It took about 3 days before Lehman solved the issue of joining Gilmo del Toro's personal studio.

Then the project cooperation agreement was officially signed.

Gilmore Del Toro serves as the director of "Hellboy", with a reward of 4.5 million US dollars, without any post-production share involved; the investment share is 10 million, and you can enjoy the box office income after the movie is released in proportion.

These have been agreed upon a long time and are not a problem.

On the contrary, there was a bit of arguing about the director's various rights during the filming and the editing of the later stages.

After proper discussion, Lehmann had given Toro a high degree of freedom in his hands except for holding the final decision.

For example, he will not interfere with how he shoots, but it cannot exceed the budget; for example, he can participate in post-production, but the finished film must be handed over to Lehman before he can decide whether it will be a theater version to be released.

At the same time, the two parties also signed another contract on the copyright issue of the movie.

Because the adaptation rights of the comic "Hellboy" were bought by Gilmo del Toro a few years ago, Firefly Pictures still need to spend $100,000 to buy out all the production rights of the comic-revised script in Toro.

This includes sequel development and peripheral operations.

Toro also knew very well that it was a joke to retain the dominance of the project in cooperation with the production company. After gaining most of the power on the set, he was happy, and he also transferred the film and television adaptation rights in his hand very well.

Lehman was also very reciprocated, allowing Toro to serve as a producer, which facilitates his position during the crew filming.

After the budget funds of both parties were transferred into a bank account specifically for shooting, Toro couldn't wait to start the preliminary preparations.

While Lehman is still working on the post-production work for the movie "Million Dollar Baby", he also helps coordinate the filming crew on the company's new project.

The shooting team doesn't have to worry about it. Gilmo del Toro's studio and Firefly Pictures' production department can bring out an experienced team.

The main thing is the casting issue of the movie.

Because the special effects shots of this movie require a lot, after referring to Vita Studio's quotation, apart from the early project expenditure, the remaining actors' salaries are not much, so they cannot hire big-name actors. Of course, Toro did not think about finding a first-line actor to join his movie.

In the office, Toro was drinking coffee and was discussing the next round of auditions with Leman with the selected cast.

"Male Pole, do you want to choose Ron Pullman?"

"What, can't it be?"

"His salary is not low."

"We can reduce the expenses of other actors. He is really suitable for this role," Toro suggested.

Speaking of which, Long Pullman is also a professional monster.

In his early years, he played the lion-faced human Vincent in "Beauty and the Beast".

Of course, for Toro, this person is most familiar with him. He is his direct actor.

His first feature film, "The Devil's Silver Claw", was collaborated with him by Ron Pullman.

At that time, the crew had no money, but after all, they were still newcomers, and everything was too short of limits.

Long Pullmann almost played the role of a good script.

From this perspective, it has a great relationship with Toro.

Later, he filmed "Blade 2" and decisively found Ron Pullman.

In the third part, the first thing Toro thought of was him.

"Then let him notify his agent, and the protagonist will be initially designated as Ron Pullman."

Since director Toro is so optimistic, Lehman has no reason to object.

As a director, casting should also try to meet the director's needs first.

After all, nothing has more ideas about the characters than Toro.

"Where are other candidates?"

Lehman asked.

"I don't have any suitable goals, but it would be better to find some foreign actors because of the funding." Gilmo del Toro explained: "Many people with good performance experience in other countries have arrived in Hollywood and almost started again. Their value is somewhat unequal to their strength. They have a foundation and relatively cheaper price to find them."

"Well, a good idea," Lehman continued: "Then let caa, icm and other agencies first draw up a list of British actors or Australians, and we'll choose it."

Two days later, caa, icm and other brokerage companies quickly drafted a list and submitted it.

The performance experience of these actors is pretty good. They only took a $150,000 salary and completed most of the supporting roles in the movie.

After signing contracts with those agents, a middle-aged white man stayed.

"Mr. Lehman, for the first time, I will introduce myself. My name is John Polman, the senior agent of ICM."

"Is there anything wrong?"

Lehman was a little confused.

"I heard that Firefly Pictures's "Saw 2" is packaged by Caa, right?"

"yes."

John asked again: “Did they charge an additional packing fee?”

His question was a bit unruly because the two were divided into different brokerage companies and rashly inquired about the specific cooperation conditions of the other party, which was private in the industry.

But there are no outsiders in the office.

Lehman didn't want to fool him, and laughed directly: "Five percent of the box office revenue is a condition for the cooperation of Caa package."

Because Firefly Pictures was just starting out, and the shooting team and production talents were still vacant. In order to film "Saw 2" as soon as possible, Lehman also agreed to the package plan of Caa and provided personnel. In addition to the specific salary, they would pay an additional 5% of the income to Caa.

After knowing the specific situation, John suddenly asked: "Is Mr. Lehman interested in working with us? As long as it is a project of your company, we will fully support it. The actors and production team are not a problem, and there is no need for additional packaging costs."

Lehman didn't expect that this guy was here to recruit him, and he looked pretty good.

But there are caa, but there are no icm.

He smiled and declined, "ICM is an old brokerage company in the industry, so I'm afraid it's not bad for cooperation."

Caa dares to charge this for packaging fees, of course, it is because they have this strength.

Whether it is the soundtrack or shooting, whether it is the post-production or the release promotion, they all have given a set of solutions.

Otherwise, Lehman will give this 5% box office revenue in vain?

Furthermore, Firefly Pictures is now roughly on the right track and does not need any additional services from brokerage companies.

It’s not interesting to jump or not.

Unless IM can show better sincerity, the problem is that Lyman's economic contract is already the top in the industry. If IM can offer better conditions, wouldn't all Caa's high-end artist resources be poached? Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg... Everyone is not a fool.

Besides, this is not how rules are played.

He was rejected, and John was not depressed.

He originally sent a few British actors to sign the contract. After the negotiation was completed, he wanted to try whether he could dig a corner of the caa.

It doesn't matter if you can't dig it, but there's no loss anyway.

By the end of February, the shooting equipment, props and costumes were all in place, and the script was also downplayed by the company's screenwriter and Billmo del Toro's opinion, and the plot of the main line was expanded.
Chapter completed!