Hollywood Hunter

Seeing Ovitz coming out, David O'Donnell, who was talking to Mia Sala, nodded at him and left.

Some things are best arranged by the boss himself.

Instructed the two to follow themselves back to the office, everyone sat down, Michael Ovitz passed the script, and said to the two of them, "I just remind you that this is the script that Simon Westero personally watched, auditioned three days later. In the past few days, the two of you have to eat through the script even if you don’t sleep. Some people may take this opportunity in their lifetime, and if they mess up, they won’t have it.”

Although CAA is a cross-agent system, brokers are interlinked, and no one can absolutely master certain customers, but brokers of different levels are still distinct.

Although Mark Ferguson and Mia Sala are not at the bottom, they also belong to the kind that Owitz never noticed in daily life. At this time, listening to him said, they were both trembling and inevitably excited.

Simon Westero personally watched the script, and all Hollywood understood what it meant.

If Mia Sala can get the role, the career that had no hope is likely to be revived, and Mark Ferguson, who is 37 years old this year, can also take the trend further.

The two relentlessly ensured that Orwitz turned to Mia Sarah, asking casually, "Mia, do you have a boyfriend now?"

Mia Sala didn’t know why Ovitz asked about this for a moment, feeling that the calf was kicked by the agent, still a little unclear, and hesitated and said honestly, "I’m recently dealing with Jason Connelly, It’s Mr. Sean Connery’s son."

Michael Ovitz heard a slightly formal smile and nodded. "Jason is good. So, just like that, remember to prepare this script carefully."

After getting up, he got off and delivered guests.

Mark Ferguson said goodbye to Ovitz respectfully. He just went out and glanced at his side, holding the script of Mia Sara with a happy face, and became more depressed and silent all the way until he reached the underground parking lot of the Caa building. Mark Ferguson came to his black Chevrolet and pressed the remote control car lock, but suddenly he couldn't help it anymore and kicked it hard.

Bang--

In the reverberating muffled sound, a large piece has been recessed on one side of the car door. This middle-aged man who is close to being tall and somewhat bald has not recovered after one foot, and he has kicked a few feet in a row. Vent generally whispered something quickly and quietly.

Mia Sarah looked at the agent who broke out suddenly, her joyful expression turned to fright, and she didn't know what was happening. She could only step back a little, and she didn't hesitate to pull away until the agent finished venting herself into the car. The door was seated in the co-pilot.

Until Black Chevrolet drove out of the parking lot, Mia Sara finally asked, "Mark, am I doing something wrong?"

The agent, who had already calmed down, stared straight ahead, involuntarily raising his feet to slam on the throttle, and then loosened "What do you say?"

Mia Sarane said, "I, I don't understand."

Mark Ferguson sneered suddenly, still not looking at her, and insisted, "Do you think telling Mr. Ovitz that you are getting extra care when you are interacting with Jason Connelly?"

Mia Sarah did not speak, she did think so.

As the first big name that CAA signed that year, Sean Connery's position in this talent agency has always been quite detached.It was Connelly that opened the situation for the Otitz team at the beginning. In order to show respect and gratitude to the veteran 007 actor, CAA headquarters has always reserved a special office for the other party.

Mia Sara met Jason Connery when she made an hbo TV movie last year. After being pursued by the other party, she soon fell in love, of course, with the help of Jason Connery father Sean. Connery's relationship helps him to get some ideas for resources.

Even if you still can't turn over at the end, if you marry each other, it's a good belonging.

After all, although Jason Connery was completely in Hollywood by virtue of his father’s relationship,

When Mark Ferguson saw the woman next to him, he obviously hadn't responded, and couldn't help reminding "Then you haven't thought about it, why did Mr. Ovitz ask about this?"

Mia Sarah was stunned. The agent reminded her that she was certainly not stupid.

This kind of thing, Hollywood is actually quite common.

The atmosphere fell silent again, and the car drove for a while. Mark Ferguson sneered again. "Understood? Simon Westero, but Simon Westero, ha, think of Sandra Bullock, Ni But Kidman, Valerie Galino, Famique Jensen... think about these people, think about yourself, Mia, now you understand what you missed?"

"I..." Of course Mia Sarah understood that, her face turned red and white, and she took out the script she just put in her shoulder bag, and said to the agent, "Mark, this script, I haven't got the script, should I... …I will break up with Jason tonight, tonight."

Mark Ferguson would like to sneer again, but still hesitantly, he said, "This script must be given to you by Westeros, but if Westeros purpose is very clear, it is interested in you. , Do you think Mr. Ovitz just needed to ask you that question?"

Mia Sara's expression flashed for a moment, and she understood it completely.

The joy just after getting the script suddenly disappeared.

Since the script of "Ghost of Horror" was sent by Simon Westero personally to her, it shows that the big man noticed her little actor.However, the other party obviously did not express a certain purpose, such as inviting to dinner.

In Michael Owitz’s question, the subtext isn’t actually asking her if she’s single. In Hollywood, even if she’s married, what is it? The other party is actually testing her willingness.

If they wish, the other party may find an opportunity to send her to Westeros.

Then, as long as she catches the man, even if she is now 29 years old, with the energy of the other party, she still has the opportunity to be side by side with the series of actresses just mentioned by her agent.

This is 1,000 times ten thousand times stronger than the son of Sean Connery.

As a result, she directly messed up.

Still because of Sean Connery.

If I didn’t mention Jason Connery’s name just now, and Sean Connery wasn’t involved, even if she said that she was married, a caa gangster would continue to help her to make a match and make it again. Plan to contact Simon Westeros.

It was Sean Connery.

In fact, because of the rapid changes in the Hollywood landscape in recent years, Sean Connery, like many Hollywood veterans, has entered a trough. Now Hollywood has a large number of new generations with the core of the dc movie universe as the core.

However, Sean Connery's meaning to caa is too special.

Just like the office permanently reserved for Connelly by the CAA headquarters.Sean Connery is a symbol of caa, a benchmark used to show attitude towards star actors.

Therefore, Michael Ovitz will not do anything that might damage the relationship between CAA and Connelly.Introducing the son and girlfriend of the other party to another Hollywood gangster, don’t explain the exposure on the face, even if it is spread in private, it will seriously damage the reputation of caa. After all, many people will think that Ovitz treated you like that. Do you help the great benefactor of your career?

All in all, even if she had the opportunity to reach Westeros through this project, considering some factors, Michael Ovitz may in turn create obstacles.

Think of her entering the circle at the age of 17 and limping for so many years. She is about to be 30 years old. She is just a small third-line actor who is still going downhill. And just now, she missed another one that may be the last step in the life. Opportunity, Mia Sarah feels more and more empty, her nose is getting sour, her eyes are getting more and more

Los Angeles after get off work.

In the busy traffic on Santa Monica Avenue, some of the oncoming drivers only noticed that a dark-haired woman in a black Chevrolet co-pilot was covering her face, not knowing what happened.

...

Hollywood is a circle.

Compared to CAA, Simon, the strongest spider king at the core of this big web, has more informed information.

The following weekend, news about the Middle-Earth movie universe spread back to Simon’s ears.

Whether inside or outside the circle, many people asked him directly or indirectly for the news.

If Daenerys Entertainment really wants to create the Middle-Earth Movie Universe, it will definitely involve all aspects of interest, and the level of this series will basically be equivalent to the DC Movie Universe, no longer a small volume like the Soul Movie Universe.

Therefore, Warner, for example, must be worried about whether the DC movie universe held by Simon in his hands will be marginalized and whether he will sacrifice the DC movie universe for the benefit of the Middle-earth movie universe.And the major talent agency companies, the first consideration is how to take a slice of the big plan.There are other film companies. Everyone's life is already so difficult. Will someone release a giant monster to survive?

To tell the truth, Simon planned to put the entire Middle-Earth series on the big screen very early, but did not consider the so-called Middle-Earth movie universe because it was inappropriate.

Whether it is the long-established Marvel and dc, or the Warren couple who have been supernatural investigators for decades, they have accumulated a large amount of material for the creation of the two movie universes. Compared to Thor King’s Middle-earth series Although the setting background is huge, the overall story is clear at a glance. Even the original "Hobbit" trilogy series in time and space is actually well-known to be deliberately filled and forced, this movie can be finished.

It is certainly not impossible to forcefully expand into the film universe.

However, this will only add another pipeline to Hollywood, and what may be lost is the kind of waves and heavyness of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that can be loaded into the history of the movie.

Simon does not plan to do this.

At least, Simon didn't plan to do this until the Peter Jackson version of the Middle-East epic was completed.

What about the future, I will talk about it in the future.

Of course, except for a few people who need to explain a few words, Simon has no intention to clarify the misunderstanding of the Middle-Earth movie universe, which is not a bad thing for future movie series.

April 15.

on Monday.

After a short weekend, the busy week came again.

The most noticed event in the Westeros system this week was originally the listing of Melisandre on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, April 19, but on Monday, Westeros suddenly made a public shareholding The filing has attracted wide attention from all parties.

This is actually a fulfillment that Simon agreed with Warren Buffett last year.

During the discussion of the merger and acquisition of the metropolitan abc group, as the major shareholder who had a decisive role in this transaction, Simon and Buffett formed a tacit agreement and will increase their shareholding in this company on the eve of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting this year. Large shareholders of 5 or more in order to use the reputation of the Westeros system to increase investor confidence in Buffett and, most importantly, to reduce the pressure on Buffett from consistently refusing to invest in technology stocks.

In the late nineties, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price continued to decline because of the refusal to invest in new technology fields that fell into fanaticism. Many shareholders jumped out and accused Buffett of missing the best investment opportunities of this era. Someone threw an egg at Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

Simon started a wave of new technology in advance, and Warren Buffett, who has not changed his investment philosophy, still insists on rejecting technology stocks, and he has faced increasing pressure in recent years.

Fortunately, through the merger of Daenerys Entertainment with the Metropolitan ABC Group last year, Berkshire Hathaway became a popular shareholder of Daenerys Entertainment Group through a share swap.Prior to Tincobalio, Berkshire Hathaway also participated in the subscription of new shares worth $60 million.

These operations relying on the popularity of the Westeros system have somewhat relieved the pressure on Buffett.

This time, the Westeros system stood up directly, raising Berkshire Hathaway’s stock, which had previously been quietly absorbed to 49, to 51, and publicly making a secret to sec. In fact, it is equivalent to Simon personally supporting the Buffett platform. Berkshire Hathaway’s business strategy.

With Berkshire Hathaway's 35-day single-day stock price increase on Monday, at least no one will throw eggs at Buffett at the 1996 annual meeting next month.

new York.

Simon flew here yesterday afternoon and was at the abc headquarters in the Upper West Side all day Monday.

The first season of "American Idol" ended the last issue on March 28, and the cumulative average number of viewers reached 33.6 million. Because of the higher attention of the official events in the second half of the season, the 32 issues averaged down, compared with the first half of last year. On average, 31.7 million is higher than the nearly 2 million viewers, and in the last period, the peak viewing rushed to 51.3 million, which is a miracle.

Of course, such a hot result can't stop there.

At the same time as the second season of the project, four special programs were added after the end of the season, mainly behind-the-scenes, award-winning interviews, etc., which was just broadcast last Thursday, and the average ratings of the four issues reached 23.9 million.

Counting the extra four episodes that are somewhat unruly, the entire first season of "American Idol" was only the interstitial advertising revenue in the middle of the program, which reached a total of 6.9 billion U.S. dollars, and 32 episodes of the main film, only the interstitial ad revenue reached 6.5 billion U.S. In addition, the income from title sponsorship in other programs and the purchase and production of copyright by overseas TV stations have reached 1.7 billion.

The entire "American Idol" project, as of now, has accumulated a total of 8.6 billion US dollars.Excluding a total of US$2.3 billion in project production and distribution expenses, this reality show, in the first quarter, gross profit reached an astonishing US$6.3 billion, and it is expected to contribute more than three-thirds of the Daenerys entertainment television department in fiscal 1996 One profit.

It's against the sky.

Therefore, such a golden egg hen, Simon did not dare to despise, personally participated in the summary of the first season and the planning meeting of the second season in the morning.

Immediately afterwards, the afternoon schedule is equally important.

It was also a meeting in which the Daenerys TV department and the Eaglenet portal team participated together on the topic of the Atlanta Olympics that will open on July 19.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Olympics and is of great significance.

Speaking of Simon is also depressed, the broadcast rights of this Olympic Games have been won by nbc for $45.6 billion in 1993. At that time, Simon could not interfere with the decision of abc, while Tom Murphy and Warren Buffett were in A conservative stingy on Sports Seth's expenditure, naturally it has not been able to compete for nbc.

It must have been missed this year. Under the premise of spending money on sports events and generously supporting ESN, I will definitely not be able to stand by and watch.

This is something.

Although there is no broadcast right, Daenerys cannot be indifferent.

Olympic events cannot be relayed. News interviews and the like can still be done in a big way. Out of the consideration of collaborative cooperation to reduce costs, Daenerys and Igret will form a team and perform TV and Internet coverage at the same time.

The meeting just started, and Jeff Bezos, who flew to attend the meeting in person, first mentioned the bad news. "On the online broadcasting rights of the Olympic Games, the resistance on the nbc side is very great. The other party initially requested six months. The window period, several negotiations, currently still 45 days, that is, 45 days after the closing of the Olympics, we can only play the event video on YouTube. If it is a movie or TV series, there is no problem, the timeliness of sports events is too strong 45 days, by then, the heat of the Olympics has completely disappeared, and the Olympic Committee’s offer is also stuck at $1.2 billion. I don’t think there is any need to continue."

Jeff Bezos is talking about the negotiation between Igreut and the International Olympic Committee on the purchase of online broadcasting rights for the Olympic Games. It is not a live broadcast. For a large-scale Seth like the Olympic Games, the current network conditions are not realistic. , But the right to play YouTube videos of major events.

After all, the core of this large-scale sports event is the game.

Because of the huge commercial interests of the Western social sports industry, copyright is also crucial.The copyright of the Olympic Games belongs to the International Olympic Committee. Whether it is nbc or other national TV stations, all they buy are broadcast rights.

Now that the broadcasting rights have been missed, the Westeros system considers fighting for the videos of major events to be played on the YouTube platform as soon as possible.

Now, obviously something is going wrong.

Igrid wanted to get the right to play the video of the game video. The biggest resistance was obviously to spend a lot of money to buy the broadcast rights of nbc, so he proposed a window period concept similar to the film release, 45 days, which seems to be better than the cinema line The three-month window period around the distribution and recording has been interrupted a lot, but for sports events that pay attention to effectiveness, this basically has no value.

After all, sports events look at a heartbeat, and attention is often the result.

When all the dust is settled, the public will no longer be interested in most games except for a few particularly exciting games.

Igret did not have the luxury of having the right to play the event video in real time. The window period was also considered. However, the reasonable window period that can be accepted here is 3 days, and the longest period cannot exceed 7 days. NBC insists on 45 days. The difference is too great, and the Olympic Games Organizing Committee’s quotation obviously has a tendency to slaughter fat sheep.

Simon, who personally presided over the meeting, waited for Bezos to finish his speech. He wanted to directly express his position, and no longer waste time. He paused a little and looked at everyone. "Do you have any opinions, talk."