I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 360 Tokamak (4200)

"Director Lin, Brother Zhi, Sister Xing, I'm sorry, I won't be attending the wrap party. Repa and I have something urgent to attend to, so we have to go to the airport."

Da Mimi quickly removed her makeup and asked her assistant to give each member of the crew a cup of milk tea. She personally served the milk tea to the director and several representatives of the production and distribution companies.

Zeng Jia also kept apologizing to this group of people one by one.

"You're the heroine, isn't that a bad thing?" Zhao Youting hadn't finished removing her makeup yet, and when she heard that Da Mimi was leaving, she winked at Da Mimi.

Da Mimi blinked and said, "Brother Ting, please help me deal with this first. I owe you a favor."

Zhao Youting's eyes flashed, but he said nothing more.

Zhao Youting really didn't have any other intentions. The filming was wrapped today and several producers and distributors sent people over. At this time, Da Mimi, as the heroine, actually wanted to leave and take the second female lead with her. It was really unreasonable.

It's okay if you don't find fault with others, but if you meet someone who does, you might be very offended and might get bullied at any time.

Some people think that the entertainment industry is low-class, while some people think that it is high-class. In fact, these views have some problems.

Because the entertainment industry is not a truly stable circle in essence.

This circle seems to be very small, so small that there are only a few people who graduated from professional schools, and they are considered a stable group in this industry.

This circle may also be very large, so large that people from all walks of life and even the unemployed can mingle in it.

Those who have made it big in other industries and then run into the entertainment industry and then disappear from the scene may account for 60 to 70 percent of the entire circle.

To put it bluntly, this industry is the modern version of the ancient brothel community.

The high-end ones include listening to music in the Jiaofangpulu, and the popular ones include the Eight Great Hutongs and the Qinhuai Romance.

Those who went to these places included the top-level architect Zhao Ji, the scholar-official Zhou Bangyan, the rebellious petty official Song Jiang, and the folk gangster Yan Qing.

It covers all walks of life.

These people are in this circle, yet they are not in this circle.

The entertainment industry is actually the intersection of many circles, and what intersects is the desires within these circles.

It is a circle, but not a circle. It is difficult to use the stereotype of a single group to contrast the various people in this circle.

In this circle, it is one thing for stars to flatter and bully others, it is another thing for them to treat ordinary people with no background roughly, and it is another thing for them to treat certain groups of producers, producers and distributors.

Of course, beautiful women with their own resources and background are exceptions.

Therefore, it was still quite surprising that Da Mimi said she would not attend the wrap-up party even though the boss of the production company was there.

You know, Da Mimi is well-known in the circle for her thoughtfulness and high emotional intelligence, so it's really surprising that she just left these people out like this.

"Ms. Yang, I came all the way from Haipu to show my support for you." A representative of the production company with a bun and a mustache looked unhappy, "What's the hurry? Don't you even have time to eat a meal?"

Da Mimi glanced at the representative of the production company. This man was a small shareholder of the production company, the brother-in-law of a certain big boss. He was stuffed into Zhou Ce Film and Television to be a director, and he was usually quite jumpy.

Yes, two smalls, not a typo.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, there's something urgent going on at the company. I have a few important guests tomorrow morning, and I have to catch the last flight of the day, otherwise I'll miss it."

Mr. Wang laughed and said, "Important guest? It seems that we are not important enough in Miss Yang's eyes."

Da Mimi rolled her eyes in her heart and thought, you are so shameless, the sweat on my head last summer didn't flow to my face this year, and you took my usual tricks seriously. You really don't know how many bowls of rice you eat.

Da Mimi ignored Mr. Wang and took the confused Repa and the nervous and excited Zeng Jia with her, got into her nanny car and headed straight for the airport.

"Eh? What was that look in her eyes just now? Was she looking down on me?" After Da Mimi got into the car, Mr. Wang started to think something was not right. He slapped the surveillance camera and scared Zhao Youting.

"Didn't she say a few days ago that she had to go to Wu Ning to shoot a few scenes for Swords of Assassin 2 after work? Tell her not to rush. She won't be able to be in the film later. I said so."

Zhao Youting was trying to persuade her while curling his lips in his heart, thinking how dare you say that. Not to mention you, even your cheap brother-in-law from the Wu Yue circle can't influence the Hong Kong circle.

However, Da Mimi has changed a lot recently. Not to mention her appearance, she has lost her previous seductive and charming energy. Could it be that she really thinks she is a top star now and has become proud of herself?

I am more than just floating! I am about to fly!
As soon as Da Mimi got in the car, she asked Repa and Fang Yu to make a video call, but she was rejected unexpectedly.

I sent a WeChat message, and Fang Yu said that he was in class. Da Mimi was stunned. It was already nine o'clock in the evening. What class was he in?

She turned down the wrap party not because she was being a big shot, but because she had a meeting with CAA's head of big week Jonah Greenberg early tomorrow morning. If she couldn't get back to Singapore tonight, she would definitely not be able to make it tomorrow.

Jonah Greenberg is an absolute third-generation star. His grandfather is Waldo Short, the screenwriter who won an Oscar for "Midnight Cowboy" and "Coming Home", his grandmother is the great beauty Mary Davenport, his mother is Hollywood star producer Jennifer Short, and his father is the famous children's book author David Greenberg.

A family of squids.

This guy is a typical Zhou expert, speaking fluent Zhou dialect.

Until now, she still didn't know how Fang Yu got the two already-articulated joint venture partners to accept a small company like Jiaxing to become a joint venture partner of CAA.

So before the meeting, I wanted to confirm with Fang Yu how to discuss it.

By the way, let’s take Repa along to fly together.

After all, it was Repa who met Fang Yu first. If it weren't for the chance encounter with Repa on the plane that day and Fang Yu's cousin's obsession with Repa, Jiaxing would not have had this opportunity now.

This is CAA!

The world's largest brokerage company in the absolute sense!
As a small company that has only been established for two years, they are really not qualified to participate in a joint venture of this level.

Not to mention them, even Zhou Yi, who is currently one of the top players in the country, does not have the qualifications.

Only those bigwigs who are hidden behind the scenes and are not in this industry at all have sufficient resources and background to cooperate with companies of the level of CAA.

Endeavor WME is awesome, but CAA is even more awesome.

Ari Emanuel’s WME Endeavor had previously put a lot of pressure on CAA and did show the potential to replace CAA, but now, nothing is possible.

Almost 70 percent of Hollywood superstars have worked with CAA.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, agencies like Zhouyi had hundreds of artists under contract at most, and there were probably only a dozen or twenty well-known ones. But CAA, on the other hand, had over 70 artists under contract worldwide! More than % of Hollywood stars had contracts with CAA.

From great directors Spielberg and Li An to superstars Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Hathaway, Julia Roberts... countless star-studded names are inseparable from CAA.

In addition to artists, CAA's strength in sports is also unrivaled in the world.

The four major sports leagues in the United States are all related to CAA, and more than 1700 top athletes in the world are signed to CAA.

For example, Tom Brady, the GOAT in football history, the greatest quarterback ever, and LeBron James, who calls himself the GOAT, were once clients of CAA.

Although CAA has not established a formal joint venture in Dazhou, it is not without business.

To be precise, CAA’s big week business is actually very broad and occupies a very high position.

As early as 11 years ago, CAA established an office in Xinhao, and celebrities from the big week rushed to sign international contracts with CAA.

The National Master, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, I Am the Rich, International Zhang, Mr. Yi and His Women... Almost all of these people's international contracts are in the hands of CAA.

The international blockbuster "The Great Wall", starring Rich Woman and Matt Damon, directed by a national master, and about white people helping yellow people save the world, was actually a project put together by CAA.

From directors to artists, almost everyone in it is signed with CAA.

Let’s put it this way, CAA represented the entertainment industry’s top resources for quite some time.

In recent years, Mei Yeping has transformed from a traffic star into an entertainment celebrity, which is actually inseparable from his signing with CAA.

When I become one of the bosses of CAA Da Zhou, hehe, Mei Yeping, no matter how you played tricks on me in the past, I will pay you back in the future!
Da Mimi looked calm, but in fact she was so excited that she was almost jumping up and down.

Of course, Jiaxing could not become the controlling party in the joint venture established by CAA in Dazhou. According to what Fang Yu had told her before, Jiaxing could hold about 10% of the shares in the new joint venture established by CAA, and Jiaxing would also have a seat on the board of directors of the CAA Dazhou joint venture.

But even if Jiaxing is only a small shareholder holding 10% of the shares, it is enough to instantly raise Da Mimi's status above almost all the stars of Da Zhou!
Except for two or three inexplicable resource-rich people, but these two or three people obviously do not include Mei Yeping.

What’s more, these 10% of Jiaxing are the 10% with absolute influence.

CAA and Da Zhou's other joint venture partner each hold 45% of the shares. Whoever Jiaxing sides with will have the controlling stake.

Originally, CAA did have plans to establish a joint venture company in Da Zhou, and the plan had already been almost finalized, with only some specific details left. Once they were finalized, they could report to the relevant departments for approval.

As a result, the Alcatraz incident broke out at this time.

If the Alcatraz incident was an all-round earthquake in Miami society, with Zhengjie being the epicenter, then the entertainment industry was definitely also within the epicenter, and was the area second only to Zhengjie in terms of damage.

After all, Ali Emmanuel is the boss of Endeavor.

Moreover, the entertainment industry of any country is actually a target of infiltration.

Although CAA is a direct competitor of Endeavor, it has also been implicated due to its similar “their” background.

Especially after it was revealed that Levitt, one of the three co-CEOs of CAA, was a former double agent for the Israeli Science Relations Bureau (abbreviated as Lekem) and Western Israel 30 years ago, and is still reporting to the Israeli National Defense Department, CAA was instantly caught in a dilemma.

In other words, fires are raging everywhere right now, and Levitt's incident is considered minor, so it doesn't attract that much attention.

Under normal circumstances, CAA might have been in trouble.

This is also why Brian Lauder had a wry smile on his face when Steven Swartz congratulated him on the expansion of his business.

In addition, at almost the same time, some changes occurred in Da Zhou, and the cooperation agreement that had been negotiated now seemed to be unable to be implemented.

In the original cooperation agreement, CAA held the controlling stake, Da Zhou’s joint venture partner was a minority shareholder, and Da Zhou’s representatives would be included in CAA’s board of directors.

But now, the offensive and defensive situations have changed. The previous joint venture partners have delayed the negotiations on the joint venture agreement indefinitely due to concerns about risks. Even if the negotiations are restarted, they are determined not to agree to CAA holding the controlling stake.

At this time, if a third party acceptable to both parties emerges to hold the 10%, neither party will have absolute controlling rights. Brian Lord will just take advantage of the situation and give Jiaxing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

In essence, CAA still lost and gave up its controlling stake.

Da Mimi didn’t know all these inside stories, but she knew very well what a great opportunity this was for the celebrities of Da Zhou!

Su Mang, whose six hundred and fifty yuan is not enough for breakfast, is just the editor-in-chief of the Harper's Bazaar Weekly Edition, yet he can boss around almost all the first-line stars.

After CAA was established, its status was higher than ten Harper's Bazaars. As a director of such a company, it is equivalent to holding the top resources of the entire Harper's Bazaar entertainment industry. In this circle, no one can give her a hard time anymore!

And all of these were brought to her by Fang Yu!

How can I repay you?

What about class? Real class or fake class? What class? Physiology class?

"Jia Jia, tell Ling Ling to buy me a swimsuit tomorrow morning. It has to be exactly the same as the one in Far Cry."

Da Mimi was sending a WeChat message, her eyes rolled, and she turned to Zeng Jiadao.

Zeng Jia was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and gave Da Mimi a thumbs up: "You do this."
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“Security background check, laboratory safety training certificate, ethics and data use agreement, recommendation letter… OK, checked, no problem.”

"I didn't expect that you could pass this experiment application right after your leave of absence. No wonder you got a letter of recommendation from Professor Trentarango." Emily Castillo, a slim woman with brown hair, handed a plastic file bag to Fang Yu.

"With your access card, you can come to the laboratory next Monday, and Dr. Pearson will assign you a group. If you want to take a few days off, that's fine, as Professor Hauser's research group is not very busy at the moment. Of course, I'd be a little disappointed if that happened..."

Emily's eyes flashed with electricity, and she took the opportunity to hand Fang Yu the briefcase and gently stroked the back of Fang Yu's hand with her fingers.

"Thank you, Dr. Castillo. I have been on leave for more than a year and don't want to waste any more time." Fang Yu pushed the black-framed plain glasses on his glasses and lamented in his heart about my damn charm. I was wearing such rustic glasses, but I was still harassed by a female doctor.

Fang Yu put away his student card and the file bag Emily handed over, "Dr. Emily, I don't live in Westwood, and I drive to school. Can you assign me a parking space?"

Emily was a little shy after those few seductions. She blushed and said, "You can apply on the UCLA Transportation website, but please note that it is best to apply for a parking space closer to the STRB. Our main experimental site will be there in the future. Oh, by the way, your card cannot enter the second floor below the STRB. Please pay attention, otherwise there will be an alarm."

"After all, that's where UCLA's tokamak is located."

Emily shrugged.

Fang Yu laughed: "Okay, I understand, Dr. Emily."

(End of this chapter)