Chapter 335

[anti theft post chapter]

like the pink League, John Hughes's "kid in charge" will also be shooting in the near future.

Yesterday, Simon was busy with the three movies "red pink League", "ghost" and "Ninja Tortoise". Today, he spent most of his time talking with John Hughes, who is far away in Chicago, about the details of "home by kid".

Under Simon's promotion, the hero of "home is a kid" is still determined to be the original Macaulay Calkin.

Macaulay Calkin happens to be a signed artist of wma. Although Calkin failed to play uncle buck of John Hughes last year because of Simon's influence, the little actor has already appeared in many movies and TV plays before and is still a signed child model of Ford model company.

Besides kalkin, the characters of the two stupid thieves are the original Joe Percy and Daniel Stern.

Simon doesn't have to worry too much about the "original" team.

Basically, Simon's attitude towards many of his recent competitors is the same. Denise entertainment has become more and more dazzling, or dazzling, in the past two years. Even if one or two of these projects fail, it doesn't matter to Simon, or just right.

At the end of the day, Simon went straight from Santa Monica to the cold water Canyon of Beverly Hills at about seven o'clock.

The cold water Canyon block is part of Beverly Hills, next to the west side of the estate. The whole block starts from the cold water Canyon Park near Sunset Avenue at the foot of the mountain, and winds up to muherland road at the top of the mountain, which is more than five kilometers long. The canyon streets are lined with all kinds of luxury houses, which also belong to the star gathering area of Los Angeles.

It's getting dark when we arrive at Joe Ross's apartment.

Joe Roth's villa is a common two-story simple style white building in Los Angeles, covering an area of about a quarter of an acre. Considering the geographical location and other factors, this is already regarded as a luxury house in Los Angeles.

James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger have arrived early, as well as many other filmmakers.

After Simon arrived, he said hello to the guests and went to the sun terrace on the villa floor with Ross and Cameron. Of course, there was no sunshine at this time. From the terrace, you can see the lights in the downtown of Los Angeles.

When the three sat down at a seat, rose said, "I've talked to Jim several times. Simon, the budget for Terminator 2 is set at $50 million, and Jim is still the director. However, once the project overspends, Jim automatically gives up the director's pay. At the same time, we will take more stringent financial supervision measures this time to ensure that the film production will not get out of control. Do you think this is OK? "

Simon did not answer, but looked at Cameron and asked, "Jim, do you think you can do it?"

Cameron grinned stiffly, nodded and said, "it should be OK."

Simon didn't say anything. He turned to Joe Ross again and asked, "what's Arnold's salary?"

Joe roston nodded and said, "15 million dollars." With that, as Simon raised his eyebrows, rose immediately explained, "Stallone's salary in that movie has risen to $15 million, and Arnold doesn't want to get lower than Stallone's."

With a total budget of US $50 million, Schwarzenegger took away US $15 million. Although Cameron made a big fall in the abyss, there must be a base film payment of US $3 million.

With other creators, less than $30 million was left for film production.

With Cameron's profligacy and less than $30 million, it would be a ghost if he could complete Terminator 2.

Simon said with a sneer: "I checked the data of Arnold's previous films this afternoon. Since the summer vacation of 1987, Arnold has been paid 3 million yuan for "the iron soldier", with a box office of 59 million yuan. "Dragon", Arnold film remuneration of $5 million, box office $38 million. Last year's "Red Square Swat," Arnold paid $8 million, but only $35 million at the box office. According to this trend, "Terminator 2" he asked $15 million, the box office should be only $15 million, right

"Simon Arnold has gained a lot of popularity in the first film of terminator, and his pay can't be compared with other original projects," said Joe Ross

Cameron also retorted: "Terminator 2 is different from those films. I believe this film will definitely succeed."

"I'm also very optimistic about this project," Simon said, looking at Cameron again. "However, danilisi entertainment is not a karock film industry. We will not offer sky high prices for films without reason. Arnold's recent full memory, if my news is right, he should only get a base salary of $1 million. For this Terminator 2, he can choose two options. One is the same basic salary plus share model as "full memory"; the other is to maintain the level of "Red Square SWAT" with only $8 millionBoth Joe Ross and Cameron are silent.

Simon leaned back in his chair and looked at the crowd at the swimming pool under the balcony. After a moment, he said, "compared with the previous three films," total memory "spent 65 million US dollars even though Arnold almost gave up his pay. It's not likely that karock wants to recover the cost. I don't think there will be any other film companies willing to take risks on Arnold after this film."

In memory, the global box office of "full memory" exceeded 200 million US dollars.

Although karoke film just managed to earn a lot of hard money, it was a success.

Because of the success of "total memory", Schwarzenegger finally returned to the peak after several films in a row, and regained his equal position with Stallone.

Simon, of course, won't say that at the moment.

After another pause, Simon said again: "as we all know, Arnold has accumulated a high popularity in the first song of terminator, and this sequel is likely to bring his fame back to the peak. So, only the above two programs, or, after waiting for "full memory" to be released, he can only get lower pay. "

With these words, Simon suddenly remembered that in addition to comprehensive memory, Arnold had a more successful work in this period.

Kindergarten Swat.

It's also a movie with a box office of over 100 million.

Thinking of this, Simon made up his mind to cut it off.

Then, Terminator 2, true lies, and even the order of evaporation.

Or you can give Schwarzenegger a few more box office flops in the original space-time.

It's easy for Simon to snipe a Hollywood filmmaker's career with his own advantages.

As for Terminator 2, Simon is in no hurry.

Joe Ross thought for a moment and said to Simon, "well, Simon, I'll go down and talk to Arnold."

"I haven't had dinner yet, Joe. Please have someone send me something to eat."

"Of course."

Joe Ross nodded, got up, looked at Cameron again, and went to the stairway.

Cameron looked at the young man in front of him and didn't know whether he should take the initiative to leave. He had seen Batman: the moment of war more than once before and admired the pioneering technologies used in the film.

I wanted to talk to Simon.

However, Simon westero at the top of the studio is not very pleasant.

Simon looked at the restless Cameron and suddenly said, "Jim, someone should have told you about Coppola and the elephant?"

There was a puzzled look on Cameron's face.

Simon realized that Cameron had obviously never heard of the story, and offered to explain: "this is a story from Coppola's shooting of Apocalypse Now. Coppola wanted to find some elephants in the process of shooting. However, the project has been overspended and overdue. It will not only cost a lot to transport the elephants to the set, but also lead to the decline of the film shooting cycle Further delay. The producer of the film told Coppola that many things can't be perfect, you have to give up something. Later, there was no elephant in Apocalypse Now, but the movie there was still very successful. "

Cameron naturally thought that Simon was talking about his last year's "abyss". For a moment, he could not think of any words to refute, so he had to say, "Simon, I know what you mean."

"I saw the terminator that year, and there's more than one," Simon added. "Jim, since you could make a perfect film with 6.4 million dollars, there's no reason why you can't finish other films within the budget. Last year's abyss cost 69.5 million dollars. I heard that you are under a lot of pressure, but it's just some mental pressure. You don't know that a large number of people in fox lost their jobs because of the failure of this project. They were fired not because the box office of the film was bad. There was a lot of risk in the industry. They were fired because the budget for the project was out of control. You know, studio money never falls from the sky

Cameron's expression flickered for a moment, and finally said: "Simon, I will certainly pay attention to it in the future."

The waiter brought up some food at this time.

Simon, waiting for the other party to leave, motioned to Cameron. Seeing the other party shaking his head, he pulled the tray in front of him, picked up the tableware and said, "I've seen the special effects scheme of abyss carefully. The alien in it should be the liquid metal robot used in Terminator 2, right?"

The special effects of "abyss" are actually produced by danielis special effects studio.

In fact, whether it's abyss or Terminator 2, the special effects expenses are not high.

The huge cost of the two projects is mainly due to Cameron's pursuit of perfectionism. Last year's "abyss" was shot for five months. Terminator 2 in the original time and space was filmed continuously for six months, which is the general expenditure focus of the two projects out of control.

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Or you can give Schwarzenegger a few more box office flops in the original space-time.

It's easy for Simon to snipe a Hollywood filmmaker's career with his own advantages.

As for Terminator 2, Simon is in no hurry.

Joe Ross thought for a moment and said to Simon, "well, Simon, I'll go down and talk to Arnold."

Joe Ross nodded, got up, looked at Cameron again, and walked up the stairs.

Cameron looked at the young man in front of him and didn't know whether he should take the initiative to leave. He had seen Batman: the moment of war more than once before and admired the pioneering technologies used in the film.

I wanted to talk to Simon.

However, Simon westero at the top of the studio is not very pleasant.

Simon looked at the restless Cameron and suddenly said, "Jim, someone should have told you about Coppola and the elephant?"

There was a puzzled look on Cameron's face.

Simon realized that Cameron had obviously never heard of the story, and offered to explain: "this is a story from Coppola's shooting of Apocalypse Now. Coppola wanted to find some elephants in the process of shooting. However, the project has been overspended and overdue. It will not only cost a lot to transport the elephants to the set, but also lead to the decline of the film shooting cycle Further delay. The producer of the film told Coppola that many things can't be perfect, you have to give up something. Later, there was no elephant in Apocalypse Now, but the movie there was still very successful. "

Cameron naturally thought that Simon was talking about his last year's "abyss". For a moment, he could not think of any words to refute, so he had to say, "Simon, I know what you mean."

"I saw the terminator that year, and there's more than one," Simon added. "Jim, since you could make a perfect film with 6.4 million dollars, there's no reason why you can't finish other films within the budget. Last year's abyss cost 69.5 million dollars. I heard that you are under a lot of pressure, but it's just some mental pressure. You don't know that a large number of people in fox lost their jobs because of the failure of this project. They were fired not because the box office of the film was bad. There was a lot of risk in the industry. They were fired because the budget for the project was out of control. You know, studio money never falls from the sky

Cameron's expression flickered for a moment, and finally said: "Simon, I will certainly pay attention to it in the future."

The waiter brought up some food at this time.

Simon, waiting for the other party to leave, motioned to Cameron. Seeing the other party shaking his head, he pulled the tray in front of him, picked up the tableware and said, "I've seen the special effects scheme of abyss carefully. The alien in it should be the liquid metal robot used in Terminator 2, right?"

The special effects of "abyss" are actually produced by danielis special effects studio.

In fact, whether it's abyss or Terminator 2, the special effects expenses are not high.

The huge cost of the two projects is mainly due to Cameron's pursuit of perfectionism. Last year's "abyss" was shot for five months. Terminator 2 in the original time and space was filmed continuously for six months, which is the general expenditure focus of the two projects out of control.