Hollywood Hunter

After glancing at the subordinate who caused a lot of trouble to himself, Lu Weiss said: "Joe, as for you, Brian de Palma is still the director and also the producer of "Butterfly Effect". The filmmaker. Fox paid $2 million for the film, while also sharing 10% of North American box office profits."

Jonathan Friedman nodded.

If it weren’t for the two films that had failed earlier, Brian de Palma’s pay should be around $3 million.

Now Fox is paying $2 million plus 10% of the North American box office profit share. Jonathan Friedman has no complaints at all. What he wanted to win for his customers was just a fixed $2 million fixed salary. .

Of course, Jonathan Friedman also understood that the reason why Brian de Palma was able to get this relatively generous contract was mainly because of the series of harsh agreements that triggered WMA infighting in recent days.

Whether it is Fox or WMA, it is necessary to refute the relevant news in the media through'facts'.

Thinking of this, Jonathan Friedman began to look forward to Fox's offer for Simon's script.However, he did not take the initiative to speak, waiting patiently for Lu Weisi to continue.

Lou Weiss finished talking about Brian de Palma, re-looked at his memo, and looked up: "About the script, the price was raised to $200,000, and $160,000 was paid for the "Butterfly Effect" script. $40,000 is scheduled for the screenwriter's priority for the next two scripts."

After listening to Jonathan Friedman, he paused and asked, "Lu, is it still a buyout contract?"

Lu Weisi shook his head and said: "This is the basic remuneration, and the sharing clause follows industry practice."

Jonathan Friedman was relieved. If it was still a buyout agreement, even if Fox doubled the base price, he was not sure whether Simon would agree.

Now, just adding a script's priority, Jonathan believes that Simon must know what choice to make.

Lu Weisi saw that Jonathan did not object, and then said: "Joe, in addition to the arrangement of these three people, the original packaging plan was also overturned. Fox’s new budget is 10 million US dollars. According to this standard, you renew I compiled a list of main characters and gave them to me tomorrow. Is there a problem?"

Jonathan Freedman realized that Lu Weiss now only wanted to sign a simplified package contract with Fox as soon as possible. The current situation clearly does not allow WMA to have a second option.So he nodded again: "No problem."

Hearing Jonathan’s answer, Lu Weiss closed the memo in front of him and waved at him, saying, “That’s it, you can be busy now.”

Jonathan Friedman stood up and saw that the other three were sitting still, knowing that they must also discuss the breaking news in recent days.

Affecting such a bad internal leak, WMA must definitely pursue it.

However, Jonathan did not think that the management could investigate the results at all. The guy who broke the news to the media must be very clear about the serious consequences of doing this kind of thing. If he does not hide himself completely, he will definitely not easily shoot.

Leaving the meeting room, Jonathan Friedman walked slowly through the outer corridor, feeling the warm sunlight through the glass curtain wall in the morning, and suddenly there was an unprecedented relaxation.

Discussions about the WMA incident in the media continue.

Jonathan Friedman is very clear that although this threshold has been crossed for the time being, it is almost impossible for him to want to go further at WMA in the future due to this incident.

Even, once Lu Weisi, who is already 75 years old this year, retired from the position of chairman in the next few years and lost this layer of dependence,

However, after letting go of the thought that he has been careful not to walk up the stairs and want to climb up for a long time, Jonathan feels that the emotions of depression and anger that have accumulated in his heart for so many years have all disappeared.

Jonathan also found that, compared to many others in this industry, he is already very powerful.

Relying on the experience and connections accumulated over the past 20 years, even if he left WMA, he can still live well and even better.

Now, it is no longer necessary to always consider various trade-offs and compromises, he only needs to be responsible for his customers.Well, he believes that no matter what happens in the future, a large part of these people will follow him closely.

Unconsciously coming outside the door of his office, Jonathan Friedman paused and suddenly remembered the boy who prompted him to do all this, so he walked to the outside assistant and said, "Owen, help me find it. Simon's contact address."

There are 37 clients under Jonathan Friedman's name. Westerners don't have much creativity in naming their names. More than one of these clients is named Simon.

However, Owen Wright immediately understood what Jonathan meant, and skillfully turned out a copy from the thick stack of contacts and handed it to his boss.

Jonathan Friedman took a few glances, then handed it back to the assistant and said, "I'll go out and come back at noon."

Owen Lai nodded, looking at Jonathan to leave, and couldn't help but think that he should have more contact with the boy named Simon Westero in the future.

Leaving the WMA headquarters office building, Jonathan Friedman drove directly to the address of a 7-11 convenience store in Midtown Santa Monica.

The new week, Simon re-rotated the morning shift.

The time is 9:40 in the morning.

Convenience store is when the passenger flow is relatively low, Simon is conducting a routine inventory of the shelves he is responsible for, and Courtney Cox, wearing a pink T-shirt and short hot pants, walks casually to come over.

Feeling the smell of a faint perfume coming around him, Simon turned his head and smiled at Courtenay, watching the girl holding a few things in his arms with his bare hands, and said, "Are you always used to holding things when you buy?"

Seeing Simon take the initiative to talk to himself, Courteney spoke, but still with a little habitual rudeness, said: "Yes, do you have an opinion?"

Simon immediately shook his head and said: "No, if you are all guests like you, the trolley in our shop can definitely be used for many years."

"Oh, next time I will use a wheelbarrow," Courtney said, picking a bottle of ketchup, still holding it in his arms, watching Simon again turn his attention to the folder in his hand, hesitating before If nothing happened: "The one in the newspaper in recent days, um, "Butterfly Effect", you wrote it?"

After all, there is no too deep communication. Except for the "Rola Run" that I accidentally saw, Courtene didn't know about Simon's other scripts before. She didn't have much interest in this matter.

Moreover, in the news these days, the reporters did not actually mention the personal information of the writer of "Butterfly Effect". The other party obviously has its own intention to do so.

If you let the outside world know that Simon is just an 18-year-old rookie who just debuted, the article's argument that Fox's buyout contract is too harsh may also be questioned.After all, in a time when most ordinary people only earn $10,000 or $20,000 a year, many people are destined to think that a young man can earn $100,000 when he turns 18, what's not to be satisfied?

Courteney is actually hard to believe that in the "Butterfly Effect" that caused such a storm in Hollywood, the screenwriter will be Simon, who can't see any special ordinary boy on weekdays.

However, she happened to know that Jonathan Friedman was the only screenwriter under Simon.

Simon glanced at the looking girl, smiled and nodded, then replied casually: "Yes."

Although it was almost certain that Courtena heard Simon's answer, he still opened his eyes wide and asked, "Really?"

This time, before waiting for Simon to respond, Roger Griffin leaned over the other side of the shelf and said, "Simon, someone is looking for it."

Simon answered and made a mark on the folder before going out.

Courteney hesitated and followed Simon with a pile of things.

As soon as he turned out of the shelf, Simon saw his agent Jonathan Friedman standing at the exit of the cash register and nodded to himself.

Courteney also quickly discovered the figure of the agent, and the surprised expression that had not disappeared on his face floated again.

You know, since signing the contract, she has never met the ace agent of WMA who personally came to find her situation. At the beginning, in most cases, she could only see Jonathan’s assistant.

Simon walked over to the Jonathan through the cash register. The agent looked at Simon's clerk's attire, smiled gently at him, and patted on Simon's shoulder, saying, "I didn't expect you to be here, tell me earlier , I can help you find a better part-time job."

Simon joked: "It's not too late now."

"Now, now, I don't need it now," Jonathan shook his head with a smile, and then turned to Courtene who came over, and also reached out and shook the girl, said: "Curt, I didn't expect you to be here, you and Simon knows?"

Courtene clearly felt the difference in attitude between Jonathan and Simon, but nodded cleverly and said, "Yeah, I live nearby. I often come over to buy things, just happen to know Simon."

"Oh, this is a coincidence," Jonathan answered, and turned back to Simon, saying, "Simon, can you take a few hours off? Let's go out and talk."

"Okay," Simon nodded, turning his head to glance at his eyes, and walked to Roger Griffin, who probed his brain here, and came to the convenience store owner, saying: "Roger, my agent temporarily asked me for some thing."

In addition to being stunted on the salary, middle-aged fat people are very good at talking in other aspects. Once again, they looked at the elegant middle-aged man who was not far away. They nodded and said: "No problem, come back before 12 o’clock, it’s just you. Two hours of absenteeism is enough."