Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 149 is really dark enough
Moreover, the filming and post-production difficulty of "Mean Girls" is about the same as that of "Acceptance". Even if Nancy Meyers is a little older, she is not as energetic as young people like James Wan, and she cannot have sex every day. Post-production can be completed in a week at most.

At that time, another US$6000 million in system funds will be available, and some new projects can be started.

So after thinking about it, he simply paid for and rented three more villas next to the villa where Martina and Anne lived, so that Sarah Michelle Gellar, Isla Fisher and Keri Russell and all three others also moved here.

In this way, he doesn't have to run around. He can feed six women directly in one place, which saves a lot of time.

At the same time, he also used the time saved to start writing the script crazily.

In this way, when he goes to film "The Notebook", these women will also have something to do.

After some screening, Wayne finally chose three scripts: "Wedding Crashers," "Love and Elixir," and "The Intern."

Among them, "The Intern" goes without saying much.

This is also one of Anne's masterpieces in her previous life, written and directed by Nancy Meyers. It tells the story of the male protagonist 'Ben Whitcott' who cannot face an ordinary life after retirement and returns to the workplace to become a heroine. The story of the intern who created the fashion website 'Jules Austen'.

With an announced production cost of US$3500 million, the film has grossed a global box office of US$1.94 million, which is quite impressive.

However, because Anne is not yet able to play a career woman like 'Jules Austen' at her current age, he is going to give this role to Keri Russell, who is better than Anne at this time in terms of acting skills and fame. .

Of course, he did not treat Anne badly and returned the work "Love and Elixir" that originally belonged to her to her, and he will replace the original actor Jake Gyllenhaal in this film. The box office of the movie will definitely be much higher than in the previous life.

After all, he is now much more famous than Jake Gyllenhaal, who has not yet starred as 'Mysterio' in "Spider-Man: Far From Home".

In addition, while this movie was a big hit at the box office, it also showed off its acting skills. It is a film that has a chance to be nominated.

This made Annie very excited after learning about it, and she became even more motivated to take acting classes.

However, Wayne also plans to star in the movie "Wedding Crashers", and with "The Notebook" and "League of Assassins" also waiting for him, the start of filming of "Love and the Elixir" may be slightly delayed. .

After all, the box office performance of "Wedding Crashers" is much higher than that of "Love and Elixir".

This romantic comedy movie, originally released in 2005 and starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, managed to earn US$4000 million despite the fact that the main actors were second- and third-tier stars and the announced production cost was only 2.88 million. Global box office, becoming one of the ten highest-grossing movies in the world that year.

If he, a first-line actor, plays the leading role, the box office will increase by another 5000 million. Isn't that too much?

As for the first and second female leads, he chose Sarah Michelle Gellar and Isla Fisher, who originally played the second female lead in this film.

The only problem is that he was a little too tired for filming like this.

"The Notebook", "Wedding Crashers", "Assassin's League", "Love and Elixir" plus "The Bourne Supremacy" which should start filming this year, he will star in at least five movies this year, almost It's going to be open all year round.

But this is also impossible.

You must know that if he pays himself a film salary now, it can reach 1300 million. When "The Bourne Supremacy" is released, it is estimated that it will rise to 1 million or even 1800 million.That’s $2000 million for five movies!

And only by starring him can the production cost of each movie be raised.

At that time, the production cost of an ordinary love movie like "The Notebook" and "Love and the Elixir" will be as high as 5000 to [-] million. If the Big Seven and other distribution companies want to buy the copyrights of these movies, they will You can only offer a higher price.

But spending 7000 to [-] million yuan to buy a romance movie, do they dare to take this risk?

Obviously, nine times out of ten, he would not dare.

Therefore, not only will they not prevent Hemera Pictures from distributing it on its own, but they will add fuel to the fire and help him remove some obstacles.

After these movies are released in North America and are confirmed to be profitable, they will swarm in and snap up the overseas copyrights and disc sales rights of these movies, reaching a deal that is almost guaranteed to make a profit.

As for Hemera Pictures, while making more money, it can also continuously consolidate and improve its distribution channels in North America. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.

A win-win situation for Hemera Pictures and the Seven.

So unless he is willing to give away his nearly 2000 million salary for this movie to other big-name stars, he will have to star in it himself.

But just as he was writing furiously, preparing to finish the script for "The Wedding Crashers" before tomorrow's audition for "Taken", a sudden phone call disrupted his rhythm.

"What? George Lucas has agreed to sell Industrial Light and Magic? What are the conditions?"

"1.1 million in cash, plus an investment of 1500 million with 4% priority box office share?"

"This old guy is really shady. He thinks that this "Star Wars Episode II" can also get a box office of 2 billion US dollars like the previous one? Just dream!"

"Then do we agree?" Sierra asked on the other end of the phone.

"Promise, why not agree." Wayne chuckled. He was determined to win Industrial Light and Magic. After all, he would put the Marvel Universe, Monster Universe, and Transformers Universe on the screen in the future. There were too many things to use. Let’s get to the special effects.

So as long as he buys Industrial Light, the money used to produce special effects in the movie's cost will be returned to his hands, and it will turn from system funds into cash that he can use at will.

At that time, he can boldly spend hundreds of millions or even billions on special effects for a movie. Anyway, the money will eventually become his, and he will not make it easier for outsiders.

So no matter what, he wants those Industrial Light and Magic, even if the price of 1.25 million is much more than the original budget, it will make his capital chain even tighter.

"Okay, I'll reply to George Lucas right away."

"Okay, when the time comes to sign the contract, the location will be Industrial Light and Magic. Then I will increase their performance pay by 15% in front of all employees after completing the contract."

(End of this chapter)