Hollywood Domination Chapter 90: Right to speak

"How about this house?" Josh asked, "The location is good, the front yard is also big, and there are a circle of pine trees around it, so there are not many angles for the paparazzi to take pictures."

"I think it's pretty good." Judy walked pickily back and forth a few steps in the grass in the front yard, "I think this is the best building we have seen in an afternoon."

The most expensive houses in Beverly Hills are all in the hilly land. It is very common for a mansion to occupy a small hill. The house Jenny is looking at now is located on the top of a large gentle slope. The usable area is about 150 square meters, with a total of two floors. The front yard is not small. If it is not due to the terrain, it should be no problem to set up a tennis court. The backyard also has a swimming pool and barbecue area. There are four bedrooms indoors, the master bedroom, The large guest bedroom has a walk-in closet. Of course, as for the jacuzzi, gym and private bathroom, these are all needless to say. The basement is also very spacious and can be converted into a game room, home theater or other uses. In addition, there is a garage on the side of the house, and the compartment above the garage can also be used as a servant's room. The total floor area of ​​this house is about 600 square meters, which is considered a medium luxury house in Beverly Hollywood. Compared with it, Lilian lived in a detached house, far from a mansion.

However, compared with those castles that are measured in acres and compared with the castles shot in the movies, this house is far from nothing—just like the castle with a large garden in "Downton Abbey" The same mansion still exists in Hollywood. For example, the "Neverland" once owned by Michael Jackson is a dream mansion, which is transformed from a ranch, covering an area of ​​more than 1,000 hectares, with a private amusement park and a zoo. , an artificial lake, a movie theater, and a sports field, the purchase of land alone cost more than 10 million yuan, and the follow-up renovation costs were astronomical. Most of Hollywood's real top financial backers live in such top-level mansions. The level Jenny sees can't even compare with Jerry Bruckheimer's mansion, which means that for a new movie star like her who has just debuted, it is considered A decent choice. If it had been more famous, maybe Judy would have disliked the lack of grandeur of this house.

"The reason why you like it the most is because the rent of this house is also the most expensive one among the ones you have seen this afternoon?" Jenny said with a smile.

Judy did not deny it either, "Choose the best you can afford, this law is never wrong. Jennifer, if I were you, I would rent this set."

"Well, I have to say, if I must live in a big house, rationally speaking, this one seems to be the best choice." Jenny can't help but admit that, from the perspective of a young lady in a real estate company Look, this disk is prettier than the ones just now. "How much is the price for this set?"

"If you sign a long-term contract of more than two years, the monthly rent is 30,000," the real estate agent introduced with a reserved and friendly smile. Luxury real estate agents like her have been specially trained, and they will never appear eager to please. The ugly act of being overly attentive to customers. There will not be some celebrity chef restaurant waiters pretending to be aloof - this is the case with the Mastro that Jenny and Cesare have eaten before. From the chef to the waiter, they prefer local gourmets rather than tourists or business people. , so when she ordered the salad, the waiter's attitude changed from enthusiasm to politeness. However, she went there again recently, and this time even if she only wanted salad, the other party was still very enthusiastic. From this point of view, the attitude of the real estate agent is more consistent, no matter whether you rent or not, you are always so humble. "I noticed that you are not satisfied with the color of the exterior wall of the house. The company can repaint it before paying the rent. If you have other requirements, the company will also take it into consideration."

The market price of this apartment should be around □□ million dollars, the monthly rent is 30,000, and the rent-to-sale ratio is around 1:300, which is quite suitable for renting. Although the budget exceeded the standard and the annual rent was about 360,000, it was not a figure she could not afford. Jenny thought about it and agreed, "I will call my accountant."

The real estate agent suddenly smiled, but he still asked politely without losing the opportunity, "Okay, then do you want to keep the furniture?"

For the convenience of renting out, the company has placed a lot of high-end furniture inside the house. If you want to use it directly, you need to pay an extra deposit. When you return it, you can get the deposit back after inspection without damage. But Jenny is a bit of a clean freak when it comes to these daily necessities, she shook her head, "I will buy it myself——Josh, you have something to do in the next few days."

"No problem, honey." Josh put his arms around her waist jokingly, and said to the agent, "Lydia, if you don't know, I have a shopaholic girlfriend."

"And she made your vacation boring, didn't she?" Jenny said with a smile, "I bet if you knew I was looking for a house, you would want to live in London for a while."

Josh has just finished filming and recording "Star Wars: Episode 3" in London, and with a few months to go before his next film, Jenny and his loving couple are in After a few months of intermittent separation between the two places, they reunited and got married again. Under such circumstances, it is very illogical for Josh not to accompany her to see the house. Besides, Disney also needs some publicity recently, so that the brand of "Pirates of the Caribbean" can maintain its exposure in people's minds. Therefore, for tomorrow's news that "Josh accompanied Jennifer to look at the house, and the insider revealed that the two will live together", today Josh must show his boyfriend's side and show off his affection for Jenny in front of the paparazzi and real estate agents. To avoid embarrassment, Claudia didn't follow at all.

Their intimacy made manager Lydia's face flush with excitement, and her composure also seemed a little fragile, but she remained reserved on the whole. "Women are like that - you guys are such a lovely couple."

"Thank you." Jenny pressed Josh's hand, turned her head and kissed him on the cheek. "Handsome, why don't you just move in and live with me, I will be very scared if I live alone in such a big house."

"Really?" Josh asked, "Isn't it enough to have Mary with you?"

"It would be even better if there were Claudia and you." Jenny replied. Neither too fast nor too slow. She and Josh have only been in public relationship for less than a year, and both of them are still very young. Under such circumstances, if they live together or even get engaged, the public will think it is an immature decision, and not many people will be blessed , It will have a negative impact on the popularity of the two. "There are also Lilian, Judy, and Cesare, all live here to be lively."

"Then you need Lydia to introduce you to a party paradise." Josh put his arms around her waist and swayed back and forth a few times, then kissed Jenny's cheek affectionately, "I heard that " American Idol just rented out a contestant’s villa.”

"Yes, they will choose another big house for the contestants to live in next season." Lydia also said jokingly, "In fact, that house is not far from here, if you are interested, you can You can go and see it. But this house has been rented by Lil Wayne, he likes "American Idol" very much, and thinks that the ratings of last season will bring good luck to his new album."

In Hollywood, it is very common for celebrities to change houses. Divorce, relationship changes and want to change houses. There is an unwritten rule among celebrities. If the former owner of the house happened to be a celebrity and moved out because of financial disallowance, usually no second celebrity will rent it, and most of them are some curious rich businessmen. Rent it. And if this house has lived in a famous person before, or if it is a popular program group like "American Idol", then the popularity will be very high. Part of the reason why Jenny likes this house is that Jodie Foster lived here before she won the Oscar, and she sold the house to a rental company after she won the Oscar, and moved to another part of the mountain by herself. place.

Jenny looked at her watch, she was a little tired, "If it's such a big house as I thought, how many people would I have to live in so that I wouldn't be afraid?"

"I guess Lear doesn't sleep alone every night anyway." Josh let go of Jenny's arm, and the two separated naturally.

Judy came out of the restaurant and pointed to Josh with a gossip expression, "Youbetcha, in fact, Wayne's biggest worry every night is that there is no place for him in his king bed place."

"I guess he could sleep on women and it wouldn't be a problem," Josh said, and Judy laughed with him.

Jenny rolled her eyes: "You speak as if you are also a bad boy, Joe, this is completely daring to say."

In Hollywood, it is too easy for stars to go bad, or should I put it the other way around, if they don't go bad, they have very strong self-control. There are countless nightclubs and parties in Beverly, which are full of young and beautiful girls with heavy makeup, chasing celebrities like sharks chasing blood, they don’t ask for anything, just want to have **** with celebrities, like Lear For a popular rapper like Wayne, as long as his name is announced, dozens of girls will leave with him at any party. If he held a party by himself, the party must be full of girls with other purposes inside and outside the party. Of course, there are also ubiquitous drug dealers, party professionals who are addicted to drugs and alcohol, and assistant managers who want to wait for opportunities to open up contacts, and Star friends who are ready to move, crew members who just come to have fun, and rich men and women who want to get close to the party host... In short, everything you want, money, alcohol, drugs, beauties, connections, a Hollywood The party can satisfy you.

Even if you go just to make connections at the beginning, you will inevitably be contaminated with other factors. After all, these are good ways to directly exchange money for pleasure. This is also the reason why Hollywood stars have a high bankruptcy rate One big reason - cigarettes, booze, fringe drugs, sex, all cost money, once you start collecting great wines, building cigar rooms or experimenting with less dangerous drugs, or hoping for a fresh one every night If you laugh with your face, your salary will be spent quickly. Banks are very willing to lend money to popular stars. If you have a little less self-control and are not sensitive to finances, you must have no reliable people around you. There are also celebrities who make tens of millions of dollars a year and still make ends meet. Michael Jackson is the best example. He is still the world's top popular Icon, and he has no bad habits. It is just because he is too enthusiastic about charity. He is also forced to sell Neverland to pay off his debts. house to live in.

For example, Josh is very respectable in this regard. Jenny has gone to several parties with him, not to mention drugs, and Josh even said no to alcohol many times. This man is completely Being a pure Amish, he can even turn a blind eye to a pool of cool bikini beauty. Jenny thought to herself that she couldn't even do this. Compared with Josh, she not only borrowed money from the bank and was often in debt, but also sometimes used her eyes to eat a little tofu from a strong man.

"We can go to Lear's party together tonight, and let you see if I dare to say it or not." Josh retorted unwillingly, but even Lydia could see his bluff, which made him even more surprised. She couldn't help but covered her mouth and laughed a few times, which made everyone - including Josh - laugh too.

As Jenny expected, just as she was signing contracts, buying furniture and daily necessities in an orderly manner, and officially began to take two courses at the university, the news about her and Josh's upcoming cohabitation also appeared on the pages of major newspapers and magazines. Gossip version.

The reporter attached photos of Jenny and Josh looking at the house. The two were still wearing simple and elegant clothes with matching colors. Will's emotional development. This relationship began last fall. The lovers separated from each other and filmed separately. During this period, they could only visit each other occasionally. Now they finally ended their separation for more than half a year and returned to Hollywood. The seemingly matched lovebirds can't help but want to build a love nest together. According to an unknown close friend of Jennifer, Jennifer and Josh have a very stable relationship. They both have the same hobbies and like to spend time quietly at home Night out instead of partying and having fun. It seems that this relationship may reach the day when it will blossom and bear fruit, will they be each other's first? It doesn't matter, as long as they are each other's last is enough. ’

'Crazy fans are going to be disappointed. Janesh will not break up in a short time. The staff of the real estate company said that they have never seen such a polite Hollywood couple. Their relaxed conversation makes people fully feel them stable emotional relationship. ’

Although the genres are different, the caliber of the major media is quite uniform. Even without Judy's follow-up, they all report with the tone of "two young people with good conduct and steady progress in their careers are in love". The word-of-mouth is considered built up. Of course, what kind of benefits such word of mouth and image will bring to their careers is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences.

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Josh can enjoy his vacation to the fullest, and he will get into Jenny's house from time to time, help Jenny with some house decoration chores with Claudia and Mary, or the three of them are in the gym together She was sweating profusely and playing video games in front of the TV, but Jenny was not as leisurely as he was. She couldn’t remember the last time she really took a relaxing vacation—it probably dates back to before time travel. Anyway, in the three years from 2001 to 2004, she There is almost no rest for more than two days.

While tidying up the house, she took two simple credit courses that can be passed by purely messing around. Idle—the contract negotiations on "Prada" have been in full swing, of course, as well as the post-shooting, recording and final editing preview of "The Notebook", Jenny still wants to break the 24 hours a day into three Sixteen hours to use. It is estimated that after the house is tidied up, she will take a long vacation again. "Prada" has finished writing the script. Once the capital injection is confirmed and the script is revised, the filming will start immediately. Cesare wants to contact her during the filming period. An action film or a literary film to continue shooting after "Prada".

"As far as I'm concerned, I haven't received any very tempting invitations, and there are no movies that are being filmed on the market that are very suitable for your role-in case you have any genius ideas." He said Glancing at Jenny, she compared the script cabinet next to her, "You can do a preliminary screening under these two categories first, and find a few scripts to discuss with me."

Although the previous showdown methods were relatively poor, her right to speak was indeed improving. Jenny kept her mood and tone reserved, "Give me a day or two, and I will discuss it with you after I read it."

She was going to work overtime to finish these scripts, remove the ones that hit the street in her memory, and if there were any big hits in her memory, she would take them out and discuss with Cesare whether they were suitable for her to act. However, this is after all a follow-up work arrangement, and the most important thing now is the performance and investment contract with Fox.

"How are the negotiations with Fox going?" Jenny asked. "Have we succeeded in kicking Karen Rosenfelt?"

It was Cesare's idea to kick Karen out. Ever since he learned that Karen had concealed the candidate, he teamed up with Lauren to directly put pressure on Fox and protested, although Karen is also a very experienced producer. People, but under the two big hats of abuse of power and racial discrimination, they were also forced into a mess. It was even more difficult for Fox to deal with Lauren's strong rebound. Recently, the tone has gradually loosened. It seems that Karen's exit is only a matter of time.

The biggest benefit of kicking her out is of course the expansion of Jenny's right to speak in this project, and another is to maintain her dignity-since Jenny's capital injection has been preliminarily determined to be around 10 million recently, which is equal to She monopolized nearly one-third of the investment budget by herself, and was already one of the main funders. A producer who actually wanted to kick the funder out of the game, of course, could only leave sadly. If she doesn't leave, Fox will still take Jenny's temper seriously? At that time, even if it is just a small matter like changing the script, it is very likely that they will not cooperate.

Jenny is quite clear about this way of killing people and establishing power. The best thing is that everything is arranged by Cesare, and she does not need to come forward to negotiate, so she and Cesare agree on this point. If Fox If they want the ten million to be in place as soon as possible, then kicking Karen out is their top priority. Kick her off, get money, but not kick her off, sorry, we will continue to protest.

"Wendy Finneman officially signed a contract with Fox this morning," Cesare said with a smile on his lips, "However, Fox still wants to reserve a spot for Karen in the credits, and I have promised them .”

"Excellent," Jenny said cheerfully, "so, when do we have a formal editorial meeting? Participate too—or even better if you could help me rehearse my pitch."

Wendy is the producer and an old friend of Cesare, David Frank is the director - also the director of "*City" and Wendy's friend, Eileen is the script writer, plus Jenny, the leading actress And the investors, the core creative team of this film has been finalized.

"One more thing, Lauren contacted me today, she hopes to join the ranks of screenwriters to check the film." Cesare said, "I haven't responded yet."

He agreed to Fox's request because it doesn't matter whether Karen's name stays or not, but he didn't agree to Lauren because script writing is related to the quality of the movie. Jenny feels that her cooperation with Cesare is changing in the direction she likes, and she likes the feeling of being able to participate in decision-making. "Is it written in the contract that she can ask to participate in the screenwriting? I don't really want her. With her here, I definitely can't change Andy into what I want."

She had talked to Cesare about the changes she wanted before, and Cesare thought her idea was very interesting, but he was not sure about the final effect. Regarding Jenny's judgment, he nodded, "Lauren will definitely not allow you to change her avatar into that look, but she has no right to participate in the scriptwriting, and Fox will not let people do this. Of course, everyone Some adaptation parties will try to maintain a good relationship with the original party..."

"But the author of "Forrest Gump" publicly scolded the producer, which does not prevent "Forrest Gump" from being sold very well." Jenny interjected, winking at Cesare triumphantly , "I saw that news."

"Yes." Cesare showed a business smile, "I will postpone the answer until after the meeting. If your change of Andy is rejected, then there is no need to offend Lauren."

"No problem." Jenny said, lowering her head and flipping through the memo, "Is there anything else? Oh, yes, there is also the premiere of "The Notebook"..."

"No." To her surprise, Cesare didn't talk about the various matters that would pile up and still need to be confirmed by her. Instead, he shook his head and pushed Jenny's notepad aside. "We should talk about a relatively more important issue now."

Jenny raised her head in surprise, sat up straight, "You mean?"

"Isn't it time for you to consider setting up a company, Jenny?" Cesare said, "It's time for you to have your own team, too?"

The author has something to say: Note: 1 Everyone knows who Liar Wayne is, right? He became famous in 199X, the king of hip-hop. By the way, the hip-hop world is the most corrupt circle in Hollywood that loves accidents, and revenge and murder are very common. What impresses me the most about Lear is the ugly crying diamond teeth, here is a black mouth (in fact, it can’t be called black, his real life is definitely more corrupt than that.

2 The Amish have said it before. By the way, you can go to Baidu to see how luxurious the Neverland where MJ used to live is. I also set Jenny's rent based on some information. If anyone thinks the price is too high or too low, please leave a message to discuss it.

3 The original author of "Forrest Gump" scolded the producer for making Forrest Gump silly and sweet. In fact, in the original book, Forrest Gump is a very wretched and gloomy person (I think), anyway, the original author thinks the movie is completely Distorted the essence of the original book...it's true

4 The producers and directors are all from the real world. The Prada title has the LOGO of the producer's studio.

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Sorry for the lateness, today is my aunt's first day, and I got at least 20 debuffs...