Hollywood Hunter

In the office, Simon considered for a moment, took the notebook next to him, and quickly wrote a few lines on it with a pencil, tearing it off and handing it to Linda Vargas: "Trilogy, this is the highest offer I can give. . For three days, if Arnold disagrees, you can help me choose other actors. This time I don’t need to consider the coffee position, as long as the image and acting skills meet the standard."

Linda Vargos took over the paper sheet that Simon handed over, and above were three sets of quotations.

In the trilogy, the basic pay is 15 million US dollars, the second part increases the global box office gross profit by 10%, and the third part accounts increase to 20%.

Linda Waggs thought about it quickly. Special effects blockbuster like "Game of the Brave", the global box office performance should be comparable to Schwarzenegger's "Terminator 2", reaching about 500 million US dollars.According to the production cost of 100 million US dollars and the announcement of 50 million US dollars, the global box office is 500 million, 10% of the gross profit of the box office can be about 6 million US dollars, and 20% is 12 million.

For a big coffee with full basic compensation, such a split is actually very sincere.

The premise is that the trilogy box office can achieve this level.

If only last year's "Real Lies" had a box office of less than US$400 million worldwide, even a 20% gross profit split would not be too much.

This can greatly mobilize the initiative of the main creator.

In general, the compensation plan developed by his own boss requires the actors and the project to share a certain amount of risk, and will not allow the main creator to enjoy the success in the event of a project loss.

This is also Daenerys' consistent pay strategy.

Moreover, for this pay, it may be mainly to avoid Schwarzenegger's price in the sequel.

Because even if the first song reaches more than 500 million U.S. dollars worldwide, without long-term restrictions, Schwarzenegger may get a full channel share on top of the full base pay in subsequent requests.

The most typical precedent is Warner's "Fatal Weapon" series. After the unfavorable first song of "Fatal Weapon" was successful, in the next two works, Warner basically basically made hard money, and the big head was all by Gibson. The main creator relies on high basic compensation and omni-channel share to take away.

His strong boss never allowed Daenerys to fall into this role.

Based on past experience, it is roughly judged that the possibility that Schwarzenegger would agree to this offer should be between five and five. Linda Vargas put away his thoughts and looked up to Simon: "Boss, I have read "Brave The approximate script of "Gamer" has an idea in your heart, do you want to hear it?"

Simon nodded with a smile: "You said."

Linda Vargas said: "I also think that the role of Dr. Spencer is almost tailor-made for Arnold. Since that is the case, if, I mean, if Arnold disagrees, we seem to be able to modify this role. Settings, used to adapt to other stars, such as Harrison Ford, um, university professors, archaeologists, or Stallone, Vietnam veterans, firearms experts. This story was originally built on the basis of video games, of course, the character attributes are from us Certainly, there is no need to be trapped by a character."

Simon heard Linda say this and suddenly felt a sudden and cheerful feeling.

indeed.

The four of you are completely trapped by the character set in memory.

There is absolutely no need for this.

And, think about it carefully, in the previous film, the "attribute" of the iron fist Robbie played by Dr. Spencer and Karen Gillan overlapped, and both tend to output force because of the suppression of Jushi Johnson Instead, there is not much room for iron fist to play.It would be more reasonable if Dr. Spencer’s all-around adventurer settings were changed to suit Stallone’s firearms expert, one long-range, one melee, and two other assistants.

Pushing his thoughts, Simon patted his palm lightly, looking to the opposite side because of the transcendental status and enjoying the high salary, and naturally cultivated a woman with a very attractive temperament. He smiled and said, "Linda, did I increase your salary? "

Linda Vargas was slightly warmed by the staring eyes of her young boss,

Simon nodded: "Oh, then forget it, and I will add it to you in two years. You can tell me such good ideas in the future."

Linda Vargas froze, pretending to be dissatisfied: "Boss, according to the normal plot, how much should be added, you are too stingy."

Simon has written a new idea inspired by Linda in the draft script of "Game of the Brave" in front of him with a pencil, and said with a smile: "I am a capitalist. Paying employees is contrary to the genes of this creature. By nature."

In a circle where she can often contact Simon, Linda Vargas also occasionally heard about the "gene instinct" theory of her boss, ridiculed a few words, and did not struggle with the topic of salary increase. She was very satisfied with her salary. .

Probably talked about the casting progress of some other projects, and Linda Vargus got up and left.

This is March 23, Thursday.

Simon's consideration time for Arnold is probably until next Monday, which happens to be the date of the new Oscars.

Continue to be busy for a day, the next day is Friday.

The film "This Man Comes from the Earth", which was released on February 24, ended the fourth week of the release.

Following the excellent box office results of US$76.19 million in the first week and US$57.37 million in the following week, the third week of "This Man from the Earth" showed a 49% drop at the box office. It was an unexpected and deep decline. .Subsequently, from March 17 to March 23, the fourth box office week, the box office decline of "This Man From the Earth" was narrowed again to 31%, and the single-week box office was 19.83 million US dollars.

Four weeks after its release, this ultra-low-cost sci-fi film with a production budget of only US$1.5 million has accumulated a total of US$18.12 million.

The initial forecast of US$300 million with the third week of deep decline is certainly hopeless. However, even the current local box office of US$180 million has temporarily placed this phenomenon-level alternative science fiction in the box office championship of 1995. It is expected to be 250 million. The local box office of the US dollar may only be able to break through the summer edition of "Jurassic Park 2" and the end of the year's "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice".

Because of the unexpected popularity of "This Man From Earth", even if the possibility of copying this box office miracle is very small, the entire Hollywood has begun to search for similar scripts.In any case, according to the cost level of "This Man From Earth", even if the local box office is only one-tenth of it, the film company is enough to reap good profits.

A large number of second- and third-line actors who participated in "This Man Comes from the Earth", because of the unexpected popularity of this movie, its popularity has increased dramatically for a time, even if it is impossible to reach the first-line level at once. At least there will be no shortage of film appointments in the next few years. If you can manage it carefully, plus some luck, it is enough to stand firmly in Hollywood.

After all, the capacity of the top layer of the pyramid in this circle is very small, and it is already a luck for many actors to stabilize this rice bowl.

Simon also found that the baby-faced supermodel Qu Si Gaofu who performed well in "This Man From Earth" seems to be more and more suitable for the role of Iron Fist Robbie in "Game of the Brave", and the original Karen Gillan The same baby face, the same tall head, even the body is impeccable.

However, just like George Clooney in Simon's "The Man From Earth" who wants to continue to star in Daenerys for the popular TV series "The Story of the Emergency Room", Qu Gove is Victoria's Signing an angel spokesperson, and signing a five-year contract, if you just turn to Hollywood, it is likely that you will not be able to fully fulfill your spokesperson obligations.

Wei Mi's brand spokesperson is not only as simple as participating in the annual Wei Mi show, but also has the obligation to act as a graphic model of the brand, shoot TV advertisements and participate in brand marketing activities.

And the suddenly famous baby-faced supermodel is still the object of many other brands. Just in the past four spring fashion weeks, the girl walked from North America to Europe and walked more than seventy shows in a pivot. Ground.

When Simon called Grace Spurt to ask for advice, the woman also said that she specially sent an assistant to guard Qus Gove, who had just returned from Milan, to sleep in the New York apartment and planned to sleep for a week. The kind of energy that can't be recovered can only be recovered from less than four hours of rest per day in the past month.

Help Grace to win three supermodels, Qusi Gaofu is undoubtedly the most successful one.Therefore, Grace is also the'cashmaker' of this agent.

If the focus of Qusi Gaofu’s career turns to Hollywood, it is definitely a good thing for this baby-faced supermodel, and it is not good news for Grace.However, the woman did not object at all. She would do whatever Simon said.There is no such kind of opinion.

Grace had no opinion, and Simon decided directly.

Did not ask for the opinion of a baby face.

I believe that as long as the other party is a little smarter, he knows how to choose. The model is only a youth meal, and it is easy to be beaten by the back wave, otherwise Cindy Crawford will not insist on starring in Warner’s bad film after Simon reminds him. "Fair Game".

As for the Victorian side, as long as the coordination is good, it is nothing more than making the girl more busy.

Make up your mind, things are basically settled on the weekend before Oscar.

Qu Si Gaofu's performance in "This Man From Earth" is still satisfactory to Simon, but since he wants to star in the more demanding and more demanding "Brave Game", Simon still requires the girl to continue before shooting Receive strict performance training.In this aspect of performance, Simon believes in talent, but he believes in acquired efforts.

This gave the girl a small incentive.

Before the shooting starts at the end of the year, Simon will personally audition the girl. The starting salary of the trilogy is determined according to the audition performance, 1 to 10 points, 100,000 to 1 million US dollars.Of course, if Qu Si Gao Fu can't even reach the passing score of 6 points, Simon must definitely make a temporary substitution.

In addition, since it is an iron fist Robbie, there must be physical training.

Fortunately, as a Victoria's Secret Angel, the girl has always maintained the habit of fitness, and then nothing more than increase the intensity of fitness, Grace also said that she will stare in person.

This matter was finalized, and the life calculation of Qu Si Gaofu was completely changed.

In the past history, this baby-faced model was only famous for a while in the 1990s. Later, he tried to enter the performing arts circle, and there was no result. In the end, he completely left the circle and became an ordinary real estate agent in New York.

Now, under the influence of Simon's big butterfly, not only is there a baby-faced supermodel in the fashion circle, but Hollywood will also have a baby-faced action actress.

The weekend passed.

On Monday morning, Linda Vargas told Simon that Schwarzenegger refused his offer of a pay package.

The other party probably wants to talk about it again.

However, Simon's ultimatum has no room for negotiation, and he doesn't like to waste unnecessary effort on this kind of tug-of-war.

What's more, Linda also speeded up Schwarzenegger's alternative plan that was temporarily generated last week. The other party still believes that there is a reason to choose to refuse, which is even more nothing to talk about.

At this point, Linda once had some selfishness. She hoped that her suggestion would be adopted by Simon, so that her position in the mind of her boss would definitely increase a lot, so she almost didn't tell Schwarzenegger about the alternative.In the end, he did it out of loyalty to his young boss, and Linda knew that Simon was not an easy boss.

Sure enough, while discussing the matter on Monday, Simon casually asked Linda if he had told Schwarzenegger about the alternative.

The boss seemed to ask questions at random. At that time, Linda Vargus could not help but ooze some cold sweat, and he reminded himself again and again in his heart afterwards.

Since Schwarzenegger gave up the opportunity, Simon directly let Linda start to contact Stallone.

Compared to Schwarzenegger, Stallone is more active in this project.

The action man who became famous and experienced quite inspirational action in recent years has obviously not developed as well as Schwarzenegger. Even several action movies that have participated in the past few years have brought losses to the studio, and the coffee position has declined rapidly.

For this reason, Stallone also intends to take a break. Before that, he was in contact with the new James Mangold film "The Empire of Police" who appeared in Sundance at the beginning of the year. The original version of the film was Stallone, because the purpose of the film is to impact the Oscar. The production cost is not high. Stallone used to perform at the minimum salary standard of the actor union, and only paid a symbolic salary of $60,000 before and after.

When James Mangold was signed, Simon contacted Stallone.

With the idea of ​​having a good relationship with Daenerys, the Stallone has basically agreed to it, not even mentioning the additional conditions.

For "The Game of the Brave", Simon didn't intend to use Stallone. He just wanted to have the opportunity to compensate the opponent later. Simon has always appreciated the professional and hardworking people. Now, it is a direct compensation.The script of "The Game of the Brave" has also been revised, and the setting of the popularity of the Vietnam War veteran Rambo will definitely be left. In addition, two attributes have been added to Stallone, a strategic expert and a gun expert, which can happen to be the core and remote of the team. Output.

Things were finalized within a day, and Stallone personally called Simon at noon, hoping to talk in person at the Oscar Afternoon party that evening, and was very positive.

As for Schwarzenegger, it has quickly become a thing of the past.

At six o'clock in the afternoon.

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