【Anti-theft Sticker Chapter】

Like "Pink League", "Home Alone" led by John Hughes will also start filming in the near future.

Busy yesterday with the three films "Pink League," "Ghost Love," and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," Simon spent most of his time on the phone today discussing all aspects of Home Alone with John Hughes in Chicago.

Under Simon's promotion, the male protagonist of "Home Alone" is still determined to be the original Macaulay Culkin.

Macaulay Culkin happens to be a signed artist under MA, although because of the influence of Simon's butterfly, Culkin failed to star in John Hughes's "Uncle Buck" last year, but the young actor has shown his face in many film and television dramas before, and he is also a contracted child model of Ford Modeling Company.

In addition to Culkin, the two characters of the stupid thief are also the original Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.

Determine the 'original' team, and Simon won't have to worry too much about it next.

Basically, that's how many of Simon's recent opponents have been in the same way. Daenerys Entertainment has become more and more dazzling, or glaring, in the last two years, and these projects in hand, even if they fail one or two, don't matter to Simon, or, just right.

At the end of the day, Simon rushed straight from Santa Monica to the coldwater canyon in Beverly Hills around seven o'clock.

The Coldwater Canyon neighborhood is part of Beverly Hills, just west of the Trausdale estate. The entire neighborhood winds its way up from Coldwater Canyon Park near Sunset Boulevard at the foot of the hill to Mulholland Drive at the top of the hill, which is more than five kilometers long. The streets of Canyon are lined with mansions of all kinds, and they also belong to the star gathering area of Los Angeles.

Arriving at the apartment of Joe Rose, president of Fox Films, it was already dark.

Joe Rose's villa is a common two-story minimalist white building in Los Angeles, covering about a quarter of an acre, which is already considered a luxury house in Los Angeles considering various factors such as location.

James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger have arrived early, along with a number of other filmmakers.

When Simon arrived, he greeted the guests and went with Rose and Cameron to the sundeck upstairs of the villa.

The three of them sat down next to a chair, and Rose spoke first: "I've talked to Jim a few times, Simon, the budget for Terminator 2 is set at $50 million, and Jim is still the director. However, once the project was overrun, Jim automatically gave up the director's salary. At the same time, we will adopt stricter financial supervision measures this time to ensure that the production of the film does not get out of control, do you think this is okay?"

Simon didn't answer, but looked at Cameron and asked, "Jim, do you think you can do it?"

Cameron grinned a little stiffly and nodded, "It should be fine." ”

Simon didn't say much, turned to Joe Ross again, and asked, "How much is Arnold's salary?"

Joe Roston stepped down and said, "$15 million." After saying this, seeing Simon raise his eyebrows, Ross immediately explained, "Stallone's salary in that "Raging Tiger and Dragon" has risen to $15 million, and Arnold doesn't want to get less than Stallone's. ”

With a total budget of $50 million, Schwarzenegger took 15 million, and although Cameron planted a big heel in "The Abyss", there must still be a salary of 3 million.

Counting the other main creators, the funds left for the production of the film are not even $30 million.

With Cameron's profligate personality, it would be hell if he could complete Terminator 2 with less than $30 million.

With a sneer on the corner of Simon's mouth, he said, "I specially checked the data of Arnold's previous movies in the afternoon. Since the summer of 1987, "Predator", Arnold has received a salary of 3 million and a box office of 59 million. "Weilong Warrior", Arnold's salary is $5 million, and the box office is $38 million. In last year's "Red Square Special Police", Arnold's salary was $8 million, but the box office was only $35 million. According to this trend, he offered $15 million for "Terminator 2", and there should only be $15 million left at the box office, right?"

Joe Ross said: "Simon, Arnold has accumulated a lot of popularity in the first part of "Terminator", and his salary certainly can't be compared with other original projects. ”

Cameron also retorted on the side: "'Terminator 2' is different from those movies, and I believe this movie will definitely be successful." ”

"I'm also very optimistic about this project," Simon looked at Cameron again, and said, "However, Daenerys Entertainment is not Carlock Pictures, and we will not offer sky-high salaries without reason." Arnold's latest "Total Recall", if my news is correct, he should only get a base salary of $1 million. In this "Terminator 2", he can choose two options, one is the same basic salary plus sharing model as "Total Recall", and the other is that the salary maintains the level of "Red Square SWAT", which is only $8 million. ”

Both Joe Ross and Cameron were somewhat silent.

Simon leaned back in his chair and looked at the crowd by the pool under the terrace, and said after a moment: "Compared with the previous three films, "Total Recall" spent $65 million when Arnold almost gave up his salary, and it is unlikely that Carlock wants to recover the cost, I believe that after this film, there should be no other film companies willing to take risks on Arnold." ”

In memory, "Total Recall" grossed more than $200 million worldwide.

Although Carlock Films only barely made a hard-earned amount of money in it, it was still a success.

Because of the success of "Total Recall", Schwarzenegger finally returned to the top after several consecutive films and regained his position on a par with Stallone.

However, Simon certainly wouldn't say that at this time.

After another pause, Simon said again: "As everyone knows, Arnold has accumulated a lot of popularity in the first series of "The Terminator", and this sequel is likely to bring his fame back to the top. Therefore, there are only the above two options, or, after waiting for the release of "Total Recall", the salary he can get will only be lower. ”

After saying this, Simon suddenly remembered that in addition to "Total Recall", Arnold also had a relatively successful work during this period.

"Kindergarten SWAT".

This is also a movie that broke 100 million at the box office.

Thinking of this, Simon made up his mind to cut off his beard.

Then, "Terminator 2", "True Lies", and even "Evaporation Order".

Or you can stuff a few more box office failures in the original time and space to Schwarzenegger.

With his prophetic advantage, Simon wants to snipe the career of a Hollywood filmmaker, which is still very easy.

As for "Terminator 2", Simon is really not in a hurry at all.

Joe Ross thought for a moment and said to Simon, "Then, Simon, I'll go down and talk to Arnold." ”

"I haven't eaten dinner yet, Joe, please have some food brought over. ”

"Of course."

Joe Ross nodded, got up, looked at Cameron again, and walked towards the staircase.

Cameron looked at the young man in front of him, and for a while he didn't know if he should take the initiative to leave. He has also seen "Batman: Time to Go to War" before, more than once, and he is also very impressed by the various groundbreaking technologies used in the film.

I wanted to talk to Simon.

However, Simon Westeros, who is at the top of the studio, is really a little unpleasant.

Simon looked at Cameron, who was a little restless, and suddenly said, "Jim, someone should have told you about Coppola and the elephant, right?"

Cameron had a puzzled look on his face.

Simon realized that Cameron had obviously not heard the story, and took the initiative to explain: "This is a story from Coppola's filming of "Apocalypse Now", Coppola wanted to find a few elephants during the filming process, but that project has been overrun and overscheduled, and trying to transport the elephants to the set will not only cost a lot of money, but also cause further delays in the filming cycle. The film's producer told Coppola that many things can't be perfect, and you have to give them up. Later, the elephant did not appear in "Apocalypse Now", but the movie was still very successful there. ”

Cameron naturally thought that Simon was talking about his "Abyss" last year, and he couldn't think of any words to refute for a while, so he had to nod his head curtly: "Simon, I understand what you mean." ”

"I've seen the Terminator back then, and it's not just one side," Simon added, adding, "Jim, if you could make a perfect work for $6.4 million, there's no reason why you can't make other films on budget." Last year's "The Abyss," which cost $69.5 million, I heard you were stressed out by it, but it was just some mental stress. You shouldn't know that there is a large group of people at Fox who lost their jobs because of the failure of this project. They weren't fired because the movie didn't do well at the box office, the industry was already very risky. They were fired because the project's budget was out of control. You know, the money for the studio never fell from the sky. ”

Cameron's expression flickered for a moment, and finally said, "Simon, I will definitely pay attention in the future." ”

The waiter brought some food up at this time.

Simon waited for the other party to leave, gestured to Cameron, and when he saw the other party shaking his head, he pulled the tray in front of him, picked up the tableware and said: "I have carefully looked at the special effects scheme of "Abyss", and the aliens in it should be used in "Terminator 2" liquid metal robots, right?"

The special effects of "The Abyss" were actually produced by Daenerys Special Effects Studio.

In fact, whether it is "The Abyss" or "Terminator 2", which was not born, the special effects expenditure is not high.

The huge cost of both projects is mainly due to Cameron's pursuit of perfectionism. Last year's "Abyss", the filming period lasted for 5 months. "Terminator 2" in the original time and space continued to shoot for 6 months, which is the general focus of the two projects out of control.

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Or you can stuff a few more box office failures in the original time and space to Schwarzenegger.

With his prophetic advantage, Simon wants to snipe the career of a Hollywood filmmaker, which is still very easy.

As for "Terminator 2", Simon is really not in a hurry at all.

Joe Ross thought for a moment and said to Simon, "Then, Simon, I'll go down and talk to Arnold." ”

Joe Ross nodded, got up, looked at Cameron again, and walked towards the staircase.

Cameron looked at the young man in front of him, and for a while he didn't know if he should take the initiative to leave. He has also seen "Batman: Time to Go to War" before, more than once, and he is also very impressed by the various groundbreaking technologies used in the film.

I wanted to talk to Simon.

However, Simon Westeros, who is at the top of the studio, is really a little unpleasant.

Simon looked at Cameron, who was a little restless, and suddenly said, "Jim, someone should have told you about Coppola and the elephant, right?"

Cameron had a puzzled look on his face.

Simon realized that Cameron had obviously not heard the story, and took the initiative to explain: "This is a story from Coppola's filming of "Apocalypse Now", Coppola wanted to find a few elephants during the filming process, but that project has been overrun and overscheduled, and trying to transport the elephants to the set will not only cost a lot of money, but also cause further delays in the filming cycle. The film's producer told Coppola that many things can't be perfect, and you have to give them up. Later, the elephant did not appear in "Apocalypse Now", but the movie was still very successful there. ”

Cameron naturally thought that Simon was talking about his "Abyss" last year, and he couldn't think of any words to refute for a while, so he had to nod his head curtly: "Simon, I understand what you mean." ”

"I've seen the Terminator back then, and it's not just one side," Simon added, adding, "Jim, if you could make a perfect work for $6.4 million, there's no reason why you can't make other films on budget." Last year's "The Abyss," which cost $69.5 million, I heard you were stressed out by it, but it was just some mental stress. You shouldn't know that there is a large group of people at Fox who lost their jobs because of the failure of this project. They weren't fired because the movie didn't do well at the box office, the industry was already very risky. They were fired because the project's budget was out of control. You know, the money for the studio never fell from the sky. ”

Cameron's expression flickered for a moment, and finally said, "Simon, I will definitely pay attention in the future." ”

The waiter brought some food up at this time.

Simon waited for the other party to leave, gestured to Cameron, and when he saw the other party shaking his head, he pulled the tray in front of him, picked up the tableware and said: "I have carefully looked at the special effects scheme of "Abyss", and the aliens in it should be used in "Terminator 2" liquid metal robots, right?"

The special effects of "The Abyss" were actually produced by Daenerys Special Effects Studio.

In fact, whether it is "The Abyss" or "Terminator 2", which was not born, the special effects expenditure is not high.

The huge cost of both projects is mainly due to Cameron's pursuit of perfectionism. Last year's "Abyss", the filming period lasted for 5 months. "Terminator 2" in the original time and space continued to shoot for 6 months, which is the general focus of the two projects out of control.