hollywood draw

"The two projects of "Wonder Woman" and "Superman" will open a new chapter for the DC series of movies."

Located in the huge conference room on the seventh floor of Warner Bros. Building, Wayne sat in the center of the organizer's location in front, with no less than 200 reporters crowded in front of him, but his voice seemed to be neither anxious nor slow.

Apart from his speech in front of the microphone, there were only a large number of flashes of camera equipment, and the sound of the karaoke made desperately.

"Whether it is the story of Wonder Woman Diana Prince or Superman Clark Kent, I believe many movie fans are so familiar with it that they can't be familiar with it anymore. I can tell all movie fans now that these two important DC hero stories will definitely bring surprises to everyone!

Unfortunately, after the film was launched, I signed a strict confidentiality agreement with Warner Bros., so I cannot disclose too much relevant information and script details. However, I can assure all DC fans that these two films are definitely more amazing than you expected...!"

Facing Wayne, who was talking clichés but refused to reveal any useful information about the movie, the reporters huddled together didn't care about talking, and everyone was trying hard to find some more specific information.

Especially after the press conference host signaled to enter the free questioning session, a large number of reporters in charge of news interviews were all involuntarily moving forward.

"Director Greenberg, can you talk about the main actors of "Wonder Woman" and "Superman"?"

Candice Mays, the first reporter who was called, didn't bother to be excited. He looked at the man sitting in the center and immediately asked loudly: "Although the actor who played Diana Prince and Clark Kent had also appeared in "The Flash", the short shot did not give clear information. Can you talk about these two actors?"

In the past few years, both Batman's actor Christian Bale and Frank's actor James Frank have gained huge media attention before the movie was officially filmed.

Nowadays are no exception. As long as you can get information about the actors of Superman and Wonder Woman, reporters will not worry about having nothing to write.

Even as DC movies become more and more influential, the public's attention to the main actors is inevitably increasing. This movie series has become a unique landscape in Hollywood. Even if the film has not started filming, the main actors can enter the public's eyes first.

"Huh, I thought you were going to ask me what I needed to keep confidential."

Wayne, not far from the female reporter, shrugged exaggeratedly. While teasing herself, she also raised her hand to wipe the sweat that did not exist on her forehead.

His exaggerated performance caused a burst of kind laughter in the crowded conference room. However, it did not make the New York Times reporter wait. He happily pointed to the microphone in front of him and said, "I believe that some careful movie fans have discovered something from the easter eggs of "The Flash".

That's right, Ben Affleck had signed a related film contract with Warner Bros. He will play Superman Clark Kent. As for Wonder Woman Diana Prince, Angelina Jolie will play Angelina Jolie. At present, the two of them are undergoing relevant training before filming and will meet everyone at the latest at the launch conference."

Ben Affleck, Angelina Jolie!

When the reporters heard these two names, they immediately fell into a rumor of discussion in the temporary news hall. Most reporters were not surprised. As long as they refer to Wayne's previous habits of employing people, it would not be difficult to draw this conclusion.

In fact, whether it is Ben Affleck or Angelina Jolie, at least it is not unfamiliar with the circle.

The former, together with his friend Matt Damon, showed his face in "The Spirit Catcher". The latter is even more familiar. The female storm caused by "Charlie's Angels" this summer made this actress who grew up in the circle, reminding all viewers around the world what a hot body is.

What is even more impressive is actually those sexy lips. When many people hear this name, they suddenly remember that the only clear image left to the audience by the museum staff at the end of "The Flash".

"Director Greenberg, can you talk about Superman who has returned after many years?" The reporters' discussions stopped. A female reporter in a professional dress in the front row looked at Wayne and asked.

I'm afraid most people have to admit that Superman Clark Kent's popularity is unique among all superheroes. The reporters at the scene also knew very well that movie fans must be more concerned about Superman's relevant information.

"Ha, I'm going to correct you first. Superman is not returning, but restarting!"

After thinking a little, Wayne cleared his throat and replied to the microphone: "The "Superman" we are about to see is completely different from what has appeared on the big screen before. Sorry, I don't disrespect the meaning of Richard Donner and Richard Lester (director of Superman 1.2.3). I just want to make it particularly clear that neither "Superman" nor "Wonder Woman" has nothing to do with the previous story."

"Wayne, can you reveal the specific content?"

Wayne looked at the reporters spreading his hands and shook his head with a smile. "No, don't think about placing my words, I can only tell you that they are different from all previous works."

Facing the reporters' questions in a different way, Wayne handled it with ease, and in this environment, there was no one who deliberately made trouble.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to reveal some plot information, but that these two films are too special. Even if they don’t reveal anything, the public will probably guess what to shoot. After all, which ordinary people have never heard of the stories about these two characters?

Faced with such a situation, Wayne simply chose to keep the mystery to avoid the embarrassment of the audience losing the freshness before the film was released.

Normally, the impact of a Hollywood movie on whether the plot is leaked or not before it is released is a disaster.

There are countless similar things in Hollywood, but when it comes to this, we have to mention the unlucky old Quentin Tarantino. His new film "The Eight Eights" had just been launched, and his script of more than 100 pages was leaked, which leaked to the entire Hollywood, and the entire North America knew what he was going to film.

But the mutt Quentin was the last one to get the news, because countless actors and agents frantically called Quentin's agents to recommend themselves, wanting to win a role.

So the last "Eight Eight Wicked Man" presented to the world is the second version of the script that Quentin Tarantino reorganized before the official filming. In order to distinguish the leaked plot and to distinguish the influence of the plot leak, the two versions of the scripts before and after can be said to have nothing to do with it.

However, even so, the results of "The Eight Eight" are still unsatisfactory. Until the film was down, the box office in North America was only more than 50 million US dollars. You should know that this result is completely in line with Harvey Weinstein's expectations. As for whether the results of the film were affected by the plot leak storm, I'm afraid that fools can guess it.

The routine project launch conference ended after Warner Bros. staff showed the contract between the two parties. In fact, the contract displayed to reporters was just a thing of the ceremony. The real contract was signed with Warner Bros. the day before the press conference.

To a certain extent, when Warner Bros. gave confirmed responses to the two projects of "Superman" and "Wonder Woman" through a series of market research, risk assessment, and then Warner Bros. had basically agreed to the dominant salary and benefits.

As Wayne's agent, Jimmy has begun to miss the early 1990s, when he could always get a sense of accomplishment in negotiations with Warner Bros. And in the past two years, negotiations to earn compensation for his clients have become more boring.

Putting aside everything else, Warner Bros. and Jimmy have a tacit understanding in Wayne's personal treatment. At least in the DC series of movies, there is no controversy in the treatment issue.

Although he has titles such as producer, director, screenwriter, etc. in these two projects, his main salary has always been the position of director. Not only has the basic salary and later box office share this time, there is no change in the slightest change, but even the treatment and standards in some jobs look so familiar.

At some point, Jimmy even had a great suspicion that the Warner Bros. executives directly changed the director contract of "The Flash" and put it on the negotiating table.

Perhaps for large-scale projects of other film companies, the director's contract is a "big thing" that takes several months to get out. Between Warner Bros. and Wayne, it obviously saves time loss in this regard, because both parties understand that the salary he receives is now the top in this circle.

If you want to go further, it will completely go beyond the scope of directors or producers. Unless it involves the offline share of the film, the most unlikely condition in the DC movie series is the offline share of the film.

After all, this series is completely different from the projects jointly invested by both parties. You should know that Warner Bros. produces the DC series projects, but no external financing is introduced. As long as the films involved in the DC series are all produced by Warner Bros. themselves.

On the day of the project launch conference, Wayne did not leave Warner Bros. He just changed a conference room and started a routine meeting with his core creators behind the scenes.

Including editor Julia, two producers Charles Rowan and Luke Simmons, photography director Robert, prop director Wicks, lighting director Steve, deputy director Schwartz, etc., they all waited for him in this conference room.

These people have been working with him for more than a year or two, and they all understand the working style of the crew leader. From the moment they sign the director's contract, Wayne will devote himself to his work like a clockwork full of wind.

As in the past, without any nonsense, Wayne arranged his respective work one by one in an orderly manner.

"Luke, Charles, and Warner Brothers will deposit two $40 million of each of them into the accounts of Superman Studio and Wonder Woman Studio by tomorrow morning. You are staring at the first batch of funds for their respective projects until they enter the accounts of third-party insurance companies!"

"No question, boss." Luke Simmons agreed happily.

"I will keep an eye on "Superman"." Charles Rowan responded aloud.

"Schwartz, release an audition invitation to the agency in the circle." Wayne nodded with satisfaction, his eyes swept across the faces of everyone in the conference room, and finally stayed on the casting director. "The location is still at Warner Studios. Pay attention, there must be many people who audition in the first round, you should pay attention to screening."

"I understand, boss, leave it to me."

This is a team that has been working with many times, and there is no need to be running-in. As Wayne communicates with the heads of various departments one by one, the brief preparation meeting quickly came to an end.

Finally, his eyes were fixed on Zach Schneider. "Zach, go and call your behind-the-scenes team in "The Matrix". Charles will assist you in preparing for related issues. You have plenty of time. If you have any difficulties, you can talk to me at any time."

"Okay." Facing the eyes of everyone in the conference room, Zach Schneider nodded in a low-key manner, looked at Charles Rowan, the producer of "Superman", and returned to his silence again.

The other behind-the-scenes executives looked at him well, but most people only had a little envy in their eyes. Everyone knew that as long as there was nothing wrong with this "Superman", even if this New York commercial director really made his debut, there would be countless big projects waiting for him later.

However, in the eyes of everyone, it is not difficult to find that some people have Chilolo's jealousy. The identities of these people are mostly deputy directors in charge of various specific affairs in the crew. Even Schwartz, the senior casting assistant director, looked at Zach Schneider with complex eyes.

After the brief preparation meeting, everyone started to get busy. Wayne rushed to Warner Bros. early the next morning, he met with a representative from a third-party insurance company and signed a guarantee contract for the final film.

This can be said to be the most important process after the project is established, and it is also a pistol behind the director and producer.

In the Hollywood modern film production system, the introduction of third-party insurance companies has long become part of commercial projects. The biggest difference between commercial films and low-cost independent films is also in this place.

From the day the crew signs a guarantee agreement with the third-party insurance company, the insurance company's representatives will enter the crew in preparation. The investors' funds for the project will also enter the third-party insurance company's account. Basically, no matter what the crew wants to do, as long as it involves spending money, the producer needs to communicate with the insurance company's representatives.

On the surface, it is like putting a shackle on the core creators of the crew. Even when the shooting officially begins, representatives of third-party insurance companies will observe the director's shooting plan every day and communicate the shooting plan for the next day.

Their purpose is very clear, that is, to ensure that the crew is working according to the scheduled plan and try to avoid various types of waste. This waste includes time and funds. The ultimate goal is to ensure that the entire film is completed within the scheduled date and scheduled expenses.

As for the quality of the film, etc., that is not the work they have to be responsible for. They almost strictly supervise the operation of the entire crew in order to ensure that the film is completed and will not die halfway due to various reasons.

No director likes a guarantee for the film, and Wayne is the same. From the perspective of investors and publishers, introducing a guarantee for the film can maximize their interests. This is a practice that Hollywood has formed for many years. If you want to survive in this industrial system, you must abide by this set of rules and accept this set of rules.

Don’t think that all crews in Hollywood are so reliable. In fact, because of all kinds of messy things, crews that have died in half of the filming work can be said to be common.

And every time this time comes, when the film guarantee comes into play, they will inject funds into the crew, and even re-recruit relevant staff, and complete the insured projects until they are delivered to the distribution company.

Of course, this is a situation that no one wants to see, because once a similar situation occurs, the quality of the video will be guaranteed at all.

In fact, the project preparation work will officially begin when the representatives of third-party insurance companies enter the crew, and the investors' funds are deposited into the joint account between the crew and the insurance company.

Of course, this also involves complex issues such as investor, issuer, whether there is copyright pre-sale of the video, whether there is advertising implantation income, whether the implantation income is directly included in the production cost, etc.

But the actual significance will not change. The representative of the film guarantee company in the crew will not interfere with the normal work of the crew. However, once they suspect or determine that Wayne's shooting plan is at risk of overspending and endangering the interests of investors and insurance companies, the insurance company can immediately freeze the crew's related accounts.

The crew's shooting risks will be assessed. If necessary, they can also change the entire working team to strive to complete the film while ensuring the interests of investors.

However, this is just the last red line of the guarantee contract for the end of the film. In the normal work of the crew, neither the investor, the crew nor the third-party insurance company will be willing to trigger this red line. Once it is triggered, it will be a situation where everyone loses together.

As the world's film center and the leader of the global entertainment industry, the Hollywood film industry seems to be full of myths, praises and crazy worship. Money, fame, power, desires are gathered here, fashion, honor, and scandals are also thriving here.

But under all the glamorousness, the Hollywood film industry maintains a steady stream of investment, and behind the increasing scale, is actually the constraints of power!

Except for the distribution companies that stand at the top, every film production link in Hollywood is full of power constraints. Just like introducing a guarantee for film completion, even directors and producers with top privileges in the circle cannot avoid this regulation. It can be said that power constraints are the underlying logic of stabilizing the Hollywood film industry.

Note that power constraints only apply to commercial projects with complete systems. Those low-cost independent films are still the one-man show for directors and investors, and do not apply to this underlying logic. The reason is very simple. Their first goal in making videos is not to make profits.

Fortunately, Wayne has adapted to similar rules, and his past work history is also the kind that third-party insurance companies like the most.

After successfully completing the film guarantee agreement, Wayne began to gradually enter the work state and become the director of the film. At the same time, the crew's preparations were also quickly launched at Warner Studios.

In early October, the important audition work for "Wonder Woman" had just begun, so he had to temporarily draw energy and turn his attention to the last round of auditions for "The Lord of the Rings".