Chapter 98： Dial

"Williams secretly two 'Tom', suspected new issues, this is the second day, the title of the headline "Hollywood News", accompanied by a side of Eric, Cruise and Hanks Get out of the photo of the Firefly headquarters.

In the photo, Eric wore a gray sports suit that looked like a high school student, which was very suitable for his age. Cruise wearing a black casual jacket, no buttons, revealing a white T-shirt inside, only Hanks is wearing a black suit and tie, looks like an office worker. Because I talked about the morning script, the two superstars relaxed their vigilance when they left, and they didn't wear sunglasses. So the expressions of the three people were quite clear. They talked and smiled and walked toward the door. This shot was just a lucky one. The paparazzi caught it.

"At about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, it was discovered that two giant stars, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, entered the headquarters of the firefly film company of the new director Eric Williams. The reporter received the news and quickly arrived at the relevant place. After waiting for four hours, Eric Williams and the two giants, Cruise and Hanks, were surrounded by the crowd and walked out from the Firefly headquarters. The meeting was quite enjoyable.

Although the three did not accept the interview of this reporter, they hurried away by car. But based on some clues provided by informed sources, the meeting was related to the new film that Eric Williams was preparing.

Since the debut of "Returning to Seventeen" as an actor and screenwriter last year, Eric Williams, the magical kid who suddenly broke into Hollywood, has continued to soar at a rocket-like speed, guiding the first low-cost comedy. The film "Little Ghosts" directly sent it to the 100 million box office club.

When many people attributed the boy's performance to the goddess of fortune, only four months later, Williams' second romantic comedy "Fengyue Beauty" was released again, and the first week's box office was close to 30 million US dollars. Thoroughly proved the strength of this young director.

In the first film, "The Little Devil," Eric Williams used only a group of TV actor and the next boy to create an amazing box office miracle, while the second film's two stars, Al. · Pacino has won many Oscar nominations, but it has been for four years, and the box office appeal is close to none. Julia Roberts has only played a small role in a low-cost comedy, Eric But they will be sent to the ranks of Hollywood A-level actors at the same time.

This time, the young director directly chose two Hollywood-starred A-stars, and we have no doubt that the lower film will once again create a box office miracle.

However, although the appearance of the three people in the photo gives a kind of appearance of this cooperation, we have to mention that Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks are both at the same time as CAA. Brokerage company, and as everyone knows, Eric Williams has angered the top of CAA because he bought a brokerage company of a well-known Hollywood gold broker at the beginning of the year. The industry has been rumored that the top executive is quite dissatisfied with Eric Williams. During the selection of "Wind Beauty", he also blocked the cooperation between his artist Richard Gere and Eric Williams. To this end, he did not hesitate to compensate Richard Kiel for a big production film of MGM-Lianmei.

In this case, we can't imagine that the cooperation between Eric Williams and the two Toms will be full of twists and turns. Of course, Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks also has enough strength to ignore CAA's obstruction. After all, the two are now Hollywood A-class superstars. Even if they lose the support of CAA, their career will not be too big. influences.

Moreover, judging from the influence of the first two works of Eric Williams, his new work is likely to bring the career of the two superstars to a new level.

I believe that in Hollywood, no actor can resist this kind of temptation, that is, I don’t know if the CAA’s top executive has enough power to once again obstruct the cooperation.

The last incident led to the loss of Mr. Richard Keel’s chance to step into the ranks of A-level actors again. According to the recent filming of the filmmakers of "Weilong Killing", the prospect of this film is not Being optimistic, the possibility of a box office breakout is very small, and it is not enough to 'compensate' Mr. Richard Keel to give up the 'loss' of the actor of "Feng Yue Qiao Jia". Therefore, how Cruise and Hanks will choose, how the CAA executives will handle Williams' invitation, let us wait and see. ”

Eric grinned and threw the newspaper on the table, and really wanted to blow up the editor who wrote the manuscript. In the previous situation, Michael Ovitz would only raise the disapproval of the two superstars' quotations, but they would not be able to block the cooperation.

After all, the rise of UTA is now unstoppable, and Michael Owitz will not only lose money, but also be considered to be narrow-minded. The more narrow-minded people, the more fear and hatred they have for others.

When the future contract is signed, the cast will be announced, and some media will be spurred. No matter what is in private, there will be any infighting in the private, but in the public mind, the two sides will be shaking hands and crying, this is for the public of CAA and Eric. The image is good.

But now that the tabloids have been so arrogant, if the cooperation is successfully reached, the title of the 'Hollywood's most powerful person' that Michael Ovitz has just acquired becomes a joke.

Sure enough, the second day of the publication of the Hollywood Information News, Eric ushered in a heart-wrenching news.

"It's too much. The $6 million price quote is still okay, but the other party turned out to be a big lion, and 20% of the North American 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 make such a non-point condition. Eric, do you have to use Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks? Other brokerage companies are not without top actors, it is not good, you play a role yourself. It’s okay, self-directed and self-directed, this gimmick has more influence.” After Jeffrey talked with Cruise and Hanks’ agent, he rushed into Eric with a sigh of anger. The office, so complained.

Although the heart has long been expected, but the conditions proposed by the two people still shocked Eric. The Hollywood star demanded profit sharing. This 'bad atmosphere' began with Tom Cruise. Later, the pattern of pay and profit sharing gradually became a popular charging model, and the proportion was generally 10% to 20%. between.

The so-called profit sharing, and the box office division of the movie are completely two concepts. Specifically, the producers get the box office share they deserve, and the part of the gross profit minus the production cost is multiplied by the proportion of the actors’ requirements. The profit share that the actor can get. Moreover, the profit share is divided into two types: global box office share and North American box office share.

Although the brokers of Cruise and Hanks have not lost their minds to propose global profit sharing, the 20% share of North America, even after many years, is not so easy to get. If you can get the highest proportion, or if you don't have the kind, you can't do it. For example, Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean in the parallel space either completely abandons the pay and exchanges the gambling situation for the highest proportion.

But now, this kind of charging method has just appeared. Tom Cruise also made this kind of charging mode when he filmed "Rain Man" last year, because Cruise's powerful box office appeal, plus The production cost of "Rain Man" is not high. After considering the film, I feel that as long as Cruise joins, the film is very profitable, so I agreed to the non-requirement of Cruise, but this is also in Cruise. In the case of falling pay, it is promised, and the profit share ratio is only 10%.