hollywood draw

A bit similar to the close collaboration with Wayne and Warner Bros. Roland Emmerich's entire directorial career has been working mainly with Sony Columbia Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox.

This director who is good at and also loves to shoot disaster films the most. If we put aside the disaster attributes of his works, many people can actually find that his usual style is idealistic light and romantic colors.

Starting from the 1984 Virgo feature film "Noah's Ark Code", the Hollywood director who was born in Stuttgart, Germany, deeply sowed the seeds of filming disaster films. When Sony Colombia put the project "Godzilla" on the agenda, he was also the first core creator to be identified.

There is a very interesting phenomenon in Hollywood. Those who actually participate in film production, the so-called elite filmmakers, have never had a big circle. Especially the good ones behind the scenes are not unfamiliar with each other. Of course, actors or big stars are not within this category.

This has led to almost every elite behind the scenes who have served on multiple crews, including Roland Emmerich, which is the most different thing about him from Wayne.

If you expand this circle a little more and circle the small leaders in the upper level of the crew, there will be more familiar faces. Everyone has similar working habits and environments, because a movie project is gathered together, after several months to a year of cooperation preparation and shooting, and then scatters and continues to participate in the next movie project.

This is even more true for large productions. Any big investment film project in Hollywood has to bear huge profit pressure for film companies, so they will become more cautious when choosing behind-the-scenes technicians.

From the producer and the core creative team led by the director, it includes the directors of various departments of the crew. From the bottom participants of the crew, such as temporary assistants, electricians, drivers, temporary handymen, etc., if a movie is born successfully, it is impossible to do without these people.

For top-notch big productions in the circle like "Godzilla", a budget of 130 million US dollars means that the crew is destined to be small, and hundreds of people gather to work is the norm.

It is very difficult to make these hundreds of people cooperate with each other and complete a film according to the shooting plan in a short period of time. Therefore, people see big-scale production movies in Hollywood, and almost all the production cycles are more than one year.

Those film directors called Fast Gunners, such as Wayne and Steven Spielberg, who make a movie a year, have a very stable core team behind the scenes. Usually, these Fast Gunners directors' projects can skip or reduce the running-in time in the early stages of shooting, and enter a stable shooting rhythm as soon as possible.

But Roland Emmerich is different. He is not a fast-moving director, so it is a very challenging task to shoot and produce the film "Godzilla" in less than eight months.

For him, whether it is the tight production time or the next plan of Sony Colombia, it is a battle that is not easy to win, and a battle where the opponent is extremely powerful.

However, Wayne, who was regarded as the enemy by Roland Emmerich and Sony Columbia at this time, was not as busy as they imagined, and was busy with work as they got off the plane.

The sunshine in Los Angeles in September is still hot, and a stream of heat is accompanied by the air, pouring into people's nostrils as if they were playing with their lives. The sun, beaches, yachts, swimsuits, hot girls, hot weather and hot music, asxs, ignited the high nest of the yacht party.

"How is this big guy?"

The music on the yacht decreased. Tom Cruise was naked, wearing colorful beach pants and carrying a bottle of beer, and sat on the second floor sofa. "I spent $19 million for this big guy three years ago, and it was not officially delivered to me this year. How about it? Should I place an order too? I'll ask Pat to contact you later?"

You can still vaguely see the shadow of Malibu Beach in the distance, and the surrounding sea surface is also full of liveliness. A group of seagulls hovering in the air, chirping from time to time.

Wayne was in a similar outfit, sitting on the sofa on the second floor of the yacht, listening to the dynamic music with a strong sense of rhythm, looking at the seagulls on the sea. Hearing Tom Ge's teasing, he smiled and raised the beer bottle in his hand, touched him, raised his head and drank half of the bottle.

The cold liquid flowed down his throat, as if temporarily suppressing the heat caused by the sun. He shook his head slightly at Tombe next to him and patted the sofa under him. "Forget it, I rarely squeeze out time to go out to sea. If you have any plans in the future, I will lend you this big guy."

"It's okay, just call me whenever you want."

Shrugging, Tom Cruise put the bottle on the table, opened a wooden box casually, took out two cigars and handed him one. "Let's learn to enjoy it, Wayne, damn, why do you keep so much money for? More than 200 million US dollars, there are many big guys like this!"

"Greenberg Studio will start multiple projects in the next two years. Money is always not enough, right?" Wayne chatted casually while picking up the cigar cut and trimming the cigar.

Suddenly, he felt something was wrong, tilted his head and looked at Tom Tsang, and asked, "Wait, how did you know that I have earned more than 200 million US dollars recently? Warner Brothers should have not promoted this matter?"

"I saw it in the magazine." The Hollywood superstar lit a cigar and spit out a large cloud of blue smoke. He gently tapped his head with his fingers holding the cigar. He frowned, and looked like memories appeared on his face. "Which magazine is here, wait, it should be below, I'll get it."

After saying that, without waiting for his reaction, he took the cigar into his mouth and walked towards the first floor of the yacht.

Even on the endless sea, the weather was still very hot. Wayne picked up the beer and then raised his head and took a big mouthful, shook his head hard.

As soon as he got off the plane, he received a call from Tom Cruise. He was picked up by Malibu and then got on the big toy directly. Until now, he still felt a little drowsy due to the jet lag.

In fact, he was also curious about the big toys such as luxury yachts, otherwise he would not have come directly to attend this so-called yacht party. Just like the one under him, the total length is more than 400 feet, and from a distance it looks like a white hill.

At this time, there were more than thirty bikini girls of different colors dancing to the music by the deck, by the bar and by the pool. Most of them had similar identities, that was models.

If we put aside the fame halo of Hollywood female celebrities, these young female models are likely to be better in terms of body, temperament or face. They all come from Los Angeles' unique public relations companies and have to sign confidentiality agreements before participating in every similar event, so there will never be a shortage of these beautiful female models at the parties of big names in the Hollywood circle.

"Will was crazy."

Nina, who had been sitting in the corner holding a fashion magazine in her hand, suddenly interrupted Wayne's thoughts, pointed to Will Smith by the pool, and whispered: "Boss, he is smoking leaves with those women. It may be something else, but it will not be a good thing in any case."

The assistant lady knew very well that what her boss hated the most was the most common "contraband" in the circle, so she pointed it out immediately.

"Shit!"

Wayne put the cigar in the ashtray and took a closer look at the men and women by the pool. Several Latino female models with a body like flesh bullets were twisting around Will Smith, and a cigarette was passed back and forth between the women and Hollywood stars, mixed with the spirits in their hands. Several people burst into laughter from time to time.

“Will’s taste is very different, right.”

A sound of footsteps came, Tom Cruise walked up with a cigar in his hand, holding a magazine and a few newspapers in his hand, and saw the direction he was looking at, and curled his lips and teased. "He and you are like two extremes. Damn it, let's not forget those who like this figure, why do they have to be dark colors?"

"Is the security guaranteed here?"

Looking back, Wayne asked immediately: "I don't want tomorrow's entertainment news headlines to appear, news of our arrest by the Los Angeles Police Department."

"Don't worry, smoke some Ye Zi cigarettes, it's okay."

Tom Cruise threw the newspaper and magazine on the table, shook his head with a smile, his face full of pride. "Believe me, no fool will run to my yacht for a surprise inspection! My foundation is a big donor to the Los Angeles Police Department, unless they don't want to change to a new police car in the future..."

Nodding, Wayne also smiled bitterly, feeling that he might be too nervous. Almost all Hollywood parties cannot lack similar things, such as alcohol, contraband, various drugs, and beauties of different colors, which are the main components of a party.

If you want to catch this thing, the Los Angeles Police Department will not use any news. Just surround the party wherever there is a party. It is definitely accurate to catch one by one.

"When are you going to start joining the group?"

Tom Cruise asked casually, putting his feet on the table with a comfortable look on his face.

"Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow." Wayne didn't raise his head and picked up the magazine on the table.

"You workaholic..."

It surprised him very much that this magazine had nothing to do with entertainment, but rather a financial magazine, the famous "Business Weekly".

The cover is a photo of Wayne, wearing a black suit, holding his hands in front of his chest and looking at the camera. He appeared on the cover of financial magazines with a full commercial atmosphere. Wayne found the revelation that Tombet saw about more than 200 million US dollars. What is even more surprising is that he is just one of the protagonists of this article.

"On August 30, the media "Pro Public" released a bombshell in a low-key manner. The famous Hollywood director Wayne Greenberg took more than 200 million US dollars in cash from Warner Bros. just by sharing the share of "Batman: The Dark Knight" just to get more than 200 million US dollars in cash from Warner Bros.

According to our investigation, since the 1990s, Wayne Greenberg's income from filming movies and the Warner Bros. shares held in his hands, and some of the Internet companies' shares are conservatively estimated to be more than one billion US dollars! Note that the basis for our calculation is the income he can find on the surface, and he did not calculate his personal reinvestment income.

Just like this time, more than 200 million US dollars of cash received from Warner Bros., Wayne Greenberg has been able to get a large amount of cash income almost every year in the past many years. Similar to him, wealthy people in different fields, including Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, and the head of Carnegie Steel, have earned a large amount of income in recent years.

After a lot of investigations, we found that 25 North American rich people in different fields such as Wayne Greenberg did not pay much tax! For example, Warren Buffett, a rich man who always shouted that the rich should pay more taxes, only paid a total of 11.75 million US dollars in the five years from 1992 to 1997.

Perhaps for most ordinary people, this is already an astronomical figure, but this money is nothing to the above 25 rich people in various fields. Similar to the taxes paid by Warren Buffett, the amount of taxes paid by these 25 rich people in various fields we surveyed in the past five years is surprisingly similar to their income ratio in the past five years.

Less than one percent, to be precise, it is between 7.9 and 9.00, and not even one percent of their total income! This is just the income ratio of the 25 rich people we investigated and understood. Compared with other fields, according to different states, the tax rate paid up to 30 to 60% of the income they pay is obviously less and abnormal.

According to the information we have learned, all these rich people have not illegally evaded taxes, evaded taxes, and evaded taxes. If we put aside moral and subjective feelings, let us analyze how their professional accountant team operates from the perspective of reasonable and legal tax avoidance..."

Wayne frowned. In this article of more than a dozen pages of magazine, he basically analyzed the tax avoidance methods of 25 wealthy people in different fields across North America, including him.

It is not uncommon to publish these analytical articles in financial magazines. Even the original intention of this magazine is to praise the investment methods of wealthy people, including him, and their smart tax avoidance methods. Showing wealth is equivalent to displaying rights on this land, which can be regarded as an old tradition.

"It took you only seven years, Wayne."

Tom Cruise, who was standing beside him, saw him looking up, clapped his hands hard, and said with a smile: "In seven years, you have earned 90% of the people in the circle, and you will never make a fortune in your life. I have to say that in terms of making money with movies, you are definitely the first in the circle."

Although his tone of speaking was ridiculous, there was no teasing in Tom Brother's eyes, and his eyes were filled with respect.

He still remembers that when he saw this article yesterday, his first idea was to start a film company with the other party. His unprecedented business vision, excellent film market sensitivity, perfect control over film shooting and production, etc., made people feel that Wayne should be a film company, and being a director is a waste of his business talent.

"Come on, Tom, no one can succeed forever."

With a smile, Wayne threw the magazine back on the table, picked up the beer and took a big sip. "Don't be superstitious about the media's flattery. Maybe my next movie "The Flash" will fail, or maybe the movie I invested in will fail at any time."

"Yes, no one in this circle will succeed forever."

Nodding deeply, Tom Cruise certainly knew that this was basically the iron rule of the film industry. Not to mention a film director or film producer, even the six major Hollywood giants, every time they shoot a movie, it is like a gambling.

"But at least you haven't made any mistakes in the past few years! By the way, I heard that you invested in the production of the film from the all-female perspective and was about to finish filming?"

"It should be soon." He had nothing to hide about this movie, and said happily: "If nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to see the movie before January."

Tom Gee's meaning is very obvious. If Wayne will make a mistake, then this film that is purely from a female perspective is undoubtedly the most likely. In the past few decades of experience, Hollywood has had countless producers and film companies, and has suffered a lot on it, but so far, no film that has taken the female perspective has been successful.

"Your confidence seems to be sufficient."

After taking a closer look at his face, Tom Cruise shook his head. "I hope this movie won't make you lose too much money."

Including Tomco, many of his friends, and even Warner Bros. executives, after watching the lineup of "Charlie's Angels", their first thought was that Wayne was spending money to play games with women, or spending money to fulfill his promises to women.

It is well known that his credit in this area is that it is difficult for people not to think about it this way by arranging three women who have no relationship with him. As for making money from this movie, even if he is the screenwriter and producer of the film, no one is willing to believe it. This involves the general industry awareness of most people in Hollywood.

"Tell me, Tom."

The two of them had been chatting about various gossips in the circle during this period, but Wayne saw from the beginning of stepping onto the yacht that the other party had something to say. After waiting for so long, and because of the jet lag, he chose to ask directly.

"I'm a director, you're a good actor. Your eyes tell me that I have something to talk to me."

“Ok, ok.”

He shook his head helplessly. Tom Cruise took a big sip of the cigar. He turned around and saw Will Smith walking towards the yacht room. Obviously, the three girls were very dissatisfied with his aesthetic. Tom Cruise looked at each other and the corners of his mouth twitched twice.

"I have already told Pat that I will end the negotiations with Jimmy on "Iron Man" tomorrow..."

When Wayne's eyes shrank when he heard this, in his heart, the person who is most suitable to play Tony Stark in this era is undoubtedly Tom Ge.

Among all the male stars in Hollywood, the other party's box office appeal, audience favor, and movie fans' reputation are the top in this era. Of course, Tom, Uncle Ford and others are also very powerful, but for "Iron Man", he can't think of anyone more suitable for this position than Tom.

As long as you can convince the other party to invest together, you can talk about the issue of pay appropriately. Not to mention anything else, with Tom Ge's face, you can increase the box office of hundreds of millions of dollars out of thin air to the movie, which is something that little stars can never compare with.

Wayne hit the table with one hand slowly and asked seriously: "What happened?"

"There were some unexpected situations between Paramount and me," Tom Cruise didn't hide it, and chose what he could say directly: "Contradictions and cooperation have almost become the theme between Paramount and me in the past two years. A few days ago, Summer Redstone asked me to talk, well, the result was very bad."

After thinking about it carefully, Wayne probably guessed something. Since Viacom acquired Paramount, the powerful woman Shirley Lansing has led the six giants through the turbulent period in a few years. Now even the head of Viacom and the legendary tycoon of media industry, Summer Redstone Dong, has spoken out, which shows how complicated the interests dispute between Tomco and Paramount is.

Unlike other Hollywood superstars, Tomco and Paramount signed a close cooperation agreement very early, and the specific content is unclear, but news has been circulating in some terms. In addition, the copyright disputes in Mission Impossible are divided into disputes and investment disputes. It can be said that the two parties have no possibility of breaking up happily.

And now it is the 1990s when the superstars have the strongest appeal. Paramount or Summer Redstone is reluctant to let go of Tombe. Now, he is a top-tier male star, is the most scarce resource in the circle. This face represents countless potential interests.

"I'm not convenient to say the specific ones. There are some confidentiality clauses involved, but I think you can guess some." Tom Cruise breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head and drank several large sips of beer. When it came to this, it was obvious that he was not in a good mood. "In the past two years, I probably can't take time to work on other films, so..."

"I understand that there will always be opportunities for cooperation." Wayne stretched out a hand to Tombe and said seriously: "If you need help, call me at any time."

"Bang."

The two men slapped their palms and smiled at the same time. Tom Cruise took back his hand and nodded gratefully.