After a few days in Santa Monica Beach, Ryan originally planned to find a fitness instructor and exercise the next time, but he didn't want to receive news from Twentieth Century Fox that he needed to return to Los Angeles as soon as possible.

In desperation, Ryan could only leave to return to Los Angeles, as for Monica Bellucci, as early as a day ago, she had returned to the UK to continue filming "Leaving Las Vegas", and the audition needed to be postponed for a while, and it seemed that there was a little problem with the crew.

For this reason, Ryan said hello to the crew of "Leaving Las Vegas" and tried to arrange her scenes to be filmed together, so as to return to Los Angeles as soon as possible and fight for the role in that sci-fi film.

"What is Twentieth Century Fox looking for me?"

Ryan returned to Los Angeles and instead of going straight to Twentieth Century Fox, he met Helen first.

"Is it a copyright issue around Saw 2?"

More than a month has passed since the premiere of "Saw 2", and Twentieth Century Fox and Helen have long begun to negotiate the rights of the film.

Among them, the distribution rights of offline videotapes have been sold for $8.3 million, and they are only 7 years of distribution rights, which is more than double the first "Chainsaw".

The rights to premiere and adapt the TV station, as last time, were sold to Fox TV for a whopping $5.5 million.

The rest are movie adaptation copyrights and game copyrights, etc., which have not yet been sold.

Generally speaking, film adaptation rights are only of interest to film companies in the San Fernando Valley.

"It has nothing to do with the copyright negotiations for Saw 2. ”

Helen said very cautiously: "It's Twentieth Century Fox who wants to continue to invest in the next "Saw Horror" and account for at least half of the film's investment. ”

"The most important point is that they hope to prepare the crew as soon as possible and release it in the summer. ”

"However, I have clearly rejected them on your behalf, saying that in the future, I will only shoot one "Chainsaw" every year, which will be released on Christmas schedule. ”

"It seems that Twentieth Century Fox finally can't help it!" Ryan didn't think it was strange that Twentieth Century Fox could bear it in the face of such a large piece of cake.

"Twentieth Century Fox has no problem continuing to invest, the proportion must continue to be discussed, half of the investment is too much, if it is promised, then the following Twentieth Century Fox will snatch the right to speak for the crew. ”

"There is also a "Chainsaw" every year, which is already the bottom line, even if the cooperation with Twentieth Century Fox is canceled, it is impossible to ruin the reputation that has been cultivated so hard. ”

Twentieth Century Fox can not care about long-term development, but Ryan has to think about how to get the most benefit instead of killing chickens and eggs.

Helen took a sip of her coffee and said, "Twentieth Century Fox has proposed that some concessions can be made on the Monica Bellucci audition, but only if the investment ratio for the next "Chainsaw" must be increased. ”

"By the way, it seems that Tom Rothman, who has been warned by Michael Ovitz and CAA, has been a lot quieter lately. ”

She found out through a lot of connections.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the news was deliberately released by Twentieth Century Fox.

Quit pro quo!

Or a threat in disguise!

"Twentieth Century Fox was whimsical. ”

Ryan showed some sarcasm and said: "It's not impossible to talk about increasing the proportion of investment, but these conditions are not enough, and they need to show more sincerity." ”

Even if it is inevitable for 20th Century Fox to increase the proportion of investment, it must not be easily agreed, otherwise next year 20th Century Fox will inevitably open his mouth.

"I'm going to continue to talk to Twentieth Century Fox, but I can't afford to delay. Helen wasn't surprised that Ryan would refuse, even if it was about Monica Bellucci.

"That's right. ”

"How did this involve Monica!" Ryan wondered a little.

Even in exchange, Monica Bellucci shouldn't be involved.

"That's for yourself. ”

With a calm face, Helen took out a newspaper from the table and placed it in front of Ryan, almost half of the page published a photo of him applying sunscreen to Monica Bellucci, with a suspicious title.

After a glance, Ryan couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "Damn gossip tabloids." ”

"Unexpectedly, Twentieth Century Fox would also pay attention to the lace news published in the gossip newspapers. ”

To be honest, he was a little speechless, and he really didn't know how to describe it.

"I've been paying attention to you a long time ago. ”

"Still, for Monica Bellucci, maybe it's a good thing. Helen has to admit that this matter is very good for Monica Bellucci.

The reason is very simple, the collaboration with Twentieth Century Fox should continue, if nothing else.

Then Twentieth Century Fox will make some concessions in order to win over Ryan.

"One more thing to tell you is that a luxury lingerie company wants you to be the director of an advertisement, and they're willing to pay $1.5 million for it. ”

Helen remembered that when Ryan first filmed "Blair the Witch," the entire film cost only tens of thousands of dollars.

However, it has only been more than half a year, and in just a few days, a company is willing to pay $1.5 million for the filming of an advertising video.

Even though she had changed her contract with Ryan again, from the original 10 percent agent share, to only 3 percent of the commission.

But as long as Ryan agrees, she will get $45,000 from it, which is almost the same as the cost of filming "Blair the Witch."

"As long as time permits, you can agree to come down. Naturally, Ryan wasn't going to turn down a $1.5 million fee.

"There should be no problem with the time, even if you need to go to New York, counting the round-trip journey of about a week at most, you can come back just in time to prepare for the crew of "Evil Ghost Invasion". Helen counted the time and thought there should be no problem.

"Then promise to come down and inform Sophia to book a ticket. Ryan immediately called Sophia and asked her to book three tickets to New York, and specifically asked her to be first-class, anyway, someone reimbursed this time.

Next, the two went on to talk about negotiations with Twentieth Century Fox and some of the details of preparing the crew of "Invasion of Evil Spirits".

The investment in "Invasion of the Evil Spirit" is all from Twentieth Century Fox, and there is no one-cent investment from Ryan, so Helen asked for a sky-high directorial fee, which is as high as $8 million, and 10% of the global box office.

Frightened, the 20th Century Fox negotiators refused again and again, so they could only continue to negotiate.

According to Helen's estimates, $8 million is naturally impossible, and there is little hope for box office sharing, and there will be about $3 million to $4 million in director fees in the end.

Of course, in exchange, Twentieth Century Fox would sell the X-Men rights at a good price.

If it weren't for the stalemate in this matter, the crew of "Evil Spirit Invasion" would have started preparations a long time ago.

It was not until yesterday afternoon that the two sides finally reached a consensus on the $4.5 million after many negotiations.

In this regard, Ryan did not ask too much, but hoped that an agreement could be reached as soon as possible to pocket the X-Men copyright.

That's the point, not the multimillion-dollar directorial fee.

It wasn't until it got dark that Ryan looked at the time and asked, "Why haven't you seen Heidi in a while?"

He hadn't seen Heidi much since the filming of "Blair the Witch" ended.

"She went back to school in the UK and only came over during the summer holidays. ”

Helen began to pack her things and prepared to get up and go home. "If you want to find her, you can go to the UK and go to the crew casually. ”

It's been a while since "Leaving Las Vegas" was filmed, but Ryan has never been there once, not even asking about the filming process.

Fortunately, producer Jill Anne Hurd was very competent and solved a lot of trouble.

As Cameron's ex-wife and producer of "Terminator" and "Alien 2", she has good connections in Hollywood and European film circles.

"Well, I'll visit her in England when I get the chance. ”

Ryan looked at Helen, who was about to leave, and said, "Then may I ask Miss Helen, can we have dinner together?"

"Like the last time Mr. Zhou's restaurant!"

Helen stared at him for a while and said, "If you're not afraid of being secretly photographed by gossip reporters, I don't care." ”

"Let them shoot whatever they want. Ryan doesn't mind at all, he's not an actor anyway.