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The meeting room of Europa Pictures is still so spacious, but the atmosphere inside seems a bit wrong.

Lehman opened the door of the conference room and walked in, and found that there seemed to be more people inside than expected, and more...big names?

He thought it was a normal meeting, but now it seems that it is not easy.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Luc Besson greeted him with a smile, "No, we just arrived."

He expertly gave Lyman a hug, then turned to look at a few people at the other end of the conference table, "I'll introduce to you, these are VIP guests from Paramount Pictures, and they will join our discussion today. ."

Following the words of Luc Besson, the four people sitting on the right side of the conference table all stood up one after another, with polite smiles on their faces, and met Lehmann.

"Ms. Shirley Lansing, it's a great honor for you to come here."

Those who come are not good, those who are good don't come, Lehman took the initiative to greet Ms. Shirley, the CEO of Paramount Pictures.

"This one is Anthony Joseph. He is the head of Paramount Pictures' marketing department."

"Hello there..."

"This one is Alan Braden, the publishing department..."

"Hello there..."

"This one is Charles Louis, the propaganda department..."

......

Isn't today's meeting to determine the preliminary preparations for the project?If there are no accidents, then you can start the preparation of the crew, the selection of actors, and the arrangement of shooting locations.

But such a battle seems a bit too grand?After Lyman shook hands one by one, he thought to himself, especially Shirley Lansing, what happened to her arrival?

Last time we collaborated on "Furious", we never saw such a meeting.

Lehmann raised his head and glanced at Luc Besson. The expression on his face was complacent, as if all this was normal.

After a few greetings, everyone took their seats.

"Lyman, we have all read your project plan, and we all agree to run this project, but..." Shirley Lansing said first, "I have a few more questions, I want to know more ."

"Please say."

Project preparation is always the theme of today and everyone is most concerned about, and Lehman is no exception.

"You want a base salary of 10 million U.S. dollars plus a 15% box office share, and an investment quota of 12 million U.S. dollars. This condition..." She raised her head and glanced at Lehman. "Is it too much? We have come to cooperate with sincerity, but we have not seen any sincerity from your side."

"In this regard, please discuss with my agent Johnson." Lyman smiled and did not answer Shirley Lansing's topic.

The day before, Johnson also called Lehman to inform Lehman that the negotiations were deadlocked, but he did not expect that the people at Paramount would still use this to talk about it today.

Shirley Lansing smiled and took the initiative to set aside this question. Anyway, it hasn't been decided yet, and everything is still discussed. "I want to ask, your choice of actors? Do you have a target?"

This sentence made Lehman instantly alert.What does this mean?

"What do you want to say?" Lehmann pretended to question.

Shirley raised her gaze and glanced at Luc Besson, passing lightly, and then looking at Lyman, her back straightened up inadvertently, and the polite smile on her face grew brighter, "I have a choice, Tom- Cruise."

what?Tom Cruise?

Let us turn the time back to three days ago. When Europa Pictures intends to cooperate with Paramount Pictures again, relevant news has already spread to the ears of relevant people in the industry.

After all, Lehman's past directing results are there. Someone wants to pay attention to his actions. Once the new project is confirmed, CAA also has some actions inside.

......

In Tom Cruise’s mansion, Pat Kinsley slowly sipped coffee and looked at the person who was thinking on the opposite side, "Tom, what do you think?"

"This is a new work by Lehman Last, and the investment is more than 100 million dollars. Of course I am very interested."

As early as the premiere of "Furious", he purposefully released his kindness to Lehman. Now that I think about it, it may not be enough. He should be more proactive.

But who would have thought that such a director would be so efficient and productive that he would start another movie project less than two months after "Furious" was released.

"But do I have a chance? And there are only three characters in it, which are a little bit more, but the images of those three characters don't seem to match me."

"Don't worry, CAA will also support you, besides, Paramount Pictures..." Agent Pat Kingsley has been with him for several years, and is very clear about Tom’s interpersonal relationship, she said immediately "Shirley Lansing can also try to get in touch. Doesn’t she appreciate you very much? Now the two parties are negotiating, we can take this opportunity to intervene. As for the character image, just change the settings. This is not A difficult task."

"You have also seen the market expression of "Furious", and as far as I know, Lehman's films are always character-oriented. Tom, this is what you need most at the moment. , Pay a price, and participate in this project as much as possible." Pat Jinsli continued to suggest.

Tom naturally understands the idea of ​​the agent.In fact, in the past few years, he hasn’t played any roles, and the market revenue of his works is as good as ever, but an actor, or a first-line actor like him, is terrible without a familiar screen image. one thing.

Always blindly play handsome and cool roles, how many years can you play?

He is also ambitious.

Just as Liang Tang was thinking about the road to transformation, Lyman in the conference room fell into silence.

Is this the purpose of today's battle?Increase the leading power of Paramount Pictures in the project?

Otherwise, it's meddling in this and that?And Luc Besson or Europa Pictures’ reaction was also very interesting. He was obviously in his own meeting room, but he kept silent, allowing guests to lead the meeting.

"Oh, is this really a good choice? Recommend Tom Cruise for the role in this project. As far as I know, he doesn't seem to have played a similar villain."

There is no good person in "Bad Guy". This is really inconsistent with the temperament of Liangtang. Besides, will he be willing to destroy his image?

This is really a question, it depends on Shirley Lansing's answer.

"Just change the settings. I have read the script. As long as the undercover ending is changed to return to the police force, everything is logical."

"No." Lehman refused without even thinking about it.

"Why? In my opinion, this ending will be more in line with market choices than the ending you set."

"Then why must I use Tom Cruise? What can he bring? Expensive pay?" Lehman's head turned, throwing these questions.

why?Shirley Lansing smiled.

Just relying on Tom Cruise to find her, saying that he was willing to lower the pay for starring, just relying on his disclosure that he could cooperate with Paramount Pictures "Mission Impossible 3" and actively reduce the share.

These are enough for her to try her best to get Tom Cruise into the group.

Otherwise, she wouldn't make a special trip to Paris for such a project cooperation, so she can send a supervisor over to stare at it.

Anyway, the distribution work in North America is what they need most attention to. As for the filming work, is Europa Pictures a fool?

Now it is the eventful season, she can borrow a bit of strength, naturally she has to find a way to catch it.

In the comparison of the six major Hollywood performances this year, Paramount Pictures has become the bottom, and they have not had a work in the top ten in the North American year-end box office for three consecutive years. This is a terrible omen, the decadence of the production project The trend becomes more obvious.

Although the issuance business is pretty good to silence those board members, but if things go on like this, it will be sooner or later that she will step down.

Shirley Lansing shook her head, throwing away these distracting thoughts.

Tom Cruise is a chess piece she needs very much. He not only has the leading voice in the series of films "Mission Impossible" that Paramount Pictures very much needs, and his market appeal does not need to be repeated. Overseas The reputation is also amazing.

She needs to pull in.

"If Tom Cruise only asks for a basic salary of 10 million dollars, his market performance is absolutely worth this price."

This......

Of course, Lehman knew that Tom Cruise's worth reporting to 15 million was not considered outrageous. Now that he actively asked for 10 million was already considered a face, and he could also see his determination to the project.

However, the problem is that he doesn't want to change the setting. The reason for objection just mentioned is just a prevarication. Kecheng thought, Paramount Pictures had already discussed with Tom Cruise in advance.

It's a bit difficult.

Chaotic thoughts kept circling in his mind, and Lehmann glanced at Luc Besson subconsciously.

Luc Besson noticed Lehmann's sight, and he also looked over, with a polite smile on his face.

This is an uncommon response, but when I think about the situation of today's meeting, I feel a little weird.

The silence of Europa Pictures was something Lehman hadn't thought about, and the strength of Paramount Pictures hadn't been thought of by him.

Obviously something happened that Lehman didn't know, such as Tom Cruise's idea, and whether Europa Pictures also reached any conditions privately with Paramount Pictures.

With this start, Lehman immediately felt a pressure.

The posture shown by everyone on the scene likes to play mystery, which really makes him confused.

It even made him feel that he was the one who was isolated.

"Tom is so active after seeing the project. He is really sincere and wants to cooperate with Mr. Lyman very much." Shirley Lansing was wearing a black professional suit, looking very sassy and aura. Becoming stronger, "And Tom and I have a consensus, your composition of the characters in the script is really impressive. But..."