The Angel Agency moved very quickly. In just a few days, a group of young actors' information was passed to Matthew's side. The candidates Helen Herman asked the company to select all had certain acting experience.

Although it is incomparable with several major brokerage giants, Angel Brokerage is already a leader among medium entertainment brokerage companies, and it is not difficult to find some potential client profiles.

Matthew took the time to look at the profiles of these people, and some of them looked pretty good.

The first thing that caught his attention was an old acquaintance, Kaia Gerber, the daughter of supermodel Cindy Crawford.

This second-generation star was born in 2001 and is eight years old this year, which fully meets the age requirements for young actors in "Latent" and "Twilight", and Kaia-Jerber not only often follows her mother to attend many entertainment circle activities, He has also been the spokesperson for a children's clothing brand since he was six years old, and has shot a lot of print media and TV commercials.

It can be said that Kaia Jaber has a wealth of acting experience unmatched by others, and it is estimated that he will not be obsessed with the camera lens.

The only qualm is that the Cindy Crawfords are rich, and it's hard to impress Kaia Gerber's guardian with money.

So Matthew didn't give up on other candidates as he prepared to send out auditions to the Cindy Crawfords.

There are three other candidates, and Matthew thinks it is also possible.

The first is a young actor named McKenzie Foy. She is one year older than Kaia Jaber. Since 2004, she has been a model for children's print advertisements for some magazines. "played a little girl. According to the evaluation of the angel agency, McKenzie-Foy's performance is very spiritual.

This is her advantage. Shooting film and television roles is completely different from acting in advertising roles.

Another Elle Fanning who also has this advantage, she has more experience in acting and is the sister of the famous child star Dakota Fanning. She has entered Hollywood since she participated in "I Am Sam" in 2001. Now he has appeared in more than ten movies, although not as famous as his sister Dakota Fanning, but it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a child star.

The problem with Elle Fanning is her age. Born in 1998 and European and American stars developed earlier, the appearance of such an eight- or nine-year-old girl is a bit lacking.

The last one is called Morgan-Lily. She was pushed to the front of the camera by her parents when she was four months old. At the age of four, she was already a well-known children's graphic model in the United States. She started to enter Hollywood in 2005 and is still in three or four TV or movies. played a role.

Three post-00s and one post-95, this is the candidate chosen by Matthew.

He then communicated on the phone with James Mild Sofia Coppola, sent the candidate information to their mailboxes, and when the crew auditioned, sent audition invitations to the guardians of these child stars.

After seeing the information collected by the Angel Agency, Matthew discovered that there are really many young actors who have been in Hollywood since they were a few months old or even a few years old. The vast market that Hollywood has all over the world provides young actors with Many opportunities have attracted countless parents.

After all, once the young actors become famous, the salary they earn is not much more than that of the famous stars.

The second generation of stars like Kaia-Jeber have natural advantages, and the chance of success on this road is much greater than in other industries, and their parents may have paved the way for them early on.

Matthew suddenly thought of another person. Johnny Depp once said that Lily Depp also likes to be an actress and a model.

He is simply an incompetent godfather! He had this realization.

Then, Matthew called Johnny Depp and told him about the need for child actors around ten years old for "Twilight" and "Insidious". Lily-Depp and her mother Vanessa discussed it later.

For the audition position, Matthew will definitely reserve one for Lily Depp.

Lily Depp is his goddaughter anyway.

Having said that, if Lily Depp wants to develop in Hollywood, she has such an advantage that she can kill 99% of the people who are in the entertainment industry.

The father is the famous Johnny Depp, the mother Vanessa is a famous French singer, the godfather is a superstar like Matthew, and the godmother Keira Knightley should not be underestimated...

It is definitely a waste of resources for such people not to develop towards actors.

Compared with Lily Depp, Kaia Gerber has a certain advantage in terms of modeling, but it is simply too poor in terms of actors.

In connection with these, Matthew also felt Johnny Depp's strong fatherly love for his daughter. When Depp proposed to make him the godfather of Lily Depp, he probably thought of the future.

He didn't care either, after all, Johnny Depp helped him a lot.

When he went to France again, perhaps he should pay a visit to the goddaughter whom he had almost forgotten.

Throughout August, Matthew was mainly busy with the preparations for several investment projects under his hands. "Fast and Furious 4" and "The Hobbit" belonged to the first-line big productions, "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" two. The series is a medium-sized investment, and Insidious is a standard low-budget, small production.

The studio operates or participates in five projects at the same time, which also makes it a bit stretched in terms of manpower.

Fortunately, Bella Anderson returned to Los Angeles from across the Pacific before September to take over the specific affairs of the studio.

The audition for actors on the other side of the Pacific Ocean has started, and the pre-publicity campaign is currently underway. It will be officially launched in November, and the official actor candidates will be determined before the new year.

After the studio's $150 funding was in place for the "Ledding" project led by James Wen, the crew was in full swing. Matthew met with people from Warner Bros. in mid-August and solemnly recommended it to them. Horror film.

Thanks to the great success of "Twilight" and its consistent vision, Warner Bros. still attaches great importance to this project recommended by Matthew, and specially asked the distribution department to follow up, and after the two parties signed the distribution contract, the most important Quickly determine the release date.

The film will officially hit North American theaters the weekend before Halloween next year.

This is undoubtedly the best time frame for a horror movie.

Of course, the best schedule also means one of the most competitive schedules for horror films.

This is the traditional prime time period for North American horror films, and there are often as many as ten or more horror films released around Halloween each year.

Similar to "Insidious", these horror films are mostly small productions. Basically every year, there are horror films with an investment of several million dollars and a box office of tens of millions of dollars.

Occasionally, there can be horror films with production costs of several million dollars, and the North American box office exceeds 100 million dollars.

But there are very few such films. First, the audience's word-of-mouth effect must be formed at the beginning of the release. Second, the publicity and distribution must be increased when the audience's word-of-mouth effect occurs.

Therefore, these low-cost films with extremely low production costs and over 100 million box office, in fact, the final investment is not low, and the cost of publicity will basically exceed tens of millions of dollars or even more.

As for the project "Hidden", Matthew is not without luck. As long as the film is well-received by the audience, he will invest far more than $1.5 million to promote it.

After the time entered September, "Fast and Furious 4" officially dropped from North America after more than four months of screening, and the final North American box office stayed at the figure of 368.5 million US dollars.

Although the overseas screening is not over yet, the overseas box office is also sluggish. After the global box office reached 777.8 million US dollars, the growth rate is not much faster than the turtle running.

Matthew clearly sees that the global box office of "Fast and Furious 4" should be stuck at around $780 million.

Although the global box office did not eventually exceed $800 million, the film was still a huge success.

Taking advantage of the film's residual heat, Sky Dance Pictures, together with Studio No. 13, conducted licensing negotiations with various parties.

In terms of TV rights, Walt Disney's ABC TV station bought the exclusive TV rights to "Fast and Furious 4" for the next ten years for $15 million.

In terms of online copyright, Netflix purchased the video on-demand and rental rights for ten years at a high price of 13 million US dollars, and each time users on-demand or online rental, Matthew and David Ellison, who are the copyright owners, will also automatically Get a 5% rake.

Disc sales and rentals, after negotiating with David Ellison, were packaged and sold to Walt Disney. The North American ten-year license price was as high as $40 million plus a 10% dividend.

Although the box office share has not yet been received, the global box office share is enough to allow Matthew and David Ellison to recover their investment, and these copyright income are almost pure profits.

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According to Matthew and David Ellison's private estimates, all the profits of "Fast and Furious 4" may be more than 100 million US dollars, and the two of them can basically achieve a 100% investment profit ratio.

Not only in Hollywood, but even in the business circles of the United States, such a return on investment ratio is still terrifying.

Of course, Sky Dance Pictures' announced profits are much lower than this, and Hollywood has another set of cost and profit calculations.

At the same time, the screening of "Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra" has also entered the final stage. The North American box office can exceed 300 million US dollars. Now the popularity is gradually decreasing. Paramount Pictures estimates that the final North American box office will be around 315 million US dollars.

The film's global box office has successfully exceeded the $600 million mark, and is firmly moving towards $700 million. All parties predict that the global box office will be in the early 70s.

In any case, the two films Matthew starred in this year were very successful, and many media began to praise him.