As a super fast-moving consumer product, "Twilight" grossed nearly $300 million in North America in just three weekends after its release, and the global box office combined reached more than $550 million, making it the most successful holiday film of 2010 when the new "Harry Potter" film will only be released next week.

The huge success also made the film from the male and female protagonists to some important supporting roles, red to purple.

Liam Hemsworth, Nina Dobrev, Lily Collins plus Tyler Lautner, who plays the werewolf, radiates an idol glow that is simply superstar-like.

"Twilight" has been a hit for three consecutive films, which has also brought an inevitable result, and the salaries of the main actors must be adjusted.

In the first part, the salaries of all actors were limited to less than $500,000, and Matthew tied up these actors with long-term contracts at that time, and won great initiative for the subsequent salary negotiations, and by the time of the third "Eclipse", Liam Hemsworth and Nina Dubrev, the highest-paid in the crew, were only paid $5 million for a single film.

A salary increase is inevitable, and even if you sign a long-term contract, you can't avoid it.

Matthew has long been aware of this, so after Nina Dubov performed rhythmic gymnastics for him again, he made a commitment to the Isabella actor.

Of course, the exact amount to add will be negotiated.

As early as the release of "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse", Matthew instructed Bella Anderson and Sean Daniel to negotiate with the agents of all the main actors, and to take a tougher attitude.

A salary increase is possible, but the specific amount cannot be accommodated to the actors.

Negotiation is a process of compromise, and Matthew will not give in an inch, and if he wants the horse to run hard, he must give the horse grass.

After half a month of tug-of-war negotiations, the contracts of all the main actors were basically settled.

Nina Dubrev and Liam Hemsworth were paid in the first tier, and their agents initially offered $15 million + about seven percent of the box office share, while Matthew was only willing to pay $8 million.

In the final deal, Nina Dobov and Liam Hemsworth will be paid $10 million plus a five-percent share of box office revenues.

The "Twilight" series has been running until now, and it is unrealistic to change the actors, and appropriately letting the main creative team share the cake can also stimulate enthusiasm for work.

Moreover, Bella Anderson and Sean Daniel successfully cut each other's total box office share into a box office profit share.

Another point is that the upper and lower parts of "Dawn" are set shots, and the remuneration all implements this standard.

The second tier is also paid by two people, Lily Collins and Taylor Lautner, with a salary of $8 million.

Then there are other actors, and their salaries have increased to a certain extent.

The sequel to any film, in the end, overwhelms the budget, is the actor's salary.

The Twilight series is certainly no exception.

The salaries of the main creative staff have increased significantly, and the production budget of the two parts of "Twilight: Dawn" has also skyrocketed, from $65 million to $100 million for a single part of "Eclipse".

The two "Dawns" will have an investment of up to $200 million in production costs alone.

This is arguably the top scale of a medium-sized production.

Of course, these young and purple idol actors, once they leave the "Twilight" series, just like the Gryffindor Golden Triangle leaves the "Harry Potter" series, let alone get such a high salary, it would be good to be able to give a discount.

Quite simply, none of them have proven themselves to be able to handle non-sequel films.

Not only young actors, but many actors who can only rely on sequels are basically like this.

Daniel Craig, for example, may be in the "$20 million club" if he rejoins director Sam Mendes for the next Bond series, but like other juniors and series stars, if he doesn't play Bond, his salary will drop sharply, to about $5 million.

At present, the easiest platform for new stars to get on the top is the series of movies, but when the series is over, how they can successfully transition to the next role/next stage of development is a problem that needs to be seriously considered and planned.

Otherwise, they will be stuck in one role forever, and they will gradually become the stars of "one-time consumption".

Many actors are faced with the dilemma of being limited by a hot role, even if they are as strong as Johnny Depp, they can't easily turn out.

The actors' contracts were settled, the first batch of budget funds were injected into the crew's third-party accounts, and the "Twilight" series was launched again.

Matthew had just finished working on this when Stephanie Mayer, the original author of the Twilight series, reached out to her.

This former housewife and now a popular youth writer wants to work with him again.

"The host?" "Matthew looked at the thin book that Stephanie Meyer had sent him, "I think this is a book you wrote a few years ago, right?"

As a partner, he still knows a thing or two about Stephanie Mayer's condition.

Stephanie Mayer wears a flaming red dress as always, like a torch tree, and it seems that only this kind of passionate woman can write such a tortuous-tossed love.

"This book was published in '08, and it was a single book that I wrote in addition to the creation of "Twilight". She laughs.

Matthew nodded lightly and asked directly, "Do you want to make an adaptation into a movie?"

Stephanie Mayer doesn't deny this, "We've had a successful collaboration, it's still going on, and I think we can continue to work together." If the film adaptation is successful, I can expand "The Host" into a trilogy. ”

Today's Stephanie Mayer is no longer the housewife she used to be, and the success of the past two years has also made her confident.

She didn't say anything more, just looked at Matthew.

"So be it, Miss Mel. Matthew couldn't make a decision without even looking at it, and said slowly, "I'll read it first, and I'll give you an answer in a few days." ”

"Yes. Stephanie Mayer didn't stay long and left quickly.

With the success of "Twilight" here, Matthew read "Host" on the same day.

Like "Twilight", "Host" is also a story about emotional entanglements such as love and choice, and the protagonist is not purely human.

To be exact, it's also a story about a love triangle.

The story is set to take place in the not-too-distant future.

At that time, the Earth was invaded by an alien creature called the "Soul", which itself looked like a silver centipede, and by parasitizing the human nervous system, they gradually erased human nature, controlled and then replaced the human mind, and lived on the earth through the human body.

At the same time, they sent the "humans" who had been controlled as "hunters" to hunt down the other surviving humans.

The heroine is the host of this creature, and the parasite knows that the challenges that must be faced in the human body are strong emotions and vivid memories, but it did not expect that the heroine would refuse to give up control of her mind and cling to the man she loves.

In desperation, the parasite has no choice but to find a man the heroine does not know, make her fall in love with him, and erase her previous memories. Under some outside pressure, the Parasite and Melanie are forced to join forces and begin to find a man they both love.

As for the various emotional entanglements during the period, it is basically a remake of "Twilight".

To be precise, "Twilight" is a bloody love triangle in the guise of werewolves and vampires, and "Host" is a bloody love triangle in the guise of the future and sci-fi.

But after Matthew finished reading, there was always an uncomfortable feeling, not a love triangle for dogs, but a parasitism of the main structure.

It's creepy to think about.

If it is filmed as a pure science fiction film or a horror film, there is no problem with being creepy, but what about making it a bloody romance movie?

Where does the sense of substitution come from?

Matthew has handled a lot of projects, has been successful in different types of film investment, and has accumulated some successful experience, which may be more subjective, but he can still make some judgments based on it.

After watching "The Host", he believes that the prospects of this film adaptation are not good, there are problems with the most basic setting and main framework, and some flaws will naturally be rejected by most audiences.

As soon as the idea of adapting "The Host" into a sci-fi film or a horror film arose, Matthew himself vetoed it, which was purely looking for death, rather than adapting Stephanie Mayer's bloody love triangle into other genres, it was better to be directly original and reliable.

He also learned another point by looking up relevant materials.

"Host" was published and released in 2008, and now it's almost 2011, and it's still cold.

This is not an unknown work by a new author, Stephanie Mayer has been popular all over the world since 2009, and it turns out that "Host" has not yet become popular.

In addition, the market is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

"Twilight" has pushed bloody romance movies to unprecedented peaks, and peaks are often followed by troughs.

"Host" is also different from "The Hunger Games", and the selling point of "The Hunger Games" is not focused on bloody love.

Maybe you can invest a few million dollars to make it, after all, there are many lovers of hardcore romance movies in North America, but after Matthew communicated with Stephanie Mayer, this idea was also abandoned.

Today's Stephanie Mayer is no longer the housewife she used to be, and directly told Matthew that the production budget cannot be less than $50 million.

Matthew didn't think much about it anymore and politely rejected Stephanie Mayer's book.

2010 is coming to an end, 2011 is coming soon, the crew of "Special Forces 2" has not finished dealing with it, and it continues to be suspended, and Matthew is not idle, paying a little attention to the North American awards season that has begun.

A heavyweight film is slamming into the awards season and is aiming for the Oscar for Best Actress.