hollywood draw

"A great masterpiece, "X-Men" will definitely make a big hit at the box office."

"Thanks."

"Mr. Greenberg, can you talk a few words alone..."

"Sorry, I can't leave now..."

The premiere of "X-Men" ended. After enthusiastic audience applause and hundreds of media participated in the premiere press conference, Wayne led the core creators of "X-Men" to a hotel specially booked by 20th Century Fox to attend an indispensable post-screening cocktail party.

As soon as he left the elevator, Wayne undoubtedly became the center of the crowd. Faces in the circle, lined up to greet him politely. Instead, several of the main creators of "X-Men" were left behind for a while.

"That bi**h, I wish I could have a slut at Wayne Greenberg in front of everyone."

Not far from the center of the banquet crowd, Rebecca Romeen, who played the magical girl in "X-Men", looked at Harry Berry with contempt. Especially when she saw Black Pearl wearing a poor Chanel dress with little fabric, she was always around Wayne and accepted the complimentary smile of everyone, which inevitably made her feel uncomfortable.

It is obvious that the guests who came today are star-studded, but whether it is the big stars in the circle, the directors and film executives, they are all surrounding Wayne and the 20th Century Fox Ceo Townsend Rossman, which makes the main creators of the crew unattended.

If that's all, it would be fine. Harry Berry has been sticking to Wayne since he stepped on the premiere red carpet. Whether it's the media's attention or the attention of all the big names on the platform, he has gained much more than these people.

"Listen, Rebecca."

Film director Boolean Singer had a sharp look, turned his head and glared at Rebecca Romeen, whispering: "I don't care how you get along in the group or what your relationship is in private, but in public, don't cause trouble for the crew!"

After hearing the director's warning, Rebecca Romeen shrugged slightly and signaled that he knew clearly.

"From the first stop of tomorrow's promotion, I need to see what you show to the public is the perfect working partner status in the crew, ok?"

The crew of "X-Men" and 90% of the crew of Hollywood are no different. The friction between various personnel during the filming process has never stopped. Of course, director Bourne Singer sees it all, but according to Hollywood's usual practice, as long as they do not affect the progress of work, they do not intervene.

Some situations do exist, that is, Harry Berry has always enjoyed treatments on the crew that far exceeds his value due to his relationship with Wayne Greenberg. Whether it is the huge makeup cart and nanny trailer, or the invisible unoffending of the producer, they have become isolated from other actors, and the reason for targeting Harry Berry.

You should know that other actors can't help but feel jealous of those living and working treatments similar to those of first-line actresses. Even director Boolean Singer still feels uncomfortable sometimes.

"She really treats herself as a first-line actress, right?"

When director Bourne Singer left with the producer and greeted the guests, the actors who were stuck in a bunch of people spoke again. Famina Jansen, who played the Phoenix woman, spoke sharply and pointed Harry Berry in a hidden voice.

Wayne refused Paul's invitation just now, and almost all the onlookers who were paying attention to them heard it. Just as Wayne's rejection, Harry Berry also raised his head slightly. This expression fell into the eyes of several actors who were uncomfortable, and that was definitely arrogant.

"Well, who made her mouth work, right?"

Rebecca Romeen shrugged exaggeratedly, lifting his hand and putting it in front of him and moving back and forth. At the same time, he opened his mouth slightly and kept pushing up and down the left face with his tongue.

"Hahaha..."

“…”

Her exaggerated and funny actions caused a wave of obscene laughter among the actors. Everyone was adults, and everyone knew what she was hinting at.

“Rebecca…”

Hugh Jackman, who plays Wolverine, shook his head helplessly and whispered: "Don't go too far, ok? We all know that being able to climb Wayne Greenberg's bed means Harry Berry is capable."

Everyone around them silently put away their smiles. Obviously everyone agreed with this statement. Don’t be stupid. This is Hollywood. There has never been a shortage of beautiful girls, and there has never been a shortage of beautiful girls who have only made the best in the circle.

In some ways, being able to successfully curry favor with a big boss in the circle like Wayne and maintain the relationship between the two parties. The situation of not being thrown away after being played is at least a sign of Harry Berry's ability.

Among these actors, Famina Jensen, a former model from the Netherlands, is a little confused. Speaking of which, she is lucky enough. Because of her outstanding face and figure, the Bon girl who was selected to star in "007: Golden Eye" debuted in Hollywood, and then participated in "X-Men", so she didn't know the hardships of many low-level actors.

"Hugh, I've heard before that many Hollywood female celebrities will try their best to please the producers and directors in order to become famous and to get the heroines in the project."

Looking at the polite and smiling big-name guest in the banquet hall, Famina Jansen leaned against Hugh Jackman, staring with big eyes and asking with a look of inquiry, "Is this kind of thing very common?"

"I just heard of it."

Hugh Jackman raised his head and took a sip of champagne, shook his head gently, and glanced over the former Dutch supermodel's ups and downs, whispering: "I have been working in Canada before. Like you, I don't actually know much about Hollywood."

He paused, recalled the comments he had heard, and continued again: "As far as I know, this kind of thing is not very common, but a very common behavior. You are very lucky, Famina, suppose that if you were in the Phoenix Girl audition and the producer asked you the question of 'Why should you choose you to play', what would you think of how to impress the producer?"

Famina Jensen nodded thoughtfully, while silently drinking the champagne in his hand, he squinted his eyes and looked at the lively crowd in the banquet hall.

Judging from her appearance, Hugh Jackman did not continue to talk about this topic. The agent told him about common sense in the circle that he had mentioned before.

In fact, what is the capital for beautiful boys and girls who do not have a good background and have a good background to come to Los Angeles to pursue their dreams of a celebrity? There is no doubt that they (they) have nothing but their bodies left.

Perhaps in the entertainment industry in other countries and regions, similar things have to be covered and carried out in private. But basically this is not a matter of Hollywood. There are never any unspoken rules here, because everything is on the surface.

Hugh Jackman glanced at Harry Berry in the crowd, especially the black beauty hugged the hands of the men beside her. Not to mention those young actors who have not achieved any results, even some well-known actors who have no care of the elders, wouldn’t they still hit walls around the circle?

The only way for a beautiful actress to end this "state" is to work hard to climb upward. When will her status reach the forefront and completely become a scarce resource in the circle be considered to have the initial right to "say no", such as Julia Roberts now.

That's right, once the status reaches their level, it means that no one can easily force them in this circle. The premise is that you can climb to that position and become an irreplaceable scarce resource in the eyes of capital.

Hollywood has never lacked similar successful "inspirational" stories. In the 1990s, Julia Roberts was known to almost everyone in the circle that she not only rolled the bed with the producer for the role of "The Pretty Beauty", but also from the casting assistant director to the master behind the scenes of each crew, she was all "sleeping" by her sincerity.

This is the fact. It doesn’t matter if an actress with no education and only a beautiful body on her body. If she wants to become a successful person in the eyes of the public, she must give the only thing she can give and must be very good to herself.

Even more than ten or twenty years later, there was a famous saying by Dazui Zhu to his agents in and out of the Hollywood Circle: As long as you can get this role, tell me who else to sleep with?!

The stories of Julia Roberts are at least an inspiration among many Hollywood actresses. After all, she has indeed become a representative actress in Hollywood in the 1990s with this ruthlessness, but she has also become a well-known producer in the circle a few years later, successfully making herself a benchmark in the eyes of countless actresses.

Even after the turn of the century, the trend of equal rights for women became more and more common in society, similar things still emerged in the Hollywood Circle.

Ironically, many female celebrities shouted about women's rights when facing the media. They turned around and stripped themselves of themselves, trying their best to climb onto the bed of powerful figures in the circle.

There are Julia Roberts in front and Rachel Mike Adams behind them. If you look at the Oscar-winning comments that were made famous by Harvey Weinstein, you will find that no matter how the times change, the career paths of those actresses with poor backgrounds have not changed at all.

Hollywood is glamorous on the surface, and female celebrities wearing major luxury brands are dignified and elegant. To put it bluntly, any industry in the world has far failed to reach such chaos and dirty as the North American film industry.

It seems that as soon as people step into Los Angeles, their desires are infinitely amplified. In the name of "freedom", they indulge themselves as if they have sex, and pursue fame and fortune as if they have sex. Everyone knows that behind the glamorous and beautiful Hollywood is like a big cesspool, but there is never a shortage of "smart people" who try their best to jump into the cesspool.

"It's getting late, so when you go to me or go back to the manor?"

The cocktail party that lasted for half a night ended. Harry Berry helped Wayne, who was drunk, into the elevator. She didn't care about Nina beside her and asked in the eyes of the man.

The two met for not a year or two, and they were both adults. Of course, both parties understood very well what this kind of question meant.

"Let's go back to the manor, we'll get up early tomorrow morning and go to the airport together."

Wayne responded with his tongue wide, shaking his dizzy head hard. Then, regardless of whether there were anyone else around him, he stretched out his right arm and hugged the black beauty, confused in the lake, pressing half of his body on the other person.

"Do you want help? Harry."

The elevator arrived at the first floor of the hotel and knew that his boss had indeed overdose tonight. Nina completely ignored the man's hand moving under Harry Berry's waist, just frowned and glanced at the media reporter at the entrance of the hotel, and asked in a low voice: "Can you hold the boss?"

"No problem, let's go."

Harry Berry shook his head, helped the man out of the elevator with all his strength, and walked towards Rolles, who had already parked at the hotel door.

In fact, Wayne did drink a little too much, but his mind was still clear. He didn't expect that the champagne that had been sipped all night would have such great potential. Even though the car drove quite steadily along the way, he almost couldn't help but vomit it several times.

There is no way, there are too many people who are curious tonight, and these people are all well-known figures in the circle. He and Townsend Rossman have never lacked colleagues who are constantly toasting.

However, when I returned to the manor and after a cold shower, the drowsy feeling finally disappeared. Wayne wore a bath towel and a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, and lay lazily on the lounge chair on the balcony. The whole manor had fallen into darkness and silence. Except for the lights in the hands of the security personnel who occasionally flashed, he could hardly see anything.

"Hani, you almost tore me up!"

Harry Berry wore a white bathrobe, tilted his head and wiped his hair with a towel while complaining to the balcony. "Damn it, I couldn't wear a low-cut evening dress the week before the publicity."

After the black beauty sat down, Wayne glanced at her in the dark and waved her hand lazily. Just then, the silent phone on the table rang.

"Say it, I'll listen."

He picked up the phone casually and his eyes slowly narrowed. It took less than half a minute. The phone in the man's hand hung up and was thrown back to the coffee table again.

"How is it? Has it reached five million dollars?"

Harry Berry looked nervous and asked immediately after the man hung up the phone.

The reason why they have not yet waited was the early box office results of "X-Men". She believes that not only the two of them are waiting tonight, but other crew creators and even executives of Twentieth Century Fox are also waiting for specific box office numbers.

"About $7.53 million."

Wayne's face showed a smile, and he stretched out his hand, gently brushed the woman's scarred upper body, and whistled gently. "Sleep at ease, Harry, Storm Girl will make your fame resound throughout the world."

Harry Berry frowned slightly, and her body was obviously feeling a little uncomfortable, but compared to the stinging pain caused by the bruises, she was in a very good mood at this moment, especially when she heard the box office numbers ahead of schedule, the corners of her mouth began to slowly curl up.

"Hani, you succeeded again, no."

Black Pearl didn't bother to wipe her half-dry hair, got up and squeezed into the man's recliner, stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, looked straight into the man's eyes, and said, "No, you have never failed. In the movie industry, you are the incarnation of God..."

"It's still early, and the subsequent box office trends of "X-Men" will depend on the promotion."

Wayne's mind was very clear, and she was not overwhelmed by a few words from the woman. Instead, she curled her lips gently, raised her hand and slapped the woman in the thigh. "When the video is off, let's talk about these things. Let's rest. We can sleep less than five hours before we have to get up and catch the plane..."

The lights on the third floor of the main building of Greenberg Manor went out, and the entire manor fell into silence, but there were always people who did not rest until the early morning.

In Beverly World City, not far from Greenberg Manor, an office on the seventh floor of Fox Building was shrouded in smoke. Several Fox executives held wine glasses and drank them all with smiles.

"We expect the early ticket price of X-Men to be $5 million."

Throwing the "Victory Champagne" glass on the table, Townsend Rossman sucked a big sip of the cigar and said proudly: "The preliminary statistics exceed more than 7.5 million US dollars, and the results are far better than we expected. Fox finally needs to have its own superhero series..."

"I have to say that Wayne Greenberg is Wayne Greenberg!"

Another middle-aged executive sitting on the sofa shook his head with admiration. "With him and a superhero without him means success or failure, just..."

"Sam, just what?" Townsend Rossman tilted his head and looked at Fox, the film and television executive.

"But the higher the box office, the greater the price we have to pay..."

An executive named Sam Reis carefully observed Ceo's face, but couldn't help but speak: "Townsen, if the box office of "X-Men" in the first weekend meets expectations, I suggest preparing the second part of "X-Men". We can do it ourselves. As long as we continue Wayne Greenberg's plan, the probability of success will not be less."

The tradition of Hollywood Film Company is to make a sequel immediately after a movie is successful. It is understandable that the producer’s salary mentioned by Sam.

In fact, everyone who is sitting here knows that no matter how many box office the X-Men can create, it is inseparable from the Hollywood dark film master. But people's views on something are constantly changing with development.

As long as you think of the terrifying basic salary and box office share, no executive looks good, including Townsend Rossman, who has worked hard to promote a cooperative relationship between the two parties. There is no doubt that no matter how successful the first part of "X-Men" is, most of the profits will be taken away by that young man.

Twentieth Century Fox needs to give a lot of money, but they have to express their gratitude to Wayne, who wouldn't have been too happy about this.

"Terry, after the box office on the first weekend came out, the screenwriter department immediately wrote the second script."

Townsend Rossman nodded and whispered.

"Okay, boss."

Twentieth Century Fox paid such a huge price and had to make it back as soon as possible. This is the voice of several executives.

When several people in the office left, Townsend Rossman picked up his wine glass again, slowly approached the window, and looked at the streets where lights were still flashing outside. No one knew what he was thinking.

“Boss.”

As a hardcore Fox CEO, Terry has been a senior executive in the film and television production department for many years. Looking at his boss's back, he instinctively felt that things had changed a little. Now that the film has not been successful, executives can't wait to start to feel sorry for the box office share, which is obviously a bit of a problem for quick success and instant benefits.

Townsend Rossman turned around, glanced and waved. "Go back early and rest, Terry, don't worry about me."

"Boss, I have a few words I want to talk to you."

“What?”

Terry's expression was very serious, and he had no intention of leaving at all. He said to his old boss standing in front of the window: "Time flies very quickly, but until now, I can still remember the scene when I personally received Wayne Greenberg."

He didn't lie. Until now, he would still accidentally remember the scenes of that year. At that time, the King of Darkness in Hollywood was still a young director who had just graduated, and was just a little person in front of him. It was himself who talked about "Happy Death Day" in person, and watched the little person, and at an incredible speed, he became the best-in-law in the circle.

"What do you want to say, Terry." Townsend Rossman turned around unexpectedly and asked with interest.

Terry said directly without hesitation in the fight: "I just want to remind you what Fox missed back then."

Just as he said that, Townsend Rossman's eyes immediately narrowed and his face became very ugly.

Over the years, basically no one inside 20th Century Fox would mention this, because everyone knows that if Townsend Rossman, who was still the director of distribution, had it been wrong to make a judgment, the Hollywood film industry giant, which is now ranked first, might have been.

For many years, the media's mockery of Twentieth Century Fox has always existed, but no one will discuss this matter internally. No one wants Chilolo to slap the current CEO in the face, right?

However, after only a dozen seconds, Townsend Rossman slowly laughed, stared at Terry, and asked, "You mean..."

"Boss, Fox missed an opportunity, so don't miss the second chance easily."

After gritting his teeth hard, Terry saw a smile on his old boss's face, and then said boldly: "If it were me, he would never easily throw Wayne Greenberg away! Not only would he not throw it away, but he also had to find a way to maintain the cooperation! Now Fox has this opportunity, and other film companies can't get it!"

"Very good, Terry."

Townsend Rossman looked at him with unconcealed appreciation, but suddenly sighed and whispered: "You must understand that smart people are not just you, go back to sleep."

When there was only one person left in the office, Townsend Rossman continued to hold his wine glass and stood in front of the window and looked at Burbank's early morning night view.

As he said, are the executives and shareholders of Twentieth Century Fox all fools? Is there only one smart person Terry? Obviously not.

However, when huge enough benefits appear, people often do not choose the safest approach and are more willing to choose gambling that can get more benefits! Twentieth Century Fox is a media giant and a listed company. Even if it is a CEO, many things can still be controlled.

Neither the company's senior management nor the board of directors would agree to continue to cooperate with Wayne. Even in his heart, he would vaguely bet big. After all, with the beginning of success, the chance of winning subsequent bets has increased significantly.