Hollywood legendary director

On May 28th, Daredevil started quietly.

But for the current Mann Media, it is not necessary for Lehman to worry too much about the filming of such a TV series. He only needs to set the tone.

These days, in addition to occasionally paying attention to the situation of "Iron Man", he sometimes watched the preparations of "Roar Squadron" and controlled the script. The busiest thing was the latter part of "District Nine".

Although from the beginning of shooting, there was a team dedicated to the digital field, and even most of the troublesome work was outsourced to other small special effects studios, but it took more than three months to complete more than 500 special effects shots, which is far from the final result. Almost.

In the office area of ​​the digital realm.

Lehman repeatedly watched the processed images, and was still satisfied, nodding frequently.

At least there is no plastic smell from the previous life. After all, you get what you pay for. The alien prawns look full of texture, even the skin texture is clearly reflected, and there is no inexplicable sense of alienation when blending with the scene. , I feel real when I look at it, as if such an isolated ninth district once existed.

With Serkins joining, the smart prawn's agile attitude is not much worse than the grunt in "The Lord of the Rings", motion capture + rendering, the work results are very good.

Then there are the majestic spaceship landing shots, prawn mechas, and alien weapons that all have characteristics that match the racial temperament. With hot battles, impoverished and dark residential areas, and the so-called "friendly contact" of human beings, the special effects team took pains to complete The finished product made Lehman a thumbs up.

Anyway, under the leadership of Scott Rose, a technical and managerial talent, the development of the digital field has not fallen behind, which also makes Lehman gratified.

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Monday, June 2.

Lyman woke up and patted Eva.

"Hmm~"

"Don't make noise, be soft."

"The sun is tanning."

He is helpless, why do you like to press my arm while sleeping?

"I blame you, I was so tired last night."

Lehman quit, and he was wronged, "Who was the one who entangled that first? I was going to take a bath and sleep, but you..."

Eva didn't want to pay attention, and struggled to leave the comfortable bed, but began to change the subject, saying that it was the director Catherine Hardwick who had chatted with the company.

Eva asked about a bad thing that happened recently, at least for Firefly.

"Twilight" is a big sales, bringing huge profits to Firefly and Lionsgate. The film director Catherine Hardwick also uses this income, which is valued by other companies in the industry and has been invited continuously.

But she is also smart, knowing that there is no better project than continuing to serve in the "Twilight" series. She didn't plan to leave at the beginning and took over the adaptation of the second part.

But just the day before yesterday, he suddenly changed his mind and asked to re-negotiate the salary.

According to her personal opinion, she had a great effect on "Twilight", and the gains did not match the efforts.

To sum it up, it's just one sentence, ah, you have to raise your salary.

Because Firefly has already given her a part of the increase, the second part has a basic salary of 6.5 million. Only after the script is completed, the crew will sign the contract and give it to her, but she regrets it.

The reason? It comes from a report that is related to the income of "Twilight" disclosed by a market organization in the industry.

Catherine Hardwick originally thought that "Twilight" had brought a profit of 50 to 60 million to Firefly, and felt that she had made a lot of money, but suddenly a survey report told her that "Twilight" was the least. Bringing 360 million U.S. dollars to the firefly, or net profit, then suddenly imbalanced.

She would think, I have made so much money for you, just give me this?

After all, she was dissatisfied with the profit sharing from "Twilight", including the bonus, less than 6 million.

Are 50 million and 360 million a comparative order of magnitude?No, so she regretted it. She felt that the second installment would get a base salary of 6.5 million yuan. Even if it sold again, the salary of 78 million yuan would not be enough to match the profit she brought to Firefly.

Moreover, the script has not been set, the two parties have not formally signed the contract, and the crew does not know when to start up, and when will they not strive for it at this time?

The agent tried to persuade her, but she was ignorant and felt good about herself.

It just so happened that Eva was always paying attention to the series of projects she personally participated in. Seeing that Catherine was in a wrong working state, the two chatted once. Catherine complained, how about herself, how about Firefly...

Eva didn't persuade anything. In essence, when she was an actor, she was also trying to get a higher value from the management, she understood in her heart, so she deliberately avoided it.

At this time, Lehman did not conceal how Firefly handled it, "The talk is broken, the director may be replaced."

"I think Catherine Hardwick's shooting style is quite appropriate..."

"It is appropriate, but Hollywood has no shortage of directors, and even less talented directors. A novel adaptation project is not an original work, and there is no need to specifically bind it.

And she asked for too much and asked to split the accounts. Originally, the movie budget for the second project would be raised because of the actors' salary, and the main creative team would raise a part of it. I was also happy to accept it, but the lion opened his mouth."

——In the previous life, this one was also dissatisfied with the salary and fell out with Lionsgate. Finally, after the project he took over, he watched the second big sale of "Twilight" and said sourly to the reporter that he was willing to return, but No one cares.

Speaking of it, Hollywood’s ratings of directors and actors are actually quite fair. If you can support your work, someone will give you a high salary. If you fail, you will naturally accept the consequences of lower treatment after failure.

The originality must be greater than the adaptation, and there are also calculations for the subject matter. For example, directors who can direct dramas must be more popular than directors who direct low-cost, small-scale films.

As for the "Twilight" series?It is not particularly difficult to direct the work. There are a lot of tools to choose from. The director previously valued her for being cheap, easy to use, and similar in style. As a result, she was not satisfied with the second increase to 6.5 million, and the third had to rise again. How much?Million?

If she is Nolan, Wen Ziren, or Zha Dao, who have more outstanding abilities, give it to her. After all, excellent talents are rare, but she has never proved herself in the future and will not prove herself in the future. For ordinary directors, this price is too unworthy.

What to do when cheap tools are no longer cheap?Of course it is more appropriate to change.

"Don't worry, this series will not be bad, and I will look for another one at that time."

Eva nodded and said nothing.

For the filming industry, she is just a newcomer, and she has to learn too much. In the future, she will understand that cost control is the most important method every qualified filmmaker needs to master. There is no hesitation or pity. , Only suitable and most suitable.

But the latter, the "Twilight" series is still forgotten.

After a brief breakfast, Lehman went to the company and went straight to Joseph's office.

Approaching June, Blue Butterfly Pictures’ publicity campaign for "Invincible Hulk" has been stepping up according to the plan.

The biggest gimmick to the outside world is naturally the Marvel brand. After all, "Iron Man" is still hanging in the box office market at this time. Although the harvest is getting less and less, it has left many memories in the hearts of the audience, and its reputation is in many commercial movies. It's pretty good.

More than 700,000 people in imdb scored 7.9 points, which is better than 90% of action sci-fi movies, and even more advanced works (above 8 points).