Введение
1979 фильм Дугласа Хиккокса.
The Lamitas Property Investment Corporation raised money for the film. They financed a series of films, including several in South Africa, such as The Wild Geese (1978). The company committed about £5 million to Zulu Dawn, most of it raised from a Swiss bank, the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. The budget was initially set at $6.5 million but the budget kept increasing and eventually cost $11.75 million, despite coming in only two days over schedule. Jake Eberts was involved in raising finance for the film. He had to guarantee Burt Lancaster's salary when Lancaster's agent insisted on one. This meant Eberts was liable for the loan. In 1983 the interest made this £450,000. Eberts spent years paying it back. John Hurt was cast in a lead role but was refused entry to South Africa. This confused Hurt who was not particularly political. It was thought South African Intelligence may have confused him with the actor John Heard, who had been arrested in an anti Apartheid march. Orion Pictures picked the film up for worldwide distribution through Warner Bros. and other companies. with Zulu extras being paid £2.70 per day. In 1978, the producers and financiers agreed to defer their fees and no completion guarantee was in place to get the film finished. In 1978, David Japp, founder and MD of London based composers agency The First Composers Company, met the film's producer Nate Kohn and suggested he use composer Mike Batt to write the score for the film. Although possibly best known for his pop compositions for children's' TV series "The Wombles" and the pop chart hits of the songs from the series, and in particular for the song "Bright Eyes" from the animated film "Watership Down", Batt was an accomplished composer and arranger of orchestral music. Batt was commissioned to write the score, but shortly after the commissioning agreement was signed and the first 1/3rd of the fee paid, Kohn informed Japp that the producers had changed their minds and wanted a "name" to help with the films promotion. Batt was devastated and refused to accept the rest of the "pay or play" fee, due under the terms of the signed commissioning agreement
Japp sent his US client list to Kohn, who selected Elmer Bernstein, composer of such films as the Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird and Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which Bernstein had won an Oscar. Japp managed to negotiate the highest fee that Bernstein had ever been paid and it was only after the score had been recorded at Abbey Road studios and the film shown the Cannes Film Festival that Japp found out the producers mistakenly thought they were hiring Leonard Bernstein, famed conductor and composer of dozens of orchestral compositions and films, possibly the best known of which is West Side Story which was the reason the producers wanted "Bernstein" as composer.
Корпорация Lamitas Property Investment привлекла средства для фильма. Они финансировали ряд фильмов, в том числе несколько в Южной Африке, таких как «Дикие гуси» (1978). Компания выделила около 5 миллионов фунтов стерлингов на фильм «Zulu Dawn», большая часть которых была получена из швейцарского банка Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. Первоначальный бюджет составлял 6,5 миллиона долларов, но он постоянно увеличивался и в итоге достиг 11,75 миллиона долларов, несмотря на то, что съемки задержались всего на два дня. Джейк Эбертс участвовал в привлечении финансирования для фильма. Ему пришлось гарантировать зарплату Берта Ланкастера, когда агент Ланкастера настоял на этом. Это означало, что Эбертс нес ответственность за выплату кредита. К 1983 году проценты составили 450 000 фунтов стерлингов. Эбертс потратил годы на погашение этой суммы. Джон Херт был утвержден на главную роль, но ему отказали во въезде в Южную Африку. Это смутило Хёрта, который не был особенно политически активен. Предполагалось, что южноафриканская разведка могла перепутать его с актером Джоном Хёрдом, который был арестован во время антиапартеидной демонстрации. Orion Pictures приобрела права на распространение фильма по всему миру через Warner Bros. и другие компании, при этом зулусским статистам платили 2,70 фунта стерлингов в день. В 1978 году продюсеры и финансисты согласились отложить выплату гонораров, и не было предоставлено никакой гарантии завершения фильма. В 1978 году Дэвид Япп, основатель и управляющий директор лондонского агентства композиторов The First Composers Company, встретился с продюсером фильма Нейтом Коном и предложил ему использовать композитора Майка Бэтта для написания музыки к фильму. Хотя Бэтт, возможно, наиболее известен своими поп-композициями для детского телесериала «The Wombles» и поп-хитами из этого сериала, особенно песней «Bright Eyes» из мультфильма «Watership Down», он был опытным композитором и аранжировщиком оркестровой музыки. Бэтту было поручено написать музыку, но вскоре после подписания соглашения и выплаты первой трети гонорара, Кон сообщил Яппу, что продюсеры передумали и хотят пригласить известного композитора для продвижения фильма. Бэтт был раздавлен и отказался принять оставшуюся часть гонорара по принципу «плати или играй», предусмотренного в подписанном соглашении. Япп отправил Кону список своих американских клиентов, из которого тот выбрал Элмера Бернштейна, композитора таких фильмов, как «Великолепная семерка», «Десять заповедей», «Великий побег», «Убить пересмешника» и «Совершенно современная Милли», за который Бернштейн получил премию «Оскар». Яппу удалось договориться о самом высоком гонораре, который когда-либо получал Бернштейн, и только после записи музыки в студии Abbey Road и показа фильма на Каннском кинофестивале Япп узнал, что продюсеры ошибочно полагали, что нанимают Леонарда Бернштейна, знаменитого дирижера и композитора десятков оркестровых произведений и фильмов, самым известным из которых, возможно, является «Вестсайдская история» – именно поэтому продюсеры хотели «Бернштейна» в качестве композитора.
The Lamitas Property Investment Corporation raised money for the film. They financed a series of films, including several in South Africa, such as The Wild Geese (1978). The company committed about £5 million to Zulu Dawn, most of it raised from a Swiss bank, the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. The budget was initially set at $6.5 million but the budget kept increasing and eventually cost $11.75 million, despite coming in only two days over schedule. Jake Eberts was involved in raising finance for the film. He had to guarantee Burt Lancaster's salary when Lancaster's agent insisted on one. This meant Eberts was liable for the loan. In 1983 the interest made this £450,000. Eberts spent years paying it back. John Hurt was cast in a lead role but was refused entry to South Africa. This confused Hurt who was not particularly political. It was thought South African Intelligence may have confused him with the actor John Heard, who had been arrested in an anti Apartheid march. Orion Pictures picked the film up for worldwide distribution through Warner Bros. and other companies. with Zulu extras being paid £2.70 per day. In 1978, the producers and financiers agreed to defer their fees and no completion guarantee was in place to get the film finished. In 1978, David Japp, founder and MD of London based composers agency The First Composers Company, met the film's producer Nate Kohn and suggested he use composer Mike Batt to write the score for the film. Although possibly best known for his pop compositions for children's' TV series "The Wombles" and the pop chart hits of the songs from the series, and in particular for the song "Bright Eyes" from the animated film "Watership Down", Batt was an accomplished composer and arranger of orchestral music. Batt was commissioned to write the score, but shortly after the commissioning agreement was signed and the first 1/3rd of the fee paid, Kohn informed Japp that the producers had changed their minds and wanted a "name" to help with the films promotion. Batt was devastated and refused to accept the rest of the "pay or play" fee, due under the terms of the signed commissioning agreement
Japp sent his US client list to Kohn, who selected Elmer Bernstein, composer of such films as the Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird and Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which Bernstein had won an Oscar. Japp managed to negotiate the highest fee that Bernstein had ever been paid and it was only after the score had been recorded at Abbey Road studios and the film shown the Cannes Film Festival that Japp found out the producers mistakenly thought they were hiring Leonard Bernstein, famed conductor and composer of dozens of orchestral compositions and films, possibly the best known of which is West Side Story which was the reason the producers wanted "Bernstein" as composer.
Прием
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