hollywood draw

London was also very cold in January. The main managers of various departments of the Wonder Woman crew have basically been accustomed to the enthusiastic temperature of Los Angeles. Undoubtedly, in the biting cold weather, even if more than 90% of the shots have to be shot in the studio, it has made all the staff miserable.

Fortunately, after more than two months of filming, everyone, including the main actors, has entered the best working state. With tacit cooperation, at least in the literary opera, the shooting progress is far ahead of the scheduled plan.

After a scene on the streets of London, all the staff were busy packing up what they were at hand, everything seemed messy and well organized.

"This shit-like weather, f**k."

The male protagonist Matt Damon took off the hat from his head and threw it on the dressing table beside him. Even though he was wearing a thick cotton jacket and holding a cup of steaming coffee in one hand, he kept swearing in a low voice.

The makeup artists were used to it, they ignored his curse about the weather, and several people were constantly removing their makeup on their faces in an orderly manner.

"I noticed some not-so-good trends, Matt."

Luo Yinsi-Ledes, an agent from Caa, squatted beside his client, looking at the other party with anxiety. "It is best for you to devote all your energy to your work during the shooting. OK? Matt, don't have any other ideas."

“What?!”

After taking a warm towel, Matt Damon wiped his face twice, and at the same time, he waved his hand and drove away the three makeup artists around him.

He shook his head and observed it back and forth, and he looked at his agent nervously. "Hey, hey, hey, man, don't talk nonsense, all my thoughts are being filmed."

"Come on, Matt."

Luo Yins-Ledes widened his eyes and gently glanced at the heroine who was taking off her makeup. Due to nervousness, his hoarse voice was like a saw blade rubbing. "I know you too much, and I'm not blind either. You look at Angelina-Julie at the wrong look!

Listen, Matt. There are countless dewy couples in the Hollywood crew, and it is not uncommon for the heroine to sleep all over the entire crew, but Angelina Jolie is completely different, OK? I know that she is so hot that it makes people reluctant to move her eyes away, but at most I can only look at it, Matt, this is Wayne Greenberg's crew!"

As the filming progressed, it is not uncommon for the heroine who has the most scenes to fall in love with the drama, or the feeling of the drama.

But agent Luo Yins Laiders saw it very clearly. Not to mention Angelina Jolie's thoughts were all put on the young old man behind the director's monitor. Even if Angelina Jolie was interested and wanted to have passion for her customers, her customers should stay away.

"Damn it, is it that obvious?"

Matt Damon paused to look at the agent, his brows gradually frowned, and he murmured in a low voice: "Maybe because I have been in contact with her for too much time, and the eyes I look at her have changed. f**k, all the men in the entire crew are looking at her, not me alone."

The agent shook his head slightly, took a sneak peek at the director who was talking to the producer in the distance, but couldn't help but whisper: "Matt, I just tell you first, try not to cause possible trouble for yourself, this is a big trouble!

Think about what Harvey usually does? But now he is still making money for this man! The words are not nice, but that's the truth. You see, Harvey takes the crew with public relations almost all day, but does he take a look at Cate Blanchett?"

Nodding silently, Matt Damon whispered: "I understand, don't worry, Luo Yinsi, I'm not a little boy."

He is actually not stupid at all. He knows better than anyone else in his heart that his appearance is not a traditional handsome guy. He is neither handsome nor sexy and explosive muscles. He doesn't think that with his appearance, a woman in the circle can be moved.

Just like what he was chatting with Angelina Jolie while discussing the characters in the script, yes, this woman is indeed very sexy and beautiful, and it makes people can't help but think about it, but even so, in the past two months of cooperation, there may be a few words between each other that are true.

Although the male and female protagonists have a high status in the crew, just like most men and women in the Haolaiwu circle, even if they get along like friends, they will never be able to make friends with sincerity.

Not to mention him, he was very sure that even Angelina Jolie was still performing most of the time when facing Wayne Greenberg. This circle naturally cannot open up people to trust each other, and treating each other with sincerity is even more fantasy.

Just as the agent reminded him, he didn't want to cause trouble at all, so even though he was very moved by this woman, he wouldn't really do anything to please the other person.

"Boss, Bruce Rosenblum has arrived in London."

The staff was still cleaning up the shooting scene. Nina covered her mouth and hung up the phone, leaned behind Wayne and reported in a low voice. "He just checked in at the hotel and wanted to take the time to talk to you."

"At this time, he is not busy with the promotion of awards season in Los Angeles. Why did he come to London?" Turning his head and looking at Nina, Wayne asked in surprise.

"I don't know." The assistant lady shook her head gently, recalled for a moment and said, "The tone of listening to him on the phone should not be for us. There is probably something else. The tone of his desire to chat with you is more like a visit between friends."

Although I couldn't quite understand why the other party came to London at this point in time, Wayne still waved his hand and took the lead in walking towards his car. "Let's go, let's meet old friends."

"Do you want to wait for our "Wonder Woman"?" Nina asked, pushing her glasses and following behind him.

"Forget it, let's go back first."

Since this time it was filmed on the streets of London, there were relatively few shots, especially some long-range shots, which were basically done in the past two days, so Wayne rarely did not wait for the crew and got in the car and wanted to drive towards the hotel in one step.

Along the way, he kept calculating the production time of "Wonder Woman". Seeing that the camera material was about to be finished, his later work was put on.

There are not many scenes left. Except for the war scenes arranged in the suburbs and the large-scale explosion scenes are more difficult for him, some other scattered shots need to leave London and be filmed in other European countries.

However, these are relatively simple. As soon as all shooting plans in London are over, most of the crew will be disbanded on the spot. At that time, he and Gilmore will split the crew into two, and each brings some of the cameramen to finish the filming soon.

Finally, I will return to Los Angeles before the end of January and take some scattered shots at Warner Studios, and the project will enter the later stages of work.

He lowered his head and calculated the Oscar's previous work plan. As soon as Wayne walked into the hotel lobby, he was immediately hugged by an old white man bear.

"Well, long time no see Wayne."

"Damn it, you scared me."

Wayne smiled and patted Bruce Rosenblum on the back. The two of them walked towards the elevator, greetings while walking.

"Hey, man, you're not very good."

After looking at Wayne's face carefully, Bruce Rosenblum smiled and shook his head, pointed at his slightly swollen bags in his eyes, and joked: "I heard that during the filming in Italy, two beauties have been living in your suite. Dog shit, you have been in London for so long, haven't you recovered yet?"

"f**k, Bruce, I'm tired to hurry up the shooting progress!"

He curled his lips without hesitation, Wayne took the lead in walking into the elevator. After the elevator door was closed, he continued: "Bruce, you don't understand this feeling of being under great pressure all the time. Do you know? Since October, I have not had a good sleep. I dreamed almost every night under a huge pressure of hundreds of millions of dollars."

Hearing his words, Bruce Rosenblum put away the joke on his face, looked at him and nodded, indicating that he could understand the situation.

Since the overall commercialization of Hollywood, each crew leader has been under tremendous pressure from the beginning of the project preparation, and has been like this for so many years.

Wayne's situation this time is obviously different from other crew leaders, because he has a bigger burden and heavier one.

You should know that this year's project is not just one, but two projects, "Superman" and "Wonder Woman". Moreover, the budget of these two projects has reached 200 million US dollars. If we look at it from this perspective, Wayne, as the head of the two projects, can be said to be carrying the heaviest financial pressure in Hollywood's history.

I won’t talk about how successful he was before, but one thing is certain: if he messed up the two major projects in his hands, even with his current status, he would still be hidden by the Warner Bros. The rest of the cooperation will become the radish in front of the donkey.

You know, in addition to Warner Bros., there are countless people in the entire Hollywood who are looking forward to his failure.

"I came here this time, actually for other things."

After the two returned to Wayne's suite, Bruce Rosenblum did not mention the project anymore. Instead, he took out a cigar box, carefully trimmed one, and handed it to Wayne while saying inadvertently.

"You happen to be in London, so you just came to talk to you. We haven't seen each other for a while."

He took the cigar handed over by the other party and gently turned it back and forth in his hand. Wayne watched him trim one again, and a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

With a "stumble", the spray gun emitted a blue flame. He patiently ignited the end of the cigar until he nodded with satisfaction, then put it in his mouth and took a big mouthful, stopped for a few seconds before spitting it out.

"Look, don't you enjoy this thing very much now?"

With a smile, Bruce Rosenblum still remembers that when he and Jeff invited this guy to smoke a cigar a few years ago, he could see the other person's face reluctant to refuse.

“In fact, I still like cigarettes more than cigars.”

After glanced at the smiley Warner Bros. distribution director, Wayne showed no embarrassment at all, shrugged and admitted openly: "Even if I can enjoy the mellowness of the cigar now, I still can't help but want to suck it into my lungs."

The two men's eyes collided and laughed out loud at the same time.

The whole upper body was in the soft sofa. Wayne waved his hand and looked across the table and asked, "Tell me, Bruce, what do you want to talk to me about. Hey, don't deny it. I will return to Los Angeles in a while. By then you have time to chat with me and smoke cigars, but you just come to London."

"You're not curious, what am I doing in London?"

Bruce Rosenblum did not deny it, but he still crossed his legs and glanced at Nina, who was looking at the magazines in history. He knew better than anyone else and must not underestimate this woman with an ordinary appearance. He wanted to know what this woman guessed.

"You don't have to look at Nina." Wayne exhaled a large ball of green smoke with the aroma of fruit wood and said directly: "She didn't guess, but... I thought of something."

Speaking of this, he stared at Bruce Rosenblum's glasses and spoke very slowly. "You come here this time, and it is likely that you will personally promote the little wizard."

When these words are linked together, Wayne subconsciously sounded the little wizard. In addition, at this point in time, he inferred that in the next two years, the Warner Brothers will use its huge media resources to fully promote the global popularity of the little wizard.

Warner Bros. Distribution Manager, this position is not just responsible for distributing its film projects. It includes its television networks, magazines, newspapers, books, and even public relations, publicity and marketing, etc. It can be said that all matters related to promotion and marketing are all managed by the distribution manager.

In recent years, in addition to the DC series in his hands, are there any other projects worthy of Warner Bros. distribution managers who have personally gone abroad from their headquarters in Los Angeles? The only answer is the little wizard mentioned by the other party a long time ago.

"Shit, you won't keep staring at the little wizard, are you?"

Hearing Wayne's affirmative answer, Bruce Rosenblum's mouth grew up instantly, and he didn't care that the cigar ash fell on the carpet, and he almost stood up in shock.

"I'm not that idle yet." Wayne rolled his eyes and said casually without hesitation.

Who knew Bruce Rosenblum muttered: "This is not accurate..."

That's right, if there is any single filmmaker in Hollywood who is interested in the copyright of film and television adaptation in books, then the first one is Wayne, and there is no controversy about this.

Only this guy will use a movie studio that looks like an empty shell to keep swallowing up the copyright of adaptations that only large film companies will be interested in.

"You don't really think I'm a copyright monster, do you? Bruce, I've always been sober."

Seeing Big Bruce Rosenblum's expression as if he was a ghost, Wayne explained with a smile: "I understand better than anyone else, what kind of copyright I can operate and make money, and what kind of copyright I can't play with.

Just like the little wizard you value, without Warner Bros.’s global promotion channel, do you think I can run such a project from scratch?”

Since he had finally talked, he simply said bluntly. "The first goal of all the film and television copyrights I bought is to make money. It seems that it cannot operate in a short time. Even if it is given to me for free, Greenberg Studio will not want it."

Seventy percent of his words are the truth. Greenberg Studio is crazy about purchasing copyrights, and its first purpose is always to make money. A clearer statement is actually to increase the weight of this deformed empty shell studio.

"Okay, it's your studio."

Shaking his head helplessly, Bruce Rosenblum leaned forward and looked at Wayne with a little oppression. "The reason I came to you this time was to tell you that someone has expressed great interest in your studio."

“What?”

This time Wayne looked surprised. He used the action of serving coffee to hide his eyes and asked with his head down, "What's going on?"

Bruce Rosenblum's eyes slowly narrowed and whispered: "Wayne, Greenberg Studio has expanded too quickly, which has stirred the sensitive nerves of the parent company Time Warner, some shareholders..."