I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 82
[Chapter 81 Sincerity]
Undoubtedly, the actor who has benefited the most is Julia Roberts, and as “Fate and Moon” continues to be released, Julia feels like she has entered an unprecedented world, in a new world where everyone treats her to her. They were all so respectful and humble, and treated her like a princess.
When ABC was recording a talk show, the entire production team revolved around her, and the director of the program asked her opinion seriously about every detail of the recording process.
At the same time, lucrative film contracts, advertising appointments, endorsement appointments and other various invitations came one after another. With the release of the box office in the first weekend, her salary jumped directly to 5 million US dollars. This figure is beyond the reach of many male stars.
Al Pacino has also completely shaken off the shadow of the failure four years ago, and the whole person has become high-spirited. Some friends in the circle who have not been in contact for a long time have suddenly appeared recently, party after party.
Of course, some people are proud and others are disappointed. Richard Gere, who has begun to cooperate with United United States to promote the new work “Dragon Killing Array”, is undoubtedly the most lost.
His agent had previously praised the “Dragon Killing Array” project with a lot of tongues, and at the same time demoted Eric’s new film to nothing.
Although Richard Gere knew the reason for his agent’s actions, he felt that he could sell Michael Ovitz a favor by rejecting Eric’s invitation.
So I chose “Dragon Killing Array”.
If “Fengyue” hadn’t achieved such a huge success, even if it was just a small hit at the box office, Richard Gere would not have felt too much, but unfortunately “Fengyue” was a success, and it was a big success, and the first week’s income was paid Worth the total box office of many movies.
Seeing this, Richard Gere couldn’t calm down any longer.
This lack of calm made him forget that giving up “Fengyue” was more of his own choice. If the artist himself insisted on taking over the film contract, CAA would wear small shoes for him later, but it could not force the actor to stop his behavior.
But Richard Gere naturally blamed the CAA for everything, and he felt like a victim of Michael Ovitz’s personal power play.
At Coca-Cola’s headquarters in Atlanta, a meeting of vital importance to Colombia is taking place.
At this time, Guo Sida, the president of Coca-Cola, held some information about the two movies “Home Alone” and “Pretty Woman”, and asked Columbia President Blunt Cohen, who was sitting at the bottom, item by item.
“The gambling agreement, this is your first mistake. Of course, with the earnings of “Home Alone”, Columbia’s stock price has risen from the previous $12 to the current $14. This mistake can be regarded as an offset.”
After Guo Sida finished speaking, he changed another document and continued: “But then, your wrong behavior directly led to Eric Williams’ switch to Fox. According to the agency’s estimate, the North American box office of “Fengyue” may reach 200 million In US dollars, the overseas box office may exceed 50% of that in North America, and the box office revenue alone can bring Fox at least 80 million US dollars in profits, which should have been Colombian.”
Blunt Cohen did not dare to refute a word, Jingjing Waiting for the final decision of the Coca-Cola board of directors, in fact, he already knew his result before.
The top executives of the film company look beautiful, but few people know the huge pressure behind them.
With tens of millions of dollars in investment, every time a movie is released, it will bring about changes in the top management. Some people just pack up and leave because of huge losses, and they have never recovered.
Because of the success of the project, some people were immediately promoted to high positions, enjoying more power and benefits, and of course, they continued to fear for the next project.
Blunt Cohen also knows that Eric Williams is just an inducement, or an excuse, for the situation he is now blamed for.
Most importantly, he was opposed to Coca-Cola selling Colombia to the Japanese.
According to some sources, the board of directors of Coca-Cola has officially decided to start acquisition negotiations with Sony of Japan.
In this case, it doesn’t matter whether he changes the president or not, anyway, it will be sold to the Japanese soon.
But in order to keep his position, he had contacted many people and wanted to boycott the deal.
This kind of thing must be hidden from the top of Coca-Cola. Once it succeeds, no one will say anything.
But after failure, you will face the bitter consequences of failure.
“…Therefore, I now officially announce the resolution of the board of directors to dismiss Mr. Blunt Cohen from the position of president of Columbia-Samsung Pictures Group, effective immediately.”
Guo Sida read the resolution of the board of directors and discussed some other topics before adjourning the meeting, while Brown As president, T. Cohen, of course, was kept somewhat decent, and was not escorted by security back to the Columbia headquarters in Los Angeles to pack up.
Blunt Cohen left with a dejected expression, but Guo Sida did not leave, but came to another reception room.
“Mr. Guo Sida, hello.” Pushing the door open, the woman who was sitting on the sofa stood up and greeted warmly.
Guo Sida shook hands with the other party and smiled, “I kept you waiting, Amy.”
“It doesn’t matter, I just arrived.”
This woman was Amy Pascal who left Colombia with anger not long ago.
“My assistant has told you what I mean before, Amy, what do you think?”
Amy Pascal asked: “Mr. Guo Sida, I don’t think there is any need for me to return to Colombia now. Although I resigned, I still heard some news that Columbia is going to be sold to Sony. In this case, what am I going to do, wait a few months, and be laid off again?”
“Of course not, Amy. , you are a very talented professional manager, and even if the Japanese took over Colombia, you would not dare to make too much high-level changes. I know about your departure from Colombia, if Blunt Cohen listened to you before. , there will be no gambling agreement that made Colombia lose tens of millions of profits. And after that, there will be no Eric Williams to switch to Fox.”
Amy Pascal said: “Mr. Guo Sida, now say These have no meaning. I want to know the real reason why you let me go back to Columbia.”
Guo Sida glanced at Amy and said, “Amy, you know Eric Williams, right?”
Sure enough in this way!
Amy Pascal confirmed the guess in her heart and nodded: “Yes, but only a few times, maybe Eric won’t remember me anymore.”
“Oh, how is it possible, if it’s not yours Help, how can Home Alone be a box-office miracle?”
Although Amy Pascal didn’t benefit from it, and even lost her job because of it.
But when Guo Sida mentioned this, she was still a little proud.
“Mr. Guo Sida, if you want me to convince Eric Williams to switch to Columbia, it is unlikely. Everyone knows that Eric has signed a three-film contract with Fox this year. By next year, Columbia is already in the Sony has it.”
Guo Sida shook his head and said, “Of course not, I also let people know about the contract. In fact, the contract is not too strict, because Fox originally only wanted to get “Home Alone” , so there is no prohibition on Eric Williams from cooperating with other film companies during his cooperation with Fox. After negotiating with Sony, Columbia needs some good news to stimulate the stock price, such as… a big movie Movies for sale.”
“But…”
“Rest assured, Amy, I know some of your concerns. In order to work with Eric Williams, the board of directors has dismissed Blunt Cohen as president of Columbia.”
Amy Pascal said in amazement: “Really?”
Guo Sida nodded: “Of course, otherwise, with Blunt Cohen’s connections, the board of directors is not willing to make a big deal, and he won’t be able to sit in that position for long anyway. Time. When you are in contact with Eric Williams, you can reveal this matter to show our sincerity.”
Amy Pascal thought of another question: “I think, Eric Williams The speed of filming is very fast, but three films a year should be the limit, right? If there are more, how can the quality be guaranteed?”
“We will put his new movie in the summer season. With his current reputation, as long as the movie is not too bad, it is not a big problem to get $100 million at the box office in the summer season. And…” Guo Sida lowered his voice slightly: “I There will be enough budget for Fox’s second film, we can even get someone to make it for him, he just needs to focus on making the film for us.”
Amy Pascal hesitated for a while, but still ordered Nodding: “I’ll try my best.”
[End of this Chapter]
***Commenting is only available on the Novel Description Page.