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Although Boss Jia really wanted to see how the sales of Warcraft were, time was no longer allowed, because it was already May, and there were only the last 20 days left before the wedding. I heard that Zhu Qiushui was already losing his family. If Boss Jia didn't go back, he would be beaten up.

However, before going back, Boss Jia went to Fox and followed the progress of the Titanic.

When he saw Boss Jia, Titanic producer Jon Landao looked at Boss Jia with a miserable look on his face. Those who didn't know thought he owed tens of millions.

"What? The shooting funds are now bottoming out!" After hearing Jon Landao's complaints, Boss Jia exclaimed.

"Yes..." Jon Landau smiled even more bitterly. "That truck driver is really a money-spending expert. Of the $135 million we really use to hire stars, and the remaining 100 million are used for special effects investment and scene prop construction."

"We originally thought that 100 million was enough, but now the truck driver actually wanted to build a real Titanic directly. Our $100 million was used to build ships, and it was not enough, you can believe it!"

"What's even more exaggerated is that this guy really wants to sink this imitated Titanic to the bottom of the sea and complete the final shipwreck!"

"Oh my God! This is so terrible!" Boss Jia cooperated and made a terrified expression.

"But fortunately he just said that this was just a cute idea. He knew it was impossible. He finally decided to build only half a hull for shooting the exterior of the Titanic. It would cost $60 million for just half a hull, which was crazy!" Jon Landau kept complaining.

When Cameron shot the Titanic in history, in order to achieve realistic effects, he did create half of the Titanic.

The reason why it is said to be half is because the half of the Titanic was actually built on land, and it is actually only about 1/3, including the bow on the left half, as well as part of the middle hull, and the half of the stern was not built because of the budget.

However, the director cleverly borrowed the lens angle to hide the last half of the hull, and then used some special effects to modify it, making the audience feel as if the entire ship is there from the picture.

But even so, the cost of this part of the hull reached an astonishing $60 million.

"Mr. Jia, we were all cheated by that truck driver, do you know? The cost budget list he handed me in the end was as high as $175 million, which was 40 million more than the previous one. I was fed up with it!!" As an excellent producer, Jon Landau was able to make such complaints, which shows how painful he was in the preparation for the early filming of the film.

"In fact, it was US$235 million in the end!" Boss Jia muttered in his heart.

The shooting of the Titanic has changed its price three times in history.

The first time, when the shooting was first prepared, the budget cost was as high as US$135 million.

When the shooting actually started, there was a new offer of $175 million mentioned earlier.

In the last 21st Century Fox in history, it still accepted this new offer and once again added $40 million in investment.

But this is not the final offer, it ends up covering a little bit. You went to someone else's house to quote. In 1995, when the film was halfway through, all the 175 million yuan shooting and production funds were used up. So Cameron threw out a brand new offer of $235 million, and he had to invest another $60 million.

Then the 20th Century Fox went completely crazy.

At that time, 20th Century Fox was in a time when funds were extremely difficult and tense, and could no longer afford a $60 million investment. In the end, it could only win over Paramount at the cost of North American distribution rights, allowing Paramount to invest $60 million, and finally completed the filming of the film.

Jon Landao complained about this with his obvious intention, hoping that Boss Jia could bear the $40 million fee.

"In principle, there is no problem!" Boss Jia nodded and said, "But there are some cost issues. Can we hold a meeting to discuss it? Cameron said that we will spend as much as we want, and we will also save costs!"

"I also know the reason for saving costs," Jon Landau nodded. "But in fact, Cameron didn't cheat us much money. I asked the professional team to review the budget bill he gave me. All these money are really cost-effective, and it's not enough to save money. Cameron has saved us all the money that can be saved!"

"This is the final offer!" Jon Landao said sincerely.

"Show me the cost accounting list!" Boss Jia said lightly, and the secretary behind him immediately took out the detailed cost accounting list.

As a big investor of Titanic, this cost accounting list was of course sent to Daqian as soon as possible. The Daqian Entertainment team also reviewed the cost list and finally concluded that the cost of 175 million is indeed difficult to save according to Cameron's shooting methods and requirements.

These are things that Boss Jia had known for a long time, but he still looked at the entire list several times, and finally said, "Mr. Jon, I have carefully read this list. The main costs can actually be divided into 4 parts!"

"Part 1 is the manufacturing of the Titanic hull, which is the largest, and costs $60 million!"

"The second is that the cost of all props except the manufacturing of the Titanic hull is about $30 million!"

"Then the actors' pay, a total of 35 million"

"Finally, the special effects budget, $50 million"

"It can be roughly divided like this, right?" said Boss Jia.

"That's right!" Jon Landau nodded.

"Then let's take a look at the cost one by one. First of all, is there any amount that can be reduced here for the actors' pay?" Boss Jia asked while typing on the list.

"It's very difficult!" Jon Landau shook his head. "In order to save actors' pay, we have used new actors as much as possible!"

"But the heroine is Nicole Kidman, and her salary is as high as 10 million US dollars!" Boss Jia said with a frown.

Because the actor was not decided at all in the first negotiation, Boss Jia didn't know that the heroine he finally decided was actually Nico Kidman, not Kate Winslet in his memory.

You know, at this time, Kate Winslet was just a young actor who had made two movies, and his estimated salary was not even 500,000 US dollars. However, on the list of actors, he didn't know why he became Nicole Kidman.

"Mr. Jia, this is the only big-name star among all actors!" Jon Landau said with a frown and said, "A Hollywood blockbuster requires at least one big-name star to come to the market, otherwise our movie will not be able to be promoted at all!"

"That's a Hollywood blockbuster, not a Hollywood movie!" Boss Jia smiled. "I don't know if Mr. Jon has discovered it. The movies that can be called magic movies in history seem to have never used any big-name actors."

"This..." Jon Landau stopped talking.

"Let's do this, I want to give this right to our Director Cameron to choose. If he thinks Nico Kidman is the most suitable actress, then I'm willing to trust Director Cameron."

"On the contrary, if Director Cameron falls in love with other actresses, we should not stop him. Everything is based on Director Cameron's will!" said Boss Jia.

"Okay..." Jon Landau nodded. "Actually, Cameron told me more than once that he fell in love with a young actor named Kate Winlester. The price is cheap, only 300,000 US dollars, but she is not famous at all. The company is worried that it will affect the box office, so she did not agree. She was quarreling with Cameron a few days ago over this issue."

"Since Mr. Jia said that, then respect Cameron's meaning and listen to him!"

"A very wise decision!" Boss Jia laughed, then drew a horizontal bar on the actor's pay cost, which suddenly reduced the previous 35 million yuan pay cost to 25 million yuan, which saved 10 million US dollars in a row!