I’m in Hollywood Chapter 460: I will do it in person

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Nicole and Pai. Kingsley came out from a restaurant after lunch and received a call from Paula Wagner.

Although the sound quality of Motorolamicrotac, which relies on analog signal transmission, is not very good, the conversation between Nicole and Paula Wagner still sounds helpless and lonely.

After watching Nicole hang up the phone, I have been listening to the two people talking. Kingsley asked: "Paula refused?"

Nicole yelled, Paula Wagner chose Cruise this time, but Nicole was not discouraged. Although Paula Wagner gave up "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" for Production Studio of Cruise, there was already a gap between the two parties. If the next Cruise movie is a big success, everything is okay, but if things go in the opposite direction, then the break between the two sides is a matter of time.

"It's easy to understand, after all, Paula has worked with Tom for so many years, and between them ..." Pai.Kingsley shrugged and didn't go on, but Nicole also knows clearly, nothing more than between manager and Actor That's a broken thing, but with Nicole's understanding of Cruise's personality, the two of them must be Paula Wagner has been accommodating Cruise.

Nicole didn't have any deep interest in these gossip with Pai.Kingsley. She was about to call Eric to inform about it. Pai.Kingsley's mobile phone also rang.

"Hey, I am Pie.Kingsley ... Paula," Pie.Kingsley raised the eyebrow, looked at the ≈Nicole next to my eyes, and continued: "Is there anything to do with me ..."

After a few minutes, Pai.Kingsley looks complicated and hangs up, staying there. Paula Wagner called. Notify her that Tom Cruise will cancel the manager contract with her.

Nicole also heard these. Looking at what Pia.Kingsley sent out, he said: "Sorry, Pate, I didn't expect this to happen."

"This is not to blame you, Nicole," Pai.Kingsley smiled quickly and relieved: "Actually, this is fine, I always hope to be able to represent a few more artists, but just signed you one more. He just In this way, it is also sooner or later that we part ways. "

Nicole stepped forward to hold the pie. Kingsley, and whispered, "Otherwise, will I invite you to dinner again?"

"Okay, I say you do n’t blame you on this matter," Pie. Kingsley is several years older than Nicole. Seeing Nicole looks like a little girl, the trace of the mustard in my heart disappeared: "Also There is Oh, I remind you that you have eaten enough just now. For the sake of your figure, I suggest you exercise at least half an hour at night. Do n’t care about these things, many actresses are usually not paying attention to these small ones. Details, the body slowly deformed. "

"I know I know," Nicole nodded obediently: "So, what are you going to do in the afternoon?"

"My contract with Cruise is one and a half years old. He wants to cancel the contract unilaterally. Of course I have to discuss with him about compensation," Pai.Kingsley replied: "Also, I ’ve already taken a fancy Several good Actors, since they are about to cancel the contract with Cruise, then just talk to them about signing the contract, hey, you will not sign me again like Cruise? "

Of course Nicole does n’t care. After Cruise left, she is the biggest trump card in the hands of .Kingsley. Even if you sign other people now, .Kingsley will put most of her energy on herself for a long time in the future: "Although you have signed, if they have good acting skills, I can help you talk to Eric and get a few roles for audition, but only audition for Oh. If I can't succeed, I can't be sure, I have to rely on their strength. . "

The audition places directly obtained from Eric are definitely related to the big production movies directly operated by iResearch. Those commercial movies, although relatively limited in the playing space of Actor, are definitely a great opportunity to win popularity, so Even the supporting roles in these movies have made many lesser-known second- and third-line Actor rob the scalp.

Listening to Nicole's words, Kingsley is of course not polite: "That's the way to go."

"Of course," Nicole smiled, and joined Pie again. Kingsley said in his ear: "Secretly tell you something Oh, don't say anything," Jurassic Park, do you know? "

Pi. Kingsley nodded, of course she could n’t have known about it.

"Eric said that all the Actor in this movie can only get the minimum salary prescribed by the union, so, do you understand?"

Pai.Kingsley glanced, and soon realized that Actor can only take the minimum salary of the union. This is a measure that many well-known big Director often take to save the production budget, but Hollywood dare to propose such a condition Director Very few, of course, Eric is now sufficient for this qualification.

However, since such a condition has been proposed, unless it is an Olympic film, those Hollywood first-line stars who are popular will not easily consider joining the film, so the opportunity is left to those second- and third-line Actor.

Most of the popular Hollywood stars already have a stable manager team. The Kingsley plan to sign is the Actor, which is in the second and third line acting but has great potential. Nicole told her the story in advance, and sent .Kingsley to make preparations ahead of its Brokerage Firm. Maybe she could get a few "Jurassic Park" characters.

"Thank you, Nicole," Pai.Kingsley almost wanted to hug Nicole and kissed her fiercely. She even made up her mind to temporarily ask Cruise for compensation, which is a matter of negligence. Get the manager contracts of those Actor as soon as possible, and concentrate on deploying and fighting for the role of "Jurassic Park".

Separated from Pai.Kingsley, Nicole who got into car and sat in the driver ’s seat was also a little bit excited. The three women of TG Film Studio formed a small circle around Eric. Of course, she was not willing to act like this. Now, a good first step has been taken, isn't it?

......

"Since Paula Wagner has given up this position, then I will do it myself," Eric said after receiving news from Nicole.

At the time of Kathryn Bigelow shoots "Point Break", Eric had already served as Producer once. In fact, the work of Producer is not as mysterious as ordinary people think, most of the time. The producer is like a silk thread. All aspects related to film production are perfectly connected. Apart from being cumbersome and requiring strong control, this job does not involve too esoteric things.

Moreover, unlike the independent producers of Hollywood who need to be hands-on, in the position of Eric, he only needs to move his mouth to do many things, and someone will get things done.

When Disney and Columbia, who co-developed "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", learned that Eric would personally serve as Producer, of course they raised their hands in favor. There is no long incubation period at all. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" quickly entered the stage where script had sufficient funds, and several groups also started the early stage of the movie according to the requirements of script.

For Director, Firefly's invitation conveyed through Golden Harvest was quickly passed to Wu Baige. Although it was not a big deal for Hollywood, the news that Wu Baige accepted the Hollywood invitation to direct the movie caused a sensation throughout Southeast Asia. Local newspaper reported relevant news on the front page headlines for several days.

Hollywood has always been a dream shrine for Hong Kong filmmakers or world filmmakers. Because of racial advantages, filmmakers in Western countries want to join Hollywood, which is much easier than filmmakers in the East. Therefore, every Oriental filmmaker who can make a name in Hollywood will be popular among locals.

So. This incident became surprisingly smooth. After accepting the invitation, Wu Baige arrived at Los Angeles in mid-March. Because of the importance attached to this opportunity, although there was not much boxing in the movie, Wu Baige still At his own expense brought a Wuzhi team.

The Firefly photography base of Playa Vista is very close to the Los Angeles International Airport. After Wu Baige got off the plane, Eric let people take the other party directly here.

"Hello, Mr. Wu, welcome to Los Angeles," at the gate of the studio base, Eric shook hands with Wu Baige and greeted with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Williams, I am also very honored to see you, I like your movie very much," Wu Baige is very familiar with the guests, Hong Kong still belongs to the United Kingdom colony, many Hong Kong people do not even speak Mandarin, But most people speak English without problems.

"Thank you, let me introduce. This is Mr. Stan Winston. He is an excellent special effects artist. He is also the CEO of the special effects company in the digital field. This is Robert. Hudgens, Vice Chairman of Columbia Film Studio, this is" Heroine of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Miss Nicole Kidman, this is my assistant, Alan Fisman ... "Eric introduced one by one, Wu Baige shook hands with each other one by one.

After finishing the introduction here, Wu Baige thought about it, but still did not introduce several of his followers. Compared with these Hollywood tycoons, he can only be regarded as a small person. Although the martial arts guidance he brought comes from Hong Kong ’s Yuan Home class, but can't take it.

However, Eric took the initiative to ask, and Wu Baige briefly introduced it.

After a few words of greeting, Eric took Wu Baige and others into the base of the studio. Just after entering the park, everyone including Wu Baige showed a surprised look in comparison with Hong Kong. The humble studio, the studio here can only be described as spectacular.

At the beginning, Eric allocated 100 hectares of land in Playa Vista. In addition to the studio, there are a large number of supporting construction facilities. Now the number of fixed employees in the studio base has exceeded 200. This has not yet put the digital field Employees count.

"These are all conventional studios we see, in addition, there are two virtual digital studios dedicated to shoots special effects scenes under construction, which are expected to be put into use next year," Eric himself After taking Wu Baige and others around, they walked into the office of the administrative building together.

At this time, only Nicole, Wu Baige and the two assistant producers of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" were left beside him. After the Vice Chairman of Columbia showed up, he left directly.

Stan Winston just happened to happen. After saying hello, he also returned to the office in the digital field to continue working. Although the special effects work of "Twister" has ended and the project of "Jurassic Park" has not been started, since last year, "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", the number The special effects movie project received in the field has already turned his busy link. Several assistants brought by Wu Baige were brought to the residence in advance by Alan.

"Mr. Wu, I have a vacant villa in Beverly Hills. During the film shoots, you can live there temporarily. If you have any other needs, you can call my assistant. Of course, you can also directly contact me. "

Wu Baige obviously feels flattered. Before he came, he got some information about Eric from Mr. Jiahe Zou, and he also heard some cases of Hollywood discriminating against future people, and courtesy of Eric, Wu Baige even felt a little uneasy: "Thank you, Mr. Williams, but let's talk about the movie?"

"Of course no problem," Eric nodded with a smile, he also realized Wu Baige's personal emotions, but after a few years, he finally saw a peer on the other side, although this peer was famous on the mainland in time and air. Not too good, but it does not hinder his natural closeness.

Handed a complete "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" script to Wu Baige. Because of the need for confidentiality, Wu Baige only saw a simple story outline when he was in Hong Kong. Watching Wu Baige open script, Eric said again: "Mr. Wu, script, you can watch it in private, let's talk about the production idea of ​​this movie first. You have already seen the outline of the story, you can talk about it first. Your thoughts? "

"Okay," Wu Baige said, took some documents that had been prepared from the briefcase he carried with him, and handed a copy to Eric, saying: "This is some of my ideas, Mr. Williams, You can take a look first. "

Flipping through Eric, I found that there was not much text in the document. Most of them were only split-screen sketches. However, because of the ready-made movies in my mind, Eric quickly recognized the scenes involved in these sketches.

"According to the following humble opinion, this" Mr. & Mrs. Smith "is an action movie, but it is a metaphor for marriage between men and women, so in the process of shoots, I hope to use some external scenes Alluding to this, for example, the villa where the two lived, I hope to dominate the simple and cold style, symbolizing the gap between male & female leads, and the villa was eventually blown up, which is also equal to the gap between men and women. Since then, the emotional transition between the male & female leads and the two sides of the movie began from the scene where the villa was blown up. "(Unfinished to be continued ...)