Kevin Costner's new movie is a science fiction movie. The budget is definitely not low, but the box office is unlikely to be high. Therefore, Warner will definitely not make any money on this movie, even if it does not suffer a big loss. Not bad.
Chris doesn't care whether "The Postman" can make money, after all, this is not a project he is responsible for. What he cares about now is whether Kevin has time to participate in "Shutter Island".
It’s just that nothing has been decided yet, so it’s hard for him to ask directly.
Chris looked at Katherine again, wondering if he really invited Kevin to play the male lead in "Shutter Island", then whether he could invite Katherine to play the female lead.
There is actually no heroine in "Shutter Island". The only female characters that Chris can think of are the missing female prisoner Qin Yu, and the male protagonist's deceased wife. They don't have many scenes.
Chris wanted Catherine to play the leading actor's wife, after all, Catherine and Kevin had played a couple before.
After thinking about it, Chris asked Catherine, "Miss Jones, when will your next movie start shooting?"
Catherine shook her head, "I'm not sure either, I'm not even sure yet. I’m not sure if I can take this role.”
Hearing what she said, Chris smiled and didn’t ask anymore.
Zhou Yan guessed that Chris might want to invite Catherine to participate in "Shutter Island", but he didn't care much about this, because the female characters in "Shutter Island" have no sense of existence. Who will come? Acting makes no difference.
In addition to the male protagonist, the more important roles are the male protagonist's attending doctor, who is also the male protagonist's partner, and the chief psychiatric doctor.
In the original version, the former is played by Mark Ruffano, who has played the Hulk, and the latter is played by veteran actor Ben Kingsley.
The casting of Ben Kingsley is very interesting because his appearance gives people the feeling of being the mastermind behind the scenes.
This time, Zhou Yan also hopes that the casting can be based on the ideas of the original version.
I just don’t know what Ben Kingsley’s image is like now. If possible, it would be fine to let him play the role.
...
A few people chatted for a while, and the things they ordered came up.
Chris’s recommendation is right, the steaks in this restaurant are really good.
Whether a steak is delicious or not depends mainly on the raw materials themselves, and secondly on the skill of the chef. The ingredients in this restaurant are very good, and the level of the chef is also very high.
When the four of them had almost finished eating, a man in a white shirt walked over with a smile.
When he reached Catherine's side, he leaned over slightly and said very politely, "Excuse me, is this Miss Jones?"
The four of them looked at the visitor with surprised expressions, and the latter introduced himself with a smile. "I am Jack Williams, the director of operations of New Balance. I noticed Miss Jones here just now, but I never came forward to disturb her."
He had just finished introducing himself when he suddenly saw the person on his back. Kevin Costner, facing him, said in surprise, "Is this Mr. Costner?"
"Hello, Mr. Williams." Kevin stood up and talked to Jack Williams Shaking hands, "Nice to meet you."
Catherine also stood up and said hello.
They both stood up, and out of politeness, Chris and Zhou Yan also stood up.
Jack Williams took the opportunity to ask, "Can I introduce these two?"
"Chris." Chris took the initiative to shake hands with Jack Williams.
"Zhou Yan." Zhou Yan also introduced himself.
"Oh, hello, I'm very sorry for disturbing your meal. Please forgive me, I really don't want to miss this opportunity to get to know the two of them." Jack Williams said with a smile.
Zhou Yan nodded, "It's okay, nice to meet you."
"What a coincidence today. I have been to this restaurant several times, and I didn't expect to meet you here. Miss Jones, and Costner Sir, are you here because of the activities of "The Sixth Sense"? "
"The Sixth Sense" is now very popular in the United States. It was also because of this movie that Jack Williams recognized him. Catherine's. Seeing her and Kevin appear here together, I guessed whether they were participating in a movie event.
Kevin smiled and said, "Tomorrow is the celebration party for "The Sixth Sense", and we are all attending the celebration party."
"Oh, I think I heard that there is such a thing "Jack Williams nodded, and then asked with a smile, "Since it's a celebration party, will Y come over this time?"
"Y?"
Katherine and the others looked at Jack Williams in surprise, and then looked at Zhou Yan who was standing next to him. They didn't understand what Jack Williams was doing, Y Why don't you just stand in front of him?
Chris coughed lightly, "Ahem, Mr. Williams is very concerned about Y's whereabouts?"
"It's not that I care about you deliberately, I just thought about it when I saw you. Isn't "The Sixth Sense" adapted from Y's movie?" Jack Williams said with a smile.
“Then do you know what Y looks like?”
"That's true..."
As soon as Jack Williams opened his mouth, he suddenly saw the strange expressions of several people and realized something. He looked at Zhou Yan in surprise, "Could it be..."
Chris laughed, "Yes, this is Y."
Hearing that Zhou Yan was Y, Jack Williams said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, I didn't pay attention to you before. Looks like, and the name you just introduced was not Y, so I didn’t think much about it.”
“Zhou Yan is my Chinese name, and Y-Chou was their translation,” Zhou Yan explained.
"Zhou Yan... I'll remember it. I won't make a mistake next time." Jack Williams shook hands with Zhou Yan again, "Nice to meet you. I especially like your movies and music. I was in the restaurant just now. The song played is your work, right?"
Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, "Young and Beautiful" is an episode of "Sense and Emotion" "Mary. Ya Kelly sang it too,” Chris added.
"Yes, Kelly sang it too." Jack Williams nodded.
……
Jack Williams didn't stay long. After asking a few of them for their contact information, he left.
Zhou Yan had no fixed contact information in the United States, so he gave Jack Williams the phone number of Tomson's U.S. office.
Tomson has offices in many countries, and North America is no exception.
Their office in the United States is located in Los Angeles, not far from here, and it is not small in size. There are five staff members, which is a little larger than the office in Neon.
Although Zhou Yan's main market is still Neon, Neon is close after all. It is relatively easy to go there, and the office does not require too many people. It's different here in the United States. It's not easy for Zhang You'an and the others to come. Many times, if there is any business that needs to be handled here in the United States, it can only be handled by the staff of the office, so more people are needed.
The appearance of Jack Williams was just a small episode, and they didn't take it seriously. After he left, they continued to chat.
When the time was almost up, the four of them got up and left.
......
The next morning, Zhang Youan came to the hotel where Zhou Yan was staying and met with Chris. The two parties began to discuss "Shutter Island" in detail.
At the beginning, Zhou Yan participated in the negotiation between them, but as they talked, Zhou Yan withdrew because the bargaining method between the two parties was no different from that of an aunt who went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.
It was all about testing each other, and after a long while of ink-writing, Chris finally made an offer, but it was only $1.2 million.
This price is definitely unacceptable to Zhang Youan.
Zhang Youan is also very powerful. He asked for five million US dollars, which shocked Chris.
One party is asking for a high price, and the other party is sitting on the ground paying back the money. You come and go, and we are not willing to give in too much every time.
Zhou Yan originally thought that Zhang Youan asked for 5 million US dollars. If he took one step back, he should withdraw to 4.5 million US dollars or 4 million US dollars. However, Zhang Youan refused to bite the bullet and only retreated to 495 US dollars in the first step. Thousands of dollars.
In Zhang Youan's words, it was "a full fifty thousand US dollars."
Every time Chris raised the price, he always raised the price by fifty thousand or one hundred thousand.
Zhou Yan looked on amusedly. Both parties knew clearly that the price they mentioned was impossible to achieve, but they had to work hard slowly and enjoy it endlessly.
So after looking at it for a while, he decided to leave the bargaining to Zhang Youan, while he went to do other things.
By noon, Zhou Yan had already written a score, and Zhang Youan and Chris were still writing there.
Zhou Yan probably heard that Chris was willing to pay up to US$1.6 million, while Zhang Youan was willing to lower the price to US$4.2 million. The price reduction was not high for both parties.
Chris also sighed secretly. He had known that Zhang Youan would be difficult to deal with, but he did not expect that he would be so difficult to deal with.
If he had known that Zhang Youan was so difficult to deal with, he would not have offered $1.2 million at the beginning, but would have gone further, so that they would have more room to raise the price.
Now he has raised the price to 1.6 million US dollars, which is only 400,000 US dollars short of the upper limit he can decide, but Zhang Youan still insists on more than 4 million US dollars.
He was worried that if this continued, it would be difficult to negotiate in the end.
Just when Chris was at a loss what to do, the doorbell of the room rang.
Zhang Youan stood up immediately, "I'll open the door."
Then Chris heard Zhang Youan say to the person outside the door, "Anthony, you are here."
K Reese turned his head and saw Bregman walking inside with Zhang Youan.
"Come on, Chris, let me introduce you. This is..."
Before Zhang Youan could introduce him, Bregman laughed, "No need to introduce, Chris and I We know each other. We met before when we were in China. "Chris, why did you come back to Los Angeles?"
Brigman was obviously asking Chris why he returned to Los Angeles, but he was actually asking him why he came back to Los Angeles. Show up here.
The corners of Chris' mouth twitched, and what he was most worried about happened.
For the script "Shutter Island", he was worried that Colombia would get involved.
Thinking of this, Chris turned his head and looked in Zhou Yan's direction. Zhou Yan had promised him before that he would not discuss the script of "Shutter Island" with Columbia before he finished talking to them. Now it depends on what Zhou Yan says.
Hearing Bregman's voice, Zhou Yan also walked out and asked Bregman with a smile, "Why are you here? Didn't you say you would come see me again in the afternoon?"
< br>Brigman glanced at Zhang Youan, then smiled and said, "I just happened to be pretty busy with things, so I came over to see you. I wanted to have lunch with you, but I didn't expect you had guests here."
Zhou Yan nodded, "In that case, it's almost time, let's go to dinner. Chris happens to be here, let's go together."
Brigman also extended an invitation to Chris, "It's rare Let’s meet and have a meal together. Do you have time in the afternoon? Do you want to attend the celebration party of "The Sixth Sense"?"
Chris smiled and waved his hand, "I have some things to deal with at the company this afternoon, so I can't go to your celebration banquet. I'll treat you to lunch."
"How can that be done? It must be done by I’ll pay for it. There’s a restaurant nearby that serves very good steaks. It’s not far away. Just walk there.”
…
The restaurant that Bregman mentioned is the one Chris took Zhou Yan to yesterday. The one they went to.
During the dinner, the four of them chatted and laughed, covering a wide range of topics, but they did not talk about movies, let alone the cooperation between Warner and Zhou Yan.
Bregman is a good person and naturally knows that Chris cannot appear in Zhou Yan's room for no reason. There must be some cooperation between the two parties.
Brigman had heard before that Warner wanted to buy the rights to remake "Springtime of the Cowherd", so when he first met Chris, he thought Chris was here to talk about this.
But then I thought about it carefully, and it didn’t seem like it.
If we want to talk about the remake rights of "Springtime of the Cowherd Class", is it necessary for Chris to return to the United States and come to talk to Zhou Yan? He can definitely negotiate this matter with Tomson in China.
And from the look of Chris, it seemed like he didn’t want him to know what they were talking about.
Therefore, they are most likely talking about other cooperation, and it is a more important cooperation.
Although Bregman was curious about what kind of cooperation they were talking about, he did not ask. Today was not the right time to ask. He thought that after the celebration banquet was over, he would ask Zhang Youan what happened. What is the situation.
It didn’t take long to eat a meal. Chris was the first to get up and leave.
He is now anxious to go back and report the situation to Terry Semel. After this morning's negotiation, he feels that the upper limit of 2 million US dollars may not be enough anymore. He must go back and ask Terry Semel. What do you think?
This must be done quickly. The longer it takes, the worse it will be for him. If you are not prepared, you may be intercepted by Colombia again.
After Chris left, Bregman didn't ask about Chris. He just smiled and said to Zhou Yan, "I have something else to tell you. There is a temporary signing session added to this afternoon's event. Maybe thirty lucky fans will show up at the celebration party, and I hope you can sign it for them."
Hearing that only thirty fans wanted to sign, Zhou Yan nodded readily, "No problem. ."(End of this chapter)