Chapter 586

Although boss Jia wants to see the sales situation of Warcraft again, time is no longer allowed, because it is now may, and there are only the last 20 days left from the wedding. It is said that Zhu Qiushui is already losing his family. If boss Jia doesn't go back, I'm afraid he will be severely beaten.

However, before going back, boss Jia went to fox to pay attention to the progress of the Titanic.

When he saw boss Jia, Jon Landau, the producer of the Titanic, looked at boss Jia with a forced face. He didn't know that he owed tens of millions.

"What? The shooting funds have bottomed out now!" boss Jia exclaimed after hearing Jon Landau's complaint.

"Yes..." Jon Landau laughed more bitterly. "The truck driver is really an expert in spending money. Of our $135 million, only 35 million is really used to invite stars, and the remaining $100 million is used to invest in special effects and build scene props."

"We thought 100 million was enough, but now the truck driver wants to build a real Titanic directly. Our $100 million is used for shipbuilding, and it's not enough. Dare you believe it!"

"What's more exaggerated is that this guy really wants to sink the imitation Titanic to the bottom of the sea and complete the final sinking work!"

"God! This is terrible!" boss Jia cooperated and made a frightened expression.

"But fortunately, he just said, it's just a lovely idea. He knew it was impossible. He finally decided to build only half of the hull for the location shooting of the Titanic. It would cost $60 million just for this half of the hull. It's crazy!" Jon Landau kept complaining.

In history, when Cameron shot the Titanic, in order to achieve realistic results, he did build half of the Titanic.

The reason why it's half is because the half Titanic was actually built on land, and it's actually only about 13, including the bow on the left side, part of the middle hull and half of the stern. Because the budget really couldn't keep up, it didn't be built in the end.

However, the director cleverly borrowed the lens angle to hide the last half of the ship, and then put on some special effects to make the audience look and feel like the whole ship from the picture.

But even so, the cost of this part of the hull has reached a staggering $60 million.

"Mr. Jia, we were all cheated by the truck driver. You know what? He finally handed me a cost budget list, which was as high as $175 million, 40 million more than before. I've had enough!!" Jon Landau, as an excellent producer, can make such complaints, which shows how painful he was in the early shooting preparation of the film.

"In fact, the final amount is 235 million dollars!" boss Jia muttered in his heart.

In history, the price of the filming of the Titanic has changed three times.

For the first time, that is, at the beginning of shooting preparation, the budget cost was as high as $135 million.

When the shooting really started, there would be a new offer of $175 million just mentioned.

At the end of history, 21st Century Fox accepted this new offer and added another $40 million in investment.

However, this is not the final offer, but it will be covered in the end. You go back to someone else's house to make an offer. In 1995, when the film was half shot, all 175 million shooting and production funds were used up, so Cameron threw out a new offer of $235 million, plus an investment of $60 million.

Then 20th Century Fox went completely crazy.

At that time, the 20th century fox was in a time of extremely difficult and tight funds, and could no longer bear the investment of US $60 million. Finally, it could only win paramount in at the cost of North American distribution rights, and let paramount supplement the investment of US $60 million, so as to finally complete the shooting of the film.

Jon Landau went to boss Jia to complain about this. His intention was obvious. He wanted boss Jia to bear the cost of $40 million.

"No problem in principle!" boss Jia nodded. "But we can hold a meeting to discuss some cost problems. We can't spend as much as Cameron said. We should also save costs!"

"I also know the truth of cost saving," Jon Landau nodded. "But in fact, Cameron didn't pit us much money. I asked the professional team to review the budget he gave me. These money are actually spent, which can't be saved. Cameron has saved us where we can save money!"

"This is the final offer!" Jon Landau said sincerely.

"Show me the cost accounting list!" boss Jia said faintly. The Secretary behind him immediately took out the detailed cost accounting list.

As a major investor of Titanic, the cost accounting list was sent to Daqian at the first time, and the team of Daqian entertainment also reviewed the cost list. Finally, it was concluded that, like Jon Landau, the cost of 175 million was really difficult to save according to Cameron's shooting methods and requirements.

These are all things that boss Jia knew for a long time, but he still took the whole list and read it several times. Finally, he said, "Mr. Jon, I have carefully read this list. The main costs in it can be divided into four parts!"

"The first part is the manufacture of the Titanic hull, which is the largest and costs US $60 million!"

"The second is the cost of all props except the manufacture of the Titanic hull, which is about $30 million!"

"Then the actor's pay, a total of 35 million"

"Finally, the budget for special effects, $50 million"

"It can be roughly divided like this, right?" boss Jia said.

"That's right!" Jon Landau nodded.

"Let's take a detailed look at the costs one by one. First of all, is there any amount that can be reduced here?" boss Jia knocked on the list and asked.

"It's hard!" Jon Landau shook his head. "We've tried our best to use new actors in order to save actors' pay!"

"But the heroine is Nicole Kidman. She gets as much as $10 million a person!" boss Jia frowned.

Because there was no actor in the first negotiation, boss Jia didn't know that the heroine finally decided was Nicole Kidman, not Kate Winslet in memory.

You know, Kate Winslet at this time is just a little actor who has made two films. It is estimated that the film salary is not even $500000. Now I don't know why I became Nicole Kidman on the cast.

"Mr. Jia, this is the only big star among all the actors!" Jon Landau frowned. "A Hollywood blockbuster needs at least one big star to come to town, otherwise our film can't be publicized at all!"

"That's a Hollywood blockbuster, not a Hollywood God film!" boss Jia smiled. "I don't know if Mr. Jon has found out. It seems that those films that can be called God films in history have never used any big actors."

"This..." Jon Landau stopped talking.

"Well, I want to leave this right to our director Cameron to choose. If he thinks Nicole Kidman is the most suitable actress, I am willing to trust director Cameron."

"On the contrary, if director Cameron has a crush on other actresses, let's not stop him. Everything depends on the will of director Cameron!" boss Jia said.

"All right..." Jon Landau nodded. "In fact, Cameron told me more than once that he had a crush on a little actor named Kate winlester. The price was cheap. She only wanted $300000, but she was not famous at all. The company was worried that it would affect the box office, so she didn't agree. He was still arguing with Cameron about this issue a few days ago."

"Since Mr. Jia said so, respect Cameron's meaning and listen to him!"

"Very wise decision!" boss Jia laughed, and then drew a horizontal bar on the actor's pay cost, which was suddenly reduced from the previous 35 million to 25 million, saving us $10 million at once!