Hollywood Starts with Animation

Los Angeles, somewhere.

"Hi, Mr. Wald."

"Hi, Director Sam."

On this day, Zucker personally visited Sam Raimi, not as a super-rich, but as the chief producer of the "Spider-Man" project.

"Sam, this is Kevin Feige, our vice president of Wald Pictures, and my confidant, the Spider-Man movie, and he's also an executive producer."

After entering Sam Raimi's home, Zucker first introduced.

"It's a pleasure to meet Mr. Fitch, I've admired the name for a long time," said Sam.

After some introductions and mutual touts, we entered the theme.

"Did you make a mistake?"

Sam looked surprised, "You invited me to be the director of "Spider-Man"? Are you sure it's the "Spider-Man" that shocked Hollywood and made $140 million?"

"That's right." Kevin affirmed.

"It's incredible~~!"

At this moment, Sam Raimi himself is very shocked!

As early as a few days ago, when Sam received a call from his agent, informing him that Zucker Wald was visiting him in the future.

He was surprised at the time.

After all, Zucker is not an idle person, but a famous American super-rich!

Sam has an extraordinary self-confidence, but he is definitely not a blind narcissist. He thinks that Zucker has asked him to be the director, and he is directing horror/thriller movies. Because Wald Pictures produces very frequently in this regard, and he himself is very good at this kind of themes.

But!

But he never imagined that he was invited to be the director of "Spider-Man"!

"Director Sam, you don't have to doubt, you are inviting you to be the director of "Spider-Man". You just need to tell me whether you are willing to accept our invitation or not. Of course, we will give you time to think about it." Zucker waved his hand.

"Don't think about it,

I will definitely accept it! "

Sam Raimi looked excited and excited.

Man, that's a $140 million blockbuster!

Looking at the whole of Hollywood, few directors would pass up such an opportunity!

The fool won't accept it!

"It's a pleasure working together, Director Sam."

"Thank you, thank you for the new appointments. To tell you the truth, I'm a big fan of Marvel Comics. When I was in middle school, I fantasized about directing "Spider-Man" myself more than once. A dream come true one day!"

Sam was very excited at the moment.

He is not too young, and he has debuted for many years.

But always making those low-budget horror/thriller movies.

Looking at the entire United States, directors like him would not dare to say that there are more than 10,000 people, but it is definitely a lot. It is not an exaggeration to describe them as many stars.

This is the rhythm of becoming famous!

"I want to rise strong!"

For Sam, it was like a fairy tale, with a giant pie falling from the sky!

In fact, Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson are somewhat similar, both genius directors who started out in B-movie, low-budget horror films. His early masterpiece "Ghost Playing People" series combines various styles such as eroticism, horror, and funny. Whether it is plot creativity, atmosphere creation or special effects design, it is quite outstanding and full of personality.

a few days later.

In the presence of his agent and legal representative, Sam Raimi signed a directing contract with Wald Pictures for the Spider-Man project.

Director's salary: $2 million.

At the same time, many incentive measures have been added to the contract.

If the North American box office of "Spider-Man" exceeds $200 million, he will enjoy a $1 million reward; if the North American box office exceeds $300 million, he will enjoy a $2 million cash reward.

And so on, there are many more.

It was rare for Zucker to be generous.

After all, the North American box office has exceeded 300 million US dollars, which is not a problem for "Spider-Man" at all.

The reason why Zucker is rare and generous is also for the later "Spider-Man 2" and "Spider-Man 3". For Hollywood, only when the money is in place can the cooperation be long-lasting.

"Thank you Mr. Wald for your love." Director Sam was very happy.

The director's salary of $2 million is undoubtedly a price beyond his own market price for a small director like him.

What?

You said why there is no box office bonus to the director?

Think more!

Not to mention that Sam is just a little-known director at the moment, even if he is a big director, it is difficult for him to get box office dividends from a capitalist like Zucker who is full of stingy attributes.

However, this contract is already quite a lucrative contract for the current Sam.

Sam's agent, grinning now.

"Get rich!"

"My Sam was able to direct such a big A-level production as "Spider-Man". I don't think anyone would dare to call me a small agent in the future."

"There will be a super director under my name!"

......

Sam's agent, William Morris, the agency behind it, was also very excited.

William Morris Company (WMA).

"Nice job!"

Diane Jonathan, a well-known brokerage magnate, is very excited now: "Now it is rumored that our WMA is not as strong as CAA. I see it as a rumor. "Spider-Man" is the proof!"

"Allie, inform the media that we know well, I want to let everyone in America know that Sam Raimi of William Morris Company will be the director of "Spider-Man"."

"Okay, boss."

......

[Genius director - Sam Raimi! 】

The major media that collect money and do things began to tout Sam as a genius director comparable to Spielberg, Cameron, Lucas and others.

Things like morality are never as important to them as green dollars!

However, the people dared to be surprised!

"Sam Raimi, what's the matter?"

"I've never heard of it!"

"I know him. He's the director of the "Ghost Man" series, and he's pretty good."

"Hehe, is this amazing? There are not too many directors like this in the United States."

"What the hell is Wald Pictures doing to invite a horror film director to shoot my favorite Peter Parker?!"

"Are they going to make 'Spider-Man' a horror movie?"

"Shit! They're going to ruin the movie, I said!"

There is no doubt that the vast majority of the public does not approve of Sam Raimi as the director of "Spider-Man".

They thought it was ridiculous!

........

Wald Pictures.

"Boss, aren't you angry? After all, the outside world says that Wald Pictures is fooling around." Alexander said.

Zucker smiled and said, "What's the point? Free publicity is also publicity."

I have to say that sometimes Zucker's mentality is really good.

If you want to make money, you can't be embarrassed.

For this reason, Zu Ke has a deep understanding.

"By the way, are all the Google data I asked you to collect ready?" Zucker said.

For a search engine overlord like Google that will occupy the world in the future, Zucker has been thinking about it for a long time!

Traveling to the United States, if you can't become a major shareholder of Google, isn't it a fool?

"" The update of these two days is relatively late, and I apologize to everyone.

Recently, arranging my father to be hospitalized, taking MRI, nucleic acid test, B-ultrasound, color ultrasound, electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram, electromyogram, etc., is too time-consuming, I hope you understand.

Well, back to normal updates tomorrow.