I’m in Hollywood Chapter 98: Shoot
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"Williams secret meeting with 'Two Toms', suspected to negotiate the new film deal", this is the next day, the title of "Hollywood Reporter" front page headline, accompanied by a photo of Eric, Cruise and Hanks walking out of Firefly Headquarters side by side.
In the photo, Eric is wearing a gray sports suit and looks like a high school student, very suitable for his age. Cruise wears a black casual jacket, without buttons, revealing the white t-shirt inside. Only Hanks wears a black suit with a tie and looks like an office worker. Because of talking about script in the morning, both superstar relaxed their vigilance when they left, and they did not bring sunglasses, so the expressions of the three people were quite clear. They talked to each other and walked to the door with a smile. This shot happened to be a lucky one. Captured by paparazzi.
"At around 8 am yesterday, it was discovered that Tom · Cruise and Tom · Hanks, two superstars, entered Firefly Film Studio Headquarters of the new Director Eric Williams one after another. The reporter of this newspaper received the news quickly and reached the relevant location. After waiting for four hours, Eric Williams With the two superstars of Cruise and Hanks, surrounded by everyone, they walked out from Firefly Headquarters, and the three expressions in the photos can be seen. The meeting was quite pleasant.
Although the three did not accept an interview with our reporter, they drove away by car. However, according to some clues provided by people familiar with the matter, this meeting is related to the new film Eric Williams is preparing.
Since the debut of Actor and screenwriter as shoots "17 Again" last year, Eric Williams, the magical boy who suddenly broke into Hollywood, has been continuously rising at a rocket-like speed, and the first low-cost comedy "Home Alone" directed by him has been sent directly into it. 100 million Box Office club.
When many people attributed the teenager ’s performance to the goddess of fortune, only four months apart, the Williams second part romantic love comedy 《Pretty Woman》 was released again. The first week of Box Office was close to 30 million USD, which thoroughly proved the teenager The strength of Director.
In the first part movie "Home Alone", Eric Williams only used a group of TV Actor and the little boy next door to create an amazing Box Office miracle. The two starring stars of the second part movie, Al · Pacino, although they have been nominated by Oscar many times, For four years, the appeal of Box Office is close to nothing, Julia · Roberts has only played a small role in a low-cost comedy, but Eric has sent the two to the ranks of Hollywooda and Actor at the same time.
And this time, the young Director directly chose two Hollywood righteous a-class actor, we have no doubt that the film below will create a miracle of Box Office again.
However, although the three people in the photo have a very happy appearance, this cooperation is a natural appearance, but we have to mention that Tom · Cruise and Tom · Hanks currently belong to the Brokerage Firm caa. However, it is well known that Eric Williams has annoyed the senior executives of caa because of the acquisition of a well-known Hollywood gold medal manager Brokerage Firm at the beginning of the year. The industry has been rumored that the senior executive was quite dissatisfied with Eric Williams. During the 《Pretty Woman》 casting, he also blocked the artists Richard · Gere and Eric Williams. Cooperation. To this end, he did not hesitate to compensate Richard · Gere a Metro Goldwyn Mayer-United Artists big production movie.
In this case, we cannot imagine that the cooperation between Eric Williams and two Tom will be full of twists and turns. Of course, Tom · Cruise or Tom · Hanks also has enough strength to ignore the obstruction of caa. After all, both of them are now Hollywooda-level superstar. Even if they lose the support of caa, their career will not be greatly affected.
And, judging from the impact of the first two works of Eric Williams, his new work is likely to bring the careers of the two superstars to a new level.
I believe that in Hollywood, no Actor can resist this kind of temptation, that is, I do n’t know if the caa senior has enough courage to strongly obstruct this cooperation again.
The last incident caused Mr. Richard · Gere to lose the opportunity to enter the rank of Actor again. According to the recent Road House film critic screening of its starring role, the prospect of this movie is not optimistic. The possibility of Box Office outbreak is very small, and it is not enough to 'compensate' Mr. Richard · Gere for giving up the "loss" of the actor of 《Pretty Woman》. Therefore, let us wait and see how Cruise and Hanks will choose, and how caa's senior management will handle the invitation of Williams. "
Eric threw newspaper on the table with a wry smile, and really wanted to blow up the editor who wrote this manuscript. In the previous situation, Michael · Ovitz would only increase the two superstar's offer quotes to express dissatisfaction, but it would not strongly obstruct the cooperation between the two parties as it did last time.
After all, the rise of uta is now unstoppable. Michael · Ovitz will do nothing more than make small gains. It will also be considered narrow-minded. The more narrow-minded, the more fearful and hateful the accusations of others in this respect.
After the future contract is signed, the Actor lineup is announced, and then some media outlets are hinted that no matter what private battles will be in private, but in the public's mind, even if the two sides shake hands and dispel the ice, this is for caa and Eric. Public image is good.
But now that tabloid newspaper has made such a stir, if this cooperation is successfully reached, the title of ‘Hollywood Most Powerful Person’ just obtained by Michael · Ovitz becomes a joke.
Sure enough, the day after the article was published in "Hollywood Reporter", Eric ushered in a disturbing news.
"It's too much, the offer for 6 million USD's remuneration is reasonable, but the other party even opened the lion's mouth and wanted a 20% North America profit share after the movie was released. I have been in Hollywood for so many years and have never heard of it Which Actor will propose such a non-divided condition. Eric, is it necessary to use Tom · Cruise and Tom · Hanks? Other Brokerage Firm is not without the top Actor, it is not possible, you can also play a role yourself, self-edited Self-directed and self-directed, this gimmick has a greater influence. "After talking with Cruise and manager of Hanks, Jeffrey rushed into the office of Eric with a look of anger and complained.
Although I had expected it for a long time, the conditions proposed by the two people surprised Eric. Hollywood Star requires that the profit sharing "bad atmosphere" started from Tom · Cruise, and later on, the model of remuneration plus profit sharing has gradually become a popular charging model, and the share ratio is generally between 10% and 20%.
The so-called profit share is completely two concepts with the Box Office share of the movie. Specifically, it means that the producer gets the Box Office share he deserves, minus the production cost of the gross profit, and multiplies it by the Actor required share The ratio is the profit share that Actor can get. Moreover, profit sharing is also divided into global Box Office and North America Box Office.
Although the manager of Cruise and Hanks have not lost their minds to propose a global profit share, the 20% North America share ratio is not so easy to obtain even after many years. The one who can get the highest ratio is either the one that is missing, such as Johnny · Depp in 《Pirates of the Caribbean》 in the parallel space, or it is to give up the remuneration completely and exchange the highest percentage of the share with the gambling situation.
But now, this kind of charging method has just appeared. Tom · Cruise was also whimsically proposed this charging model last year when shoots 《Rain Man》, because Cruise's powerful Box Office appeal, plus the production cost of 《Rain Man》 It ’s not high. After considering the film, I think that as long as Cruise joins, the movie is easy to make a profit, so I agreed to the non-subsidiary requirements of Cruise, but this is also agreed in the case of Cruise self-reduction of the film, and the profit sharing ratio is also Only ten percent.