Chapter 99: What you want is a piece of art.

Chapter 99: What you want is a piece of art.

Seeing that the eyes were really mad, and Jeffrey, who was still complaining, Eric could only get up and pour a glass of water to the other party. When Jeffrey finished drinking, he persuaded: "Okay, Jay." Fry, don't you see it? This is just a strategy that CAA can't erase the face. If the other party kills 20% of the split, of course, there is no need to talk about cooperation. But if you calm down and think about it, you know More CAA wants to drag for a while?"

"Trouble time, why should you drag the time?" Jeffrey apparently did not calm down, and poured himself a cup of water to pour it, only to ask directly.

Eric's spreader: "Because of the face, "Premiere" magazine has a "Hollywood Power Chart" ranking, Michael Owitz ranked first, even Barry Diller and Michael Ai The heads of these movie giants can only be behind him. If you just got this title, there are two stars who have cooperated with the previous blockers. This is not to beat him as the 'Hollywood's most powerful person'. The face."

Jeffrey sighed with relief: "This is fine. I thought that the other party really wants to divide the profits. It is too messy."

"This is not a mess," Eric directly attacked: "Jeffrey, maybe you will slowly accept the stars in addition to pay, but also share the profit with this reality, because Cruise is in the upper movie. "Rain Man" tried this model and got a lot of sweetness. Other Hollywood stars couldn't follow suit."

"Two people add 40% of the gross profit. Do you want to earn more than we do? We have 60% of the rest and we have to pay other fees."

Eric actually thought of this question. He thought that this might be an opportunity. In the future, he is destined to join the Hollywood film producers' alliance. This determines that he must stand on the opposite side of the actor for his own benefit. .

Cruise's "Rain Man" is just an attempt to give the actor a new pay-for-charge model, and the "Dark War" negotiations may become a reference for many Hollywood top stars in the future, so no matter what. It is necessary to press the division ratio as low as possible.

If this ratio can be controlled between 5% and 10%, once it becomes a standard, the accumulated expenses in the future will be an astronomical figure. Although Eric doesn't know if this can be successful, I always try it.

"Jeffrey, don't worry about this matter, just talk to each other slowly. Don't think about 20% of the split. The 6 million pay will also be pressed down. You want to divide and don't want to lower it. Pay, now there are so good things."

Jeffrey still has some reluctance: "Eric, why don't you bypass the dealers of Cruise and Hanks and talk to two people alone? Didn't you have a good day?"

Eric smiled and pulled out yesterday's "Hollywood News" in front of Jeffrey: "They are all CAA artists, I have no special friendship with each other, they can promise to star in "The Dark War" It’s enough to give Michael Owitz’s face, and the two can’t do too much. Besides, they can’t object to CAA’s gaining more for themselves?”

Jeffrey did not refute, but asked: "Eric, tell me what you think. I was the first time I encountered this kind of thing. Although I can drag the negotiations down, as a boss, you It is the person who decided on the final decision, so you better give me a bottom-line data reference. When I was negotiating, I was measured in my heart."

Eric touched his chin and pondered it. He said: "There is no such thing as the actor's practice of dividing into pieces in Hollywood. If you force the other party to want to divide it, you will reduce the pay. I heard that "Rain Man" Getting the share contract is to actively reduce the result of the pay. As for the bottom line, with the current reputation of Cruise and Hanks, the pay is not more than five million dollars, and the proportion is controlled between 5% and 10%. Never exceed 10%."

"Well, I have a bottom in my heart." Jeffrey wrote down Eric's words.

Noticing that Jeffrey still had a depressed look, Eric patted the other person's shoulder comfortably and smiled: "Well, Jeffrey, don't worry about it anymore. Although because of the new pay pattern, we It does lose some of the benefits, but we can make it up from other places, and that part of the benefits do not need to be divided into actors, we can even use the actor's banner to open a higher price."

"You mean... implant advertising?"

“Bingo!” Eric made a snap: “The Dark War is still a fashion film, which is very suitable for advertising. I saw in the newspaper that Lamborghini’s advertisement for “Fengyue” This year's sports car sales will be more than three times that of previous years. The new Ghost sports car has not yet been listed, and has received orders for hundreds of vehicles."

"This is really a good idea," Jeffrey finally showed a smile, subconsciously looking for a script, and want to see which ads can be embedded in "Dark War." Eric took a piece of paper and handed it to Jeffrey: "Don't find it, I'm ready."

Jeffrey took it and glanced at the long list of slips, his mouth slightly open.

Mobile phones, walkie-talkies, sports cars, boxed biscuits, sunglasses, cameras, necklaces, comic magazines...

"Eric, is this too... exaggerated?"

Eric feels that he has been very **** compared to the previous explosions. At least he did not spend $200 million to build a three-hour special effects commercial. He just used the plot to insert advertisements, but not for Change the story with the ad.

"Jeffrey, in fact, these are just handwritten when I think of it. There will be a lot of walkie-talkies and mobile phones in the movie, so mobile phones and walkie-talkies can be packaged for a communications equipment company, such as Motorola, I heard that Motorola is about to Introducing a small mobile phone, only the palm of the hand. I believe that there are Lamborghini this example, plus the two superstars Cruise and Hanks, Motorola will be very happy to pay millions of advertising fees. If the other party's offer price is too low, then look for their old rival Ericsson. There is also a sports car, continue to contact Lamborghini, presumably the other party will not refuse."

Jeffrey pointed at the list and asked, "What is the boxed cookie?"

Eric explained: "Did you not read the script? In the movie, Andy put a few bombs, which have always been fake. These bombs are made of boxes. Not only will the boxes appear in the movie. Close-up, there will be related lines, so this is also a very important implant advertisement. As for sunglasses and cameras, it will be used in movies, so you can also pull the sponsorship, mosquitoes are small and meat."

"Eric, don't you worry, inserting too many ads will arouse the audience's dislike?"

“No,” Eric said from the channel: “No one of these advertisements is deliberate, so the audience does not feel any discomfort. Of course, because this time there are more advertisements, you need to advance Communicate with the sponsors. It can't be like the last Lamborghini. If the movie hasn't been released yet, it will directly pick up the sponsorship."

Jeffrey noticed something wrong and wondered: "The implant advertisement is not prominent, and it is not publicized. If I am a sponsor, I will definitely not pay for it."

"It's not that people don't preach," Eric said patiently. "I mean, I can't preach this before the movie is released. Otherwise, even if I didn't deliberately implant it, it would be considered by the audience to be deliberate. This preconceived notion will cause the audience to resent the film in the subconscious. But as long as the movie is released, after the word-of-mouth is confirmed, the advertising will be speculated, not only can the publicity effect, but also attract those curious movies. The audience of the advertising plot enters the cinema again, increasing the box office of the movie."

Jeffrey showed a meaningful smile: "Eric, I feel like a Venetian businessman in front of me."

"Is this ironic?"

"Yes, but I added a lot of praise and admiration inside." Jeffrey haha ​​laughed.

"Oh, Master Jeffrey, you are so generous." Eric answered with a tone of the stage play and laughed.

After the joke, Eric looked at his watch and said, "I just have a date, then..."

When Jeffrey didn't wait for Eric to say it, he quickly replied: "Things are handed over to me, right?"

"Smart, I don't think you will answer." Eric laughed again.

Jeffrey didn't understand what the stalks in Eric's words were, didn't laugh at them, and grinned and curiously said: "Dating, with women?"

"Men, a well-known architect in the industry, Frank Gehry, I have seen his Malibu mansion designed for Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, so I plan to ask him to help me."

"Related to the rocky beach you bought for 5 million yuan?"

“How is it to save money?” Eric retorted: “When I successfully build my Malibu 10880, I will buy it for $50 million.”

"Whether you, to be honest, your arbitrariness has made me relieved, because you have finally done what your teenager should do at this age. Otherwise, I will subconsciously treat you as a peer. Eric, why are you always calling Malibu 10880 there?"

Eric blinked: "This is a secret."

"Talk, I promise not to tell others." Jeffrey looked over curiously.

"Since it is a secret, of course you can't tell anyone other than yourself, you can be considered 'Others'." Eric certainly can't explain to Jeffrey and left the office directly.

Michael Jackson’s dream estate covers an area of ​​11 square kilometers, plus a variety of buildings, costing $19.5 million. In comparison, Malibu’s plot of only six hectares equivalent to 0.06 square kilometers cost $5 million. It is indeed a big price. However, even then, the private lawyer has spent the extra ‘public relations fee’ lobbying result because it is a small park and it is customary to sell.

"Mr. Williams, the design of the building you painted is very imaginative, but there are too many unreasonable places, and the construction is quite difficult, especially on the edge of the cliff." Frank Gehry Eric's drawings are evaluated with a professional eye.

At this point two people stood together in the sharp corner of Malibu, accompanied by Frank Gehry's assistant, Eric was not alone, just like Virginia at home, so Eric called a temporary guest secretary character of.

It is already a private territory belonging to Eric, and it has obtained a building permit, which can be tossed on this land. As long as it is not because of disturbing people, it will not be someone to manage.

"Mr. Gary, are you saying that construction is too difficult, that is, can you build it?"

Frank Gehry nodded. "But it costs a lot of money. I don't think it's necessary at all. If you must build this mansion here, I suggest moving the mansion to the north by at least 10 meters. Not only can it greatly reduce the construction difficulty, but also save more than 30% of construction costs. Moreover, various pipeline lines are easier to erect."

Eric visually measured it. After ten meters of translation, the glass window would see a rocky landscape with a lot of scenery. Is it a seascape mansion facing the sea in spring?

Shaking his head, Eric rejected Frank's suggestion: "Mr. Gehry, if I insist, how much does it cost?"

"I can't give you specific numbers for the time being, because I don't have specific survey data yet. If you insist on building according to the style of your own design, you still need to do a lot of tests on the geological conditions of the cliffs to determine if there is It is even more cumbersome to bear the weight of the building, if it can't be done. However, I think that five million is definitely indispensable."

"Only five million dollars?" Eric picked up his eyebrows and spent five million on the land.

"Mr. Williams, as far as I know, the price of the most expensive mansion in Malibu is now."

"Sorry, Mr. Gary, I don't know too much about these things. I want to take the liberty to ask, if I have 10 or even 20 million, what effect can I create?"

In this era, even Microsoft's Bill students can't open up one or two million dollars in cash. After all, the other party's worth is reflected in the stock price. But the film industry is different. As long as the box office can be sold, it can recover tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in a relatively short period of time.

Frank Gehry looked at the young man in amazement and thought about it: "In that case, I will build a piece of art for you, Mr. Williams, are you sure?"

"I'm sure, Mr. Gehry, what I want is a piece of art." Eric replied without hesitation.