I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 100

[Chapter 98 Flirting]

“Williams secretly meets two ‘Toms’, suspected of discussing new film matters”, this is the title of the front page headline of “Hollywood Information” on the second day, accompanied by a picture of Eric, Cruise and Hanks side by side A photo of getting out of Firefly HQ.

In the photo, Eric is wearing a gray tracksuit and looks like a high school student, which fits his age.

Cruise was wearing a black casual jacket, unbuttoned, revealing a white T-shirt underneath, only Hanks was wearing a black suit and tie very seriously, looking like an office worker.

Because of talking about the script for the whole morning, the two superstars relaxed their vigilance when they left, and neither wore sunglasses, so the expressions of the three were quite clear, talking and laughing to each other and walking towards the door. This shot happened to be shot by a lucky one captured by the paparazzi.

“Around 8:00 yesterday morning, it was discovered that two superstars, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, entered the headquarters of Firefly Films, which is owned by cutting-edge director Eric Williams. Our reporter quickly arrived at the relevant location after receiving the news. , After waiting for up to four hours, Eric Williams walked out of the Firefly headquarters with the two superstars Cruise and Hanks surrounded by everyone. From the expressions of the three people in the photo, you can see that this The meeting was quite pleasant.

Although the three of them did not accept an interview with this reporter, they left in a hurry by car. But according to some clues provided by people familiar with the matter, this meeting was with Eric Williams being prepared. The new film is related.

Since his debut last year as an actor and screenwriter in “Return to Seventeen”, Eric Williams, the magical boy who suddenly broke into Hollywood, has continued to soar at a rocket-like speed, directing the first film. The low-cost comedy “Home Alone” directly sent it to the box office club of 100 million yuan.

When many people attributed the teenager’s achievements to the blessing of the goddess of luck, only four months later, Williams’ second romance The romantic comedy “Pretty Woman” was released again, and the box office in the first week was close to 30 million US dollars, which completely proved the strength of the young director.

In the first film, Home Alone, Eric Williams used only a group of TV actors and the little boy next door to create an astonishing box-office miracle, while the second film’s two leads, Al Although Pacino has won many Oscar nominations, he has been out of action for four years, and his box office appeal is close to nothing. Julia Roberts has only played a small role in a low-cost comedy. Eric However, they were sent to the ranks of Hollywood A-level actors at the same time.

And this time, the young director directly chose two A-level male stars who are very popular in Hollywood. We have no doubt that his next movie will create a box office miracle again.

However, although the three people in the photo are chatting happily, it gives the appearance that this cooperation will come naturally, but we have to mention that Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks currently belong to CAA at the same time. Brokerage company, and as we all know, Eric Williams angered CAA’s top management because he acquired the brokerage company of a well-known Hollywood gold broker at the beginning of the year. , During the casting of “Pretty Woman”, he also blocked the cooperation between his artist Richard Gere and Eric Williams.

For this, he did not hesitate to compensate Richard Gere for a MGM-United Artists blockbuster film.

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 are also strong enough to ignore CAA’s obstruction. After all, both of them are now Hollywood A-level superstars. Even if they lose CAA’s support, their careers will not suffer too much. influences.

And, judging from the influence of Eric Williams’ first two works,

his new work is likely to take the two superstars’ careers to a new level.

I believe that in Hollywood, no actor can resist this temptation, just don’t know if the CAA executive has enough courage to block this cooperation again.

The last incident caused Mr. Richard Gere to lose his chance to step into the ranks of A-level actors again. According to the recent test screening of the film “Dragon Killer” starring him, the prospects of this film are not very good. Being optimistic, the possibility of a box office outbreak is very small, and it is not enough to ‘compensate’ Mr. Richard Gere’s ‘loss’ for giving up the actor of “Pretty Woman”.

Therefore, how Cruise and Hanks will choose, and how CAA’s top management will handle Williams’ invitation, let’s wait and see.

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Eric threw the newspaper on the table with a wry smile, really wanting to blow up the editor who wrote the manuscript. Under the previous circumstances, Michael Ovitz would only raise the salary offer of the two superstars to express his dissatisfaction. But it won’t be as strong as last time to obstruct the cooperation between the two sides.

After all, the rise of UTA is unstoppable. If Michael Ovitz makes a small move, it will not only pay for the loss, but if it spreads out, it will be regarded as narrow-minded. Narrow people, the more fear and hatred they will accuse of others. When the

contract is signed in the future, the cast is announced, and some media are hinted that there will be any open and secret fights in private, but in the public mind, the two sides will It’s about shaking hands and letting go of the past, which is good for both CAA and Eric’s public image.

But now after the tabloids, if this cooperation is successfully achieved, Michael Ovitz has just won the ‘Hollywood Best The title of “powerful man” became a joke.

Sure enough, the day after The Hollywood Information published the article, Eric received disturbing news.

“It’s too much, $6 million The remuneration offer was reasonable, but the other party actually opened up and asked for a 20% share of the North American profit after the movie was released.

I’ve been in Hollywood for so many years, and I’ve never heard of an actor who would make such an outrageous offer.

Eric, do you have to use Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks?

It’s not like other brokerage companies don’t have top actors. It’s really not good. You can play a role yourself. You can write, direct, and act. This gimmick has a greater impact.

“After Jeffrey talked to Cruise and Hanks’ agent, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com rushed into Eric’s office with a look of anger and complained.

Although he had already expected it in his heart, the conditions proposed by the two people still startled Eric.

The ‘bad trend’ of Hollywood stars asking for profit sharing started with Tom Cruise, and later, the model of salary plus profit sharing has gradually become a popular charging model, and the share ratio is generally 10% to 20% between.

The so-called profit share is completely different from the box office share of the movie. Specifically, it means that the producer gets his due share of the box office, minus the part of the gross profit from the production cost, multiplied by the share ratio required by the actors, that is The actor’s share of profits.

Moreover, the profit sharing is also divided into two types: global box office and North American box office.

While Cruise and Hanks’ agents haven’t lost their minds enough to propose a global profit share, that 20 percent North American share, even after many years, is not so easy to get.

The ones who can get the highest percentage are either the ones that can’t be without it, such as Johnny Depp in “Pirates of the Caribbean” in the parallel space, or they can completely give up the salary and exchange the gambling situation for the highest percentage.

But now, this charging method has just appeared. Tom Cruise also proposed this charging mode ‘imaginatively’ when he was filming “Rain Man” last year, because of Cruise’s strong box office appeal, plus The production cost of “Rain Man” is not high. After considering it, the filmmakers felt that as long as Cruise joined, the film would be easy to make money, so they agreed to Cruise’s non-point request, but this was also in Cruise’s own It was promised under the circumstance of reducing the film salary, and the profit sharing ratio was only 10%.

[End of this Chapter]