Legendary Hollywood Director

In reality, Mads Mikkelsen's star road can't be said to be a fire or a failure.

After all, as a Danish actor, how many resources can he win? There is no choice at all.

Lehman also knows that this family is not bad, very family-friendly, often running between Hollywood and Denmark.

Moreover, he is 40 years old this year, and he is very mature in performance. He has much more life experience than the young man, and he has more temperament. Playing a lawyer is not a very difficult challenge for him.

In fact, Maders has a very wide range of dramas, such as handsome idols, problem boys, cold villains, and even comedy roles, whether it is good or evil, all can be grasped.

Then, the day after the audition ended, the crew of Monster in the Lake officially confirmed Mads Mikkelsen as the project's first male supporting cast.

But as an outsider, his salary can't even compare to a little girl actor like Dakota Fanning, let alone a supporting actor with a smaller role like Morgan Freeman.

It's not that Firefly Pictures has lowered the price too hard. In fact, although Maders has a good international status and is a popular actor in Denmark, in Hollywood, his worth is low, because there is no performance to support him, and he wants to rise. It couldn't go up either. The final decision was, um, $870,000.

On the other hand, Mrs. Smith has completed all the preliminary preparations, and director Tony took the crew to the location to shoot.

April 29.

Thursday.

Early in the morning, Lyman rushed to Firefly Pictures and held a full-day meeting with Joseph and other management.

In the middle, the salaries of all film creators are basically negotiated.

Michael Caine was equally cheerful and decided to play the male lead's confused father, but the negotiation with Matthew McConaughey's leading role's salary package was a bit of a twist.

Maybe it was because he was too confident, or his agent didn't understand the situation. The first quotation actually required 7 million US dollars, and 8% of the North American profit after the movie was released. With such a high price, it is really a lion's mouth.

Of course, this may be a negotiating skill, but I don't really want so much.

But Leiman's reasons for choosing Matthew in the first place, in addition to the right role, the most important thing is that he just screwed up a masterpiece, and he took the opportunity to lower the price and reduce the salary expenditure.

Therefore, Joseph refused directly, saying that he had never heard of any actor who could screw up a movie with an investment of over 100 million, and the salary would not decrease but increase. He also said that the role is not only a candidate for Matthew McConaughey, but also other brokerage companies. There are options, but if you can't agree, forget it - the words are very strong.

On the contrary, this frightened Matthew McConaughey a lot. For fear that the opportunity would be gone, he quickly relented.

As for profit sharing, there is no mention of it.

However, Lehmann also knows that this kind of sharing model is already popular, and it is indeed the most favorable feedback that the brokerage company can give to superstars.

But, don't worry about what happens in the future, Matthew McConaughey can only get $4.5 million for this one, and they agreed.

And today's session, more discussion of the project's advertisers and their follow-up.

Yes, the placement of advertisements is another technique for film production to reduce risks.

In the past, when Lehman was not well-known, he couldn't get sponsorships if he wanted to.

But now, instead of sponsoring, people took the initiative to come over and send money.

In this regard, the most powerful ones are Tomb Raider and various fashion city or love movies, which often have not been released yet, and rely on this to recover most of the investment.

Of course, movies are not used for advertising, and how to place advertisements without being boycotted by the audience is also a knowledge.

At least, as a special effects monster movie, Monster in the Lake has not many aspects for implantation, that is, the male protagonist's home and street can give some appropriate shots to sponsors.

Joseph et al. discussed it just for this.

After the meeting, a short list has been made.

What mobile phone brands - Apple; trucks - Ford; soap and other toiletries, cameras - Sony, and fast food such as KFC all have ad placements.

It sounds exaggerated. There are a lot of them, but they are actually very few, and they have been carefully selected.

At least, Lyman's integrity is much better than that of Michael Bay. He didn't use a special effect blockbuster of more than two hours, and specially implanted advertisements into the shots. In this regard, Transformers is really awesome, and it has invested more than 200 million yuan. , saving 70,800 million.

This piece, The Monster in the Lake did not do it deliberately, nor did it change the plot for the advertisement.

Moreover, companies such as Sony and Apple are more about providing products with a small amount of money. It is not bad that all the implanted advertisements add up to seven or eight million sponsorship fees.

Of course, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, so why not save it if you can save a little.

A group of people, just for this, have detailed discussions all day long.

It has to be said that Hollywood's industrial chain is too perfect to treat movies as a business.

The risk of those blockbusters has been artificially reduced a lot.

The profit margin is also very large.

A few days later, the film crew was fully assembled.

In addition to the main creator, after more than half a month of busy work, a series of behind-the-scenes staff have already been arranged.

So, on the first weekend of May, Lehmann's work schedule suddenly became hectic.

There are so many things that need to be determined in these days.

For example, the actor's makeup and appearance;

Coordinate the schedule of supporting actors and actors' script reading sessions;

Leasing shooting props, customizing costumes...

If you think about the shooting plan, you should be able to complete the shooting task in mid-July and transfer to post-production. If you compare the schedule, there is still plenty of time until Christmas.

It took another two days before Lyman and Thomas arranged to set up the set.

Under such a busy schedule, the work progress was pushed very fast.

After that, several main creators also ended their training one after another, and had a deeper understanding of their respective roles.

So, on May 7th, in Warner's studio, everyone rushed over early in the morning.

Under the control of a big director like Lehman, no one is willing to play big names. After all, no one is bigger than Lehman.

Even Lyman can get up early on the day of the shoot, so what about the others who have been reminded?

And Lehman is most satisfied with Matthew McConaughey. He really specializes in sunbathing, not just sunbathing, but also sports shaping. According to him, his sweat is not in vain.

This dedication has made Lyman's senses a lot better.

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