Chapter 473 (1/2)
Marvin Josephson's cocktail party at his Beverly Hills mansion is a major social event for ICM's pre Oscar artists.
On Wednesday, Denise entertainment signed a contract to play Clark Kent, the hero of Superman. As an ICM artist, Marvin Josephson attended the signing ceremony and invited Simon to the reception.
The actor of Superman is Brad Pitt.
Simon noticed Pete two years ago.
In my memory, Brad Pitt also intended to play in Warner Brothers' 2006 version of superman returns, but Warner had to give up because Pitt's fame was too big at that time.
Now Brad Pitt is 29 years old, and he made his debut in the mid-1980s. It's just different from Tom Cruise, who is only one year older than him. Since his debut, Pitt has been playing all kinds of little dragon tricks at the bottom.
The most famous character in recent years is just a man's vase originally belonging to him in the last flower, which is the result of Simon's special arrangement.
In order to pave the way for Pete to play superman, after ”the last flower”, the male star will also play in danielis Entertainment Investment and directed by Robert Redford himself in ”River Love”. River love, an autobiographical novel adapted from the original time line, is a famous work.
According to the arrangement, ”River Love” will be released at the end of the year, and impact next year's award season.
Brad Pitt also signed a 15-year five-part contract similar to Batman's Adam Baldwin.
However, unlike Adam Baldwin's five movies with a total value of US $30 million, Brad Pitt's starting salary is US $250000, followed by four films with an increase of US $2.5 million each.
The total value of Brad Pitt's five films is about $25 million if the box office of Superman series reaches the expected level.
The $25 million package is nothing compared to the potential value of the Superman series. However, for Brad Pitt, who is a famous actor at this time, breaking his head does not necessarily give him a chance to be in the top position.
Not only Clark Kent, but also Victor stone's cast has been finalized recently.
The actor is Will Smith, who has moved from rap to Hollywood in recent two years.
Will Smith made his debut as a rapper in 1985. Although he won the Grammy Award for the best rap group three years ago, he can barely be regarded as a second tier in the music circle, and the total sales volume of the album that won the Grammy award was only 500000.
Because of his extravagance and tax evasion, Will Smith was found out by the IRS two years ago. A $2.8 million ticket directly bankrupted the rapper, and he had to try to turn to the film and television industry to earn extra money.
Then, ABC sitcom ”Fresh Prince” launched in 1990 made Smith stand firmly in the film and television industry.
The opportunities for black actors in this era are far less than after the new century.
The universe of DC movies is booming. Steely, the black superhero actor, naturally attracts a large number of black actors, including Will Smith.
Under Simon's promotion, Will Smith, who is really suitable for the role of steel, successfully got the chance.
For the same five movie contract, because ”steel bone” is far less popular than ”Superman” and ”Batman”, Smith, who has just played in a TV series, is not a big shot. As a result, the total value of the package is only $20 million.
Five films with a starting salary of $200000, followed by four films with an increase of up to $2 million each.
Simon took Nicole Kidman to Josephson's cocktail party. It was more than 8 p.m. and the party had already started for a long time.
The atmosphere of cocktail party is mainly relaxed, and the host usually doesn't set the opening time, so Simon and Simon are not late.
What's more.
Simon westlow is late
All right.
This may sound like a joke in Hollywood today.
Learning that Simon was coming, Marvin Josephson came out with his daughter Nancy Josephson.
ICM was reorganized several times in the 1980s, and now Marvin Josephson has basically quit the management of this talent agency company, only holding the position of chairman as a major shareholder.
Nancy Josephson is the next generation head of ICM trained by Marvin Josephson, and now she is one of the agents who are emerging in ICM.
Simon, as a latecomer, knows that Nancy Josephson will be the co president of ICM in a few years. This agent also has a very well-known client, Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp has become famous by virtue of Edward Scissorhands two years ago. Now he is a famous little fresh meat in Hollywood. Depp has tried to get the role of flash before, only because Simon thinks Depp's style doesn't match Barry Allen's.Next Monday is the Oscars, and many of ICM's big names are coming to Los Angeles like Nicole Kidman.
As a result, more than an acre of land on the top of Beverly Hills is packed with crowds inside and outside the villa and on the backyard lawn.
Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, Susan Sarandon, Demi Moore, Julia Roberts, Judy foster and a large number of other ICM stage pillars and second and third tier artists all appeared at the reception. Of course, there are also executives of production companies.
Many Hollywood film projects are unknowingly finalized in such social occasions.
Marvin Josephson strongly invited Simon to attend, of course, not just to enhance personal feelings.
After greeting the familiar Mel Gibson, Marvin Josephson took Simon to a corner of the backyard lawn where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Cooper, CEO of Columbia Pictures, were standing.
”Simon, Amy said that you are not interested in the script of phantom hero. I think you should listen to Arnold's own ideas. It will become a blockbuster no less than Terminator 2.”
After last year's Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity has returned to its peak, and the action star's next film has become the focus of Hollywood.
A few days ago, it was spread in the circle that Schwarzenegger was preparing an original script called phantom hero, and the script of the film was also spread in Hollywood for the first time.
Simon doesn't need to read the script, just listen to the name to know that this is Schwarzenegger's worst fall in the 1990s.
”Phantom hero” tells the story of a little boy who is infatuated with an action hero on the screen. He gets a movie ticket that can travel between the movie world and the real world by accident, and then starts an adventure with his idol. Arnold plays the action hero named Jack Slater in it.
In my memory, ”phantom hero” just cost 85 million dollars to make.
After the release of the film, the box office in North America was only more than 50 million US dollars, and the huge loss made Sony pay an expensive tuition fee again, and Schwarzenegger's career almost hit the rocks because of ”phantom hero”.
Such a big pit, Denise entertainment directly refused when ICM promoted the project to major studios.
At this time, Columbia Pictures, controlled by Sony, obviously wants to take over the project as it did in the original space-time.
However, after the failure of last year's ”ultimate Eagle” and ”Captain Hawk” projects, Sony is also obviously cautious. Peter Cooper still wants to bring in Denise entertainment and build it into a cooperative project.
Simon certainly won't get involved in phantom hero, and certainly won't kindly remind Sony not to participate.
The release of phantom hero, a box office flop, means that a large market share will be vacated at the same time. This kind of change will be beneficial to danilisi entertainment.
Patiently listening to Arnold Schwarzenegger's views on the project, and having a few words with Peter Cooper, Simon verbally said that he would reconsider it. Of course, he actually planned to ask Amy to reject it for him in a few days.
As Simon walks away, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Cooper and Zach Penn, the screenwriter of phantom hero, are disappointed.