Hollywood Hunter

The two sat on the sofa in the corner of the hall, and Michael Ovitz didn't speak for a while, his expression was obviously unwilling.

Without urging, Simon looked at the people around him casually, feeling the melodious string music floating on the dance floor.

A tall blond woman in a white one-shoulder gown noticed the silence between Simon and Ovitz, thought about it, and tentatively walked over to Simon and said hello: "Hi, Mr. Westeros."

This woman is really tall, and wearing high heels is about to exceed 1.90 meters.

Simon raised his head and smiled at the woman, and said, "Hi, Miss Hall."

There was a surprised expression on the woman's face, mixed with just the right amount of joy: "Mr. Westeros, do you know me?"

"Mick's girlfriend, Jerry Hall, right?" Simon patted beside him with some inexplicable smile on his face, and said, "Isn't Mick coming over tonight?"

"He's in England," Jerry Hall replied casually, sat down beside Simon, nodded politely to Ovitz, turned his attention to Simon again, and found a topic: "Weiss Mr. Tello, I heard that "Batman" is about to be finished in the final stage?"

"Yeah, besides, just call me Simon."

Simon nodded in response, thinking that Jerry Hall played the role of the wife of the gangster who was disfigured by the clown in the first part of Keaton's "Batman". It felt very interesting. At the same time, I have to say that this woman who has been able to entangle the romantic Rolling Stones creator Mick Jagger for many years is also really beautiful. At this time, her appearance in her early thirties is at the peak of her appearance.

"It's a real honour, Simon," Jerry Hall changed his words, and moved closer without a trace, and said, "You can also call me Jerry."

A certain big-eared mouse appeared in Simon's mind, and he smiled and said, "It sounds like a boy's name."

"There is no way, we have five sisters, and my father wants a boy to be crazy."

"Has his wish come true?"

"No."

Simon gave a sympathetic expression.

After a few laughs, noting that Ovitz was a little impatient, Simon raised a toast to Jerry Hall and said, "Jerry, Mr. Ovitz and I have something to talk about."

Jerry Hall took out a business card from the bag and handed it generously, saying: "I will be in Los Angeles this time, Simon, maybe I can take time to have coffee together."

Simon took the woman's business card and nodded, "Okay."

Seeing that Simon didn't mean to leave a business card for himself, Jerry Hall got up witty, and nodded at Ovitz again without forgetting.

Michael Ovitz ignored the woman who had just left, watching the young man on the opposite side carelessly put the business card in his shirt pocket, and finally said: "Simon, Barry and all four of them are transferred to WMA. This is the end of everyone's unpleasantness ,what do you think?"

Simon had guessed Ovitz’s many countermeasures, but did not expect him to propose such a solution.

However, letting Barry Levinson and others all hop to WMA seems to be the best way to resolve the grievances between the two sides. The close relationship between Simon and WMA is well known. By doing this, Ovitz can also protect the careers of his clients to the greatest extent.

However, Simon didn't mean to nod his head, saying: "Michael, in fact, I am not a person who is too vengeful. I will not send someone with a baseball bat to force the opponent into a small alley for a few words. You want Understand that with the resources I have now, if I want to target a person, his fate will never be too good. It’s just that I’m not a forgiving person. Those guys who provoke me, I ask, but they will always Don’t show up in my sight again."

"Simon, Barry, they don't show up in front of you every day."

"Michael, you should understand what I mean. Now most of Hollywood is in my field of vision. Of course, there are still some corners. I don't plan to look at it again. It's not perfect. So they can stay there."

Michael Ovitz thinks of Paramount.

If the young man in front of him is willing to give up the suspicion caused by the robbing of the two scripts, Paramount would definitely not mind turning to Daenerys Entertainment.

Maybe there is MGM, or even the declining Orion, but he obviously does not intend to do so.

Just not to pursue perfection.

In the past few contacts, Michael Ovitz can realize that Simon is a person with perfectionist tendencies. Now, when a perfectionist no longer pursues perfection, it does not necessarily mean that the person begins to succumb to or degenerate. He may become stronger.

After all, there has never been a perfect thing in this world.

After a moment of silence again, Ovitz finally said somewhat sullenly: "Simon, Barry and the others leave CAA, will the matter end?"

Simon nodded: "CAA has many excellent filmmakers, and I am actually looking forward to working with you."

Now that the decision was made, Ovitz stopped sloppy and said: "In this case, you must also ensure that WMA will no longer dig people from CAA."

"I can't agree to you, Michael, I'm just closer to Jonathan. WMA is not my company. This is a competition between your talent agency companies."

It is actually beneficial for Simon to maintain the state of competition among the major talent agency companies. Of course, he cannot limit this.

Michael Ovitz also realized something, and stopped talking, got up and stretched out his hand to Simon, and the two shook hands, tacitly reaching a tacit understanding. Leaving the party hall, Ovitz sat in the car waiting outside the Four Seasons Hotel and dialed the numbers of Barry Levinson directly through the car phone.

Simon didn’t know how Ovitz communicated with Barry Levinson. It was just the next day that Hollywood spread Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Meg. · News that the four first-line filmmakers of Ryan are about to leave CAA.

Things were quickly confirmed by CAA.

However, the official call for the outside world is that the four of Barry Levinson chose to leave CAA for their own career development.

Subsequently, Barry Levinson soon disclosed his new project "Avalon" in cooperation with Paramount Pictures, with a budget of 15 million US dollars and plans to release it next year.

Dustin Hoffman expressed his intention to stop filming for a year and rush to the UK to perform on stage. There was news in the circle that Hoffman's role in Warren Beatty and Disney's new film "The Supreme Detective" has been deleted.

Tom Cruise's agent Paula Wagner withdrew from CAA together with her client, and announced the establishment of Cruise-Wagner Production Company through a "Los Angeles Times" announcement.

Meg Ryan just became popular with "When Harry Meets Sally" last year, and is the most basic of the four.

After the incident, Meg Ryan’s public relations manager also announced his resignation. Hollywood talent agencies, large and small, did not intend to extend an olive branch to him. After a rush, the actress had to hurriedly announced that she would temporarily be her My sister serves as its agent and public relations spokesperson.

Immediately, a paparazzi discovered that Meg Ryan’s boyfriend Dennis Quaid, who had been dating for more than a year, appeared together in a bar in West Hollywood with another unknown actress. Facing the paparazzi questioning, Dennis Quaid admitted frankly. Recently broke up with Meg Ryan.

Compared with the Michael Ovitz'Infantry Warrior' incident, which is still being beaten up by the media, Barry Levinson left CAA. The major mainstream newspapers in North America showed an abnormal silence and appeared on the page. What's on the table are just some official press releases that are not painful.

Most of the public who are not sensitive to gossip, seeing relevant news, only think that these people may choose to leave CAA because they are dissatisfied with Ovitz, who has recently been criticized by the media.

Of course, there has never been a lack of tabloids in the circle who want to hype big news to attract attention, but these newspapers usually have very low attention, and they dare not blatantly pick out the inside story of the matter, only half-concealed. .

Speaking carefully, the tabloid actually knows better what kind of person can provoke what kind of person cannot provoke.

If Simon Westero is just a pure director, no matter how hyped it is.

Public figures are used for speculation.

However, when the director was still a super-rich man with billions of dollars worth of wealth in Hollywood, in order to avoid bankruptcy of the defendant, various gossip newspapers did not dare to be too blatant.

As for Hollywood, in the face of media inquiries about Barry Levinson and others' views on the CAA incident, even the stars who have been called big mouths in the past are silent.

Simon Westero made an effort that was almost an understatement this time, but it really made many people realize that after the era of big studios, another powerful Hollywood figure who can be called a ‘tycoon’ was born.

Over the years, the senior executives of various studios faced Hollywood first-line stars, in order to be able to win each other to star in their own films, basically maintained a kind of ingratiating attitude, even big bosses like Steve Rose tried their best to deal with each other. Good Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Barbra Streisand and others.

Now, Simon Westero has not lowered his stance and took the initiative to make friends with celebrities. Instead, he has shot Hollywood's hottest first-line celebrities off the cloud.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that as long as Simon Westero doesn’t let go, even Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan can still rely on their past reputations. Mixing in Hollywood, but losing all the resources that were once easily available, the careers of these people are destined to decline.

Several parties accepted the reality in disgrace, did not openly challenge Simon Westero, and understood their situation.

In the final analysis, Simon Westero did not do anything wrong after all, and if he jumped out to provoke him at this time, it would be tantamount to having trouble with himself. In the days that followed, when I saw a young man who seemed to be always mediocre and unaggressive, even some celebrities who had become accustomed could not help but feel a little awe.

Things are always coming.

The circle is still talking about the inside story of Barry Levinson and others leaving CAA. The release of the new annual Forbes North America 400 rich list immediately triggered another storm of public opinion.