Hollywood Drawing

: 445 - Castle Rock acquired by Warner Bros.

Time slowly advanced to mid-August. Since Wayne started working, he has never cared about the box office trend of "The Departed". In his heart, this film has been confirmed to be profitable under the premise , there is absolutely no need to involve your own energy.

Besides, everything is under the watchful eye of Warner Bros.'s publicity department. Those people are more professional than him, and it is absolutely necessary to pay too much attention. The time for this film to make people more troublesome has not yet come, at least until the beginning of next year, before it will begin its real mission.

Therefore, Wayne must try his best to speed up the progress of the work at hand. The earlier the preparatory work for "The Dark Knight" starts, the more time will be left for shooting. The ideal result is nothing more than being able to catch up with the awards season next year. Shoot all footage.

Only in this way can he devote himself to the award-winning work with peace of mind. Even if there is still a long time left, as long as he thinks of various public relations lobbying activities, pull parties, and social cocktail parties, he will feel a headache.

But if you want that little golden man, all this is unavoidable. The purpose of the academy has always been like this. Not only will they not try to stop everyone from public relations, but they will also secretly encourage similar things, because in the eyes of the old men in the academy, they will only consider taking Xiaojin when you show an attitude of fighting for yourself. people to you.

Otherwise, even if your film is in line with their tastes and can impress as many media and film critics, as long as you don't have a hard-working attitude, you may not even get a nomination. The rules of the game have always been like this, and Wayne also Have to get used to it.

Under the awning in front of the small garden of Greenberg Manor, beside Wayne was his daughter, who was staring at the big curious eyes, watching around on the reclining chair. sentence and the plot of the script, or the planning of the layout of the camera.

And Naomi Watts has been in frequent contact with Nicole Kidman for some reason these days. Perhaps because of the lack of friends, she will leave the child to him these two mornings, and then talk to K. Mrs. Ruth went shopping or beauty treatment together.

"Boss, check it out."

There was a sound of rustling footsteps, and Wayne and the little guy beside him looked back at Nina who was coming. The Mexican bearded man on the other side looked at him with a questioning expression, and wanted to leave for a while to leave room for them to talk.

"Tell me, what's going on." Wayne shook his head slightly to Gilmour, habitually wanting to light a cigarette, but seeing the little guy beside him, he helplessly put down his movements.

"Hey, little Fendi, how about we go see butterflies?"

Hela, the housekeeper on the side, noticed his movements, took the initiative to hold the child, and walked to the garden in front.

Nina first took off her eyes and wiped it hard, then pulled out a bottle of beer from the ice bucket, raised her neck boldly and drank it. Then he unhurriedly opened the briefcase at hand, took out a few sheets of printed paper, and handed it to his boss.

Wayne saw that the little guy was being carried away, and after lighting a cigarette, he took over the printed materials, and at the same time, there was also the voice of the assistant lady explaining.

"Your senior editor, Julia Francis, the reason why she wants to see you is probably because of this." As she spoke, she pointed to the first sheet of printing paper, which was specially marked.

"Castle Rock Films has been operating fairly steadily in recent years, but it has never had any major profitable projects. Previously, the films produced by this small company, Castle Rock, have always been small and broad, and the cooperative distribution company is Sony Columbia, basically in a sustainable state.

But at the beginning of 1994, the owners of Castle Stone Pictures, Lauren Reiner and Alan Horn, chose to sell the entire small company, which has been inactive, to Ted Turner's Turner. The broadcaster, the two ended their entire investment in Hollywood and chose to take the money and walk away. "

Listening to Nina's explanation, Wayne simply put down the information that gave him a headache, and leaned on the reclining chair and listened patiently.

The assistant lady shrugged, as if she already knew he would do this, so she explained in more detail. "Originally, Turner Broadcasting Company did not change the business strategy of Castle Rock, which also guaranteed to a certain extent that this small and medium-sized film company would experience shocks.

However, this year, due to the surge in revenue in recent years, Warner Bros. began to completely rectify the company's upstream and downstream channels, increase the company's diversity, and keep acquiring good media companies in the circle. The Turner Broadcasting Company also failed to resist the gold dollar offensive and squeeze from Warner Bros. Ted Turner also chose to sell all the shares and take the money away.

In the middle of July this year, about a month ago, Warner Bros. merged the Hanna-Barbera production company, which also belongs to the Turner Broadcasting Group, with Castle Rock Films. The reorganized company is still called Castle Rock. , became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Warner Bros., but this series of reorganizations also made the original employees of the two companies face a brutal crisis of layoffs..."

Nodding his head, Wayne probably understood what was going on. His senior, who looked more like a black aunt than an editing master, should have also been affected by this acquisition and reorganization.

He knew the character of that senior a few years ago. She is a very optimistic filmmaker who loves her work. The most important thing is that she is down-to-earth and has no ambition. According to the normal behind-the-scenes work standards in the circle, it is long overdue to leave that small company with no future and choose a bigger stage to show himself.

But that senior didn't think so. She liked the quiet working atmosphere there. Even if the income was much lower than her work level, she did not complain at all. After the internship, she never left that late-stage studio. "How is Julia's situation now?" After thinking about it for a while, Wayne looked at the assistant. He knew that with the thoughtful behavior of the other party, he should have already understood this aspect before reporting to himself.

"Very bad!"

Shrugging, Nina's rare expression of admiration appeared on her face. "Her young son was diagnosed with leukemia, and he has spent all his savings over the years in order to see a doctor. At this time, there is another unemployment crisis..."

"." Wayne frowned, exhaled a large cloud of white smoke, interrupted the other party's narration, and asked suspiciously: "I remember talking to her a few years ago, should she be single? She is married. ?"

"No!"

The assistant lady shook her head. "She has two children, both adopted in the downtown black district!"

This is what Nina admires, a successful African-American woman who has escaped from the slums, but still maintains her love, and even insists on providing medical expenses for her child after finding out that she is sick.

You must know that in the general perception here, black lives are far from worth the money for medical treatment. Even in the perception of African Americans themselves, the same idea exists.

"You know, boss, insurance companies don't care..."

Yes, there are 10,000 ways for insurance companies to drag ordinary people who are powerless and powerless. I don't know how many times this has been on the news. When they drag on until the sick person dies, everything becomes easier, because no family, after suffering this kind of torture, has enough money to fight them.

Wayne sighed helplessly. He understood that, with the strong technician character of that senior, if he wasn't desperate, he probably wouldn't bother him.

"boss?"

"Help me make an appointment with Julia, just say I want to invite their family to the manor to be a guest and reminisce." He put the cigarette **** into the ashtray, shook his head, and continued: "In the name of the Greenberg Charity Fund, Help the child with leukemia find a better hospital."

"Then, the cost..."

"All go to the account of the charitable fund!"

Speaking of which, Wayne laughed at himself. This is the first time since the establishment of his charity fund that he has done a real charity. This foundation, which is mainly used for tax avoidance, did not expect to play a role one day.

He wouldn't give Julia a penny, just because he knew the senior with superb editing skills. As long as the other party got through this difficulty, he was fully capable of relying on his own skills to live well in Hollywood.

"The family party should be before next week. Next week, the second Batman film will be officially approved and a media conference will be held. By then, my time will be very tight." After that, he is ready to pick up the script and continue to work~www.readwn.com ~However, I couldn't calm down, so I simply threw the storyboard aside, looked at the assistant lady who was drinking beer leisurely, and asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Huh, of course."

Nina's face flashed with ridicule, and said: "Morgan Freeman is back. After the silence of the past few years, someone thought of this old African-American man with superb acting skills and brought him back."

"The next one."

Waving impatiently, Wayne was too lazy to listen to these gossips. It seems that the old man's bad end was because of himself, but in fact he didn't reach out the whole process, it was completely overreacted by Warner Bros., so he didn't care about the old man at all.

"The accountant team led by Colin Howard has completed reconciliation with Warner Bros. Most of the proceeds from The Matrix will be transferred to Greenberg Studios within a week."

Nina opened her work notebook and began to read one by one. It seems that she is in charge of these jobs, but in fact she has always mastered the proportions very well. As long as it is related to money, she will definitely find an opportunity to report it.

"Well, there is a very interesting thing here, you should be interested." Nina's eyes suddenly lit up, she pushed up her glasses, and looked at her boss. "Someone is defrauding money in your name. It was reported by the overseas distribution department of Warner Bros."

"what?"

"what?!"

Such a strange thing caught the attention of Wayne and Gilmour at the same time, and they looked at the assistant lady in surprise. You must know that the society here is full of commercialization, and at the same time, there must be a sound legal basis. They are very curious. Who would be stupid enough to do such a stupid thing.

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