Legendary Hollywood Producer

In the morning, it should not be the alarm clock that can wake you up, but the perseverance to pursue your dreams.

Of course, that's how it is said, but the fact that Roman can play so early today is neither the function of the alarm clock nor the call of dreams, but that he was awakened by urine.

After getting up and going to the bathroom, Roman had no intention of going to sleep anymore after releasing Pembey's urge to pee. He checked his watch, and the time was around 7 o'clock.

When he went downstairs, Roman greeted Chef Huang, who was in charge of eating and drinking, and said that he would have noodle soup for breakfast.

Then he sat on the sofa in the living room downstairs and read it with a newspaper.

After about half an hour, a bowl of hot noodle soup came out, and there were many beef cubes in the noodles.

Chef Huang’s craftsmanship naturally has nothing to say, the noodle soup tastes very good.

After a good breakfast, Roman set off for Manhai Entertainment. Today he invited director Steve Oldcock to meet to discuss the matter of further cooperation between the two parties.

The sun in the cloud has already begun to work, continuously transmitting its own light and heat to all directions.

Surrounded by warm sunshine, Roman drove to Manhai Entertainment, and met Steve Oldcock and his new agent, Moretz Teman of CAA.

"Hello, Steve, hello..."

"Hello, Mr. Roman, I'm Steve's agent, Moritz Tyman..." I took the initiative to introduce myself.

In Hollywood, when a movie is successful, often those production companies will make a development plan for its sequel. Moritz-Tyman knows this very well, so he also understands that today he and Steve Oldcock are going to come here. do what.

"Mr. Roman, congratulations on the first day of the box office of "The Hangover"." Moritz-Tyman complimented.

"Oh, do you already know about CAA?" Roman was a little surprised. Is CAA's information source so fast?

“Although I don’t know the specific box office of the movie, it’s good to come, because next week, the Royal Entertainment Group’s theater company, AMC, Cinemark and other entertainment groups that have a large number of theaters in North America will all say that they will increase the "Hangover" movie. The movie theaters, I think they can make this decision, it must be that the first day of the film’s box office and quality are very good, it is worth their investment of such a large amount of resources to enter. , And it is now the top three in the number of theaters in North America. To put it aside, AMC, the largest number of theaters in North America, was later acquired by the mainland's Wanda Group. In other words, the theater company with the largest share of the North American movie market is from China.

"Oh, yes, thank you for the good news. Last night, I received an email from the third-party statistics company I hired. The first day box office of "The Hangover" was indeed very good, with 21.05 million US dollars. "Roman really didn't know that CAA was still associated with a large-scale departmental chain company in North America, but when I thought about it, it seemed reasonable. What happened to the friendship between the two Big Macs that belonged to the same industry? After all, they have been cooperating for many years.

Moritz-Tyman was not too surprised to hear this data, which is not much different from their CAA estimates. On the contrary, the director Steve Oldcock showed a surprised expression on his face. In the past, he He hasn't gotten such a good box office yet. This is much higher than he expected.

"Today, I asked you to come over to discuss the filming of the sequel to the movie "The Hangover", Steve, if possible, we should continue to cooperate." The model that has been successfully reproduced will not only increase the success rate. He can also try his best to avoid failure. Therefore, Roman did not think about changing the director. This is also his usual style. Anyway, all the movies produced by Manhai Entertainment in the future will be financed to operate. Most of the money spent will be contributed by others. The profit will not be small, and there is no need to deliberately save money. Of course, find a suitable director to shoot. High value is not a big issue. Well, because of the hot box office trend of "The Hangover", anyone with a discerning eye can see it, so if the sequel still needs Steve Oldcock to be the director, the cost will definitely go up a lot, and correspondingly, other creators’ Fees will also increase.

Roman was also mentally prepared and directly stated his conditions, "What do you think of 5 million US dollars plus 3% of the total North American box office?"

This question, of course, came from Steve’s agent, Moretz-Tyman, to discuss with investor Roman, so he quickly replied: “In general, we have agreed to this condition, but... ."

The director's filming value has been raised to 5 million US dollars. In addition to the previous statement during the filming of "The Hangover 1", the box office participation rate of the next movie will be increased to 3%. These conditions are considered and proposed by Roman A very good plan. Moritz-Tyman also thinks it is reasonable, but the other concessions that should be sought cannot be put down.

The conditions put forward in what he said, in summary, are to increase money. Moritz-Tyman didn't say much about the US$5 million shooting cost, but he also said that it was limited to the remuneration obtained during the shooting, and should not include the preparatory stage and the post-production stage. And if Roman wants Steve Oldcock to continue from pre-production to post-production as in the previous filming, he must pay another remuneration, and the money needs to be divided and paid in stages.

That is to say, if Steve is involved in the early development, a service fee of US$500,000 must be charged. The cost of US$5 million will remain unchanged from the completion of the preparation to the end of the filming, but after the filming is over, the payment should be made Payment of the remaining US$2 million to Steve, the remaining US$3 million should not be paid more than the time after the film was released in North America at the latest; moreover, Steve should also charge 80 for post-production work. The cost of about 10,000 US dollars, in general, is the cost of 6.3 million US dollars, Steve will take care of his own work as a director from the beginning to the end of the movie.

After listening to Moritz-Tyman’s conditions, Roman frowned slightly. When he was making movies before, he didn’t distinguish between early and late work. After all, he was an independent producer and didn’t pay attention to these. Even financing was not like Hollywood. The normal film operation is carried out in stages, and the shooting work is not the responsibility of the shooting. But now Moritz-Tyman requires formality and shooting like mainstream commercial films.

In fact, Moritz-Tyman is doing this to better ask for salary. How do you go to make a movie, and it's okay for him? But Steve’s worth is closely linked to him. Only Steve can get more benefits. As an agent, he can get more rake. Of course, this is also for Steve’s sake. Isn't it?