America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 109 Saturn Award (Leader plus 10)

Century City, where Hollywood talent agencies gather.

It is not uncommon to run into a dozen celebrity-agent pairs when you go out to eat.

Martin opened the bag he had brought with him, took out a gift box and pushed it to Thomas across the table: "This is for you."

Thomas opened the box and asked, "Wolf teeth? No, there are no wolves in Australia. Crocodile teeth?"

Martin said, "I hunted the crocodile myself and made it myself. It's very valuable, but it's very rare."

"Thank you, that's very meaningful." Thomas put it away, but said from a professional perspective: "Are you not going to pursue environmental protection and animal protection?"

Martin said bluntly: "I am a person who likes to enjoy life. If I am really rich and famous in the future, of course I will do whatever is comfortable for me. Environmental protection is too easy to fail, and animal protection is easy to be criticized by people for eating meat."

He glanced at the pile of meat in front of Thomas and asked, "What would you do if someone asked you to switch to a vegetarian diet?"

“I’d slap him in the face,” Thomas said.

Martin, enjoying his steak, turned and asked, “You must have been working hard for our cause during this time?”

Thomas continued, "You broke up with Eliza too quickly. I had a plan to take advantage of the hype caused by The Girl Next Door. The movie was well received by teenagers, especially Eliza. I planned to discuss with Susan to promote the topic of the hero and heroine falling in love when promoting House of Wax."

He was quite dissatisfied with this: "You have no patience, you broke up too quickly, you just walked on the red carpet for a premiere and then kicked her out, you didn't maximize the value of this relationship!"

"I'm not against hyping up one's private life, as long as it's profitable. I can be the Truman of the real world." Martin pointed at the meat on the table again: "Can you change to a vegetarian diet?"

Thomas glanced at Martin and probably understood. He stopped talking about it and said, "I contacted Lionsgate. The disc of Zombie Gigolo is selling well. Last week, I met with Blake, the publicity director of Lionsgate, and we agreed to nominate you for the Saturn Award for Best Young Actor."

Martin thought about it carefully and asked, "The film award established by the Science Fiction and Horror Film Academy?"

"Yes, that's it." Thomas elaborated, "There are six nominations for the Actors Award. From what I've learned, the nominees for this award include 'Young Agent Cody,' 'The Missing,' 'Freaky Friday,' and 'Mouse Tamer.' As for the names of the actors, they are too unfamiliar to me. I only remember one, Lindsay Lohan."

Among these names, Martin had heard of Lindsay Lohan and asked, "Can I get the nomination?"

Thomas said: "It's very difficult to win an award, and you have to think of ways to be nominated. The Saturn Awards still have some style, unlike the newly established Teen Choice Awards, where you can be guaranteed a nomination by just showing up."

"I'll cooperate with you on what to do specifically." Martin was relatively unfamiliar with the Saturn Awards. In his previous life, his attention was focused on the Oscars and he didn't even pay much attention to the Golden Globe Awards.

Thomas said: "As long as we can deal with the big guys from the Science Fiction and Horror Film Academy, it will be easy to get the nomination. I'll call you when I need your cooperation."

Martin asked again: "What about the new job?"

"Don't worry yet." Thomas said, "HBO has postponed the release date of Entourage. I am trying to get the resources that the company originally preferred to Adrian. WMA is a big company and the internal competition is fierce."

He made it clear in advance: "It's difficult for you to get a major role in projects that are not invested by Ms. Louise Maier."

Martin nodded. "I understand. House of Wax hasn't been released yet."

Although this horror film has been completed, post-production has not yet begun. Taking into account the preparations for publicity and distribution, it will not be released until the end of the year at the earliest. According to the style of Warner Bros., it may even be scheduled until next spring.

For a medium-sized film project, a one-year preparation, shooting and production cycle is considered fast.

For those with investments of hundreds of millions, it may take more than two years from preparation to release.

Thomas also talked about the Saturn Award: "If you can win the Saturn Award for Best Young Actor, you will definitely gain an advantage in the competition among new actors in the company."

Martin was very vulgar and knew the key: "Money? Gifts? Women?"

Thomas shook his head: "How much money do you have? How much money can you borrow? Those big guys don't lack this."

After lunch, Martin said goodbye and left, and Thomas sat for a while to sort out his thoughts further.

Martin is Thomas' most important client. He is not responsible for WMA's star clients. If he wants to move up and cross the threshold of owning an independent office, he must have at least one star client.

As for the partner level, there is no need to consider it for now.

Thomas returned to the company and just sat down in the partition when he found Adrian passing by and going to the glass partition office.

Adrian knocked and entered John's office.

John frowned slightly: "Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to rest for a while?"

Adrian pulled out a chair and sat down with his legs crossed, as usual: "I want to ask you something."

What seemed like a normal action in the past, John now felt that Adrian didn't respect him. He coughed lightly and pointed at Adrian's feet: "This is the office."

Adrian tilted his head to look at John, pulled his legs back, and asked, "I'm out of money, and that's all I got from selling my car and house?"

John was no longer optimistic about Adrian's future, and even felt that he had no future: "I'll give you the contract and the tickets." Adrian's lawyer and accountant were all introduced by his agent: "You urgently need funds to reach a settlement with the woman, and you urgently need money to get out of the vortex. I can't get hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars even if I sell everything I have. If you agree to sell the house and car, I can only help you as quickly as possible. Is there any other way besides discounting?"

Adrian said, "You sold it at too low a price."

John looked very helpless: "Am I going to watch you go to jail? We are not only a broker and a client, but also friends. I can't let you go to jail. You are only 27 years old and you still have a lot of good years ahead of you."

Adrian asked someone to carefully check the contract and tickets and so on. There was indeed no problem. He asked, "When will Entourage be broadcast?"

John said: "I have been urging HBO to schedule the show. Please be patient. After this special period, everything will return to normal."

After asking a few more questions, Adrian left the office and went down to the first floor. As soon as he walked out of the door, a short, fat man walked over.

Tony wore his baseball cap backwards and handed Adrian the car keys: "My agent just called me. I can't accompany you."

Adrian raised his head and his eyes slowly fell on Tony's face.

Tony waved his car keys.

Adrian took the car keys and walked to the parking lot.

Tony said softly, "Sorry, Ed, I need to eat too."

Adrian didn't look back, didn't say anything, and left alone.

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Burbank, Warner Studios.

Kelly, who came from Atlanta, just visited Warner's post-production room with Louise.

Louise was wearing a dark business suit. Seeing that no one was around, she patted Kelly's butt gently and said, "Slut, I'm going to meet the financial officer of the crew. You can walk around the Warner studio by yourself. I'll call you after get off work."

"Female pervert!" Kelly gritted her teeth and said, "When that bastard Martin gets here, I'll settle the score with you guys."

Louise blinked. "How do you count? Where do you count? Do you count in the middle?"

Kelly was almost fainted from anger. She didn't want to talk to her and walked out of the post-production room in her high heels.

Holding on to the palm tree, the wind brought fresh air, and she finally let out the air that was stuck in her chest.

An electric car drove over and stopped at the sidewalk. A familiar voice came to Kelly's ears: "The most beautiful masterpiece of the Creator, the most beautiful woman in Georgia, the incarnation of Aphrodite on earth, your special car and driver are here."

Kelly turned around and saw the masculine and handsome man, and immediately extended a hand.

Martin stood beside the electric bike and helped Kelly onto the bike.

Kelly said, "Let's go."

Martin started the car, wandered around the Warner Studios aimlessly, and asked, "Why did you come to Los Angeles?"

Kelly snorted coldly: "The salesperson I sent neither worked nor contributed, so I can only come here in person to solicit business."

Martin ignored these words and pointed to the backpack at his feet: "I brought you a gift from Australia. I mailed one to you. I didn't expect you to come, so I sent you another one."

Kelly took the bag and opened it. There were two boxes of different colors inside: "Which one is it for me?"

Martin said, "Beige."

Kelly took it and opened it, revealing a polished, white and smooth animal fang.

Her eyes fell on another dark grey box. "For that bitch Louise?"

Martin responded: "Same."

"Let me see?" Seeing Martin's agreement, Kelly opened the box, but found something different. In addition to the fangs, there was also a note with the recipe of a cocktail called Honey written on it.

Kelly took out a note and waved it, "For the slut?"

Martin said casually: "The latest masterpiece of bartender Louise Mayer."

Kelly said, "What a shameless bitch!" She suddenly thought of a brilliant idea to take revenge on Louise: "I have the formula. Ask Louise to ask me for it."

Martin asked, "What do you want this for? You're not interested in mixing drinks."

"Of course it helps." Kelly's smile suddenly became more charming: "Martin, do you want Louise to be the sweet spot between the two of us?"

(End of this chapter)