Hollywood Domination Chapter 201: Jin Nanlang No. 2

If you don't have too much ambition and want to fully blossom, Hollywood movie star can be said to be the most enviable job in the world. Rich income, free working hours, many holidays, fame and fortune, privileged treatment wherever you go, personal influence far exceeds that of scientists or even politicians of the same height - Jenny only realized this after moving to Malibu , Compared with Christopher, she lived an ascetic life.

After finishing his work in London, Chris did not take over new films in a short period of time, and a large amount of film remuneration came into his account. In addition to going to his company to check this year's taxes and the continuity brought to him by previous film projects Apart from income, he has almost nothing to worry about. The project of "The Hurt Locker" is still under construction, and it will be at least a few months before the official shooting. There isn't even anything else to do to pass the time other than partying.

\\\"I decided to sign up for an acting class too.\\\"he announced at the breakfast table,\\\"No, or a foreign language class, I've always wanted to learn Spanish - or this time I could actually learn to ride a horse, Leo keeps telling me it's a lot of fun and I just haven't found the time.\\\"

Jenny tore a piece of toast and threw it into her mouth, glanced at him,\\\"Do you really want to learn, or is it purely a comparison mentality?\\\"

\\\"Maybe both,\\\" Chris admitted, grimacing, \\\"In my anticipation, this I will spend a lot of time with my girlfriend during the holidays, so I turned down Judy's invitation to vacation in Switzerland, but obviously, the reality is different from my expectations.\\\"

The Jodie he was talking about was Jodie Foster, she just recently worked with Chris on a new film that was shot in London, and the two made friends, of course, as an out **** and stable The partner's Judy is a very safe friend of the opposite sex, and will not arouse the imagination of the outside world.

Jenny also felt slightly guilty—that death threat really changed too many things. When she decided to take over the production of "Monroe", she didn't expect to make an appointment with Chris to go to the Maldives for vacation. journey of. So much so that during their vacation, she had to work in the hotel room for part of the day, and did not fully enjoy the two-person world with Chris.

\\\"I'm sorry I'm a very successful actor and businessman.\\\" she half-jokingly said, \\\"Do you regret renovating the second floor Is it? After all, the whole thing is really far from what you think.\\\”

Although they seem to have entered the cohabitation life in advance, because Chris's mansion has a cook and a living assistant, and the bathroom facilities in the two rooms are very independent, Jenny feels that she and Chris are more like a couple now and then. The neighbor who will date together, because after she returns to Hollywood, she still has to spend most of the day on work, study, and fitness. Even at home, she works in the study. Chris can only entertain himself most of the time. And now that he already has a girlfriend, the life of queuing up and singing every night is obviously no longer suitable for him, so in the past few days, he was indeed quite boring. A sufficient proof is Chris's arm muscle lines are much more obvious than a few days ago, which shows how much time he has spent on fitness recently.

\\\"Hey, don't say that, I see you a lot more now than before.\\\" Chris made a hurt expression,\ \\"Don't you think that's enough for me? I can see you at breakfast every day - isn't that enough?\\\"

He and Jenny laughed together before returning to seriousness and saying, \\\"But seriously, being your boyfriend is a stressful thing, and I quite like it Status - I admit that I am a very lazy person. I used to think easily: \\\'Why keep trying? I have done a good job.\\ \'But now I really want to continue to enrich myself from the bottom of my heart, because my girlfriend is not only better than me, but also works harder than me-if I don’t work hard, maybe I will It will really become your vase husband.\\\”

He said sadly, \\\"At that time, people will definitely judge Josh the same as they do now, thinking that I deserve it for you abandoning me.\\\"

\\\"Don't say silly things.\\\" Jenny took a sip of the juice, but still couldn't help smiling a little,\\\" You went online to read gossip forums again, didn’t you?\\\”

\\\"Those people are really very mean.\\\" Chris couldn't hold back his anger, he threw the newspaper on the dining table and said angrily,\ \\"They are called Zhennanlang no2—can you believe it, not a Granny, but Zhennanlang—things can’t go on like this, really can’t go on.\\\ "

Jenny couldn't hold back anymore, she leaned back and burst out laughing.

——Although she and Chris went to the Maldives on a charter plane (Chris’s private jet is not qualified for intercontinental routes), it is reasonable to say that it should not alarm the eyeliner of the paparazzi at the airport, but for some reason, the news It eventually leaked out, and when Jenny and Chris returned home, they were also photographed in blurry pictures stepping out of the plane. The paparazzi followed Chris all the way from the airport to the front of Chris' mansion, and released the exclusive news the next day, announcing that Jenny and Chris had officially moved in together—from this point of view, Sean's decoration team was still very reliable. I knew the news that Jenny was going to move into the house, but until the paparazzi officially released the news, Judy didn't hear the news, confirming that the paparazzi already knew about it. Even now, the paparazzi are not sure whether Jenny is temporarily renting or officially living with Chris. It can be seen that the news of Chris decorating the second floor has not leaked out.

Of course, this news caused an uproar, and it also made Chris, Jenny, Josh, Gisele Bundchen, and Leo, who don't need much exposure recently, all become popular searches. The joys and sorrows between the two have also become a topic that netizens talk about: at the beginning of the year, Jennifer and Leo had an affair, and Chris and Giselle, although both parties later clarified that they were just friends\\\'for the new film \\\', but it is conceivable how low the credibility of this kind of statement is. Now half a year later, Jennifer encountered death threats, and the person who rushed back from London to visit her was Christopher. And she moved to his house soon, and went abroad with him on vacation? Although the caliber announced by PR is that \\\'the two are very good friends, Jenny was very scared after encountering that incident, Chris just provided her with help, and the vacation together was also to help Jennifer Change your mood \\\'——But, these two new film kings and actresses are both handsome men and beautiful women, and they are also box office hits in recent years. It can be said that they match to the extreme. I want fans to believe PR's words , the difficulty is too high.

In addition to the fans of the two families being excited about their new relationship, the people of the country also have great interest in their relationship, a high degree of attention, and a pessimistic and optimistic attitude, which makes Chris feel a little bit worried Unfortunately, many people think that he is not worthy of Jenny in his career, just like Josh and Jennifer broke up naturally because of the growing gap in their career achievements. Maybe a few years later, the two also This story will be repeated. After all, in the media's coordinated inventory, except for Chris's total box office that will be caught up sooner or later (many people think that after "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is released, Jennifer's cumulative box office will definitely exceed Chris), the rest of the average They lost miserably at the box office, and when it came to the development of side businesses, it was even more incomparable with Jenny.

Although in the United States, no one would clearly downplay the marriage of strong women and weak men. After all, equality between men and women is also an issue that must be politically correct. However, in the hearts of most people, it seems that the man is slightly stronger than the woman in career. Ideal configuration, especially in the entertainment industry, this mindset is even more reflected in the feedback from anonymous netizens. These netizens don’t need to care about others’ evaluations of them. Some words that would be evaluated as rude in real life can be said. Sour, many people think that Chris took advantage of the situation, which moved Jennifer. If it was another time, Jennifer would not look at him at all.

For Jenny, on the one hand, she is a winner of public opinion, on the other hand, she really doesn't care so much about netizens' comments on her love life, because she and Chris are in love, which causes Chris to be derogatory. Now I don’t know how many female fans have belittled her in retaliation according to the three meals. Since these things don’t affect her career now, she doesn’t care at all. In addition, she has been living in a mansion recently, and the paparazzi can't take pictures at all, so her secluded life is very fulfilling and happy. On the contrary, Chris, because he has too much leisure recently, went online to read the comments of netizens when he had nothing to do. I often feel angry when I see him, but his personality is still very positive. Although he minds that Jenny seems to be stronger than him in career, he also thinks about how to improve himself, instead of venting this negative emotion on Jenny and hindering her. keep going.

\\\"I think you might as well take an acting class.\\\" After laughing, Jenny also suggested that although she was several years younger than Chris, But Chris still showed an expression of serious listening, \\\"Now you and I belong to the stage where we need to prove our acting skills. You know, this year's Oscar has been recognized as the most controversial and the most\ \\'Water\\\' Oscar, objectively speaking, if our performance in "Sally" is placed in the Oscar year, it is indeed not easy to win the award. This also shows that our There is still a possibility to improve your acting skills. You are about to act in "The Hurt Locker". Experience and perception may be helpful.\\\”

\\\"Is that why you added an acting class to yourself recently?\\\" Chris asked, curiously,\ \\"I haven't seen you rehearse your new role yet, isn't the movie going to start soon? Don't tell me you're already so talented that you don't need any preparation?\\\"

Jenny was a little ashamed—this was one of the reasons why she insisted on having her own room, otherwise Chris would have been surprised that she said she was going to work, but she was just sitting there in a daze.

\\\"I have been using the fragmented time to read the script.\\\" she said, \\\"In fact, this is the role I have prepared the most , I spent more time on Karen than I did on Elizabeth or even Sally.\\\"

Chris showed an expression of disbelief. Obviously he thought that Karen's depth and modeling difficulty were lower than Sally's, and Jenny didn't intend to continue to clarify—she knew she wasn't lying, Karen was indeed The character she has spent the most time creating since she was in the film. In the process of sending emails to various members of the "Monroe" project team and continuing to deal with Fox on "Avatar", she raced against time to use all the time, immersed in the performing arts space, rehearsing Karen's scenes again and again, It can even be said that she has never tired of it-in all the roles she played before, Jenny felt that shaping the role was a kind of exploitation of herself, and she was paying for it herself. During rehearsals and performances, she needed to mobilize her emotions to Catering to the needs of the performance, this sense of mental waste makes her use willpower to force herself to rehearse, but Karen is not like this, every time she is immersed in Karen's state, every time she sees the world with Karen's eyes , she feels that this role feeds back on herself. Of course she is physically tired after playing Karen, but her heart feels very clear and peaceful, just like the emotions accumulated in the ups and downs of these years All the garbage was released through Karen, and she was able to look at her personal life more peacefully and soberly. She was really feeling the joy of acting through Karen. This kind of happiness has even reached the point where she feels that it is unreasonable to get paid for performances-most of the time, work is done by forcing myself to do something I am good at but not that I like to get paid, which can be seen Acting is the reward for unhappiness, but right now she's happy enough playing Karen, and getting paid for it even makes Jenny feel like she's going too far.

Of course, this kind of thinking is too naive, she would never bring it up with Cesare, and the salary and investment negotiations of "Michael Clayton" were not greatly affected by it. In the end, Time Warner gave up 50% of the investment quota, Big Dream took 30%, and Clooney's production company took over the remaining 20%. , the public relations fee is mainly used on the cover, doing interviews, sending exhibitions, sending CDs, holding receptions and other promotions without specific research awards, and personal acting requires huge public relations expenses\\\'buy\ The \\' ticket award is up to Clooney and Jenny to figure out their own way. The profits of the film are shared proportionally after deducting the public relations fee, and Time Warner undertakes the distribution. Neither Dameng nor Clooney will share the cake.

This is a very mature and thoughtful agreement, taking into account the rights and interests of all parties. First of all, "Michael" should be profitable at the box office, but Time Warner judges that it is unlikely to win awards such as best picture, because of this subject matter After all, it is still too extreme and angry, the layout is a bit small, not so grand, and it lacks feelings or political sensitivity, so the budget of Warner Hedge Awards is very tight. As for the individual awards, since Jenny can't win the award again in a short period of time, she will be nominated at most, and Clooney is ambitious to use this project to hit the actor, so the best way is that the project team will not provide real money for the individual awards Help, how much money you like to spend is up to you. Anyway, these two rich men are not short of money, and it will prevent Big Dream from tearing up with Clooney again on the personal publicity budget.

Compared to Jenny's big mouth at the beginning, Warner's suggestion is the condition for truly going forward with sincerity, including some sensitive points, such as the division of DVD interests, the sale of overseas copyrights and TV rebroadcast rights, Warner will With no obstacles or traps set up in a grand manner, Jenny and Clooney also readily signed the performance contract, and confirmed their appearance at the same price of 5 million. ——Jenny has few roles, and her salary is the same as Clooney, which somewhat reflects her status in the world. As for the 20 million club or something, this kind of art film with a slightly dull style, Clooney only gets 5 million for the starring role. If she wants to If it was acting, it was impossible to bid this price, and besides, Jenny herself was also an investor, and since she decided to give in, there was no need to entangle in these matters any longer.

Although Jenny's attitude was not very good at the beginning, but after Clooney's soft and graceful gesture, the project itself has become brighter, and now it is progressing very smoothly. It seems that no one has remembered the little unpleasantness at the beginning. After the completion, I also found a good shooting location in Los Angeles County. Jenny and the crew sat down for several meetings and read the script together. After the makeup test in the past few days, I can start shooting at any time. Compared with "Avatar" which was full of twists and turns, "Michael" is so smooth that it makes people sad: Although it is so smooth, it is because Jenny herself wants to act, and after changing her mentality, she no longer clings to many things. But if you have to choose between these two projects, Jenny would rather "Avatar" go smoothly, and "Michael" is the one that has many twists and turns and is almost difficult to deliver. After all, "Avatar" represents hundreds of millions of plates, and it can even be said to be related to the layout of the big dream a few years later.

Yes, it was not going well. The progress of the "Avatar" project can only be described as a nightmare. Compared with it, the "Monroe" prepared by Jenny, a novice, can be regarded as a model student. "Avatar" has problems in almost all the links that can go wrong: Fox's investment has been in place, and the crew has begun to make pre-production preparations, looking for an artist to draw the concept map of "Avatar", from which the special effects materials in the movie will be produced. Design racial culture, even language and characters for the Na'vi, as well as the structure design of the entire planet, scenery design, mech design, animal race design, and finally integrate these designs into the film framework, and after a few weeks of operation, The news delivered by Cameron can be said to be unexpected, and it can also be said to be disappointing-there are too many things to prepare, and there are many unexpected problems in the preliminary preparations, so the film originally scheduled to be released in 2008 The schedule... may be delayed.

Because this is not a problem that can be solved by money, Fox’s need for follow-up budget is not so urgent, so they can negotiate slowly. Anyway, Fox has a lot of executives, and they can afford the energy cost. The background of the big dream is really shallow. Only Jenny can take part in such a big project. Cesare can only rely on \\\'deeply trusted and voluntary help\\\'assistant Jenny's time is more valuable than these executives anyway. If you don't want to waste time, then you either don't invest. Fox may not be too worried about this. Most of them can see her sincerity in investing, or accept Fox. In terms of conditions, anyway, even if their conditions are lowered, it will be very beneficial to Fox, so they are not afraid of procrastinating.

In such a situation where the situation is stronger than others, Jenny and Cesare can't turn the situation around no matter what they can do. Cameron himself is annoyed now, and he can't ask Fox for them. As a producer, Cameron knows how terrible it is to skip tickets and increase the budget. This will result in a de facto breach of the completion guarantee. The director cannot complete the film on schedule or finish the film within the budget. This is a manifestation of the director's lack of ability. . According to the completion guarantee agreement, the film studio has the right and the obligation (if the filming funds are obtained from a bank loan) to intervene in the production, and even many film studios will fire the director and replace them directly, and there will be no criticism in the industry. sound.

In fact, during the "Titanic" period, it was because of his temporary delay and budget increase that caused a serious breach of completion guarantee, and Fox was also in an unprecedented panic. Many people even thought that the film It would be Fox's second Cleopatra (which nearly bankrupted Fox), for which he forfeited his eight million salary as producer and director in order to keep his ownership of the project with sincerity. control. Of course, the success of the film saved everything in the end, but even so, the news that the production will be postponed just after the start of this time also annoys the old man. Fortunately, the money that Fox is giving now is the cash that the company has prepared long ago. He has not yet applied for a loan from the bank and signed a completion guarantee, otherwise the production will be postponed at the beginning, and his project bank may not lend money in the future. But even so, Fox has spent a lot of effort internally in order to suppress rumors of the delay. It can be said that compared with the early stage of the project when it was decided that Dameng could enter the game, Cameron’s right to speak is greatly reduced now. I'm not in the mood, and I can't help Dameng.

Things have come to this, it is useless to think too much, anyway, according to the crazy box office of "Avatar", it is nothing more than a question of earning more and less earning for Dameng, and Jenny is not in a hurry-she has no time to worry, In addition to continuing to take acting classes and business classes, busy with the daily life of Dameng, and discussing the script creation of "Monroe" with Adrian, she also has to prepare for the upcoming filming of "Michael", so she simply put aside the negotiations for the time being. This matter is cold, maybe there will be a new turning point.

Netizens are still discussing the confusing emotional world between her and Chris. The script of "Avatar" has been sent to Leonardo, the script of "Monroe" is being written, and the release of "Unlucky Eros" is difficult. Moving forward, Dameng has also used this to establish its own distribution system. "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" is still harvesting the last bit of box office in theaters. Fans almost forgot about that terrible death threat... Time moved forward smoothly, and Los Angeles gradually entered autumn. On the first weekend in October, Jenny packed her luggage and drove to the city three hours away from downtown Los Angeles. On the set, she quietly started her first post-Oscar film: "Michael Clayton".