Eric didn't know what Tom Cruise's attitude was, but Paula Wagner obviously hoped to promote this cooperation. To this end, Paula Wagner also said that Tom Cruise could sign three "Iron Man" contracts with Fireflies at one time, with the condition that it was only to retain the bargaining power for the sequel pay.

Compared with Tom Cruise's status, this condition is still very sincere. Due to the explosion of the film market in recent years, Hollywood stars' value has increased significantly. Now Hollywood top stars rarely sign multiple film appointments with film companies at one time.

However, this obviously cannot meet Eric's requirements.

"Paula, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Project is a very important layout for Fireflies. In order to ensure that this plan continues to be implemented, the bottom line for selecting core hero characters is to sign at least six film contracts. This condition is no exception to anyone, so three films are definitely not possible."

Paula Wagner said: "Eric, since you attach so much importance to the Marvel Cinematic Universe project, Fireflies should obviously be more cautious when selecting actors. I think you must know that no Hollywood superstar will agree to six movie appointments at one time."

Eric shook his head gently and said, "I think you may have misunderstood a little. Firefly hopes to sign a long contract, but it does not mean that we are unwilling to pay actors more generous pay. We have formulated a detailed floating pay plan. Take Cruise for example. If he is willing to sign a contract, we can even adopt a floating pay mechanism from the first part."

Paula Wagner looked at Avi Arad, who was sitting next to him.

After she came into contact with Marvel, Avi Arad was very eager for Cruise to participate in "Iron Man". Everyone rushed to Los Angeles after a brief discussion. Therefore, she had not heard the explanation of the floating pay plan from Avi Arad.

From this small detail, Paula Wagner speculated that Avi Arad might not agree with Eric's plan. However, it is not difficult to imagine that Eric's one-time six-deal contract bundling plan will definitely discourage more than 90% of Hollywood's first-line superstars. But in the traditional Hollywood concept, if a big-produced movie is not participated in, how could it be successful?

Despite this, Paula Wagner did not show any abnormality and continued to ask: "Eric, can you say it in more detail?"

"Of course," Eric nodded and explained patiently: "Take Cruise as an example, Firefly can offer him a guaranteed negative film, so calculate it according to 10,000 US dollars. Next, the global box office of the film is less than 300 million US dollars, and the basic salary of 10,000 US dollars remains unchanged. The increase in the film's salary is not too large. For every 100 million US dollars, add 10,000 US dollars, because this is still within the film's return range. The global box office reaches and exceeds 500 million US dollars, and take the highest box office number multiplied by 0,000 US dollars, that is to say, 500 million US dollars, Cruise can get 1.5 million US dollars, 800 million worldwide, Cruise can get 24,000 US dollars, and so on."

Paula Wagner knew that Eric was just giving a simple example, and the detailed rules and regulations involved in specific compensation contracts will definitely reach dozens of pages.

However, Paula Wagner also realized that the overall salary plan was not quite good. In recent years, the number of movies in Hollywood that exceeded $100 million in each year has reached 20, which is almost twice that of the early 1990s. However, although Hollywood movies are thriving overall in the global market, the number of movies with a global box office of $500 million is still a handful.

Take last year for example. In addition to the anomaly of "Titanic", there are only three movies, "The Matrix", "Mummy 2", and "Mission Impossible 2".

Although Sony's "Man in Black 2" and MGM's "Charlie's Angels 2" also brought huge profits to the film company, the global box office is still within $500 million.

Since the production cost of mainstream Hollywood commercial films is still within US$100 million, few of them have over US$70,000. The global box office of a movie can reach US$300 million, including the later multi-channel revenue, the film company can make a lot of money.

Therefore, in Paula Wagner's view, although the salary conditions offered by Eric are generous on the surface, they are more like a pie of empty paintings.

According to this kind of pay, if an actor wants to get a $20,000 salary, the global box office will need to reach 700 million US dollars. In this way, the only ones that can meet this condition last year were "Titanic" and "The Matrix", and the global box office of "Mummy 2" and "Mission Impossible 2" were only more than 600 million. Paula Wagner's unconscious Firefly attempted to achieve "mass production" Marvel Cinema Universe plan has the potential to easily reach 700 million worldwide box office.

Although Cruise has entered a low point in his career in recent years, since he plays the role of co-investor and producer in most films, even if the box office of the films he participated in is not very good, it is still very easy to earn $20,000 from each film.

After thinking for a moment, Paula Wagner said: "Eric, if I remember correctly, last year, Hollywood had only 5 movies with a global box office of $500 million, right? In this case, do you think the protagonist can only get a $1.50,000 in salary for $500,000 in the world, which is reasonable?"

Eric looked at Paula Wagner with a clear smile on his face and said, "Bola, you should understand that if the Marvel Cinema Universe project is successful, Cruise will receive more than just a pay. At least in the next ten years, he will be able to firmly be in the top-tier superstars with the popularity brought by this film. I think this is the main reason why you are here today, isn't it?"

Due to missing the Mission: Impossible series, Cruise's popularity has been in a downturn in recent years. If he encounters one or two box office failures, it will be almost a matter of minutes for him to lose his status as a first-tier superstar. John Travolta, Richard Gill and others, who had a glory for a while back then, basically disappeared from the front line. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and others, are also on the verge of this situation.

In order to maintain popularity, Arnold Schwarzenegger took on the role of the Frozen Man in "Batman and Robin" last year, trying to take a different approach by playing the villain. Even Mel Gibson, who has achieved good results in the directorial career, began to seek to restart the "Deadly Weapons" series. Therefore, Tom Cruise's deeper purpose is not so difficult to guess at this time.

Paula Wagner was not embarrassed by Eric's pointing out these things. He still had a decent smile on his face and said, "Eric, I think this is a win-win situation. As long as you can relax the contract restrictions, everyone can get great benefits. What's more, if the "Iron Man" series is successful, even if the three contracts expire, Tommy will definitely be very happy to renew the contract."

Eric thought to himself that with Cruise's bidding style, Fireflies will be very unhappy at that time.

Shaking his head gently, Eric said: "Paula, I think it's hard for us to reach an agreement, but, apart from "Iron Man", we are still very welcome if Cruise wants to work with Fireflies."

Paula Wagner was suddenly a little disappointed. When he cooperated with Paramount, Sony and other companies, Cruise could still get the largest production and marketing resources, but Fireflies, which have many high-quality projects under his jurisdiction, will definitely not give them such preferential treatment. Therefore, Eric's recruitment was not very attractive to her. Paula Wagner remembered the recent dispute between Fireflies and Paramount, thinking that Eric said this, perhaps because he was trying to crack down on Paramount. After all, Cruise/Wagner Production Company is basically affiliated with Paramount.

Knowing that Cruise could not agree to Eric's salary plan, Eric had no intention of concession, so the two sides did not continue to talk.

After lunch, Paula Wagner hurriedly left, and she had to fly back to New York again in the afternoon to take charge of the new film Cruise was filming.

Avi Arad is not in a hurry to return. He will stay in Los Angeles for a few days. However, after Paula Wagner left, Avi Arad seemed extremely disappointed. He didn't know much about Hollywood, so he was used to the strategy of big productions, big directors and big stars like Hollywood's peripheral investors.

In Eric's memory, the "Dream Team" originally conceived by Marvel was Tom Cruise as Iron Man, Brad Pitt as Thor, and Edward Norton as Hulk. The final result is known to everyone that the full rise of Marvel's heroes also proves the correctness of adopting the strategy of potential directors and second- and third-tier newcomers.

If Marvel's original conception of "Dream Team" was achieved, the result would be difficult to predict. Just like Warner's "Batman" series in recent years, because the main creators have to raise money, scripts and other aspects with the producers every time. Four Batmans have changed three protagonists and two directors. The strong instability of the main creator team eventually leads to one Batman series being worse than the other.

Eric did not explain too much to Avi Arad. The two talked about some trivial matters about Marvel Studios' construction, and Eric sent Avi Arad away from the manor.

Christina was a little depressed today. She received a call from Eric yesterday to the manor to spend the weekend. However, early this morning, the girl named Miranda Kerr came uninvited and forced into the "two-man world" of the two. As noon approached, two more guests arrived. Eric was leaving Los Angeles again tomorrow. It can be said that this weekend was really bad.

It was not until after 2 pm that both guests left and Eric was able to free himself.

But at this moment, watching Miranda pounce on Eric with a kitten-ridden look on her body, Christina was even more depressed. In fact, she was always cautious in front of Eric, and she never dared to be as presumptuous as the girl in front of her.

Christina even had some doubts. Did the "kitten" sitting on Eric's lap know that she was a lion entrenching in Hollywood, or was she too confident that this lion would definitely not eat her in one bite?

Miranda Kerr was too lazy to pay attention to Christina's little emotions such as depression and resentment, and threw herself on Eric intimately, hugged his neck and said coquettishly: "Eric, I saw in the newspaper that the screening of "Casino Royale" was held in London, and you will definitely go there at that time, right?"

Eric held Miranda's small waist with both hands, not letting her touch too close, and smiled and said, "Yes, but I can't take you there, so don't think about it."

"It's so annoying. I haven't even raised it yet," Miranda grabbed Eric's shirt and pulled it gently, and said dissatisfied: "You said you wanted to celebrate my birthday last year. Last month, I didn't see you at all. Now, how do you plan to compensate me?"

Eric knew that Giselle would definitely not tell Miranda about their global travel, and just smiled and said, "Oh, what compensation do you want?"

Miranda straightened her body, twisted her waist gently, and said, "The TV series I am currently in on Disney Channel is so boring. Eric, look, can I play Gwen, Gwen Stacey in "Spider-Man"?"

"Haha, this is not possible. In this way, you will be able to play a female classmate around Gwen."

"I'm so unsincere. I don't want these little characters in the corner," Miranda shook her little head in dissatisfaction, her eyes turned, and said, "Then, I, Christina and I, just saw a lot of cars in your garage. Well, so many good cars are really a waste. You haven't driven them a few times, right?"

Eric smiled and pushed the girl outward, holding her little waist to prevent her from moving, and said, "If you want, you must wait at least until you are sixteen years old, which is not possible now."

Miranda glanced at Christina beside her, her eyes turned, and said, "Don't I look sixteen now? Eric, you can definitely get me a driver's license, right?"

"Yes, so, I can't help you," Eric smiled, pinched the girl's face, and said, "Don't be so restless. Now it's still far from your age to drive. If something happens, I can't explain to your parents."
Chapter completed!