Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 166 The level of movie king
Of course, in order to ensure the enthusiasm of several Google shareholders, he does not plan to completely acquire Google, or even form an absolute controlling stake in Google.

Because Google needs more external help to grow and develop, he only plans to acquire about 25% of Google's shares this time and become Google's largest shareholder.

This will make it easier for its founders to accept it, and it will cost a lot less money. It is estimated that it can be won with about 6000 million.

As for the remaining funds, he divided them into four parts.

The first part is to build a building dedicated to Wayne Group in Beverly Hills, as well as a filming base for Hemera Films.

In this way, when filming movies in the future, these filming bases and buildings can be rented at high prices to obtain system funds.

This part is expected to invest about 4 million US dollars, and he will build a new landmark building in Beverly Hills.

The second part is to continue to increase the position of Pixar Animation stock. If there is no chance, sell the stock to cash out. If there is an opportunity, directly acquire Pixar Animation. Anyway, it will make a lot of money.

The investment in this part is expected to be around 2 million.

The remaining 2 million or so funds will be used to purchase high-quality copyrights that he was optimistic about before but did not have enough system funds to buy. The rest will be used to purchase small and medium-sized villas in Beverly Hills.

These villas can be used to live in his women, and at the same time, they can use the rent to obtain the system's filming funds. When the real estate reaches its highest level in 06, they can sell them and make several times more profit. It is simply a stone's throw. Three eagles.

Of course, Sera could not handle so much work alone, so he had already chosen two deputies for Sera when Sera reminded him last time.

One of them was Marissa Mayer, the head of product who had just been poached from Google. In her previous life, she would soon become a vice president of Google and later the president of Yahoo.

She also played a large role in Google's success.

Wayne had been thinking about Google for a long time, and he happened to notice Marissa Mayer.

After using a headhunting company to offer an annual salary that was 25% higher than the current salary, he quickly succeeded in poaching Marissa Mayer from Google.

And with Marissa Mayer, it should be easier for him to acquire shares in Google.

As for the other deputy he selected, it was Li Ying, the founder and general manager of Yunfeng Fund, who was valued by Ma Yun in his previous life and was known as China's female version of Buffett.

Today, Li Ying is just a management consultant at McKinsey Consulting Company. Although she is excellent, she is limited by workplace discrimination and her work is not going well.

He only offered her an annual salary that was 10% higher than her current salary and gave her partial authority to recruit team members on her own before poaching her.

Of course, it's not like there aren't better and more powerful professional managers here in Millikin, but it's a pity that Wayne's understanding of this aspect is limited.

Moreover, many people's resumes look beautiful, but in fact they are very good. Such situations abound, so instead of using people he has never heard of, he prefers to use those he knows and have been successful in previous lives. , and there have been no major waterloos.

The two of them are worthy of being elites in this field. After changing jobs, they quickly built a professional asset management team of more than 20 people through their own connections and the assistance of headhunting companies.

Afterwards, Wayne called Li Ying again, explained the work, and then returned to the audition site.

"Sorry, I just had something to do, so I'm late."

"It's okay, let's get started."

Although Nancy Meyers has not heard about Wayne's violent beating of Nicholas Sparks during the last audition for "The Notebook", she is still very confident about her position as a woman who has been able to reach this position today. sober.

Soon, Don Cheadle, the most famous of all the auditioned actors, walked in with a humble smile.

The role he auditioned for was "Bernie", an orphanage worker who was promoted from the second male supporting role to the first male role after the male lead was cancelled. In the end, he adopted the protagonist's sister.

It is worth mentioning that Don Cheadle played this role in the original "Hotel for Dogs", and his fame and salary at that time were not much higher than they are now. A supporting role of about 5 minutes would cost 200 million. nailed it.

Now Wayne found him 8 years in advance and offered him a salary of 130 million. It is obvious that he has made a lot of money.

"Okay Mr. Cheadle, please try this."

The audition sequence assigned to him by Wayne was the scene at the end of the film where he persuades everyone to protect stray dogs through a generous and touching speech.

Don Cheadle, whose acting skills are now very mature, did not lose his temper and easily met the requirements of Wayne and Nancy Meyers.

The next person to audition was Lily Collins, who was promoted to the female lead after a supporting role was merged.

In fact, this role is not difficult, and there are no emotional outbursts. As long as she doesn't have stage fright and plays her true self, it will be fine.

I don’t know whether it was the acting class she took with Jessica some time ago that played a role, or whether it was because she knew that this role was hers and would not be taken away. Her state was unexpectedly relaxed, which made Wayne and Nancy Meyer Si Jun nodded secretly.

Although it is still a long way from the very spiritual performances of Dakota Fanning and the not-yet-born Mckenna Grace, the numbers performed by Lily at this time are already more accurate than those of most other actors. Most of them are young actors.

"Okay, you can stop now."

"So did I pass?"

"Well, you passed!"

"Yeah! That's great!"

As Wayne announced that she had successfully passed the audition, Lily jumped up to him with joy, hugged Wayne's neck, and kissed him hard on the cheek.

Now that Wayne was sitting in the chair, she could finally reach him.

Wayne smiled and touched her head without paying much attention.

"You have to continue preparing when you go back, you know? I have to memorize all the other lines."

"Well, I see!"

Lily also accepted the offer, relaxed her hand happily, and agreed obediently.

The next person to audition was Camilla Belle, who was originally the heroine and is now tied for first place.

Although the position of 'Andy' played by Camilla Belle has dropped slightly, her salary is much higher than that of Lily, who acted for the first time.

Lily's salary can only be up to 20, while Camilla Belle, who has appeared in many movies, has a salary as high as 150 million.

In addition, Camilla Belle didn't know that she was the female lead in the original script, so instead of being dissatisfied at all, she was very happy and excited.

Of course, being excited, she didn't dare to be as bold as she was in bed on this occasion. She just politely thanked her and left the audition room briskly.Next, Martina who auditioned for the original male lead, now the third female lead, the kind-hearted pet shop clerk 'Diana', and Ella Fey who auditioned for the fourth female lead 'Diana' and also 'Kelly' Sher also successfully passed the audition.

Among them, although Martina has already played the leading role in a medium-sized production, she also knows that her acting skills are not very good. She messed up the audition for "Mean Girls" last time and was kicked out by Megan, so She was very happy to be able to win the third female lead through the audition this time.

This is especially true for Isla Fisher, who has always been a supporting role.

You must know that this is the first time she has played a major supporting role with so many scenes and lines. Although she is not as good as Martina and Scarlett, she is directly the female lead, but don't forget that she is already 25 years old.

After working in Hollywood for many years, she still has a clear understanding of her own conditions, so she is very satisfied to be able to get such an important supporting role, and there is also a daughter waiting for her in "The Wedding Crashers" , and also very grateful to Wayne.

What's more, Wayne also offered her a salary of up to 40 US dollars, so what else could she be dissatisfied with.

The next auditions are for other roles that have not been confirmed.

For example, the police who caught stray dogs, the adoptive parents of 'Andy' and his sister who loved rock music and hated dogs, and the reporter who was responsible for broadcasting the speech of 'Bernie' played by Don Cheadle at the end, etc.

As usual, Wayne left all the casting decisions for these roles to director and producer Nancy Meyers alone.

"Then I'll leave this to you, Nancy."

"Okay Wayne."

Wayne didn't waste any more time here. He left the company directly and drove to the filming set of "The Notebook".

That's right, although the official script of "The Notebook" was only received not long ago, with the original version as a reference, the preliminary preparations for this project have been completed, and production officially started at noon yesterday.

Of course, because he has other things to be busy with, the scenes in the first two days are mainly indoor scenes between the elderly version of 'Noah' and 'Ellie' in the hospital, interspersed with some scenes of supporting characters, which will not Follow the narrative line of the movie.

If everything goes well, the emotional explosion scene between the best actor and the best actress at the end of the film can even be filmed today, so after thinking about it for a while, Wayne decided to go to the set to observe.

Like the previous times, they rented Warner's filming base this time, and the distance was not far.

About half an hour later, he drove his Kaibaihe Shield and arrived at the set.

"Wayne? You're here!"

"Well," Wayne conveniently held Mia's waist, and without paying attention to the gazes around him, he kissed her on the face first, and then asked: "Is it filming inside?"

"Well, Jess is watching over there too."

"Then I'll have a look too."

While talking, the two of them had already entered the studio, and soon, Dustin Hoffman's voice reached their ears.

"All right!"

"Now, let me see where we were last reading."

"Oh, yes, it was the night of the carnival. Noah went to the carnival with his friends Finn and Sarah."

Dustin Hoffman said in a relaxed, gentle voice, looking at his skilled and relaxed look, as if he had said the same thing a thousand times.

However, there was still a hint of deep love in his voice, and every time his eyes casually looked at the elderly 'Ellie' beside him, it seemed as if light was flowing again.

And the elderly 'Ellie' on the sofa next to him couldn't remember who the man in front of her was because of Alzheimer's disease.

She would inevitably feel a little awkward and embarrassed if a strange old man who was about the same age as her read to her.

There were five cameras around, looking at the two people from different angles, while Jessica stood behind the cameraman, watching quietly at the two Oscar-winning actors and actresses who looked ordinary but had something special. A performance that returns to nature.

Look carefully, from the fingers to the waist and abdomen to the shoulders, to the lips and eyes, there are details everywhere.

"Noah?"

"It was at that carnival that they met, he and she, on June 1940, 6."

I have to say that the actor and actress have really great dialogue skills.

Moreover, acting can make you addicted, and good performances can also infect others and make them addicted.

It was such a simple conversation, but Wayne, who had just arrived here, was instantly attracted to it, and after reading it, he also had the idea of ​​​​acting a part.

"Crack! Very good!"

Richard Curtis's voice came from behind the monitor, and it was obvious that he was equally satisfied with this episode.

It was only then that Jessica noticed Wayne and Mia coming, and hurriedly ran over in two steps.

"They performed really well, even better than my acting teacher!"

"Please, they are Oscar winner and best actress~"

"It's a pity that we don't have a part in the show today."

"But the retro street next door has been set up. If you two want to act, you can set up a backup camera and act out the scene of walking on the street after the first date." Mia suggested at this time. .

This scene is extremely important for the relationship between 'Noah' and 'Ellie'.

It was through this scene that 'Ellie', whose daily schedule was filled with various courses since she was a child, and who could see her entire life to the end at a glance, was attracted by the free atmosphere of 'Noah' and began to like him. Go to 'Noah' and officially establish the relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend.

The dancing scene in the middle of an empty intersection at midnight was even more romantic and beautiful.

For this reason, Jessica also spent time learning the retro ballroom dance steps.

"Honey, what do you think?" Jessica looked at Wayne expectantly.

"In the summer in the South, young love doesn't know what hardship is. Despite the warnings and doubts around them, Noah and Ellie still painted a touching picture."

Wayne unconsciously thought of Dustin Hoffman's lines just now, and then nodded with a smile: "Okay, just treat it as a live rehearsal in advance, but there is no need to adjust the camera or anything~"

(End of this chapter)