The entire crew, including the actors, was the most paid director James Brooks.

This is not only because he wears two hats, being both a director and a chief producer, but also because he is the biggest celebrity in the crew.

Although James Sr. is not a star, but a writer, director and producer who has been working behind the scenes for a long time, he is more famous than the male and female lead actors of this film.

Therefore, Jerry offered James Sr., who wears two hats, a salary of $2.8 million.

You must know that it is 1995, and the salary of top Hollywood directors is about 10 million, and super directors like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas who make tens of millions of dollars by directing a film can only be counted as a case.

Aside from them, even James Cameron, who conquered the world with a big ship two years later, now only has a $8 million director's salary.

In addition, the salary of Hollywood's first-line directors is only a few million dollars, which is far from the level of tens of millions of dollars in a few years.

Nowadays, there are many directors in Hollywood directorial circles who command a film and get paid hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands, and even ten years later, when major film companies produce commercial blockbusters, they like to select low-paid newcomer directors to direct popular series of films.

Jerry Towne's wholly-owned "Maguire" has a production budget of 25 million, and the actual production cost recalculated when the film is established and formed is 17 million, and the remaining 8 million is reserved for publicity expenses.

Jerry's initial budget for such a high budget was purely due to memory inertia, because the production cost of the film was 50 million in memory.

But after he really understood the current situation in Hollywood, he suddenly realized that the reason why the budget of this film in his previous life was as high as 50 million was because Tom's salary alone was as high as 20 million, and he also offered a 10% box office profit dividend.

The high salary and the increase in redness obviously greatly improved the quality of this film, and the original director who directed the film was not a fuel-efficient lamp, not only increased his director's salary, but also brought his own production team into the crew, so that the production cost naturally increased significantly, so that a comedy feature film actually cost 50 million production costs.

It's not surprising that a $50 million budget is commonplace for a commercial blockbuster, but it's rare for a feature film, which usually doesn't cost more than $30 million.

Even so, there are still only a handful of many feature films that really make money, and the vast majority of films lose money, and eventually rely on copyright income and disc sales to recoup their costs.

Jerry is well aware of his strengths and weaknesses, but at the age of eighteen he has 20 years of acting experience and rich experience, the advantages are obvious, and the disadvantages cannot be ignored.

The serious lack of popularity and box office appeal forced him to increase the film's publicity budget and increase investment in the selection of actors and key crew members, so that the two-pronged approach can somewhat make up for some disadvantages.

As for whether the film can be as successful as in his previous life, Jerry is actually very uncertain, but he always firmly believes that the audience has the final say on whether the movie is good or not.

What I can do is to do my best in the production, distribution, publicity and release of the film, and I believe that a truly excellent movie will not be buried.

hired James Brooks to direct the film, and selected Gwyneth Paltrow from an acting family to play the heroine, and then he warmly invited heavyweight Billy Wilder to join the film, plus Cooper Martin Jr. and Milla Jovovich, two already well-known actors to play supporting roles, such a cast will definitely be called a luxury configuration and a real top lineup if it is placed in a few years.

In order to assemble this lineup, Jerry paid a lot of price, almost desperately, and gambled all he had.

Gwyneth Paltrow plays the heroine Dorothy with a salary of $1.75 million, Cooper Martin Jr. and Mira are both paid $500,000, Billy Wilder plays Jerry Maguire's career mentor in the film, a total of six scenes, Jerry paid $600,000 for this, Jonathan Jr.'s performance salary is $100,000, and the other supporting roles are not paid high, ranging from 8,000 to 50,000.

Jerry didn't plan to give himself a salary, but CAA was in charge of the film project and participated in the preparation of the whole process, plus he had signed a contract with Brian, so he listened to all opinions and offered himself a salary of $2 million.

This salary is not Jerry's own will, according to his original intention, it is his own investment anyway, and it doesn't matter if he gets paid or not, but he was strongly opposed and even reprimanded by Brian and James Sr.

Old James's original words were: "Regardless of whether you have been famous before or not, since you have played the male lead, you must have the weight and responsibility of the male lead, and the responsibility is that you must play this role wholeheartedly, and the weight is the value, that is, the salary."

Remuneration is the benchmark against which Hollywood actors are measured.

A male lead actor with a salary of only 100,000 or hundreds of thousands, how do you make the rest of the crew believe that you can support a film with a production cost of more than 20 million US dollars?"

Brian agreed with James Sr.'s theory, and gave a lecture on "The Dialectical Relationship between Lead, Supporting Characters and Remuneration", which was attended only by Jerry.

In this way, Jerry Towne has transformed from a newcomer who has just stepped into the Hollywood entertainment industry to a second-tier actor worth $2 million, although he pays for it himself with his left hand and right hand.

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A week after the filming of the film started, the crew had already passed the run-in period, and the cooperation of various departments was gradually getting better.

According to the shooting plan made in advance, the old James handed over the location shooting and interspersed shots to two assistant directors, who led the team to start shooting in groups, and the other assistant director continued to stay on the set to assist the old James to complete the daily shooting progress.

After the filming was turned on, Jerry Tangen was resident in "Shajiabang" and stayed with the crew every day, prompting Mira to follow him into an old apartment rented by the crew.

The scenes that require him to appear, and his meticulous completion of the performance, are all plot transition shots, with few lines, at most three sentences, so there is no difficulty in performing.

What is really difficult is how to impress the audience in the shortest possible time in the appearance and movement in front of these quick interspersed shots, which is the key point of testing Jerry's acting skills.

Fortunately, Jerry has been a supporting actor for more than ten years in his previous life and has accumulated a lot of experience, and if the supporting role wants the audience to remember, just the right movement and profound expression change are compulsory courses, otherwise, the supporting role's job will not be saved.

The filming of the new day continues.

After Jerry took care of the logistics of the crew, he walked into the set and met several leading actors such as Gwyneth and Cooper Martin Jr.

For a week, they arrived on time almost every day on time, but there was no shooting plan for them on the set, which meant that they were still familiar with the script and during the rest stage, so they didn't have to report to the crew every day.

Through these days of contact, Jerry and Gwyneth and Cooper Martin Jr. have become familiar with each other, but they are not close friends with each other, and they are ordinary friends.

At first, Jerry didn't take it to heart, just thought that they were good actors with quite good professionalism, but after a week, they still came every day, which made Jerry feel very surprised, and gradually figured out some ways.

Dare to love them not because of their high professionalism, but because they are not at ease with themselves as the male lead, so they go to the set every day to watch the performance.

Seeing the intentions of Gwyneth and Cooper Martin Jr., Jerry smiled slightly, he is a rookie actor, and several leading actors are deeply skeptical of their abilities and can understand, after all, the investment in this movie is not small, and they don't care if they make money or not, but if the male lead actor is too bad and bad enough to affect their future acting career, then they can't turn a blind eye.

Their acting future is at stake and must be treated with caution, so they still rush to the set during their vacation, hoping to see the answers they want.

It's a pity that Jerry's performances before were all passing by with dragonflies, but any professional actor can do it, and I can't see how good his acting skills are.

If Jerry was just a simple starring, Gwyneth and Cooper Martin Jr. would have questioned his acting skills in person, how could he not only be the starring role, but also the sole investor of the film, which made them inevitably a little jealous, dare to be angry and dare not speak, at least not to embarrass Jerry in public.

………… (To be continued)