Please give me a monthly ticket and a recommendation ticket!

The situation is that Matthew and Zach Schneider have neither money nor the initiative when facing Frank Miller. Their expected $4 million cannot fill Frank Miller's lion mouth at all. Frank Miller is not stupid either. He has been delayed until the release of "Sin City" to the point of becoming an absolute dominant position in the subsequent negotiations.

Matthew and Zach Schneider lack experience in actually operating a movie, and many things are not prepared enough.

Among these, the most important thing is money.

It is impossible to impress Frank Miller without paying enough money. "Sin City" has received a good response. Although no one has set his sights on Frank Miller's other works, Matthew is very clear that it will not take long for other film companies to react.

Compared with those medium and large production companies, he and Zach Schneider have no advantage.

The right way is to get Frank Miller done as soon as possible.

In a short period of time, Matthew couldn't find a more suitable funder than David Ellison.

After he talked with Helen Herman and David Ellison for the first time, Zach Schneider flew back from New York and met David Ellison with Matthew with a try-through clip.

David Ellison has money, but he has never been able to start the situation in Hollywood. Now there are people who take the initiative to cooperate, and one of them is a star like Matthew. He is indeed a little moved.

In the few days after the first meeting, David Ellison also asked his people to carefully check it out. It is not difficult to find that Matthew and Zach Schneider have been planning for a long time.

Just in mid-April, David Ellison came to Matthew's office in person and decided to cooperate with him and Zach Schneider.

"I can join your negotiations with Frank Miller and invest in the adaptation rights of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta."

Sitting on the sofa chair in the office, David Ellison said directly to Matthew, "I can also be responsible for the production cost of the video!"

Matthew personally made a cup of tea for David Ellison, put it on the coffee table next to him, and said, "I believe this will be a very successful collaboration."

"But I have a condition!" David Ellison emphasized.

Matthew frowned slightly, worried, but said, "You can tell me, David."

"I need to add a note clause to the agreement between our two parties!" David Ellison looked at Matthew with a serious look and said very seriously, "You must be the leading actor of this video!"

Hearing this, Matthew relaxed.

David Ellison once again emphasized, "This is the premise for our cooperation. Most of my confidence in this project comes from you. If you don't play Leonida, I will never invest."

In his eyes, Zach Schneider, the stylized and strongly stylized pictures, Frank Miller's classic graphic novel adaptations, etc., are far less than the extremely dazzling box office results of Matthew's past three movies.

He is very rich, and even if the investment of tens of millions of dollars fails, it will not hurt his bones. Since he came to Hollywood to invest, he never thought about failure. He also had to use successful cases to show his father that the path he chose was not wrong.

Matthew Horner is undoubtedly the guarantee of success!

Since that night, he has specialized in Matthew Horner's resume. This male actor with an average background and limited education is very good at choosing films. Not only has none of the films that have failed, but each of them has been a box office hit.

David Ellison attended the Film Academy, and was still close to Hollywood. He was a half-professional person, and he was from a business family. He knew that such success would never be explained by good luck.

"I will play Leonida!" Matthew said with confidence at this time, "This can be added to our contract."

"Okay!" David Ellison laughed, "A word is certain!"

Of course, relying solely on verbal promises, neither side will be relieved, and the follow-up will definitely be placed on a formal contract.

Matthew thought about it and said, "David, I have a condition, too."

David Ellison said directly, "Tell me just."

"It's better to add a clause to our agreement." Matthew didn't say nonsense, "Zach Schneider must be the director of this adaptation."

"You're very optimistic about Zach Schneider?" David Ellison was a little puzzled. "I remember he has only directed the film "Dawn of the Living Dead" so far?"

"I know Zach Schneider." Matthew said the truth, "You have seen the trial clips. The concept and core of this project are all derived from Zach. Apart from him, I doubt if anyone can shoot the trial clips."

David Ellison pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, I agree with this!"

Matthew stood up and took the initiative to stretch out his right hand, "It's my luck to be able to cooperate with investors like you!"

David Ellison also stood up and snatched hard on his right hand, "Our cooperation will definitely succeed."

Later, Zach Schneider and Helen Herman also rushed to Matthew's office. Several people gathered together to discuss many details. The lawyer then joined in and based on the opinions reached by the several people, the agreement was drawn up as soon as possible.

Two days later, David Ellison signed a formal agreement with Matthew and Zach Schneider.

The core content of this agreement is roughly David Ellison's "Dance of the Sky" film company, which invested in the adaptation rights of the illustrator novel "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta", and was responsible for the production investment of the film, etc.

In addition, the agreement clearly stipulates that the director of this project must be Zach Schneider, the protagonist is played by Matthew, and most of the cast and crew of the future film will be Helen Hermann and Angel Brokerage Agency. Three percent of the future income of "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" will be used as the commission for intermediaries and agents of Angel Brokerage Agency.

To be precise, since David Ellison has no experience and lacks connections in Hollywood, Helen Hermann and Angels Agency will provide a one-stop package service for the project with a simplified version.

Therefore, Angel Brokerage Company will contact the publisher for this video in the future.

David Ellison's Sky Dance Film Company is rich, but has no distribution channels, and it is impossible to establish it in a short period of time.

There are hundreds of details in the contract agreement, and signing such an eight-digit agreement is never an easy task.

After reaching the cooperation agreement, Matthew, Zach Schneider, Helen Hermann and David Ellison, together with external public relations experts, rushed to New York to start a tug-of-war negotiation with Frank Miller.

Frank Miller was indeed moved by Zach Schneider's trial clips and production philosophy. In principle, he agreed to authorize the adaptation of "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors". The differences in negotiations between the two sides mainly focus on the licensing fees and the sharing of the movie after the release of the movie.

Matthew and Zach Schneider were both simple in their original identities, but they were working as actors and directors, and they lacked enough understanding of the film copyright adaptation market. The original four million dollar copyright fee was OK two years ago before Frank Miller's works were adapted, but now it is not enough for Frank Miller to get stuck in the teeth.

Frank Miller offered a $15 million base licensing fee plus a 10% global box office share in the negotiations.

This condition is too harsh.

But David Ellison didn't care. After the first contact and negotiation, he said he would use money to spend the copyright fees.

In his words, problems that can be solved with money are not a problem at all.

Fortunately, he just said that although he was young and a little bit impulsive, he was not so stupid that he understood the principle of yelling to pay back the money locally.

In the next three days, the two sides held three rounds of negotiations, and the differences on the most core adaptation costs gradually narrowed. By the end of the third day of negotiations, an agreement was finally reached on this key issue.

Sky Dance Production Company invested $9 million as the basic adaptation fee for "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta". After the future release of the film, five percent of the box office in North America will be shared as a later share.

The biggest dispute resolution will be faster. For example, the producers of Frank Miller's future nominee films and the conditions for enjoying the producer's salary and benefits are within the acceptable range of both parties.

Moreover, as the investor, David Ellison doesn't care much about such minor expenses.

Seeing that there was no big problem, Matthew was preparing to leave New York and return to Los Angeles because Michael Bay changed the script, resulting in delayed commercials for the Mercedes-Benz G-series off-road vehicle. He was about to start shooting in Disney studios. As the only protagonist of the commercial film except for cars, he could not be absent from shooting.

On the day he left New York, Sky Dance Productions had already signed a draft agreement with Frank Miller, and the formal agreement would be signed after the last few minor issues were resolved.

As long as there are no unexpected situations such as world wars, the copyright of the movie "Spartan Three Hundred Warriors" will be resolved smoothly.

After returning to Los Angeles, Matthew took a day off and then arrived at a small studio at Disney Studios on time on the date notified by Mercedes-Benz.

The shooting of this commercial film is divided into two parts: interior and exterior, and each planned a day's shooting time. Before Michael Bay entered the film industry, he was the director of commercials and mtv for many years. Even after becoming a film director, he would occasionally make guest appearances in shooting commercials for some big brands.
Chapter completed!