Chapter 21

Glancing at the subordinate who caused a lot of trouble, Lu Weiss said, "as for you, Joe, Brian De Palma is still the director and producer of butterfly effect. Fox's pay is $2 million, with a 10% share of North American box office profits. "

Jonathan Friedman nodded.

If it wasn't for the two failed films, Brian De Palma would have been paid around $3 million.

Now fox is offering us $2 million plus 10% of the North American box office profit share. Jonathan Friedman has no dissatisfaction at all. What he wanted to win for his clients before was just a fixed film payment of US $2 million.

Of course, Jonathan Friedman also understands that the reason why Brian De Palma was able to get this relatively generous contract is that a series of harsh agreements that triggered wma infighting in recent days have been exposed.

Both Fox and wma need to refute the relevant information in the media through "facts".

With that in mind, Jonathan Friedman began to look forward to Fox's offer for Simon's play. However, he did not take the initiative to speak, patiently waiting for Lu Weiss to continue.

Lu Weiss finished the story of Bryan De Palma, looked at his memo again, looked up and said: "about the script, the price will be raised to 200000 dollars, 160000 dollars will be paid for the" Butterfly Effect "script, and 40000 dollars will be reserved for the future two scripts of the screenwriter."

Jonathan Friedman listened, pause, or asked: "Lu, is still a buyout contract?"

Lu Weisi shakes his head and says, "this is the basic remuneration. The sharing terms follow the industry practice."

Jonathan Friedman was relieved that if it was still a buyout agreement, even if fox doubled the basic price, he was not sure whether Simon would agree.

Now, with the addition of a script priority, Jonathan believes Simon certainly knows what to choose.

Lu Weiss saw that Jonathan did not raise any objection, and then said: "Joe, besides the arrangement of these three people, the original packing plan was also overturned. Fox's new budget is $10 million. According to this standard, you can rearrange a list of main roles and give it to me tomorrow. Is there a problem? "

Jonathan Friedman realizes that Lu Weiss only wants to sign a simplified package contract with fox as soon as possible, which only involves the core creators. The current situation obviously does not allow wma to have Courtney. In fact, it is hard to believe that Simon will be the screenwriter of butterfly effect, which has caused such a big storm in Hollywood. He can't see any special ordinary man in ordinary days Children.

However, she happens to know that Simon is the only screenwriter in Jonathan Friedman's name.

Simon glanced at the girl, nodded with a smile and said, "yes."

Although it was almost certain, Courtney, hearing Simon's reply, opened her eyes wide and asked, "really?"

This time, before Simon could respond, Roger Griffin leaned over the shelf and said, "Simon, someone's looking."

Simon answered, made a mark on the folder and walked out.

Courtney hesitated and followed Simon with a pile of things.

As soon as he rolled out of the shelf, Simon saw his agent Jonathan Friedman standing at the exit of a cash register nodding to him.

Courtney also quickly found the agent's figure, the face has not dissipated surprise expression floating again.

You know, since signing, she has never met the situation that wma's gold medal agent came to find herself in person. At the beginning, she only met Jonathan's assistant in most cases.

Simon came to Jonathan through the cash register. The agent looked at Simon's supermarket work clothes, shook his hand gently with a smile, patted Simon on the shoulder, and said, "I didn't expect you to be here. Tell me earlier, I can help you find a better part-time job."

"It's not too late," Simon joked

"Now, oh, not now," Jonathan said, smiling and shaking his head. Then he turned to Courtney, who came by. He also reached out and shook hands with the girl, and said, "Courtney, I didn't expect you to be here. Do you know Simon?"

Courtney obviously felt the difference between Jonathan's attitude towards himself and Simon, but nodded cleverly and said, "yes, I live nearby. I often come to buy things, and I just know Simon."

"Oh, that's a coincidence," Jonathan answered. He turned to Simon again and said, "Simon, can you take a few hours off? Let's go out and talk. "

"OK," Simon nodded, turned his head and swept his eyes. He went to Roger Griffin, who was prying this way. He came to the supermarket owner and said, "Roger, my agent is looking for me for something."

In addition to being very stingy on salary, the middle-aged fat man is easy to talk about in other aspects. He once again looks at the elegant middle-aged man not far away and says, "no problem. You can only be absent for two hours if you come back before 12 o'clock."