Hollywood (我就是好莱坞) Part I

Chapter 108 - Do you believe in love at first sight

"Motorola promised to pay $3 million in sponsorship fees, but their condition is that the male lead must be revealed earlier, is it Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks."

"Lamborghini sponsorship offer is a one-time payment of $800,000, The other side learned fast, they no longer accept the same rules used in 《Pretty Woman》, They felt cheated by having the sponsorship fee be decided by the size of the box office."

"As for the others, Ray-Ban sunglasses offer is $500 thousand, their condition is to have the Ray-Ban gla.s.ses trademark appear in a close-up shot for more than 5 seconds. The Hershey Company also made a bid of $500,000, to buy the Ad placement in the box bombs ... ..."

In the meeting room, Jeffrey was reading the sponsorship offers one by one in an excited voice.

In fact, Eric also had the same document however, Jeffrey couldn't help but read it out loud, he was so happy. If the final offers were all finalized, then that means that before the movie has even started shooting, Firefly earned about $6 million in profit.

In this era, Hollywood produces more than 500 films every year, but even if you count the box office, videotape sales, broadcast rights and other peripheral earnings, no more than fifty, reach $6 million in profits.

Eric looked at the comments and conditions made by the company's that offered to buy the implanted ads, then closed the folder and handed it to Jeffrey: "Well, Jeffrey, did just $6 million in sponsorship fees make you this happy?"

"Only $6 million," repeating Eric's words, Jeffrey raised his voice in disapproval, and retorted: "Eric, if you have the ability then try finding another movie that can get $6 million in sponsorship fees?"

"Not now, but that doesn't mean there won't be others in the future," Eric said: "Perhaps in a decade or two, movies will be able to recover most of the cost by implanting ads."

"You don't have to wait for a decade or two," Jeffrey said with some emotion: "When we were making 《Pretty Woman》, if we tried to find more sponsors, maybe we will have recovered the cost."

"Maybe you're right" Suddenly remembering another important thing, Eric asked: "by the way, did you tell these sponsors to keep this matter secret until we release the film?"

"Of course I didn't forget," Jeffrey said: "I explained to them why we are doing it, and they agreed. Before the movie is released, the sponsors won't disclose anything to the media."

Feeling relieved, Eric stood up and said: "That's good, the second round of auditions are about to start, do you want to come?"

"No, I'm Exhausted, I won't go." Jeffrey quickly refused. Initially, he enjoyed the sense of power he felt during the auditions. but after sitting behind the audition table for a few days, asking the same questions repeatedly, and watching the same performance over and over again, slowly, the sense of superiority he felt completely disappeared, leaving him only feeling dull and tired.

These days the auditions have also made Eric feel exhausted, especially 《Running Out of Time》 auditions, every character, had hundreds of actors who qualified for the audition, even after extensive screening? Some eliminated actors also occasionally through a variety of ways get a second chance to audition, in short, this was giving him a headache.

So he decided to also include Jonathan Demme and Martin Brest in

《The Others》 and 《Scent of a Woman》 audition, he's going to let two directors select less than ten actors for every character, then he'll have a third round of auditions again, that will make things a lot easier for him.