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Halle Berry looks quite overwhelmed as people crowds around her, working on her hair, clothing, nails and makeup.

They are making sure that she looks perfect for when the filming continues again.

It is their only job on set.

These people are her personal makeup artists and assistants, provided completely by Terra Production for the entire duration of the filming process.

They give her support in whatever she needed, including running across town to the homeless shelter to hand over a handwritten note.

Halle only needs to ask, but she rarely do. She didn't want to bother them more than necessary despite me constantly telling her that it is what they are paid for.

All the other cast members on set, especially the supporting casts are curious as to why so much works is being done on Halle while the her co-star, Keanu Reeves is by himself, reciting his lines and practicing a scene all alone.

While it is true that Halle Berry is getting more attentions than most main characters in other movies and productions, Keanu Reeves requests to be left alone whenever possible.

Keanu cites that he works better at his own pace.

The director did not mind, so I didn't either.

As long as Keanu produces results, he can request a bunch of stripers in his trailer after the shootings for the day and I would have probably still grant the request.

I am not being sarcastic.

Results is what matters most to me.

No excuses.

Interestingly, his agent is a shrewd of a man, managing to gain Mr Reeves a $500,000 payday for the role.

This is partially thanks to me demanding to have Keanu Reeves as the main character for the movie. I will not have anyone else playing the role.

I do not mind paying that much to have Keanu Reeves being in the movie, but I did wonder if I needed to hire some professional negotiators in the future to make things more interesting.

His pay is almost as much as the entire pay for the supporting casts.

Adding onto the cost of the villain, the entire cast for the movie Speed cost $1.4 million dollars.

Halle is not part of this initial cost since she has alternative revenue streams. She would earn about 4 million dollars once the movie hit the theatres.

An insane amount for a new comer like her.

If you added the director, the crewmen, the screenwriters, the managers and so on, then the cost will be around $2 millions dollar. Props, filming locations, and others push this number to $10 millions. It would be more after the post production, the distribution and publishing cost.

I expect the total cost for Speed to be around $40 millions in total, give or take a couple of millions.

Quite a bit of money in 1990, but not really that much considering the eventual returns.

It isn't really about the money. It is more about the exposure.

Speaking of exposure, my book on dinosaurs has finally hit the top selling chart while bringing quite a bit of money. People have finally notice the book after several weeks on the bookshelves. This includes a certain author. He is requesting legal advice right now for what he should do.

I am prepare for whatever legal trouble comes my way with my team of high paid lawyers. It will scare the pants off anyone.

Returning to my movies, I wonder why the production team decides to hire screenwriters since I have written the screenplay for the movie myself, but I guess they needed someone to adjust the dialogues on the fly.

They couldn't bother me if the are rewrites since I am too busy with everything else.

As for who the villain of Speed should be, I have suggested they try to cast Dennis Hopper since he did play the villain in the original version.

However, the man turns down the offer – which is bizarre.

That should not have happened, but whatever. He is unimportant.