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Williams secretly meets two 'Toms', suspected of discussing new film matters, this is the title of the front page headline of The Hollywood Information on the second day, accompanied by a picture of Eric, Cruise and Hanks side by side A photo of getting out of Firefly HQ.

In the photo, Eric is wearing a gray tracksuit and looks like a high school student, which fits his age. Cruise was wearing a black casual jacket, unbuttoned, revealing the white T-shirt inside, only Hanks was wearing a black suit and tie very seriously, looking like an office worker. Because of talking about the script for the whole morning, the two superstars relaxed their vigilance when they left, and neither wore sunglasses, so the expressions of the three were quite clear, talking and laughing to each other and walking towards the door. This shot happened to be shot by a lucky one captured by the paparazzi.

Around 8:00 yesterday morning, it was found that two superstars Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks entered the headquarters of Firefly Films, the cutting-edge director Eric Williams. The reporter of this newspaper quickly arrived at the relevant place after receiving the news. , After waiting for up to four hours, Eric Williams walked out of the Firefly headquarters with the two superstars Cruise and Hanks surrounded by everyone. From the expressions of the three people in the photo, you can see that this The meeting was quite pleasant.

Although the three did not accept an interview with this reporter, they left in a hurry by car. But according to some clues provided by people familiar with the matter, the meeting is related to the new film Eric Williams is preparing.

Eric Williams, the wonder kid who burst into Hollywood, has continued to soar at a rocket-like rate since debuting last year as an actor and writer on Seventeen, directing his first low-budget comedy. The film Home Alone directly sent it to the 100 million yuan box office club.

When many people attributed the boy's achievements to the blessing of the goddess of luck, only four months later, Williams' second romantic comedy Pretty Woman was released again, and the box office was close to 30 million US dollars in the first week. Thoroughly proved the strength of the young director.

In the first film, Home Alone, Eric Williams used only a group of TV actors and the little boy next door to create an astonishing box-office miracle, while the second film's two leads, Al Although Pacino has won many Oscar nominations, he has been out of action for four years, and his box office appeal is close to nothing. Julia Roberts has only played a small role in a low-cost comedy. Eric However, they were sent to the ranks of Hollywood A-level actors at the same time.

And this time, the young director directly chose two A-level male stars who are popular in Hollywood. We have no doubt that his next movie will create a box office miracle again.

However, although the three people in the photo are chatting happily, it gives the appearance that this cooperation will come naturally, but we have to mention that Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks currently belong to CAA at the same time. Brokerage company, and as we all know, Eric Williams angered the CAA executives because of his acquisition of the brokerage company of a well-known Hollywood gold broker at the beginning of the year. The industry has been rumored that the executives are quite dissatisfied with Eric Williams , During the casting of Pretty Woman, he also blocked the cooperation between his artist Richard Gere and Eric Williams. For this, he did not hesitate to compensate Richard Gere for a MGM-United Artists blockbuster film.

In this case, we cannot imagine that the cooperation between Eric Williams and the two Toms will be full of twists and turns. Of course, Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks are also strong enough to ignore CAA's obstruction. After all, both of them are now Hollywood A-level superstars. Even if they lose CAA's support, their careers will not suffer too much. influences.

And, judging from the influence of Eric Williams' first two works,

His new work is likely to take the two superstars' careers to a new level.

I believe that in Hollywood, no actor can resist this temptation, just don't know if the CAA executive has enough courage to block this cooperation again.

The last incident caused Mr. Richard Gere to lose his chance to step into the ranks of A-level actors again. According to the recent test screening of the film Dragon Killer starring him, the prospects of this film are not very good. Being optimistic, the possibility of a box office outbreak is very small, and it is not enough to 'compensate' for Mr. Richard Gere's 'loss' of giving up the hero of Pretty Moon. Therefore, how Cruise and Hanks will choose, and how CAA's top management will handle Williams' invitation, let's wait and see.

Eric threw the newspaper on the table with a wry smile, really wanting to blow up the editor who wrote the manuscript. In the previous situation, Michael Ovitz would at most only raise the remuneration offer of the two superstars to express his dissatisfaction, but he would not forcefully obstruct the cooperation between the two parties as he did last time.

After all, the rise of UTA is unstoppable now, and if Michael Ovitz makes any small moves, it will not only be worth the loss, but if it spreads out, it will also be regarded as narrow-minded. The more narrow-minded people are, the more fear and hatred they feel about blaming others in this regard.

When the contract is signed in the future, the cast is announced, and some media are hinted that there will be open and secret fights in private, but in the public's mind, the two sides are shaking hands and letting go of the past. This is for the public of CAA and Eric. Image is good.

But now that the tabloids have been so provocative, if this cooperation is successfully achieved, the title of Most Powerful Man in Hollywood that Michael Ovitz has just won will become a joke.

Sure enough, Eric received disturbing news the day after The Hollywood Information published the article.

It's too much. The $6 million salary offer is reasonable, but the other party is so loud that he wants 20% of the North American profit share after the movie is released. I have been in Hollywood for so many years, and I have never heard of it. Which actor would put forward such unreasonable conditions. Eric, do you have to use Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks? Other agencies are not without top actors, it's really not good, you play a role yourself It's okay, self-directed and self-acted, this gimmick has a greater impact. After Jeffrey talked to Cruise and Hanks' agents, he rushed into Eric with a look of despair. office, complained so.

Although he had already expected it in his heart, the conditions put forward by the two people still surprised Eric. The 'bad trend' of Hollywood stars asking for profit sharing started with Tom Cruise, and later, the model of salary plus profit sharing has gradually become a popular charging model, and the share ratio is generally 10% to 20% between.

The so-called profit share is completely different from the box office share of the movie. Specifically, it means that the producer gets his due share of the box office, minus the part of the gross profit from the production cost, multiplied by the share ratio required by the actors, that is The actor's share of profits. Moreover, the profit sharing is also divided into two types: global box office sharing and North American box office sharing.

While Cruise and Hanks' agents haven't lost their minds enough to propose a global profit share, that 20 percent North American share, even after many years, is not so easy to get. The ones who can get the highest percentage are either the ones that can't be without it, such as Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean in the parallel space, or they can completely give up the salary and exchange the gambling situation for the highest percentage.

But now, this charging method has just appeared. Tom Cruise also proposed this charging mode 'imaginatively' when he was filming Rain Man last year, because of Cruise's strong box office appeal, plus The production cost of Rain Man is not high. After considering it, the filmmakers felt that as long as Cruise joined, the film would be easy to make money, so they agreed to Cruise's non-point request, but this was also in Cruise's own It was promised under the circumstance of reducing the film salary, and the profit sharing ratio was only 10%.