"Five million? Are you crazy? Or was you too excited last night?"

The agent felt that Leonardo must be crazy.

As early as 2000, his worth has almost touched the threshold of the $20 million club, coupled with the recent rise of the box office of "Cat and Mouse", the single-day box office surpassed "The Lord of the Rings 2", and even triggered a large number of female fans to pursue Leonardo, etc., are helping Leonardo continue to increase his value.

If "Cat and Mouse Game" is given another month to ferment, if his global box office can reach the scale of five or six billion US dollars, then Leonardo's worth will inevitably continue to make greater breakthroughs.

The salary of more than 20 million US dollars sounds terrible, and even one movie is enough to shoot several so-called "big productions" in China at this time, but for Hollywood, it is completely within an acceptable range, as long as the actor's strength in all aspects is worth this price, then he will definitely be able to get such a high salary return.

Hollywood movies have always been generous, with high movie budgets, high actors' salaries, and high production costs, but behind this generosity, there are also big benefits, such as high box office and high copyright returns.

Some movies, with a cost of 100 million US dollars, a global box office of 3.5 billion US dollars, DVD releases can earn tens of millions of dollars, and copyright derivatives such as animation, and peripheral goods can sell for tens of millions of dollars or even higher, so in this very mature business system, Leonardo's $20 million salary can almost be said to be waterless.

With a salary of 20 million US dollars, if you meet a well-known director or a script you like, it is normal for an actor to reduce his salary, but there is a limit to the reduction, for example, under normal circumstances, if Leonardo continues to participate in Spielberg's movies, it is relatively normal to reduce his salary to 15 million, and the favor of 5 million US dollars is already very face-saving.

However, I never thought that Leonardo seemed to have been kicked in the brain by a donkey, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was going to reduce his salary to five million dollars? You Leonardo has never been worth this kind in history, okay? You took over the filming of "Titanic" for 2.5 million US dollars, and then "Titanic" became popular around the world, and your worth directly jumped to more than 10 million US dollars, and now you tell me that you want to reduce your salary to 5 million?

Leonardo explained: "Jason, you have to know that this movie is not just directed by Spielberg, this movie is invested by Li Mu, with an investment of 100 million US dollars, and the story of the script is the story of a brother named Chennault in the United States who led a group of American civilian pilots to China voluntarily to resist the Japanese invasion side by side with the Chinese Air Force. ”

"Li Mu?!" When the agent heard this name, his voice instantly raised an octave.

"Is that the Chinese Internet boss Li Mu? The one who pushed "Cat and Mouse Game" to the first place at the box office with one push?"

"Nonsense, who else but him. Leonardo said seriously: "Li Mu is willing to invest so much money to make this movie, it is enough to see how much he attaches importance to this movie, people who know Li Mu know that he has a very strong nationalist color, so this film depicting China and the United States fighting side by side against Japan, he will definitely do his best to maximize the influence of this movie." ”

Speaking of which, Leonardo added: "You know, his resources are too strong, there are so many media tycoons in Hollywood, but their ability to deliver information around the world is much worse than Li Mu, Li Mu's YY may not be as authoritative as Time Magazine and Los Angeles Times, but it is precisely the most influential for ordinary people." ”

"God......" The agent sighed on the other end of the phone and said, "Forgive me Leo, if I knew that it was a movie invested by Li Mu, I would definitely not say such rude words to you!"

After speaking, the agent exclaimed: "Oh my God! This opportunity is so rare, if you can establish a good cooperative relationship with Li Mu, it will definitely have a huge role in promoting your future development, at this time we really need to show enough sincerity, the salary of five million US dollars, it should be very sincere, although the loss is a little bigger, but I believe that the future return will be higher!"

Leonardo saw that his agent had fully agreed with his decision, and immediately said resolutely: "OK, then you immediately help me communicate with Spielberg, give him a formal offer, and then prepare to go through the formal contract process, and ask for the approximate filming schedule of this drama, from now on, as long as there are conflicting schedules, no movies will be accepted!"

"OK! I'll do it now!"

Leonardo said: "Go ahead, just let me know the results when the time comes, I need to go to Google quickly, who the hell is that Chennault......"

"I forgot if you didn't say it, I just heard you mention this name, so I want to Google it quickly......"

……

Tom Hanks, who was also in Los Angeles, also received a call from Spielberg, and at this moment, he was sitting in front of the computer, carefully Googleing information related to Chennault, and carefully reading it line by line.

After reading the script, he has decided to accept Spielberg's invitation to participate in this "Flying Tigers", and play the first actor Chennault in the play, and then hurriedly began to search for relevant information through Google to have a deeper understanding of Chennault's deeds.

Tom Hanks is very different from the young Leonardo, although Leonardo is also a first-line actor with extraordinary acting skills, but after all, he is young, and he is still young, and his idol is more important, while Tom Hanks is one of the actors with the best acting skills and the best at character creation in the entire American film industry, so he is very responsible for every movie he makes.

Chennault is indeed not very well-known in the United States, but his story is really a very great deed if it is taken deeply, and this kind of volunteer help to help other countries resist the invaders, whether it is level, realm or depth, is very good.

In Tom Hanks' view, the reason why "Saving Private Ryan" can become a classic is that the script is deep enough, on the other hand, the actors' performances are very good, and the most important thing is that the visual presentation of the film is very clever, and at least half of the success of the whole film is due to Spielberg.

And this "Flying Tigers" itself is also directed by Spielberg, and even written by Spielberg himself, so Tom Hanks believes that even if this film is only in the preparation period, it has already 50% As for Leonardo, although he is young, he has just worked with him once, and it can be seen that his strength is not bad, and his progress is also very fast, if the two continue to work together, they can at least bring a 20% success rate to the movie.

As for the story itself, Tom Hanks believes that "Flying Tigers" and "Saving Private Ryan" can be said to be equal, both are based on real history, and they can well show the cruelty of war, the brilliance of human nature, and the reflection on war, so it seems that it can increase the success rate of the movie by at least 20%.

In this way, this movie basically has a ninety percent success rate.

In addition, Tom Hanks is also carefully measuring Li Mu's resources and influence.

The box office counterattack of "Cat and Mouse Game" has made the entire Hollywood see the extraordinary potential of YY, a world-class Internet product, in the promotion, "Cat and Mouse Game" can have such a breakthrough just by getting YY a push, if "Flying Tigers" is released, how many times will Li Mu give it the opportunity to push?

Coupled with the investment of 100 million US dollars, such a huge scale of funds is another strong guarantee for this movie, so it is almost impossible for this movie to fail.

Moreover, Tom Hanks also attaches great importance to his first cooperation with Li Mu.

In his opinion, Li Mu, a young man, is not only a powerful financier, but also more likely to become the invisible "God" of hundreds of millions of Internet users in the online world.

He has the absolute strength to imperceptibly influence these hundreds of millions of Internet users in the next few years, not only to guide them to what to do on the Internet, but also to guide them to eat, do, play, learn, buy, and watch after leaving the Internet!

The potential of this energy is too strong, and Tom Hanks believes that it won't be long before Li Mu will become one of the people with the strongest commercial energy in the world, so being able to establish a good relationship with him in advance will definitely be of great help to him in the future.

Spielberg soon received Leonardo's exact answers and Tom Hanks' exact answers, and received an official offer from their agent, who couldn't believe that Leonardo's agent's official offer was only a mere $5 million salary, without any strings, no dividends, no guarantees, it was a hammer deal of $5 million;

Tom Hanks's offer also stunned him, because Tom Hanks had already reached the level of 20 million in the last century, and even he would ask for a certain percentage of the box office to participate in a movie, but the price he quoted to himself this time was only a mere 3 million US dollars! It was 2 million lower than Leonardo's salary, and the most important thing was that he didn't want any box office sharing!

Spielberg has been in Hollywood for so many years, he is not only a super-first-line director, but also a first-class film businessman, he knows that the offer given by these two people is absolutely fantastical in Hollywood, in Hollywood, no one has such a big face to make the two voluntarily lower their salaries to such an exaggerated level, and even he does not have the ability.

However, the quotation of the two is really here.

This made Spielberg sigh and sigh, Li Mu's face is really not ordinary valuable......