Chapter 139: Worth learning

　　 The second day after meeting Paul Greengrass, Ronan waited for his agent Dean, and the two sides also had formal negotiations.
　　 In terms of remuneration, the two sides talked smoothly, and Paul Greengrass obviously persuaded his agent.
As for how to convince, Ronan is not very clear, but the agent is a service provider in Hollywood after all. If the client insists on doing something, the agent can hardly stop it. The two sides are really going to be stalemate, and the actors and directors in the industry are speculating. Broker squid is not difficult.
　　 Maybe the people who made the entertainment bill learned from the experience and lessons that actors belonged to production companies in the era of big studios, and fundamentally eliminated the possibility of agency companies blocking actors.
Recently, there has been a lot of rumors. The two most important clients of caa, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, are preparing to step out of the broker contract with caa and instead let their own professional managers. Fully responsible for various brokerage businesses.
If Ronan remembers correctly, not long into the new century, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio broke away from caa, completely abandoned the brokerage business, and replaced it with managers. Business.
　　 After the firing of caa this time, it was the matchmaking of the managers, and the two began to cooperate for many years.
　　 As long as Paul Greengrass insists on taking over the identity of Byrne, and Dean strongly opposes it, Ronan can unite with Paul Greengrass and get him out of Dean's trouble.
　　 However, it must be a little troublesome to do so, after all, Dean comes from William Morris.
　　 Fortunately, Dean is a clever man. He also knows Paul Greengrass' situation. Apart from Ronan’s project, it is difficult to find a directorship for big investment action movies.
　　 But Dean still worked the pay, Ronan made some concessions.
　　 If Byrne's status can exceed the production budget in North America in the future, Paul Greengrass can get the box office bonus equivalent to the film pay.
　　 In the next two sequels, the proportion of Paul Greengrass' pay rose to 3.5% and 7% of the total budget.
　　 The film remuneration still adopts the more casual payment mode of the independent film industry. The two parties pay 30% when signing the contract, 30% before the film starts, and the remaining 40% is paid when all production is completed.
　　 The salary was negotiated, and negotiations on other matters also went on for two days, mainly Ronan's request for Paul Greengrass, and Dean fought for the corresponding powers for Paul Greengrass.
　　 This is a commercial cooperation, all promises can only be effective if they are written in the contract.
　　 Dean, put forward the power of director's signature, insurance, travel expenses, living perks, and later director's editing.
　　 Ronan did not get too entangled in these trivial matters, and even gave Paul Greengrass the right to preside over the editing.
This is different from the final editing rights. Paul Greengrass can finally submit to Ronan one or more editing versions that he feels satisfied. Ronan, as the person with the final editing rights, has the right to modify and re-edit it, or even make Major changes, such as changing the ending, etc.
How much power 　　 gets, naturally there is a corresponding obligation.
　　 Ronan will not completely trust the director. After all, he has seen too many commercial nightmares brought about by the free play of directors in his previous life. Paul Greengrass's directorial power must be within the scope he delineated.
He asked Paul Greengrass to immediately devote himself to the pre-development and subsequent formal preparations of Byrne’s identity after signing the contract. Cooperating with screenwriter Tony Gilroy to complete the script production and submit the edited version, which should be no less than 90 minutes and no more than 120 Minutes must not exceed the budget and shooting must be consistent with the script. The movie editing version must comply with pg13's grading regulations.
　　 Before the arrival of the new weekend, Ronan, on behalf of Shahai Entertainment, officially signed a contract with Paul Greengrass for the director of the Bourne Trilogy, which solved a crucial part of the preparation and shooting of this series.
　　 Paul Greengrass is full of enthusiasm for work. On the second day of signing the contract, he invested in the early development of Bourne's identity.
　　 Since the ace agent has already ended the promotion, George Clint has also joined the crew of Byrne, and continues to coordinate all aspects of daily work as a production manager.
Ronan got the director, naturally turned his attention to the actors, and asked him to invite Matt Damon’s agency. Matt Damon is now a second-line star actor. If he can be invited to play Jason Bourne , Whether it is to obtain third-party completion guarantee insurance from the Firefighter Fund, or to raise production funds overseas, it can bring benefits.
　　 However, Matt Damon did not immediately respond.
　　 Ronan didn't get up and invite him again, which would easily make the other party talk about the salary or other conditions. Matt Damon was the first candidate, not a must.
　　 "Where is the heroine?" George Clint asked, "Find a German actress?"
　　 Ronan thought for a while, and said, "The heroine is not in a hurry, it's easy to find a vase-like role."
　　 I remember that the heroine of the previous life seems to be the one who played Lola in the run, and I don’t remember the specific name at all, and she is not a famous star.
　　George Clint said about the director again:
Signing three film director contracts with Paul Greengrass at one time will save a lot of pay later.

　　 "It will definitely save some." Ronan told the truth: "But if Bourne's identity is successful, Paul Greengrass and his agent will inevitably ask for a contract change, and we will have to make some concessions."
　　George Clint also understood this, and said: "If you really want to make trouble like Edward Norton and Paramount Pictures, it will become a lose-lose situation.
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　　 Ronan did not want to see such a situation, since it is a commercial cooperation, it is impossible to make the other party unprofitable.
　　 Of course, if he is as rascal as Edward Norton, he will certainly not agree.
　　 A few years ago, when Edward Norton was still an unknown young actor, he signed three film contracts with Paramount Pictures in order to get a first-degree fearful role from Paramount Pictures.
　　As we all know, opportunities in Hollywood are the most rare.
Just like Paul Greengrass, when the opportunity is presented, there is no capital to pick and choose. Edward Norton faces the first real movie role in his life and does not hesitate to sign a contract with Paramount Pictures , And then became famous in one fell swoop through this movie.
　　 Next, the book tycoon, everyone said I love you and Fight Club and other films made Edward Norton famous.
　　 After Edward Norton cooperated with Paramount Pictures for the second time, the two sides had a fundamental disagreement on their ideas. Paramount provided Edward Norton with commercial films, while Edward Norton was a typical art fan.
　　 This directly led to sharp contradictions between the two sides. Edward Norton simply denied the existence of the three film contracts and repeatedly shied away from the projects provided by Paramount Pictures.
　　 Paramount Pictures sued Edward Nord last month.
　　 This lawsuit may drag on for a long time, but Paramount Pictures and even other companies in Hollywood will stare at Edward Nord until he loses the lawsuit.
　　 Edward Nord’s behavior is already challenging the industry’s default rules.
　　 In his previous life, Edward Nord lost the lawsuit, and then had to go and play a wretched villain, that is, the role of killing Charlize Theron's father.
　　 This is a typical lose-lose case. Paramount Pictures does not provide film projects and roles suitable for Edward Norton. After being embarrassed and angry, Edward Norton does not talk about the spirit of contract.
　　 Ronan often studies some classic Hollywood cases, combined with the memories of previous lives, and draws lessons from them.
　　 There are some, it is worth learning.
　　 On Friday, the of death came and entered the second weekend after the release. Disney Pictures’ straight dancers and Warner Bros’ Green Mile Miracle started painting at the same time.
　　The latter is starring Tom Hanks.
　　 However, the Miracle of Green Mile is obviously not a type that has exploded from the beginning of the box office. It has a relatively literary style and is more suitable for a long-term screening route.
　　 Despite the help of Tom Hanks, this film only got $18 million in box office in more than 2,850 theaters in its first weekend.
　　 Nao Dancing Man’s first weekend performance of less than ten million dollars, UU reading www.uukanshu. com does not have much competitiveness at all.
　　 In contrast, the two old movies Grim Reaper and Toy Story 2 are exceptionally strong.
　　 Toy Story 2 won 18.64 million U.S. dollars in the third weekend, and won the box office champion again the following week.
　　The second place on the box office list is Death. The box office next weekend dropped by only 32% compared with the first weekend, and won 18.35 million US dollars.
　　Reaper came to the North American box office and accumulated $54.2 million.
　　 Ronan also saw the possibility of repaying the money just through the North American box office.
Such box office results are also the result of high promotion and marketing. Ronan does not know how much money he spent on promotion and marketing in his previous life, but the cost of Embassy Pictures is definitely higher. So far, he has invested in promotion and distribution. $11 million.
　　 Will continue to invest in the future, the expected expenditure totals 13 million US dollars.
　　 Fortunately, Blair the Witch has made Relativity Entertainment ample cash flow, otherwise Ronan will have to find a way to borrow or raise funds.
After this weekend, the great success of Reaper has been irreversible. Ronan also temporarily put down his work on this film and began to hang out in the prosperous Los Angeles area with Beverly Hills as the core, frequently participating in parties organized by some stars or film companies. , To observe how to play the Hollywood awards season.
　　 At the same time, I also get to know more people and further expand the network of contacts.