Chapter 388: The First Hollywood Salary

Later, the stars became more and more independent, and the most fierce ones were of course the members of the Hollywood 20 million club.

Take the muscular governor who turned to politics as an example, before saying goodbye to Hollywood, he received the most expensive salary through "Terminator 3": $30 million!

thinks that when he first came to shoot "Hercules in New York", the salary was only 12,000 US dollars.

But when it comes to the superstar who dares to make the most money, it is Brother Tom, other stars only charge dry salaries, and he not only collects money, but also takes a commission, as early as 88 years of "Rain Man", Lao Tang began to charge a salary + box office commission.

The reason why he was able to earn 70 million and 75 million respectively in "Mission Impossible" and "Mission Impossible 2" is because of the box office commission, and later films such as "Minority Report" and "The Last Samurai", in addition to the box office commission, the salary is as high as 25 million US dollars.

In "War of the Worlds" in 05, the charging method directly became no remuneration, and directly asked for 20% of the total global box office profit!

The six giants couldn't help but scold their mothers!

However, there are very few Hollywood players who have reached this level, such as Will Smith, "Ali" began to collect 20 million salaries, while "Men in Black 2" and "Jedi Men 2" enjoy 10% and 20% box office shares respectively, although "I, Robot" did not share, but the salary rose to 28 million.

In recent years, with the soaring cost of filming and publicity, blockbuster movies often become performance art that costs a lot of money, and once you sign a pay or play contract with a star, you have to pay obediently regardless of whether the scene is filmed or not.

The bosses felt a headache one after another, and even tore it directly, Lao Tang and his old club Paramount tore their faces, the reason was that before the release of "Mission Impossible 3", Lao Tang coerced the company to charge more than 20% of the total box office profit.

In this way, the global box office must reach $500 million to be able to recover the blood, and the global box office of "Mission Impossible 2" is only $546 million, so Paramount simply turned his face with Lao Tang, who has always cooperated with him.

There is also the Big Three that contributed to the global sale of "The Da Vinci Code" of 758 million US dollars, starring Hanks, director Ron Howard and producer Brian's up to 40% of the box office profit share, which was forced down to 25% by Sony.

However, some people are sad and some people are happy, when Tobey Maguire took over "Spider-Man", the salary was only $4 million, and by the time "Spider-Man 2" arrived, it had skyrocketed to $17 million. "Spider-Man 3" must be on the payroll with more than $20 million.

So Ding Cheng is not in a hurry, the six million dollars is only temporary, let's take our time in the future.

Soon Yao Zai sorted out the contract and reported to Ding Cheng: "Everything else is fine, as for other additional conditions during the work, let's ......"

Ding Cheng waved his hand and said casually: "Just follow the rules of the industry, and be low-key when you first arrive." ”

Seeing Yao Zai's heart, word of mouth is very important, although Hollywood looks at money for everything, as long as the actor has box office appeal, everything else is a trivial matter.

But after all, I just came, and I am not the kind of hypocritical person, I heard that Jennifer Lopez, when filming or doing publicity, does not sit in a non-Mercedes Benz car when she goes out, the reason is very simple: taking a car of other brands will cause back pain.

Although her acting skills are unusual, even during the filming of the low-budget film "Border Town" on the Mexican border last year, she still asked the crew to rent a luxury villa for her, otherwise she would be uncomfortable when she started work the next day.

even asked for a $10,000 a day salary for his private hairstylist, which caused the crew to complain, but in the end, they could only stare dryly, because all this was written in black and white in the performance contract, which is the rule of the game under the star system.

Of course, even if I don't know what to say, I must have been treated as a five-star hotel during my work, and as for the others, let alone the newcomers, even in China, I have never asked for it.

It's over with a good act,

What are you pretending to be?

When I came out, I found out that in fact, the whole world has a urine sex. It seems that the additional terms are kept secret from the outside public, but as insiders, celebrities will soon learn how to treat someone like a king and queen when he participates in such and such a film.

As a result, everything from the level of accommodation during filming, the luxury of the pick-up and drop-off vehicles and make-up rest cars, the number of followers, to the treatment of pets and flowers and toilet paper, have all become projects that compare with each other.

I once heard of a small fresh meat, the dressing room is three, the first belongs to himself, the second belongs to his own fitness equipment, and the third belongs to his own follower.

Hollywood is even more exaggerated, the reason is that stars are often the anchors of the box office, even if one of the three films loses money, the profits made by the other two films can still make up the difference.

As more and more Hollywood films are financed globally, many overseas investors who don't know how to do it are wronged, and fools don't cheat their money for nothing.

"This is the latest Ulma scale, let's be ranked 181 for the time being. ”

Ding Cheng took the table, commonly known as the Hollywood Star Charisma Index Ranking, which was developed and researched by a columnist named James, and scored a star in all aspects according to a number of indicators such as return on investment, dedication and acting talent, and its reliability was widely liked by investors.

The two hundred stars on the list all have their own box office appeal, and they are new to the list because of their achievements in Southeast Asia and France.

watched Yaozai go out to negotiate with someone, because she did not have the agent qualifications prescribed by law, so she could only entrust a local company to act as an agent first, and all kinds of miscellaneous troubles.

Ding Cheng secretly felt helpless, according to the unwritten rules of Hollywood, all industry practitioners, from directors, leading actors to cinematographers, are not allowed to negotiate and sign contracts in person, and must hire agents and intermediaries to handle these affairs.

As for the agent's compensation, the current prevailing market price is about 10% of the total amount of each contract, for example, if the agent wins $20 million for a star starring in a blockbuster, then he can get $2 million. So from another point of view, the sky-high asking prices of celebrities are not unrelated to their agents.

If an agent wins a salary of 20 million for a customer for the first time, it means that the industry's popularity will increase and a large number of potential customers will come.

The most famous brokerage company, CAA, seems to be called Innovation Elite Culture Agency Co., Ltd. in China, because it has a large number of top Hollywood signed customers such as Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, etc., and provides written and directed production bundles to Hollywood production companies, and is known as the mastermind behind the real control of Hollywood.

Of course, it has to be said that Hollywood has a very strict union system, and the actors' union sets a minimum remuneration standard for its members. In other words, even if you play a small role, you have a minimum guarantee, which is much stronger than a helpless drift.