Chapter Five Hundred and Eighteen Cumbersome

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The battery car took the two to the gate of the studio. As soon as they walked out of the studio, Charlize Theron couldn't wait to ask, "Michelle, is there a result?"

Michelle Simmons nodded: "Let's talk in the car."

Seeing Michelle Simmons' actions, Charlize Theron finally calmed down. After a while of excitement, there was a touch of disappointment. She had prepared for this meeting for so long and owed her agent. It was a huge debt. I didn't expect that during the whole process, Eric Williams just said some kind words that were not nutritious to her, and didn't even look at her too much.

People's minds are always like this. Although Charlize Theron obeys the agent's arrangements on the surface, he still has some small calculations of his own in private, but these careful plans never even had any chance to be implemented during the entire meeting.

The two got into the car, and Michelle Simmons was also thinking about her own affairs. It was not until the car drove out of Santa Monica that she realized that Charlize Theron had not spoken for a while.

"Are you a little lost?" Michelle Simmons glanced at Charlize Theron in the co-pilot.

Charlize Theron subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he saw his agent smiling, he nodded slightly.

"I didn't make it clear just now, it's like this," after organizing the language, Michelle Simmons said: ("Mr. Williams said that he has seen your performance in the audition of "Buffy", not bad, So you've got the role, but there are three heroines in that movie. You're just one of them."

Charlize Theron gave the agent a happy expression. but. Michelle Simmons still saw the loss of the girl next to her, and explained: "This is a movie that is absolutely centered on the heroine, and the investment scale is comparable to that of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and it is also Eric Williams. So, you should be lucky, if this film openly recruits a heroine, it will be enough to drive the entire Hollywood actresses crazy. In that case, you will not have any chance at all.”

"Then..." Charlize Theron thought for a while and asked, "Judging from today's events, since... since he's not interested in me, why can I still get this role?"

"Who knows, maybe it's the right time for you," Michelle Simmons also thought of this question at this time. Although he was a little puzzled, he didn't mean to go into it, except for Eric Williams himself. Nobody knows why. As for what the other party thinks, she has no plans to ask in person.

was talking. Michelle Simmons saw a large Blockbuster videotape rental and sales store on the side of the road, so he parked the car on the side of the road, and walked in with Charlize Theron.

After searching for a while, Michelle Simmons found a complete set of "Charlie's Angels" TV series videotapes. She did not choose to rent them, but bought them directly. Although I had seen this TV series, it was more than ten years ago. Now that I have taken over the task of choosing the heroine, Michelle Simmons plans to watch the TV series carefully and do some work carefully.

Charlize Theron saw the figure of the three hot girls on the box of the videotape, and also understood that what she was going to star in might be the movie version of this TV series. "Charlie's Angels" is a TV series that started in 1976. At that time, Charlize Theron was just born, and he was still living in a small farm in South Africa, so it was impossible to come into contact with these.

The two returned to the car with a bag full of videotapes, and Michelle Simmons drove the car and continued the original topic: "Anyway, you've got this role now,

So there is no need to investigate why you got it. After all, there is nothing in you that others can covet. If Eric Williams has other plans for you, there is no need to make such a circle, so you should be good at it. Just do it. "

Charlize Theron held a videotape in his hand, looked at the text introduction on the back of the videotape, heard the agent say this, and said, "What shall I do next?"

Michelle Simmons thought for a while and said, "I remember you don't seem to have a driver's license, right? In the past two months, you should learn to drive first and get your driver's license. This is an action movie, and you must be exposed to driving. And I also need to leave Los Angeles for a while, and in two months, your schedule will be arranged by the studio, Williams said, and you will be trained for three months." Speaking of which, Michel El Simmons added Eric's original words again: "He said that the three-month training will be very hard and rigorous. If you can't endure the hardship, you'd better quit beforehand."

Charlize Theron certainly couldn't quit, but she caught the other meaning of the agent's words: "You just said 'we'?"

Michelle Simmons didn't expect Charlize Theron to be so sensitive, and said, "Yeah, you guys, besides you, I have to find two other girls. According to Williams' request, I need to go to a The trip to Europe should be very fast if it goes well, and it will not exceed two months at the longest, which is the time limit he gave.”

"Then what should I do?" Charlize Theron has not had time to think about the emergence of two other competitors in the future. If the agent leaves, she will definitely not be able to stay in Kapoor Sid's mansion in Beverly Hills. And the money in her card is simply not enough to live in Los Angeles for two months.

Michelle Simmons also understood what Charlize Theron meant and said, "I will arrange it for you. The required expenses will be deducted from your salary in the future. Before leaving, I will meet you with Firefly. Sign the contract first, so that you have a formal film contract."

Since she was signed by Michelle Simmons last fall, it was the first time Charlize Theron heard the word salary associated with herself, and this time she was really excited: "Michelle, I How much will the salary be?"

Michelle Simmons tapped her fingers on the steering wheel and considered for a moment, then said: "This kind of big-budget movie, even if it's a newcomer. The salary should not be too small. However, the salary of female stars is often lower than that of male stars. Cut. What's more, "Charlie's Angels" has three heroines, so I need to get in touch with them to find out the specific salary. I guess your salary should be between 100,000 and 200,000. Of course, if the future film If it's a big hit, the producers will definitely give some extra rewards."

One more thing Michelle Simmons didn't say is that Charlize Theron should be paid the lowest of the three planned female leads. And the other two heroines plan to use actresses who have emerged in Europe, so in time they do not have much influence in North America, and the remuneration is correspondingly higher.

Although this number is far from the superstars who are often paid tens of millions in magazines, Charlize Theron is still very satisfied. At least this is a good start. She is not the kind of person who is very ambitious, and , this amount of money should also be enough for her to not have to worry about trivial matters such as making a living for a long time in the future, and can concentrate on preparing for the movie.

A few days later, Michelle Simmons on behalf of Charlize Theron and Firefly signed a "Charlie's Angels" contract. Although the unfamiliar production company of Flower Pictures made her and Charlize Theron a little puzzled, the $200,000 remuneration still surprised both of them. This figure, while modest relative to a production cost that was destined to exceed $50 million, was Michelle's best-case scenario, but, perhaps because of the 'good' pay, and the contract There is also an option contract that obliges Charlize Theron to star in two more sequels over the next five years after starring in the first Charlie's Angels.

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In early March, after a hectic final period, Eric successfully completed all the post-production work on Jurassic Park.

After watching the finished film, Eric is also full of confidence in the film's box office prospects. Compared with the version in memory, in addition to the same ups and downs of the plot, this version of "Jurassic Park" is better in terms of special effects. The original version is even better. After all, the movie in the original time and space is Spielberg's work after the failure of "Captain Hawk". Although it was a great success in the end, during the production process, the film company did not have 100% confidence. Therefore, the budget is also relatively tight, and many details cannot be perfected 100%. However, this version produced by Eric burned 75 million US dollars in the budget of the project, and in order to provide special effects technical support for this series, the digital field has just been established since its inception. Corresponding technology research and development has been carried out, and a lot of money has also been spent in this process.

After the completion of "Jurassic Park", the marketing plan around the film was launched quickly. A week later, Firefly released the first poster of "Jurassic Park", and Disney's theme store also began to sell "Jurassic Park". With the help of Disney's hundreds of peripheral stores in North America and Europe, as long as the film achieves the expected success, Firefly Pictures will make profits from the sale of peripheral products in the shortest time.

Firefly has three movies, "Jurassic Park", "Crash Between Heaven and Earth" and "A Bug's Life" released in the summer. Eric is very aware of the box office power of "Jurassic Park". In order not to affect the latter two films At the box office of the movie, Eric set the schedule of "Jurassic Park" on June 4, followed by three weeks on June 25, and "A Bug's Life", which is completely different from "Jurassic Park". " was released again, and "The Clash of Heaven and Earth", which also belongs to the special effects theme, was put on July 2. Although the box office of "Jurassic Park" is still alive during this time period, it will no longer be affected by "The Clash of Heaven and Earth". " cause too much impact.

The films released by Firefly in recent years have become the focus of other film companies, and many people have discovered something unusual after Firefly announced its schedule.

Firefly's previous release rule in popular schedules has always been to release different films at two-week intervals.

But if you don't consider "A Bug's Life", a 3D cartoon released by Disney, a subsidiary of Firefly, the two films released by Firefly this summer have a gap of a month between their release. Astute people almost quickly realized that Firefly must be not generally optimistic about "Jurassic Park". Last year's "Tornado" global box office of nearly 700 million US dollars is still fresh in the memory of many people in Hollywood, while Firefly is very optimistic about "Tornado" Jurassic Park is clearly more important than Tornado.

Due to various considerations, some second- and third-tier film companies with more flexible operating mechanisms directly chose to postpone the summer movies in order to avoid the edge of "Jurassic Park". Under the pressure of the top executives of Universal, "The End of the World", which was originally planned to be released at the end of June, was forcibly postponed to mid-July, and the schedule was switched with a medium-cost romance film in the same period.

While many have publicly accused Michael Eisner of being overly cautious, Michael Eisner insisted he didn't explain too much to others. On the other hand, Eric, who heard the news, sighed with emotion for Michael Eisner's courage. If Michael Eisner insisted on the original schedule of "Desperate" because he was afraid of losing face, then there would be a good show to watch. .

Some people take the initiative to retreat, and of course some people do not believe in evil. There are even two movies that have the idea of ​​'flanking' "Jurassic Park". These two films are "The Heroes of the Mountain" starring Stallone and Schwarzenegger's new film "The Last Action Hero". The films are all produced by the German-backed Carlock Films, one is scheduled for a week before "Jurassic Park", and the other is placed a week after the release of "Jurassic Park".

Eric has long noticed these two big hits, so the production department temporarily shelved the salary negotiation with Arnold Schwarzenegger on "True Lies". I didn't expect these two movies to collide with the guns of "Jurassic Park" so resolutely.

After completing the later stage of "Jurassic Park", Eric was not able to relax at all, and a series of extremely tedious things needed to be handled by him personally.

Under the recommendation of David Geffen, the actor of "Interview with the Vampire" was finally determined to be Tom Cruise, and the second actor was taken by an Australian actor sent by Kingsley, Eric remembered. There is no information about the actor named Jack Slater, which is probably the result of the butterfly effect. In terms of actors, Eric's only intervention was to find Kirsten Dunst, who is said to have a thirty-five-year-old soul. The little girl was only eleven years old at this time, but the audition effect made director Neil . Jordan, including several of the main creators are greatly satisfied. (To be continued...)

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