Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 493 I want to take the share

Minahan and Yoram contacted their colleagues in Los Angeles overnight, and found a script about breakdancing in the script libraries of various Hollywood studios.

This is a follow-up work after the hit of "Lightning Dance", which mainly describes a female dancer who wants to enter Broadway to perform musicals, but has never been successful.She met a group of black and Latino break dancers on the streets of New York, absorbed various elements of new dance, and put them into her own dance.

In the next audition for a classic Broadway dance play, she conquered the staid directors and producers with this trendy and pleasing dance, and won the leading actress position.

The two quickly contacted Ronald, but no one, including Ronald's agent, knew where he had gone.

Ronald has returned home to Staten Island.He went to visit Fa Xiao, Douglas Hansen III Jr.

"You want to renovate your aunt's old house?" Little Douglas just had an excuse to get out of the big party at home, and took Ronald to the Hair Country restaurant on the south side of the island for dinner.

"Yes, this is my mother's hometown after all. I want to build a house here so that my aunt can also have a place to live in the future. She didn't say it, but I can see that she still likes the neighbors and the community here. "

"Well, the problem is that there is no problem. I can help you. But it was originally a low-rent housing for laborers. The distance between the neighbors of that kind of shotgun house is very close. If your aunt buys someone else's house and remodels it, it may There are ugly gossip.

Besides, she is also a little rich now, so she can move to a better community.My family has a piece of land not far from your old house. If you need it, I can transfer it to you. "

"Then it's settled." Hansen is the largest landowner at the southern end of the island, and he nodded his new house plan.

"In fact, our Staten Island has always been a base of the film industry, but it gradually declined after the end of the 70s." Douglas Jr. started to sigh after finishing the business.If Staten Island also had crews coming frequently, he could also socialize with those actresses as a producer.

"I don't even know that."

"Hey, you didn't go to school here. I went to see 'The Godfather' filming when I was a kid."

"Did the godfather shoot scenes here?" Ronald said it was the first time he had heard of it.

"That's right, the house where the godfather's daughter got married at the beginning is in the middle of Staten Island. There is also a place on the north side of the island facing the Statue of Liberty. Several big stars used to live there."

"Paul Newman?" Ronald heard his aunt say.

"Well, and Martin Sheen also bought a house there."

Unexpectedly, Emilio Estevez, and his brother Charlie Sheen, were also born in Staten Island.

"But after they became famous, they all moved away."

After eating, the two simply took the train to the northern end of the island, looking for Paul Newman's former residence near the pier.

"Woo..." With a siren, the yellow ferry boats used by commuters on Staten Island began to dock again.

The two stopped and looked at the ferry, which they used to come to when they were in high school, waiting for the ferry to take them to Manhattan Island to compete in wrestling matches with other high schools.

"Hey, is that Ronald?"

Yoram on the boat suddenly patted Minahan on the shoulder, "Ronald! Ronald!" The two fat men started waving their hands and shouting Ronald's name loudly.

With great difficulty, they found the phone number of Ronald's apartment through contacts, asked Aunt Karen to ask her to go back to Staten Island to visit friends, and immediately took the only transportation on Staten Island directly connected to Manhattan.

"Why are you here?" Ronald looked in surprise at the two Israeli brothers who were sweating and running off the boat in winter.

"We're here to find you, please come and make a movie."

"It's good to make a movie, I can invest in it," said Douglas Jr. from the side.

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"What do you think? This subject matter is also your favorite. Can this script be sold?" Minahan stared at Ronald with wide eyes.

Ronald was in Douglas Jr.'s mansion, flipping through the script in silence.He was thinking in his mind that several fragments of his dream were inconsistent with this script in many places.Apart from the fact that the main character is a female jazz dancer working with two breakdancing masters, the stories bear little resemblance.

After much difficulty, Ronald finished flipping through the script and closed the cover.Both Minahan and Yoram became nervous, waiting for Ronald's sentence.

"Well, can I ask you a question first? Why were you not interested in the breakdancing theme I recommended to you before, but this time you took the initiative to come to me?" Ronald was most puzzled by this point.

"Alas, it's my daughter," Minahan began to make up nonsense, "My daughter called me, and she said that there are people dancing this kind of dance on the streets of Los Angeles, so I thought of you."

"Anthracene? Is there another reason?" Ronald didn't believe that bullshit, he didn't want to shoot this breakdance for Minahan.

Douglas Jr. is by his side, as well as New York's agent Eddie, and CAA pays more attention to himself. He just needs to wait for the release of "Dragon Mighty Boy" and revise the script himself, and he will soon be able to attract investors and distributors. , I occupy a large proportion of the investment, are you unhappy?

"Alas, there is another reason for speaking."

It is rare for Mina to hide it from Ronald, who is experienced in the industry, so he had to tell the truth, "Orion Films has also invested in a film with a similar theme. I asked you to finish it before them and release it before them."

"Orion is also filming?" Ronald was surprised, "Did you get the outline of the story?"

Could it be that the movie I dreamed of was invested by Orion?
But it's not quite right, Orion wants to be famous for investing in art films, how could he shoot the crude Roger Corman style low-budget exploitation film in his dream?

"Hi... I inquired through a friend." Minahan told Ronald the outline of the "Hot Street Kid" story he had inquired about.

"That's right, what ethnicity, liberation, blacks and Latinos are trapped on the streets, and white mainstream society accepts them, this is what Orion likes."

"I actually have some ideas for a breakdance movie. I can rewrite your script. How do you want to cooperate?"

Ronald felt that he had to cooperate with Minahan if he wanted to make this movie by himself, and then take the opportunity to go to Huaguo on the other side of the Pacific Ocean to track down the trace.Now that the project has been established, it is bound to fail to catch up with the distribution channel from the beginning. It is better to cooperate with Minahan's Cannon, they have very good distribution capabilities in Europe, and then see if MGM is willing to distribute in North America.

"We have to fight fast and find someone familiar in the market. That's why we came to you first. We only consider other people if you don't want it."

Ronald waved his hand, he didn't like this clumsy flattery.

"Alas, that's what we think. I will give you a director's salary of 20 US dollars. Then I will give you 5.00% profit share." Minahan set out the conditions.

"Of course, if your friend Mr. Hansen is interested, we can also open up some investment quota for you." Yoram looked at the little Doug next to him and quickly added.

"I can shoot, but I need 20.00% of the share, and then my friend will take 20.00% of the investment share."

"Seven percent, we can't give more, a budget of about 100 million US dollars, if you are willing to convert the director's salary into a share, we can give this amount at most." The two brothers Rio Ram are better business negotiator.

"Why do you give me a director's work..." Ronald began to calculate their estimated total box office in North America.

"$2000 million? My friend Ronald has no lower box office results. This is another subject he is good at. He should get 15.00%." ​​Douglas Jr., who came from a business family, took over the negotiation.

"eight percent"

"12.00% minimum"

"Ten percent?"

"Can?"

The two negotiated a share ratio and looked at Ronald.

"I don't need the director's salary, but I want you to share a part of the copies sold overseas." Ronald proposed a new condition.

"One percent?" Minahan agreed painfully.

"Deal!" Ronald was very happy. Overseas distribution has always been a taboo for studios. His intention of proposing a share is also to understand this piece of fat.

"If I am free then, I will go to the European and British film trading markets with you."

"That's no problem. I wanted you to go to see works from other countries and help me choose." Minahan was very painful about letting outsiders get involved in overseas distribution, but in order to get Ronald to agree, he didn't care about it.Anyway, he is a director, and artists are unwilling to take care of this kind of commercial behavior.

"Then we can sign the contract after the lawyer comes to review the contract."

"Then call quickly." Minahan said to Ronald.

"Today is New Year's Day, so don't be so anxious?" Ronald didn't want Ms. Lawyer Dole to express dissatisfaction with him.

"We only have three weeks"

"What?" Ronald was taken aback, "How much time did you say?"

"Three weeks, two weeks of shooting, plus one week of editing, we need to get the first-cut version to sell to the screenings of North American theaters."

"No, there's only two weeks of shooting time, and the script hasn't been finished yet? Then you should hire someone else?" Ronald thought, what a joke.

"Come on, Ronald. I can add another 20 director's salary to you, and other conditions remain the same. It is not impossible for you. I know your film efficiency. If you are in Israel Fu Desert, I made up my mind at that time, please take charge of the guide, and MGM will not be willing to release my "Sahara" as it is now."

In a hurry, Minahan revealed all his biggest difficulties.

"Is that so?" Ronald thought for a while, and the scale began to move to the other side again. Auntie's new house needs money to buy land for construction, and besides, he looks like a breakdance shoot. Go to Huaguo to see it.

"Then I'll make a few calls to see if I can find the right manpower and place. Let's see again?"

(End of this chapter)