Chapter 8: The Road to the Great Ocean
Standing downstairs of the girl, Meng Qingzhou wanted to slap himself hard, why are you talking too much?
I originally agreed to meet at the school gate, but in order to demonstrate the gentlemanly spirit, he said something more, do you need me to help you get something? Therefore, he had been drinking the cold wind for half an hour.
"Little Bee, please help me get my suitcase and go!"
Tangtang walked over with a smile, handed the pink suitcase in her hand to Qingzhou, and took off the shoulder bag on his shoulder.
"Tang Dasha, remember it for me. After school starts, I will wait for me downstairs of boys' dormitory for an hour."
Tangtang, who knew that he was in the wrong, did not refute and looked at Meng Qingzhou pitifully, "Qingzhou, I was wrong. Forgive my sister once. After returning to the Demon City, I will invite you to Xiao Yang Shengjian, okay?"
If a woman is the same, Qingzhou might have left, but Tangtang is still within his tolerance range. There is no way, long legs can increase the friendship attributes.
"Qingzhou, Teacher Liu said you won't participate in graduation rehearsals, what's going on?"
"I have something to do at home and I don't have time to participate in rehearsals."
Meng Qingzhou returned to the Demon Capital, not on vacation. He wanted to get his passport as fast as possible. It was obviously much faster in the Demon Capital than in Yanjing. It was hard to say whether he could be at home during the Spring Festival.
Tangtang originally wanted to ask, and she told her about introducing the film and television company before. Seeing that Meng Qingzhou was not in a high mood, she resisted not saying it.
After getting off the plane, Meng Qingzhou took a taxi to take Tangtang home, and took a bus to the Magic City Passport and Visa Acceptance Center. After completing the procedures, he went home.
At the entrance of a community that was a bit old in the Magic City, Meng Qingzhou got off the bus and called. He knew that there was someone at home, so he walked into the community.
At the entrance of the unit building, a dignified and intellectual middle-aged woman stood there. When she saw Meng Qingzhou coming, she looked happy and walked over with big strodes, "Son, have you eaten?"
"Mom, I ate some on the plane. I wasn't full, so I just wanted to come back and eat the food you cooked!"
"I just knew to make my mother happy. If I really miss my mother, I will come back to accompany me after graduation. Your father was talking to you when he saw the sky, and he was waiting for you to come back."
Meng Qingzhou didn't take his mother's words and returned to the Demon City? He didn't want to suffer.
"Mom, I just went to apply for a passport. Please ask dad to urge me, the faster the better!"
Meng Qingzhou's mother Zhou Yuemei is a deputy of the Cultural Bureau of the Magic City. She has some real power. Her father Meng Yangting is from the Foreign Police Department of the Magic City Public Security Bureau. She will definitely find him the fastest to apply for a passport.
"Which country are you going to? Son, it's almost the New Year, otherwise don't go abroad. After the New Year, go out again, okay?"
Qingzhou was not willing to post it until the New Year. He went to the United States to publish the Hunger Games, selling scripts for "The Wasteland" and "The Walking Dead".
There is no way, if you write domestic novels and then publish them, it will take at least 6 months to publish them. American books can be completed within 3 months, and you can get money quickly, especially TV series scripts.
It is said that under the current mature system of the American film and television industry, it is a bit unrealistic to want to sell scripts. Meng Qingzhou just took a try-out mentality, and someone would appreciate excellent scripts.
Scripts are the foundation of American dramas. In its long-term practice, a mature development system has been formed around scripts, and this development system is worth learning and reference for Chinese film and television scripts.
Several major American TV stations spend more than 900 million US dollars on script development every year. In order to share costs, large studios often use script development as a company's annual fixed expenditure project, and share their expenses as online expenses to each produced movie and TV series.
For the creators of the script, they can get a 6%-10% remuneration based on the investment amount of the film and television drama. If the producer's expected returns are met, there will be a 5% profit share in the later stage.
After Meng Qingzhou learned this information at school, he tinkered with the scripts of "The Hunger Games" and two TV series. He worked hard to make a living.
"Mom, I'll only be in the United States for a few days and I'll be back soon. Maybe it's time to catch up with the Spring Festival. Please tell me about it to dad. I'm not going to play, I'm doing a serious business!"
Meng Qingzhou told Zhou Yuemei all the things he wanted to do in the United States. If it were an ordinary family, he might question why he did not publish in China, etc.
But his mother is the leader of the Cultural Bureau and has a considerable understanding of the readability of books caused by cultural differences. She just asked Qingzhou to send her an electronic file and agreed to his trip to the United States.
That’s right! There’s no need to ask his father’s opinion at all, both the mother and the son subconsciously ignored it!
A few days later, Meng Qingzhou, who had his passport, took a cultural journey of slack and left. He went to the United States to promote cultural exchanges between the two countries.
The destinations are the American Academic Press in New York, and AMC Television.
After staying in the United States for 7 days, "The Hunger Games" successfully signed a publishing contract. Although "The Wasteland 1-2" and "The Walking Dead 1-3" were suppressed, Meng Qingzhou still sold it.
The scripts of the two TV series sold for $800,000. The script costs for one season are only $100,000, which is just a second-rate level in the United States. (I checked, the remuneration of American screenwriters is about $300,000 to $400,000 per season)
The reason why he was under price was because AMC said that both of his scripts needed to be found in "Script Doctor" to make major changes. If Meng Qingzhou had not been short of money, he would not want to sell them to AMC. This was an authentic script.
Only after the scripts of American TV dramas are screened by script agents, script analysts and producers, can the scripts that are screened on the desk of the studio manager and finally presented to the senior management of the studio.
But even the script included in the shooting plan may still need to be revised. The revisions may be proposed by investors, production teams or starring actors with the right to speak.
In this case, studios usually hire professional screenwriters to modify.
These people are often called "Doctors", and they are hired to "dress up" or "trim" scripts, such as adding humorous plots or adding some other "lace".
The script doctors are often ordered to take the task before the movie is about to be filmed, and they have to play the fire-fighting function in a very short time, so the reward is also very high. The current market trend reaches 100,000 US dollars per week.
Most of the time, script doctors join before the filming starts, but in some special cases, script doctors may be invited to make up for the filming after the filming is completed.
He was not worried anymore. The money had been obtained, and there was still 680,000 US dollars after paying the tax, which was enough to make a movie. The original "33 Days of Love Break" cost only 9 million, and the price was still in the market five years later.
By the way, he also established a shell company in the United States, with business scope including film and television investment and the introduction of variety shows.
Chapter completed!