in a hurry to sell the copyright, but set a condition. The film company must ensure that the production cost of "Jurassic Park" exceeds 60 million US dollars before he would give up the film and television adaptation rights.

Otherwise, even if the script was offered for five million, he wouldn't bother to take it.

This condition quickly scared off many film companies. After all, US$60 million in 1989 was not a small sum.

Warner Bros. invested only US$35 million to shoot "Batman"; George Lucas and Steven Spielberg directed "Raiders of the Lost Ark" with a production cost of only US$48 million; it won 85 "Back to the Future 2," the sequel to the annual box office champion "Back to the Future", cost only US$40 million to produce...

The story of "Jurassic Park" is very innovative and has great commercial value, but no one is sure whether it will be popular. After all, it is not like "Batman", "Back to the Future", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", It has been tested by the market.

Therefore, it is impossible for the film company to gamble 60 million US dollars. After all, their current life is not easy.

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CAA also felt that the conditions proposed by Xiang Nan were too harsh, and asked him to lower the cost, setting it at US$30 million, which was considered a large-scale production.

However, Xiang Nan knows that the reason why "Jurassic Park" is popular all over the world is because it uses the most advanced digital special effects technology, which brings the audience an immersive and extremely realistic audio-visual enjoyment. And this kind of special effects Technology is very expensive, and it wouldn't be possible without 60 million.

Furthermore, Xiang Nan's request for a production fee of US$60 million is actually a disguised requirement that the film company must bring out the best team to film the film. Otherwise, there is a risk of losing money.

A good team, a good script, and good special effects will have a greater chance of achieving high box office. This will prevent the "Jurassic Park" IP from being wasted.

Otherwise, he would rather wait a few more years.

Seeing that Xiang Nan refused to give in, CAA had no choice.

Unlike domestic economic companies that control artists, American brokerage companies serve artists. If artists are unhappy, they can fire the brokerage company at any time, so CAA can only persuade Xiang Nan, but cannot force him.

However, Xiang Nan did not disappoint caa too much. He later wrote three scripts and handed them over to caa for processing.

One is "The Last Day", one is "Pretty Woman", and one is "Home Alone". These three movies are all high-scoring movies in the 1990s. I believe they should be welcomed by film companies.

CAA was overjoyed after receiving the script and immediately started selling it hard.

In the end, "The Last Day" was picked up by Paramount, "Pretty Woman" was picked up by Warner Bros., and "Home Alone" was picked up by Fox.

Xiang Nan received a royalties of US$600,000 and a 5% profit share for this. However, generally speaking, due to the shady nature of Hollywood film companies, even big-selling movies can turn into losses through accounting.

For example, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" has a box office of US$610 million in North America, which is considered a huge profit by any means. However, after some manipulations by Warner Pictures, not only did this movie not make any money, but it also lost a dollar. Sixty million US dollars.

Therefore, all staff members who signed a profit sharing contract with the film company ended up with nothing. So later they also learned the lesson and directly asked to participate in the income sharing.

But not everyone has such privilege. Unless he has a certain say in Hollywood, he has to do it.

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In February **, "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" was officially broadcast on Yanjing Satellite TV.

Once it was aired, it was well received.

The humorous story, vivid performances, and rigorous and meticulous production made this TV series naturally popular. It was even more popular than "Family Spring and Autumn" broadcast by CCTV at the same time.

For two consecutive times, CCTV's ratings were not as good as those of provincial TV stations, which also made CCTV somewhat disgraced.

What's even more embarrassing is that the original script for "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" was given to CCTV first. As a result, they didn't know what to do and refused to film it on the grounds that "historical dramas need to be serious".
Chapter completed!