Chapter 095 (1/2)

After Simon's narration, Robert De Niro had a feeling of sudden brightness.

Compared with those memorable films or characters in the history of film, young people in front of them are more ambitious.

He wants to create a complete fictional world. He wants to make the audience believe that everyone in this world is alive. He wants to unconsciously draw the audience's attention into this world through an alternative plot structure, endless dialogue and extremely rich details.

It can be imagined that if this goal is achieved, who dares to say that this film will not become a classic in film history.

Robert De Niro has had his most glorious years. The godfather, taxi driver, deer hunter, angry bull and other films have brought him too much honor. He thought it was hard for him to get too interested in any film in the world.

But at this time, the young man's ambitious work aroused his desire to perform again.

Moreover, as a standard experiential actor, Robert De Niro also realized that the role of Butch Coolidge is definitely a very interesting challenge for him.

Butch Coolidge is a fictional character from the absurd world. If he wants to build this character, he can't drive a taxi like he did when he was preparing for taxi driver, and he can't fight like he did in angry bull. Even, he not only needs to construct such a role out of thin air, but also needs to fully believe that he lives in such an absurd world as vulgar novel.

Thinking about this in his mind, when the figure of Robert Redford disappeared, Robert De Niro did not hesitate any more and said directly, ”Simon, talk about the pay.”

Simon quickly replied, ”a base salary of $2 million plus 15% of the net North American box office profit. Bob, the budget for vulgar fiction is only $8 million, so that's the highest offer I can make. ”

Robert De Niro did not hide his emotions, shaking his head: ”some low.”

Over the years, although the box office results ranked the last among the original four actors, due to the strong coffee seats, De Niro's film remuneration started at least $3 million, and his budget for participating in films was rarely less than $10 million.

Compared with ”angel heart”, which was released at the same time as Warner's ”lethal weapon”, the production cost is as high as $17 million.

As for profit sharing, due to the special accounting system of Hollywood films, which is always difficult to make profits, the current stars usually regard this promise as a blank check.

Simon, from ”Lola Run” to now ”death is coming” and ”vulgar novel”, insists on asking for direct box office share in order to avoid ”Hollywood ledger” as much as possible.

Hearing De Niro's reply, Simon seriously explained: ”Bob, this time the box office share is calculated in this way. Orion and theaters will only take 15% of the publicity expenses according to the five to five share calculation, and the other 35% of the total box office in North America, minus the production budget of $8 million, take the rest as the net profit share base, from which you can get 15%. According to this formula, if the box office of ”vulgar novel” reaches 50 million dollars, you will get a total of 3.5 million dollars. The expected North American box office of ”Lola Run” is more than 200 million US dollars. I can't guarantee that my next film will be so successful, but I think that 50 million US dollars is certainly no problem

Robert De Niro still shook his head slightly and said, ”Simon, according to this formula, the box office of vulgar novel in North America is 100 million dollars, and I can only get 6 million dollars.”

Simon said seriously: ”it may be presumptuous to say that, but, Bob, you really need a blockbuster right now. So if the box office of vulgar novel in North America is really lucky to reach $100 million, you will actually get more than $6 million for one film. ”

Robert De Niro was silent at last.

His recent films, angel heart, cost US $17 million to produce this year, are nearing the end of the season, with a box office of only US $14 million in North America; last year's war is on the rise, with a production budget of US $25 million, and a box office of us $17.21 million in North America. Earlier, the production cost of ”past America” was US $30 million, and the box office in North America was only US $5.32 million.