Hollywood Domination Chapter 216: Hard and soft
"Fox's follow-up investment can't be in place in time?" Chris yelled out in surprise as he moved closer to Jenny. There is no need to worry too much. "How is this possible!"
"It's unbelievable, he got Fox's internal email forwarding..." Jenny murmured in a low voice, "I really want to know what *potion he gave Thomas..."
The Thomas Aiken she mentioned is a Fox executive and the public relations target of Dameng. With this position as the basis for Dameng’s investment, his views on the division of interests are very relaxed. After several contacts between Dameng and him, the two parties also reached a consensus: if Fox’s terms are too harsh, Dameng can buy them at any time. They turned their faces and refused to sign the contract. Anyway, there are still many projects waiting for them to invest, and it is already very difficult for Fox to raise more than 300 million in cash. Once Big Dream withdraws, it is almost impossible to find another 100 million. Mengfen makes some profits is the rhythm to continue with sincerity.
Because of Jenny's filming, Cesare has been doing the maintenance of the network in the later stage. Judging from the current results, Cesare obviously did not give up this line, and actually coaxed Thomas to forward the internal work emails to He read it—of course it can be inferred that it was sent by mistake, but even so, once it was revealed, it was a very serious work mistake, and Thomas would definitely be implicated.
"Maybe it was sent by mistake." After understanding the ins and outs, Chris also made a similar judgment, "Look at the sender's cc list, there are so many names starting with c, maybe he made a mistake and sent more to A lot of unnecessary objects - this is very common for those who are not familiar with computer operations at a high level."
"If this is the case, then Thomas may be a bit old for the film industry." Jenny muttered indifferently, pulled the scroll bar to the bottom, and looked up from the bottom together with Chris— —Although according to common sense, Chris shouldn’t be involved too much in the big dream, and he usually doesn’t care so much, but the current situation is a bit special, and the two of them still have this level of trust, so Jenny There was no intention of asking him to avoid it. "Calculating the time, my God, the bank loan had problems two months ago, Fox must have tried everything - they can really bear it."
Although Cesare did not explain in detail, from the lines in the email, Jenny could easily piece together the ins and outs of the incident: Fox had a major problem with the loan for the "Avatar" project. The major banks they contacted, some Rejected Fox's loan request, some rejected the practice of fulfilling the framework agreement, and set an unreasonably high interest rate. On the road of lending, Fox actually has nowhere to go, although they still get the loan , but according to that interest rate, even if "Avatar" is profitable, Fox is still working for the bank, and the bank's reasons are actually very good: according to James Cameron's glorious history of delays and bounced tickets in the past, And the facts unearthed by the bank investigators——Fox covered up the fact that "Avatar" had been postponed and adjusted the release date just after it started production. That being said, at this point, Fox and Cameron have already lost their credibility. ——For banks that attach great importance to the non-performing loan ratio, it is almost impossible for the approval department to approve such a huge amount of high-risk loans.
'Now the banks are not what they were five years ago, and they're pretty tight on cash. ’ A Fox executive commented a few words in the email, gloating about his misfortune, and to some extent exposed the power struggle within Fox: Regarding the issue of funding for “Avatar”, there must be disputes within Fox. 'According to me, the possibility of us finding the money from the bank is very slim, we have to find another way...'
Although tampering with bank loans and company internal accounts is almost a global problem, for Fox, a listed company with separate equity and management rights, it is impossible for the management to risk breaking the law if it is not necessary According to industry practice, the relationship between the film company and the bank is generally earmarked, and the bank must also send a commissioner to conduct a risk review. It is impossible for Fox to use a loan under another name to inject capital into "Avatar", at least in this case. It is absolutely impossible in an investment counting at the billion level. According to Jenny's guess, Fox may have thought that the success of the loan from the bank was very certain. After all, their business conditions were quite good. After being unexpectedly rejected, they fell into a dilemma and had to invest in the follow-up of "Avatar". Raise money, otherwise after the money is spent, the project will be suspended, and the release time will be delayed, and Fox will suffer the loss.
The following emails were basically a few parties expressing their opinions. Jenny sorted it out roughly—since the loan was rejected, Fox became very nervous all at once. You can find hundreds of millions of dollars to fill in. The finance department coordinated for a long time, but there is still a gap in the end. The money in the "Avatar" account is estimated to be used up in three months, and Fox's next money It will take nine months at the fastest to be in place. This is already the result of tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall. If we want to make up for it sooner, several film projects will be suspended immediately.
How to make up for the half-year gap? Is it the issuance of corporate bonds? Share expansion? Mortgage to the bank with Fox's assets? For the management, these actions will involve the shareholders, so it has also caused serious disagreement. A group of people represented by Thomas Aiken advocated a slight concession on the capital injection conditions, urging the big dream Put money in, fill the gap, and you're good to go. The faction headed by Dale Thorpe strongly advocates not to give up profits, so as not to continue to push up the profit threshold of "Avatar". Threshold, 'Shamelessly squeeze our profits'.
Scrolling through the long pages, Jenny adjusted her reading speed while looking at her watch. After all, Cesare had to negotiate the final "Iron Man" with Marvel in more than an hour. While watching, she couldn't help but shook her head with a smile, "It seems that none of them can convince anyone."
Indeed, this debate has lasted for more than two months. During the period, Fox also thought of various ways to find money, but before the red line of the profit threshold, they had many options that they could not choose: not to let Big Dream intervene, The main reason is to maintain Fox's profits. If other methods are even less cost-effective, it is better to just give in in the negotiation with Dameng. Finally, Dell's tone began to loosen, and Thomas' patience seemed to have reached its limit. This morning, when Fox's top management had not fully reached an agreement, he neatly 'missent' the long series of emails to Cesare, and then Called again to explain, and asked Cesare to keep it a secret from his personal friendship.
"It's a very coincidental mistake." After watching a series of gossip, Jenny completely understood Cesare's excitement, and her fingers when dialing the phone number trembled slightly: finally, after almost a year of negotiations, After that, the dream finally saw the light. If it is not personal experience, no one can understand how unfavorable Dameng's position in the negotiation is, for the benefits they deserve-as far as the current situation of Dameng is concerned, their best request is not to deceive others, but not to cheat others. It's just being tricked - how difficult it is to persist until now.
"It's a very coincidental mistake." As soon as Cesare picked it up, Jenny said, "Oh, god, Cesare, I can't believe it's true."
"Opportunities belong to those who are patient." After a period of precipitation just now, Cesare's tone has stabilized again, but his tone is still more urgent than usual, "I assume you have understood what Thomas is implying. What's the matter, what do you think?"
Thomas's 'missend' and the phone call actually hinted at his own views on this matter: now is the ideal time for Dameng to enter the game, if they don't take advantage of the momentum to raise the price, they will still maintain the original conditions If so, Fox is very likely to nod and sign. In fact, this kind of "misposting" may not necessarily hurt Fox's interests. After all, according to logic, if Fox suddenly backs down, it is normal for Dreams to have suspicions. Start to take advantage of the danger to improve the conditions, then go back and forth endlessly, and in the end it is very likely that "Avatar" will be forced to stop production, and Fox can only raise funds through some means that they did not want to use, even if the result is better than this, big dream In the end, it will be in the game, but a lot of precious time will be wasted in the negotiation. What will be damaged is "Avatar", and of course the friendship between Dameng and Fox.
Now, knowing the ins and outs and Fox's bottom line, if Dameng really cooperates sincerely, he will naturally know how to behave. Jenny nodded, "I understand, and I also think this is the most ideal time...Let's keep the original conditions, and don't raise the price on the details of the cooperation. The key point is our right to inject capital into "Avatar 2" and The right to speak."
In fact, the concepts of copyright, omni-channel, and sequel capital injection rights almost overlap in the negotiations. What Jenny hopes to obtain is the right to ensure that the sequel can be injected in the same proportion. In "Avatar", this is actually not a big problem , because the investment in this project is too huge, the future is uncertain, and for the very sensitive Marvel, they are unwilling to sell as long as it has anything to do with copyright, which also makes the tangled points of the two negotiations completely different.
"If the original conditions are maintained, I estimate that we have more than 90% chance of signing the contract within a few days." Cesare was typing on the keyboard while speaking, and the sound of typing was clearly heard from the receiver. Came, "After all, we have also seen that Fox should be running out of cash. Counting the time we have to raise funds, there is not much time for negotiation-this will have a decisive impact on the meeting in an hour later, Jeff Sen, we have to consider adjusting our negotiation strategy.”
"Indeed." Jenny was also aware of this, so she saw it quickly. Before the final negotiation of "Iron Man" began, they had to come up with a changed negotiation policy. After investing 100 million cash in "Avatar", Dameng's cash flow also began to be tight. Unlike before, with ample cash backing, and "Iron Man" is about to start filming, Dameng is actually caught in cash. In the predicament, in a short period of time, there is no money to invest in "Monroe" and "Iron Man" at the same time.
Of course, the box office share, dvd, and copyright sales of "Unlucky Eros", the dividends from "Pirates of the Caribbean", the cash rewards from the two previously developed films, the copyright of "Old Friends with Money", and even the parent company Disney The small treasury is the cash flow they can expect, but in this way, the books will also be stretched left and right, tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and the previously planned dividends for shareholders have also come to naught. This also means that in these three During the development of the film, if Disney has an equity transfer, Jenny and Cesare can only fulfill a small part of the preferential rights. After all, these incomes can be calculated, and the earliest payback will be a year and a half later.
Being able to settle in "Avatar" comfortably, the result of completing the contract is that the two of them have to make a choice: whether to bet that Disney will not have a large amount of equity due to be sold in the short term, or decisively set aside cash for dividends and give up the original Just talk about "Iron Man" that is not very comfortable? This leaves a little money left over for Monroe, which may be over budget. This kind of commercial choice has no distinction between justice and evil, right or wrong, it depends entirely on your strategic vision-in fact, it is a gamble on luck, or it depends on which side the decision-makers value more, which is Disney's internal discourse Well, it's still a movie that might be very profitable.
Jenny is still very clear about Dameng's finances. Just now, while she was reading the email, she was thinking about whether she could take care of both. "Iron Man" became rather tasteless because of Marvel's surprisingly uncooperative attitude. At that time, we talked about it, mainly considering that "Avatar" is not so sure yet, it always needs to be multi-pronged, but Now with "Avatar"...
"Let's try one last time, what do you think?" She asked Cesare inquiringly, "After months of hard work, it's really a bit unwilling to give up like this, but we can't give up any more, attitude You can be firmer, if the talks fall apart, it would be good to quit "Iron Man"."
Although no one would think that she has too many blockbuster movies, but for Jenny, she participated in "Pirates of the Caribbean" and now she is going to shoot "Avatar". It is even more likely that she will cast a female superhero movie in the future Well, the role of Little Pepper is quite tasteless. Thinking about it again, it is impossible for one person to contract the best-selling movie series of an era. Now she should also jump out of the "box office only theory" and pay more attention to the space of the role itself.
"I'm not so surprised now—the number of times we think of going together seems to be increasing." Cesare said calmly, "Since we already have "Avatar", our attitude can indeed be improved. Be tough, the negotiation later will be the last meeting - I don't have so much energy to take care of both ends, and now I must pay attention to "Avatar" - in this case, then we can implement the strategy we have been considering before, you I know, the strategy we listed as the last resort."
"Ah, you mean--" Jenny was stunned, "but--I was in Los Angeles at the time, but now I'm in the Maldives--"
"It's not impossible," Cesare said, "in fact, maybe in the current situation, it works better..."
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"What? Isn't the conference room arranged in 1426?" In a building in Century City, Los Angeles, Kevin Fitch asked in surprise, and he stopped beside his assistant. "Okay, I see, this is the past-Miqi, why did you change the conference room all of a sudden?"
"There is a glitch in the network equipment on the 14th floor." Mickey also covered the microphone in her hand, and replied, "Dream is already waiting for you at 1526—Mr. Vijay and Mr. Davidson have both arrived."
"Is there any other use for Davidson besides saying 'Yes, Vijay'?" Kevin snorted unhappily, and turned his head to ask the entertainment lawyer Tom Gold who came to meet him first. , "Didn't he violate some regulations by doing this? I mean, I remember that there is such a law that agents cannot work in production companies."
As a senior executive of Marvel, Kevin is not that familiar with the film industry, but this does not mean that he is completely new. In the process of contacting Sony, Fox and other companies before, he still absorbed There is a lot of knowledge, but it is not systematic enough.
"He's here to represent Jennifer's salary negotiation." Tom spread his hands, "At least on the surface, as for the overreach in the negotiation - we can't hold on to it, we have an obligation of confidentiality, Kevin, Besides, this is against the rules.”
Yes, on the surface, it is Jim Davidson, Jennifer's manager, who is negotiating on behalf of Dameng. yes, but kevin is still bored of him - if he hadn't been pressuring him so much, even through some connection, he would have made calls to paramount ceo and marvel's de facto ultimate talker isaac .Bormatt, convinced them to have Jennifer Jefferson in Man of Steel was a good idea, Kevin got over it and signed Gwyneth Paltrow for cheaper A: How is Jefferson? He also thought it was very good, but this girl was too greedy and wanted too much, making her an uneconomical choice.
Although he is Jennifer Jefferson's agent, Cesare's involvement in this matter is too deep, which makes Kevin have serious doubts about his position. Wei's foundation in the film industry is very shallow. It's one thing to talk about the facts in the negotiation, but it's another to reveal the opponent's dirty little secret. Once Jennifer Jefferson is angered, Marvel may suffer unexpected suppression. This may destroy the "Iron Man" they regard as the ray of hope and the last fight, and Marvel can't afford such a risk: Marvel has moved its old roots, using the copyright of the characters as a mortgage, and caught up with the predecessor. The face of the CEO of Marvel Pictures (a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment) was used to obtain the first phase of start-up funds with a loan. If something goes wrong with "Iron Man", then Marvel will have to rely on Paramount to repay the debt. Not happy with the money. Under such circumstances, it is definitely not a good choice to provoke Jennifer's team with a strong background because of her own emotions.
"Kevin."
"Jim, Cesare."
Tightening his lips, he walked into the conference room with a heavy heart. Kevin squeezed out a smile and shook hands with several representatives of Dameng, as well as the entertainment lawyer they hired. I hope this is the last time I see them Face: The pain point of Marvel and himself is that Jennifer must squeeze into the ranks of investors. This is also the most uncompromising point for Kevin. The rest of the settlement priorities are trivial. If the 20% film copyright is not willing to make any concessions, then this negotiation will have no effect other than delaying time.
"Hey, this is—" He noticed that several people were adjusting some equipment behind them. ——These two floors of offices were leased by Marvel not long ago in Los Angeles, and Kevin is actually not very familiar with the company.
"Projector." Jim Davidson said lightly, "Jennifer is in the Maldives, but she wants to sit in on the last negotiation, so maybe you have to wait a few minutes for us to debug the network."
Although negotiations have been going on for a while, Jennifer herself has never shown up, and the whole thing looks more like Cesare Vijari's own initiative-which makes Kevin more suspicious of him and Jennifer's relationship, why can he dictate to his biggest client? Manipulating her and her company like his own puppet? Of course, Marvel didn't reveal this to the outside world, and those actresses who are crazy about Pepper don't need to know that Jennifer herself didn't fancy this role.
"Okay." Kevin said suspiciously, "It seems that at the last moment, the big shot is finally willing to come forward."
No one responded to his taunt. After a brief adjustment, Jennifer, who was dressed casually, appeared on the big screen, and there was a smiling Christopher beside him-he greeted a few enthusiastic fans It disappeared, and Jennifer's expression became serious. She seemed to be a little dissatisfied and said a few words to Cesare Vijri, and then signaled them to continue the meeting. She herself was only in charge of listening.
"About yesterday's two proposals." Kevin also ordered himself not to pay attention to the screen on the wall. He vaguely felt that this was not a particularly good idea—Jennifer Jefferson who followed them through the screen seemed to be At the center of the meeting, there was a sense of aloofness, which was not very conducive to the momentum of the negotiations—of course, his determination remained unchanged. "How are you thinking, Cesare, is it the first plan or the second plan?"
He simply skipped Jim Davidson and talked to Cesare.
Cesare smiled and said, "Of course the first plan is not considered, Kevin, don't use it to perfuse us. As for the second plan, three million is an acceptable price—but we— —or Jennifer—"
His words were interrupted by Jennifer Jefferson, she seemed to be a little impatient with Cesare's stuttering, she sighed exaggeratedly, and immediately attracted everyone's attention to herself, "Cesare Seriously, Ray - that's why I'm interrupting my vacation to have this meeting with expensive communication bills."
Although Cesare Vijari seems to have a formidable temperament, in actual negotiations, he has always had a gentle attitude, 'everything can be discussed'. In fact, if his temper was not so good, the negotiations between the two parties would have started long ago. I can't go on, but because of this, Kevin often indulges his temper in negotiations to gain a certain advantage, and because he is familiar with this trick, when he heard Jennifer's complaints from rolling his eyes, Some vigilance was ignited in her heart: by denying and berating Cesare, who had been communicating with them on an equal footing, Jennifer had established her own sense of authority.
"I'm sorry, Jennifer." Cesare didn't seem to take her rudeness seriously, he made a gesture to give the conversation space to Jennifer Jefferson, and she didn't waste any time, Without giving Kevin a chance to speak, he crossed his fingers and stretched forward, twisted his neck again, and said with a relaxed expression.
"To be honest, I don't see the difference between 3 million and 5 million. Kevin, if you still don't know, the project I'm talking about with Fox is at the level of 100 million."
Although Jennifer did not deliberately pretend, but Jennifer's natural expression is more convincing, but Kevin is not very clear about the 'billion-level' project she mentioned. Also not mentioned. Tom Good observed his words and whispered in his ear, "It's the big project that Fox and James Cameron are working on. It seems to be called "Avatar"... It is rumored that it is a 500 million-level investment project. Big Dream may have Investment...but it seems that they didn't agree..."
500 million, three movies can already be made in Marvel, Kevin admitted that he was a little overwhelmed, he pursed his lips and wanted to speak, but Jennifer went on and said, " I admit that I am very optimistic about "Iron Man", otherwise I would not be interested in investing, but of course, I have always entrusted the work in this area to two men I trust-"
She waved her hand at the curtain, and said in a normal way, "Because this is only an investment of tens of millions, and I don't need to do it myself, but I read the minutes of the meeting last night. If I guessed correctly, Kevin, our conflict has been concentrated here - I said something wrong, interrupt me: at first, you wanted me to play, but didn't want to pay; later, you didn't want to give money, and didn't want me to invest money; finally , you don’t give money, you want me to invest money, and you are not willing to give me the corresponding rights, are you? Kevin?”
From a certain point of view, Jennifer's summary is not wrong, Marvel's harshness is simply ridiculous, and Kevin can't help feeling agitated: If it wasn't for the inability to unify internal opinions, why should he bear Jennifer's humiliation? As early as the beginning, he politely stated that there was no possibility of cooperation.
He protested, "Miss Jefferson—"
Jennifer snorted and said with a smile, "Oh, call me Jennifer."
"Okay." Kevin said, although he was full of displeasure, he was still a little moved by her smile, "Jennifer—Marvel is by no means unwilling to give you your due rights, so to speak, On the contrary, your company is demanding too much, and 20% of the omni-channel share is a very appropriate ratio, which is directly proportional to your investment—"
"But it doesn't guarantee my right to invest in the sequel," Jennifer rolled her eyes and interrupted him unceremoniously, "Kevin, yes, "Iron Man" is a very good project, You and I both believe that there are oil fields under the Badlands, but now it is a wasteland after all, if you personify him, he is a lawyer with unlimited potential, we both believe that he can be elected governor, and I took a low salary, brought my own Work for him with political donations, but you don't guarantee me a place in the future cabinet, do you? Kevin, "Iron Man" is for serialization, and I am not asking for comic characters, TV series, The copyright of peripheral toys, all I ask for is the copyright of this movie series, which can ensure that I will not be thrown away by the series, that I will not be cut off after the first box office hits the box office, and lose the qualification to invest in the sequel ——"
She obviously became more and more annoyed as she spoke, Jennifer no longer kept her casual sitting posture, but sat up straight and approached the camera, "Kevin, do you think I'm a fool? Answer me clearly, I look in front of you Like a fool?"
Kevin Feige has a very tough personality, he almost blurted out 'You look really big-chested and brainless', but Tom pinched the back of his hand in time, and he returned to reality , and said rationally, "Of course not, Jennifer, you want to ensure the right to inject capital, this can be discussed, but copyright is a very sensitive word..."
When he was looking for a suitable sentence, Jennifer opened her hands and turned into joy again, "Omni-channel sharing, corresponding capital injection rights-isn't this copyright?"
She beamed and said, "Forgive my ignorance, but in the process of talking about this with Fox, we are talking about series rights consisting of these few points, so why can't we call it a copyright? ?”
Tom coughed, "Jennifer, that's not how copyright is defined—"
"Generally speaking, copyright is not defined like this." Cesare Vijari interrupted him with a smile-an annoying smile, and he added to the screen, "But in our In the draft contract, copyright can be regarded as a combination of these two points. It cannot be transferred. If the sequel cannot be funded according to the share, it will automatically lose the share copyright of the work, so I don’t think this point is called What's wrong with copyright."
"Ah, that's how it is." Jennifer said with some pretentiousness, but Kevin couldn't tell whether she was acting or she just realized it. Generally speaking, the Hollywood stars he came into contact with were far less intelligent than Jennifer. . "So what's standing between me and my rights, Kevin?"
Kevin felt that this was a negotiation that was out of control, but he couldn't find an excuse to interrupt it. After all, Jennifer and Cesare have not behaved impolitely so far, so he can only say, "Because For some reason, Marvel is not very accepting of the word copyright..."
"Wait, wait," interrupted Jennifer, "so, at first you want me to be almost free, and then you want me not to split- just to make sure, Kevin, Marvel's These requests are business-like, right? All for the movie?"
"Of course." Kevin was a little confused - the sense of time and space was stronger.
"So——" the world-renowned blonde actress leaned back and said lazily in a drawn out tone, "After months of patience and repeated concessions to the current situation, you still ask me The idea of abandoning copyright-is this because of the movie, or because of Marvel's own preferences?"
She sniffed, touched her chin with her hand, and her expression slowly turned cold, "Haggling is a common thing in negotiations. Dameng doesn't mind putting up with difficulties, as long as it's a good project, Kevin, I like it." "Iron Man", so I can tolerate months of negotiations and constant concessions, but- if I'm wrong, tell me, I'm getting a feeling now, I feel like Marvel doesn't really want to To cooperate with me, all of your conditions are either to force me to quit automatically, or to treat me as a fool—do you treat me as a fool, Kevin?"
Although Jennifer didn't break a few teacups dramatically, but just lowered her voice, Kevin still felt uncomfortable. This discomfort has been going on since he knew that Dameng was talking about a billion-level project with Fox. It's always been there, but now it's getting worse - it's a 'foot in the air' type of discomfort, probably like a hunter who thinks he's chasing a white rabbit and turns a corner Later, suddenly saw a tiger.
"Of course we didn't take you for a fool, Miss Jefferson." He said, there was no trace of anger in his tone, and Kevin began to reflect on himself: whether he was affected by stereotypes in the process of dealing with big dreams ? Did you mistake Jennifer Jefferson for an ordinary star and ignore her title of the most promising producer in 2006?
"Then you have no sincerity to cooperate and are just wasting our time?" Jennifer immediately planted another big hat on Marvel, "What do you know? Kevin, we all advocate business-like things in the workplace al——"
She curled her lips and said coldly, "But I have a feeling now that this matter has become very personal and emotional, at least for me. I feel that Marvel has always looked down on me professionally." Sex, trampling on my sincerity, a comic company that just wants to enter Hollywood looks down on a Hollywood-born production company, as if they don’t know how dangerous Hollywood is, how many fragile links there are in a movie from birth to release , I thought with all my heart that Paramount, which only signed the distribution agreement, could **** them and avoid the open swords and dark arrows of competitors."
Personalized, emotional... trampled...dangerous...fragile...publishing agreement...blind and dark arrows...
These keywords are like sharp daggers, piercing small holes viciously in Kevin's body. It may be a simple person, these few key words are enough for him to start his imagination: women are very emotional, it seems that Jennifer has suffered repeated setbacks due to negotiations, and really takes this matter personally, and Is Paramount really that reliable in this matter? At present, the relationship between Paramount and Marvel is only the distribution agreement. If it provokes the wrath of the giants, Paramount, which has not paid any cost, may give up Marvel, and the fragile link of "Iron Man" is in the negotiation During the process, the dream was almost completely clear, and even outsiders could find out the most obvious point - Robert Downey Jr., whom Kevin had always been worried about...
Dameng knows that they haven't signed the contract yet, and they have been waiting for the results of Downey's drug test. The dream is more sinister, after the filming starts...
"I have made an appointment with Fox for a meeting at 2 pm Los Angeles time," Jennifer seemed to have controlled her temper again after a brief emotional outburst, but she did not talk to Kevin again, but He directly ordered Cesare Vijari, "You have two hours to finish this case. If you can negotiate, sign it. If you can't negotiate, give it up. "Hero" is a waste."
She glanced at Kevin, showed a little sly smile, and said disdainfully, "Let those **** fight for the little chili peppers, they'll taste it—if anyone thinks they can take it It's cheaper to go to Jefferson's house..."
Without saying goodbye to anyone, a bright light flashed on the screen, then went black, and Jennifer cut off the call.
The room fell into a brief silence, and afterward, Cesare Vijri gave a light cough in apology.
"Woman," he said, with a gentle, resigned smile, "especially a woman who gets everything at 25—you know what I mean."
Jim Davidson chimed in, "I'm so sorry, Jennifer is like that sometimes, going to meetings just to lose her temper - let's just pretend it never happened, shall we? .”
There was a pleasing smile on his plump face, and he spoke to Kevin for the first time, "So, Mr. Fitch, you have also heard what Jennifer said about copyright... "
"Call me Fitch," Kevin corrected mechanically, he was doing quick calculations in his mind, and at the same time he heard himself say, "Can't be transferred?"
"Absolutely cannot be transferred." Cesare Vijari showed a refreshing smile, "If you want to transfer it, you will only transfer it back to Marvel."
"Only for the movie series, not related to comic characters, movie characters and peripheral products, or original comics?"
"Only for the movie series, not related to any characters, peripheral products, novels, or comics."
"Promise not to make independent films?"
"Promise not to make independent films."
"Not involved in the operation of the movie series?"
"Don't interfere with the operation of the film series——" Vijayri smiled again, and he said affectionately, "Kevin, I know what you are worried about, don't worry, this is Dameng's personal behavior, we are An independent production company, only has an equity relationship with Disney, put away your paranoia—"
He even winked at Kevin intimately and mischievously, with a suggestive tone, "Actually, why do you reject contact with Disney so much? Sometimes, multiple choices are good, aren't they?"
This sentence moved Kevin, who was shrouded in negative emotions and even a little self-defeating, he looked at Cesare Vijri carefully, and quickly pressed the calculator in his mind——
After a while, he took a deep breath.
"I need to make a call to New York," he said, looking at Cesare Vijari with a somewhat relieved look—actually, he's not all that unpleasant, is he? "Give me five minutes."
Cesare Vijari's lips pulled out an elegant arc.
"Of course, Kevin, don't worry," he said with a gentle smile, "—at this moment, you have all the time in the world."