Chapter 1165 Li Mu's Face Is Too Valuable

"Five million paychecks? Are you crazy? Or were you too high last night?"

The agent thought Leonardo must be crazy.

As early as 2000, his worth almost touched the threshold of the 20 million dollar club. In addition to the recent rise of the box office of "Cat and Mouse", the single-day box office surpassed "The Lord of the Rings 2", and even attracted a large number of female fans. The fanatical pursuit of Leonardo and other phenomena are helping Leonardo to continue to increase his value.

If the "Cat and Mouse Game" is given another month to ferment, and if his global box office can reach a scale of five or six billion US dollars, then Leonardo's net worth will inevitably continue to have greater breakthroughs.

The salary of more than 20 million US dollars sounds terrible, and even one movie is enough to make several so-called "big productions" in China at this time, but for Hollywood, it is completely within the acceptable range, as long as the actors' various If his strength is worth this price, then he will definitely be able to get such a high remuneration.

Hollywood movies have always been big-budget, with high movie budgets, high actor remuneration, and high production costs, but behind this big-budget, there are also big benefits, such as high movie box office and high copyright revenue.

Some movies cost 100 million US dollars, and the global box office is 3.5 billion US dollars. The DVD distribution can make tens of millions of dollars, and the copyright derivatives such as novels, animations, and peripheral products can also sell for tens of millions of dollars or even higher, so In this very mature business system, Leonardo's $20 million salary can almost be said to have no water.

With a salary of $20 million, it is normal for an actor to drop his salary if he encounters a well-known director or a script he likes, but there is a limit to the reduction. For example, under normal circumstances, if Leonardo continues to play Spielberg It is quite normal for a movie to drop its salary to 15 million, and the favor of five million dollars is already very face-saving.

However, I never thought that Leonardo seemed to be kicked by a donkey in his head, and he would reduce the salary to five million dollars as soon as he opened his mouth? You Leonardo have never had this worth in history, okay? You made "Titanic" for $2.5 million, and immediately after "Titanic" became a global hit, your net worth jumped to more than $10 million. Now you tell me that you want to reduce your salary yourself to five million? What about trouble?

Leonardo explained: "Jason, you have to know that this movie is not just directed by Spielberg. This time the movie was invested by Li Mu with an investment of 100 million US dollars. The story of an old man named Chennault leading a group of American civilian pilots to voluntarily go to Huaxia to resist Japanese aggression side by side with the Huaxia Air Force."

"Li Mu?!" The manager's voice instantly increased an octave when he heard the name.

"Is that the Chinese Internet tycoon Li Mu? The one who pushed "Cat and Mouse Game" to the top of the box office with one push?"

"nonsense,

Who else but him. Leonardo said seriously: "Li Mu's willingness to invest so much money to make this film is enough to show how much he attaches importance to this film. Anyone who knows Li Mu knows that he has a very strong nationalism, so This film depicting China and the United States fighting Japan side by side, he will do his best to push the film's influence to the greatest extent. "

Speaking of which, Leonardo added: "You know, his resources are too strong. There are so many media tycoons in Hollywood, but their ability to distribute information worldwide is much worse than Li Mu's. , Li Mu's YY may not be as authoritative as Time magazine or the Los Angeles Times, but it is precisely the most influential to ordinary people."

"God..." The agent sighed on the other end of the phone and said, "Forgive me Leo, if I knew it was a movie invested by Li Mu, I would definitely not say such rude words to you!"

After finishing speaking, the agent exclaimed again: "My God! This opportunity is really rare. If you can establish a good cooperative relationship with Li Mu, it will definitely have a huge role in promoting your future development. At this time, we really need Showing enough sincerity, the remuneration of five million dollars should be very sincere, although the loss is a little bigger, but I believe the future return will be higher!"

Leonardo saw that his agent had completely agreed with his decision, and immediately said resolutely: "OK, then you immediately help me communicate with Spielberg, give him a formal quotation, and then prepare to go through the formal contract process, In addition, ask about the approximate shooting schedule of this drama, from now on, as long as there are conflicting schedules, no movies will be accepted!"

"OK! I'll do it now!"

Leonardo said: "Go, just let me know the result when the time comes, I have to go to Google quickly, who is that Chennault..."

"I forgot if you didn't say it. I heard you mention this name just now, so I wanted to google it quickly..."

...

Tom Hanks, who was also in Los Angeles, also received a call from Spielberg. At this moment, he was sitting in front of the computer, seriously using Google to search for information related to Chennault, and read it line by line. on.

He had already read the script that Spielberg sent him, and was immediately attracted by the stories and characters in the script. After reading the script, he had already decided to accept Spielberg's invitation to participate in the film "Flying". Tigers", and played the first actor Chennault in the play, and then hurriedly began to search for relevant information through Google to have a deeper understanding of Chennault's deeds.

Tom Hanks is very different from the young Leonardo. Although Leonardo is also a first-line actor with extraordinary acting skills, he is young, and his qualifications are still shallow. Cox is one of the actors with the best acting skills and the best characterization in the entire American film industry, so he is responsible for every movie he makes.

Chennault is indeed not very famous in the United States, but his story is really a very great deed if he is deep down, and this kind of deeds of volunteering to help other countries resist the invaders, no matter in level, realm or depth, they are all very good.

In Tom Hanks' view, the reason why "Saving Private Ryan" can become a classic is that on the one hand, the script is deep enough, on the other hand, the actors' performances are in place, and the most important aspect is the visual presentation of the film. The technique is very clever, and at least half of the success of the entire film is attributed to Spielberg.

And this "Flying Tigers" itself is also directed by Spielberg, or even written by Spielberg himself, so Tom Hanks believes that even if this film is only in the preparatory period, it already has 50% of the The probability of success, and if I were to play the male lead, I would say without arrogance, that I could definitely shape this character successfully. As for Leonardo, although he was young, he had just worked with him once. His strength is not bad, and his progress is also very fast. If the two continue to work together, they can at least bring a 20% success rate to the film.

As for the story itself, Tom Hanks believes that "Flying Tigers" and "Saving Private Ryan" can be said to be on a par, both of which are based on real history and can show war very well. Cruelty, the brilliance of humanity, and the reflection on war, so it seems, can at least increase the success rate of the film by 20%.

In this way, the film basically has a 90% success rate.

In addition, Tom Hanks is also seriously measuring Li Mu's resources and influence.

The box office counter-attack of "The Game of Cat and Mouse" made the whole Hollywood see the extraordinary potential of YY, a world-class Internet product, in promotion. "The Game of Cat and Mouse" can make such a breakthrough just by getting a push from YY. "Tiger Team" is released, how many times will Li Mu give it a chance to push it?

Coupled with the investment of 100 million US dollars, such a huge scale of funds is another strong guarantee for this film. In this way, it is almost impossible for this film to fail.

Moreover, Tom Hanks also attaches great importance to the first cooperation with Li Mu.

In his view, Li Mu, a young man, is not only a powerful funder, but more likely to become the invisible "God" of hundreds of millions of Internet users in the online world.

He has the absolute strength to influence these hundreds of millions of Internet users subtly in the next few years, not only guiding them what to do on the Internet, but also guiding them what to eat, do, play and learn after leaving the Internet. , what to buy, what to see!

The potential of this energy is too powerful. Tom Hanks believes that it will not take long for Li Mu to become one of the most powerful businessmen in the world, so he can establish a good relationship with him in advance, and he will be very optimistic about his future. It must be of great help.

Spielberg soon received an exact reply from Leonardo, as well as Tom Hanks, and received a formal offer from their agent. What he couldn't believe was that Leonardo's agent The official quotation was only a mere five million US dollars in remuneration, without any additional requirements, no dividends, no guarantee, it is a hammer transaction of five million US dollars;

Tom Hanks' offer also stunned him, because Tom Hanks has already reached the level of 20 million yuan in the last century, and even he will ask for a certain percentage of the box office to participate in a movie, but, The price he quoted himself this time was only a mere three million dollars! It's two million less than Leonardo's salary, and most importantly, he doesn't want any box office splits!

Spielberg has been in Hollywood for so many years. He is not only a super first-tier director, but also a first-class film businessman. He knows that the quotations given by these two people are absolutely fantastic in Hollywood. In Hollywood, no one has such a big deal. The face makes the two of them voluntarily lower their salary to such an exaggerated level that they don't even have the ability to do so.

However, the price of the two is really here.

This made Spielberg sigh and sigh, Li Mu's face is really not ordinary value...