454 Chapter 451 From the Heart (seeking subscription, tickets) (1/2)

The next day, Lyman led the negotiation team to a commercial building next to Random House.

The person in charge of the cultural company who represented the copyright of Stephen King's novel also warmly welcomed Lehman and his party.

If you want to buy the right of adaptation, you have to get the consent of Stephen King himself, but if you agree, you still have to return to commercial negotiations.

Appreciation belongs to appreciation, and business belongs to business.

Stephen King is not a pedantic person.

However, with his consent, the price will be appropriately discounted.

In other words, the upper limit of the negotiation has been artificially lowered, but it is whimsical to want to get it without paying anything.

Lehman never imagined that he could get Stephen King's best-selling horror master work at a very low price.

And because Stephen King greeted him in advance, Lehman was very sincere to cooperate. Although the counter-offer between you and me is not small, it is still controlled within a certain degree. No lion opens his mouth and hangs as a person. That's it.

Both parties are testing the bottom line...

”8 million dollars.”

”5.5 million?”

”This is impossible. The film copyright transfer fee for Stephen's novels is basically this amount. I am already very sincere.” A middle-aged man on the opposite side said loudly.

In fact, what he said is also the truth. Since Mr. Stephen notified the matter last night, he has also held the attitude of reaching cooperation.

After all, the best-selling writers’ right to adapt, the average market in the industry is basically around tens of millions of dollars. If it weren’t for the length of ”The Mist”, it would be okay to raise the price by more than 10 million.

But, he said 8 million is a good deal.

But negotiations can never be what others say. As the chairman of a film company, Lehman must of course try his best to reduce the risks of the film and appropriately control the shooting costs.

If you can keep the price down, try to keep it down as much as possible.

Lehman didn't speak, and the negotiating member next to him frowned and retorted: ”Your company has sold the TV rights of ”The Mist”. It seems that only one movie rights cannot be claimed at the market price. If we are responsible for all movie rights, of course we I am also willing to spend 8 million dollars. What do you think?”

The middle-aged man's complexion remained unchanged: ”That was more than ten years ago, and in eight or nine years, we can also make up this piece.”

Well, generally, the time limit for signing the copyright procedure for the adaptation of the film and television is 20 years at most. After 20 years, the relevant copyright will return to Stephen King.

The negotiating team continued to negotiate, ”6 million dollars?”

”7.5 million.”

”Still too expensive, just an adaptation of a movie. 6.5 million?”

The middle-aged man hesitated.

Finally, business comes to the door. If he promotes cooperation, as a senior agent entrusted by Stephen King, he can extract 8% of the proceeds from this transaction, he naturally wants the price to be higher.

But Stephen King has also spoken, agreeing to transfer the right of adaptation, and he can't mess around.

In the end, he persisted a little bit, and each stepped back, ”7 million dollars. It must not be less.”

”Deal.”

Lehman’s psychological price is around US$8 million, which is enough to keep the price down by one million.

The middle-aged man on the opposite side breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words.

He can also make a fortune when the deal is concluded.

He stretched out his hand and said: ”Happy cooperation.”

”Happy cooperation...”

Subsequently, all intentions were agreed.

The following trivial matters naturally have the following people to help Lehman run the formalities.