I pick C...c The publisher received two hundred thousand dollars after selling the production rights to the film studio.

as this has nothing to do with the success of the film nor the book itself...

C for me too

IMO B as explained by target...whats the OA..

Please give the OA, as it seems all C,B and E have some logic behind it.

C for me

I don't get it though..how is "C" explaining the soundness of the plan???
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Wow!!! ed to see 'D' as the answer!!!! Need more explanation....

I think C is weaker than D and C must be the answer.
Even though the publisher received money from the film studio, but this money was deprived from productions rights, not from the new edition of the novel.
From this, we can't say the plan was sound because it doesn't matter if the publisher printed out the new edition or not, it still got this 200,000 bucks.

(D) The actress didn't help the plan much but somehow movie watcher might be affected by her opinion and became to like to read the novel. Thus the plan might become sound.
Again, there was no connection between $200,000 and the new edition, the plan could not be sound.
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200 K is quite a low figure, probably a crisis figure. I have seen figures up to 600 K.
The way you look at it is probably not the right way. You need to look at the whole thing as a package, movie tie-in book, merchandising etc. Although publishers have often still their original names, many of them have been bought by multimedia companies. News and BMG (Bertelsmann Group) have print publishers, radio TV interests, record labels, movie distribution, and probably shares or whole production companies. You do not see that, because the big conglomerates these days like to keep the brand names they have purchased.
It may well be that the publisher is part of the family of companies that instigated the movie and the actress was interviewed on a related channel. The publicity arm of the movie people would have told her what to say, what else do you expect.
Audiences are so easily influenced by the hype that these specialists create. It has been said that Avatar made 500 million US for News Corp, but I have no way of verifying it.
The movie gets in the main daily news, too - and oh wonder, the next day you have News advertising on that channel. It's all business, and product, don't look at it as arts. The publicity people coordinate advertising, interviews, release of CDs and interviews. They all cost a lot of money, so you'd be darft not to. And yet, only 10 % of movies and CDs are making their money back, I once heard.
I'd love to sell my book rights for a smaller sum and a share in the profits.

I picked C as well, because 200000 could be a lot of money, or it could be quite less. The actress, in D, is advertising the book. So, that supports the plan. I think. Well....