America gains both fame and fortune

Chapter 269 The Taste of Fengyoujing
For celebrities, especially those of Martin, Pitt and Aniston's stature, gossip about them spreads at an astonishing speed. That evening, many entertainment channels' evening news broadcasts included emergency gossip, and the newspapers were all over the next morning.

The two male gods fought for America's sweetheart, which was well received by the general public.

On this day, there was only one topic on the American dinner table: Martin beat up Pitt because of Aniston!

Most Americans applauded this and thought that Pete deserved to be beaten!

Compared to Jolie, who has been whitewashed as a saint, Pitt's reputation is not very good.

It can be said that as popular as Rachel is in North America, Pete is hated as much.

Martin was hiding in the dark and jumping up and down.

If you don't hype up the popularity, you will be punished by heaven and earth.

The internet was abuzz with discussion, with videos and pictures appearing on almost every website.

TMZ, the website that first exposed the video, became an instant hit and gained complete fame.

Similarly, news that Aniston will play the leading role in Martin's new film is spreading everywhere.

The early publicity of "Limitless" surpassed that of "Wanted" and "The Hills Have Eyes", becoming the first film starring Martin to become a hit as soon as the project was launched.

As for Martin himself, after driving away the female thief who was so excited that she wanted to have sex all night, he hid at home and never showed up.

The video was there, and there were dozens of people watching in the bar at the time, so there was no need for him to personally come out and hype it up.

And if Martin doesn't come out, someone else will naturally jump out.

He knew the other two members of the asshole trio well.

Nicholson, who is almost semi-retired, was afraid that he would not have fun, so he came out of the hotel early in the morning and deliberately hung around the entrance.

Seeing that no reporters came to interview him, the old bastard got angry and took out his cell phone to call the newspaper: "I'm Jack Nicholson. I was at the scene of the fight between Martin and Pitt last night. I have explosive news to expose!"

Less than ten minutes later, a reporter drove a Mustang into the hotel parking lot at lightning speed and almost rushed to Nicholson for an interview.

Nicholson sadly discovered that he was indeed out of date and the media only paid attention to the newly emerging idiots.

Arriving at the coffee shop on the first floor of the hotel, the reporter ordered a glass of Blue Mountain for Nicholson and asked, "Do you have any inside information?"

"Last night, Leonardo, Martin and I were drinking together in Avalon," Nicholson said seriously. "According to my judgment, Martin and Aniston are at most friends. Pitt obviously misunderstood. I didn't expect that Pitt was so soft and took the initiative to provoke. It was all show but no action. I even suggested that they fight one-on-one in the most manly way. In the end, Pitt attacked by surprise and was easily subdued by Martin."

He is known for his foul mouth and doesn't care about those juniors: "If I were Aniston, I would never choose Pitt. What's the point of a wimp like that?"

The reporter grasped the crux of the matter: "According to you, Martin is both good-looking and useful?"

Nicholson boasted: "Martin is half as good as I was when I was young, but he's a jerk!"

He also didn't forget to help his old buddy Scorsese get some publicity: "On the set of The Departed, I was in love and enjoying the best of love, and that bastard Martin encouraged Leonardo to throw firecrackers into my trailer, which almost scared me to the point of impotence!"

The reporters were quite excited. Even Leonardo was involved. This was explosive news!

As a member of the Face Gang and the self-proclaimed leader of the Asshole Trio, Nicholson naturally has to promote his own people and belittle his opponents.

Ten minutes later, Nicholson left the cafe and went upstairs to the suite where he stayed last night.

Meryl Streep, who had come to meet him, finished washing up and came out of the bathroom, complaining, "Where have you been so early in the morning?"

Nicholson is old after all, and he feels a little overwhelmed, but it would be too embarrassing to refuse Meryl's invitation.

How can I hold my head up high in the future?

He thought of what Martin had given him.

I seem to have seen that thing when I was walking around Chinatown.

Nicholson took it out, and Streep was curious...

By noon, Nicholson had taken several showers and finally recovered. How could he enjoy such a good thing alone without telling his friends?
He immediately picked up his phone and called Leonardo: "Leo, I just used the stuff Martin gave me last night. It was so awesome!"

Leonardo asked, "Is it really that useful?"

Nicholson said seriously: "I just used it, it's 100% positive!" He gritted his teeth and said: "I will thank Martin when I see him later!"

Martin recommended it, and Nicholson guaranteed it, which should have been reassuring, but Leonardo immediately gave up the idea of ​​trying it out when he thought about the two bastards who liked to do bad things.

Just three days after TMZ broke the news, the crew of "Limitless" held an audition for the heroine Linda, and there was only one candidate for the audition - Aniston.

At the door of the audition room, Martin waved and asked Bruce to bring the handheld game console that he had prepared in advance.

He returned to the room with the game console. Representatives from the Screen Actors Guild and Warner Bros. showed good professionalism and came over to take the game console. They sat in the last row of the audition room, turned off the sound, played the game quietly, and never said a word.

Martin was sitting in the second row when Molly, the casting director, said, “Please come over here, Miss Aniston.”

Aniston came over quickly. She knew many people in the audition room and greeted them one by one.

There was an assistant acting opposite her, and her audition scene lasted only half a minute.

After Aniston left, Martin, Molly, Boyle and Louise all watched the audition tape on the screen.

"No problem." The role itself was simple, and Director Boyle asked, "Why not choose Aniston?"

Martin nodded: "I agree."

Louise and Molly said, "Okay."

After the female lead was finalized, Louise asked Nikki, who was the associate producer, to inform Aniston of the result so that formal negotiations could be carried out as soon as possible.

There were several more auditions for roles afterwards, but Martin and Louise decided not to participate and left the audition room together.

For another important role in the film, the crew invited Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Their current pay is not high, and there is a tendency that they will take any film as long as the money is right.

As we walked down the aisle, Louise asked, "Want to come to my place for dinner on Thanksgiving?"

"You're not going home for Thanksgiving?" Martin knew that Louise's parents lived in Brentwood. "You're not going home to spend Thanksgiving with your parents?"

Louise followed him to the office: "My parents are on vacation in Europe."

Martin could only politely decline: "It's too late. I have an appointment to go back to Atlanta for Thanksgiving. I can't break it."

"It can't be Kelly." Louise thought of the answer: "Lily Carter?"

She suddenly laughed, her face full of frivolity: "How about this, I'll go to Atlanta with you."

Martin knew that she was a slut, so how could he take her to Atlanta? He went into the office and found the recipe: "This is a new cocktail recipe. It's more complicated to mix. You should find time to practice it well to avoid making a fool of yourself at the bartender conference."

Louise took it, glanced through it quickly, and leaned over to kiss Martin on the face: "You have a conscience. Remember who treated you well."

Anyway, Martin came to Los Angeles, and even if it was a trade, Louise helped him a lot. He said, "Don't worry, I won't forget your kindness."

How could a nostalgic and kind-hearted man like him forget a beautiful producer in her thirties?

If it were someone like Whoopi Goldberg, Martin would definitely forget about it the moment he turned around.

Louise left the office satisfied.

Martin called Jessica and asked her to book tickets to Atlanta and New York in advance.

Afterwards, the crew officially announced that Jennifer Aniston joined "Limitless" and will play the leading role.

Because she didn't want to respond to the still-hot Martin-Pitt incident, Aniston remained silent after issuing a statement through her agent, just like she did during her divorce, but the popularity of "Limitless" was immediately boosted.

The popularity of Wanted, starring Martin, rose again. In the weekend before Thanksgiving, the decline was narrower than before, and North America earned another 988 million US dollars, bringing the North American box office to 1.6 million US dollars.

The film's global box office is approaching $3 million.

Based on box office revenue alone, the film has already made a profit.

In the subsequent Thanksgiving period, although many films entered the market, Wanted still occupied a place.

As the film appeared in more overseas markets, the international box office surpassed the North American box office.

The market prospects of Wanted are becoming increasingly clear. According to the most conservative forecast released by the distributor Warner Bros., by the time the film is completely taken off the shelves, the North American box office will most likely exceed $2 million, and the overseas box office will reach $2.5 million.

Martin returned to Atlanta before Thanksgiving.

(End of this chapter)