Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1502: Protection of the First Amendment
Who would have thought that Ronald joined forces with many industry leaders to express his wishes to Lynch and his daughter, but the other party still disagreed.

Jennifer Lynch even told the messenger that she would speak the same words in the appeal court as she did in the first trial, just as she swore, all the facts...

As for David Lynch, he said that this was a problem between Mainline Pictures and Kim Basinger, and he was just an innocent person involved. His daughter Jennifer is already an adult, and he will not and should not exert any influence on her in this matter and teach her what to do.

It seems that they still want to squeeze more money out of Kim Basinger to subsidize this failed movie. Mainline Pictures has a chance to survive, and the Lynches may be able to "assign" Basinger to star in their cheap nudity-themed movies at a cheap price.

From this point of view, Lynch is a qualified businessman. Kim Basinger's appeal is still there, and by lowering her salary, the typical Lynch movie that originally did not attract many audiences can now make a lot of money.

However, doing business like this, especially for a star who has already had successful experience in Hollywood and has been recognized by the market, is equivalent to stealing bread from everyone's bowl.

Kim Basinger's status as a porn star has been recognized by the audience. Her new agent is a very visionary person and has found a good route for her to play a more complex role in a big production that is similar to her original screen image but requires more acting skills.

This route is also much better than Kim Basinger's original role as a blonde sexy beauty who enjoys communication between men and women and satisfies the imagination of American male audiences, as in "9 1/2 Weeks".

Not only will she be recognized by critics and awards, but producers can also get higher box office by adding such roles. After changing her new agent, she has been approached by several big productions of the year with budgets of more than 20 million US dollars.

The commercial film Maverick, starring Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, which was just released, originally intended to invite Kim Basinger, but unfortunately the plan was abandoned after the lawsuit was exposed.

If she plays more roles like "Helena in a Box", it will damage Kim Basinger's image in the eyes of male audiences, and the value of Basinger's personal brand will drop significantly. Now Hollywood does not have such a blonde, sexy actress with a European artistic temperament to fill this gap.

The wishful thinking of the Lynch father and daughter is only to make money for themselves, while all other parties involved in Hollywood are pure losers.

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"Mr. Li, I ask you to help Jin, not only because she is innocent, but also for the order of Hollywood. We cannot destroy the operating rules of the entire Hollywood because of a person who does not keep his word..."

After a few days, the communication initiated by Ronald was ineffective. Main Line Pictures and Jennifer Lynch still insisted on responding to the lawsuit and refused to accept Kim Basinger's silent request for settlement negotiations.

In fact, if they followed the general trend and accepted Kim Basinger's proposal of a settlement of three million US dollars, Main Line Pictures would not go bankrupt immediately, and Kim Basinger could put this unfortunate incident behind her and start over.

But if this happened, Jennifer Lynch would not get any benefit from it, and she was absolutely unwilling to do so, so she said a lot of provocative words to Main Line Pictures, and vowed that as long as Kim Basinger was given to her for three to five years, she would fully subsidize all the losses of Main Line Pictures.

Basinger had no choice but to appeal and prepare for the next trial. But the cost of lawyers for such a lawsuit was not low. The lawyers might take a small portion of the assets worth more than 5 million.

This is something Basinger and her agent do not want to see. So they asked Ronald to help them again, whether it was to put pressure on Lynch and his daughter again, or to talk directly with Mainline Pictures, or to provide some financial help.

At least Kim Basinger has not aged yet, and is still the bright and charming female star. It is much better than being forced to be a debt slave of Jennifer Lynch. Besides, there are many unexpected benefits to sticking to Ronald, a very powerful man in Hollywood.

As for her husband, Alec Baldwin, he ignored Basinger and refused to help her financially, which made Basinger think about divorce for the first time. But divorce lawyers might be more expensive, so she had to put this idea aside for the time being.

"The lawyers' fees have already been overspent. After filing for bankruptcy, I have to go through very complicated legal procedures to get the lawyers' fees, and these procedures also cost a lot of lawyers' fees..."

Basinger's agent also said that when he saw that his appeal to justice did not attract Ronald's attention, he changed his appeal and began to talk about how pitiful Basinger was, in order to touch Ronald's desire to protect as a powerful man.

"Don't be like that..." Kim Basinger was indeed a woman who had had in-depth discussions with Ronald. Her investment skills were terrible and she lost more than 20 million on the ranch. Her vision for selecting movies was also average, but her ideas about men were among the best in Hollywood.

Basinger saw that Ronald didn't want to help her, but he was busy with his own affairs and didn't put much energy into his own affairs, so he just listened casually...

Instead of begging for help in such a long speech, it is better to use the most successful method in the entertainment industry. Kim Basinger walked to the other side of Ronald's desk, lowered her head and got close to Ronald's face...

Sure enough, this strategy caught Ronald's attention. He looked up and saw Kim Basinger's exquisite makeup less than a foot away from him. He seemed to suddenly wake up and asked, "Well, where were we talking about?"

"Can you help me again?" Basinger stared into Ronald's eyes and asked softly.

Then she read the answer from Ronald's eyes, turned back and said to the agent, "Please let me and Ronald be alone for a while, I have something very private to discuss with him..."

"Okay, okay, I'll leave now. However, Mr. Li, Jin will still face many difficulties in the appeal trial..."

As Kim Basinger glared at her agent, Ronald smiled, "There won't be any trial..."

Seeing Basinger's agent walked out with a confused look on his face and closed the office door, Ronald smiled and said to Basinger, "You found a good agent..."

Basinger turned around and sat directly in Ronald's arms, then twisted her waist hard and rubbed it a few times... After receiving the encouraging signal from Ronald's body, she turned over and gave him a kiss.

"Am I okay this time? I don't have to be a debt slave to that bitch Jennifer Lynch? How can I thank you, Ronald? I'll do whatever you want me to do, even if it means trying out with you the parts of the script of Loving You for 9 and a Half Weeks that weren't filmed..."

"Yes, I helped you with that. However, your first priority is not to thank me, but to find a qualified accountant... If you don't know how to find one, come and ask me. Yeah, that's it..."

Basinger's body suddenly arched back, her slightly curly blonde hair flying up and down, her whole face red, looking very embarrassed. She stood up and went to the coffee machine to get a cup of coffee for Ronald.

Ronald was also amazed. Although Basinger is not young anymore, she is still very unique among all the porn stars in Hollywood. Up-and-coming stars like Sharon Stone cannot shake her position at all, and their pay is also much lower.

This may be because Kim Basinger has been very introverted and shy since she was a child, so much so that she would feel fear in a square with people. Therefore, many contradictory qualities coexist in her, and under the magnification of the camera, close-up shots give people a mysterious emotion.

She is generous yet shy, open yet quiet, a contradictory mixture of clearly giving the impression that she loves to communicate with men, but also feels embarrassed and blushes.

In addition, as a former model, she has a great figure and good taste in clothes, and she also has a European artistic sense that American women like Sharon Stone don't have, so she is currently leading these American girls in the ratings of movie fans.

"Dangdangdang..."

At this time, her agent felt that the time was too long and knocked on the door to come in. Kim Basinger, who was seen in dishevel, blushed and quickly covered her face with her hands, and forcibly pulled her agent away.

"Mr. Li?" The agent dutifully wanted to know what was going on.

Ronald nodded slightly, then watched Basinger push his agent out of the door, then turned around to give him a wink, made a phone call gesture, then shyly lowered his head, closed the door and left.

Ronald straightened his shirt and drank a sip of coffee. Although "Forrest Gump" was surpassed by the newly released "The Chase" starring Harrison Ford, it has dropped to third place this week.

But this week, the box office performance of "Forrest Gump" was the same as last weekend, with a drop of just over 10%. This is a miracle for a movie that has been released for six weeks.

Various surveys conducted by Paramount and Ronald's own company showed that this was because the word of mouth of the movie had completely exploded. After six weeks of fermentation, more and more hippies of the time, or young people with hippie tendencies, who are now the backbone of society, heard the recommendations of their friends and wanted to come to the cinema to relive the emotions of the past.

According to the normal weekly box office decline of 20-30% of "The Mask", Forrest Gump will surpass it and return to the second place next week, provided that "The Pursuit" can still maintain the first place. Because there are no heavyweight new movies released next week...

That's par for the course for "The Old Guard," the third installment in the Jack Ryan series starring Harrison Ford.

This is a series of films based on the works of Tom Clancy, a famous political and military thriller writer during the Cold War. From the earliest "The Hunt for Red October" to the later "Patriot Games", in "The Hunt", Jack Ryan, played by Harrison Ford, has changed from an ordinary spy to the acting director of the CIA...

"Knock knock...Ronald?"

Assistant Yang Yanzi knocked on the door and came in. She came to get the documents signed by Ronald. Because Forrest Gump was gradually rising in the weekend box office, Ronald was going to add some money to allow the main creators to continue to tour the United States.

Although the actors were a little exhausted due to the tight schedule of traveling to various places to meet with fans, everyone was in high spirits, especially Tom Hanks, who, like Ronald, enjoyed the box office dividends of Forrest Gump, which was equivalent to working for himself, so he also worked hard to travel to three places in one day.

The effect of this is obviously very good. Forrest Gump was originally a small figure in a small place, and this round of marketing was targeted at smaller cities, where audiences often haven't seen a star come to their city to market a movie for several years. It's a rare opportunity to see an Oscar winner, so the audience's passion will be reflected in the box office statistics of the following week.

In addition, overseas distribution is also in full swing. The social reactions to this film in America have also been heard by overseas distributors, which has brought good bargaining chips to the distribution negotiations.

Yang Yanzi took the document signed by Ronald and turned to leave. Before leaving, she remembered something and said to Ronald:
"I see Ms. Lindsay Dole coming..."

"Oh, great, please ask her to come in..."

Ronald's solution for Kim Basinger was to get help from his personal lawyer Lindsay Doerr. They had discussed some details over the phone before. Then Lindsay went north from New York to her alma mater, Harvard Law School, and met with some senior law professors, such as Lawrence Tlaib, who advocated understanding the original legislative intent of the founding leaders. She then went to Yale and met with Archibald Cox, who advocated adhering to the original legislative intent of the year.

These two major factions are the progressive and conservative factions in the current American Supreme Court's attitudes towards some basic laws.

When Ronald met Lindsay, he said that even if the case went to the Supreme Court, he would ensure that Hollywood actresses would not be blackmailed by these thieves and scammers using the memorandum of cooperation. This statement by the Supreme Court inspired Lindsay Doyle to come up with a genius solution.

"Things are going well," Lindsay came in and hurriedly drank a glass of water, then placed various legal documents in front of Ronald.

"I don't understand, just tell me..."

“This is a new theory of the intellectual property rights of movie stars, called the theory of intellectual property personification…”

Lindsay explained this theory, specifically that for professions like movie stars where income is highly tied to personal image, the right to image is closely related to personal privacy and personal dignity, and therefore this right cannot be viewed solely from the perspective of economic incentives.

According to the "personification theory", Kim Basinger's right of publicity should not be simply classified as transferable property because it involves personal identity and dignity.

Because the right of publicity involves personal privacy and personal freedom protected by the First Amendment, it cannot be seized and mortgaged to a third party like other property... This means that expert professors from the two most authoritative law schools in America have legally denied the rights claims of the Lynch father and daughter and Main Line Pictures.

Moreover, without waiting for the appeal, Lindsay introduced the case involving Kim Basinger to two leading professors at Harvard and Yale who studied the First Amendment. They also agreed to publish an article in a prestigious legal research journal...

Mainline Pictures and the Lynches attempted to control whether Basinger could take on certain film and television roles, and even demanded that she disclose her future plans, such as whether she planned to have children. These demands were serious violations of Basinger's First Amendment rights.

In addition, the so-called independent monitor who came to "help" Basinger decide what films to take was akin to "forced labor," meaning that creditors were trying to limit her career choices, which conflicts with the protections of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Thus, once these two interesting legal articles are published, no circuit court judge in America will risk the reputation of opposing both Harvard and Yale professors by ruling against Kim Basinger. In all likelihood, the case will not even need to be remanded for retrial, but will be directly changed...