Hollywood Hunter

Just like "Pink Pink", John Hughes's "Home Alone" will also start shooting in the near future.

Yesterday I was busy with the three films "The Pink Consortium", "The Ghost Story" and "Ninja Turtles". Simon spent most of the day today talking with John Hughes in Chicago on the phone. Aspect details.

Under the impetus of Simon, the leading actor in "Home Alone" is still determined to be the original version of Macquarie Calkin.

McCawley Calkin happened to be a contracted artist under the WMA, although because of the influence of Simon this butterfly, Calkin failed to appear in John Hughes's "Uncle Buck" last year, but this little actor has been in many movies before. The face was exposed in the play, and it is still a signed child model under the Ford Modeling Company.

In addition to Kalkin, the roles of the two thieves are also the original Joe Percy and Daniel Stern.

Determine the "original" team, Simon will not need to worry too much next.

Basically, many of Simon's recent opponents have this attitude.

Daenerys Entertainment has become more and more dazzling in the past two years, or dazzling. Even if one or two of these projects fail, it does not matter to Simon, or it is just right.

After finishing the day's work, Simon rushed straight from Santa Monica to the Cold Water Canyon in Beverly Hills at seven in the afternoon.

The Cold Water Canyon block is part of Beverly Hills, just west of Trausdale Manor.The entire block winds upwards from Cold Water Canyon Park near Sunset Boulevard at the foot of the mountain, up to Mohran Road at the top of the mountain, which is more than five kilometers in length.A variety of mansions are scattered on both sides of Canyon Street, which also belongs to the star gathering area of ​​Los Angeles.

Arriving at the residence of Fox Studios President Joe Rose, it was already dark.

Joe Rose's villa is a two-story, simple white building commonly found in Los Angeles. It occupies about a quarter of an acre. Considering various factors such as geographic location, this is considered a luxury house in Los Angeles.

James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger have arrived early, and there are many other filmmakers in the courtyard.

When Simon arrived, he simply greeted some guests and went to the sunbathing terrace above the villa with Ross and Cameron.There is of course no sunlight at this time, and the city lights in the corner of Los Angeles can be seen faintly from the terrace.

The three sat down next to the seats on the terrace. Rose first said: "I have talked to Jim a few times. Simon, the budget for "Terminator 2" is set at $50 million. Jim still acts as a director. However, once The project overruns and Jim automatically gives up the director’s remuneration. At the same time, we will adopt stricter financial supervision measures to ensure that the film production will not be out of control. Do you think this is ok?"

Simon did not answer, but looked at Cameron and asked, "Jim, do you think you can do it?"

Cameron grinned a little stiffly and nodded, "It should be fine."

Simon did not express his opinion and turned to Joe Ross again, asking: "What is Arnold's compensation?"

Joe Roston said, "15 million dollars." After saying this, Simon raised his eyebrows, and Ross quickly explained again; "Stallone's remuneration in that "Angry Tiger Mad Dragon" has risen to 1500. Ten thousand dollars, Arnold is unwilling to get lower than Stallone's."

With a total budget of 50 million US dollars, Schwarzenegger took 15 million. Although Cameron planted a big head in "The Abyss", the 3 million film remuneration is definitely indispensable.

Counting other creatives, the funds left for film production are not even $30 million.

With Cameron's profligate character, if he could complete "Terminator 2" with less than $30 million in funds, then hell.

With a sneer, Simon said with a sneer: "I specially checked the data of Arnold's previous movies in the afternoon. From the summer of 1987, Arnold paid 3 million for the "Blood Warrior" and the box office was 59 million. "Veyron",

Joe Ross said: "Simon, Arnold has accumulated a lot of popularity in the first part of "Terminator", and his compensation is certainly not comparable to other original projects."

Cameron also said to the side: ""Terminator 2" is different from those movies, I believe this movie will definitely succeed."

"I am also very optimistic about this project," Simon looked at Cameron again, "However, Daenerys Entertainment is not Carlock Pictures, we will not unreasonably pay high prices. Arnold has already begun "Comprehensive Memories", if my news is correct, should he only get a base salary of $1 million? This "Terminator 2", he can choose two options, one is the same as the "Comprehensive Memories" base salary increase Divided into models, the other one, the remuneration to maintain the "Red Square Special Police" level, only 8 million US dollars.

Both Joe Rose and Cameron were a little silent.

Simon did not wait for the two to respond, and quickly continued: "Compared to the previous three films, "Comprehensive Memories" cost $65 million when Arnold almost gave up the pay. Carlock wanted to recover the cost. Great, I believe that after this movie, there should be no other film companies willing to take risks on Arnold. "Terminator 2" can be said to be the most guaranteed project to restore his popularity. So, I can give There are only the above two options. Or, you can wait for "Comprehensive Memories", when Arnold will get a lower pay."

In memory, "Comprehensive Memories" has a global box office of more than 200 million US dollars.

Although Carlock Pictures only managed to make a hard money, it was considered a success.

Because of the big sale of "Comprehensive Memories", Schwarzenegger finally returned to the peak after declining several movies in a row, restoring his own coffee equivalent to Stallone.

However, Simon certainly would not say so at this time.

Moreover, Simon suddenly remembered that in addition to "Comprehensive Memories", Arnold had another relatively successful work during this period: "Special Kindergarten".

In memory, this is also a blockbuster movie with a global box office breaking 200 million.

Thinking of this, Simon made up his mind to cut down.

Even, if necessary, "Terminator 2", "True Lies" and even "Evaporation Secret Order".

Alternatively, it is possible to add a few items to the original box office fiasco at Schwarzenegger.

With his own prophetic advantage, Simon wanted to snipe a Hollywood filmmaker's acting career, it is still very easy.

As for Terminator 2, Simon is really not in a hurry.

Moreover, although it has not yet been announced, Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures have signed a cooperation agreement, which is regarded as one of those 10 movie plans.Therefore, the initiative of this project is actually in the hands of Simon.

Joe Ross thought for a moment and said to Simon: "So, shall I go down and talk to Arnold?"

Simon nodded and said, "I haven't eaten dinner yet, Joe, please send some food over, whatever you want."

"of course."

Joe Rose agreed, and after looking up at Cameron again, he went downstairs.

Cameron looked at the young man in front of him, and for a moment did not know whether he should take the initiative to leave.He has watched "Batman: The Moment of War" several times before. He admires the groundbreaking details of the film. He originally wanted to have a good chat with Simon.

It's just that Westeros, the state of the film company's boss, is really not very flattering.

Simon looked at the restless Cameron and suddenly said: "Jim, should someone tell you about Coppola and the elephant?"

Cameron's face was puzzled.

Simon realized that Cameron hadn’t heard the story, and actively explained: “This is a story during Coppola’s filming of “Modern Apocalypse.” Coppola wanted to find several elephants in the filming process. However, the project was overrun and overdue at that time. If you want to transport the elephant to the studio, it will not only cost a lot, but will also cause a further delay in the filming cycle. The film producers discourage Coppola, many things are not It may be perfect and you have to give it up. Later, no elephants appeared in "Modern Revelation", and the movie there was still very successful."

Cameron naturally thought that Simon was talking about his "Abyss" last year, and he couldn't think of any rebuttal at one time, so he nodded and said, "Simon, I understand what you mean."

"I've seen the "Terminator" that year, more than once," Simon continued: "Jim, since you were able to shoot a perfect work for $6.4 million at that time, there is no reason why you can't stipulate Complete other films within budget. Last year's "The Abyss" cost US$69.5 million. I heard that you are under great pressure, but this is just some mental pressure. Maybe you don't know that there is a large group of people in Fox who have failed because of this project. They lost their jobs. The biggest reason they were dismissed was not because of the box office loss of "Abyss", the industry was already at great risk. They were fired because the project budget was out of control. You know, the studio money is also It never fell from the sky."

Cameron's expression flickered for a moment, and finally said: "Simon, I will definitely pay attention in the future."

The waiter brought some food at this time.

Simon waited for the other person to leave, and gestured to Cameron. When he saw the other person shaking his head, he pulled the tray in front of him and picked up the cutlery: "I have studied the special effects program of "The Abyss", and the CG alien technology should be able to Used to make the liquid metal robot in Terminator 2?"

The special effects of "The Abyss" are actually produced by Daenerys Special Effects Studio.

Moreover, whether it is "The Abyss" or "Terminator 2" in Simon's memory, the special effect expenditure is actually not high.

The reason why the two projects are costly is mainly due to Cameron's perfectionism procrastination.

Last year's "Abyss", the shooting period was as long as 5 months.The original "Terminator 2" was continuously filmed for 6 months. Compared with the average filming period of Hollywood movies of about 3 months, this is the main reason for the two projects to lose control of the budget.

From the standpoint of movie fans, with Cameron's box office results, how much money should be spent.

However, for the film company, unless it is the kind of person who burns other people's money without pain, it is definitely a struggle to work with Cameron.

Cameron listened to Simon talking about the special effects technology of "The Abyss", and got some spirits and began to chat with Simon.

Joe Rose came back after more than ten minutes, and said to Simon after sitting down: "10 million dollars, Arnold's agent insists so much, he said Arnold is considering another film, if we disagree, this project You can only talk until next year."

Simon hesitated a little, so he didn't have too many entanglements, saying: "Tomorrow we will officially announce the news."

If he continues to struggle with the $2 million difference, Simon knows that Schwarzenegger will really continue to drag this project down, and now the initiative is not in the production company.

Moreover, although he has just expressed his disappointment with "Comprehensive Memories", Simon is the one who knows the result the most.Once the summer file Schwarzenegger turned over with "Comprehensive Memories", it was even more difficult to sign the other party.

Joe Rose was relieved, and nodded quickly.

During this time, because "Batman: The Moment of War" box office was beyond everyone's expected super sale, Fox re-emphasized the project that Simon was optimistic about.

Now that "Terminator 2" is finalized, Fox's main movie next year will also land.

Simon finished speaking and looked at Cameron again: "Jim, in the next few months, hire someone to complete the sequel full split shot script. I hope you will know what you want after the shooting, rather than print it out. Hundreds of thousands of feet of useless film material."

In the original version of "Terminator 2", Cameron developed more than one million feet of lens film, and the final use was less than 1%.These films actually meant a lot of budget expenditure.

Simon absolutely does not allow this kind of thing to happen again for the second time.

As long as Cameron is strictly controlled during the shooting process, he will squander unrestrainedly. Even if he will still overspend this time, he will never reach the original budget of more than $100 million.

Cameron naturally agreed.

The three continued to talk about something. Cameron got up and left first. Joe Rose followed Simon casually and looked down at the terrace. He tentatively said, "Simon, do you want to go down and talk to everyone?"

There are more than 30 people in the courtyard downstairs at this time, and although many people pretend to be chatting with each other, they actually pay close attention to the movement of the terrace.

Simon just had a brief meeting with everyone when he just came over, and everyone downstairs was looking forward to talking with him.

The success of "Batman: Moment of War" and the many resources in Simon's hands have already elevated his status in Hollywood to a level that he may not even fully appreciate.

"Batman: The Dark Knight", "Superman", "Wonder Woman", "The Flash" and other DC movie universe projects, recently have to start casting.The whole Hollywood is staring at this matter.In addition, the projects in the 10 movie plans of "Terminator 2" and "Destiny's End" also mean a lot of opportunities.

Simon had no interest in hunting tonight, but he didn't refuse Joe Rose's invitation, nodded, got up and went downstairs with him to join the crowd.