"Eric Williams secret meeting with Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, to negotiate the new film deal .
" This was the headlines on the front page of the "Hollywood Reporter" the second day after their meeting, accompanied by a picture of Eric, Cruise and Hanks side by side walking out of Firefly office building .
In the picture, Eric was wearing a gray sports suit, he looked just like a high school student, Tom Cruise was wearing a black casual jacket not b.u.t.toned up, revealing the white T-shirt below . Only Tom Hanks was properly dressed in a black suit and tie, looking like an office worker .
Because they talked about the script all morning, the two superstars relaxed their vigilance when they left, they didn't wear their sungla.s.ses, so the faces of the three of them were quite clear, they were talking to each other and walking towards the door, the shot was captured by a lucky paparazzi .
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"Around eight a . m . yesterday morning, it was found that Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks the two superstars have visited director Eric Williams's firefly film company office .
Our reporter received the news and quickly arrived at the location, after four hours of waiting, Eric Williams and Cruise and Hanks finally walked out from the building, from the photo the facial expressions of the three, we can deduce that the meeting was quite enjoyable .
Although the three did not accept the reporter interview, instead, they left in a hurry . But according to some clues from an insider, the meeting is related to a new film Eric Williams is preparing .
Since the actor and screenwriter debuted in the film "17 Again" last year, Eric Williams suddenly broke into the Hollywood director's circle, by directing the first low-cost comedy Film "Home Alone" to reach the 100 million box office club .
When a lot of people attributed the teenager's success to luck, only four months later, Eric Williams second romantic comedy film "Pretty Woman" was released again, the first week box office was close to $30 million, completely Proving the young director's strength .
In the first movie "Home Alone", Eric Williams took a group of TV actors and the little boy that lived next door to him, and created a stunning box office miracle, as for the second film that starred, Al Pacino who won a few Oscar nominations, but he has been in the shadow for four years, and had close to zero box office appeal .
And Julia Roberts who only played a small role in low budget comedy, but Eric took the two people and sent them to the top ranks of Hollywood .
If in the future they successfully signed the contracts, even if their was infighting in private, but in the public mind, the two sides shook hands, even if they still have a strong animosity, this will be good for the public image of both Eric and the CAA .
But now after such a provocative tabloid article, if this cooperation was successful, the t.i.tle of 'Hollywood's most powerful figure' Michael Ovitz got will turn into a joke .
Sure enough, the next day after 'The Hollywood Reporter' published the article, Eric received the bad news .
"That's really too much, The price of US $6 million fee is pa.s.sable, but they also want twenty percent of North America bow office profits after the movie is released .
Everyone who worked in Hollywood for a few years, have never heard of any actor who will put forward such presumptuous conditions . Eric, do you have to use Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks? They should know that other brokerage firms also have top of the line actors .
Or you can play a role in the film, and self-direct . " Jeffrey after talking to Cruise and Hanks's agent, come back to Eric office, and started complaining .
Although Eric has expected such thing to happen, but he was shocked by the conditions put forward by the two agents . Hollywood stars asking for a share of the profits, The bad habit started with Tom Cruise .
Later, the fee plus profit sharing model has gradually become a popular mode of charging in his past life, in proportion usually between 10% and 20% .
The so-called profit sharing, of the box office is divided into two concepts, Specifically, the producer gets his share of the box office, That's part of the profit minus the production cost, minus the proportions required by the actors, that's what the actors can get .
What's more, the profit sharing is divided into two categories, the global box office and the North American box office .
Although Cruise and Hanks's agents haven't lost their heads and proposed the global profit sharing, but even after many years, it was not so easy for an actor to get such conditions . And to get such a high percentage the actor will have to give up something in exchange .
For example, in his past life Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean", completely abandon his paycheck, in exchange for getting a higher proportion of the profits .
But now this model of charging has only just begun, When Tom Cruise shot his last movie "Rain Man", he put forward this whimsical payment model, and because of Tom Cruise strong box office appeal, and the cost of production of "Rain Man" isn't high, the producer thought that as long Cruise joins them, the film can easily make profit .
So he agreed to Cruise's demand, but Cruise also had to lower his fee . What's more, the profit sharing ratio was only 10 percent .