Chapter 069

Peter Sanders, however, seemed a little impatient. After a friendly talk with Simon, he proposed to find a place to talk.

Simon didn't refuse. After greeting Janet, he took Peter Sanders out of the hotel where the crew stayed and went to a nearby coffee shop.

They sat down and ordered coffee. Peter Sanders said, "Simon, I'm here to discuss the contract between you and fox."

Simon just nodded and waited for Peter Sanders to go on.

Peter Sanders looked at Simon's expression, pause, but temporarily changed the topic, and said: "Simon, Mr. Goldberg arranged a trial screening of" Butterfly Effect "on Tuesday, but the effect was not very good. Several film critics at the scene thought that the film was a bit scattered."

Simon twirled the coffee the waiter had just served and said, "if that's the case, Mr. Sanders, I can only say I'm sorry. However, I believe that my script is a wonderful story, and I also believe that Brian has enough strength to show this story perfectly. Maybe you should be more patient and wait for the film to be completely completed. "

Feeling Simon's strength, Peter Sanders, who originally wanted to pinch, remembered Ronald Goldberg's advice and had to say, "well, that should be it."

Simon listened to the tone of Peter Sanders, but didn't want the other party to be embarrassed. He took the initiative to change his name and said, "Peter, did you just say that contract?"

Peter Sanders took a sip of the coffee in front of him, put down the cup, and then replied, "yes, Simon, we are going to fulfill our priority in the contract and buy your script of" death is coming ". Moreover, Mr. Goldberg also hopes that you can direct the film yourself. If you agree, the project can start now and the schedule is set for the end of the year. "

The excellence of "death is coming" lies in a very novel idea, but the film is just an ordinary plasma thriller with limited box office potential. Simon doesn't intend to waste too much energy on this film. Moreover, Simon has signed his next directing contract to Orion, and it is impossible to cooperate with fox immediately.

However, Simon did not immediately refuse, but asked: "Peter, what about Fox's terms?"

Peter Sanders hesitated, but this time he didn't beat around the bush. He quoted Ronald Sandberg's price directly: "Simon, as long as you are willing to direct in person, we can give you a director's salary of $2 million plus 10% of the North American box office profit. It's a very generous offer, Simon. Usually, new people like you can't get a profit share at all. As like as two peas, Blaine can be the director of the butterfly effect. Also, the script is priced at $300000, and you can enjoy the same share terms as union members. "

Simon nodded slightly this time. Fox's offer was more sincere.

In this era, except for a few people like Spielberg at the top of the pyramid, the highest film remuneration of other first-line directors is about $5 million.

Fox's condition is also an affirmation of his film making ability in "Lola Run".

You know, in Hollywood, where the film industry is already very developed, the studio's assessment of a filmmaker's ability is very accurate depending on his works.

If Simon now gets a box office hit by chance with unskilled movies like "the witch Blair.". Well, the film companies will certainly marvel, but unless they want to take a chance and take advantage of his popularity in the witch Blair. Otherwise, there will be no studio willing to issue a director's appointment to him, let alone this kind of pay plan that is now a quasi first-line director.

That's what Simon wanted to see in the first place.

Even though he thought so, Simon could only shake his head with regret and said, "sorry, Peter, I have signed a director's contract with Orion, which is actually a subsidiary condition for Orion to release" Lola Run "for me."

When Peter Sanders heard the words, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

If we had known that "Lola Run" would have achieved the box office results, fox would have been willing to sign the same contract with Simon.

It's a pity.

There are countless ifs in the world, but there is only one result.

Peter Sanders is not clear about the specific details of the distribution contract signed by Simon and Orion. However, due to several successive contacts, the content of the contract is not difficult to speculate. Now that Simon's terms have been agreed, Orion will certainly keep its share of the North American box office at about 30%.

So, even according to the total box office of "Lola Run" in North America of $150 million, Orion will be able to earn $50 million in the future.

As for the cost of publicity, according to Peter Sanders, the box office of "Lola Run" basically depends on the hot talk of the media and the public praise of the audience. Orion's expenditure on this aspect is very small. Even in order to get more profits in the later period, Orion pictures will actively increase its investment in publicity and distribution, which will not exceed $10 million in any case.In this way, Orion pictures will make a net profit of 40 million US dollars just for the cinema distribution.

40 million dollars.

This is obviously a very conservative estimate.

However, the entire fox film industry did not make a profit of $40 million last year. In other words, the film business of fox pictures last year was a loss.

As the vice president of fox pictures, Peter Sanders knows very well that the best box office performance of his company's films released last year was only the $85 million of alien 2.

Moreover, of the 16 films released throughout the year, there are certainly no films with box office exceeding 100 million US dollars, and only five films with box office exceeding 10 million US dollars. Among them, 12 are at a loss. News Corp., the parent company, is even talking about cutting its budget for this year's film business.

Peter Sanders is just thankful that it was Ronald Goldberg who finally rejected "Lola Run.". Otherwise, in the next few months, he is likely to leave.

Simon saw that Peter Sanders didn't speak and then said, "Peter, frankly speaking, I don't have any interest in directing death himself. However, if fox wants to get the script now, I have my own requirements. I want to be a producer myself. "