Chapter 913

Seeing owitz come out, David O'Connor, who was talking with MIA Sara, nodded to him and left first.

Some things are best arranged by boss himself.

After beckoning them to return to the office and sit down, Michael owitz handed over the script and said to them, "I just want to remind you that this is the script that Simon westero saw in person. After three days of audition, you two have to understand the script even if you don't sleep in recent days. Some people may only have this chance in their whole life. If they screw it up, they won't have it 。”

Although CAA is a cross agency system, brokers are closely linked, and no one can absolutely control some customers, but brokers of different levels are still quite different.

Mark Ferguson and Mia Sala are not the bottom class, but they are also the kind that owitz would never notice. At this time, they are trembling and inevitably excited to hear him say so.

Simon westero saw the script himself, and Hollywood understood what it meant.

If MIA Sala can get the role, the career that had been hopeless is likely to come back to life, and mark Ferguson, who is 37 years old, can take the opportunity to go further.

As they continued to turn, owitz turned to MIA Sara and asked casually, "mia, do you have a boyfriend now?"

For a moment, Mia Sara didn't know why owitz asked about this. She felt that she was kicked in the calf by her agent. She was still a little confused. She hesitated a little and said honestly, "I've been dating Jason Connery recently, the son of Mr. Sean Connery."

Michael owitz showed a slightly formulaic smile and nodded: "Jason is good. So, that's it. Remember to prepare for the audition

Then he got up to see off the guests.

Mark Ferguson respectfully said goodbye to owitz. As soon as he went out, he glanced at MIA Sara, who was holding the script beside him. He became more and more depressed and kept silent until he arrived at the underground parking lot of CAA building. Mark Ferguson came to his black Chevy and pressed the remote control car lock, but suddenly he couldn't help kicking it.

Bang -

in the reverberating dull sound, a large part of the door on one side has been concave. The middle-aged man, who is not tall and bald, still hasn't calmed down after one foot, kicks several feet continuously, and curses in a low voice quickly.

Mia Sara looks at the agent who suddenly erupts. Her joy turns to panic. She doesn't know what happened. She can only step back a little. Until the agent gets on the car, she hesitates to open the door and get into the co driver's seat.

As the black Chevy pulled out of the parking lot, Mia Sara finally asked, "mark, did I do something wrong?"

The agent, who has recovered a little, looks straight ahead, involuntarily raises his foot to step on the accelerator, and then relaxes: "what do you say?"

Mia salanene said, "I, I don't understand."

"Do you think you can get extra care by telling Mr. owitz that you're dating Jason Connery?" he said

Mia Sara doesn't talk. She does.

As the first big name of CAA signing contract, Sean Connery's position in this talent agency has always been quite detached. It was Connery who opened up the grass-roots team of owitz. In order to show respect and gratitude for the old 007 actor, CAA headquarters has reserved an office for each other.

Mia Sara met Connery's son, Jason Connery, when she was shooting an HBO TV movie last year. After being pursued by the other party, she soon began to fall in love. Of course, she had the idea of fighting for some resources with the help of Jason Connery's father, Sean Connery.

Even if the final still can not turn over, if you marry each other, it is also a good belonging.

After all, although Jason Connery is the second generation of stars who is the least successful one in Hollywood by virtue of his father's relationship, Sean Connery is still very rich and will not be left to his son in the future.

Mark Ferguson, seeing that the woman beside him had not responded, couldn't help reminding him, "then why did Mr. owitz just ask about this?"

Mia Sara was stunned. Her agent reminded her that she was not too stupid to be cured.

This kind of thing can't be more common in Hollywood.

The atmosphere fell into silence again. After driving for a while, mark Ferguson sneered: "do you understand? Simon westero, that's Simon westero. Ha, think about Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Valerie Gallino, famik Jensen Think about these people, think about yourself, Mia. Now do you understand what you've missed? "

"I..." Mia Sara, of course, understood. Her face turned red and white. Then she took out the script that had just been put into her satchel and said to her agent, "mark, I've got the script, haven't I? Should I'm going to break up with Jason tonightMark Ferguson wanted to sneer again, but he was still a little frustrated. MIA Sara missed it, which in fact means that his agent missed it: "this script must have been given to you by westrow, but if westero's purpose is very clear, that is, to be interested in you, do you think Mr. owitz just needs to ask you that question?"

Mia Sara's face flickered for a moment, and she understood.

The joy of just getting the script is gone.

Since the script of ghost of terror was sent to Simon westero himself, it means that the big man noticed her as a little actor. However, the other party obviously did not express a specific purpose, such as inviting to dinner.

In fact, the subtext of Michael owitz's question is not to ask her whether she is single or not. In Hollywood, even if she is married, she is actually testing whether she is willing or not.

If he wanted to, owitz might find a chance to send her to westrow.

Then, as long as you catch up with that man, even if she is now 29 years old, with each other's energy, there is still a chance to tie in with the series of actresses just listed by her agent.

That's a thousand times better than Sean Connery's son.

As a result, she just messed up.

Or Sean Connery.

If I didn't mention Jason Connery's name or Sean Connery just now, even if she said that she was married and some CAA boss would be more tactful, I could continue to help her get in touch with Simon westero.

It's Sean Connery.

In fact, because of the rapid changes in the pattern of Hollywood in recent years, Sean Connery, like many old Hollywood celebrities, has entered a low point in his career. Now Hollywood has become a large number of new generation world with DC film universe as the core.

However, Sean Connery's meaning to CAA is too special.

Just like the permanent office reserved by CAA headquarters for Connery, Sean Connery is a symbol of CAA, a benchmark used by CAA to show its attitude towards star actors.

Therefore, Michael owitz will not do anything that may damage the relationship between CAA and Connery. If you introduce your son and girlfriend to another Hollywood tycoon, let alone expose it in public, even if it spreads in private, it will seriously damage the reputation of CAA. After all, many people will think, owitz, is that how you treat the great benefactor who helped you achieve your career?

Even if she had a chance to get in touch with westero through this project, considering certain factors, Michael owitz might create obstacles in turn.

Thinking about her 17-year-old entry into this circle, after so many years of wasted time, she will soon be 30 years old, and she is just a third tier actress who is still on the decline. Just now, she missed another chance that might be the last time in her life. MIA Sara feels that her heart is getting empty, her nose is getting sour, and her eyes are getting more and more astringent

after work in Los Angeles .

In the busy traffic flow on Santa Monica Avenue, some oncoming drivers can only notice that the black haired woman on a Chevy co pilot is covering her face. I don't know what happened.

……

Hollywood is a circle.

Compared with CAA, as the most powerful spider king in the core of this big web, Simon's news is more well-informed.

The following weekend, the news about the Chinese film universe came back to Simmons.

Whether inside or outside the circle, many people ask him about the news directly or indirectly.

If daenerys entertainment really wants to build a Chinese movie universe, it will certainly involve all aspects of interests. Moreover, the level of this series will basically be equal to that of DC movie universe, and it will no longer be the small size of evocation movie universe.

Therefore, Warner, for example, must worry about whether the DC movie universe firmly held by Simon will be marginalized, and whether it will sacrifice the DC movie universe for the benefit of the Chinese movie universe. And the first consideration of major talent agency companies is how to share a piece of this big plan. There are other film companies, we have such a difficult day, someone put a giant out, still alive?

To tell you the truth, Simon has long planned to put the whole China Film Series on the big screen, but he has not considered the so-called China Film universe, because it is not suitable.

Both marvel and DC, who have a long history, and Warren and his wife, who have been working as psychic investigators for decades, have accumulated a lot of materials for the creation of the two movie universes. In contrast, although Tolkien's Middle Earth series is set in a grand background, the whole story is clear. Even the Hobbit trilogy in the original time and space is well known Fill out far fetched, this novel originally a movie can finish.

It's certainly not impossible to forcibly expand into a movie universe.

However, doing so will only add another assembly line to Hollywood, and what may be lost is the billows and massiness of the Lord of the rings trilogy that can be recorded in the history of films.Simon is not going to do that.

At least, Simon is not going to do that until Peter Jackson's version of the Chinese epic is finished.

What will happen in the future.

Of course, except for a few people who need to explain, Simon doesn't intend to clarify the misunderstanding about the Chinese film universe, which is not a bad thing for future film series.

April 15.

Monday.

After a short weekend, a busy week comes again.

The most popular event in the westero system this week was the listing of melisandro on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, April 19. However, on Monday, westero's sudden disclosure of a shareholding report aroused widespread concern.

This is a promise Simon made with Warren Buffett last year.

During the negotiation of merger and acquisition of metropolitan ABC Group, as the major shareholders who have decisive role in the deal, Simon and Warren Buffet have formed a tacit understanding. They will increase their holdings on the eve of this year's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and become the major shareholders with more than 5% of the shares of the company, so as to use the reputation of the Westeros system to enhance investors' confidence in Warren Buffet and, most importantly, reduce their investment The pressure on Mr. Buffett for refusing to invest in technology stocks.

In the late 1990s, Berkshire Hathaway's stock price continued to fall because it refused to invest in the new technology field that was in a frenzy. Many shareholders jumped out and accused him of missing the best investment opportunity in this era. Some people threw eggs at him at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting.

Simon started the wave of new technology ahead of time. Warren Buffett, who has no change in his investment philosophy, still insists on rejecting technology stocks. In recent years, he is facing increasing pressure.

Fortunately, last year, Berkshire Hathaway became a popular shareholder of Denise entertainment group through the acquisition of metropolitan ABC Group by Denise entertainment. Prior to the IPO of tincobail, Berkshire Hathaway also participated in the subscription of $60 million worth of new shares.

These operations linked to the popularity of the westero system, more or less eased the pressure faced by Buffett.

This time, westrow system directly stepped forward and raised the 4.9% Berkshire Hathaway stock that had been quietly absorbed before to 5.1%. Reporting publicly to the SEC is actually equivalent to Simon's personal platform for Warren Buffett to support Berkshire Hathaway's business strategy.

With Berkshire Hathaway's 3.5% one-day share price rise on Monday, at least no one will throw an egg at Buffett at the 1996 annual meeting next month.

New York.

Simon flew here yesterday afternoon and spent the whole day Monday at ABC headquarters on the upper west side.

The first season of "American Idol" ended on March 28, with an average audience of 33.6 million. Because of the high attention of the official events in the second half of the season, the total number of 32 episodes was nearly 2 million more than the 31.7 million in the first half of last year, and the peak audience of the last episode was 51.3 million, which is a miracle.

Of course, we can't stop for such a hot achievement.

At the same time, four special programs were added at the end of the season, mainly behind the scenes gags, award-winning interviews and so on. They were just broadcast last Thursday, with an average audience of 23.9 million.

In the first season of "American Idol", the total revenue from the inter program advertising alone amounted to US $690 million, and the revenue from the sponsorship of other programs and the purchase of production rights by overseas TV stations also reached US $170 million.

Up to now, the total revenue of the whole "American Idol" project is 860 million US dollars. The gross profit of this reality show in the first quarter alone reached a staggering $630 million, excluding the total project production and publicity expenses of $230 million, which is expected to contribute more than one-third of the profit of danielis Entertainment Television Division in fiscal year 1996.

It's against the sky.

Therefore, Simmons did not dare to despise such a golden hen. In the morning, she personally participated in the summary of the first season and the planning meeting of the second season.

Then, the afternoon schedule is just as important.

It's still a meeting, with Denise TV and igritte portal participating in. The topic is the Atlanta Olympics, which will open on July 19.

This year is the 100th year of the Olympic Games, which is of great significance.

Simon is also depressed. In 1993, NBC won the right to broadcast the Olympic Games with a price of 456 million US dollars. At that time, Simon could not interfere in ABC's decision, but Tom Murphy and Warren Buffett were conservative and stingy in sports expenses, so they naturally failed to compete with NBC.

This year, we must miss it. On the premise that danielis entertainment increases its sports business layout and supports ESPN with a large amount of money, we can't stand by and watch it.

That's what I'm going to say.

Although there is no right to broadcast, Denise can not be indifferent.

The Olympic Games can't be broadcast, so news gathering can be done. In order to reduce the cost of cooperation, danielis and igritte will form a team to report on TV and Internet at the same time.At the beginning of the conference, Jeff Bezos, who flew to the conference in person, first brought up a piece of bad news: "there is a lot of resistance on NBC's side in the negotiation on the online broadcasting right of Olympic events. The other side initially asked for a six-month window period and several negotiations. At present, it is still 45 days after the closing of the Olympic Games. That is to say, we can put the video of the Olympic events on YouTube . If it's a movie or a TV play, it's not a problem. The timeliness of sports events is too strong. In 45 days, the heat of the Olympic Games has completely disappeared, and the offer of the Olympic Committee is also stuck at 120 million US dollars. I don't think there is any need to continue the negotiations. "

At this time, Jeff Bezos is talking about the negotiation between igritte and the International Olympic Committee on the purchase of the online broadcasting rights of Olympic events. It is not live broadcasting. For large-scale events such as the Olympic Games, the current live broadcasting of network conditions is not realistic, but the broadcasting rights of the video of major events on the YouTube platform.

The core of this large-scale sports event is competition after all.

Because of the huge commercial interests of sports industry in western society, copyright is very important. The copyright of the Olympic Games belongs to the International Olympic Committee, whether NBC or other national TV stations, what they buy is only the right to broadcast.

Since the broadcasting right has been missed, the westrow system is considering to try to put the videos of major events on the YouTube platform as soon as possible.

Now, it's clear that things don't work out.

When igritte wants to get the right to broadcast the game video on the Internet, the biggest obstacle is NBC, which has spent a lot of money to buy the broadcasting right. The other party has put forward the concept of window period similar to film distribution. 45 days seems to be much shorter than the three-month window period around the cinema line distribution and video recording, but it is basically worthless for sports events that pay attention to effectiveness.

After all, sports events look at a heartbeat, and often focus on the results.

When the dust settles, the public will not be interested in most of the games, except for a few particularly exciting games.

Igrit didn't expect to get the right to play the video of the event in real time. He also considered the window period. However, the reasonable window period that can be accepted here is 3 days, and the longest can't exceed 7 days. NBC insists on 45 days. The difference is too big. The quotation of the International Olympic Committee obviously has the tendency of slaughtering fat sheep, so there is no need to talk about it.

Simon, who personally presided over the meeting, and so on, said that he wanted to make a direct statement and not waste any more time. After a little pause, he still looked at the crowd: "do you have any opinions? Let's talk about it."