Marvin Josephson's cocktail party at his Beverly Hills mansion was a major networking event for ICM's pre-Oscar-winning artists.

Previously, on Wednesday, Daenerys Entertainment officially signed a contract for the actor Clark Kent, the actor of "Superman", because he is an artist under ICM, Marvin Josephson personally attended the signing ceremony, and also sent Simon an invitation to this cocktail party.

The officially finalized actor of "Superman", the actor's name is Brad Pitt.

Simon had already noticed Pete two years ago.

In my memory, Brad Pitt actually intended to star in Warner Bros.'s 2006 reboot version of "Superman Returns", but at that time, because Pitt's fame was too great, Warner had to give up the other party.

The current Brad Pitt is 29 years old and debuted in the mid-eighties, but unlike Tom Cruise, who is only one year older than him, Pitt has been playing at the bottom of the game since his debut.

The most well-known role in recent times is only a 'male vase' in "Crazy Flowers of the End", which is the result of Simonil's arrangement.

In order to pave the way for Pitt to play Superman, after "Crazy Flowers of the End", the actor will also star in "Big River Love" invested by Daenerys Entertainment and directed by Robert Redford himself, "Big River Love", an autobiographical adaptation of the literary film, happens to be Pitt's famous work on the original timeline.

According to the arrangement, "Big River Love" will be released at the end of the year and hit next year's awards season.

Brad Pitt also signed a 15-year, five-film contract similar to that of "Batman" actor Adam Baldwin.

However, unlike Adam Baldwin's five-film contract with a total value of $30 million, Brad Pitt has a starting salary of $250,000, and the next four films increase on a $2.5 million basis each.

If the "Superman" series meets expectations at the box office, the total value of Brad Pitt's five films will be about $25 million.

The $25 million package is nothing compared to the potential value of the Superman series. However, for the actor of Brad Pitt at this time, he may not necessarily get a chance to get a chance to break his head.

Not only Clark Kent, but also the actor of Cyborgy Victor Stone has also been finalized recently.

The actor is Will Smith, who has moved from the rap world to Hollywood in the last two years.

Will Smith debuted as a rapper in 1985, and although he won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Group three years ago, he can only barely be considered a second-tier in the music industry, and the album that won him the Grammy Award sold only 500,000 copies.

Because of excessive profligacy and tax evasion after becoming famous, Will Smith was found by the IRS two years ago, and the $2.8 million fine directly bankrupted the rapper, and he had to try to turn to the film and television industry to earn extra money.

Subsequently, the ABC sitcom "The Fresh Prince", which was launched in 1990, allowed Smith to successfully gain a firm foothold in the film and television industry.

There are far fewer opportunities for black actors to get ahead in this era than there were in the new millennium.

The DC Cinematic Universe is in full swing, and the actor of Cyborg, a black superhero, naturally attracts competition from a large number of black actors, and Will Smith is no exception.

Under Simon's promotion, Will Smith, who is indeed very suitable for the role of Cyborg, successfully got the opportunity.

The same five-movie contract, because the popularity of 'Cyborg' is much lower than that of 'Superman' and 'Batman', Smith, who has only acted in a TV series, is not a big name. As a result, the total value of the package is only $20 million.

Five films with a starting salary of $200,000, followed by four films with a maximum of $2 million each.

Simon took Nicole Kidman to the cocktail party at Josephson's house, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, and the cocktail party had already started for a long time.

The atmosphere of the cocktail party is already relaxed, and the organizers usually don't set the opening time, so Simon and the others are not late.

Not to mention.

Simon Westeros is late......

All right.

This may sound like a joke in Hollywood right now.

Upon learning of Simon's arrival, Marvin Josephson came out with his daughter, Nancy Josephson.

ICM was restructured several times in the 80s, and now Marvin Josephson has largely retired from the management of the talent agency and is only holding the chairmanship as a majority shareholder.

Nancy Josephson is the next generation of ICM leaders trained by Marvin Josephson, and is now one of the budding agents at ICM.

Simon, who is a latecomer, knows that Nancy Josephson will be ICM's co-president in a few years, and this agent also has a very well-known client under his name, Johnny Depp.

Johnny Depp became famous with "Edward Scissorhands" two years ago, and now he is already a little fresh meat with a lot of fame in Hollywood, Depp has also tried to get the role of The Flash before, but because Simon thinks that Depp's style is really not compatible with Barry Allen, he did not use the other party.

Next Monday is the Oscars, and many of ICM's biggest names are gathering in Los Angeles like Nicole Kidman.

As a result, this mansion, which spans more than an acre at the top of Beverly Hill, is filled with crowds of people both inside and outside the villa and on the backyard lawn.

Mel Gibson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, Susan Sarandon, Demi Moore, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster and a large number of ICM pillars and second- and third-tier artists appeared at the reception, of course, there were also executives from production companies.

Many Hollywood film projects are unconsciously finalized in such social situations.

Marvin Josephson strongly invited Simon to attend, of course, not just to enhance his personal feelings.

After greeting Mel Gibson, who was more familiar with him, Marvin Josephson took Simon to a corner of the lawn in the backyard, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Cooper, CEO of Columbia Pictures, were already standing.

"Simon, Amy said that you are not interested in the script of "Phantom Heroes", I think you should listen to Arnold's own thoughts, this will definitely be a bombshell no less than "Terminator 2". ”

After last year's "Terminator 2", Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity returned to its peak, and the action star's next film has also become the focus of Hollywood.

A few days ago, it was rumored in the circle that Schwarzenegger was preparing an original script called "Phantom Hero", and the script of the film also spread in Hollywood for the first time.

Simon didn't need to read the script, just by listening to the name, he knew that this was the most ruthless heel that Schwarzenegger planted in the 90s.

Phantom Hero tells the story of a young boy who is obsessed with an action hero on the silver screen who accidentally gets a movie ticket that allows him to travel between the movie world and the real world, so he embarks on an adventure with his idol, in which Arnold plays the action hero named Jack Slater.

In my memory, "Phantom Heroes" cost $85 million just to make.

After the film's release, the North American box office was only a little over $50 million, and the huge loss made Sony pay an expensive tuition fee again, and Schwarzenegger's career almost hit the rocks because of "Phantom Hero".

Such a big hole, Daenerys Entertainment directly chose to refuse when ICM promoted the project to major studios.

Looking at the situation at this time, it is clear that Columbia Pictures, controlled by Sony, is going to take over the project as it did in the original time and space.

However, after suffering the failure of projects such as "Ultimate Condor" and "Captain Hawke" last year, Sony is also obviously cautious, and Peter Cooper still wants to bring Daenerys Entertainment in and make it a collaborative project.

Simon will certainly not get involved in "Phantom Heroes", and certainly will not be kind enough to remind Sony not to participate.

The release of such a box office fiasco as "Phantom Hero" means that a large market share will be vacated in the same schedule, and this trade-off will definitely be beneficial to Daenerys Entertainment.

Listening patiently to Arnold Schwarzenegger about his views on the project, and chatting with Peter Cooper for a few words, Simon verbally said that he would think again, of course, in fact, he planned to let Emedet himself turn it down in a few days.

Seeing Simon walk away, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Cooper and "Phantom Heroes" screenwriter Zach Payne and others were a little disappointed.

has been in this circle for a long time, just looking at Westeros's ambiguous attitude, everyone is basically confirmed that Daenerys Entertainment will definitely not participate in this project.

It's just that Simon's coldness didn't lower their determination to make this movie.

In the past year, Daenerys Entertainment has participated in projects that have taken the majority of the box office charts, but there are still many blockbuster films from other studios.

Marvin Josephson's expression did not show any abnormality in Simon's failure to agree to participate in "Phantom Heroes", and still enthusiastically brought him to a tall male star again.

This is also one of ICM's artists, Liam Neeson.

In addition to filming "Jurassic Park", Spielberg was already looking for a leading role in "Schindler's List".

Because of the special meaning behind "Schindler's List", many big-name Hollywood male stars such as Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, and Warren Beatty have expressed their willingness to lower their salaries to star.

However, Simon still prefers the original Liam Neeson.

Liam Neeson is 40 years old this year, debuted in the 80s, and has only been in Hollywood for ten years.

Thinking about Liam Neeson's career development later, I have to say that compared with actresses, Hollywood male stars who basically have no shelf life limit really have too many advantages.

In a private discussion, Spielberg thought Schindler should be like Steve Ross and wanted to find a male star of the same category.

Since he wanted Liam Neeson to get the role, Simonetti had the opportunity to ask ICM and Neeson to find some videos related to Ross for reference.

Unlike "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List", Simon will only make some suggestions, and the decision-making power is in Spielberg's hands.

The box office of "Schindler's List" in memory is actually good, but whether Spielberg still chooses Neeson as the actor in the end, Simon actually doesn't care.

This project, Simon's eye is not profit at all, but an attitude expressed to the Hollywood Jewish community.

For the outside world, because of his unknown background, Simon's race is actually a topic that is often discussed.

However, most of the media generally confirmed that Westeros should be a standard Anglo-Saxon, that is, the mainstream American Wasp (ASP) family, based on Simon's surname before he changed his surname to Westeros, or his physical appearance.

If you don't think about the inner soul, it's actually the same.

Although there are those who hope that Simon is a Jew, including the Jewish community in Hollywood, and some people have even tried to test Simon whether to join Judaism, most people basically have a judgment on how to do it.

The Jewish community in the United States may seem to be particularly powerful and glamorous, but this is not the case.

If you go deep into American society, it is not difficult to find that many Jews, whether they are political celebrities or wealthy businessmen, actually have a kind of inferiority complex that goes deep into the bone marrow in front of ASP.

Many of the top clubs in the United States still do not accept Jews.

At the same time, many Jews, after they have developed, will find ways to squeeze into the ASP circle.

Why has the issue of race always been so sensitive in the United States?

The root cause is still deep-rooted and ubiquitous racial discrimination, which is definitely not only between whites and blacks, but even between white groups, there are discrimination such as 'red necks' and 'white garbage'.

Simon certainly doesn't claim to be Jewish or join Judaism just to pander to the Hollywood Jewish community.

However, as his own power in Hollywood grew, it was actually necessary to show an attitude by supporting the filming of "Schindler's List".

As soon as I talked to Liam Neeson, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore took the initiative to say hello.

The couple's current condition can be said to be a bit declining.

Bruce Willis's two consecutive box office failures, "The Ultimate Condor" and "The Last Boy Scout," have left Hollywood wondering if the actor, who rose to prominence on Die Hard, still has the potential to be an action superstar.

After "The Love of People and Ghosts", Demi Moore's "Few Good People" last year once again consolidated her status as a first-line actress in Hollywood.

It's just that after the actress became famous, she may have been too eager to make money, and after filming "Few Good People", she took on two more movies in a row back to back.

A Paramount Pictures production of "The Medium's Wife", which was released in October last year, with a budget cost of $20 million, and a total box office in North America of just over $9 million.

Another film with an even worse result, "24 Hours of a Haunted House" produced by Columbia Pictures, with a budget of $40 million, co-starred with "Ghostbusters" actor Dan Aykroyd, trying to replicate the success of "Ghostbusters" and "Ghostbusters".

As a result, the film was released on Valentine's Day on February 14 this year, and the box office in the first week of the film was only $3.26 million, and the total box office barely exceeded $6 million in two weeks.

It stands to reason that Demi Moore and her participation in the male star of the film will definitely not be in the unpopular schedule of October and February.

Both films were left in the schedule graveyard, which is enough to show that the studio itself is very unoptimistic about the quality of the finished films of "The Medium" and "24 Hours of the Haunted House".

Two consecutive starring films failed at the box office, and even though the popularity accumulated by relying on "Ghost Love" and "Few Good People" has not yet dissipated, Hollywood studios are almost going to label the actress as box office poison.

Everyone can also see that Demi Moore's performance in "The Love of People and Ghosts" is indeed remarkable, but the success of "Few Good People", the success of the film, should be more supported by Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks.

Moreover, behind the scenes of "People and Ghosts", and "Few Good People", there is a young man standing again.

In this way, Demi Moore's box office appeal is even more doubtful.

Now, six years after Simon's rebirth, Hollywood has changed beyond recognition.

The blockbuster era opened in advance, and large-scale scenes, big productions, big special effects, and big IP projects will gradually replace the personal appeal of stars.

"Simon, I was on the phone with Ms. Faisy yesterday about this Oscar dress. I'm sorry about the last Van Cleef & Arpels endorsement, but I fired my PR manager because she didn't think the Van Cleef & Arpels brand positioning didn't fit my image very well. However, if Melisandre's newly acquired CK needs my help, I'll do my best. ”

Last year, when choosing a Van Cleef & Arpels spokesperson, Sophia's first favorite actress was Demi Moore, and the two sides also tried to contact, but the result was that Demi Moore chose to endorse Van Cleef & Arpels' most direct rival Cartier.

"It's okay, and besides, I don't ask too much about Melisandre's side. ”

Simon shook his head and said.

He never expects too much from a woman, so he doesn't have any special feelings about what happened in the first place.

What's more, next to him stands the current spokesperson of Van Cleef & Arpels.

Facts have also proved that Nicole Kidman, regardless of image or temperament, is more suitable to endorse a jewelry brand than Demi Moore.

Demi Moore couldn't help but glance at Nicole, obviously wanting to say something, but she wanted to say something again, just casually chatted a few more unnutritious topics, and walked away with Willis.

Although he felt the flattery and remorse of Demi Moore when he talked to him, and even some hints that his husband made while he was not paying attention, Simon did not intend to waste much attention on her, and the actress probably really used up all her aura in a "Ghost Love".

After about an hour of going back and forth in a crowd of one or two hundred guests, Simon left the lawn in the backyard and planned to walk across the villa to leave the reception.

However, in the hall of the villa, Simon met a figure that surprised him.