The 20 million club has not yet been established, and 15 million is the current salary limit for Hollywood stars. There are not too many stars who can get this salary figure. Moreover, under normal circumstances, it is those foreign investors with deep pockets who are blind For example, the remuneration of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone and others was raised by European film investors headed by German investors, because these action stars have extraordinary reputation in Europe. Fame and box office appeal, in addition, the Japanese consortium that has mastered Columbia and Universal has become more and more bold in asking for star remuneration. The local forces in Hollywood simply hate this kind of "blindly raising prices" behavior, but they are powerless to stop it this trend.
"Fifteen million is too high, he is not worth so much. Although "Grandmaid in Masquerade" has a good box office, this movie should be an exception. Although other Jim Carrey movies still have overseas box office appeal, But it is absolutely impossible to reach the point where the overseas box office is twice that of the domestic box office every time, so let’s talk about it after the release of "Aero Detective", and you can't put all your energy on Jim Carrey alone."
Drew nodded and agreed: "Well, I think so too. Anyway, he signed the option contract, and no one will redeem him for him. Besides, we didn't treat him badly. If he doesn't know what to do" ＄ If so, let’s go aside.”
The option contract signed by Jim Carrey is very interesting. The liquidated damages of 100 million US dollars is not difficult for other major studios. With the box office appeal shown by Jim Carrey, His first two films with tg. Both earned over $100 million in profits for the company.
but. There is a difficult problem here. If other film companies are interested in Jim Carrey's box office appeal and want to redeem him, then after the ransom, others will pay 100 million US dollars, and Jim Carrey has almost no choice but to sign with the donor again Option contract, and in order to earn back the 100 million US dollars in compensation, the terms of the option contract will definitely not be much more favorable than tg's offer. Otherwise, even the shareholders of those film companies would not agree. As long as Jim Carrey is insane, he would not choose this path.
Drew talked about some things on his side, and began to curiously ask Eric about the situation in France. After dinner, they chatted until late, and the two fell asleep.
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The next day, when the sun was dim, Eric woke up, and gently moved the little girl wrapped around him. Eric dressed lightly and went downstairs, having been away from Los Angeles for a few months. Running around the world again, Eric's biological clock became a little messy. Looking at his watch, it was only 5:40 in the morning, which was earlier than before.
After running in the manor for half an hour in the morning, Eric returned to the villa, prepared breakfast slowly, saved a copy for Xiao Nizi, and began to eat while reading the newspaper.
The entertainment pages of many newspapers are still paying attention to the latest developments in the competition between Viacom and qvc for Paramount. Martin Davis probably feels that he may not be able to keep Paramount, and he does not want to let this company fall. In the hands of his original subordinates, at the beginning of September, he signed an equity priority transfer agreement with Viacom. However, qvc immediately submitted documents to the Federal Trade Commission, suing Paramount and Viacom The signing of the related contract violates federal transaction laws, and the two sides have been wrangling this matter this month.
Flipping through a few newspapers, Eric soon saw another thing of interest, about MGM, one of the top seven, casino tycoon Kirk Kerkorian is buying MGM's property After the assets were sold out, they began to use MGM's intangible assets as bargaining chips to play capital games. Two years ago, Kirk Kerkorian sold MGM to a company headed by Giancarlo Paredi. The Italian consortium made a lot of money again, but recently Giancarlo was accused of defrauding investors of funds to gain control of MGM. From the analysis of the article, Giancarlo Pa The chances of Reddy losing the case are very high.
Once Giancarlo loses the lawsuit, in order to repay the creditors deceived by Giancarlo, MGM will be auctioned by the bank.
Eric stared at this report and thought for a while, but decided to stand on the sidelines. Although MGM's performance this year was terrible, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. It is not so easy to annex this old company. Moreover, although the acquisition of MGM can at least double the film library of Firefly Pictures, but if you want to completely annex this company, you will definitely use up all the working capital in your hands, which is not a cost-effective thing. After all, there are more and more valuable opportunities waiting for you.
After breakfast, Eric was not in a hurry to go to the company, and was still reading the newspaper slowly.
Hearing the doorbell, Eric got up and walked to the living room.
Holding a stack of documents in her hands, Tina Fei was wearing a neat black OL suit, with her signature black-framed eyes, and stood tall and graceful outside the door on small high heels.
"Morning, Tina," Eric was a little surprised: "Why are you here so early?"
When Tina Fey saw Eric, she didn't know what she thought of. She lowered her head in embarrassment and gestured for the documents in her hand: "Drew said yesterday that he won't go to the company these days, let me bring the documents over Look here."
Eric turned sideways to let the girl in, and said, "It doesn't have to be so early, it's only eight o'clock."
"I... I don't have anything to do either," Tina Finner replied, seeming a little embarrassed.
Eric was also aware of the girl's emotions, and without further questioning, he took Tina into the restaurant together: "Have you had breakfast, I made some?"
"Not yet," Tina Fey replied in a low voice, put the documents in her hand on the dining table, watched Eric walk to the kitchen, stared at the man's back in a daze, then seemed to remember something, hurriedly followed Passed over: "I'll do it myself."
"Well, there is milk and juice in the refrigerator, you can choose it yourself," Eric confessed, and walked to the restaurant.
Tina Fey came over with a breakfast and sat down opposite Eric. She ate like a cat and chatted with Eric from time to time. Eric finished flipping through the newspaper in his hand. Inadvertently saw the documents that Tina Fei put aside casually. Asked, "What are these. May I see?"
"Of course, there are some scripts and others," Tina Fey nodded.
Eric opened the folder and raised his eyebrows in surprise, because he saw a familiar name, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
After opening it, Eric found out. This turned out to be a development plan for a TV series. However, there was only a simple stock market outline five or six pages long in the document. Eric hadn't watched many TV series of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", so he didn't know the plan. The gap between the outline of the story and the original TV series, but he was quite surprised, he just mentioned a word to Elizabeth, the girl can think of this, and also got the right to adapt the TV series of that movie to TG.
Think again. This incident is not too unexpected, the peripheral development value of a movie. In addition to remakes and development of sequels, it is probably the development of the TV series version, and the box office of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" should not be very good, the sequel is basically unnecessary, and the remake is even less valuable, so the only thing left is to develop the TV series Version this one.
The original version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" didn't start airing until 1997, and now it's five years earlier. In addition, there are basically not many original versions to refer to. Eric didn't ask me whether this TV series will be successful. However, there are quite a few classic American dramas in my mind anyway, and Eric didn't feel much when he saw a few girls wanting to toss "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
After showing the document in Tina Feiyang's hand, Eric asked, "Are you planning to make a TV series?"
Tina Fey nodded, and asked in surprise, "Isn't that your opinion?"
"No, I just said something casually at the beginning, but I didn't expect Liz to come here. What are you going to do?"
Tina Fey stopped eating for a while, collected her thoughts and said, "We have discussed it and plan to adapt this movie into a fantasy adventure movie featuring teenagers."
Eric recalled the memory of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in his mind. The version starring Sarah Michelle Gellar is indeed aimed at the youth market, so the thinking of several women is not wrong: "This idea is okay. , but it’s best not to be too hasty, spend more time on the script, the audience still hopes to see a good story in the end, I just read the outline, and I don’t feel anything special.”
Tina Fey suddenly blushed and lowered her head, because she wrote the outline. Hearing Eric say that, the girl inevitably felt a little bit shocked.
Eric saw Tina Fey's expression, and immediately understood: "You wrote this story outline?"
"Well, I just tried to write one."
"Hehe, it doesn't matter. As a novice, writing such a story is not bad, just practice more in the future. In fact, I have a feeling that you will become a good screenwriter." Eric smiled encouraged.
"Thank you, Eric," Tina Fey whispered gratefully, knowing that Eric was encouraging her.
After briefly looking at the other materials brought by Tina Fey, and making some suggestions of his own, Eric got up and said, "I'm going to work, Drew will get up later, you first Just stay here, it just so happens that there is a fax machine on the east side of the curtain wall, if there are documents coming, please help me to receive and sort them out."
Tina Fei nodded quickly: "No problem."
Seeing Eric walk out of the restaurant, Tina Fey subconsciously put down the tableware in her hand and followed.
Eric went back to the study to get some documents, changed his clothes, and when he left the villa, he saw Tina Fey following behind him like a little woman at home. He couldn't help but hugged the girl and kissed her Kissed: "I went to work, will you leave today?"
Tina Fey didn't object to Eric's kiss. Hearing the man's question, she shook her head shyly: "No, no, no."
"Oh, then stay tonight."
"Okay... okay," the girl replied in a voice like a mosquito.
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October is about to enter, and there are less than two months before the festival schedule at the end of the year. Firefly's main films at the end of the year, "Speed", "Aeroplane" and Disney's cartoon "Aladdin" have basically been completed. Completed, it has entered the pre-publication stage, and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" in cooperation with Columbia is also in the final post-production stage.
In the last few days back in Los Angeles, after Eric participated in several high-level meetings of Firefly Films, he was basically busy working on several films, although the direct box office profits of films accounted for the proportion of the entire film industry chain It is getting lower and lower, but movies are still in an important position as a locomotive. If the horsepower of the locomotive is not strong enough, then there will definitely be problems with the operation of this huge machine. Therefore, any film company still puts movies at the top of the list. seat.
After handing over the script of "Speed of Life and Death" to Jane Debont, Eric did not get involved in this project too much. The script of "Speed of Life and Death" was written by him himself and handed over to In the hands of the director, and this project plays a very important role in whether Jane Debont can transform from a photographer to a director, Eric believes that the other party will definitely be very cautious about this movie.
After participating in the trial film of "Speed", Eric has no more doubts. Compared with the memory, the charm of this movie has not changed much, the story rhythm is also quite tight, and the leading actor is still Keanu. Weiss, except for the change of the heroine, has not changed much. After watching the sample of this movie, Firefly's executives also gave unanimously positive comments, and opened the most gorgeous scale of publicity.
In contrast, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" has some small problems. After all, John Wu is from Hong Kong. Although he has produced many movies, the shooting style is very different from Hollywood, and there is another point. Wu started out as a comedy film, so even many of his classic shootout films often contain too many comedy elements. While busy with the post-production of "Jurassic Park", Eric had to I personally participated in the editing of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and cut out some unnecessary funny scenes. Although this movie has no shortage of comedy plots, the theme is still a movie that discusses the relationship between husband and wife under the cloak of a gunfight movie.
However, one thing that satisfies Eric is that the Hong Kong action director team brought by John Wu designed the actions of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in an elegant style of oriental kung fu movies. In Eric's opinion, this The action design of the movie even surpassed the original. After all, although the director of the original version is paying tribute to Hong Kong action movies, he is a Westerner after all, and it is impossible to deeply appreciate the inner elements of Hong Kong movies. (To be continued..)