Chapter 184： special effects production

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Time flies by, and the 1996 summer vacation is coming to an end.

The biggest winner of this year's summer file is undoubtedly 20th Century Fox's "Independence Day", not even one of them.

Compared to last year, most of the films released by 20th Century Fox, only "The Evil One", a horror film, easily earned money from the box office.

Most of the remaining films, most of which cannot recover their costs from the box office, can only rely on offline video tapes and gradually emerging discs to recover their costs and profits from offline.

"I think the publicity budget for "Terminator 3" can be appropriately increased."

In the 20th Century Fox conference room, Colette Singer, director of the distribution department, said with a relaxed expression: "The success of "Independence Day" fully proves that high investment can bring high returns."

"The publicity budget of 28 million US dollars is too small for a film with an investment of 130 million US dollars. It must be increased to at least 40 million US dollars."

The success of "Independence Day" not only changed the performance of 20th Century Fox, but also let Colette Singer breathe a sigh of relief.

"The publicity budget of 28 million US dollars is not enough?"

Someone retorted: "The filming cost of 130 million U.S. dollars, plus the promotional budget of 40 million U.S. dollars, the final investment amount will exceed 170 million U.S. dollars, or even 180 million U.S. dollars."

"So who can tell me how much North American box office the film needs to recover its cost!"

"Is it $300 million? Or $400 million!"

Obviously, at least $300 million in the North American box office is needed before the film can barely recover the investment cost.

Colette Singer had expected that there would be objections, so his expression remained unchanged, and he continued: "Don't forget, the box office of "Independence Day" is entirely possible to hit the 300 million US dollars mark."

"What's more, the director of "Terminator 3" is Ryan Gosling, a guy who can be compared with Roland Emmerich."

All the people sitting here are Hollywood veterans, and no one would understand that increasing the promotional budget of the film can achieve better box office, and even affect the income from the surrounding copyrights of the film.

The same excessive budget will also face greater risks.

Tom Rothman was silent for a while, and said: "This matter needs to be discussed with Orion Films and asked for Ryan Gosling's advice."

"Of course, as long as the shooting effect of "Terminator 3" can meet expectations, the promotional expenses of 40 million US dollars are not out of consideration."

Regarding Tom Rothman's decision, everyone seemed relatively calm. Ryan Gosling's name had a different meaning to 20th Century Fox.

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Over the past few years, nearly one-third of the blockbuster films supporting 20th Century Fox's performance came from Ryan Gosling

The "Chain Saw" series of films has become the performance guarantee of 20th Century Fox.

Although Ryan Gosling was ambitious, he even bought Orion Films and began to get involved in the distribution industry, and the price of cooperation with him became more and more expensive.

But there is still one thing that cannot be changed. None of the films that collaborated with Ryan Gosling failed.

Ryan Gosling never disappoints them.

"But I need a reason." Tom Rothman looked at Colette Singer with both eyes, and there was a hint of dissatisfaction under his calm eyes.

The filming of "Terminator 3" is not yet completely over, and the production of special effects also takes a lot of time, and there is still a long time before the film is released.

At this time, the sudden proposal to increase the publicity budget is somewhat sudden.

Caught Tom Rothman by surprise.

Colette Singer said in advance: "Sony Pictures has officially sent an invitation to Roland Emmerich to direct a monster movie with a huge investment. Like "Terminator 3", the budget will be as high as 1.3." One hundred million U.S. dollars."

"It is said that the first invitation from Sony Pictures was Ryan Gosling, but he turned it down."

At this point, there was a pause, and Colette Singer continued to speak slowly: "Roland Emmerich will not refuse to direct a film with an investment of 130 million US dollars, and the request to increase the film's promotional budget is officially from Ryan. - Gosling."

"We have lost the opportunity to continue working with Roland Emmerich, and it is impossible to lose Ryan Gosling again."

Roland Emmerich chose to cooperate with Sony Pictures, and it was still a monster film with an investment of 130 million US dollars.

For 20th Century Fox, it is definitely not good news.

All of a sudden, everyone's eyes fell on Tom Rothman.

It is no secret in Hollywood that Sony Pictures wants to create the "Godzilla" series of films, but inviting Roland Emmerich to direct them is obviously beyond everyone's expectations.

To put it bluntly, this invitation is not in the interests of 20th Century Fox.

"As I said just now, a $40 million publicity budget is not impossible." Tom Rothman's tone became much firmer than before.

The competition among several giant film companies in Hollywood is far beyond the imagination of outsiders.

Especially for Sony Pictures, an outsider, Twentieth Century Fox has always been very vigilant.

Everyone knew that standing behind Sony Pictures was a real giant, an existence that no company in the world would dare to underestimate.

Sony Pictures invited Roland Emmerich to direct "Godzilla", as early as Ryan's expectation, the only thing that surprised him was that the time was about a year earlier than the previous life, maybe this is the legendary butterfly effect.

Entering September, since the crew finished filming the last fighting scene, the filming of "Terminator 3" has come to an end.

All the crew members can rest on vacation, Charlize - Theron and Penelope - Cruz continue to play the expected sisters, meet together to go to Hawaii for vacation.

Ryan didn't have any time to relax, let alone take a vacation. The day after the shooting ended, he joined the special effects production of the digital field and Industrial Light and Magic.

A large number of shots shot in "Terminator 3" require special effects processing, which is different from the few films he has shot in the past. The post-production workload is not at all easier than shooting.

Although Ryan is the decision-maker for the post-production special effects of the film, most of the time, he acts as an inspector, constantly pointing out the areas that need to be modified and the requirements for the special effects of the film.

Of course, the real operation is that the special effects production staff of Digital Domain and Industrial Light & Magic, as well as Stan Winston, formed a special effects production team of dozens of people.

The budget for the entire film of "Terminator 3", excluding the salaries of Arnold-Schwarzenegger and Ryan, the remaining crew expenses are not a lot, and most of the funds are used for special effects production.

"Stan, the color is a little too dim." Ryan looked at the clip that had just been produced, holding a large cup of wolfberry tea in his hand, taking a sip from time to time.

The style of the clip in front of him completely inherited the characteristics of the previous "Terminator 2", exuding a hint of darkness, which was not the effect Ryan wanted.

"Except for the end of the film, the rest of the place should be as bright as possible, so as not to highlight the darkness too much."

"Also here, the sharpness shown by the gun technique seems to lack a bit of eye-catching feeling. I think the speed can be slowed down a little."

"I've written it down, and I'll have someone revise it right away." Stan Winston said very professionally.

"It's better to be faster." Ryan lowered his head and took a sip of wolfberry tea, and said in a flat tone.

Now it's just September, and the special effects personnel of Digital Field and Industrial Light & Magic have plenty of time.

Compared with the requirements during filming, Ryan's requirements for special effects production are simply extremely demanding.

For a commercial popcorn movie, the acting skills only need to be about the same, but the special effects production must not show any flaws.

In addition to the production of special effects, Skywalker Sound Effects Company also began to get busy, producing soundtracks for the entire film, as well as theme songs and ending songs.

At the same time, the main actors of the crew also need to come back, and start post-dubbing one after another.

Therefore, the post-production of any sci-fi film will not be too easy.

Moritz-Berman walked in from the outside, with a hint of joy on his face, "Twentieth Century Fox agreed to increase the film's promotional expenses, that is to say, the promotional budget before the film's release in the future will reach 40 million US dollars. "

His tone was full of excitement, "Speaking of which, I would also like to thank Roland Emmerich and Sony Pictures, otherwise it would be very difficult for 20th Century Fox to agree to increase the film promotion budget."

"Actually, $28 million is too little." Ryan was somewhat helpless.

"Independence Day" had an investment of 75 million U.S. dollars, and the publicity budget reached 24 million U.S. dollars, while "Terminator 3", a film with an investment of 130 million U.S. dollars, had a publicity budget of only 28 million U.S. dollars, an increase of only 4 million U.S. dollars.

Moritz-Berman smiled. He didn't think the $28 million publicity budget was too small. The investment in many Hollywood films probably didn't even reach $28 million.

"I heard that Sony Pictures once invited you to direct "Godzilla"?" Moritz Berman asked curiously He was very curious about this and refused to direct a film with an investment of 130 million US dollars. It was so unexpected.

"Correct me, it's not an invitation from Sony Pictures, but an invitation from Michael Ovitz, one of the collaborators of this project." Ryan said in a very flat tone: "So I chose to decline."

Michael Ovitz!

Moritz-Berman was taken aback for a moment, then smiled wryly, and said, "It seems that Sony Pictures has found the most inappropriate candidate."

Regarding the relationship between Ryan and Michael Ovitz, he has long heard people talk about it.

Even for this matter, Touchstone Pictures missed "The Truman Show".

Ryan shrugged, choosing not to explain.

Even if it wasn't for Michael Ovitz's invitation, he wouldn't be directing a monster movie from Japan.