Chapter 168 Winner Ye Wei(1/2)
"Hello, boy."
Hearing this heavy voice, Ye Wei couldn't help but feel a little fluctuating. He used to talk to this voice so carefully and was so angry, but now he can't even do it anymore.
Looking at the blue sky, he said, "I don't know how to promote the relationship between Cheyenne Enterprise and Sunshine Beauty". I'm not going to promote it. I'm going to give you that glass of red wine, but what about your trap contract? Can it go with the wind? I'm a newcomer, I don't really understand the bad rules of Hollywood, and I'm not interested in understanding the garbage.
But I know what is right and what is wrong, and what you want to cheat my project is definitely wrong. Lowett made mistakes again and again later. How many wrong things he did, I don’t know if you know it. Maybe it has nothing to do with you, I don’t care.
I don't care if Lowett is by your side or not, and if I hear this, for Ramo's sake, I want to give you a piece of advice."
The other party's breath became heavier, and Ye Wei continued to say what he wanted to say: "Richard Lowett, a little fly full of bad water and bluffing, is killing your career. The reason you have not been killed is just because you are Willis, not because he is so capable.
He cannot bring you awards because he cannot find a good art film appointment for you, because good art filmmakers look down on him.
There is also Arnorifkin, another little fly who is bluffing. Although I don’t have much production experience, I know that a good producer needs to have an important quality that he does not have, and that the producer’s opinion is the only one who is not. And he? He will do whatever he is happy. No matter what impact it will have on the project, he is not producing, but flattering you.
And you're really happy to be photographed, Mr. Willis, you're ridiculous at this point."
"Haha..." Willis's angry laughter came from his phone, as depressed as before the storm: "Boy, I think it can be taught a lesson to the movie for 20 million yuan?"
"Hahaha" Ye Wei also laughed, as Ramo said, "When you become an outdated action star who is too old to beat, the lesson is not just me. This is what I want to say, by the way, take care of Beli, continue to be arrogant and will only ruin her, goodbye."
After pressing to finish the call, he thought about it as if he was in a meditation and called Lowet again, and it was passed.
"Wigge, thank you for calling me. Have you agreed with Bruce?" Lowett's words were filled with unstoppable nervousness, as if he was about to be strangled to death by a rope.
"I have a few words to tell you clearly. If you continue to kick me again, it is best to kick me out at once and don't give me any chance to get up again. Otherwise, I will only do one thing in my life, completely killing you so that you can only hide in Pluto. Do you know Pluto? You will know that continue to be enemies with me."
Doudu--
Ye Wei's voice was not high and his tone was not heavy, but he had the power to do what he said.
On the green golf course, Lowett's face turned red and turned into a pig's liver. He felt so nervous that he had nowhere to vent. This kid, damn kid...
A arrogant boy is just a ghost cry, and the most important thing now is Willis' attitude.
Of course, he didn't want Ye Wei to talk directly with Willis, but he had no initiative. The boy was a stinky and hard stone. Willis was a bomb that exploded at any time, and in fact he didn't need to tell him to talk. If he had a hypocritical disobedience, he might have been the boy's plan.
Do you want to call Willis? Lowett hesitated and walked for a while, and he didn't have the heart to play golf. Suddenly, his phone called, Willis
His heart was grabbed heavily, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead. His most important client, the reason why he is a CAA ace agent, his scepter
Connect and whisper: "Bruce, is things ready?"
"That's fine, but." Willis's tone was quiet, so quiet that Lowett was frightened. Often times, calmness was much harder to deal with than fury, but what
"Our cooperation is over, and today I will ask CAA to change my agent."
"No, no, no, no," Lowet screamed in shock, staggering, almost fainting, "Bruce, calm down... Give me another chance"
That's right, besides Willis, he has several star customers of great importance, but this is a domino deck. Once the trump card at the front falls, it is the beginning of his disaster. Willis has fired him, what do others think? What do the industry think?
An unknown broker (even a brokerage company) starts to make a fortune by signing in an important client; an unknown broker starts to lose an important client. This is the professional characteristic of Mr. 10%. The higher the client's value, the higher the value.
For superstars of the level of Willis, his agency contract is a traditional contract that belongs to the company and is shared by the broker, so he said that changing brokers can change brokers, and in fact he can enjoy the services of multiple brokers. Not to mention the competition that has always existed in other brokerage companies such as BICM.
Willis wants to change his agent, and Lowett can't do anything. All he can do is to make him change his mind.
"I know I have made too many mistakes in Ye Wei's affairs. Bruce, I promise that similar situations will never happen again." Lowett begged bitterly, "I will make up for it. I have been looking for a film for the leading actors who can hit the award-winning season. There has been progress. Bruce, give me another chance."
"No need to say it." Willis's words did not ease at all, but instead felt impatient: "I have been disappointed with your ability over the past few years. It's time to give myself a chance."
After that, Lowett knew the other party's temper. After that, his face turned pale and he had to support the club to stand firm. He quickly changed to Plan B and begged: "Then let me be your joint agent. I know best in your business company. I can avoid taking commissions until I find a project that satisfies you."
"No, I want a new image. You don't need my name in the future. Our cooperation is over."
"Bruce, because of our friendship for so many years..."
"We are still friends, but we just don't cooperate anymore. That's it. I'll tell CAAf today, that's it."
Dudu, the call was hung up, Lowet stood there blankly, his eyes were out of focus, and the whole world was spinning around...
Losing, in this battle with Ye Wei and Brian Sberle's camp, he was completely defeated, took a wrong step, and headed to the bottomless abyss.
Without Willis and the big-name agent Lowett, Brian Burlere's group of people would not let him go, and his life in the company would not be easy... His camp was like a dam that began to be covered with cracks, and with a rumbling sound, all bursting out.
VIYR spoon has a bright future, while Lowett's future is a dark future.
"MTafuer" Lowett suddenly roared, his vulgar scolding was not good at the noble court. He swung his clubs like crazy and smashed the lawn, but because he used too much force, his body lost balance. He twisted and fell down. With a click, he felt his left calf fibula sound, and he screamed in pain.
"My legs..."
Several golfers in the distance walked in surprise when they saw it.
Recently, Arnold Revkin has been uneasy, all because of the fact that "The Wedding Time is Coming" has emerged for no reason. This year, the only two projects of the company, the movie "The Complete Ten Numbers" failed with a 4.06 million production cost, 630,000 North American box office, 4 degrees), and the TV series "Hot-Blooded Detective" aired the first season of the first episode on "UA TV Network" 12-Year-2-June 14, 264). Because of the poor ratings and unsuccessful business, it did not receive a renewal for the second season.
The shadow of failure enveloped Cheyenne Enterprises, and the movie adaptation rights of the scripts and novels that the company had ambitiously bought at the beginning of its creation were all over there. With the continuous loss of money, the company's production schedule this year was only one "Fastline" left, which was filmed in March. Now, except for its post-production, the company has no other new projects to implement.
Willis will not have fewer film contracts, but that belongs to his personal; Cheyenne's company is getting smaller and smaller, and the more he does it, the less hope it will be. His CP may be out tomorrow.
If he hadn't been Willis's manager for many years and his old friends for many years, it would have happened long ago. It was just because of the crushing defeat of "The Complete Ten Numbers", Willis and Matthew Perry were a little unhappy. Not to mention how many friends would they have in Hollywood, business and interests in the workplace?
Finally, on that day, he received a sudden call on the beach of Malibu.
"I just finished working with Lowett. He is no longer my agent. You should not disclose to him any more company affairs."
What? Revkin was shocked and stood up from the beach chair, looking blankly at the tourists around him enjoying the summer sun, "Bruce, have you really thought about it?"
"Of course I've thought about it. It's not an impulse. Lowett has lost my trust. Has he taken my career a step further for four years? He hasn't brought me anything." Willis said in anger: "You don't have to say anything about this. Just do your own thing well. You are a producer, not a manager."
This sentence made Revkin sweat in a cold sweat, and he did not plead for Lowett anymore. He quickly said to himself: "There is good news that Lindsay-Lohan is very interested in starring in "The Unlucky God of Love". If she joins, we will find a few more film companies to participate in the stakes, and this project will definitely work."
"Linsey-Lohan?" Willis was not happy, but became more irritable and unrestrained, "We had a genius because of you idiots... damn it
Dudu, the call was hung up, and Refujin let out a long sigh, life was getting harder and harder.
Because of Ye Wei and Little Beautiful Sunshine" project, there is a storm of superstars changing agents in CAA, and Focus Pictures is also undercurrents.
Ye Wei used his own strength to impress Willis to invest and join the Sunshine Beauty. What should we do? The two joint CPOs David Lind and James Shams have different views. Lind tried his best to buy back the script and use all means to do it.
Shams said it was unnecessary, and with Ye Wei's personality, he would not agree. Instead of having a broken relationship, it would be better to invest in him to make a movie. His short films have shown how talented he is.
But Linde disagreed. He was the first proposition and person in charge of "Selling the Little Beauty of Sunshine". He was naturally even more nervous and lucky. He lobbled Sam JL丨Des, and then told Willis and the others to set up a plan to take the script back from Ye Wei and give him the title of assistant producer in the future.
Shams has other plans...
Ye Wei was really surprised to invite James Shams to dinner for the Focus United CPO. He wanted to refuse because there was nothing to talk about, but Ang Lee called him to attend, saying, "Shames is not a bad guy, he has the answer you want." He was a little confused and agreed.
Ang Lee and Shams have been good friends for many years. They have started working together since the first feature film "Pushing Hands". Now, including the filming of "Brokeback Mountain" and Ang Lee's 9 directorial films, only "Ice Storm" does not have Shams' name in the cast list. Their friendship can really be played in "Brokeback Mountain" or "Wedding Banquet".
Dinner is at pATINA restaurant in West Hollywood, a expensive restaurant spooned by super celebrity chef Josim Pritcher.
The decoration layout in the restaurant is fashionable and clean. The square dining tables that are scattered but not messy are covered with snow-white dining cloth, which is set against various delicacies of different colors. The customers are almost full. The waiters walk around without hindering their elegance at all, and the voices of conversation do not affect the softness of the music.
One of the dining tables against the wall, Ye Wei and Shams had already exchanged greetings, and each ordered delicious dishes and was waiting to serve.
"To be honest, if it weren't for the respect for An, I wouldn't have come." Ye Wei was a little expressionless. His liking Ang Lee did not mean that he liked Shams, such as Ramo and Willis.
Shams, 44, has a bald, white hair, and a kind long round face with a pair of black-framed glasses. Her brown eyes also have a kind look. She looks like a kind and elegant little old man. He smiled slightly and said, "Young man, burn after reading it."
Ye Wei's heart suddenly jumped and he glared: "It's you? It's you."
The mysterious man turned out to be Shams... Of course, he could know the secret of the focus as a result, but why? He did that to destroy his own station. Why
"I don't know what you're talking about." Shams kept smiling.
Ye Wei's thoughts were evident. What Lowett always said about David Linde, and he never mentioned Shams. So Linde always said Y, Shams said H? Why? It's just because of kindness? I don't know when I started thinking like this. These big people like this cannot be just because of kindness... There must be any benefits in this.
He asked with a frown, "Why? I need to figure it out, why?"
"Brokeback Mountain is my project, Sunlight Beauty is not." Shams Wenshan's gaze changed vaguely, the old fox's gleam.
After hearing the other party's words, Ye Wei suddenly understood everything.
There were so many things I had to look up the information before I set off today. In 193, James Shams and Ted Hopper established the "Good Machine" film company to produce ultra-low-cost independent films. At first, there was no result, until I collaborated with Ang Lee to produce "Pushing Hands", then "Wedding Banquet", "Food Men and Women"...
The more successful Ang Lee is, the more successful the good machine is.
At that time, David Linde was the vice president of Miramax, responsible for international sales. Later, when the Good Machine became bigger, he also wanted to establish an international sales department. In 1997, Linde joined Good Machine and became a partner of the company.
The great success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 26 years has brought the value of good machines to a peak. In 2001, they sold the company to Universal Pictures, and merged with several other companies to become the current focus movie. Shams and Linde served as joint CPOs.
As we all know, Focus has achieved good results in recent years, with box office awards, and there are seven or eight films planned to be released in 205. "Brokeback Mountain" is one of them, starring Jack Gyllenhaal, who has just become famous and famous Heath Ledger, as well as Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway.
This cast is of course powerful, but because the homosexual theme is not favored, Ang Lee fell a big fuss because of "The Hulk". The outside world said that Gyllenhaal and Ledger's appearance this time was a self-destructive future. In the future, your screen image will be homosexual.
Shams, the producer of Brokeback Mountain, also fell down hard. He is the screenwriter and producer of "Hulk Hulk".
Think about how envious of Colombia's "Spider-Man" was, and he spent $3.7 billion to shoot the Hulk, but it turned out to be a mess. Is the board of directors angry?
As for the next CP Iron Throne of Universal Pictures, there is only one person who can sit on it. Will it be Shams? Not only no, he has also fallen to a very dangerous industry position.
So the budget for Brokeback Mountain is only 1.46 million, lower than the focus projects such as "The Immortal Gardener" and "Pride and Prejudice" of the same period, but it is the script he likes to Shams' project, the production he initiated, and he is gambled a big one, and Brokeback Mountain is his all bet.
Originally, Shams should have no objection to the sale of the Sunshine Beautiful project, and he doesn't care at all. However, if Lind takes it back, he will be directed by Sam JL丨Des, starring Willis, and a powerful lineup under a chain reaction...
The budget is likely to exceed 1.46 million, and then it will be scheduled to be released in 205, hitting the same awards season.
Then the entire focus and global production, distribution and award-winning resources will be severely divided, and "Brokeback Mountain" is not favored by others at any time.
So Shams couldn't like to see "Linder's Sunlight Beauty". Even though they were partners and friends for many years, they still had the power struggle...
"I understand." After thinking about this, Ye Wei couldn't help laughing. No wonder Ang Lee would say, "Shames is not a bad person", he is not a bad person, nor is he 100 good people, and there is probably no such person in the world.
"Haha." Shams smiled. At this time, the waiter served the food. Neither spoke. Until the aroma of the dining table was overflowing, the waiter walked away with a smile, he said: "I just like the script of Brokeback Mountain more, and I have to give An an explanation about your affairs."
To be continued...