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As soon as the new week began, Helen Herman rushed to the office of the "Scorpion King" crew at Walt Disney headquarters to negotiate with Jerry Bruckheimer.

Although Jerry Bruckheimer is a gold producer and Pirates of the Caribbean is also one of the top big productions in the industry, Helen Herman, who should be fighting for it, will definitely fight for him.

The agent is also a buffer between him and the crew.

Helen Herman also revealed to him that "The Scorpion King" has just been released, and there are $100 million in North America and $200 million at the global box office.

Matthew, on the other hand, made an appointment to meet at the café diagonally across from the angel agency, and now that he has the role of Will Turner, he is also ready to find an assistant for himself, and after contacting him from London last week, Milla Wang agreed to meet in detail today.

"We've worked together twice. ”

In the café, Matthew looked at Mira Wang on the other side of the table and said, "Mira, I also want to find a familiar person, a reliable person, I can't think of a better person than you." ”

Mira Wong didn't speak, obviously thinking about Matthew's words, she had not only been in one crew, but also worked as a temporary assistant for many actors, and when it came to faults and quirks, Matthew was definitely the least and the kindest one to him.

Matthew asked, "Do you have a job now?"

"Hmm. Mira nodded and said, "For the time being, I'm working as a handyman on Stephen Sommos' Van Helsing." ”

Like actors' assistants, these are positions with a lower status and less than ideal income in the crew.

"Tell me about your treatment. Matthew knows that this is the key, "The monthly salary is $2,500, double salary at the end of the year, and if you want to join the industry association in the future, I will bear the cost of membership." ”

This kind of treatment can only be regarded as an average level among the personal assistants of Hollywood stars, but it is much higher than Mira Wang's income in "The Mummy Returns" and "The Scorpion King".

Matthew can't come up and offer a high salary, he must leave room for a salary increase in the future, and his search for an assistant is a typical business practice, not a charity.

"I want to ask. Mira seemed a little tempted and asked, "Am I your personal assistant during your new film?"

"It's not. Matthew explained, "I'm looking for a long-term personal assistant, and if you want to, I'm not going to be unlucky, and you can do this job for a long time." ”

Mira Wang thought about it, but still didn't make a decision, and said, "Matthew, I need to think about it. ”

Matthew was patient and asked, "When can you give me an answer?"

If she doesn't think it's suitable, he's better to recruit someone else.

"Three days. Mira Wang raised three fingers, "It won't take more than three days at most." ”

"Yes. Matthew nodded in agreement.

The two talked for less than half an hour, and Mira Wang took the initiative to leave, and Matthew then went to the actors' union to renew next year's dues, which is not much for him now, but it must be paid.

At noon, Helen Herman called, and her negotiations with Jerry Bruckheimer were relatively smooth, the two sides basically agreed, and there were some relatively small terms to be negotiated with another producer in the afternoon, and it is estimated that the contract can be negotiated today.

This is also related to Matthew and Helen Herman's clear positioning of themselves and the relatively adequate budget of the crew.

Among the matters that have been negotiated, the first and foremost is naturally the salary, and his remuneration for playing Will Turner has directly quadrupled from "The Scorpion King" to $2 million.

Remuneration is still paid in three instalments, with no subsequent share involved, except for a number set by the union.

Then there are those routine terms such as independent dressing rooms, and generally Hollywood commercial film crews will not make it difficult for actors in terms of food, clothing, housing, transportation and safety guarantees, which are in line with his status as one of the two male protagonists of his films.

In addition, Helen Herman also won the right to review and suggest on the film's promotional posters and opening and closing credits, according to her, the film has three protagonists, and an Oscar winner, and the allocation of resources such as publicity will definitely be fiercely contested, and the power in this area must be contested.

All in all, Matthew didn't put forward any excessive conditions in this regard, after all, his coffee position is here, and he doesn't have much capital to ask for more.

In addition to these, Helen Herman also told him two pieces of information: one is that the crew has officially confirmed the heroine, with seventeen-year-old British actress Keira Knightley playing Elizabeth Swan, and the other is that she inquired about Johnny Depp's salary, which is five times that of Matthew, a full ten million dollars.

This price is normal, Matthew is not surprised, Johnny Depp is not a first-tier now, at most it is a second-tier position, but he rarely appears in purely commercial entertainment movies, and his past salary has not reached the level of tens of millions of dollars, and the highest is only five million dollars, it is estimated that the crew deliberately offered a high price in order to impress Johnny Depp.

In terms of the heroine, since the crew has just determined the candidate of Keira Knightley, the salary is naturally impossible to talk about, Matthew is idle, and he guessed by himself, even if it is the most optimistic estimate, Keira Knightley's salary will not exceed him.

He remembered that Keira Knightley had a movie that was released at about the same time as "The Scorpion King", the title seemed to be "Kick Like Beckham", and the North American box office also exceeded 10 million dollars.

However, it is a common imagination that men and women are paid unequal pay for equal work in Hollywood, and her salary cannot be very high.

That afternoon, Helen Herman negotiated Matthew's actor contract with the crew, and on Tuesday morning, she rushed to the office of Disney's headquarters building with Matthew and Wilson's lawyer to sign an actor contract with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew for Will Turner.

Matthew also officially became a member of the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

According to the contract, he will join the crew from July and participate in the necessary filming preparations.

In order to make "Pirates of the Caribbean" look more realistic and believable when it was released, Jerry Bruckheimer mandated that all actors who played pirates and the British Navy undergo a five-week training, and the crew invited action stunt designer George Marshall Ruger, sword master Robert Anderson and his disciple Mark Ivey and other top professionals in the industry to design action scenes and action routines, and guide the actors throughout the training and filming.

Matthew also got to know him a little bit, Robert Anderson is unknown to the outside world, but in Hollywood circles is a legendary sword master, who has been working in the industry for fifty years, and before the filming of "The Mask of Zorro", he trained Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and a group of stuntmen, and the final result is obvious.

He was also the former head of the sword instructor before Matthew.

While contemporary fencing, like the one seen in sports, requires a high degree of skill and precision of movement, which is very different from the fight scenes seen in movies, both on and off screen, there are certain basic skills that need to be mastered, such as how to hold the sword, how to attack and defend, and so on, which is what Robert Anderson wants to teach.

These are the main things in Matthew's training.

He believes that when training begins, he will get into the groove faster than other actors.

On the day of signing the contract with the crew, Matthew also got a reply from Mira Wang, who said that she was willing to be his personal assistant, but it would take a few days for her to work on the crew of "Van Helsing" and she needed to resign from her position to complete the handover.

Matthew wasn't in a hurry, just let Mira Wang report to him by July.

Seeing that Matthew had found an assistant by herself, Helen Herman didn't say much, she was such a smart person, she could naturally guess something.

After leaving the Disney headquarters building and returning home, Matthew was in a pretty good mood, thinking about whether to have a party to celebrate, and then remembered that Britney should be notified of such a good thing, and immediately called her number, but until it hung up automatically, no one answered there.

Recently, this situation has gradually become the norm, and the frequency of his phone calls with Britney has decreased, sometimes only once every three or four days, and Britney did not return to Los Angeles after the overseas publicity announcement, but went directly to Nashville to start preparing for a new tour.

Matthew also feels that something is going wrong between the two, but he has been busy auditioning for "Pirates of the Caribbean" lately and has no time to go to Nashville.

In the past six months, he has met Britney too rarely.

Subsequently, he called Britney a few more times and also texted, but there was no response from there.

Matthew was also in the mood to party, so he simply called and booked a plane ticket to Nashville, taking advantage of the fact that he didn't have to go to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew to go over and see Britney.

At about 8 o'clock in the evening, he received a text message from Britney: I was training behind closed for the concert, and it was inconvenient to answer the phone.

Matthew then edited a text reply telling Britney that he would be flying to Nashville on Thursday.

He made a special call to Helen Herman and told her about his itinerary, so as not to find anyone in any emergency, Helen Herman knew about his relationship with Britney, and did not say much, but told him to return to Los Angeles before July and not delay his normal work.

Early Thursday morning, Matthew boarded a plane at Los Angeles International Airport and headed for the nation's famous music capital.