Chapter 180： refinancing

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The next morning, the two returned to the studio together.

Ryan first finished filming the scenes of Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton, and then Charlize Theron and Arnold Schwarzenegger officially joined the filming.

Since the scenes between Charlize Theron and Arnold Schwarzenegger are almost all action scenes, the filming progress of the crew has slowed down, and Ryan needs to shoot repeatedly for every fighting scene.

Arnold-Schwarzenegger is a little better. The role he plays has not changed much from the image in the two "Terminator".

There is neither gorgeous fighting nor hanging wires, just showing a strong side.

Charlize Theron was not so lucky. She was covered with a layer of greasy lubricant, hung on the wire, and made all kinds of difficult fighting moves.

In the film, her role, every move, is tailor-made, completely showing the most perfect side of Charlize-Theron.

During filming, the personal styles of Charlize Theron and Arnold Schwarzenegger were exactly the opposite, one was **** and cold, the other was extremely powerful, fully shaping the two diametrically opposed characters.

If we say that the role played by Charlize Theron is mainly focused on fighting movements, body and special effects.

Then Arnold-Schwarzenegger fully highlighted his personal charm, and any shotgun can burst out with endless firepower.

In just a few days, Charlize Theron had bruises all over her body.

For this reason, Ryan would smear her with medicinal wine and massage every night.

Don't think too much, it's just a simple smear of medicinal wine.

At the same time, the day after Penelope Cruz came back from the hot spring hotel, he had a private conversation with Charlize Theron. Even Ryan didn't know exactly what they talked about.

That night, the two of them went shopping and had dinner together, as if they had known each other for many years.

Ryan knows this, shaping the image in front of the media and the public.

At the same time as the shooting, the special effects production team composed of Digital Domain and Industrial Light & Magic officially entered the 20th Century Fox Studios.

The shots that Ryan shoots every day will be sent to the special effects production team as soon as possible for special special effects processing.

There are many shots in "Terminator 3" that require special effects processing, so the task of the special effects production team is very heavy.

Every day, Ryan will take a certain amount of time to communicate with the special effects production team and check the produced special effects.

According to the shooting plan of "Terminator 3", at most four to five months, the crew will be able to complete the entire filming of the film, and the rest of the time will be spent on post-processing special effects.

The plot in the film is very simple, even a little weak, so we can only work on special effects.

To put it bluntly, since the first "Terminator" was released, the main line of the plot of all "Terminator" series films has long been settled, and there are very few places that can be modified, only fighting and special effects. out of change.

"The sound effects of the firearms in the film must be changed. Regardless of whether the characters are realistic or not, the sound effects of each firearm used by Arnold must be enhanced to show the most powerful side."

In the conference room of the studio, Ryan said to the sound effects engineer and the pyrotechnician, "Don't care about the model of the firearm. What I want is the effect, a powerful explosion effect."

For an action sci-fi movie, there is no need to talk about whether it is realistic or not. No one will care about this. What the audience wants to see is those shocking visual effects.

For this reason, Ryan would rather slow down the shooting progress of the crew, emphasizing time and time again that no flaws will be allowed.

During the period, Moritz-Berman contacted the Pentagon and the military once, and the negotiation between the two parties was quite pleasant, and the military agreed to provide a certain degree of assistance to the filming of "Terminator 3".

As time entered the second half of May, the crew became busier, and more and more actors joined the crew, Ryan had almost no free time to speak of.

At the same time, the action scenes of Charlize Theron and Arnold Schwarzenegger were filmed almost every day, and the crew could only use a large number of stuntmen to prevent the two main actors from being injured.

For a long time, there were often two or three good-looking women in tight black leather jackets in the studio, and they were tall and tall, making people drool.

No way, Charlize Theron's figure is too good, but also too tall, a stuntman with a slightly weaker figure can easily pass through.

Having just finished filming a scene, Ryan can take a break while the crew rearranges the scene.

"Prince Geoffrey said that he can continue to invest in the "Sixth Sense" project through financing."

Jon Fertimer came over and whispered to Ryan: "The first financing, at least more than 10 million US dollars, and next, another 10 million US dollars is expected to arrive."

The entire project budget of "The Sixth Sense" is initially 35 million U.S. dollars, and Paramount will share half of the funds. That is to say, Orion Pictures only needs to invest more than 10 million U.S. dollars.

However, the amount of financing raised by Prince Jeffrey alone has reached 20 million US dollars, which has far exceeded the investment ratio of Orion Pictures in this project.

It was not difficult for Jon Fertimer to guess what Ryan was planning.

The shooting cost of every Hollywood film on paper is rarely the same as the actual cost of the crew, and there are more or less deviations.

Of course, these data will not be made public.

Orion Pictures and Paramount's disclosed project investment is 40 million US dollars.

In fact, that's $35 million at the top.

Things like this are normal for Hollywood film companies, but the easiest way is to count the extra funds on the promotional expenses, so that no one can find out.

Even if it is found out, it's nothing, the big deal is to file a transnational lawsuit to drag this matter down.

After a long time, it is estimated that the Prince of Brunei will also face the time of fleeing.

"Urge Jonathan Mostow, the production team is too slow to prepare."

Ryan was a little dissatisfied with Jonathan Mostow's procrastination, "Have someone notify Bruce Willis and Cindy Crawford of auditions, as long as there are no major problems, they can be settled directly."

"As for Jonathan Mostow's opinion, don't bother."

Regarding the casting of "The Sixth Sense", Ryan and Jonathan Mostow have quite different opinions.

Jonathan Mostow cares more about actors' acting skills, while Ryan thinks more about commercial value.

"Jonathan Mostow!" Jon Fertimer shook his head and said, "Looks like it's time for him to understand what the rules of Hollywood are."

The film company has the absolute right to speak of the crew, if it is really not possible, they can completely change the director.

Of course, unless it is a last resort, any film company will not easily choose to change directors, and will have to pay a liquidated damages for this.

"By the way, how about Gregory Hobright and Paramount's First Fear?" Ryan asked suddenly.

"Edward Norton turned down the role in the film, as if he didn't want to be distracted." Jon Felthammer said a bit of news.

"A very assertive actor, sometimes it's not a good thing." Ryan shrugged, and he was not surprised by Edward Norton's choice.

In the previous life, the dispute between Edward Norton and Paramount was so full of troubles that even the other side of the Pacific Ocean knew about it.

He entered Hollywood with a 3-film deal with Paramount.

But after 8 years of picking and choosing, he still didn't appear in any film, which almost drove Paramount crazy.

Moreover, the reason he gave was very speechless, he didn't want to appear in commercial films, but wanted to develop in the direction of art films.

It is estimated that the current Edward Norton also has the idea of ​​developing in the direction of art films, which will be enough for Helen in the future.

"Forget it, don't worry about him." Ryan was really too lazy to say anything.

If it wasn't for his relationship with Helen, he wouldn't have successively invited Edward Norton to join the crew.

"How about the candidates for the producer!" he asked out of words.

Facing the relationship between Jonathan Mostow and "The Sixth Sense", it was necessary to choose a stronger producer to restrain him.

It would be a disaster for a rookie director to hold the power alone in the crew.

"How about Frank Marshall!" Jon Fertimer thought for a while and said a name.

"Good candidate." Ryan knew who Frank Marshall was, a veteran Hollywood producer.

In the early days, he had blockbuster films such as "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Back to the Future". His most famous work in recent years, "Pretty Woman", made Julia Roberts popular.

"Get someone to negotiate with him right away, we can increase the basic fee appropriately, and refuse the request for box office share." He quickly made a decision.

But the only problemFrank Marshall's fee will definitely not be cheap. In addition to the basic producer fee, I am afraid that he will also ask for a share of the film's box office.

This is also the basic treatment of Hollywood first-line gold medal producers.

The income of Hollywood's top producers is no worse than that of famous directors.

"I'll get in touch with him personally." Jon Fertimer agreed without hesitation.

After finishing speaking, he took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Ryan, saying, "This is the box office data for the first week of "The Evil Spirit 2", and it doesn't seem ideal."

"The Evil Within 2"!

Ryan took it over and took a look, then put it aside. For him, whether the box office of "The Evil Spirit 2" is good or not, it has nothing to do with him.

What's more, he didn't need to think about it to know that the box office of "The Evil Spirit 2" was not much better.

Gregory Hobright, he should never have directed this film.