Legendary Hollywood Producer - Chapter 176

As time entered July, the location shooting of “Mission Impossible 3” was completed, and the post-production began.

After taking a look at Paramount Pictures, Roman was busy dealing with his own affairs again.

After the “Terror Cruise” project was approved, financing was in place immediately.

Smecta and Russian investors are very relieved.

The total budget of the film project is 30 million U.S. dollars, Smecta invested 20 million, accounting for 50%, and Russia invested 10 million, accounting for 30%, and was responsible for the publicity and distribution of Russia and the Middle East. , Manhai Entertainment does not need to spend a penny, accounting for 20%, which is included as the proportion of production technology.

And the domestic distribution work is naturally contracted by Western European Films, and the distribution in overseas regions has still been told to Paramount and they are responsible.

After the preliminary negotiation work was completed, the contract was signed and the search for a suitable director began.

It just so happened that Joe Det Durbar returned to Los Angeles, USA.

This excellent director who directed two big-selling zombie movies at the beginning, after being exhausted physically and mentally and wanting to rest, has not had any idea of ​​filming for nearly a year. Now after coming back from vacation, it is the first time to restore contact with Roman.

Roman has always recognized the director’s abilities, and “Horror Cruise” is also the type of subject he is good at.

As a result, Roman asked people to urge the two investors to enter the market as soon as possible, and at the same time took people to Joe de Dubar’s home to discuss cooperation matters.

Now, after all the characters in “Batman” have been selected, Christopher Nolan has also started filming with the crew.

There is Rami representing the position of Manhai Entertainment as the director’s platform, and Warner’s staff all give face to this less experienced director.

So the filming work is also proceeding steadily.

In addition, because of the previous cooperation with the Allianz Fire Fighting Foundation, this time the guarantee for the completion of “Terror Cruise” is still the responsibility of their family.

Yesterday morning, Mie, on behalf of Manhai Entertainment, directly signed a formal document agreement with representatives of Allianz Fire Fighting Foundation.

After the agreement was reached, a staff member of the Allianz Fire Fighting Foundation stayed in Burbank as a representative, and then he would participate in the filming and production of the crew throughout the process.

According to the content of the contract, the Allianz Fire Fighting Foundation has the right to interfere in the daily work of the crew, but that must be on the premise that there is an error in the shooting direction, otherwise it will only have a supervisory role.

Allianz Fire Fighting Foundation is indeed worthy of being the largest guarantor in the world’s film industry, and it has a very good understanding of the operation of a film. The supervisor who stayed behind, and PricewaterhouseCoopers hired by the two investors as the supervisor of the third-party finance, are very familiar with each other, and can fully grasp the movement of every penny of funds, which also guarantees the entire filming process. The most powerful way to have a good budget.

Alas, people nowadays have learned fine.

The Russian young master, who has lived in Los Angeles for so long, has also participated in the filming operation of “Mission Impossible 3”, has some understanding of the industry rules of the entire Hollywood circle, and said that he will hire a third-party agency to monitor the entire account. He put forward the funding trend, and gave an example of “Mission Impossible 3”, saying that they did the same.

Of course, in fact, Roman didn’t even think about being too tricky.

To deal with different financing objects, of course, we must use different strategies.

Roman had already thought about this.

No one in the world will always be a fool. If you didn’t understand the rules before, if you were scammed, you would just forget it. If you knew it, then you would be a fool.

Therefore, in this cooperation, Manhai Entertainment did not set up obstacles at all, and showed its sincerity in cooperation. The requirements of the investors were also met as much as possible.

However, when it comes to the release stage, you will know why the Hollywood film industry is so mysterious. The water inside is deep.

In addition to striving for the treatment that he deserves as a producer, Roman hasn’t entangled in investment contracts at all.

Therefore, everyone is very relieved and satisfied with this cooperation.

For example, the producers will receive a 20% profit margin on future revenues, and the investors have no opinion at all. Hollywood films nowadays operate in this way.

Is it equivalent to the protection fee spent on entering the market? They look very open.

After everything became clear, Roman went to Joe Det Durbar and invited him to direct the project, and they happily agreed.

They have been working well together, and Joe Det Durbar also likes Manhai Entertainment, a film company that does not easily interfere with the director’s creative ideas.

The cooperation was once again reached, and the crew of “Terror Cruise Ship” began to recruit and officially transferred to the preparatory work.

The other is the selection of role actors.

Roman asks Christopher Nolan to discuss whether Emily’s scene can be brought forward a little bit to make room for her schedule.

Christopher Nolan has nothing to do with this little suggestion. Emily’s scenes are already pitiful, and the filming can be done only a week in advance.

“Batman” was originally a male drama, and women played supporting roles, and there was nothing particularly important.

After getting the candidate for the heroine, it’s much easier to handle.

“Horror Cruise” means that the heroine has a lot of room to play. After communicating with Emily, the remaining characters can find some cheap and photogenic actors.

There are a lot of such actors in Hollywood’s Screen Actors Guild.

It didn’t take much effort, and the salary expenditure was only controlled at 5 million US dollars.

Among them, Emily’s worth reached 3 million US dollars, which is more than the combined pay of the remaining 5 supporting roles.

This is Hollywood, and inequality is everywhere.

In fact, Roman did not think too much about the choice of actors. In his opinion, the greatest value of the profession of actor is whether it can increase commercial revenue for this movie.

After the candidates were determined, Manhai Entertainment dispatched staff to take director Joe Det Durbar to determine the venue for the shooting.

A large ship must be leased in advance.

Except this is a bit troublesome, the rest is done quickly.

As for ships, a suitable passenger ship was also found at the dock of the Port of Los Angeles.

When this passenger ship had to be destroyed, Manhai Entertainment successfully leased it for a sum of money.

After finding someone to set the scene above, I told the port management staff about the situation of going to sea for filming. With their consent, all matters in this regard were handled properly. The shooting schedule has also been brought up to date.

On the day when the filming officially started, Roman told the director a few more words, so he no longer cared about it.

He has other things to be busy.