Chatty Hollywood

"That's it?"

Three days later, when he officially received the preparation plan for the "Happy Death Day" movie project, Lao Qiang was still full of disbelief.

"Jodie Foster, this woman, really has a lot of skills |!"

"yes!"

Charlotte echoed.

Although Jodie Foster took over the draft script of "Happy Death Day" on the day of the celebration party for "The Turn", Charlotte did not expect that the progress would be so rapid.

"New Line and Orion are also in the game."

While looking through the plan, Charlotte calculated,

"Orion invested 1.6 million, Jodie Foster's "Egg" company invested 1 million, New Line invested 1.8 million, and then converted your share of the total price in the "Fatal Turn" project into 400,000. Let’s dive into a new movie together.”

"Our share is only 400,000?"

Photographer Addison Young looked dissatisfied.

"New Line must have lowered the price on purpose. I think judging from the current box office, it must be US$600,000!"

——As of now, the North American box office of "Fatal Turn" has reached nearly 60 million US dollars. Although there will be a strong challenge from "Forrest Gump" soon, overall, it is still no problem to grow by another 20 million or so.

This is why Addison Young feels that New Line has lowered their share.

——By the way, after the lobbying of Lao Gun, photographer Addison Young happily joined the studio that was still being prepared in Charlotte and was ready to cooperate with their plan for movie sharing.

"I've already missed a James Cameron, and I don't want to miss another Charlotte Booth!"

Mr. Photographer's words made Charlotte blush a bit, but having good teammates join her was a good thing after all.

"Don't you understand, Addison? The financial staff is omnipotent at this time!"

Lao Qiang also had a mocking look on his face.

"As the box office of "Fatal Turn" increases, you will find that the announced production costs will gradually increase - originally, including a large amount of promotional expenses, it was just over 10 million US dollars, and now it is close to 1,300 US dollars. It’s a million. What do you think the added cost is?”

Lao Qiang picked up his fingers and counted them one by one.

"Desk, green plants, and toilet paper, do these guys think we are working in an office building when we are filming exterior scenes!? What's even more ridiculous is this -"

He pointed to his lower body,

"More than a thousand ***! If you didn't know, you thought we were going to Amsterdam! There were less than six women on the crew at that time. In a few weeks, these more than a thousand *** How is ** consumed!?”

"do not be angry."

Charlotte waved her hand,

"This is a common method used by those companies. After all, sharing is based on profits after deducting costs. Now that the cost can be higher on the books, doesn't it naturally mean that you can save cents!"

"yes!"

Lao Qiang and Addison Young sighed together,

"However, we can actually recover some of these later by checking the cost report. But, Charlotte——"

Lao Qiang looked at the preparation plan for "Happy Death Day" and frowned.

"——The total production budget is only 4.8 million U.S. dollars, isn't it a bit small? The cost of "Fatal Turn", even if you exclude the publicity costs, is probably around 5 million, right?"

"It's not much. The pure production cost of "Fatal Turn" is actually not much different from the budget this time. It's not that much."

Charlotte scratched her head, but she was very confident,

"If you use it more carefully, you can actually make a good movie."

"Well, you are the director, you have the final say in this regard!"

Addison Young doesn't really care about budget issues.

"However, if you only have such a small amount of money, I'm afraid you can't afford to hire any famous actors, right?"

"I have considered this."

Charlotte paused for a moment before continuing,

"I would like to use Jodie Foster's relationship to invite some well-known actors to make friendly guest appearances. Do you think it's okay?"

——The so-called friendly guest appearance does not mean appearing for free, but the price is not based on the normal salary. Therefore, if more suitable actors are invited to make guest appearances, it will indeed be a very good value for money.

Lao Qiang also agrees with this, but——

"Would she be willing to do this, Foster?"

"It might work!"

Charlotte can't guarantee 100%,

"After all, she is also the second producer of this movie!"

"Second!? Then who is the first producer?"

"…Anthony Westwood."

"It's this guy Tony again!?"

Lao Qian couldn't help shouting,

"Didn't he say he was going to retire?"

"I won't retreat again!"

Charlotte said gloomily,

"According to him, he was inspired by the experience of "Fatal Turn" and he hoped to devote his entire life to the film career. To this end, he also specially drafted a suicide will."

"will?"

"Once he died suddenly during the filming of the movie, he allowed the studio to use his name to promote the movie."

"Is he trying to be like Allen McElroy?"

Lao Qiang couldn't laugh or cry for a while.

"I think that with this will, he might be killed by the boss of his company one day - what a good publicity material!"

"...When you say that, I'm really worried about his life and safety!"

Charlotte made a very cold joke. Seeing that the other two did not reply, he coughed and continued:

"Actually, it's normal for Tony to be the producer of the "Happy Death Day" project - in the current investment plan, New Line has the most money, and their people should be the producers, and Tony worked with us again..."

"It's logical, isn't it?"

Lao Qiang muttered,

"Speaking of which, Charlotte, how are you preparing the second version of the script? With a production budget of about 4.8 million, it is estimated that the preparatory meeting will be over in a short time. If you can't come up with a complete script by then, As a casting director, it’s not easy for me to find people to audition.”

"Don't worry! It won't be long!"

Charlotte seemed very confident, but Lao Qiang was not very convinced, because he knew that the script this time was much more difficult than that of "Fatal Turn" - after all, 80% of the difficulty of infinite loop movies depends on whether the script is designed or not. It's clever enough.

and--

"You seem to have been studying the script you received from the students at the University of Southern California these past two days! Is it that interesting?"

Old Gun reminded Charlotte not to forget that the most important thing at the moment should be to complete the script of "Happy Death Day", not anything else.

But Charlotte didn't seem to hear what Lao Qiang meant. He raised his hand and handed Lao Qiang a script.

"Let's take a look! It may not be very interesting, but if it can be shot quickly, it may echo our "Fatal Turn" and hit the box office again!"

"so smart?"

The old gun took over the script with suspicion, only to find that the title was--

"Blair Witch!"