David Heyman watched Bai Quinn leave helplessly, because in front of that person, he was incomparable to his "Harry Potter".

Maybe his proposal has enough commercial value, maybe it is just a speculative adventure, but that needs to be tested with the future, but that person represents Bai Quinn's past and present. In the visible future, he and Bai Quinn will be close partners, and this person is also one of the absolute protagonists of this grand banquet tonight.

What Bai Quinn needs to put down his work to meet is the male lead, producer, and strong contender for the Golden Globe Awards winner, Nicholas Cage.

Fortunately, Bai Quinn left David Heyman with some hope. After he left, a tall short-haired woman who claimed to be Lina came over and handed over a business card, saying that Mr. Bai Quinn asked him to have a detailed discussion tomorrow, and you can contact her by phone when the specific time is specified.

After Terry Semer and Robert Daly left Warner Bros., the newly-launched Allen Horn and Barry Meyer immediately denied the film production partner model established and promoted by their predecessors. Simply put, Warner Bros. provided financing, shooting support, distribution and other services to David Heyman, the Wademark image of that year, and small production companies such as Anon Milkan, and shared the profits brought by the film.

During the period when Terry Semer and Robert Daly served, Warner Bros. filmed 14 Oscar-nominated films in this mode.

At the end of 1997, David Heyman, who was very keen, spent $1.65 million to purchase the adaptation rights of the first Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone from Joanna Rowling, whose pseudonym JK Rowling, and had the right to repurchase for the subsequent three movies.

At that time, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", a novel with less than 100,000 words, had just won the gold medal in the category of children aged 9 to 11 in the UK National Book Award.

David Heyman believes that "JK Rowling" will be the next Roald Dahl, the hard-core and cruel man who created famous children's stories such as "James and the Big Peach", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Matilda", and "The Great Mr. Fox", and the most influential children's literature writer in contemporary Britain.

It was precisely because of this that David Heyman, who was not at hand, was willing to spend a lot of money to buy the film adaptation rights of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and promised that the film would be mainly starred by British actors.

Things went smoothly at the beginning. After all, David Heyman, a British man, served as creative director for eight years at Warner Bros. and accumulated deep connections. There were not many people within Warner Bros. who were willing to cooperate with him.

In particular, Chief Operating Officer Terry Semer is as optimistic as he is in the Harry Potter series and uses his own personal relationships to provide some help in introducing American versions of novels.

In August 1999, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone made it to the New York Times best-selling novels and ranked among the top.

On the other hand, JK Rowling's two subsequent sequels also performed very well. In the summer of 1998, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was published in the UK, and in the summer of 1999, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was published in the UK. These two sequels entered the US publishing market together with the first series, and attracted some attention in the United States.

The reason why Bai Quinn has some impressions is because of this. Unfortunately, he does not have a child about ten years old, otherwise he would have cared more about the adaptation rights of the series.

However, just as David Heyman was about to confirm cooperation with Warner Bros., Warner Bros.'s senior management changes drastically, Terry Semer and Robert Daly packed up their burdens and left.

The newly appointed chairman Barry Meyer came from WB TV network and had little understanding of the film industry. CEO Allen Horn was once the president of Castle Stone Film, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., and was quite familiar with the film industry, but he couldn't accept JK Rowling's conditions and made a movie that was performed by British actors.

Perhaps if it weren't for the awards, but "Shapes' Love History" really achieved great success at last year's Oscars, Alan Horn could still make up his mind to use the lineup of British actors. However, since "Shapes' Love History" failed, the British style suddenly stopped moving in the American market, and the audience no longer bought it. They believed that praising British drama culture and pursuing the so-called London accent and Shakespeare were both "cultural self-deprecation". I, Great America, cannot return to the era when I was colonized by the British and regard the British as a more noble person.

Therefore, even "Notting Hill" starring Big Mouth Julia Roberts is not very ideal in the US box office.

Bai Quinn, who was unintentionally causing this kind of thought in order to belittle "Shapes' Love History", was a little confused about his influence.

In short, Warner Bros. He was very upset by the final cooperation conditions. He took the biggest risk, but the expected profit was the least.

What's even more disgusting is that Alan Horn rejected JK Rowling's condition to use a full British cast, believing that there should be one or two TV child stars familiar to the American people in the protagonist trio, so that the future box office will not fail.

If it was when David Heyman had just won the adaptation rights of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 1997, JK Rowling, who was still in full swing at the time, might have been willing to compromise on this condition for the sake of such a large international producer as Warner Bros.

But now, the three consecutive episodes of the "Harry Potter" series have been successful. If you want to "persuade" JK Rowling, you can only add more money, add a lot of money.

As a British, David Heyman is unwilling to compromise on this aspect. Why should the protagonist of our British story be played by Americans?

Those American children can even call "Mum" to "Mom"!

The dispute between the two sides was soon discovered by Spielberg. Spielberg deserves to be a successful businessman. When he found the opportunity, he waved his hoe to poach.

However, after gaining deeper understanding of the Harry Potter series, Spielberg was only willing to develop its animated film version, which just enriched the foundation for DreamWorks animation, which lacked the series, to fight against the huge pressure brought by Pixar.

Obviously, David Heyman was not interested in Spielberg's proposal to shoot animated movies. At this time, he hit it off and Chris Columbus, who had been identified as the best candidate for the director of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", suggested to him that he could try the Wademark image and create this opportunity to meet with Bai Quinn through the Spike Jones.

If Wademark hits a wall again here, David Heyman can only consider accepting the Warner Bros.'s conditions, and then make a difficult balance between JK Rowling and Allen Horn, giving a solution that satisfies both sides.

On this side, David Heyman began to look forward to tomorrow's meeting, while on the other side, Nicholas Cage, who was so proud of his youthfulness, was poured with cold water on his head by Bai Quinn's words.

"Sorry, Nick, I think we may not get the best video."

Nicholas Cage is worthy of being the best actor. She still smiled and walked side by side with Quinn to the seat reserved for them. It was not until the two of them sat down next to each other that Nicholas Cage used his help to cover up and whispered: "Is this the result of Chris' hard work yesterday? Compared to winning the Golden Globe Award, I value being able to take over the trophy as a producer."

In the external publicity of "King of War", Nicholas Cage also served as the producer of the film. Therefore, if "King of War" wins the best film, he and producer Lila will come on stage to receive the award. He will also take this opportunity to officially announce that Nicholas Cage is no longer just an actor, but also a producer standing at the top of the film industry chain.

Nicholas Cage believes he is qualified to be called a producer.

As soon as he got the script of "King of War", he had a strong resonance with the story written by Bai Quinn, and even believed that the male protagonist of the story was tailor-made for him.

Therefore, Nicholas Cage immediately agreed to star in the film. After learning that due to some sensitive reasons, Wademark Image will not invest in the film, and Bai Quinn personally bears the production cost of the film, Nicholas Cage decided to support the film with practical actions, not only significantly lowering his pay, but also proposed to bring funds to the group.

This hit it off with Bai Quinn, who was quite tight at the time. Nicholas Cage became one of the investors of "King of War". With this identity, it was not too much to make him name a producer, not to mention that director David Fincher was invited by him.

Sofia Coppola, who worked hard as the producer assistant during the filming period, was not qualified to take the stage to receive the award, but Nicholas Cage was OK and had been looking forward to it for a long time. Since the nomination of "The King of War", he has been looking forward to it.

It is said that the Golden Globe Award is the weather vane of the Oscar. If you want to win the best film at the Oscar and receive the award as a producer, you should be the first to get the Golden Globe Award.

However, Bai Quinn brought bad news. Obviously, in the game behind the scenes, Wademark's image did not win the Best Picture title.

Who won?

Disney's "Insider" or DreamWorks' "American Beauty"? Could it be Universal's "Becoming a Markovic"?

The movie by my cousin is indeed good, but the gap is still very obvious compared to the other nominated works.

Although Nicholas Cage seemed calm on the surface and did not ask about Bai Quinn's specific situation, this occasion was indeed not suitable to say too much, but his heart was already in a state of turmoil and it was difficult to calm down.

Taking "King of War" as an opportunity, Nicholas Cage, who hastily changed his identities, has no choice but to accept an unsatisfactory start for a while.

After all, I am also a movie hero and a man who has achieved the ultimate career as an actor. I am backed by the Coppola family, and my relatives and friends are all over the film industry!

Nicholas Cage even felt that if "King of War" failed to win the best film, it would cast a shadow on the future of his "Saturn Pictures".

Saturn Pictures's project is about to start soon, starring old guys William Dafoe and John Markovic, named "Shadow of the Vampire". They have worked with him in "Air Prison" and "I'm Wild" respectively. They only received a few hundred thousand dollars in a friendly price for the film.

If "King of War" can win, "Shadow of Vampire" will be smoother and more likely to succeed with the influence it brings.

This idea kept circulating in Nicholas Cage's mind, which made his thinking a little stagnant, and he could only respond mechanically to the surrounding situation.

It would be great if I could have a drink!

For today's awards ceremony, Nicholas Cage, who had quit drinking for a day, began to miss the feeling of being drifty after drinking again.

"Nick, what do you think?"

After being pushed onto Bai Quinn, Nicholas Cage's thoughts were then taken back.

"What?"

Nicholas Cage, who didn't know what Bai Quinn said just now, had to ask.

At this time, the Best Supporting Actress Award was awarded on stage, and Angelina Jolie defeated Cameron Diaz, Natalie Portman and Corosevigny to win the award.

While applauding falsely, Bai Quinn repeated the question just now: "I mean, Jerry's new toy, I heard that his cooperation with Sony was not very pleasant, that sports movie may be postponed, so his new toy, the upcoming war film about the Somalia crisis... can he cooperate with me?"

Jerry, Jerry Brookheimer, is a famous producer. He once worked with Nicholas Cage on "The Deadly Island". The relationship between the two is quite good.

Jerry Brookheimer collaborated with Paramount in the early days to film the Detective Beverly series, and Tomco's Top Gun, and then collaborated with Disney to film "The Island of the Deadly Island", "National Enemy" and "The End of the World".

Is Bai Quinn trying to dig Disney's corner?

What he said should be the newly-filmed football biopic "Glorious Years", which is adapted from the real deeds of Atlanta Titans coach Herman Boone, but it seems that Disney failed to schedule the film to be released in this summer as scheduled, which triggered a conflict between Jerry Brookheimer and Disney.

What Bai Quinn wanted to find was a war film about the Somalia crisis in preparation. The adaptation rights of the film came from the book "Black Hawk Down: The Story of Modern Warfare" by war correspondent Mark Bowden, who had personally experienced the war. Jerry Bruckheimer purchased the adaptation rights of the book and handed it over to Ken Nolan to write the script.

Nicholas Cage knows something about this because his friend Simon West intends to be the director of the film and has mentioned it to him many times.

"I can ask you if Jerry wants to, I'll arrange for you to meet."

Nicholas Cage immediately agreed.

Even though he was unable to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture because of "King of War" and had some opinions about Bai Quinn, Nicholas Cage still had to make friends with Bai Quinn, and there are still many opportunities for everyone to cooperate in the future.

The movie actor's thoughts suddenly returned to the time when he was filming "The Deadly Island" with Jerry Brookheimer and Michael Bay. At that time, his agent Mike Cork accidentally mentioned that he had signed another little guy.

The old man said at the time that the little guy had great ambitions.

Perhaps only those with great ambitions can succeed easily.

Unfortunately, the little guy and Nicholas Cage have been "independent" one after another, and no longer renew their contracts, but have chosen to choose a more private "manager".

That old man Mike Coke no longer works as an agent and starts to enjoy his retirement life.

Nicholas Cage thought: The old man also made a lot of money from both of us, enough for him to spend the rest of his life safely.

"Best Supporting Actor in the Golden Globe Awards...Tom Cruise!"

M-Fxxk!

Nicholas Cage cursed in his heart, thinking that perhaps Bai Kui betrayed his alliance with him because of Bao Tom Cruise's best supporting actor.
Chapter completed!