hollywood draw

In a blink of an eye, there is one day when the film festival is closed. Wayne can't do much, so he can only screen the film with Luke.

Their cinema has become a landscape of the film festival, with the attendance rate of each event exceeding 50%, which is a striking spotlight on this street.

Sadly, even so, they still couldn't find any distribution company. After the last game, Luke packed up the film copy, turned around and handed the keys to the staff. Tomorrow the three of them were leaving Utah and back to Los Angeles.

"I just called the Harbor Entertainment filmmaker." Jimmy stood beside Wayne and said helplessly: "They said they were not interested in our films."

Jimmy's legs were almost broken these days. Several companies of all sizes contacted and visited two of them. The results were no different. None of these companies were willing to come and take a look.

"Where is the new line? Jimmy. I remember the first new line viewer who watched our screening."

Luke walked up to them and asked Jimmy expectantly.

"Same, the first thing I contacted was Xin Line, and they refused, and they were not willing to talk about it."

Jimmy shook his head. He was a little exhausted these days. Physical fatigue was not a problem, but psychological decadence was the most depressing thing.

Wayne helped Luke carry a box, and several people walked to the hotel together and said, "It seems that only Miramax is willing to release our films for these small and medium-sized companies at the film festival. I don't understand, why is Harvey so sure that I will go to him in the end, and he must know something."

"It's useless, Wayne." Jimmy waved his hand helplessly. "You can't tell the truth from the mouth of that fat pig, unless he is willing to tell you. The current situation is beneficial to him, and he will not tell you, unless you are willing to sign a contract with him and are willing to be sucked by him."

"We will go back to Los Angeles first, and then see if there is any other way. If it really doesn't work, I will go to the distribution company one by one and show it to them. I don't believe that everyone has money but doesn't make money. This is not like what happens in Hollywood."

All three of them fell into silence and didn't know how to solve the problem. In fact, they didn't know where the problem was and couldn't find any news at all.

On January 28, 1991, Wayne returned to his long-lost apartment. Looking at the room where everything had not changed, it was still as messy as before leaving in a hurry.

Ten days ago, he absolutely did not expect the result to be like this. He thought that the most difficult beginning had ended and optimistically misjudged the difficulty of the release.

Shaking his head and putting down his luggage, taking out a large garbage bag, he began to clean the room and clean up his living environment. The video cannot be released for the time being, and it is not a doomsday. Wayne believes that as long as he can overcome this problem, he will definitely achieve good results in the future.

“Dong, Dong.”

Hearing the knock on the door, he threw down his t-shirt while wiping the table, turned around and opened the door.

"Hi, Nami, I didn't expect you to be at home. I was cleaning, and the apartment was a mess." Seeing Naomie standing pretty at the door, Wayne turned around and moved out of the position and let her in.

"I heard the sound, come and take a look. After listening to your suggestions, I signed up for an actor training class a few days ago. The effect was pretty good, except for the relatively expensive ones." Naomi helped him put the garbage at the door, closed the door and sat on the sofa.

Wayne was not very emotional. Seeing the snow-white long legs sitting on the sofa and randomly placing them on the coffee table, he finally felt a little energetic and took a good look at Naomi. The pink long-sleeved and hip-covered skirt made her slim figure look concave and convex.

The slender long legs were folded on the coffee table. The thick top could see two obvious bulges, which made him feel ready to move.

Feeling his impulse, Wayne smiled bitterly. Did he feel too much pressure during this period? Taking advantage of giving her the opportunity to get coffee, Wayne tried hard to suppress the impulse and then took the cup and returned to the sofa.

"Don't ask me about the movie!" Seeing Naomi's words, he interrupted her first. "I'm in a bad mood now and don't want to talk about these things. In short, this trip to Utah has not gone well."

"Okay, boy, relax, you put too much pressure on yourself. Is there anything in the refrigerator? I can make you some food." Naomi saw that he didn't want to talk about those things, and she didn't force herself, although she was also very anxious.

Wayne shook his head, got up, picked up the car keys and prepared to go out to buy some food. "I have nothing, the refrigerator is empty. Do you want to go together? Let's go out to eat."

Just as they were about to go out, the phone rang. Putting down the car keys, Wayne returned to the sofa and picked up the phone:

"Hello, this is Wayne Greenberg."

"Director Greenberg, I'm Talley from Miramax. Today I called the hotel where you stayed and they said you checked out early in the morning."

"Yes, we only rented the cinema for nine days. Is there anything wrong? Ms. Tallie."

"What are you thinking about? Mr. Harvey asked me to tell you that if you want, his conditions will remain unchanged and you will buy out your video for 800,000."

Wayne looked up and signaled Naomi to sit down and might have to chat for a while. Then he said to the microphone: "Of course it is OK to buy out all copyrights, but Miramax needs to sign an agreement with Greenberg Studio."

Wayne continued his unreliable thoughts: "We both negotiated an agreement on a number. If the box office of "Happy Day" in North America exceeds this number, as the director and producer, I have the right to enjoy the box office share."

The opposite side was obviously silent for a moment, and then the voice turned into Harvey's: "I can pay you the box office share, Director Greenberg." Harvey seemed to be stupid, and the next words seemed to be greedy enough. "But only the numbers stipulated by the director's union."

Generally speaking, the Directors' Union has an agreement with the producers' alliance of major Hollywood production companies. All directors who belong to union members can get a share of the directed videos and videotapes. This is the rule of the Hollywood game. Of course, the proportion of this part in the agreement is very low.

"Mr. Weinstein, I haven't joined the director's union yet. I'm still studying at USC and am going to apply for joining after I graduate." He didn't even look down on the conditions he offered, and he was simply making a fortune.

"Then I can only say sorry." Harvey's voice had no intention of apologizing, and his voice continued to come from the microphone:

"Director Greenberg, believe me, any distribution company will not accept the plan you mentioned. I would like to remind you that your "Happy Day" is a low-cost independent film, rather than a mainstream commercial production with an investment of tens of millions of yuan.

Now you are facing a situation where there is no choice. No one will release your videos except Miramax. And if I push your videos to the theater market, I will definitely need some publicity in the early stage, and there will be copies of the videos, which will cost dozens or millions of dollars.

You say yourself, what do you use to ensure that Miramax can recover these investments, and why do we believe that your films can make a profit? You are just a novice director and have no successful cases. If you think about it, your choice can only be Miramax."

Listening to the other party hanging up the phone, Wayne leaned on the sofa and used to ignite cigarettes and thought. He was thinking about another thing, whether it is true as Harvey said, no one is willing to release his own film.

You must figure out what happened. Even if you really have to work with Miramax in the end, you must know in advance why Harvey is so sure.

Thinking of this, he turned to Naomi and said, "Nami, I can't eat with you anymore. I thought of one thing. Now I have to go. I will come back to treat you to dinner in the evening."

"Okay, I'm right across from you. When you come back, you can call me." Naomi saw him anxiously going out, got up and walked back to the room opposite.

Wayne went downstairs and drove into the car to Burbank. He parked the car downstairs on the second floor and walked to the manager's office without hesitation.

That's right, he suddenly thought that others might not want to tell him, but Jennings must have known something. After all, the reason why Jennings almost signed a contract with Castle Stone was introduced by Jennings.

After knocking on the door twice, he heard someone answering inside, he opened the door and walked directly to Jennings' desk and sat on a chair.

"Wayne, I knew you would come to me." Jennings seemed to know he would come, not surprised at all. "Tell me, I don't know much about what you want to know. I was very optimistic about the film, so I recommended it to the company, otherwise they wouldn't explain it to me."

Wayne breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he knew where the problem was, he could solve the problem. "Jennings, what happened that made Edward give up my video before signing the contract?"

"Well, it's because Edward received a call from the senior company's company, asking him to give up his cooperation with you. To be precise, not only our company, but all the film viewers at several companies at the St. Dennis Film Festival received calls from their company and refused to cooperate with you.

Don't worry, listen to me and continue. I won't admit everything I want to say below. After leaving this room, I know Universal Pictures? It's just that Universal Pictures calls, all small and medium-sized companies, no one wants or dares not sell the face of this giant."

After Wayne heard him say that, although he was a little surprised, all this made sense immediately. The only ones that could make all small and medium-sized companies reject him together. However, Miramax was backed by Disney and didn't have to give Universal Pictures face, and Harvey was not a person who followed the rules.

Everything makes sense, that's it.

"Jennings, who was the first to call you? This is very important to me. I need to know who can understand what the other person wants." Wayne looked straight at him and asked the question he wanted to know the most. "I swear that no matter what I hear, I will forget when I leave this office."

"I am the manager of Universal Pictures' Film and Television Production Department, Feren Goodman!"