hollywood draw

At tonight's cocktail party, there were almost no celebrities invited, so Paul, who was not far from the elevator door, became very conspicuous.

The media representatives in the banquet hall were all wondering why the Sony Columbia executive came. But even Bruce Rosenblum did not give out the other party's purpose during the greetings.

Everyone knows that he is waiting for Wayne, and everyone knows that there is basically no cooperation between Sony Columbia and that young man, which is what makes people puzzled.

If that Hollywood dark film master wants to cooperate with other companies outside of Warner Bros., his first choice will definitely be Twentieth Century Fox. He has only worked with these two film companies since he entered Hollywood.

"Good evening, Wayne."

The moment the elevator door opened, Paul came up with a smile on his face as countless people watched the banquet hall, either lightly or secretly.

"Hi, Paul."

Wayne strode out of the elevator with a sincere smile on his face, stretching out his right hand, and also observing the other person carefully.

The moment the two shook hands, they were actually looking at each other. In Wayne's eyes, this was the image of a typical North American middle-aged executive, with a meticulously high-end suit, neatly carved hair, and an essentially slightly fat belly.

"I wish you a box office hit by Charlie's Angels in advance."

"Hey, Paul." Wayne said as if he was joking, "This sentence was spoken from you, a Columbia Pictures executive, and it made me feel a little uncomfortable."

Hearing his teasing, Paul shrugged slightly, raised the champagne that had been holding in his hand, raised his head and took a small sip.

It can be seen that he has been waiting for Wayne as if something really happened. "Can you find a place to talk alone?"

"Is there something wrong? Can't we talk about it here?"

It seemed unintentional, Wayne glanced from the corner of his eyes and glanced at him with a blues Rosenblum not far away. However, his movements were not concealed at all, and all of them were seen by the middle-aged white executive in front of him.

"I think we'd better talk alone."

Paul also glanced at the Warner Bros. executive in the distance, and the smile on his face remained unabated. "I swear, you will never regret it."

Hearing this, Wayne's eyes flashed with a thoughtful look, and he waved his hand to call a waiter and whispered to ask for a separate lounge.

Under the leadership of the waiter, the two turned out of the banquet hall along the corridor and came to a VIP lounge. Nina took the initiative to tip the waiter. After personally confirming that there was no one else at the door, she closed the door of the lounge, looked at her boss who had already sat down, and nodded.

"Wayne, you are the director of the genre that I have seen in Hollywood's most market-knowing director."

No one knows what Paul wants to say, but he looks sincere. It is indeed not an exaggeration to put such an evaluation on Wayne.

"Strictly speaking, the path you have taken is a road that is completely unreplicable. I have seen many directors with strong artistic style, but usually the strong personal style will inevitably bring about the niche of the works and cannot get any widespread fans. On the contrary, you not only retain your strong dark style, but also take into account the love of the popular movie fans..."

Nina and Wayne sat quietly on the sofa together, listening to each other's praise for themselves. In fact, both parties understood very well. What they said now is likely to have nothing to do with what the other party wants to say, but it is undeniable that when facing his own unscathing praise, it can indeed greatly narrow the favor of the praised person.

Human nature is sometimes that simple, just as simple as you won’t feel disgusted with someone you are smiling.

"Tell me, Paul."

Seeing that the other party had no intention of stopping at all, Wayne and the assistant lady looked at each other, but couldn't help but interrupt him. "What's wrong with you looking for me tonight?"

"I don't know if you noticed it. When "The Flash" was just released, someone supported the young reporter behind his back to cause trouble for you."

Seeing a hint of impatientness flashing on Wayne's face, Paul immediately stopped compliments that had nothing to do with the plan, with a mysterious tone in his tone. "There are also the continuous reports of James Frank's black material. It can be said that all the troubles encountered by "The Flash" came from Paramount Pictures..."

"Ha?!" When Wayne tilted his head and said, "It's over. Paul, hasn't Hollywood always been like this? Besides, don't say that there is no Sony Columbia's work here, I'm not a fool."

Among the six giants in Hollywood, they were originally a complex relationship that wanted to stab others, but turned around and smiled and cooperated with each other. Not to mention the competition between "The Flash" and "Godzilla", similar things can be said to be happening all the time.

The methods, whether open or hidden, will basically only stay in the film competition period. Once the two sides decide the outcome, it is almost impossible to hold on. The survival logic of the six major years is just like this, and it will only allow other companies to gain advantage.

"no, no, no, listen to me..."

Even if it was interrupted, Paul was not angry at all. He just smiled and waved his hand and continued, "Paramount and Colombia do have some kind of tacit understanding, but those deceiving things against you are all ordered by the descendants of the son Ceo Okatsu.

This morning, at the Sony Colombia board, the majority shareholders have voted no confidence in Okatsu. That is to say, his career in Sony Colombia is over, and if nothing unexpected happens, I will become the next CEO.”

"Ha, congratulations." Since we had received the news in advance, Wayne did not pretend to behave, but just said congratulations.

Seeing that he had no special reaction to the news that could cause the Hollywood earthquake, Paul was a little surprised, and then said: "Okayama's era is over. Wayne, maybe we can talk about the possibility of Sony Columbia cooperating with you."

"cooperate?"

"cooperate!"

Having said that, Wayne thought of the little spider at the first time. If nothing unexpected happens, the only project that the two parties can cooperate with is this little spider.

"no, Paul."

Unexpectedly, before Paul could express his conditions, Wayne shook his head firmly. "So, Paul. I can't squeeze out any other time to cooperate with Colombia projects. There is no need to lie to you at this point. My work plan has long been scheduled for the millennium."

Seeing that he immediately refused, Paul immediately speeded up his speech and said, "Listen to me, Wayne, Sony Columbia offers you the conditions that will definitely not be lower than the treatment given by Twentieth Century Fox on the X-Men project, and the work you have to do is similar to the X-Men project.

We need you, the master of superheroes, to build a complete series of development outlines for Spider-Man. Even the script, you only need to give enough successful creativity. Believe me, Wayne, Sony Columbia project, will definitely not take up too much of your work energy. All you have to do is control the general direction of the first film..."

"Wow."

Although Paul was quite sincere, Wayne still looked slow. Even under the gaze of the other party, he was amazed, while taking the cigarette and fire from the assistant lady, tilting his head and lit one.

"Do you think I'm short of money? Paul." As a result of a large cloud of green smoke was spit out, he was also the voice of Hanhu.

"Well......"

In fact, the biggest capital that Sony Columbia wants to impress him is nothing more than salary that exceeds the market price, and even gives a sky-high share of similar items in the X-Men project. No one doesn't like money. If there is, it must be that the price is not high enough. This is the truth that Paul has always believed in.

When you think of the other party’s wealth and the projects that do not lack money, his previous confidence immediately became less than that.

As an executive of one of the six major Hollywood giants, of course, he can calculate the other party's profits in movie projects. Even if he put aside each DC series that allows the other party to get hundreds of millions of dollars, its Greenberg Studio also holds the copyright of a popular series of movies like "The Matrix".

Everyone knows that no matter how much the director or producer can get a salary, it will be just a one-time deal. However, as the owner of a 100% holding film company, the benefits that can be earned from successful movie series will continue to be endless.

In this regard, not only does the other party not lacks money, they may also be worried about the large amount of cash flow in their hands, how to invest it to maintain value.

Just thinking of the terrifying wealth behind Wayne made Paul feel a little powerless. He now began to doubt whether he took it too naturally for his confidence in this invitation to cooperate.

"Paul, you just said, I just want to do a project like the X-Men?"

Just as he racked his brains and tried to increase the persuasiveness of his own conditions, Wayne, who had silently smoked half a cigarette, suddenly asked this question.

Paul was slightly stunned and nodded immediately. "Yes, Sony Colombia needs a copy, which can ensure the success rate of "Spider-Man" and also requires a complete development outline, which will not take up too much of your work energy."

With a cigarette in his finger, he was shot on the ashtray on the coffee table beside him. Wayne raised his eyebrows, with a hint of imperceptible distortion in his voice, and asked, "Can I get any conditions?"

"certainly."

Although he couldn't figure out why the other party changed, Paul didn't have the time to think clearly. He nodded again and said, "I can guarantee you that you can not only get the best salary, but also gain the friendship of Columbia Pictures..."

"I want venom!"

“What?!”

Wayne slowly solidified the atmosphere of the entire lounge in just a simple sentence.

Seeing this future Colombian ceo's face full of surprise and a thoughtful expression, he didn't care what the other party was thinking, and continued in a seductive voice: "Paul, I want the copyright of Venom's characters and money, which doesn't mean much to me, but I like to collect superheroes with special attributes.

If you have time to think about it carefully, or you can wait to see the box office results of "X-Men" before making a decision. My condition is Venom, and I can even avoid the one-cent profit on "Spider-Man" and help Sony Columbia Pictures make a film development plan for free. The reward is Venom's film and television copyright."

"No, you misunderstood."

Paul shook his head. "Even if I take up the CEO of Sony Colombia, I don't have the right to give you the copyright of a certain movie character."

In fact, in his heart, he felt that this business was not a loss. Venom was just one of the characters attached to Spider-Man. Even if he was sold, could someone spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy it?

That's right, in Paul's idea, as long as the first song of "Spider-Man" can be successful, he is willing to promote this plan, even if he has to pay Wayne hundreds of millions of dollars for it. Although this price can be scary, from another perspective, which successful DC movie pays him less than this number?

"That's your business."

Shaking his head with regret, Wayne stood up with a cigarette in his mouth, buttoning the suit top with both hands, and nodding and showing off. "You can think about it carefully. If you can give me the copyright of the characters of Venom, you can call me at any time."

Nina put down a private business card of her boss on the coffee table at the right time, and finally glanced at Paul, who was frowning, and followed her boss to leave the lounge.

For Wayne, this is more like an optional test. Taking the copyright of Venom as a superhero, he would be happy to get it, but even if he couldn't get it, he wouldn't lose anything, because Venom was not in his plan at all.

But for Paul, this condition made him very uncomfortable.

I worked hard to dig a hole to make my old boss fall into trouble, and then took office as the CEO of Sony Colombia with my years of work. All of this went very perfectly.

Now there is only one left that can help him secure the CEO position. Is there anything more convincing than a successful movie series in a film company? Obviously, his idea is Spider-Man.

But I prefer to find a second person who can replace all the superheroes who are heading for success and glory.

Warner Bros.'s DC movie series, with its offline revenue capabilities that are not inferior to Disney animated feature films, has been at the top of Hollywood Film Company's revenue for many years. Not only is the 20th Century Fox looking at it, but other film companies are also jealous.

There are always people who can't help but want to try to copy, but the result is not that gratifying. The fat green man made by Universal Pictures still has not gained market recognition.

Twentieth Century Fox is smarter. No matter what it is, they have successfully tied Wayne to his chariot with their interests and favors. This is what Paul wants to copy, and he hopes to temporarily tie Wayne to the chariot in Colombia with huge benefits that are difficult to refuse.

Who knows that as long as the first part of "Spider-Man" can be recognized by the market, the subsequent work will be much simpler. Without changing the style of the film, just keep shooting down. This can be said to be the best sequel money-making model that Hollywood Film Company is good at.

"Venom, Venom..."

In the empty hotel lounge, Paul muttered the name softly, not only thinking about the characteristics of Wayne in his head, but also thinking about the possibility of meeting his conditions.

However, his thoughts were constantly denied by him. There was no way, all the six major film companies in Hollywood were of the same virtue, that is, the copyright insurance vault. There were only six major film rights that were swallowed by mouth. Once they entered their mouths, it was basically difficult to spit them out.

The same is true for Sony Colombia. He did not lie. Even if he really became the new CEO, he was just a professional manager who reached the top and had no right to give copyright to the movie characters.

Paul needs Spider-Man to create a series that continues to succeed and brings a lot of revenue to Sony Columbia. This is a shortcut for him to settle down in the CEO position in a short period of time. The safest way is undoubtedly to meet Wayne's conditions.

"As long as you enter the copyright of the movie in the six major copyright libraries, you basically don't want to be spit out again. Hani, it's too difficult to count on Sony Colombia to agree to your conditions."

When Wayne brought Nina back to the banquet hall, Naomi Watts and others also ended the premiere conference. Just because he had no hope, he told this matter out of his mind.

The same is true for the Australian actress. After listening to the meeting process of the assistant lady's narration, she deliberately stretched out her white fingers, patted the man's shoulders, and pretended to say: "boy, don't be too greedy. There are already a lot of copyrights for the movies in your hands. Do you really like to collect those third-rate superheroes?"

As far as she knows, Greenberg's studio now holds the film and television copyright of Iron Man and Black Widow. He vaguely heard about Black Panther a few days ago. According to normal people's ideas, these are all second-rate superheroes, and their popularity is completely unparalleled as Superman and Spider-Man.

However, if you want to make these heroes film and television, the investment required is not much worse than that of first-class heroes. After all, from the perspective of movies, at least the special effects investment and human resources investment are the same price, which is completely unworthy of the loss.

"Nami, how many heroes are, it depends on who will make them."

Wayne shook his shoulder violently, shook Naomi Watts's hand off, and stretched out his finger and pointed it on her forehead. "If Paul really has a way to give me venom, then I don't mind, squeeze out some more working hours."

If it weren't for mentioning "Spider-Man", he wouldn't have remembered the Venom thing. Many years ago, Marvel Comics, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, had to sell its most popular Spider-Man movie copyright to Sony Columbia due to the recession of the entire comics industry.

You should know that it is not just a single Spider-Man who sells his body. It also has more than 900 heroic characters such as Venom and Spider-Woman who are related to Spider-Man comics. What a huge fortune this is, of course people in this era do not understand, but Wayne knows it better than anyone else.

In his memory, basically any superhero with a little popularity has sky-high copyright transactions. There is a saying that he is not wrong. No matter how many superheroes are, whether they can make money depends on whoever they can.

If these heroes under Sony Columbia were in the hands of Walt Disney in memory, it would definitely be another story.

More than a decade later, Sony Columbia invested 200 million US dollars to film "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", but the box office did not bring enough surprises. The investment of 200 million US dollars only earned 700 million US dollars worldwide. What's even more fatal is the collapse of the reputation of the movie "Batman", which can be said to have been unanimously criticized by movie fans, critics and media.

What's even more fatal is that Sony Columbia's desperate bet has also put itself in the vortex of the financial crisis. With internal and external troubles, it has no choice but to cooperate with Disney-owned Marvel Studios and nodded to agree that Spider-Little Joining the Avengers.

However, things were so unpredictable. At that time, the whole Hollywood felt that Sony Columbia had no hope in superheroes, but they made "Venom".

"Venom" not only made a big box office hit, but also had an unexpected reputation among fans. It can be said that this movie once again brought Sony Columbia back from the line of life and death. This superhero, which was regarded as a life-saving straw, has also become Sony Columbia's only weapon to resist Disney.

"Listen, Wayne."

Since the main creative team of "Charlie's Angels" will start a promotional journey tomorrow morning, the cocktail party did not last long. Naomi Watts's eyes never left her two "good sisters" in the movie. When the two women held wine glasses and frequently looked at them, she stretched out her hand in secret and twisted it on the man's waist.

"If you dare to invite those two b***h back to the manor to mess around, then I will take Xiao Fendi out overnight."

"You misunderstood me, Nami."

Unfortunately, he looked at Angelina Jolie's towering height again. Wayne was helpless and threw some perverted thoughts in his head aside. He turned his head and looked at Naomi Watts' eyes seriously and said, "How could I do that? What do you think of me as? Dear."

"Treat it as a livestock that can be sent to you at any time!"

The man's actions were seen by all Australian actresses. The two have known each other for nearly ten years, and she knows very well the man's thoughts.

Without waiting for Wayne to say something, Angelina Jolie walked towards them with a glass of champagne. Naomi Watts slowly narrowed his eyes and stared at the other side and came to her.

"Wayne, the cocktail party is coming to an end. Can you take me back?"

Angelina Jolie didn't even look at the Australian actress, without hiding her purpose, showing off her full figure under her low-cut evening dress, and at the same time, she sent an invitation that adults knew.

Especially when she saw the man's gaze and wandered on her body as soon as she immediately, Angelina Jolie's mouth couldn't help but start slowly rising. She didn't care about the gaze of the people around her. Instead, she did not avoid it, she tweeted a few strands of hair behind her ears, revealing her entire face.

At the same time, he took advantage of this action and took another step forward, not only bringing the distance between the two sides, but also shrugging the uncovered area of ​​his low-cut evening dress to the man's eyes.

"Well......"