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Like "Pink League", "Home Alone" by John Hughes will also start filming in the near future.

Yesterday was busy with the three movies "Pink League", "The Ghost Story" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Simon spent most of the day today discussing the various aspects of "Home Alone" by phone with John Hughes in Chicago. Aspect details.

Under the promotion of Simon, the actor of "Home Alone" is still determined to be the original Macaulay Culkin.

Macaulay Culkin happens to be a signed artist under wma. Although Culkin failed to star in John Hughes' "Uncle Buck" last year due to the influence of Simon's butterfly, the young actor has previously appeared in many movies and TV shows. She has shown her face in the play and is also a contracted child model under the Ford Model Company.

In addition to Culkin, the two stupid characters are also the original Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.

Determine the 'original' team, Simon doesn't need to worry too much next.

Basically, many of Simon's recent opponents have this attitude.

Daenerys Entertainment has become more and more dazzling, or rather dazzling, in the past two years, and these projects in their hands, even if they fail by one or two, are irrelevant to Simon, or, just right.

At the end of the day's work, Simon rushed straight from Santa Monica to Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills at seven o'clock in the afternoon.

The Cold Water Canyon neighborhood is part of Beverly Hills, just west of the Trousdale estate. The entire block winds its way up from Coldwater Canyon Park near Sunset Boulevard at the foot of the mountain to Mulholland Drive at the top of the mountain, a length of more than five kilometers. There are all kinds of mansions on both sides of the canyon street, which also belong to the star gathering area of ​​Los Angeles.

Arriving at the residence of Joe Ross, the president of Fox Pictures, it was already dark.

Joe Rose's villa is a two-story minimalist white building commonly found in Los Angeles. It covers an area of ​​about a quarter of an acre. Considering various factors such as location, this is already considered a luxury residence in Los Angeles.

James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger have arrived early, and there are many other filmmakers in the courtyard.

After Simon arrived, he briefly greeted some guests, and went to the sunbathing terrace upstairs with Rose and Cameron. Of course there was no sunlight at this time, and the city lights in a corner of Los Angeles could be seen faintly from the terrace.

The three sat down by the seats on the terrace, and Ross said first: "I have talked to Jim a few times, Simon, the budget of "Terminator 2" is determined to be $50 million, and Jim is still the director. However, once When the project overruns, Jim voluntarily gives up the director’s salary. At the same time, we will take stricter financial supervision measures this time to ensure that the film production will not get out of control, do you think this is okay?”

Simon didn't answer, but looked at Cameron and asked, "Jim, do you think you can do it?"

Cameron grinned a little stiffly, nodded and said, "It should be fine."

Simon did not comment, turning to Joe Ross again and asking, "How much is Arnold's salary?"

Joe Rosston paused and said, "$15 million." After saying this, seeing Simon's eyebrows raised, Ross quickly explained; "Stallone's salary in "Angry Tiger, Crazy Dragon" has already risen to 1,500 Ten thousand dollars, Arnold doesn't want to get lower than Stallone's."

The total budget was 50 million US dollars, and Schwarzenegger took 15 million. Although Cameron made a big somersault on "Abyss", the 3 million base remuneration must still be indispensable.

Counting other main creators, the funds left for film production are not even 30 million US dollars.

With Cameron's profligate character, it would be hell to finish Terminator 2 with less than $30 million.

With a sneer at the corner of Simon's mouth, he said: "I specifically checked the data of Arnold's previous films in the afternoon. From the summer of 1987, Arnold received 3 million in remuneration and 59 million in box office." "Dragon Warrior", Arnold's salary was $5 million and the box office was $38 million. Last year's "Red Square Special Police", Arnold's salary rose to $8 million, but the box office was only $35 million. According to this trend, "Terminator 2" was priced at $15 million, so there should only be $15 million left at the box office, right?"

Joe Ross said: "Simon, Arnold has accumulated a lot of popularity in the first "Terminator", and his salary certainly can't be compared with other original projects."

Cameron also helped: "Terminator 2 is different from those movies, and I believe this movie will definitely succeed."

"I'm also very optimistic about this project," Simon looked at Cameron again, and said, "However, Daenerys Entertainment is not Carlock Pictures, and we won't offer sky-high remuneration irrationally. Arnold has already started post-production. "Total Recall", if my news is correct, he should only get a basic salary of $1 million, right? For "Terminator 2", he can choose two options, one is the same basic salary increase as "Total Recall" The split mode, the other one, the remuneration maintains the level of "Red Square SWAT", only 8 million US dollars."

Both Joe Rose and Cameron were silent.

Simon didn't wait for the two to respond, and quickly continued: "Compared to the previous three films, "Total Recall" cost 65 million US dollars when Arnold almost gave up his salary. It is impossible for Carlock to recover the cost. Big, I believe that after this film, there should be no other film companies willing to take risks on Arnold. "Terminator 2" can be said to be the best guarantee for his restoration of popularity

of a project. So, I can only give the above two options. Or, you can wait for "Total Recall", and then Arnold's salary will only be lower. "

In memory, Total Recall has grossed more than $200 million worldwide.

Although Carlock Pictures is only barely making a hard money in it, it can be considered a success.

Because of the big sale of "Total Recall", Schwarzenegger finally returned to the top after a few consecutive films, and regained his position as a celebrity with Stallone.

Of course, Simon would not say that at this time.

Moreover, Simon suddenly remembered that in addition to "Total Recall", Arnold also had another relatively successful work during this period: "Kindergarten SWAT".

In my memory, this is also a blockbuster movie with a global box office of over 200 million.

Thinking of this, Simon made up his mind to cut off his beard.

Even, if necessary, Terminator 2, True Lies, and even Evaporation Order.

Or, you can stuff Schwarzenegger with a few more projects that failed at the box office in the original time and space.

With his own prophetic advantage, it is still very easy for Simon to snipe the acting career of a Hollywood filmmaker.

As for Terminator 2, Simon is really in no hurry.

And, although it hasn't been announced yet, Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures have signed a partnership agreement, one of those 10 movie plans. Therefore, the initiative of this project is now completely in Simon's hands.

Joe Ross considered for a moment and said to Simon, "So, shall I go down and talk to Arnold?"

Simon nodded and said, "I haven't had dinner yet, Joe, please let someone bring some food over, anything will do."

"certainly."

Joe Ross agreed, got up, glanced at Cameron again, and walked downstairs.

Cameron looked at the young man in front of him, wondering for a while whether he should take the initiative to leave. He has watched "Batman: Hour of War" several times before, and he admires the groundbreaking details in the film. He originally wanted to have a good chat with Simon.

It's just that Westeros in the state of the film company boss is really not very pleasant.

Simon looked at Cameron, who was a little restless, and suddenly said: "Jim, someone should have told you about Coppola and the elephant?"

Cameron had a puzzled look on his face.

Simon realized that Cameron hadn't heard of the story and volunteered to explain: "This is a story from Coppola's filming of Apocalypse Now. Coppola wanted to get some elephants to appear during filming. , however, at that time the project was overrun by a lot, and it would not only cost a lot to transport the elephant to the set, but it would also cause further delays in the filming cycle. The producers of the film discouraged Coppola, and many things did not work out. It can be perfect, you have to give up. Later, there was no elephant in Apocalypse Now, and the movie there was still very successful.”

Cameron naturally thought that Simon was talking about his "Abyss" last year. He couldn't think of any rebuttal words for a while, so he nodded embarrassingly and said, "Simon, I understand what you mean."

"I've seen that Terminator movie more than once," Simon continued: "Jim, since you could have made a perfect movie for $6.4 million back then, there's no reason why you can't make a rule now. Completing other films within budget. Last year's "The Abyss," which cost $69.5 million, I hear you're stressed about it, but it's just some mental stress. If you don't know, there's a whole bunch of people at Fox that failed because of this project Lost their jobs. The biggest reason they got fired wasn't because of the box office failure of "The Abyss," which was a big risk in the industry. They got fired because the project's budget was out of control. You know, the studio's money It never fell from the sky."

Cameron's expression flickered for a moment, and finally said: "Simon, I will definitely pay attention in the future."

The waiter brought some food at this time.

Simon waited for the other party to leave, and gestured to Cameron. Seeing the other party shaking his head, he pulled the tray in front of him, picked up the tableware and said: "I have studied the special effects plan of "Abyss", and the CG alien technology in it should be able to For the liquid metal robots in Terminator 2, right?"

The special effects of "Abyss" were actually produced by Daenerys Special Effects Studio.

Moreover, whether it is "Abyss" or "Terminator 2" in Simon's memory, the special effects expenses are actually not high.

The reason why the two projects cost so much is mainly due to Cameron's perfectionistic procrastination.

Last year's "Abyss", the shooting cycle was as long as 5 months. "Terminator 2" in the original time and space continued to shoot for 6 months. Compared with the average shooting cycle of Hollywood movies of about 3 months, this is the main reason for the loss of control of the budget of the two projects.

From the standpoint of movie fans, with Cameron's box office results, any amount of money should be spent.

However, for the film company, unless it is the owner of Carlock Pictures who doesn't feel bad about burning other people's money, it is definitely a torment to cooperate with Cameron.

Cameron listened to Simon talking about the special effects technology of "Abyss", came to some spirits, and began to chat with Simon.

Joe Ross came back after more than ten minutes and said to Simon after sitting down: "$10 million, Arnold's agent insisted on so much, he said Arnold is considering taking another film, if we don't agree, this project It can only be postponed to next year.”

Simon hesitated for a moment, then he didn't tangle too much, and said: "It will be officially announced tomorrow.

news. "

If he continues to struggle with the $2 million difference, Simon knows that Schwarzenegger will really continue to drag the project down, and now the initiative is not in the production company.

Moreover, although he has just expressed his disapproval of "Total Recall", Simon is the one who knows the result best. Once Schwarzenegger turned over with "Total Recall" in the summer, it would be even more difficult to sign the other party.

Joe Ross was also relieved, and nodded quickly in agreement.

During this time, because "Batman: Hour of War" exceeded everyone's expectations at the box office, Fox paid special attention to this project that Simon was optimistic about.

Now that "Terminator 2" has been confirmed, Fox's flagship film next year will also be available.

After Simon finished speaking, he looked at Cameron and said, "Jim, in the next few months, hire someone to complete the complete sub-shot script of the sequel. I hope you know exactly what you want after shooting, instead of printing it out. Hundreds of thousands of feet of useless film footage."

The original "Terminator 2", Cameron developed more than a million feet of footage, and ended up using less than 1%. These films actually mean a big budget expense.

Simon will never allow this to happen 'a second time'.

As long as Cameron's unrestrained splurge during the filming process is strictly controlled, even if he will still overspend this time, it will never reach the original budget of more than 100 million US dollars.

Cameron naturally agreed.

The three continued to chat about some things. Cameron got up and left first. Joe Ross followed Simon's casual gaze and looked under the terrace, and tentatively said, "Simon, do you want to go down and chat with everyone?"

There were at least thirty people in the courtyard downstairs at this time, and although many people pretended to be chatting with each other, they were actually paying close attention to the movements on the terrace.

Simon just had a brief encounter with everyone when he came over, and everyone downstairs was looking forward to having a few more conversations with him.

The success of "Batman: Hour of War," and the many resources at Simon's disposal, have elevated his status in Hollywood to a level that even he himself may not be able to fully appreciate.

"Batman: The Dark Knight", "Superman", "Wonder Woman", "The Flash" and other DC movie universe projects will start casting roles in the near future. The whole of Hollywood is watching this. In addition, "Terminator 2", "Desperados" and other projects in the 10-film plan also mean a lot of opportunities.

Simon didn't have any interest in hunting for beauty tonight, but he didn't reject Joe Rose's invitation, nodded, got up and went downstairs with him to join the crowd.

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