How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 304 What the fuck is this talking about?
"Actually, the reason why the asking price is so high is that I can't help myself."

"If you don't make the threshold higher and scarier, there will be too many people and companies who come to me."

"Besides, after so many years since my debut, the heights I have reached step by step in each film are a bit exaggerated to me, so I thought that the salary should be higher, so that I could make fewer movies and reduce the risk of falling. probability."

Zhang Nan felt that Roland Emmerich was in a bad mood after hearing his exaggerated salary, so he quickly explained.

And Roland Emmerich's face twitched a little when he heard Zhang Nan's lame explanation.

The high salary is to make fewer movies and reduce the chance of falling down?

What you said is a bit logical, but what about your actual actions?
For the [Lord of the Rings-Sauron] derivative film that came out this year, you received a fixed salary of 2 million US dollars and a bunch of large-scale sharing contracts.

For "Pirates of the Caribbean", which came out last year, you received a fixed salary of 1.2 million US dollars and a bunch of large-scale sharing contracts.

There is also the "Matrix" trilogy in previous years, with a single film salary of 300 million US dollars, a fixed film salary of [-] million US dollars for the total series, plus a bunch of small-scale sharing contracts.

This is not counting the [Doomsday Survival] and [Doomsday Rebirth] series that you directed and acted in.

Along the way, your salary has been soaring all the way, but the number of films you have made has not dropped at all. Many big names in Hollywood's 2000 million salary club have starred in projects with a fixed salary of 2000 million US dollars, not as many as you!

As for falling?
I'm afraid you don't know that you now have a bit of Jesus in the eyes of many Hollywood film and television companies, directors, and superstars—a bit of a box office myth, otherwise I wouldn't have come here.

Seeing that Roland Emmerich listened to what he had said, and put it in silence, Zhang Nan took the lead to break the deadlock.

"So, Roland, you asked me about the lead role, do you want me to play the lead role?"

Roland Emmerich was startled by Zhang Nan's words. He shook his head and said, "No, no, I'm just a little curious. I asked casually. I mainly want to invite you, just like Will and Cage. In the new film you gave me, make a cameo appearance and hold the crowd."

In fact, Roland Emmerich originally meant to have a point. After all, he came out again this time to shoot his specialty - disaster movies. Roland Emmerich is still very confident in the box office after the movie is released.

Moreover, the budget given by 1.25th Century Fox is also very sufficient, as high as [-] million US dollars.

Originally, Roland Emmerich thought about whether he could invite Zhang Nan to star in his new film once by gritting his teeth and being cruel.

After all, the purpose of his comeback after a few years is naturally to attack the position of Hollywood's top director again.

But after hearing Zhang Nan's exaggerated quotation, Roland Emmerich knew that he was thinking too much.

Zhang Nan's lead actor's salary is not something that he can touch by gritting his teeth and being ruthless. The gap is too far.

"No problem, there is absolutely no problem, just because of our relationship, I will go to your new film even if it has zero pay. When I first debuted, it can be said that it was the second wave of guns fired on [Independence Day] " Zhang Nan said politely.

When Roland Emmerich heard the zero pay in Zhang Nan's words, his heart was really moved, but he knew that Zhang Nan's words were polite, so he didn't take it seriously.

The two chatted for a while, and the red carpet for the premiere of [Deadly Cradle] was almost over, and it was time to watch the movie, so the two took advantage of the opportunity to find their own seats and sit down.

……

When Zhang Nan returned to his seat, Old Luke was already sitting on the seat next to him.

Seeing Zhang Nan approaching, after Zhang Nan sat down, he turned sideways and whispered to Zhang Nan:
"Nicolas Cage's [National Treasure], I got the highest price from my brother-in-law, so I negotiated according to the highest price, 2600 million US dollars plus two supporting actresses, Nicolas Cage was very cooperative during the negotiation process, that The director of the project, Joe Deteduba, was also very cooperative, so the negotiation was very smooth."

Listening to Old Luke's narration, Zhang Nan had a complicated look on his face.In this f*cking cameo project, when negotiating with him about the salary of the guest star, the executives of the producer Disney directly took off Disney's underwear, and the leading actors and directors in the main creative team also During the negotiation process, they were very cooperative in this kind of operation of stripping Disney's underwear and making the producer Disney spend more money.

What the hell are you talking about?
"For the movie [I, Robot] that Will Smith worked on, the cameo pay for you is 2400 million, plus a relatively heavy supporting actress, but the cameo pay is a little lower, but Will Smith is interested in this project. The overall proceeds of the film are packaged to the Longbow Film and Television Fund, so it is considered a good deal. If this project can maintain your performance in guest movies, even if it is the lowest score, we will earn more than the [National Treasure] project. many."

Old Luke recounted the results of his conversation with Will Smith.

"Okay, the movie is about to start. We're here to attend the premiere, not to discuss business." Zhang Nan waved his hands after listening.

When Old Luke saw Zhang Nan's operation of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge after listening to it, he rolled his eyes a little speechlessly, but he had finished what he had to say, so he turned his attention to the big screen.
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101 minutes later.

【Deadly Cradle】The screening is over.

The rhythm of the film is quite good, continuing the style of the previous work [Fatal Romeo], and the box office is estimated to be similar to that of the original time and space.

Zhang Nan winked at Wu Jin, who came on stage again and bowed to thank the director and other main creative team, and asked old Luke to inform Zhou Jie, and we will go back to the company to talk about some things together.

……

After a while.

The North American office building of Longbow Film and Television Company.

In the office, the expressions of Zhou Jie and Wu Jin are much better than when they first joined the company, but they are still quite cramped.

"The two of you are here this time for the [Martial Arts] spin-off project."

"I have talked to you about this project before. It would be a bit unworthy of me to shoot the [Martial Arts] series in my current position, but it would be a pity to stop this series directly, so I thought about using it. The way of spin-off films, try to see if you two can accept it, but this idea has not been confirmed, and it was completely finalized some time ago."

"Try the waters with one starring role."

"Whoever is successful will take over the series. If both of you are successful, it is not impossible for one series to become two series."

Zhang Nan's words made Zhou Jie and Wu Jin very excited.

Without it.

A world-renowned series like [Martial Arts], even in Hollywood, is a very sought-after resource.

Because this is a series of films, it can not only stabilize the position, but also give people a chance to make a comeback after the failure of commercial films, which is the second life of an artist's acting career.

A series of film resources like this, except for blogging, are almost never given away.

But now this situation appeared in front of the two of them.

"Director Zhang, I will act with my heart, and I won't ruin your famous work." Zhou Jie and Wu Jin said in unison.

Seeing this, Zhang Nan shook his head indifferently, then took out two scripts from the drawer and handed them to them.

"This is the script, prepare well, it is estimated that in April and May, the filming will start."

(End of this chapter)