The battery car drove the two of them to the gate of the studio. As soon as they walked out of the studio, Charlize Theron couldn't wait to ask: "Michelle, is there any result?"
Michelle Simmons nodded: "Let's talk in the car."
Seeing the actions of Michelle Simmons, Charlize Theron finally felt at ease. After a burst of excitement, a touch of disappointment followed. For this meeting, she had prepared for so long and owed her agent She owed a lot of debts, but during the whole process, Eric Williams just said some kind words that were not nutritious to her, and he didn't even look at her too much.
People's minds are always like this. Although Charlize Theron obeyed the manager's arrangement on the surface, she still had some small calculations of her own in private, but these careful plans were not even given any chance to implement during the entire meeting.
When the two got into the car, Michelle Simmons was also thinking about her own affairs. It wasn't until the car drove out of Santa Monica that she realized that Charlize Theron hadn't spoken for a while.
"Are you a little lost?" Michelle Simmons glanced at Charlize Theron on the co-pilot.
Charlize Theron subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when she saw her manager smiling, ●∵, she nodded slightly.
"I didn't make it clear just now, it's like this," Michelle Simmons said after organizing the language: "Mr. Williams said that he has seen your performance in the "Buffy" audition, and it was not bad, so You've successfully gotten the role, but there are three heroines in that movie. You're just one of them."
Charlize Theron showed a joyful expression to her manager. but. Michelle Simmons still saw the loss of the girl next to her, and explained: "This is a movie that is absolutely centered on the heroine. The investment scale is comparable to that of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and it is also Eric Williams. So, you should congratulate yourself for your luck, if this film openly recruits female leads, it will be enough to drive the entire Hollywood age-appropriate female stars crazy. In that case, you will not have any chance at all."
"Then..." Charlize Theron thought for a while and asked, "Judging from today's events, since... since he is not interested in me, why am I still able to get this role?"
"Who knows, maybe it's just the right time for you," Michelle Simmons also thought of this question at this time. Although he was a little puzzled, he didn't have any intention to delve into it, except for Eric Williams himself. No one knows why. As for what the other party was thinking, she had no intention of asking in person.
is talking. Michelle Simmons saw a large Blockbuster video rental store appearing on the side of the road, so he parked the car on the side of the road, and walked in with Charlize Theron.
After searching for a while, Michelle Simmons finally found a complete set of "Charlie's Angels" TV series video tapes. She didn't choose to rent it, but bought it directly. Although I watched this TV series at the beginning, it was more than ten years ago. Now that I have accepted the task of selecting the heroine, Michelle Simmons plans to watch the TV series carefully and do some work carefully.
Charlize Theron saw the figures of three hot girls on the box of the video tape, and realized that what she was about to star in might be the movie version of this TV series. "Charlie's Angels" is a TV series that started broadcasting in 1976. At that time, Charlize Theron was just born, and she was still living far away in a small farm in South Africa. It was impossible to get in touch with these.
The two returned to the car with a bag full of video tapes. Michelle Simmons drove the car and continued the original topic: "Anyway, you got the role now, so there is no need to ask yourself why you got the role. I see, after all, you have nothing on you that others can covet, and if Eric Williams has something for you, there is no need to go around in such a circle, so just do what you should do."
Charlize Theron held a video tape in her hand, looked at the brief introduction on the back of the video tape, and heard what the manager said, and said, "Then what am I going to do next?"
Michelle Simmons thought for a while, and said: "I remember you don't seem to have a driver's license yet? In the last two months, you should learn to drive first and get your driver's license. This is an action movie, and you must be exposed to driving. The scene. And I also need to leave Los Angeles for a while. After two months, your schedule will be arranged by the film company. Williams said that you will be trained for three months." Speaking of this, Michelle El Simmons added Eric's original words: "He said that the three-month training will be very hard and strict. If you can't bear the hardship, you'd better quit in advance."
Charlize Theron is of course impossible to quit, but she caught other meanings in the manager's words: "Did you just say 'we'?"
Michelle Simmons didn't expect Charlize Theron to be so sensitive, and said: "Yeah, you guys, besides you, I have to find two other girls. According to Williams' request, I need to go to a The trip to Europe, if it goes well, should be very soon, and the longest will not exceed two months, this is the time limit he gave."
"Then what should I do?" Charlize Theron has not had time to think about the emergence of two other competitors in the future. If her agent leaves, she will definitely not be able to stay in Kapoor Sheed's mansion in Beverly Hills. The money in her card is not enough to live in Los Angeles for two months.
Michelle Simmons also understood what Charlize Theron meant, and said, "I will arrange it for you. The required expenses will be deducted from your salary in the future. Before leaving, I will arrange for you with Firefly." Sign the contract first, so that you have an official film contract."
Since being signed by Michelle Simmons last fall, this is the first time Charlize Theron has heard the word remuneration associated with herself. This time she was really excited: "Michelle, I How much will your salary be?"
Michelle Simmons tapped her fingers on the steering wheel and considered for a moment, then said: "This kind of big-budget movie, even if it is a newcomer, the pay should not be too small. However, the pay of female stars is often a little lower than that of male stars. What's more, "Charlie's Angels" has three heroines, so I need to get in touch with them to find out the specific salary. I guess your salary should be between 100,000 and 200,000. If it sells well, the producer will definitely give some extra rewards."
One more thing Michelle Simmons didn't say was that Charlize Theron should be the lowest paid of the three planned female leads. And the other two heroines plan to use actresses who have already made their mark in Europe, so even if they don't have much influence in North America, their salary will be correspondingly higher.
Although this number is far from the superstars who are often paid tens of millions of dollars in magazines, Charlize Theron is still very satisfied. At least this is a good start. She is not the kind of person who is ambitious, and , this amount of money should also be enough for her to not have to worry about trivial matters such as livelihood for a long time to come, and she can concentrate on preparing for the movie.
A few days later, Michelle Simmons signed a contract with Firefly on behalf of Charlize Theron for "Charlie's Angels". Although the unfamiliar production company Flower Pictures made her and Charlize Theron a little puzzled, the two hundred thousand dollars salary still surprised them both. Although this figure is nothing compared to the production cost that is destined to exceed 50 million U.S. dollars, it is the best that Michelle predicted. There is also an option contract attached. After Charlize Theron starred in the first part of "Charlie's Angels", she must star in two more sequels within the next five years.
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In early March, after a hectic final period, Eric successfully completed all post-production work on Jurassic Park.
After watching the finished film, Eric is also full of confidence in the box office prospects of this movie. Compared with the version in memory, apart from the same ups and downs of the plot, this version of "Jurassic Park" is more special effects than The original version is even better. After all, the film in the original time and space is Spielberg's work after the failure of "Captain Hawk". Although it was a great success in the end, the film company did not have 100% confidence during the production process. Therefore, the budget is relatively tight, and many details cannot be 100% perfect. However, the version produced by Eric burned 75 million US dollars in the budget of the project, and with the idea of doing good things, in order to provide special effects technical support for this series, the digital field has just been established. It has been carrying out corresponding technology research and development, and a large sum of money has also been spent in this process.
After the completion of "Jurassic Park", the marketing plan surrounding the film was quickly launched. A week later, Firefly released the first poster of "Jurassic Park", and Disney's theme stores also began to create new posters for "Jurassic Park". With Disney's hundreds of peripheral stores all over North America and Europe, as long as the film achieves the expected success, Firefly Pictures will make profits from the sales of peripheral products in the shortest possible time.
There are a total of three movies "Jurassic Park", "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "A Bug's Life" in the summer file of Firefly. Eric is very aware of the box office power of "Jurassic Park", so as not to affect the latter two as much as possible For the box office of the movie, Eric set the schedule of "Jurassic Park" on June 4, followed by June 25 with a three-week interval. "was released again, and "Clash of Heaven and Earth", which also belongs to the theme of special effects, was placed on July 2. Although the box office of "Jurassic Park" is still there during this time period, it will not be against "Clash of Heaven and Earth" again. ” had too much of an impact.
In the past few years, the films released by Firefly have become the focus of other film companies. After Firefly announced the schedule, many people discovered the unusual features.
Firefly's previous release rule in popular schedules has always been to release different films at intervals of two weeks.
But if you don't consider "A Bug's Life", a 3D animation film released by Firefly's Disney, the two films released by Firefly this summer have a gap of one month between their releases. Almost all keen people quickly realized that Firefly must be very optimistic about "Jurassic Park". The importance of Jurassic Park is clearly beyond that of Tornado.
Due to various considerations, some second- and third-tier film companies with more flexible operating mechanisms directly chose to postpone the summer film in order to avoid the edge of "Jurassic Park". As for the big film companies, Michael Eisner also supported Under the pressure of Universal's high-level executives, "The Fugitive", which was originally planned to be released at the end of June, was postponed to mid-July, and the schedule was swapped with a medium-budget romance film in the same period.
Although many people publicly accused Michael Eisner of being too cautious, Michael Eisner insisted on not explaining too much to others. On the contrary, Eric, who heard the news, expressed a little emotion about Michael Eisner's courage. If Michael Eisner insisted on the original schedule of "The Fugitive" because he was afraid of losing face, it would be a good show. up.
Some people take the initiative to retreat, and of course some people do not believe in evil. There are even two movies that have the idea of "clamping" "Jurassic Park". The films are all produced by Carlock Films with a German background. One is scheduled for the week before "Jurassic Park" and the other is scheduled for a week after "Jurassic Park" is released.
Eric had noticed these two blockbuster films a long time ago, so the production department temporarily shelved the salary negotiation with Arnold Schwarzenegger on "True Lies". I didn't expect these two movies to hit the muzzle of "Jurassic Park" so unhesitatingly.
After completing the later stage of "Jurassic Park", Eric was not able to relax at all, and a series of extremely tedious things needed to be handled by him personally.
Under the recommendation of David Geffen, the leading actor of "Interview with the Vampire" was finally determined to be Tom Cruise, and the second leading actor was taken by an Australian actor under Pai Kingsley, Eric recalled There is no information about the actor named Jack Slater, which is probably the result of the butterfly effect. In terms of actors, the only thing Eric intervened was to find Kirsten Dunst, who is said to have a thirty-five-year-old soul. The main creators including Jordan were very satisfied. (To be continued..)