Chapter 1165

"Five million? Are you out of you mind? Or was it too high last night? "

The agent thinks Leonardo must be crazy.

As early as 2000, his value has almost touched the threshold of the 20 million dollar club. In addition, the recent rise of "cat and mouse game" box office, the one-day box office surpassing "Lord of the rings 2", and even a large number of female fans' fanatical pursuit of Leonardo and other phenomena are helping Leonardo to continue to improve his value.

If we give "cat and mouse game" another month to ferment, if his global box office can reach the scale of $500.6 billion, then Leonardo's value will continue to have a greater breakthrough.

The remuneration of more than 20 million dollars sounds terrible. Even a movie can make several so-called "big Productions" in China at this time. But for Hollywood, it is totally within the acceptable range. As long as the actor's strength is worth this price, he will be able to get such a high remuneration return.

Hollywood movies have always been big money, with high budget, high pay for actors and high production costs. But behind the big money, there are also big profits, such as high box office and high copyright income.

Some films cost $100 million, have a global box office of $350 million, and make tens of millions of dollars from DVD distribution. For example, the copyright derivatives of novels, animes, and peripheral products can also be sold for tens of millions of dollars or more. Therefore, in this very mature business system, Leonardo's $20 million film remuneration is almost without water.

If you meet a famous director or a favorite script, it's normal for an actor to reduce his / her remuneration. But there's a limit to reduce his / her remuneration. For example, normally, if Leonardo continues to participate in Spielberg's films, it's normal for him / her to reduce his / her remuneration to 15 million dollars. The five million dollar human relationship is very dignified.

However, how can I not think that Leonardo seems to have been kicked in the head by a donkey, and he will reduce his pay to five million dollars as soon as he opens his mouth? You don't have that value in Leonardo's history, okay? You've got two and a half million dollars for Titanic, and then Titanic has become a global blockbuster. You're worth more than ten million dollars. Now you tell me that you want to reduce your pay to five million? What about the noise?

Leonardo explained: "Jason, you need to know that this film is not just directed by Spielberg. This film is invested by Li Mu, with an investment of 100 million US dollars. In addition, the script story is that during the Second World War, an American elder brother named Chennault led a group of American civil pilots to China voluntarily to resist the Japanese invasion side by side with the Huaxia air force Things. "

"Li Mu?!" When the agent heard the name, his voice suddenly increased eight degrees.

"Li Mu, the Internet tycoon of China? Which push pushed "cat and mouse game" to Li Mu, the first at the box office? "

"Bullshit, who else but him." Leonardo said seriously, "Li Mu's willingness to invest so much money to make this movie is enough to show his emphasis on this movie. People who know Li Mu know that he is a very strong nationalist, so this movie about China and the United States side by side Anti Japanese, he will try his best to push the influence of this movie to the maximum."

Speaking of this, Leonardo added: "you know, his resources are too strong. There are so many media tycoons in Hollywood, but their information delivery ability in the world is much worse than that of Li Mu. Li Mu's YY may not be as authoritative as time magazine or Los Angeles Times, but it is the most influential one for ordinary people."

"God..." The agent sighed at the other end of the phone and said, "forgive me Leo. If I knew it was a movie invested by Li Mu, I would not say such rude words to you!"

Then the agent exclaimed, "God! This opportunity is really rare. If we can establish a good cooperative relationship with Li Mu, it will certainly have a huge impetus to your future development. At this time, we really need to show enough sincerity. The five million dollar pay should be very sincere. Although the loss is a little big, we believe that the future return will be higher! "

Leonardo saw that the agent had fully agreed with his decision, and immediately said: "OK, then you can help me communicate with Spielberg immediately, give him a formal offer, and then prepare to go through the formal contract process. In addition, ask about the approximate shooting schedule of the play. From now on, as long as there are conflicting schedules, the film will not be accepted!"

“OK！ I'll do it now! "

Leonardo said, "go ahead and let me know the result. I have to Google it. Who is Chennault?"

"If you don't tell me, I've forgotten. I just heard you talk about this person's name, so I want to Google it and have a look..."

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Tom Hanks, who is also in Los Angeles, also received a call from Spielberg. At this moment, he is sitting in front of the computer, carefully using Google to search for Chennault related materials, reading them line by line and sentence by sentence.

After reading the script sent by Spielberg, he was immediately attracted by the story and characters in the script. After reading the script, he had decided to accept Spielberg's invitation to participate in the flying tigers and play the first leading actor Chen nade in the play. Then he hurriedly began to search relevant information through Google to learn about chennade's story Line more in-depth understanding.Tom Hanks is very different from young Leonardo. Although Leonardo is also a front-line actor with extraordinary acting skills, he is young, junior, and has more idols. Tom Hanks is one of the best actors in the whole American film industry, who is good at character shaping, so he is responsible for every movie he makes.

Chennault is not very famous in the United States, but his story is really a great story if it is deeply picked down, and this kind of voluntary help to other countries to resist invaders is very good, no matter in level, realm or depth.

In Tom Hanks' view, the reason why Saving Private Ryan can become a classic is that on the one hand, the script is deep enough, on the other hand, the actor's performance is in place, and on the most important hand, the visual presentation of the film is very sophisticated, and the success of the whole film, at least half of which is the contribution of Spielberg.

And the Flying Tigers itself is also a Spielberg director, or even Spielberg himself, so Tom Hanks thinks that even if the film is only in the preparatory period, it has a 50% chance of success. If he plays the first male, he can definitely portray the character successfully. As for Leonardo, he Although young, I just had a cooperation with him, and I can see that his strength is not bad, and his progress is also very fast. If they continue to partner, at least they can bring 20% success rate for the film.

In terms of the story itself, Tom Hanks believes that "Flying Tigers" and "Saving Private Ryan" are exactly the same. Both of them are based on the real history, can well show the cruelty of the war, the brilliance of human nature, and the reflection on the war. In this way, they can increase the success rate of the movie by at least 20%.

In this way, the success rate of the film is basically 90%.

In addition, Tom Hanks is also weighing Li Mu's resources and influence.

"Cat and mouse game" box office counter attack, let the whole Hollywood see YY this world-class Internet products in the promotion of extraordinary potential, "cat and mouse game" just got YY a push can have such a breakthrough, if "Flying Tigers" released, Li Mu will give it how many times push the opportunity?

Combined with the investment of 100 million US dollars, such a huge capital scale is a strong guarantee for the film, so calculated, the film is almost impossible to fail.

Besides, Tom Hanks also attached great importance to his first cooperation with Li Mu.

In his opinion, Li Mu, a young man, is not only a powerful gold owner, but also an invisible "God" of hundreds of millions of Internet users in the Internet world.

He has absolute strength to influence these hundreds of millions of Internet users imperceptibly in the next few years. He will not only guide them in what they do on the Internet, but also guide them in what they eat, do, play, learn, buy and look after leaving the Internet!

The potential of this energy is too strong. Tom Hanks believes that it won't take long for Li Mu to become one of the most powerful people in the world in terms of commercial energy, so being able to make a good relationship with him in advance will definitely help him in the future.

Spielberg soon received the exact answers from Leonardo and Tom Hanks, and received the official offer from their agent. What he couldn't believe was that Leonardo's agent's official offer was only five million dollars of film pay, without any collateral requirements, no dividend, no guarantee, that's five million dollars ;

Tom Hanks' offer also made him dumbfounded, because Tom Hanks has already reached the level of 20 million films in the last century, and even if he participates in a movie, he will require a certain proportion of the box office. However, the price he offered himself this time is only three million dollars! Two million less than Leonardo, and most importantly, he doesn't want any box office credits!

Spielberg has been in Hollywood for so many years. He is not only a super first-line director, but also a first-class movie businessman. He knows that the offer given by the two men is absolutely impossible in Hollywood. In Hollywood, no one has such a big face that they can voluntarily reduce the film pay to such an exaggerated level, even they have no such ability.

However, their offer is here.

This makes Spielberg lament that Li Mu's face is not worth money