Hollywood Hunter

Jonathan Friedman has clearly explained to Simon all the entanglements involved in the entire project. By rejecting the contract, Simon can foresee that he will have a very difficult road ahead.

It messed up the first project that WMA tried to transform, how could this Hollywood's largest talent agency let it go. With the horror of WMA operating in Hollywood for a hundred years, if the other party wants to clean up themselves, perhaps only a phone call is enough to make him, a young screenwriter who just debuted, difficult to do in Hollywood.

However, Simon did not regret the decision at all.

He had experienced too much in his previous life, and Simon didn't want to be complacent from the beginning of his life.

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

These days, Simon has already begun to plan the shooting budget for "Lola Run", and he has not changed his plan because of the morning changes.

After spending an afternoon, Simon visited several film equipment rental companies in downtown Santa Monica, consulted in detail about the rental prices of various types of filming equipment needed to shoot "Lola Run", and took careful notes.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Simon returned to the motel to eat, take a bath, and sleep. At 10:50 in the evening, I rushed to Roger's 7-11 convenience store on time and started the overnight shift.

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

To Simon's surprise, no one answered the call.

After several consecutive calls to no avail, Simon planned to go to WMA again, but Jonathan’s assistant Owen Wright drove over.

Irving Wright, who looked hurriedly, told Simon that Jonathan had completely abandoned the package project of "Butterfly Effect" and had flown to WMA headquarters in New York yesterday afternoon. At the same time, he hoped that Simon could wait patiently for a few days. Jonathan still hopes to continue to serve as his agent.

Owen Wright, who was obviously going to visit other customers, briefly chatted with Simon and left. Although there was a kind of joy and surprise in Simon's heart, he was not too surprised by Jonathan's decision.

The agent who was in an extremely depressed state yesterday was obviously like a spring that was suppressed to the extreme. Simon doesn't know how much Jonathan's rebound has to do with him, but as long as the agent does not completely lose his ‘resilience’, it will almost happen 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 the American television industry and the silence of Hollywood movies for more than two decades, the focus of WMA's work has been on the East Coast. Even now, although the Hollywood film industry has begun to recover and the center of gravity of the American media industry has moved west again, the core executives of WMA are still sticking to New York.

Manhattan, 25th Street, in a building next to Madison Square Garden, where the WMA headquarters is located.

When Simon and Owen Wright met, it was almost noon in New York on the East Coast.

At this time, in a conference room at WMA headquarters, the quarrel that had lasted all morning continued.

After Jonathan Friedman made up his mind yesterday and prepared for himself, he hurried to New York. In any case, he did not want to give up all that he had accumulated after more than 20 years of struggle in WMA, so he decided to preemptively and actively seek the support of WMA senior management.

Norman Broca's various biased behaviors in dealing with the "Butterfly Effect" project also gave him enough reasons to do so.

Suddenly heard that Jonathan Friedman intends to completely abandon the "Butterfly Effect", Norman Broca almost flew into a rage. The entire management of WMA has reached a tacit understanding about this matter, and it is impossible for Jonathan not to know this package. What kind of consequences would WMA have if he failed to try? He even dared to do so!

Calling back to no avail, Norman Broca rushed to Jonathan's office in person, only to learn that the other party had left the company.

Angrily, Norman Broca simply asked the security to seal up Jonathan's office, and even drove Irving Wright out of the company.

Since you left with such a wave of hands, don't come back again.

Until the evening, Norman Broca, whose anger had not dissipated, suddenly received a call from New York and learned that Jonathan Friedman had flown to the East Coast. Soon to understand what the other party was going to do, Norman Broca did not hesitate to chase after New York overnight.

When we arrived in Manhattan, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning on the East Coast.

The two executives at the West Coast headquarters were so brazenly conflicted, the entire WMA management was naturally quickly alarmed.

As a result, this morning, WMA Chairman Lu Weis, company CEO Lee Stevens and some other board members all rushed to the company headquarters.

What followed was a whole morning quarrel.

Although Jonathan Friedman always has a polite appearance when facing clients, he is also not lacking in a strong side.

In the face of the company’s big bosses, Jonathan ruthlessly accused Norman Broca of weak behavior in the studio that only took a small amount of pressure to compromise, and at the same time criticized the other party for considering only himself in the details of subsequent cooperation. Selfishness of interest.

Norman Broca naturally fought back, claiming that he would implement the company's first package project as soon as possible, and he was truly considering WMA.

As for customers who favored their own contracts in terms of contracts, Norman Broca did not feel that there was anything wrong with his decision.

Counting "Game of War", which ranked fifth in the North American box office in 1983, and "Genius of Skip Class", which is also expected to earn more than $70 million in the box office this year, are only four years away from their debut. Matthew Broderick I already have two top ten movies in the North American box office charts.

Such a star is expected to become the next Tom Cruise movie star, the company is not wrong in any tilt in resources.

Norman Broca has joined the company since he was 15 years old with the help of his uncle who was the vice president of WMA. After decades of contacts, most of the board of directors of the company are on his side.

However, Jonathan Friedman's backer happens to be WMA Chairman Lu Weis, and his strength should not be underestimated.

Although he was very dissatisfied with Jonathan’s initiative to intensify the contradiction, Lou Weis had to stand firmly on the side of his direct line when things developed to the present. Otherwise, Jonathan Friedman would be suppressed, and Lu Weiss himself may also be implicated.

Let the two argue all morning. At lunch, Lou Weis took the initiative to come forward and began to mediate, discussing the solution with several other board members.

Jonathan has not yet made public his decision to abandon the "Butterfly Effect" packaging project, and there is still room for maneuver.

After lunch, the other members of the board of directors all left, and Lou Weis also announced to the two of the results of their preliminary discussions.

In any case, the packaging project of "Butterfly Effect" must continue. However, Lou Weis will personally take over the project and discuss cooperation plans with the film company again. In addition, Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman both need to let go completely and stop bothering about it at all. All subsequent arrangements for the project are directly decided by the headquarters.

Now that things have progressed, Norman Broca knows that it will not do him any good to continue. Jonathan Friedman also managed to get rid of the hot potato in his hands while keeping his position.

So, although both seem to be very unwilling on the surface, they both agreed.

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

Early the next morning, before Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman had time to return to Los Angeles, they almost simultaneously saw a piece of news from the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter that caught everyone by surprise. .

"Hollywood Reporter" didn't know where it got the news, and suddenly stabbed the entire incident that happened recently.

"The failure of the package project led to the company infighting, and the old agency giants encountered difficulties in the transformation"

The continuous turmoil in the first half of the year has not completely dissipated. The sudden revelation of the "Hollywood Reporter" immediately caused WMA to fall into chaos again.