The battery car sent the two of them all the way to the gate of the studio, and as soon as they walked out of the studio, Charlize Theron couldn't wait to ask: "Michelle, is there a result?"

Michelle Simmons nodded: "Let's talk about it in the car." ”

Seeing Michelle Simmons' movements, Charlize Theron finally settled down, after a burst of excitement, then came a faint sense of loss, for this meeting, she had been preparing for so long, and owed a lot of debt to her agent, but I didn't expect that during the whole process, Eric Williams just said some kind words to her that were not nutritious, and even his eyes did not fall on her too much.

Charlize Theron, although he is superficially obedient to his agent's arrangement, still has some small calculations of his own in private, but these tricks are not even given any chance to be implemented during the whole meeting.

The two got into the car, and Michelle Simmons was thinking about herself, and it wasn't until the car drove out of Santa Monica that she realized that Charlize Theron hadn't spoken for a while.

"Isn't that a little lost?" Michelle Simmons glanced at Charlize Theron in the passenger seat.

Charlize Theron subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he saw the agent's smiling face, he nodded slightly.

"I didn't make it clear, but that's it," Michelle Simmons said, "Mr. Williams said he had seen your audition for Buffy, and it was pretty good, so you've got the role, but there are three heroines in that movie." You're just one of them. ”

Charlize Theron gave her agent a look of delight. But. Michelle Simmons still saw the loss of the girl next to her, explaining: "This is a film that is definitely centered on the heroine, the scale of investment is comparable to that of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and it is led by Eric Williams himself, so you should be lucky that if this film is open for actresses, it will be enough to drive the whole Hollywood actress of the right age crazy." In that case, you won't stand any chance at all. ”

"Then ......" Charlize Theron thought for a moment and asked, "Judging from today's events, since ...... If he's not interested in me, why should I still get the role?"

"Who knows, maybe you're at the right time," Michelle Simmons also thought of this question at this time, although he was also a little confused, but he didn't mean to delve into it, probably except for Eric Williams himself. No one knows why. As for what the other party thinks, she has no intention of asking in person.

As he spoke. Michelle Simmons saw a large Blockbuster video cassette rental shop on the side of the road, parked the car on the side of the road, and walked in with Charlize Theron.

After searching for a while, Michelle Simmons found a complete set of "Charlie's Angels" TV series version of the videotape, and she did not choose to rent it, but bought it directly. Although I watched this TV series at the beginning, it was more than ten years ago, and since she took over the task of choosing the heroine, Michelle Simmons plans to watch the TV series carefully and do some work carefully.

Charlize Theron saw the three hot girls on the videotape box and knew that she might be starring in the movie version of the TV series. "Charlie's Angel" is a TV series that began broadcasting in 1976, when Charlize Theron was just born and lived far away in a small farm in South Africa, and it was impossible to touch it.

The two returned to the car with a bag full of videotapes, and Michelle Simmons drove the car and continued the original topic: "Anyway, you got this role now, so there is no need to ask why you got it, after all, you don't have anything else to covet on you, and if Eric Williams has other plans for you, there is no need to go around in such a circle, so just do what you have to do." ”

Charlize Theron was holding a cassette of tapes in his hand, looking at the text on the back of the tape, and heard his agent say, "So what am I going to do next?"

Michelle Simmons thought for a moment and said, "I think you don't seem to have a driver's license yet, right? In the last two months, you learn to drive first, take off your license, this is an action movie, you must be exposed to driving scenes." And I need to be out of L.A. for a while, and in two months, you're going to have to be scheduled by the studio, Williams said, and you're going to train for three months. Speaking of which, Michelle Simmons added Eric's exact words: "He said that those three months of training will be very hard and rigorous, and if you can't endure the hardships, it's best to quit beforehand." ”

Charlize Theron couldn't have quit, of course, but she caught something else in her agent's words: "You just said 'we'?"

Michelle Simmons didn't expect Charlize Theron to be so sensitive, and said: "Yes, you guys, in addition to you, I have to look for two other girls, according to Williams's request, I need to go to Europe, if it goes well, it should be very fast, and the longest will not exceed two months, this is the deadline he gave." ”

"And what should I do?" Charlize Theron hadn't had time to think about the other two contenders in the future, and if the agent left, she would certainly not be able to stay in Capper Sid's mansion in Beverly Hills, and she would not have enough money to live in Los Angeles for two months.

Michelle Simmons also understood what Charlize Theron meant, and said: "I will arrange it for you, the required expenses will be deducted from your salary in the future, and before leaving, I will sign your contract with the Fireflies, so that you can have a formal contract." ”

Since being signed by Michelle Simmons last fall, Charlize Theron has heard the word pay associate with herself for the first time, and this time she is really excited: "Michelle, how much will I be paid?"

Michelle Simmons tapped his fingers on the steering wheel for a moment and said, "This kind of big-budget movie, even if it's a newcomer." The salary should not be too small. However, the salary of female stars is often lower than that of male stars. What's more, "Charlie's Angel" has three heroines, so I still need to contact that side to find out the specific salary, I guess your salary should be between 100,000 and 200,000, of course, if the film is a big hit in the future, the producer will definitely give some additional rewards. ”

Another thing Michelle Simmons did not say is that of the three actresses in the plan, Charlize Theron's salary should be the lowest. The other two heroines plan to use actresses who have already emerged in Europe, so they don't have much influence in North America in time, and their salaries are correspondingly higher.

Although this figure is far from the superstars who often see in magazines with tens of millions of salaries, Charlize Theron is still very satisfied, at least this is a good start, she is not the kind of person who is ambitious, and this money should be enough for her to worry about trivial matters such as livelihood for a long time to come, and can concentrate on preparing for the movie.

A few days later, Michelle Simmons signed a contract with Firefly on behalf of Charlize Theron. Although the unfamiliar production company of Flower Pictures made both her and Charlize Theron a little confused, the $200,000 salary still surprised both of them. While this figure is nothing compared to the production cost that is destined to exceed $50 million, it is the best-case scenario that Michelle expected, but perhaps because of the relatively 'generous' salary, and the option that Charlize Theron must star in two more sequels in the next five years after starring in the first part of "Breaking Bad".

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At the beginning of March, after a period of intense and hectic finality, Eric successfully completed all the post-production work on "Jurassic Park".

After watching the finished film, Eric is also full of confidence in the box office prospects of this movie, compared to the version in his memory, in addition to the same ups and downs of the plot, this version of "Jurassic Park" is better than the original in terms of special effects, after all, the movie in the original time and space is Spielberg in "Captain Hawke" Although the work after the failure was a great success in the end, the film company was not 100% confident in the production process, so the budget was relatively tight, and many details could not be 100% perfect. However, this version produced by Eric burned $75 million in the project budget alone, and in order to provide special effects technical support for the series, the digital field has been carrying out corresponding technical research and development since its inception, and a large amount of money has been spent in the process.

After the completion of "Jurassic Park", the marketing plan around the film was quickly launched, and a week later, Firefly released the first poster of "Jurassic Park", and Disney's theme stores also began to arrange "Jurassic Park" merchandise, with Disney's hundreds of merchandise stores throughout North America and Europe, as long as the film is a successful success, Firefly Pictures will make a profit by selling merchandise in the shortest possible time.

There are a total of three movies in the firefly summer file, "Jurassic Park", "Heaven and Earth Collision" and "Bug Crisis" were released, Eric is very clear about the box office power of "Jurassic Park", in order not to affect the box office of the latter two movies, Eric set the schedule of "Jurassic Park" on June 4, and then on June 25, which was three weeks apart, "Bug Crisis", which is completely different from the genre of "Jurassic Park", was released again, and "Heaven and Earth Collision", which also belongs to the special effects theme It was placed on July 2, and although the box office of "Jurassic Park" is still there, it will not have much impact on "Heaven and Earth Collision" during this time period.

In recent years, the films released by Firefly have become the focus of other film companies, and many people have found something unusual after Firefly announced the schedule.

Firefly's previous release pattern in popular schedules has always been a two-week interval and different films have been launched one after another.

But if you don't consider "Bug Crisis", a 3D animation film released by Firefly's Disney, the two films launched by Firefly this summer have a full month between releases. Keen people almost quickly realized that Fireflies must not be generally optimistic about "Jurassic Park", last year's "Tornado" global box office of nearly $700 million is still fresh in the memory of many people in Hollywood, and Fireflies obviously attach more importance to "Jurassic Park" than "Tornado".

For various considerations, some second- and third-tier film companies with flexible operating mechanisms directly chose to postpone the summer films in order to avoid the edge of "Jurassic Park", and in terms of large film companies, Michael Eisner also withstood the pressure of the global executives, and forcibly postponed "The Outlaw", which was originally planned to be released at the end of June, to mid-July, and made a schedule reversal with a medium-budget romance film in the same period.

While many have publicly accused Michael Eisner of being too cautious, Michael Eisner insists on not explaining much to others. However, Eric, who heard the news, sighed a little about Michael Eisner's courage, if Michael Eisner insisted on the original schedule of "The Outlaw" because he was afraid of losing face, then there would be a good show.

Some people take the initiative to retreat, and of course there are also people who do not believe in evil. There are even two films that have started the idea of "pinching" "Jurassic Park", these two films are "The Heroes" starring Stallone and Schwarzenegger's new film "The Last Action Hero", both films are produced by the German-backed Carlock Films, one is scheduled for the week before "Jurassic Park" and the other is set a week after the release of "Jurassic Park".

Eric had already noticed these two big hits, so the production department put the production department on hold for the time being in the deal negotiations with Arnold Schwarzenegger on "True Lies". I didn't expect these two movies to hit the muzzle of "Jurassic Park" so unhesitatingly.

After completing the later stages of "Jurassic Park", Eric has not been idle at all, and a series of tedious things need to be handled by him himself.

Under the recommendation of David Geffen, the actor of "Interview with the Vampire" was finally determined to be Tom Cruise, and the second actor was taken by an Australian actor under Pai Kingsley. In terms of actors, Eric's only intervention was to re-find Kirsten Dunst, who is said to have a thirty-five-year-old soul, and the little girl was just eleven years old at this time, but the audition results greatly satisfied several main creators, including director Neil Jordan. (To be continued......)