hollywood melon man

Chapter 54 The box office is still moving forward

After leaving Michael Ovitz's office, Rory Toledo found Sandra Bullock with a distressed look on his face.

This is his largest client, and Sandra Bullock trusts him.

"What's wrong? Rory?" Sandra Bullock asked with concern when she saw Rory Toledo's distressed face.

"Mr. Ovitz asked me to extend the packaging service to director Gilbert Jr.'s crew..." Rory Toledo said with a look of helplessness.

"What?" Sandra Bullock couldn't help but raise her voice loudly: "Don't you know, Mr. Ovitz, that Director Gilbert Jr. doesn't like package services?"

After all, Sheena Boone is a former CAA agent, and everyone knows about her.

On the surface, Sheena Boone resigned on her own because she had no clients. In fact, Michael Ovitz and Martin Bob teamed up to force Sheena Boone to resign.

As for the reason, although Sheena Boone didn't say it, everyone guessed that it was probably related to the difference in ideas between the two.

"Shh," Rory Toledo covered Sandra Bullock's mouth, looked around and saw that no one noticed them, so he quickly pulled Sandra Bullock out.

After leaving, Rory Toledo said: "Mr. Michael Ovitz is very determined.

He said that if I can't do this, I will leave CAA, and your agency contract will probably be handed over to someone else. "

"How is this allowed? I'll go talk to Mr. Ovitz." Sandra Bullock was about to go in to discuss the matter with Michael Ovitz, but was grabbed by Rory Toledo.

"Sandra, don't get excited, calm down." Rory Toledo advised: "I'm going to try, it doesn't matter if I don't succeed, the worst I can do is leave CAA.

But this project was important to you, it was a mainstream commercial film and if it was a success, you could be on the A-list.

The most important thing is that director Gilbert Jr.'s two consecutive films have grossed over 50 million in North American box office and over 100 million US dollars worldwide.

You must also know what it means to star in such a director's new work. "

Sandra Bullock calmed down and saw that Rory Toledo was still thinking about her, and felt inexplicably moved.

She promised: "Don't worry, if Mr. Ovitz wants to kick you out of CAA, then I will definitely follow you."

Rory Toledo couldn't laugh or cry: "It's okay, as long as this movie is made and successful, Mr. Ovitz can't do anything to us."

Michael Ovitz is indeed very powerful when it comes to small stars and their managers, but he is powerless when it comes to managers who have superstars.

Tom Cruise's agent Pat Kinliss never liked Michael Ovitz.

Michael Ovitz had long been unhappy with this woman, but there was nothing he could do about her.

It can be seen that the so-called emperor of the Hollywood entertainment agency world is just a media bragging. In the face of first-line stars and directors, Michael Ovitz cannot be strong.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be Rory Toledo who should persuade little Gilbert to accept the packing service, but himself.

Why doesn't he go? Just because he didn't want to offend little Gilbert and his father, Gilbert Sr., he found a middleman.

If it succeeds, it's easy to say. If it doesn't, the blame will be placed on Rory Toledo.

As time enters November, "Death Comes" is still showing in theaters, but the number of theaters has been reduced to 300, and the daily box office accumulation is also limited.

However, the film's North American box office still reached US$6142.3 million, setting the best North American box office record in Gilbert's career.

The North American box office that the film can harvest in the follow-up is limited, and this is probably the end of it.

However, this automatically triggered Little Gilbert's agreement on box office profit sharing. Starting from 50 million, there will be a share of box office profit, and for every increase of 10 million, there will be an additional 1% share.

Therefore, Little Gilbert received 6% of the box office profit share. Based on the current box office data, it is about a little over 1.5 million US dollars.

After all, the profit share must be calculated after deducting theater chain shares, publicity and distribution costs, production costs, etc., and US$1.5 million is not bad.

Moreover, Little Gilbert still has one-tenth of the investment income, including subsequent video tapes, TV copyrights, and overseas box office shares.

However, the remaining income will not be paid for a year or so, and it will have to wait.

Even so, it was enough to satisfy little Gilbert.

After the money arrived, he first transferred a sum of money to the Tolkien Copyright Foundation. This is just part of it, there will be another payment next year.

After broker Sheena Boone and accountant Kevin took their share, little Gilbert continued to buy Apple shares despite stockbroker David's eyes as a fool. At the same time, Little Gilbert also asked David to find out if there were any shareholders within Apple who were willing to sell Apple shares.

If Wanyu really exists, then he will eat it without hesitation.

When the time comes, you can change your identity and become a member of the board of directors of Apple, and you can make a fortune just lying down.

And this action needs to be done quickly. When Steve Jobs returns to Apple, Apple's stock will not be so easy to buy.

Why do you mean Apple will have another decade of turmoil? What you see is turmoil, little Gilbert sees opportunity.

It will eventually develop. Take advantage of the fact that no one is optimistic about Apple, buy a large amount directly, and then join Apple's board of directors to support the return of Steve Jobs.

Maybe Apple can end the turbulent period early and embark on the fast lane of development.

This is not a short-term investment, but a long-term investment process.

Those who are short-term can invest in other Internet companies before the Internet bubble and make a windfall.

As for the stock market crash and the like, little Gilbert didn't know much about it. He only knew a rough idea. He had no insiders or information, so he didn't want to touch it.

As for Microsoft's stock, there aren't many circulating in the market, so I can only buy as much as possible.

But don't worry, the big wave of Internet companies is coming, and little Gilbert is ready to take a big bite of the cake in this huge wave.

Money, no one can have too much money.

He is not an IT expert, nor does he know how to do business, but as long as he knows how to invest, he will not worry about making money based on his impressions from his previous life.

But the foundation of all careers is still movies.

Without movies, nothing else is possible.

"Death Comes" has also achieved high box office overseas, taking in US$6327.8 million so far.

This makes the total global box office of "Death Comes Again" once again exceed 1.24 million, reaching million US dollars, once again breaking Gilbert's personal box office record.

This achievement may not mean much in more than ten years, but at this time, Hollywood has just begun the era of commercial movies and the era of globalized movies has not yet begun, so the results of "The God of Death" are not bad.

Starring Tom Cruise, it takes a long time to boast that the global box office has exceeded 100 million, not to mention that Gilbert has two consecutive movies that have exceeded 100 million worldwide.

It is precisely because of this that Little Gilbert's new work has attracted so much attention from the industry that even Michael Ovitz was jealous and tried to implement the package service policy to his crew.

Before the casting auditions began, Gilbert Jr. inspected several locations and selected Interstates 105 and 110 in California as the filming locations.

These two roads are still under construction and are not open to the public.

Producer Charles Rowan talked with local contractors for a long time and worked hard before settling on the location as a filming location.

At the same time, Little Gilbert decided that all explosion scenes and racing scenes would be shot in real life, with only a few special effects added.

For this reason, Kane Waxman went to Los Angeles County several times to obtain a permit for real-life shooting and solved the procedural troubles.

While inspecting the road, little Gilbert noticed a broken bridge, so he called the director of photography Duer Randolph and the stunt director Luca Farias to come over to discuss it.

"Durr, Luca, I want to take a shot like this, looking at a broken bridge. What would be the effect if the bus flew directly over the broken bridge?" Little Gilbert proposed an idea.

Duer thought about it and said: "Yes, from the viewing effect, this is definitely very exciting."

"Director, you need to reduce the weight of the bus, otherwise it won't be able to pass." Luca Farias said.

"This way," little Gilbert thought of a solution: "We prepare two or three buses and remove all unnecessary parts, leaving only the driving position and safety devices.

Duer, I need to set up the camera inside the bus to shoot this shot from a first-person perspective. I also need to set up two cameras on the road outside to complete the shooting at the same time. "

Little Gilbert gestured at the angle and expressed his thoughts to the two of them.

With the popularity of action movies, flying stunts are not uncommon, but I have never seen any crew or director who is crazy enough to put all the cameras on the stunts. James Cameron has never done this.

However, Duer Randolph and Luca Farias were very excited. When they got back, they gathered people and started simulating the plan to modify the bus.

(End of this chapter)