Chapter 019

Jonathan Friedman has clearly explained to Simon all the related disputes involved in the whole project, and he has rejected the contract. Simon can foresee that he will have a very difficult road to go next.

How could wma, the largest talent agency in Hollywood, let go of its first project it tried to transform. Wma has been in Hollywood for a hundred years. If the other party wants to clean up, maybe just one phone call is enough to make him a new little screenwriter in Hollywood.

However, Simon did not regret the decision.

He has experienced too much in his previous life. Simon doesn't want to compromise his life from the beginning.

Back in Santa Monica, Simon continues his pace of life step by step.

These days, Simon has been trying to plan the specific shooting details of "Lola Run", and he has not changed his plan because of the changes in the morning.

It took Simon an afternoon to visit several movie equipment rental companies in downtown Santa Monica. He inquired in detail about the rental prices of all kinds of shooting equipment needed for "Lola Run" and took notes carefully.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Simon went back to the motel, ate, bathed and went to bed. At 10:50 p.m., I arrived at Griffin supermarket on time and started working all night.

The next morning, Simon called Jonathan's office again, hoping to make an appointment for the next meeting.

To Simon's surprise, the phone was not answered.

After several unsuccessful calls, Simon planned to go to wma again, but Jonathan's assistant, Owen Wright, drove by himself.

Owen Wright, in a hurry, tells Simon that Jonathan has completely abandoned the packing project of "Butterfly Effect" and flew to wma headquarters in New York yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, he hopes Simon can wait patiently for a few days. Jonathan still hopes to continue to act as his agent.

Owen Wright, who obviously had to visit other clients, simply left after a few words with Simon. Although Simon had a kind of joy and surprise in his heart, he was not too surprised by Jonathan's decision.

Yesterday's extremely depressed state of the agent, obviously has been like a spring to the extreme. Simon doesn't know how much Jonathan's rebound has to do with him, but as long as the agent doesn't completely lose his "resilience", it will almost come out sooner or later.

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Wma was first established in New York and later developed to Los Angeles.

Since the 1950s, with the rapid rise of American TV industry and the silence of Hollywood movies for more than 20 years, wma has been focusing on the east coast. Even now, although Hollywood film industry has begun to recover and the focus of American media industry has moved westward again, a group of core executives of wma still stick to New York.

In Manhattan, the headquarters of wma is located in a building on 25th Street next to Madison Square Garden.

When Simon and Irving Wright met in New York on the east coast, it was almost noon.

At this time, in a conference room of wma headquarters, the quarrel that lasted for a whole morning continued.

After making up his mind yesterday, Jonathan Friedman prepared his way back and rushed to New York. In any case, he didn't want to give up everything he had accumulated after more than 20 years of struggle in wma, so he decided to take the initiative to seek the support of the top management of wma.

Norman Broca's biased behaviors in dealing with the butterfly effect project also gave him enough reasons to do so.

Suddenly, Norman Broca was furious when he heard that Jonathan Friedman was going to give up the butterfly effect completely. The whole management of wma had reached a tacit agreement on this matter. Jonathan could not have been unaware of the consequences of the failure of this packaging attempt on wma. He dared to do so!

In vain, Norman Broca arrives at Jonathan's office in person, only to learn that he has left the company.

Enraged, Norman Broca simply let security seal up Jonathan's office, and even drove Owen Wright out of the company.

If you leave like this, don't come back.

Until late in the evening, Norman Broca's anger did not dissipate. Suddenly, he received a call from New York and learned that Jonathan Friedman had flown to the east coast. Soon to figure out what the other party was going to do, Norman Broca went to New York without hesitation.

By the time I got to Manhattan, it was 2 a.m. on the east coast.

The conflict between the two senior executives of the West Coast headquarters was so blatant that the whole wma management was quickly shocked.

So this morning, wma Chairman Lu Weiss, CEO Lee Stevens and other board members all rushed to the company headquarters.

It was followed by a whole morning of bickering.

Although Jonathan Friedman always looks gentle in the face of customers, he also has a strong side.In the face of the company's big men, Jonathan mercilessly accused Norman Broca of his weak behavior of compromising on his own initiative with just a little pressure on the studio. At the same time, he also criticized the other party's selfish attitude of considering only his own interests in the details of follow-up cooperation.

Norman Broca naturally fought back, claiming that he would implement the company's first packaging project as soon as possible, which is really for wma's consideration.

Norman Broca doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with his decision to favor his clients on the contract.

Taking into account "war game", which ranked fifth in North America box office in 1983, and "the genius of skipping classes", which is also expected to make more than $70 million box office this year, Matthew Broderick has two top ten movies in North America box office just four years after his debut.

Such a movie star who is expected to become the next Tom Cruise is right for the company to make any tilt in resources.

Norman Broca has been in the company since he was 15 years old with the help of his uncle, who is the vice president of wma. After decades of contacts, most of the board members of the company are on his side.

However, Jonathan Friedman's backer is wma Chairman Lu Weiss, whose strength can not be underestimated.

Although he is very dissatisfied with Jonathan's initiative to intensify the contradiction, Lu Weiss has to firmly stand on his own side. Otherwise, Jonathan Friedman will be suppressed and Lu Weiss himself will be involved.

Let the two quarrel for a whole morning. At lunchtime, Lu Weiss took the initiative to mediate and discuss the solution with several other board members.

Jonathan has yet to disclose his decision to give up the butterfly effect packaging project, so there is room for maneuver.

After lunch, the other members of the board left separately, and Lu Weiss also announced to them the results of their preliminary discussions.

In any case, the butterfly effect packaging project must continue. However, Lu Weisi will personally take over the project and discuss the cooperation plan with the film company again. In addition, Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman both need to let it go completely. All arrangements for the follow-up of the project are directly decided by the headquarters.

Now, Norman Broca knows that it won't do him any good to keep fighting. Jonathan Friedman also managed to get rid of his hot potato and keep his position.

As a result, although on the surface are very unwilling to show, the two also agreed to come down.

However, there are always too many unexpected changes in this world.

Early the next morning, before Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman could get back to Los Angeles, they saw a piece of news that caught everyone off guard from the latest issue of Hollywood Reporter.

"Hollywood Reporter" did not know where to get the news, suddenly poked out the whole recent incident.

In the first half of the year, the continuous storm has not completely dissipated, and the sudden revelation of Hollywood Reporter has made wma fall into chaos again.