The day after seeing Paul Greengrass, Ronan waited for his agent Dean, and the two sides also held formal negotiations.

In terms of pay, the two sides had a relatively smooth negotiation, and Paul Greengrass obviously convinced his agent.

As for how to convince, Ronan is not very clear, but the agent is a service provider in Hollywood. If the client insists on doing something, it will be difficult for the agent to stop him. If the two parties really have to have a quarrel, it is not difficult for the actors and directors in the industry to fire the agent.

Perhaps the people who enacted the Entertainment Act learned from the experience and lessons of actors belonging to production companies in the era of large studios, and fundamentally eliminated the possibility of agency banning actors.

Something has been rumored recently. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, the two most important clients in Caa, are preparing to break out of the broker contract with Caa and instead let their professional managers be fully responsible for various brokerage businesses.

If Ronan remembers correctly, not long after entering the new century, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio left the caa, completely abandoned the broker business, and instead led the manager to be responsible for the work business.

After the fire caa squid this time, it was the manager's matchmaking that the two began to cooperate for many years.

As long as Paul Greengras insists on taking on "Borne's Identity" and Dean strongly opposes it, Ronan can join forces with Paul Greengrass without much effort to get him out of Dean's trouble.

However, there will definitely be some troubles in the future. After all, Dean comes from William Morris.

Fortunately, Dean is a smart person and knows that Paul Greengrass's situation, it is difficult to find a director position in action movies except for Ronan's project.

But Dean still made efforts in pay, and Ronan made some concessions.

If the box office of "Borne's Identity" in North America can exceed the production budget in the future, Paul Greengrass can get a box office bonus equivalent to a paycheck.

In the last two sequels, Paul Greengras's pay share rose to 3.5% and 7% of the total budget.

The pay still adopts a more casual payment model in the independent film industry. The two parties pay 30% when signing the contract, 30% before the film starts, and the remaining 40% is paid when all productions are completed.

The pay was negotiated, and the negotiations on other matters lasted for two days, mainly Ronan's request for Paul Greengrass and Dean's fight for corresponding power for Paul Greengrass.

This is a business cooperation, and all commitments can only take effect if written on the contract.

Dean proposed many powers in many aspects such as director signature, insurance, travel expenses, extra living benefits and post-director editing.

Ronan did not get too entangled in these trivial matters, and even gave Paul Greengrass the power to host the post-production editing.

This is different from the final editing rights. Paul Greengrass can finally submit one or more editing versions to Ronan that he feels satisfied. Ronan, as the person with the final editing rights, has the right to modify and re-edit it, and even make major changes, such as changing the ending, etc.

There are naturally corresponding obligations when you get a lot of power.

Ronan would not trust the director completely at all. After all, he had seen too many commercial nightmares brought about by directors' free play in his previous life. Paul Greengrass's directorial power must be within the scope he defined.

He asked Paul Greengras to immediately invest in the preliminary development of "Borne's Identity" and subsequent formal preparations after signing the contract; to cooperate with screenwriter Tony Gilroy to complete the script; to produce and complete the submitted editing version, which must not be less than ninety minutes and not more than 120 minutes; not over-budget shooting; it must be consistent with the script; the theater editing version must comply with the grading regulations of PG-13.

Before the new weekend, Ronan represented Shahai Entertainment and officially signed a director contract for the "Borne" trilogy with Paul Greengrass, solving a crucial part of the preparation and shooting of this series.

Paul Greengrass was full of enthusiasm for work. The day after signing the contract, he devoted himself to the preliminary development of "Borne's Identity".

As "Ace Agent" has already ended its promotion, George Clint also joined the crew of "Borne's Identity" and continued to coordinate daily work in all aspects as a producer.

Ronan got the director and his eyes naturally turned to the actors, and someone sent an invitation to Matt Damon's agency. Matt Damon is now a second-tier star actor. If he can be invited to play Jason Bourne, whether it is to obtain third-party film-finishing insurance from the Firefighter Fund or to raise production funds overseas, it will bring benefits.

However, Matt Damon did not respond immediately.

Ronan did not come over and invite him over and over again, which easily made the other party speak loudly about pay or other conditions. Matt Damon is the first candidate, not a necessary candidate.

"Where is the heroine?" George Clint asked: "Let me find a German actress?"

Ronan thought for a while and said, "The heroine is not in a hurry, it's easy to find a vase-like character."

I remember that the heroine in my previous life seemed to be the one who played Laura in "Rola Run". I don't remember the exact name at all. Ben is not a famous star.

George Clint talked about the director again: "I will save a lot of money after signing three film director contracts with Paul Greengrass at one time."

"It will definitely save some." Ronan said the truth: "But if "Borne's Identity" is successful, Paul Greengrass and his agent will inevitably ask for a change in the contract, and we have to make some concessions."

George Clint also understood this truth and said: "If you really make a fuss like Edward Norton and Paramount Pictures, it will become a lose-lose situation."

Luo Nan didn't want to see such a situation. Since it was a business cooperation, it would be impossible to make the other party unprofitable.

Of course, if he was a rogue like Edward Norton, he would definitely not agree.

A few years ago, when Edward Norton was an unknown young actor, he signed three film contracts with Paramount Pictures in order to get the role in "Freak First Level" from Paramount Pictures.

As we all know, chances in Hollywood are the most rare.

Just like Paul Greengrass, when the opportunity comes to his face, there is no capital to pick and choose. Facing the first real movie character in his life, Edward Norton signed a contract with Paramount Pictures without hesitation, and then became famous through this movie.

Next, films such as "Sex Book Tycoon", "Everyone Says I Love You" and "Fight Club" made Edward Norton famous.

After Edward Norton worked with Paramount Pictures for the second time, the two sides had fundamental differences in their concepts. Paramount provided Edward Norton with commercial films, while Edward Nord was a typical literary and artistic enthusiast.

This directly led to sharp conflicts between the two sides. Edward Norton simply denied the existence of the three film contracts and repeatedly ruled away from the projects provided by Paramount Pictures.

Paramount Pictures sued Edward Nord last month.

The lawsuit may be long, but Paramount Pictures and other Hollywood companies will stare at Edward Nord until he loses the lawsuit.

Edward Nord's behavior is already challenging the industry's default rules.

In his previous life, Edward Nord lost the lawsuit and then had to play a vulgar villain in "Stealing the Sky" and the role of killing Charlize Theron's father.

This is a typical case of losing money. Paramount Pictures does not provide film projects and roles suitable for Edward Norton to play. Edward Nord did not talk about the spirit of contract after being angry.

Ronan often studies some classic Hollywood cases, and then combines memories from past lives to summarize experiences and lessons.

Some are worth learning from.

On Friday, "The Death is Coming" also entered its second weekend after its release. Disney Pictures' "The Stupid Dance" and Warner Bros.'s "The Miracle of Green" started painting at the same time.

The latter is starring Tom Hanks.

However, "Miracle of Green" obviously does not belong to the type that was hit at the beginning of the box office. It is relatively literary and artistic style and is more suitable for long-term screening routes.

Despite Tom Hanks' support, the film only received $18 million in more than 2,850 theaters on its first weekend.

"The Stupid Dance" performed less than 10 million dollars in the first weekend, and there was no competitiveness at all.

In contrast, the two old films "The Death is Coming" and "Toy Story 2" are extremely strong.

Toy Story 2 won $18.64 million on the third weekend and won the box office championship the next week.

The second-place box office list is "The God of Death", which fell by only 32% over the first weekend, winning 18.35 million US dollars.

"The God of Death" has accumulated a box office of 54.2 million US dollars in North America.

Ronan also saw the possibility of making a profit by just passing the North American box office.

Such box office results are also the result of high publicity and marketing promotion. Ronan does not know how much money "The God of Death is Coming" spent in his previous life for publicity and marketing, but the Embassy Film Company's expenses are absolutely higher, and so far, it has invested $11 million in publicity and distribution.

We will continue to invest later, with an expected expenditure totaling US$13 million.

Fortunately, "The Witch Blair" has made Relativity Entertainment full of cash flow, otherwise Ronan would have to find a way to borrow or raise funds again.

After this weekend, the great success of "The God of Death" has been irreversible. Ronan temporarily put down his work on this film and began to appear in the bustling area of ​​Los Angeles with the core of Beverly Hills. He frequently participated in parties organized by stars or film companies, and watched on the spot how to play the Hollywood awards season.

At the same time, we also met more people and further broadened our network of connections.
Chapter completed!