Jimmy was also paying attention to the box office performance of "Groundhog Day". When the first weekend box office came out, he was instantly relieved.
Although it did not reach 20 million, he believed that with the quality of "Groundhog Day", the final box office would be at least 70 to 80 million.
With such a box office in this period, "Groundhog Day" should be at the top of the box office this year in the next few months.
Jimmy checked this year's movie schedule and found that the most popular movies were basically concentrated in June, July, and August.
For example, "Jurassic Park", "Sniper's Wire", "Sleepless in Seattle", "The Firm", etc. Perhaps the closest to "Groundhog Day" is Paramount's "Paramount", which will be released in April.
"Unethical Trading".
For Jimmy, the longer "Groundhog Day" stays at the top of the charts, the happier he will be, and when the "One Day" novel collection comes out later, the easier it will be to promote it.
Now Columbia has begun to direct movies to Yu Dong and his "Resident Evil", which is also a good thing for Dong. When Columbia promoted "Groundhog Day", it also promoted Yu Dong.
In the past two days, Jimmy has heard more than one person asking about the novel "One Day" when he was in the bookstore.
After having lunch outside, Jimmy received a call from Dante when he returned to the apartment.
When the call was connected, Jimmy smiled and said: "Dante, you are really good at timing. You called me right after I came back."
Dante said angrily: "This is no coincidence. I call you every ten minutes and have been calling you for an hour."
"Oh, what could make Mr. Dent, who is always calm, so anxious?"
"Is it convenient for you to come to our company? I want to talk to you about YU's novel "One Day"."
"For such a small matter, I need you to call me personally. Just ask the editorial department or some other department to tell me. It's not good for you, the head of the commercial department, to do the work of someone else's editorial department every day."
Jimmy smiled and said: "But you are slower than I thought. I thought you would come to me when the movie was not released."
Dante explained, "This is also the fault of James from the editorial department. I told him a long time ago to contact you to discuss "One Day". This guy has too many things at home in the past two days.
I forgot about it. After I asked today, I found out that he hasn’t called you yet, so I made the call myself. I called you here because I wanted James to apologize to you in person. "
"There is nothing to apologize for. The matter of "One Day" was not urgent to begin with. If he had called me before, I wouldn't know what to do."
While answering Dante's words, Jimmy cursed that they were all foxes of thousands of years, and they were still playing idle games.
It's all an excuse that James has too many things going on at home. Dante and the others must be waiting and watching to see how "Groundhog Day" does at the box office.
Now that the box office results of the past few days have been released, it is already certain that the box office of this movie will not be low and its reputation will not be bad, so I decided to talk to him about "One Day".
…
The next day, Jimmy arrived at Bantam, and James from the editorial department actually came over to apologize to him, and the whole trick was done.
Dante pretended to scold James for a few words, and then let James go out.
If Jimmy had been a fool, he would have been frightened by Dante and the others.
After James went out, Dante got straight to the point: "Jimmy, I've already told you about the matter on the phone. Do you have the agency rights for the novel "One Day"?"
Jimmy smiled and said: "I have the agency rights for all YU's novels. You can rest assured about this."
"That's easy to talk about. We are all old friends. You can just make a price."
"The price is not easy to get because "One Day" is a short story and it has not been translated yet."
When he heard that it was a short story, Dante frowned. He had not expected this situation before, because in the promotion in Colombia, "One Day" was described as quite thick, making people think that it was a full-length novel.
Seeing Dante's frown, Jimmy continued: "But YU happens to have a few short and medium stories, and is currently preparing to make a collection."
Dante knew what Jimmy meant, but now the matter became troublesome because no one knew what was going on with the other stories in this collection.
"That's right, Jimmy, the company may have to read a few other articles before making a decision. As you know, we didn't know before..."
Jimmy raised his hand and interrupted Dante, "It doesn't matter, this matter is not urgent to begin with. I haven't found a translator here yet, and "Second World" is about to be launched. These two books are also
Can’t be crowded together.”
Dante glanced at Jimmy and pondered.
After a long while, Dante said, "Let's do this. I'll give you a guaranteed royalty of 10% for five years, and you promise not to contact other companies before we talk to you."
"make a deal."
Jimmy agreed simply, because this matter cost them nothing at all. It was just a condition for Bantam to negotiate first, which didn't mean anything. If they couldn't reach an agreement at the time, they would just switch to another company.
Then Jimmy took a sip of coffee and said with a smile: "The coffee you have here is really good. Just brew it. I can't find another company."
Dante also smiled and said: "If you like to drink, come here often. I have coffee here ready for you at any time."
…
A member of the Cucumber Garden Science Fiction Association published a novel in "Science Fiction World".
This incident caused quite a stir in Jinyi, because from the announcement of the previous support fund to now, some members have finally succeeded.
The student who came out on top is named Li Huinan, and he is still a freshman.
In fact, Li Huinan was not the first to submit a manuscript. There were two members of the poetry reading club who also submitted manuscripts. One wrote a novel in "Flower City" and the other wrote a poem in "Stars".
It's just that "Science Fiction World" is a monthly magazine, and the manuscripts are relatively tight, so they are published quickly.
The bonus is based on the publication of the work, not on the basis of the manuscript, so Li Huinan took advantage of this and became the first.
Wu Changxin was very happy to learn the news and personally paid a bonus of 50 yuan to Li Huinan.
This once again aroused the enthusiasm of members.
Now the two associations have continued to grow. Although the number of people is not very large due to the increased entry threshold, the scope of coverage has been very wide, covering several colleges and universities in Jinling, and it has developed from an association of one school to an association of one city.
Some people from society even came to ask if they could join the membership, but the association stipulated that it only accepts school students and teachers, so these people could only be turned away.
As the sponsor of the support fund, Yu Dong is of course very happy.
Although there are many voices in society now, saying that material stimulation of students should not be done in this way, it will lead to unhealthy learning style.
But Yu Dong doesn't care at all. He doesn't think material stimulation is a bad thing.
If this kind of material stimulation is a bad thing, then there is no need to establish scholarships and major literary awards, because these also fall into the category of material stimulation.
Chapter completed!