America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 155 Seeking a New Job (asking for monthly tickets)
Early in the morning, while having breakfast at a nearby restaurant, Bruce told Martin what happened last night.

Martin was somewhat surprised: "It wasn't you who took the initiative to ask her to be the male lead in the video?"

Bruce deliberately put on a cocky attitude and said, "Hey, man, look at me, the real lover is here!"

"It's evolving very fast." Martin put down his knife and fork and wiped his mouth with a napkin: "The most important question, Bruce, do you agree?"

Bruce said: "I told her to think about it."

Martin pointed at him and said, "That's it? You dare to call yourself a love saint? You are clearly a coward without balls!"

Bruce fired back: "Mr. Scumbag, how dare you take a picture?"

Martin said without hesitation: "If Anne invites me to shoot, I will definitely agree!"

Bruce was a little scared when faced with King's request, and he found a reason and excuse: "King will sell the videotape to a distribution company for distribution throughout North America."

Martin was so considerate that he even found a buyer for Bruce: "Jenna's company will buy it."

"That's not the point. Can you listen to me?" Bruce said after racking his brains to come up with a reason: "A group of Mexican traffickers are still looking for me. What if they see the video tape and chase me?"

Martin said disdainfully: "Why don't you just hide your face? I believe you can do it." He added fuel to the fire: "Don't forget who you are? You are Bruce, the man that King Kong girl Sofia has been thinking about all the time."

The conversation was over once again, Bruce threw down his knife and fork, got up and left, refusing to say a word to Martin today.

After breakfast, Martin rushed to Warner Studios and, as the production manager of The Hills Have Eyes, attended the post-production and distribution meeting between the studio and Warner Bros. together with Craven and Aja.

At the meeting, the issue of film promotion was specifically discussed.

Given the huge publicity success of "House of Wax", Martin's suggestions were also taken seriously.

Of course, Martin can offer suggestions and ideas, but the actual implementation depends on the professionals from the crew and Warner Bros.

The large-scale publicity campaign of "The Mountain Has Eyes" will not be launched until after the New Year.

Warner Bros. decided to push the film's ads into the Super Bowl.

In addition, Warner Bros.' publicists reminded Martin that it would be best to maintain a certain level of popularity before the film was released.

Craven's golden signboard and the success of Wax Museum played a role in blessing the male protagonist Martin.

After spending its third weekend in North America, House of Wax has grossed a total of $4756 million in North America, and will surely exceed $5000 million in the next week.

Overseas, the film was released in more than 30 countries in Latin America, Europe and Australia, and its overseas box office exceeded 3000 million US dollars.

If nothing unexpected happens, the global box office will exceed 1 million US dollars.

After the meeting, Martin went to Alexander's post-production studio next door, ready to call Louise to have lunch together.

When he passed by, Louise was seeing Angelina Jolie off.

Julie had met Martin last time and couldn't help but wonder: "Why don't you introduce me to him?"

Louise said openly: "I discovered a talented actor in Atlanta, Martin Davis."

Martin took the initiative and said, "Hello, Julie."

Julie shook Martin's hand and said, "I see a star rising."

When others said good things, Martin also complimented: "Julie, you are the bright moon in the night sky, all the stars are eclipsed."

Julie said, "I'm just a B-list actor."

Martin's words came out of his mouth: "You are my idol, I like Laura."

The two chatted for a few words, and then Julie's agent came over. She said goodbye and left quickly.

Martin followed Louise into the office, where Alexander the Great promotional materials were all over the walls.

He looked at the four makeup photos on the left, each of which had a different makeup for Alexander the Great, and asked, "The leading actor in this film is Colin Farrell, right?"

Louise looked up and said, "Director Oliver Stone's original choice was Heath Ledger, but I and several other producers were very worried about his condition and rejected this candidate."

She took off her black-rimmed glasses and rubbed her brows: "The investment is too high, so I have to be cautious."

Martin came and sat down opposite her and asked, "I heard there was a preview for theater managers?"

Louise was worried again: "The previews didn't go over well." She paused for a moment and expressed her concerns: "Hollywood has made a general mistake in judging the market. The response to recent epic films has been generally poor. The loss of this project is likely to increase."

Martin comforted her: "It's okay, I'll support you then."

Louise said bluntly: "In a month at most, I will turn you into a pauper."

Martin said, "Drunkard, you have to look at people with a developmental perspective. My current salary is several hundred thousand dollars. If The Eyes Across the Hill is successful, my salary will be in the seven figures."

Louise smiled and shook her head.

"I have completed all the post-dubbing for The Hills Have Eyes." Martin said seriously, "I will look for a new job soon."

Louise asked, "Does your support group in Atlanta still have energy left to put together a platter?"

Martin knew she was talking about Vincent and Sophia, and said, "As long as The Hills Have Eyes is successful, they will definitely continue to participate in the film and even invest more money. They are waiting for The Hills Have Eyes to be released." He shamelessly asked directly, "Honey, do you have any suitable roles or projects to recommend to me?"

Louise didn't respond, but reminded him emphatically: "You haven't paid off the debt you owe me."

Martin spread his hands and said, "Hey, drunkard, don't we have sincere feelings for each other? Don't we make desperate efforts for feelings? I took advantage of you, and you became an international bartender. You took advantage of me, so I should become an internationally famous movie star, right?"

Louise threw away her worries and laughed happily.

After laughing, she added, "You are very good at making people happy."

"Are you feeling better?" Seeing her nod, Martin said simply, "International bartender Ms. Louise Mayer, I heard that you invented two new cocktails?"

Louise understood: "Yes, I plan to publish it soon and truly establish myself as the world's master bartender."

Martin came prepared and gave her a notepad: "Master, can you sign for me in advance?"

Louise opened it, took a look, and put it away with satisfaction: "Since you have a support group and can organize a game, for the sake of fairness, I will give you a good opportunity."

She thought for a moment and said, "Pacific Pictures' script project library is open to you. It includes scripts submitted by screenwriters, projects recommended by directors themselves, and some initial plans from producers to attract investment. It's not as good as the Big Six companies, but we do have tens of thousands of scripts and initial plans for hundreds of projects."

Martin was very excited when he heard this, as the film company's script library would not be easily opened to the public.

Louise poured cold water on him first: "Most of them are useless. Hollywood registers tens of thousands of original scripts every year, and thousands of projects initiate initial plans, but only a very small number of them eventually become movies."

Martin asked the latter: "What was the initial plan for the project?"

Louise simply said, "Just like House of Wax and The Hills Have Eyes, most Hollywood movies don't start with a script. Instead, the producer comes up with a suitable idea, or encounters a literary work or real-life story that is suitable for adaptation, and then starts to organize the project, including attracting investment, finding a producer, finalizing the director, hiring a screenwriter to write the script, etc...."

She emphasized the topic of adaptation: "Many initial plans remain only on paper. Some adaptation plans submitted by producers are almost worthless if they are not invested in, because they do not even have the copyright."

Martin thought carefully, if he wanted to put together a game, what were his chances of success?

He certainly can't use his own funds, and the money he has is not enough to make a movie. He can only wait for the box office results of The Mountain Is Full of Eyes.

Connections, he glanced at Louise, if that doesn't work, there is an agency behind her.

Thinking of this, Martin shook his head secretly. The project has not been found yet.

Louise said, "Come with me to Pacific Pictures this afternoon and pick whatever you want."

"You really know how to do business! Drunkard, is this what you call a fair trade?" Martin said viciously, "You've already taken out the valuable projects, and the rest are all moldy garbage thrown in the warehouse. And you just throw them to me, treating me like a garbage recycling station?"

Louise told the truth: "I don't have any suitable projects at the moment."

Martin certainly wouldn't miss the opportunity to browse and select scripts from a film and television company's library.

At noon, Louise had lunch with Martin, and the two came to Pacific Pictures next to Warner Studios.

This company does not directly produce films and does not have many employees. The three-story office building is also rented from the Warner Studios office area.

Louise had a drink and planned to take a lunch break, so she asked her assistant Nikki to take Martin to the database on the first floor.

The custodian had received Louise's notification and led Martin into the warehouse.

He pointed at the computer and said, "There is a directory search here. You can look up project outlines. In addition to the scripts that the company has bought out the copyright for, which will be kept for a long time, other scripts, plans, etc. will be cleaned up once a year."

Martin nodded: "Thank you."

"As you please." The custodian left.

Martin sat in front of the computer and was about to turn it on when the most important thing suddenly came to his mind. He quickly took out his cell phone and called Robert: "It's me. I need another favor."

The other side automatically replied: "I understand, the ceremony will be held immediately."

Martin thought, has this evolved into a special ritual? He said, "Thank you, Robert."

"You're welcome." Robert seemed to be saying a prayer: "I wish Martin Davis all the best."

Martin was full of confidence. He pressed the power button, opened the database, and searched for scripts and project information from the past year.

He looked at the script first, glanced at the name, and then read the story outline.

Many Hollywood movie scripts may have their names changed several times before they are put into production, and some of the previous film titles are not even direct translations from English.

Even a small company like Pacific Pictures has thousands of pieces of content.

As long as the name is unfamiliar and the story outline does not make any impression, Martin will simply pass it.

I searched for a long time but didn't feel familiar.

Martin was thinking that if it really didn't work out, he would wait for the market response to "A Man, a Gun, and a Dog Across the Mountain", and then continue with this style.

But without the powerful social media boost, it is hard to say what the effect will be.

His current fame and appeal are far inferior to Keanu's former fame and appeal.

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