As a super fast-moving consumer goods, the box office of "Twilight" in North America was close to $300 million after just three weekends of release, and the global box office combined reached more than $550 million. With the new Harry Potter film not released next week, it became the most successful film in the 2010 holiday season.

The huge success also made the film go from male and female protagonists to some important supporting roles, one by one, and one by one.

Liam Hemsworth, Nina Duboff, Lily Collins, and Taylor Lotner, who plays the werewolf, spreads the idol light, and it has the charm of a superstar.

"Twilight" has sold three consecutive hits, which also brought an inevitable result, and the main actors' pay must be adjusted.

In the first part, all the actors' pay was limited to less than 500,000 US dollars. At that time, Matthew tied up these actors with a long appointment and gained great initiative for the subsequent pay negotiations. By the third part of the film "The Lunar Eclipse", the highest-paid Liam Hemsworth and Nina Dubov in the crew had a single pay of only 5 million US dollars.

A salary increase is inevitable, and even if you sign a long contract, it cannot be avoided.

Matthew had long been aware of this, so after Nina Dubov performed his artistic gymnastics for him, he made a promise to the actor who played Isabella.

Of course, the specific amount of the addition will be negotiated.

As early as the release of "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse", Matthew instructed Bella Anderson and Sean Daniel to negotiate with the agents of all the main actors, and to be tougher in attitudes and positions.

A salary increase is OK! But the specific amount cannot accommodate actors.

Negotiation is a process of compromise, and Matthew will not let go. If he wants the horse to run hard, he will definitely give it grass.

After half a month of tug-of-war negotiations, the contracts of all the main actors were basically settled.

Nina Dubov and Liam Hemsworth received the first-tier pay. Their agents initially offered a box office share of $15 million + about 7% of the box office share, while Matthew was only willing to give a $8 million pay.

In the final agreement, Nina Dubov and Liam Hemsworth's pay was $10 million plus five percent of the box office profit share.

The "Twilight" series has been in operation until now, and changing actors is unrealistic. Appropriately allowing the creative team to share the cake can also stimulate work enthusiasm.

Moreover, Bella Anderson and Sean Daniel successfully divided the total box office share required by each other into box office profit share.

Another point is that the two films of "Dawn" are set shots, and all the payrolls are implemented.

The second level of the pay is also two people, Lily Collins and Taylor Lotner, with a pay of $8 million.

Then there are other actors, and their pay has increased to a certain extent.

Any sequel to any film that ultimately crushes the budget is the actor's pay.

The Twilight series will certainly not be an exception.

The main creators' pay has increased significantly, and the production budgets for the two films of "Twilight: Dawn" also soared, from $65 million in a single film of "Luminous Eclipse" to $100 million.

The investment in the production cost of the two "Dawn" alone will be as high as 200 million US dollars.

This can be said to be the top-notch scale in medium-sized productions.

Of course, once these young and popular idol actors leave the Twilight series, just like the Gryffindor Golden Triangle leaves the Harry Potter series, let alone get such a high pay, it would be nice to get a half-deal.

It's very simple, none of them proved that they could handle non-sequel movies.

Not only young actors, but many actors who can only rely on sequels are basically like this.

For example, Daniel Craig, if he re-filmed a Bond series with director Sam Mendes, he might be among the "20 million dollar club", but like other juniors, those series stars, if he doesn't play Bond, his pay will drop sharply, dropping to about five million dollars.

At present, the platform that makes new stars the easiest to take the lead is the series of movies, but when the series is completed, how they can successfully transform to the next role/next development stage is a matter of serious thinking and planning.

Otherwise, if they always stagnate in a role, they will gradually become stars of "one-time consumption".

Many actors are facing the dilemma of being limited by a hot character, even if they are as strong as Johnny Depp can't easily turn it out.

After completing the actor's contract, the first batch of budget funds were injected into the crew's third-party account, the "Twilight" series was launched again.

Matthew just finished all this, and Stephanie Mel, the original author of the "Twilight" series, took the initiative to find her.

This former housewife, now a popular youth novelist, wants to work with him again.

"Host?" Matthew looked at the thin novel sent by Stephanie Mel, "I remember this was the book you wrote a few years ago, right?"

As a partner, he still knows about Stephanie Mel's situation.

Stephanie Mel is wearing a fiery red dress as always, like a torch tree. It seems that only such a woman who is passionate inside and outside can write such a twists and turns of love novel.

"This novel was published in 2008. It was a single book I wrote while I was creating "Twilight City"," she said with a smile.

Matthew nodded slightly and asked directly, "Do you want to adapt it into a movie?"

Stephanie Mel does not deny this, "We have successful cooperation, and the cooperation is still going on, and I think we can continue to work together. If the movie is adapted successfully, I can expand "Host" into a trilogy."

Stephanie Mel is no longer the housewife she used to be. Her success in the past two years has also made her very confident.

She didn't say much, just looked at Matthew.

"So, Ms. M. Mel." Matthew couldn't make a decision without even reading the novel, and said slowly, "I'll read the novel first and I'll reply you in a few days."

"Yes." Stephanie Mel left quickly without staying for a long time.

There is a success of "Twilight" here, and Matthew read the novel "Host" that day.

Like the novel "Twilight", "Host" is also a story about emotional entanglements such as love and choice, and the protagonist is not purely human.

To be precise, this is also a story about love triangles.

The story is set to take place in the near future.

At that time, the earth was invaded by an alien creature called "soul". This creature itself looked like a silver centipede. They gradually erased human nature, controlled it, and then replaced human minds, and lived on the earth through human bodies through human bodies.

At the same time, they sent controlled "hunters" as "hunters" to hunt down other surviving humans.

The heroine is the host of this kind of creature. The parasite knows that the challenge that must be faced in living in the human body is strong emotions and vivid memories, but it did not expect that the heroine would not give up control of her mind and hold on to the man she loves.

In desperation, the parasite had to look for a man that the heroine didn't know, so that she could fall in love with him and wash away her previous memories. Under certain external pressure, the parasite and Melanie were forced to work together to start looking for a man they both love.

As for the various emotional entanglements during this period, it is basically a replica of "Twilight".

To be precise, "Twilight" is a bloody love triangle dressed in a werewolf and vampire magic cloak, while "Host" is a bloody love triangle dressed in a future and science fiction cloak.

But after reading the novel, Matthew always felt uncomfortable, not about the bloody love triangle, but about the parasitic structure of the novel.

This thing is creepy when you think about it.

If it is made into a pure science fiction or horror film, there is no problem with being creepy, but what about making it into a bloody romance film? It feels terrible if you think about it.

Where does the sense of inclusion come from?

Matthew has handled more projects, has achieved success in different categories of film investments, and has accumulated some successful experiences. Perhaps these experiences are more subjective, but he can still make some judgments based on this.

After reading "Host", he believed that the prospect of adapting the novel's movie was not good. There were problems with the most basic setting and main framework of the novel, and some defects would naturally be rejected by most viewers.

Adapting "Host" into a science fiction or a horror film? As soon as the idea started, Matthew himself rejected it. This was purely seeking death. Instead of adapting Stephanie Mel's bloody love triangle novel into other genres, it is better to create it directly original and reliable.

He also learned another point by looking for relevant information.

"Host" was published and released in 2008, and now it is 2011 soon, and the novel is still cold.

This is not an unknown work by a new writer. Stephanie Mel has become popular all over the world since 2009, but has not yet become popular with "Host".

Also, the market is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

"Twilight" pushes bloody love movies to an unprecedented peak, and the peak is often followed by a trough.

"Host" is different from "The Hunger Games", and the selling points of "The Hunger Games" are not focused on bloody love.

Maybe you can invest millions of dollars to shoot. After all, there are many popular lovers of heavy-tasting love movies in North America, but after Matthew communicated with Stephanie Mel, he also gave up this idea.

Now Stephanie Mel is no longer the former housewife, and directly told Matthew that the production budget cannot be less than $50 million.

Matthew no longer thought about it and politely rejected Stephanie Mel's novel.

2010 is about to end, and 2011 is coming soon. The crew of "Special Forces 2" has not yet completed the process and continues to stop. Matthew is not idle either. He pays a little attention to the North American awards season that has begun.
Chapter completed!