Chapter 095

After Simon's narration, Robert De Niro had a feeling of sudden brightness.

Compared with those memorable films or characters in the history of film, young people in front of them are more ambitious.

He wants to create a complete fictional world. He wants to make the audience believe that everyone in this world is alive. He wants to unconsciously draw the audience's attention into this world through an alternative plot structure, endless dialogue and extremely rich details.

It can be imagined that if this goal is achieved, who dares to say that this film will not become a classic in film history.

Robert De Niro has had his most glorious years. The godfather, taxi driver, deer hunter, angry bull and other films have brought him too much honor. He thought it was hard for him to get too interested in any film in the world.

But at this time, the young man's ambitious work aroused his desire to perform again.

Moreover, as a standard experiential actor, Robert De Niro also realized that the role of Butch Coolidge is definitely a very interesting challenge for him.

Butch Coolidge is a fictional character from the absurd world. If he wants to build this character, he can't drive a taxi like he did when he was preparing for taxi driver, and he can't fight like he did in angry bull. Even, he not only needs to construct such a role out of thin air, but also needs to fully believe that he lives in such an absurd world as vulgar novel.

Thinking about this in his mind, when the figure of Robert Redford disappeared, Robert De Niro did not hesitate any more and said directly, "Simon, talk about the pay."

Simon quickly replied, "a base salary of $2 million plus 15% of the net North American box office profit. Bob, the budget for vulgar fiction is only $8 million, so that's the highest offer I can make. "

Robert De Niro did not hide his emotions, shaking his head: "some low."

Over the years, although the box office results ranked the last among the original four actors, due to the strong coffee seats, De Niro's film remuneration started at least $3 million, and his budget for participating in films was rarely less than $10 million.

Compared with "angel heart", which was released at the same time as Warner's "lethal weapon", the production cost is as high as $17 million.

As for profit sharing, due to the special accounting system of Hollywood films, which is always difficult to make profits, the current stars usually regard this promise as a blank check.

Simon, from "Lola Run" to now "death is coming" and "vulgar novel", insists on asking for direct box office share in order to avoid "Hollywood ledger" as much as possible.

Hearing De Niro's reply, Simon seriously explained: "Bob, this time the box office share is calculated in this way. Orion and theaters will only take 15% of the publicity expenses according to the five to five share calculation, and the other 35% of the total box office in North America, minus the production budget of $8 million, take the rest as the net profit share base, from which you can get 15%. According to this formula, if the box office of "vulgar novel" reaches 50 million dollars, you will get a total of 3.5 million dollars. The expected North American box office of "Lola Run" is more than 200 million US dollars. I can't guarantee that my next film will be so successful, but I think that 50 million US dollars is certainly no problem

Robert De Niro still shook his head slightly and said, "Simon, according to this formula, the box office of vulgar novel in North America is 100 million dollars, and I can only get 6 million dollars."

Simon said seriously: "it may be presumptuous to say that, but, Bob, you really need a blockbuster right now. So if the box office of vulgar novel in North America is really lucky to reach $100 million, you will actually get more than $6 million for one film. "

Robert De Niro was silent at last.

His recent films, angel heart, cost US $17 million to produce this year, are nearing the end of the season, with a box office of only US $14 million in North America; last year's war is on the rise, with a production budget of US $25 million, and a box office of us $17.21 million in North America. Earlier, the production cost of "past America" was US $30 million, and the box office in North America was only US $5.32 million.

It can be said that in the 1980s, the box office of all his films in North America did not exceed US $20 million, but the production budget of these films reached the level of US $10 million blockbuster.

Hollywood is very realistic. No matter how high a taxi or how many Oscars there are, if they can't bring profits to the studio, they are doomed to be abandoned.

In fact, Robert De Niro had already suffered a setback before this meeting.

He took a fancy to a project fox is preparing, called "leap into the future.".

Director Penny Marshall also wanted him to play the leading actor, but also took the initiative to recommend to the studio. However, due to his increasingly lukewarm box office results over the years, although Fox also intends to let him play, the pay offered by Fox is more stingy than Simon's just offer.Now, that role has fallen on a rising star named Tom Hanks.

There is no doubt that Robert knows that he is in such an embarrassing situation that he urgently needs a box office movie to prove his box office appeal.

After thinking about it for a while, Robert De Niro finally made a decision, stood up, reached out to Simon and said, "well, Simon, I hope we can work together happily."

Simon also got up, shook Robert De Niro's hand and said, "happy cooperation."

With Robert De Niro, the two heavyweights in the vulgar novel project are all in place.

Before that, Amy had talked about John Travolta.

John Travolta has been in the limelight for several years since grease, the North American box office champion in 1978. However, the disadvantages of young stars who are too shallow and easy to pass away soon appear. Two years ago, after the box office failure of the $20 million production of "the best" again, Travolta, 33, even went to a TV movie last year in order to transform.

As a result, Travolta quickly accepted a $1 million plus 5% share of the North American box office net profit.

Like death is coming, vulgar fiction is still under the control of Denise pictures, while Orion is only responsible for investment and distribution. In addition to the $8 million budget, Orion gave Simon a 20% share of his total net profit to solicit characters.

After Travolta and De Niro are taken care of, Simon has already paid $3 million for the film and his share of the total net profit.

According to the preliminary budget, the offline expenses for the rental of venue equipment and the compensation of employees behind the scenes need at least $3 million, while Simon has only $2 million left for other characters in the film.

Although there are many roles, it is enough to make a careful budget.

Robert Redford promised to be a guest of Mr. Wolfe, but it made some changes again.

Different from Travolta and De Niro, who are in the decline of their career, Robert Redford is definitely a first-line male star who can solidly earn more than $5 million. Even if he is a guest star, Simon can't be too stingy.

It's definitely going to be Orion next week.

Simon and De Niro continued to talk about some details, and they left the villa and went to the party in the courtyard.