"Do you have the right person?" Matthew asked, "Who?"

Compared to directors, producers are undoubtedly more important, and he has also been having a headache for everyone to choose.

Helen Herman said directly, "You know her, former president of Bowei Pictures Nina Jacobson."

Matthew knew the woman, “I remember she was executive producer in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.”

Nina Jacobson is quite well-known in Hollywood, and a joke about her is widely circulated. The general idea is: Early in the morning of Christmas, a child woke up excitedly and looked for gifts under the Christmas tree, but found a pile of feces. However, the child was still excited to declare that there must be a pony hiding nearby.

And Nina Jacobson is that kid.

In fact, the joke is kind-hearted, saying that Nina Jacobson experienced several serious setbacks in his early years, but he did not recover. Instead, he became more and more courageous and eventually became the president of Bowei Film.

It seems that she experienced another major setback a few years ago.

Matthew asked, "Hellen, didn't Nina Jacobson be removed from Disney?"

"In 2006, because of disagreement, she was kicked out of Disney by Michael Eisner before stepping down." Helen Hermann obviously knew that "she then served as the producer of a teenage film series, and exchanged a total cost of $55 million for nearly $320 million in the global box office."

Matthew nodded. This guy does have a big heart.

Helen Hermann also said, "Nina Jacobson is also a supporter of the feminist movement and has a rare successful experience in producing teen idol works."

"Okay." Matthew made the decision, "You have some contact with Nina Jacobson first, and if she doesn't refuse, I'll talk to her again."

Helen Herman said, "Yes, I'll contact her later."

That afternoon, she contacted Nina Jacobson, the former president of Bowei Pictures, who agreed to meet. That night, Matthew and Helen Hermann had a talk with Nina Jacobson at a private club.

The two sides had a pretty pleasant conversation, and the only trouble was that Nina Jacobson was preparing to build his own production company, hoping to participate in the investment in The Hunger Games.

With David Ellison here, Matthew would not lack funds, and the first production budget for the Hunger Games was not high, so of course he didn't want others to reach in.

There are differences in both sides in this regard, but it is normal for them to have differences. After all, everyone has different interests. Moreover, Nina Jacobson did not interrupt the contact after Matthew refused to invest, and continued to maintain contact with Helen Hermann. Both sides can continue to talk.

Negotiation itself is a process of eliminating differences and reaching compromises.

The next day, Matthew made an appointment with Patty Jakins at Angels Agency and introduced Susan Collins to her.

Compared with Nina Jacobson, Patty Jacobson is much smoother. Patty Jacobson's status and achievements in land grabbing are far inferior to Nina Jacobson. In addition, there has not been any movies in recent years, so the requirements required are not very high.

After several contacts between the two sides, Patty Jekins's agent also joined in. Although the specific salary and benefits and other conditions will be discussed after the producer is confirmed, Patty Jekins has promised to be the director and screenwriter of "The Hunger Games".

Near late December, Matthew reached an agreement with Helen Hermann and Nina Jacobson, who gave up his investment plan and temporarily stopped the preparation of the production company, and simply joined the Hunger Games project as a producer, and directly took responsibility to Matthew.

To this end, Studio 13 will pay $4 million in salary.

This is not the highest producer pay in Hollywood, but the highest female producer pay in history.

If you want to hire a mature and successful person like Nina Jacobson, you must pay a full reward.

If you don’t give corresponding rewards and want to work hard, there is no such cheap thing in this world.

According to the ideas of those who once lived on the Internet who didn't even understand the most basic business in the Pacific, for projects like this, of course, the producers only need to receive a symbolic salary of one dollar, and the directors and actors pay in five figures. The profits generated by the movie are neither given to the publisher nor the theater chain, and they all belong to them.

The whole world is full of such people, what does the box office of a movie count?

Studio 13 officially signed a contract with Nina Jacobson, and Nina Jacobson began to form the crew. The crew has currently identified three main candidates. In addition to her, there are director and screenwriter Patty Jacobson and original author and screenwriter Susan Collins.

Next, jobs from various behind-the-scenes departments such as photography, props, lighting and art guidance are recruited.

In contrast, actors can be put to the end.

Actors, especially the leading actors, often end up joining the crew. Matthew is not in a hurry to find Katniss' actor. As for the big cousin who likes to apply milk to his face, he has no intention of getting in advance. The entire project has just been planned early. Not to mention the actor audition, even if it is in the preliminary preparation, it will take a long time to wait.

Just as Matthew was busy with The Hunger Games, the invitation from the School of Film Arts and Sciences was also confirmed, and the college officially confirmed that more than 60 people, including him, would become new members of the college.

In other words, he already has the qualification to vote for the Oscar.

However, the Academy will not start mailing to various members until December 30th.

During this period, he also received a call from Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift seemed very interested in being his music teacher and reminded him not to forget about class.

Matthew was too busy with work during this period, so he could only temporarily decline and say it later.

Taylor Swift then sent him a special email and sent him a detailed music teaching plan.

“Is this country singer so happy to be a teacher?”

When Matthew saw the music teaching plan, he only wondered, if Taylor Swift simply taught him to sing, he would have to think carefully whether the student should continue to be a student.

As time entered late December, Matthew temporarily put down his affairs with Taylor Swift's teachers and students. Before reporting to the Inception crew, he convened David Ellison, Nina Jacobson, Patty Jakins and Susan Collins for a simple meeting, unifying the production philosophy and future film style, and also determining the production budget of the film.

With David Ellison, a real rich man, he set a $80 million production budget for The Hunger Games after several talks with Nina Jacobson and Patty Jakins.

In today's Hollywood, the $80 million production budget can only be considered a commercial film of average medium size.

But compared to "Twilight", this is a teenager movie with great investment and big production.

"Twilight" only experienced five weeks of screenings, and its popularity quickly dissipated. However, after North America's fifth weekend, the box office in North America successfully exceeded the $200 million mark, with a cumulative total of $22.38 million.

But this film opened high and closed low, and the daily box office output of North America has dropped below $500,000, and the market potential has basically been exhausted. The final North America box office is just $210 million.

Compared to the production cost of $40 million, this is already a huge hit.

Moreover, the film also performed well overseas, with global box office exceeding US$400 million.

Hollywood recognizes that Twilight has achieved great commercial success, and has also climbed to the No. 1 list of the New York Times bestseller rankings and has been a champion for five consecutive weeks.

Like other peripheral products, the sales volume is also very gratifying. Studio No. 13 does not have the ability to produce and distribute peripheral products, and in this regard, they all conduct peripheral expansion through authorized methods.

To this day, Twilight has sold a total of nine peripheral licenses, including related toys, games, cultural shirts and accessories, and a total revenue of US$29.8 million.

There are still some subsequent authorizations under negotiation, and the various authorizations surrounding North America and Europe alone can almost offset US$40 million in investment.

If DVD and TV copyright are included, pure peripherals can make profits.

Of course, both Matthew and David Ellison knew very well that it was all based on the box office hit of Twilight.

It can be said that without box office, there will definitely be no such amazing peripheral revenue.

Commercial movies are not just box office theory, there must be problems with their brains.

Matthew also met Sean Daniel and Sophia Coppola. "Twilight: Crescent" has begun preliminary preparations. This film is still a short, flat and fast old mode, and the schedule is scheduled before Thanksgiving next year.

In addition, in addition to the inevitable increase in salary, the production scale of the film will not expand, and the cost of shooting and production has not increased, so the production cost is controlled at US$55 million.

At this point, Matthew can be said to be quite stingy.

However, this typical girl film is not very useful for expanding its production scale. Few viewers will buy tickets for big scenes, which is not the selling point of the "Twilight" series.

Matthew has great expectations for the film "Twilight: Crescent Moon". According to his calculations based on the release of the first film, as long as the promotion and promotion of "Crescent Moon" is done well, the box office in North America in the first weekend is likely to hit $100 million.

This series is a treasure for him.

Perhaps when the Twilight series is released, his net worth can double.

The feeling of billionaires is really good. Although at this stage, the accumulation of money is called a digital game, the enjoyment of rich people is simply beyond the imagination of poor people.
Chapter completed!