Chapter 694: Belonging to the willfulness of the actor

The third-party guarantee system is an important part of ensuring the normal operation of Hollywood, and actors and other types of work will also use this system to protect their own rights and interests. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In order to protect their rights, star actors do not foolishly trust the producer completely, and they will advocate for third-party payment or third-party guarantee in case the producer is unable to pay and delays in paying for their performances for various reasons.

When a celebrity agent negotiates with a producer, investor, or unstable financial institution, he or she may require him or her to obtain a third-party guarantee for the actor's full remuneration before the actor's work begins.

In this way, by providing a guarantee to increase the reliability of the producer's payment, the producer can deposit the actor's entire salary in the bank, and then use the deposit basis as a guarantee to provide better protection for the actor. With such a guarantee, the actor is naturally able to perform his work wholeheartedly.

However, the establishment of a third-party guarantee payment account in this way will increase the cost of the producer, and if it is not for the actor to take the initiative, the eager producer will not use this method to express his sincerity.

Also, even if there are various guarantee systems, there are endless examples of Hollywood filmmakers' hands.

This is actually a game process, and who can get the initiative depends entirely on the supply and demand of the market, like Leonardo or Tom? A star like Cruise, when facing most of the crew, will occupy a quite active position, and put forward many unexpected conditions.

For example, prohibiting crews from using people they hate.

Yes, you read that right, many of Hollywood's biggest stars have such clauses in their contracts!

Hollywood stars will write such demands into their contracts as a 'right of approval', for example, they will negotiate 'reasonable approval' - which means that they can do it in conjunction with the promotion of the film, but they should agree in advance on how to do it, and if they meet someone they hate to host or participate in the subsequent promotion activities, they can refuse to participate in the activities.

For example, when they encounter a talk show hosted by a host they hate, they can claim not to participate in the recording of the show with such a clause.

In the same way, such recognition and decision-making power can be used in the publication of scripts, stills, and stand-in actors...... As long as there are enough coffee seats, these are all discussed.

Hollywood has never been a place of goodness and simplicity. This is a battlefield without gunpowder.

Here, countless actors are fighting openly and secretly in order to be able to seize a place, and the contest of signatures is also one of them.

And unlike the Writers Guild of America agreement, the Screen Actors Guild agreement does not provide detailed rules for the authorship of actors in films. So savvy actors and their agents will fight for the best position an actor can get on 'top.billing', in terms of location, size, format, and production company.

They took the trouble to agree on various elaborate clauses, such as requiring the actor's name to appear first in the 'subtitles that are not displayed separately', and that no more than two signatures appeared in the same scene.

It may seem strange, but in a nutshell – I want to stand out. I wanted to be front of the list, and I wanted the audience to be able to see my name at a glance - especially the A and Super A stars, whose names sometimes preceded the title page of the film.

There is also a more pretentious term for authorship - wherever there is a director's signature, the actor must enjoy the same size, the same position, and the same font as the director's name.

Of course, it also depends on the director's position, like Duke, Spielberg or James? For a director like Cameron, no one is stupid enough to make such a hypocritical request.

It's an incomparably complex industry, and it's just wishful thinking to simply play your role and make your own film to stand out, including actors, who want to get what they deserve. You have to go for it.

Although no one in this industry is irreplaceable, the appeal of star actors is not a bubble.

Equal placement is a term that most people may not have heard of, even in Hollywood, it is only used by some star actors with a certain coffee position.

After the filming is completed, the producer may produce some paid advertisements or audio to promote the film, which will use the portrait photos or names of some influential movie stars as a means of publicity, such publicity is mutually beneficial to the film and the star, then the big stars involved in the filming will certainly not let go of this opportunity, they will negotiate equal access rights - the producer should add the photo of their portrait to any advertisement in the portrait or photo of other actors in the same size.

Anyway, the local producers who have benefits can't leave them behind, after all, they also have a certain value. It is precisely based on the value of star actors that the producer has to consider such a rights agreement with the other party in the contract.

It doesn't matter if it's any film, a commercial or an audio is just such a big place, it can't fit too many people.

For the sake of maximizing profits. The producer must have wanted to put the most topical movie stars as a selling point, so he will rack his brains to politely refuse the actor's request.

For example, when a producer commits to credit an actor in a paid advertisement, it routinely excludes certain ranges, which may include billboard ads, other outdoor advertisements, and smaller-sized print advertisements. In many cases, the scope of the exclusion is too broad. It makes it meaningless for the producer to provide bylines for the actors.

However, this does not make it difficult for the star actors and their agents, who in turn agree with the producers that if other actors are credited in the 'exclusionary advertisement', they should also be credited, but only mentioning the honoree's congratulatory or nominated advertisements are reasonably excluded.

Decades ago, producers occupied an absolute dominant position in Hollywood, such as sofa auditions and all kinds of compulsive transactions were not uncommon, but after the development of Hollywood over the years, compulsive transactions are not absent, but they are becoming less and less, and situations like sofa auditions have become rare, and it is impossible for them to happen to that big-name star.

Today's transactions are all about you and me, and in the past, there was a situation where there was a passion scene that could make big-name stars strip and audition, basically don't even think about it, except for the extremely chaotic independent film industry, if you want to make star actors strip naked in mainstream productions, the producer also has to pay a lot of money.

There will always be nude scenes or bed scenes in Hollywood movies, and for this special scene, before and during filming and after the filming is completed, there are corresponding contract clauses in the industry to protect the interests of producers and star actors.

The Actors' Guild has an agreement that requires these actors or stand-ins to sign a 'nudity waiver' before performing these scenes, which is not only a prior statement by the actor that he or she is willing to appear in nudity and bed scenes, but must also contain a description of the degree of nudity or physical contact, ensuring that the filming will be carried out in accordance with the agreement reached by both parties and within the actor's acceptance during the subsequent filming process.

If the actor repents after signing the statement, and they are allowed to withdraw their statement, the producer will directly send a stand-in on the stage, and even the stand-in cannot be used casually without the consent of the actor.

**Or due to the particularity of the bed scene, in order to avoid being used by others and spreading to adversely affect the actors, the actors' union has also made strict regulations on the procedures of these scenes during filming, and the scene shall not be disclosed to any party except for the main participants and staff.

It is forbidden for anyone to shoot stills of these scenes without the prior written permission of the actors, and sometimes in order to prevent the producer from using the performance footage of the nude or bed scene elsewhere, the experienced star actor will use the prohibitive clause during the negotiation to dispel the wishful thinking that the producer may have, so that they are not allowed to use these clips outside of the feature film, even if they are used in the feature film, it is necessary to let the actor himself have the right to review the appearance of the film during the sample film.

Becoming a big-name star actor is no longer as simple as a Hollywood actor, they are completely a part of the individual caricature.

When filming on location, A-list actors usually have a dedicated premium motorhome, which they will ask for the same level as other actors of the same level, and they will be treated with the best treatment in terms of size and facilities, including private bathroom, stereo, TV, internet, fax machine, VCR, refrigerator, oven, bed or sofa, heating and air conditioning.

Some celebrities require refrigerators to be stocked with specific food and beverages, or other special requests, and in the production company's jurisdiction, celebrity actors also require an upscale dressing room with the aforementioned state-of-the-art bespoke amenities.

Hollywood's big-name stars have more power in the crew than they can imagine outside the circle.

Before filming, they will watch the script, especially to confirm the role they are playing, and some actors will insist that they have the right to confirm the substantive change of their role during the negotiation, after all, the change of role can affect many aspects of the actor, and some actors even simply ask for confirmation of the current script.

In addition to the need for script confirmation, some female stars and higher-level male actors will also require confirmation rights for makeup, hair and costumes to ensure that they can appear in front of the audience in the most perfect posture.

These are the most normal powers of star actors in Hollywood.

After all, in Hollywood, the top actors have the right to directly decide which actors and directors to work with!

This right is the willfulness of super A actors, they directly refuse when they encounter people who don't want to cooperate, and the producers generally will not otherwise make this request, because they themselves represent a huge market appeal.

It is also based on this that the upcoming project "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is facing a difficult birth. (To be continued.) )

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