Chapter 163: Super Contract

Daniel's salary in the second part of "Bourne Shadow" quickly became the focus of media discussions after Universal Pictures announced that he was confirmed to star in the sequel and was confirmed by CAA's agent statement. This legendary young superstar Whether it can achieve this milestone achievement is not only concerned by ordinary audiences and believers in the Hollywood dream, but even a large number of Hollywood a-list and b-list stars are also waiting to see. In addition, the seven major studios, Dimensional, New Line, Miramarx, DreamWorks and other independent studios with their own characteristics are also paying attention to this market. Before the big losses of the trilogy and the sequel of "Bourne Shadow", Daniel will become one of the most popular actors in Hollywood, and countless funds and investors will flock to it. The new contract from Universal Pictures to Daniel shall prevail.

Speculation abounds in the report:

This time, will Daniel directly enter the 20 million club and become the younger 20 million member after Leonardo DiCaprio.

Daniel, who started trying to get a share last year, will he be able to continue to make a fortune in this hit this time, and has Universal Pictures regressed?

However, whether it is Universal Pictures, DD Pictures, or Daniel's personal team, they all understand everyone's concern about this cooperation. So none of them responded positively to the relevant information. After all, this is a ready-made publicity resource. "The Bourne Movie" is still in the period of rapid and cumulative box office growth. At this time, any positive exposure is what Universal and Daniel are happy to see. Because there are always a large number of people who will see these reports, and then become curious, and then go to the cinema to support the box office.

Of course, there are also people with great powers who, after being unable to obtain this top secret from Universal Pictures, turned to the Screen Actors Union.

According to regulations, a copy of the contract must be kept on file with the Actors Union, so that once there is a correction between the two parties, as an industry association, the union will make its own statement and action based on this contract. But it is a pity that Universal obviously did not let this loophole go, because they don't need to send the contract over now, they just need to send it to the actors' union for archiving before the filming starts, there is no problem, as long as both parties agree, Daniel's team obviously does not agree. would object.

After the debate lasts long enough, someone with enough weight and experience will naturally speak up.

Therefore, the conclusions drawn by the media have basically confirmed that Daniel will undoubtedly enter the 20 million club this time - after all, before that, his worth was already as high as 12 million, and "Spy Shadow" exploded Afterwards, the quotations for other films have risen to 15 million. This time, the sequel to "Spy Shadow" will be less than 20 million, which is basically impossible.

The question now is, is it more than 20 million, and by how much? The second is, if the basic salary is only 20 million, will there be any share and in what form? The highest omni-channel, or the lowest North American box office.

"Whether Daniel's knife is sharp enough, and whether the agent Cusa's negotiating skills are strong enough, will be the main factors that determine all of this. Universal may not have much resistance to Daniel's request. After all, judging from the current movie reviews Look, it's basically all about Jason Bourne, he's definitely at the center of the movie, and the poll on this newspaper's website 'If Daniel Sandler wasn't in the sequel, would you Will I watch it again?', the results clearly show that nearly 45% of people said they would not watch it, and the remaining 45% said they would wait to see the quality before deciding whether to watch it, and only 10% said Said that they will definitely watch the sequel. In addition, in the special speech, nearly 95% of the people expressed their strong hope that Daniel can continue to play Jason Bourne.

These data must have been collected by the people of Universal Pictures. Everyone's loyalty to Daniel is much higher than that of "The Bourne Shadow", and it is impossible for Universal to make an overly risky decision. Let's see if the young 20 million club members are determined to push their worth even higher. "--"New York Times".

"It seems that everyone has higher expectations of us, Mr. Damon, your negotiation skills are obviously not very good."

"No, you are too soft-hearted, young 20 million club member."

Cusa showed no sign of weakness.

Andy stood aside, looking at the pair of complacent partners with disdain.

"Oh, Andy, don't look at me like that, the more I earn, the more your year-end bonus will be, you know?"

But that didn't stop Andy from rolling his eyes.

Presumably Jose, Meyer and Andy, who are in charge of negotiating at Universal, will agree with each other.

These are indeed two people who are disgusting.

They just got a contract worth tens of millions of dollars from Universal, and they are still brazenly saying that they are weak and generous.

Maybe Morgan Freeman will teach them a lesson - he's going to play God in "Goddess."

This contract, which has attracted countless people but only a few people know about it, is not what everyone imagined. It is a package contract that includes two parts of "The Bourne Movie 2 and 3".

Universal will pay 40 million U.S. dollars in basic salary for this, plus 10 points of the global box office share.

It's so cool.

But this contract will be implemented until the third "Spy Shadow" series is released in 2006. There are still four years to go, and it has not been four years since Daniel made his debut. How much will his worth increase by then? 20+20? Still like the "Mission: Impossible" series, Tom Cruise asked to intervene in investment in order to obtain more profits.

This is an investment from Universal Pictures, but it has basically been unanimously approved by the company's top management. Ron Meyer, who proposed this plan, is also quite proud.

The Lord of the Rings will have no problems, so at least until 2004, Daniel will continue to be influential. The praise of the second part of the story is even higher than that of the first part, so for "Spy Shadow 2", Universal has nothing to worry about.

In addition, there are many projects in Daniel's hands, such as Universal's own "Fake God", MGM's "Hotel Rwanda"-this film has a concentration of Denzel Washington, Daniel Sandler The Oscar team of these two heavyweight actors, coupled with their special cultural background, has received a lot of attention. In addition, "Pirates of the Caribbean", which cost 35 million and cooperated with Disney, is also a big production. Although the prospect is unknown, it is worth looking forward to. After all, Daniel has not let people down.

Plus a "The Pianist" that made him the emperor of Cannes.

Literary films, commercial films, drama films, comedies, independent films, series films - Daniel, who has everything, why do people doubt his growth?

Therefore, using a package contract to control Daniel's increase to the highest level of 20+20 in the third part, and even the investment requirement, Universal's calculations are certainly not at a loss.

From Daniel's point of view, such a contract is very helpful to maintain a high position, and this number is not low in absolute terms. The global box office revenue of "The Bourne Shadow" will definitely not be less than 400 million. Judging from the current progress, the highly anticipated second part is very likely to exceed this figure. Then 10% of Universal's income is About 20 million, the basic calculation is slightly different, but Daniel is destined to earn more than 40 million from "Spy Shadow 2"-how many people in Hollywood can compare?

Of course he would not refuse such a contract, otherwise in "Spy Shadow 2", even if Universal let go, it would be impossible to agree to ten points of the company's global box office share, at most five points globally, or ten points at the North American box office. , This will involve an income of 10 to 20 million, and it will affect his quotations in other film cooperations, and the actors' remuneration is not static. Leonardo, a new member of the 20 million club, has a period of time because of the failure of "The Beach". It will be difficult to re-enter it within a certain period of time. Of course, Daniel also has such a risk, especially since he also has investment and performances like "Pirates of the Caribbean" whose future is unknown to everyone.

Therefore, the final contract can be regarded as a win-win move of mutual satisfaction.

When Universal will make it public depends on how they operate. But Daniel's request is that it should not be later than the end of next year.

This is also very understandable. At present, Daniel's schedule is almost the same. If he wants to use this contract to increase his status, he must let the bosses of major companies and the media know next year-now, even if they know, they will pretend Do not know.

Recently, Daniel's team and friends have always been shocked by data one after another, whether it is intuitively displayed or estimated.

This is unavoidable, every actor who joins the ranks has this experience.

As far as Daniel knows, Robert Downey Jr., who is about to star in DD's new film, will earn more than 60 million in a single film in the future - in "Iron Man 3".

Sandra Bullock - one of the few women in the 20 million club, who earned more than 70 million in "Gravity", she has a super contract, and most of the stars - including A contract that superstars yearn for, 20 million guaranteed salary, 15% of the company's box office revenue. Plus a certain percentage of omni-channel revenue: from DVD, TV broadcasting rights, website on-demand payment to peripheral products, everything will be scratched by her.

Of course, Daniel doesn't have the confidence yet, but it must not be far away.

After happily discussing his income, Daniel had to invest energy, time, and talent to match it.

Like Jerry Bruckheimer's phone call.

Yes, this time they are here to discuss the heroine, because she is very popular, so Jerry decided to fix it as soon as possible, so that he can devote himself to it, and he also asked DD to have a resident As the producer, David, as the CEO of DD, has little energy to follow up with the group.

"After counting the money, you have to go to work, which is really uncomfortable."