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He signaled the two to follow him back to the office, and when they sat down, Michael Ovitz handed over the script and said to the two: "I just want to remind you that this is a script that Simon Westero personally saw. Three days later Audition, the two of you have to thoroughly understand the script even if you don't sleep in the past few days, some people may only have this chance in their lifetime, if you screw it up, it will be gone."

Although CAA is a cross-agency system, brokers are interlocking and no one can absolutely grasp certain clients, but brokers of different levels are still distinct.

Although Mark Ferguson and Mia Sara are not at the lowest level, they belong to the kind that Ovitz would never notice on a daily basis. Hearing what he said at this time, they were both trembling and inevitably excited.

A script that Simon Westero saw personally, and the whole of Hollywood understands what it means.

If Mia Sara can get the role, the already hopeless career is likely to be revived again, and Mark Ferguson, who is 37 years old this year, can also take advantage of the trend.

The two kept flipping back and forth, and Ovitz turned to Mia Sara and asked casually, "Mia, do you have a boyfriend now?"

Mia Sara didn't know why Ovitz asked this for a while. She felt that her calf was kicked by her agent, and she was still a little confused. After a little hesitation, she said honestly: "I am currently dating Jason Connery. , the son of Mr. Sean Connery."

Michael Ovitz showed a slightly formulaic smile when he heard the words, nodded and said, "Jason is good. Then, that's it, remember to prepare for the audition carefully."

After speaking, he got up to see off the guests.

Mark Ferguson bid farewell to Ovitz respectfully. He just left the house and cast a glance at Mia Sara, who was holding the script beside him with a happy face. He became more and more depressed and kept silent until he arrived at the underground parking lot of the CAA building. Mark Ferguson · Ferguson came to his black Chevrolet, pressed the remote control car lock, but suddenly couldn't bear it anymore, kicked it hard.

bang——

Amidst the echoing muffled sound, a large part of the car door had been dented. This middle-aged man, who was close to not being tall and a little bald, still didn't calm down after kicking, and kicked a few times in a row. He also cursed something quickly in a low voice as if venting.

Mia Sara looked at the agent who burst out suddenly, and her expression of joy turned into horror. She didn't know what happened, so she could only back away a little, and she hesitated to pull away when the agent finished venting and got into the car. The car door got into the co-pilot.

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

The agent, who had calmed down a little, stared straight ahead, involuntarily raised his foot to step on the gas pedal, and then let it go: "What do you think?"

Mia Sarah murmured, "I, I don't understand."

Mark Ferguson suddenly sneered, still not looking at her, and said forcefully: "Do you think you can get extra care by telling Mr. Ovitz that you are dating Jason Connery?"

Mia Sara didn't speak, she really thought so.

As the first big name signed by CAA that year, Sean Connery's position in this talent agency company has always been quite detached.It was Connery who opened up the grassroots team of Ovitz. In order to show respect and gratitude to the veteran 007 actor, the CAA headquarters has always reserved an office for him.

Mia Sara met Connery's son Jason Connery when she was filming an HBO TV movie last year. After being pursued by the other party, they soon fell in love. Leigh's father, Sean Connery's connections helped him secure some resources for the idea.

Even if you still can't stand up in the end, if you marry the other party, it can be regarded as a good belonging.

After all, although Jason Connery is completely relying on his father's relationship to go to Hollywood, he can be regarded as the most ineffective second-generation star, but Sean Connery is still very rich, and he will not leave it to his son in the future .

Mark Ferguson saw that the woman beside him obviously hadn't reacted yet, so he couldn't help reminding: "Then you haven't thought about why Mr. Ovitz asked about this just now?"

Mia Sara was stunned for a while, and her agent reminded her here, of course she was not too stupid to be hopeless.

This kind of thing is actually very common in Hollywood.

The atmosphere fell into silence again. After the car drove for a while, Mark Ferguson sneered and said, "Got it? Simon Westeros, that's Simon Westeros, ha, think about Sandra Bullock, Ni Ke Kidman, Valerie Golino, Famke Janssen... think about these people, think about yourself, Mia, now do you understand what you're missing?"

"I..." Of course Mia Sara understood, her face turned red and white, and then she took out the script that she had just put into her satchel, and said to the agent: "Mark, haven't I already got the script for this script? It should be ...I'm breaking up with Jason tonight, tonight."

Mark Ferguson wanted to sneer again, but in the end he held back a little bit dejectedly. Mia Sarah missed it, which means that his agent missed it: "This script must have been pointed out to you by Westeros, However, if Westeros' purpose is very clear, that is, to be interested in you, do you think Mr. Ovitz needs to ask you that question just now?"

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

The joy of just getting the script disappeared.

Since the script of "Ghost of Horror" was sent to her by Simon Westero himself, it means that the big man has noticed her as a young actor.It's just that the other party obviously didn't express a certain purpose, such as inviting them to have dinner together.

The subtext of Michael Ovitz's question was not to ask if she was single. In Hollywood, even if she was married, it didn't matter. The other party was actually testing whether she was willing or not.

If he wants, Ovitz may find a chance to send her to Westeros.

Then, as long as she catches up with that man, even if she is now 29 years old, with the energy of the other party, she still has the opportunity to be side by side with the series of actresses her agent just mentioned.

This is a thousand times and ten thousand times better than having a bad son of Sean Connery next to him.

As a result, she directly screwed up.

Or because of Sean Connery.

If I hadn't mentioned Jason Connery's name just now, and Sean Connery hadn't been involved, even if she said she was married, a certain CAA bigwig would still be able to help her make connections and create Opportunity to contact Simon Westeros.

It happened to be Sean Connery.

In fact, because of the rapid changes in the Hollywood landscape in recent years, Sean Connery, like many veteran Hollywood stars, has entered a trough in his career. Now Hollywood is dominated by a large number of new generations centered on the main creators of the DC movie universe.

However, the significance of Sean Connery to CAA is really special.

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

Therefore, Michael Ovitz will not do anything that could damage the relationship between CAA and Connery.Introducing the other party's son and girlfriend to another Hollywood bigwig, not to mention the superficial exposure, even if it spreads in private, will seriously damage the reputation of CAA. After all, many people will think, Ovitz, you treated this way back then. A great benefactor who helps you achieve your career?

Even if she had the opportunity to reach Westeros through this project, considering certain factors, Michael Ovitz may create obstacles in turn.

Thinking about entering this circle at the age of 17, I have wasted so many years, and I am about to be 30 years old. I am just a third-tier actor who is still going downhill. But just now, she missed another one that may be the last time in this life. Mia Sara feels more and more empty in her heart, her nose is more and more sore, and her eye sockets are getting more and more astringent

After get off work in Los Angeles.

In the busy traffic on Santa Monica Boulevard, some oncoming drivers could only superficially notice that the black-haired woman on the co-pilot of a certain Chevrolet was covering her face, not knowing what happened to her.

……

Hollywood is a circle.

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

The following weekend, news about the Middle-earth movie universe reached Simon's ears.

Whether inside or outside the circle, many people asked him for the news either directly or indirectly.

If Daenerys Entertainment really wants to create a Middle-earth movie universe, it will definitely involve all aspects of interests, and the level of this series will basically be comparable to the DC movie universe, and it will no longer be as small as the Conjuring movie universe.

Therefore, Warner, for example, must be worried about whether the DC movie universe firmly held by Simon will be marginalized, and whether the DC movie universe will be sacrificed for the benefit of the Middle-earth movie universe.And the major talent agency companies, the first thing to consider is how to get a share of this big plan.There are other film companies, everyone's life is already so difficult, if someone releases another giant beast, is it still alive?

To be honest, Simon had long planned to put the entire Middle-earth series on the big screen, but he never considered the so-called Middle-earth movie universe because it was not suitable.

Whether it is Marvel and DC with a long history, or the Warrens who have been ghost investigators for decades, they have accumulated a lot of material for the creation of the two major movie universes. In comparison, Tol King’s Middle Earth series , although the setting background is grand, but the overall story is clear at a glance. Even the "Hobbit" trilogy in the original time and space is actually well-known and deliberately stuffed and far-fetched. This novel could have been told in one movie.

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

It's just that doing so will only add another assembly line to Hollywood, and what may be lost is the turmoil and thickness of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that is enough to be recorded in the annals of movie history.

Simon wasn't going to do that.

At least, Simon doesn't plan to do so until Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth epic is complete.

What will happen in the future, let's talk about it in the future.

Of course, except for a few people who need to explain a few words, Simon has no intention of clarifying the misunderstanding about the Middle-earth movie universe, which is not a bad thing for future movie series.

4 month 15 day.

on Monday.

After a short weekend, another busy week has arrived.

The most concerned event in the Westeros system this week was originally the listing of Melisandre Corporation on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, April 4th. However, on Monday, Westeros Corporation suddenly disclosed a shareholding The report has aroused widespread concern from all parties.

It's a fulfillment of a pact Simon made with Warren Buffett last year.

During the negotiation and acquisition of the Metropolitan ABC Group, Simon and Buffett, as the major shareholders who played a decisive role in the transaction, formed a tacit agreement that they will increase their holdings in this company on the eve of this year's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. In order to use the prestige of the Westeros system to enhance investors' confidence in Buffett, and most importantly, reduce the pressure from all parties that Buffett has always refused to invest in technology stocks.

In the late 90s, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price continued to fall because it refused to invest in the frenzied new technology field. Many shareholders jumped out to accuse Buffett of missing the best investment opportunity of this era. Throw eggs at Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

Simon started the wave of new technology in advance, and Warren Buffett, who has not changed his investment philosophy, still insists on rejecting technology stocks. In recent years, he has faced increasing pressure.

Fortunately, through Daenerys Entertainment’s acquisition of Metropolitan ABC Group last year, Berkshire Hathaway became a popular shareholder of Daenerys Entertainment Group by means of a share swap.In the previous Tinkobel IPO, Berkshire Hathaway also participated in the subscription of new shares worth 6000 million US dollars.

These operations linked to the popularity of the Westeros system have somewhat relieved the pressure on Buffett.

This time, the Westeros system directly stood up and increased the Berkshire Hathaway stock, which had already quietly absorbed 4.9% before, to 5.1%, and publicly reported to the SEC. In fact, Simon personally stood for Buffett , to support Berkshire Hathaway's business strategy.

With Berkshire Hathaway's 3.5% one-day stock price increase on Monday, at least no one will throw eggs at Buffett at the 1996 annual meeting next month.

new York.

Simon flew in here yesterday afternoon and was at ABC headquarters on the Upper West Side all day Monday.

The first season of "American Idol" ended its last episode on March 3, and the cumulative average viewership reached 28 million. Because of the high attention paid to the official events in the second half of the season, the total of 3360 episodes is even higher than the first half of last year. The 32 million viewers averaged nearly 3170 million more viewers, and in the last episode, the peak viewership reached 200 million, which is a miracle.

Such a hot result, of course, can't stop there.

At the same time as the second season was directly approved, 4 special programs were added after the end of the season, mainly behind-the-scenes, award-winning interviews, etc. It was just finished last Thursday, and the average ratings of the 4 episodes also reached 2390 million.

Counting the more or less unscrupulous leftovers of the additional 4 episodes, the entire first season of "American Idol" is only the advertising revenue in the middle of the program, and the cumulative revenue has reached 6.9 million US dollars. Other aspects of the program are title sponsorship, overseas TV stations' purchase of production rights, etc. Revenue has also reached 1.7 million.

The entire "American Idol" project has accumulated a total of 8.6 million US dollars so far.Excluding a total of US$2.3 million in project production and publicity expenses, this reality show’s gross profit in the first season alone reached an astonishing US$6.3 million, which is expected to contribute more than one-third of Daenerys Entertainment’s 1996 fiscal year One profit.

Simply defiant.

Therefore, Simon did not dare to underestimate such a hen that lays golden eggs. In the morning, he personally participated in the summary of the first season and the planning meeting of the second season.

Next, the afternoon schedule is equally important.

It was still a meeting. The Daenerys TV department and the Igret Portal team participated together. The topic was the upcoming Atlanta Olympic Games, which will open on July 7.

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

Speaking of it, Simon is also depressed. The broadcast rights of the Olympic Games have been won by NBC with an offer of 1993 million U.S. dollars in 4.56. Conservative and stingy in terms of event expenses, naturally it failed to compete with NBC.

I will definitely miss it this year. Under the premise that Daenerys Entertainment has increased its sports business layout and generously supported ESPN, it will definitely not stand by in the future.

This is something.

Although without broadcast rights, Daenerys cannot remain indifferent.

Olympic events cannot be broadcast, and news interviews can still be done in a special way. For the sake of cooperation and cost reduction, Daenerys and Ygritte will form a team to conduct TV and Internet reports at the same time.

The meeting had just begun, and Jeff Bezos, who flew to the meeting in person, first brought up a piece of bad news: “With regard to the negotiations on the online broadcast rights of Olympic events, NBC’s resistance was very strong. The other party initially asked for six During the window period of 45 month, after several consultations, it is still 45 days, that is, 45 days after the closing of the Olympic Games, we can put the video of the event on YouTube. If it is a movie or TV series, there is no problem. The timeliness of sports events is too time-sensitive. Strong, 1.2 days, when the enthusiasm for the Olympic Games has completely disappeared, and the quotation of the Olympic Committee will also be stuck at [-] million US dollars, I don’t think there is any need to continue the negotiation.”

What Jeff Bezos was talking about at this time was the negotiation between Igret and the International Olympic Committee on the purchase of online broadcasting rights for Olympic events, not live broadcasting. For large-scale events such as the Olympic Games, live broadcasting is not realistic under the current network conditions. It is the YouTube platform broadcast right for the videos of major events.

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

Due to the huge commercial interests of the sports industry in Western society, copyright is very important.The copyright of the Olympic Games belongs to the International Olympic Committee, whether it is NBC or other national TV stations, what they buy is only the broadcasting rights.

Now that the broadcast rights have been missed, the Westeros system is considering trying to put the videos of major events on the YouTube platform as soon as possible.

Now, apparently, things are not going as they were intended.

Igret wants to get the online broadcasting rights of the game video. The biggest resistance is NBC, which spent huge sums of money to buy the broadcasting rights. The other party proposed a window period similar to the concept of film distribution. The 45-month window around the video is much shorter, but for sports events that focus on effectiveness, this is basically worthless.

After all, what you watch in sports events is a heartbeat, and what you pay attention to is often the result.

When the dust settles, the public will not be interested in most of the games, barring a few particularly good rounds.

Igret also did not have the extravagant hope of being able to get the right to broadcast the video of the game in real time. He also considered the window period. However, the reasonable window period acceptable here is 3 days, and the longest cannot exceed 7 days. NBC insists on 45 days. , the differences are too great, and the IOC's quotation obviously has a tendency to slaughter fat sheep, so there is really no need to continue the discussion.

Simon, who presided over the meeting in person, waited for Bezos to finish speaking. He wanted to express his position directly without wasting time. He paused for a while and looked at the crowd: "Do you have any opinions? Tell me."

Chapter 914 Get a Camera

In the conference room on 66th Street on the Upper West Side, Simon, who had unknowingly started to pursue efficiency more and more, was glad that he hadn't made a decision just now.

Everyone talked freely, and all kinds of proposals made Simon suddenly enlightened.

Although it is impossible to obtain the online broadcasting rights of this Olympic Games, Igret can take advantage of the popularity of the Olympic Games to win the event videos of many previous Olympic Games, so that he can also select carefully and produce various events Collection.

Another ABC executive pointed out that it was a misunderstanding that Igret tried to purchase the online broadcasting rights of the Olympic Games video.

Because this violates YouTube's operating philosophy of only being a platform.

This also made Simon reflect.

When this topic was over, Simon glanced at a Chinese idiom on the document in front of him, and he could understand it by listening.

Then quietly wiped it off.

The small episode at the beginning allowed Simon to properly relax the discussion time for the follow-up related topics, and the meeting was not over until five o'clock after get off work.

After brainstorming, everyone put forward a lot of new ideas on how to use the Olympic Games on the basis of some original plans, which led to Jeff Bezos, who originally planned to leave tomorrow morning, temporarily changed his itinerary and stayed until tomorrow afternoon.

At the end of the meeting, as Daenerys' east coast team in Greenwich Village gradually moved here, it was already in the red brick building of Daenerys Entertainment's east coast headquarters. Simon, Bezos, and Iger walked out of the meeting side by side room.

Finally discussing a few things about work, Iger said again: "Simon, our teams on both sides are holding a reception tonight, do you want to come?"

Simon shook his head: "Dinner appointment, Mickey Kantor."

Jeff Bezos, who was walking on the other side, heard the name and subconsciously asked, "The new Secretary of Commerce?"

"Yes."