Chapter 466

There is almost no sign. In the period before the Oscar ceremony, Hollywood's larger companies reached a tacit agreement and decided to cut the stars' pay substantially. Stanton studio is also one of them. Due to the studio's participation in many projects, Murphy has temporarily given up her screenwriting work and frequently participated in the meetings between producers' alliances Discussion.

In this regard, Hollywood management undoubtedly has the same interest demands.

Just as CAA's agents have changed from being powerful in the Michael owitz era to being relatively moderate now, all the major Hollywood film companies are no longer separate production or distribution companies, but part of the media group, responsible for providing crucial "content" to the whole group!

Any commercial company is willing to reduce the income of the carvers and improve its profits.

Therefore, Tom Cruise, who was the first to be operated by Paramount Pictures, Viacom group and Somer Redstone, has temporarily become the most unfortunate one.

Although many media reported in last year's economic crisis, due to the sharp drop of stock price, Somer Redstone may no longer be a billionaire. After all, he is the chairman of the board of directors and the largest individual shareholder of Viacom group. It's not hard to mobilize the media and unite some people to deal with Tom Cruise.

What's more, other companies have the same demands in this respect, so they will naturally support Paramount Pictures.

Murphy didn't know if he remembered himself, and he couldn't do it. He was basically watching the change with the tide.

It is undeniable that a superstar is still and has always been a member of the top level of Hollywood. But it will be very difficult to easily get a 2 + 2 contract as before, unless the sequel of a fixed image and several blockbuster works prove their market appeal.

In the process of the producers' Union, which represents the interests of the production company, openly suppressing the star's film pay, unlike the high pay incident of actors he once reported crazily across the Pacific, Murphy has never seen the government, or even heard the voices of the associations, guilds and trade unions, which is a kind of commercial behavior of industry strength game.

And the final determinant is the market and the audience, because in a mature and sound industrial structure, the reason why a star becomes a star is entirely due to its own market appeal.

But audiences are forgetful, especially those who like summer commercial films. They pay more attention to the visual effects and some elements that they like. The stars have to line up in the back.

To some extent, except for the iron powder, most of the audience is a smart and ruthless group who can vote with their feet.

Paramount Pictures and summers Redstone are the first to choose Tom Cruise as a superstar rather than other stars. The audience is one of the important reasons.

At the time of the release of "Mission Impossible 3", Tom Cruise's anomie behavior led to the loss of many female audiences and the transformation into Hollywood's language. This is money, and money is Hollywood's principled position: no matter who you are, if you delay me making money, you have to leave.

No matter the strength of stars, directors or other forces, the film industry is ultimately built in the commercial jungle. The value of all parties in the game can only depend on their game strength in the commercial level. When a star overestimates his own strength or ignores the change of his own strength and can no longer let the employer "see the money", when his own machine is reasonable for making money When the star machine is no longer working properly, if it doesn't want to correct it, it will be abandoned.

On the other hand, Tom Cruise did leave enough and widely accepted reasons for Paramount Pictures.

Before the release of Mission Impossible 3, in order to cater to the science education and show love to Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise did not hesitate to jump on Oprah Winfrey's interview program; in order to maintain his science education doctrine, Tom Cruise did not hesitate to attack bogey Xiaosi to use drugs to treat postpartum depression, and had a verbal conflict with Matt Raul, resulting in his popularity plummeting; and It is because of these, for Paramount parent company Viacom's boss Sumner - ray stone East left behind a solid.

On the surface, the reason for Tom Cruise's abandonment, as Somer Redstone said, is that "his recent behavior has not been accepted by Paramount Pictures". But the crux of the problem is that people in the circle like Murphy know it well, and in the end, it is still a struggle for interests.

In the past ten years, according to the cooperation agreement between Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise, Paramount Pictures had to pay an annual fee of US $10 million to Tom Cruise's cruise wagra company to obtain the first choice of all the film projects it developed.

This $10 million has nothing to do with the pay and investment. It's a fixed fee that Paramount Pictures has to pay every year.

In addition, Tom Cruise not only pays for the traditional movies, but also insists on participating in the box office and DVD sales.

Although Tom Cruise's previous "Mission Impossible 3" box office was not a failure, compared with the previous episode's $545 million box office, it was a big drop.The $393 million box office of the film sounds like a small number, but the production and publicity costs of the film are as high as $250 million, and there are still cinemas to share the box office. As far as the box office of cinemas is concerned, Paramount Pictures will definitely lose everything.

If not for the surrounding and downstream output value, Paramount Pictures could be said to be working for Tom Cruise.

Moreover, even the DVD sales revenue, Tom Cruise also took 25%.

According to the exact information Murphy got from Kara Firth, Paramount Pictures has been busy with the project, and Mission Impossible 3 has brought them only $800000 in profits, while Tom has collected nearly $100 million.

If you let Murphy say it, it's "uncle can bear it, but aunt can't bear it.".

therefore, in order to save costs, Paramount Pictures insisted on reducing the annual fee of Cruz wagra company from $10 million to $1 million, and Tom Cruise of course did not do it. Finally, the two sides collapsed.

If this kind of thing happened ten years ago, any studio would inevitably have to face a long-lasting lawsuit, because summers leishidong not only ruined Tom's job, but also publicly insulted his personality.

Somer Redstone is a businessman, a brilliant businessman. Everything he does is not accidental, but a prudent decision.

Generally speaking, news about star dismissal, such as variety weekly, an American industry journal, will be the first choice, and the wording will be very tactful or even regretful. It only needs to be disclosed by the CEO of the studio.

Both sides show their sincerity: we can't reach a satisfactory agreement with Tom Cruise, but we wish Tom all the best, and Tom Cruise will respond that we have always cooperated very well, so much.

This time, however, it was summers leishidong who came out in person, and he also pointed out Tom Cruise's mental state and misconduct in the front page of the Wall Street Journal, the top financial newspaper in the United States. At this time, Tom Cruise, who was trying to fly alone, claimed to raise money from Wall Street.

Although the methodology is suspicious, it really cheers other studios who are troubled by the super high pay of stars.

Tom Cruise's grotesque behavior is undoubtedly a public relations disaster. Paramount Pictures has always believed that if it was not for Tom Cruise's mischief, the box office revenue of Mission Impossible 3 would have increased by at least $100 million to $150 million.

This is definitely not a small sum of money for Somer Redstone, who is not a billionaire anymore.

Therefore, he must make this heavy fist, to Tom - Cruise hurt fans high-profile clear line position, lest further harm to their own interests.

Later, Murphy did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony, summer - leishidong and publicly threw out the remarks against Tom Cruise.

"He didn't do anything on the set, just took 10 million dollars, so I fired him, and all the studios understood me and supported me."

Indeed, as he said, Hollywood producers are almost uniformly supportive of Paramount Pictures.

Murphy watched the Oscars at home, and "shameless bastard" won eight nominations, but only Christopher Waltz got back the best supporting actor.

However, the actor highlighted Murphy in his interview.

"One day, my agent in Los Angeles told me to go to an ordinary audition. What's unusual is that before the audition, I received the script of the whole play. After reading the script, I felt that the role of Hans Landa was lifelike. Then I went to see the director named Murphy Stanton. For me, it was a historic meeting, and then everything was different. "

"I'm crazy about Murphy's movies, really," said Christopher waltz, who was interviewed by many media reporters. He's a genius, and I'd like to devote myself to his movies unconditionally. "

Best of all, he said, "Murphy is a pure director. Every nerve fiber of him serves his role as a director. He never directs the actors how to do, but tries to let the actors understand and play by themselves. Maybe it's this kind of indulgence that makes my half life performance energy gush out... "

Of course, in praise of Murphy at the same time, clever Christopher Waltz will not forget to borrow the east wind, by the way to praise himself.

In fact, when Christopher Waltz raised the little golden man at the award ceremony, he also gave special thanks to Murphy, a fearless pioneer who sailed with this great ship in a unique way and finally led us here to win. This is the gift you gave me. I can't express my gratitude!

More than flattery, Christopher waltz has accepted Murphy's offer to play in his next film. (to be continued). )