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As a director and screenwriter, Murphy naturally has two salaries, but the total investment of the film is 8 million US dollars, and his salary cannot be too high. In order to avoid excessive investment, Miramax will only pay his basic salary for the time being. The director's salary is 900,000 US dollars, and the screenwriter is much lower, only 100,000 US dollars.

This is also a normal price that conforms to market laws. Because of risk avoidance, Miramax pushed some of Murphy's pay into the North American box office share.

According to the director's contract agreement, if the film's box office in North America exceeds $10 million, Murphy can automatically receive a basic incentive of $100,000, which is one percent of the North American box office.

Similar to the "Saw" contract signed by James Win and Lionsgate Pictures, this is a step-by-step reward agreement. For every $10 million increase in the film's North American box office, Murphy's dividend reward will also increase by one percent. That is to say, if the North American box office reaches $20 million, he can get a commission of two percent as a reward.

But this agreement also has a supplementary clause, with the maximum reward not exceeding five percent of the North American box office.

In Hollywood, in order to avoid the risks brought by excessive investment in the early stage and to motivate the creative enthusiasm of the main creators, many Hollywood companies will use this strategy.

This will also tie the director and the project together, and the more money the project gets.

For now, this is also the most common pay agreement in Hollywood.

As for his other screenwriter identity, there are no similar terms of the agreement except for the small dividend ratio stipulated by the screenwriter union.

Looking at the entire Hollywood, the screenwriter who can sign a real share agreement can count it with one hand.

It’s okay to say that small independent projects like this. Most of the big production projects in Hollywood are the collaborative products of a whole screenwriter team, and creativity is almost equal to risk. Mainstream commercial masterpieces rarely use so-called genius creativity.

The project's producers are the brothers Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein, but Erica Steinberg is the one who is in charge of the crew, who form the film's production team.

In addition, since Miramax himself will only invest about $2 million, most of the production funds come from financing or pre-sales, the project introduced an insurance company as the guarantee for the film's completion, which is also a guarantee for those funders who are willing to pay for the film.

Miramax will insure the project at the insurance company. If the video cannot be completed on time, the insurance company will be responsible for compensation or find a new team to complete the project.

This is also a routine in Hollywood film production and even an important part of Hollywood film financing.

The guarantee for the film was first seen on Hollywood studios in the early 1950s, and now it is very mature in global operation.

The main function is to guarantee that a movie or TV production can be completed according to the scheduled time limit and budget of the script, and sent to the distributor. As a "finishing guarantee" institution, you must be very familiar with the film and television production process, and be able to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the quality of the script, fundraising, the ability and quality of the film creators, the producer's control ability, and the distribution income after the film is completed, monitor the film production process, and promptly supervise and control the financial status.

At the shooting scenes of many Hollywood movies, you can often see people from non-film teams holding various budget tables, schedules and production lists, and communicate with the live producers and art directors. It is not that this can save some money, but that we need to speed up the progress today.

Don't be surprised, these are the staff sent by the film guarantee company to supervise the budget and progress of the film.

Similarly, as an insurance company, several representatives will be sent to the crew, which will restrict director Murphy to a certain extent. However, this is not aimed at a certain director, but a mature system in Hollywood. Even directors of Steven Spielberg and James Cameron must work under this system.

The guarantee for finishing a film cannot guarantee the profitability of a film. The biggest function is to guarantee that a film can be completed within the budget.

Also, investments from financial institutions and private equity funds are also very troublesome to deal with, but these are Miramax's work, and Murphy does not need to be involved.

He just needs to be responsible to the crew.

With Murphy signing the director agreement, Caa also settled contracts with Miramax. As Murphy's team, Seth Logan, James Franko, Jonah Hill and Carrey Mulligan will play important roles. Robert Downey Jr. is a little troublesome. First, his pay is relatively high, and second, Harvey Weinstein has doubts about his drug addiction.

However, after Robert Downey Jr. switched to Caa, after the coordination between Murphy and Bill Roses, Harvey Weinstein finally nodded.

Correspondingly, there is an extremely strict contract for Robert Downey Jr.. Before the film is completed, Robert Downey Jr. can only get one fifth of the pay, and after the film is completed, he will get one fifth of the pay. The last three-fifths will have to wait until the film is removed from North America before paying.

There is also a memorandum in the contract, and if a drug scandal broke out between Robert Downey Jr. during this period, it will be regarded as automatically giving up the remaining rewards.

Despite Murphy's own observations, Robert Downey Jr. seems to have really quit drug addiction, such a restricted contract is beneficial to the entire project.

In terms of the staff behind the scenes, they are basically those who have worked with Murphy.

The assistant director and casting director are Paul Wilson, photography director Philip Raschel, art director Helena Espora, lighting engineer David Robbie, makeup artist Jack Watson...

These people have signed contracts with the crew.

However, the props artist is no longer Baker Clebert, and the other party is not a Caa customer. Bill Roses once again recommended a middle-aged man named Jady Hutson for Murphy. Compared with Baker Clebert, he has better abilities and qualifications.

The editor is no longer Jody Griffith. Although Murphy will participate in post-production and editing throughout the process, he does not have the final editing rights. The editor will be from Miramax.

In fact, directors who have the final editing rights in Hollywood can count them in just one slap.

Not to mention him now, even directors of Ridley Scott, David Finch and Quentin Tarantino at the same level do not have the final editing rights.

With the help of caa operation, the whole process seems quite smooth, but there are always some unexpected difficulties.

In one of Burbank Miramax's offices, Murphy, Bill Rossis and Harvey Weinstein all frowned slightly. They were the three most important leaders of the project. Erica Steinberg, who is actually responsible for various production work in the crew, just heard bad news from the San Fernando Valley.

"A pay of 800,000 US dollars!"

The number is seriously beyond Murphy's expectations, "Are they crazy? How much is the salary she can get for a *******?"

"Remember, Jenna Jameson just changed the agency," Bill Roses looked even worse. "William Morris signed an agency contract with her and was about to push her to the top position in that industry."

Harvey Weinstein gently pressed his fingers on the armrest of the chair without saying a word.

Murphy nodded. From the news from Erica Steinberg, it is not difficult to analyze that someone analyzed the real purpose of Jenna Jameson for their invitation to play.

Neither Murphy nor Caa nor Miramax meant to bring Jenna Jameson into Hollywood, but just wanted to use her identity and popularity to create topics.

Perhaps Jenna Jameson had fantasies before. Once he was reminded and discovered his position and actual value, he would naturally open his mouth and pay an extremely high salary.

This was something Murphy had never expected before. In his prediction, an invitation was sent, and the actresses who were hiding in the San Fernando Valley would be eager to post it. The beginning of things was indeed the case, but when they discovered their value, they would not be foolishly used.

Just like Jenna Jameson, her new agent offered a million dollars in film pay, and after a tug-of-war, he no longer gave in to $800,000.

In the words of that agent, cooperation will be beneficial to both parties. If they do not cooperate, Jenna Jameson will not suffer any loss. It is impossible for her to enter Hollywood and change her current identity.

The negotiations were in a stalemate.

"Murphy, what do you think?"

Although Harvey Weinstein is a real decision-maker, he is an old fry and pays great attention to the way of working, "about the heroine."

Many times, ideas are always good, but there are deviations in realization. This matter has left Murphy's expected track, and he has no hesitation, "Since the other party does not give up in terms of pay, we'll replace people."

The other party's salary to death was twice as much as he expected. Even if he cut it down a little, it would exceed the budget, which would inevitably reduce other expenses.

Bill Rossis nodded, he didn't want to run the project himself, using a client from William Morris as the heroine.

Harvey Weinstein seemed generous, "Murphy, are you a director, or the heroine is still based on your opinion."

Everything will never go smoothly. Murphy knew the simplest truth and immediately gave up the previous plan. After thinking for a while, he said, "She holds an audition, and it should not be difficult to find a suitable actress."

"I think it's OK," Bill Roses echoed.

Harvey Weinstein also nodded, "Then you'll have an audition. Murphy, you'll be responsible."
Chapter completed!