Legendary Hollywood Director

In reality, Mads Mikkelsen's star road can't be said to be a fire or a failure.

After all, as a Danish actor, how many resources can he get? There is no choice at all.

Lehmann also knows that this family is not bad, very family-friendly, and often runs between Hollywood and Denmark.

Moreover, he is 40 years old this year, and he is very mature in acting. He has much more life experience than a young man, and he has more temperament. Playing a lawyer is not a very difficult challenge for him.

In fact, Maders has a very wide range of dramas, such as handsome idols, problem boys, cold villains, and even comedy roles, whether it is good or evil, all can be grasped.

Then, the day after the audition ended, the crew of "Monster in the Lake" officially confirmed Mads-Mickelson as the project's first male supporting cast.

But as an outsider, his salary can't even compare to a little girl actor like Dakota Fanning, let alone a supporting actor like Morgan Freeman.

It's not that Firefly Pictures has lowered the price too hard. In fact, although Maders has a good international status and is a popular actor in Denmark, in Hollywood, his worth is low, because there is no performance to support him, and he wants to rise. It couldn't go up either. The final decision was, um, $870,000.

On the other hand, "Mrs. Smith" has completed all the preliminary preparations, and director Tony took the crew to the location to shoot.

April 29.

Thursday.

Early in the morning, Lyman rushed to Firefly Pictures and held a full-day meeting with Joseph and other management.

In the middle, the salaries of all film creators are basically negotiated.

Michael Caine was equally happy and decided to play the male lead's confused father, but the negotiation with Matthew McConaughey's leading role's salary package was a bit of twists and turns.

Maybe it was because he was too confident, or his agent didn't understand the situation. The first quotation actually required 7 million US dollars, and 8% of the North American profit after the movie was released. With such a high price, it is really a lion's mouth.

Of course, this may be a negotiation skill, but I don't really want so much.

But Leiman's reason for choosing Matthew at the beginning, in addition to the right role, the most important thing is that he just screwed up a masterpiece, and he took the opportunity to lower the price and reduce the salary expenditure.

Therefore, Joseph refused directly, saying that he had never heard of any actor who could screw up a movie with an investment of over 100 million, and the salary would not decrease but increase. He also said that the role is not only a candidate for Matthew McConaughey, but also other brokerage companies. There are options, but if you can't agree, forget it - the words are very strong.

On the contrary, this frightened Matthew McConaughey quite a bit. For fear that the opportunity would be gone, he quickly relented.

As for profit sharing, there is no mention of it.

However, Lehman also knows that this kind of sharing model is already popular, and it is indeed the most favorable feedback that the agency can give to the superstars.

But well, don't worry about what happens in the future, Matthew McConaughey can only get $4.5 million for this film, and they agreed.

And today's meeting, more to discuss the project's advertisers and their follow-up.

Yes, placing advertisements is another technique for film production to reduce risks.

In the past, when Lehman was not famous, he couldn't even get sponsorships.

But now, instead of sponsoring, people took the initiative to come over and send money.

In this regard, the most powerful ones are "Tomb Raider" and various fashion city or love movies. They often recoup most of their investment before they are released.

Of course, movies are not used for advertising, and how to place advertisements without being boycotted by the audience is also a knowledge.

At least, as a special effect monster movie, "The Monster in the Lake" has not many aspects that can be implanted, that is, the male protagonist's home and street can give some appropriate shots to sponsors.

Joseph and others discussed it just for this.

After the meeting, a short list was made.

Any mobile phone brand - Apple; truck - Ford; soap and other toiletries, cameras - Sony, and fast food such as KFC all have advertisement placement.

It sounds exaggerated. There are many, but in fact, it is already too few, and they have been carefully selected.

At least, Lyman's integrity is much better than that of Michael Bay. He didn't use a special effect blockbuster of more than two hours, and specially implanted advertisements into the shots. In this regard, "Transformers" is really awesome, and it has invested more than 200 million yuan. , saving 70,800 million.

This one, "Monster in the Lake" did not do it deliberately, nor did it change the plot for the advertisement.

Moreover, companies such as Sony and Apple are more about providing products and paying a small amount of money. It is not bad that all the product placements add up to seven or eight million sponsorship fees.

Of course, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, so why not save it if you can.

A group of people, just for this, discussed meticulously all day long.

It has to be said that Hollywood's industrial chain is too perfect to treat movies as a business.

The risk of those blockbusters has been artificially reduced a lot.

The profit margin is also very large.

A few days later ~www.novelmt.com~ the film crew was all set up.

In addition to the main creator, after more than half a month of busywork, a series of behind-the-scenes staff have already been arranged.

So, on the first weekend of May, Lehmann's work schedule suddenly became hectic.

In these days, there are too many things to be determined.

For example, the actor's makeup and appearance;

Coordinate the schedule of supporting actors and actors' script reading sessions;

Rental of shooting props, customized costumes...

If you think about the shooting plan, you should be able to complete the shooting task in mid-July and transfer to post-production. If you compare the schedule, there is still plenty of time before Christmas.

It took another two days for Lyman and Thomas to arrange the set up.

Under such a busy schedule, the work progress was pushed very fast.

After that, several of the main creators also finished their training one after another, gaining a deeper understanding of their respective roles.

So, on May 7, in Warner's studio, everyone rushed over early in the morning.

Under the control of a big director like Lehman, no one is willing to play big names. After all, no one is bigger than Lehman.

Even Lyman can get up early on the day of filming, so what about the others who have been reminded?

Matthew McConaughey is most satisfied with Lyman. He really specializes in sunbathing, not just sunbathing, but also sports shaping. According to him, his sweat is not in vain.

This devotion made Lyman's senses a lot better.

――――

​​

( (