Allen knocked on the door and pushed open Eric's office door, and saw Eric leaning on the office chair with a relaxed and tired expression on his face.
"What's the matter?" Eric straightened up and asked after Allen approached.
"When you were discussing things with Mr. Lynn, Mr. Cameron called. He said that Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted on a salary of 13 million US dollars. If we disagree, Arnold Schwarzenegger will Signed contract with Carlock Films for the next film."
Hearing the name Carlock, Eric frowned slightly. Carlock Films was one of the most well-known independent film companies in Hollywood in the early 1990s. In parallel time and space, "Terminator 2" and "Instinct" all From Carlock.
At the same time, Carlock is also a disruptor of Hollywood rules, because the other party is backed by a huge group of German investors. In order to obtain film contracts from well-known Hollywood movie stars, he wantonly increased the film salary, and directly paid interested Sylvester Stallone, Ah Nuo Schwarzenegger and others reported a sky-high salary of 15 million US dollars, which is almost twice that of Hollywood's current first-line stars. The increase in the salary of several big names has also led to a surge in the salary of the entire Hollywood star. , it is conceivable how much the seven major Hollywood film companies, as the producers, hated Carlock. ⊕ $,
In my memory, Carlock's fate was very miserable. In 1995, the pirate film "Cutthroat Island" with an investment of 95 million US dollars only recovered more than 9 million at the box office. The huge loss caused Carlock Films to go bankrupt directly.
The reason for this is that the plot of "Cutthroat Island" itself is full of loopholes, but it has been included in the Guinness Book of Records. There must be the shadow of the seven major film companies behind it. To know. The wave of star salary increases driven by Carlock has caused studios to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more to stars every year. If this kind of thing happens to anyone, it is estimated that they will want to smash the culprit to pieces.
I don't know if the script of "Cutthroat Island" has appeared now. If such a box office scumbag that blows up everyone's death can be held in the hand, it is also a very sharp weapon to throw out at the right time.
Seeing Eric close his eyes as if he was thinking about something, Allen stood quietly opposite and waited patiently for his decision.
After pondering about "Cut Throat Island", Eric quickly put his thoughts on "Terminator 2", there is no doubt about it. In the future, the star’s salary will definitely be higher and higher. Even Cameron, who is kind to Schwarzenegger, can only let Schwarzenegger make a concession of 2 million US dollars. Eric thinks that it is not enough now. The bargaining chip allows Schwarzenegger to make greater concessions.
Of course, since the ultimate culprit behind this wave of celebrity price increases is the Germans, Eric also thought about letting the Germans take advantage of this, and introduced German investors to participate through Karlock, the original producer of "Terminator 2". Making Terminator 2. Anyway, "Terminator 2" will be handed over to Firefly for distribution. At that time, we only need to do some tricks on the publicity cost and increase Firefly's share ratio, which is enough to keep most of the film's profits in Firefly, and then be more ruthless. The Germans don't even think about getting back all the principal they invested.
But in this case, it will involve the copyright issue of "Terminator". It’s okay to talk about other movies, but since Eric has fully obtained the big gold mine of "Terminator", he will never allow any unexpected changes in the copyright of this series.
Some time ago, I saw the copyright lawsuit of the 007 series in the newspaper. It is said that the lawsuit has been fought for more than 20 years. Eric does not want "Terminator" to be involved in such tangled copyright lawsuits in the future.
"I'll call Jim to discuss this matter later," Eric said after sorting out all his thoughts.
Allen nodded and was about to go out when Eric called his assistant again: "By the way, help me pay attention to the movie scripts about pirates in the circle, keep a low profile and keep quiet."
"I understand," Allen smiled, and asked again, "Is there anything else?"
"No, after attending the premiere of "Sleeping with the Enemy" tonight, I will be working with Ms. Catherine Bigelow to prepare "Scare Point" for the next few days, so I won't come to the company, important documents You are sent directly to the Angle Manor, and if there is something urgent, call my mobile phone."
"Don't you need me to follow?" Allen asked suspiciously. Eric had taken him with him before.
Eric didn't shake his head: "No, there are a lot of things in the company during this time, I hope you can take care of me here."
"Okay then," Allen nodded, turned and left the office.
The summer file has entered the second half of June, and the first movie "The Silence of the Lambs" released by Firefly in the summer has been released for two weeks. Under the influence of word-of-mouth brought by the detailed plot and superb performances of the actors, as well as the topics created by several female producers, It took nearly $40 million in the box office in two weeks. If it wasn't for the increased budget to catch up with the schedule, the cost has now been recovered. An Oscar-winning horror film.
In this case, another thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy" by Julianmab's Firefly has of course attracted strong attention, and with the promotion of "Basic Instinct" also started, this is another crime movie. horror film.
Although some tabloids complained sourly about whether Eric was assimilated by New Line's production style because of the acquisition of New Line, Hollywood executives with keen sense of smell paid close attention to these three films.
If "Sleeping with the Enemy" and "Basic Instinct" are box office successes, Hollywood will certainly increase the number of horror-thriller genre films it produces in the next few years. Driven by profits, Hollywood will also follow suit, but Western copyright protection strategies and production cost restrictions make Hollywood follow suit not as unscrupulous as Hong Kong across the ocean.
"Sleeping with the Enemy" has been screened several times before, and the evaluation of the film critics is not too high. Although it cannot be said to be a bad film, it can only give a mediocre evaluation, except for Julia's performance. Other than that, there's nothing else that stands out.
Of course, under Robert Shea's spare no effort in public relations, most of the film reviews published in newspapers before the film's release were positive.
And in the subsequent screenings, the good response of the movie among the fans gave Robert Shea a reassurance. As long as it can be a big hit at the box office, Robert Shea would not care what the film critics said. Most of the films passed the film reviews in the newspapers, and Robert Shea estimated that even the film critics didn't bother to publicize. (To be continued..)