章節 69: Chapter 70 Reaching an Agreement
"Excuse me."
Pulling out his cell phone and looking at it, Tony Guzman said to a few people in the room, "I'll take the call."
With that said, he walked out of the living room of his hotel suite and onto the balcony of one of the bedrooms and pressed the answer button, "Hello, this is Tony Guzman from Fox Searchlight."
An unfamiliar voice came out of the receiver, and after the other party said a few words, Tony Guzman frowned, recalled a little, turned his head to look over at the living room again, and said rather politely, "I'm very sorry, Director Stanton, I may not be available for a while these days, I have projects I need to follow up on."
He remembered that young director and that interesting movie, and made a point of exchanging contact information at that time, and had originally intended to continue to examine that film as well, but then, during the movie viewing, he had come across an even more favorable subject, and Fox Searchlight was also very concerned internally about it, and needed to follow up on it immediately.
Politely refusing the other party's invitation, Tony Guzman politely said a few words and hung up the phone.
With this new project in front of him, he was basically uninterested in new works like Fruit Hard Candy, sitting in the living room were executives from Ark Entertainment, and the project they were talking about was Todd Field's new work, The Accidental Edge.
Not to mention that the star of the movie is quite famous Tom Wilkinson, between the two directors can not be compared, Murphy Stanton silent, Todd Field's last work "Ghost Invasion" in North America wildly collected 90 million dollars at the box office ...
What to choose between the two, Tony Guzman couldn't be clearer.
He has decided to drop Fruit Loops, which he previously thought was good, and is ready to go all out to pick up The Accidental Edge.
Above the airport of the St. Dennis Film Festival, a big fat man arrived late, and after getting off the plane, he instructed his driver to immediately rush to the hotel, where a group of professional movie watchers and buyers from the company were waiting for him.
Forty minutes later, a cross-faced Harvey Weinstein sat in the hotel's conference room, flipping through the list of films and information submitted by Miramax's many employees, which were basically films that had been circulating rapidly in the media and word-of-mouth in the circle recently, such as "Lullaby of the Dark Night", "Deathly Hallucinations" and other projects with some notoriety, and there were no unexpected surprises.
"Is that all?" His brows furrowed as he looked at the dozen or so employees below, his voice gradually rising, "How are you guys doing things? It's been almost a week since the movie festival started, and you guys are just staring at them? How many distribution companies are watching them? How much does it cost to take them down?"
Although Miramax was acquired by Disney, Harvey Weinstein's style of operation with Disney was completely different, and he still took the route of operating independent films at a small cost.
The conference room was silent, and you could see the big fat man's authority in the company.
"Do you guys have any favored cold projects?" Harvey Weinstein asked again.
There was still silence, projects like Blair Witch were not something you came across at every St. Dennis Film Festival.
Harvey Weinstein heavily slapped the conference table, making a loud 'thud' sound, as if this vented off his anger, he didn't look at those people, and casually waved his hand, "All of you, get out."
The crowd scrambled to leave, only Jones Butler stayed behind.
Harvey Weinstein saw her, "Something wrong with you?"
Jones-Butler walked over and placed a file in her hand in front of Harvey Weinstein, "It's a movie made by a small company called Stanton Studios, recommended by CAA's Bill Rossis, and Moore and I went to see it, and they all agreed that it had some market potential."
Hearing her say that, Harvey Weinstein temporarily put down the work in his hands and turned over those materials to read them, and after a while, looked up and said, "You gave it priority?"
"Yes." Jones Butler stood at his right hand, "I'm speculating that the movie will cost about $200,000 to $300,000 to make, and I've made a prediction with the marketing people that this can be a volume million-dollar level project."
Harvey Weinstein, still relatively comfortable with Jones-Butler, followed up with, "Got the project?"
"No ..." Jones-Butler said as a matter of fact, "just had initial negotiations, our opening price and the other side of the asking price some gap."
After looking through all the information, Harvey Weinstein had a rare bit of interest, "Call them, I'll go see that movie tomorrow."
How could Murphy not think that when he saw Jones Butler again, the other party brought Harvey Weinstein, the actual controller of Miramax, not to mention him, even Bill Rossis, in front of such a circle predator as Harvey Weinstein, it is also an insignificant little person.
And Harvey Weinstein did not put the two of them in his eyes, in addition to the polite pleasantries when they met, from beginning to end did not say too much, just patiently watching Murphy once again in the conference room screening of "Fruit Hard Candy".
After the screening, Harvey Weinstein said a second word, directed at Jones Butler, not very loud, Murphy vaguely heard.
"Continue negotiations."
After leaving these words, Harvey Weinstein directly left the conference room.
In fact, it was not difficult to imagine that Harvey Weinstein, who had always loved independent films, would definitely be very busy when he came to the St. Dennis Film Festival, which mainly focused on independent films, and even if Murphy had a high opinion of himself, he knew that Harvey Weinstein would not put too much stock in himself and small productions such as Fruity Hard Candy.
According to his speculation, the big fat man's visit to take a look was nothing more than a responsibility for the company's business, and a nearly million dollar deal wasn't something that could be struck casually.
Every business and every project in this circle was far from being as casual as one might think from the outside.
Subsequently, Murphy and Jones Butler began a tug-of-war negotiation, six hundred thousand dollars and one and a half million dollars gap is huge, the difficulty of the negotiations between the two sides can be imagined, well, whether it is Murphy or Jones Butler, know that the deal wants to be completed, and each other must make some compromises.
As for the mainstream commercial movie distribution contract and share agreement these unreliable things, Murphy simply no longer mention, the cooperation between the two sides will only buy out the copyright way, his energy is also mainly focused on as far as possible for the Stanton work is to fight for more sell-out funds.
He can not always produce "Fruit Hard Candy" this kind of project, otherwise can only stay in the bottom of Hollywood, the next step also need more money to complete their own plans.
Like ninety percent of Hollywood's directors, Murphy developed a plan to start with small independent productions, build up to a certain amount of money and resume, and gradually move toward mainstream films.
After three days and five rounds of negotiations, Murphy and Jones-Butler finally reached an agreement.
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