Jonathan Friedman has already explained to Simon the various aspects involved in the whole project, and when he rejected the contract, Simon can have a hunch that he will have a very difficult road ahead.

Messing up the first project that WMA was trying to transform, how could Hollywood's largest talent agency let itself go. With the horror of WMA's 100 years of operation in Hollywood, if the other party wants to clean himself up, maybe just a phone call is enough to make it difficult for him, a young screenwriter who has just debuted, to move an inch in Hollywood.

However, Simon has no regrets about the decision he made.

In his previous life, he had already experienced too much, and Simon didn't want to compromise on this part of his life from the beginning.

Back in Santa Monica, Simon continues to live at a regular pace.

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

Over the course of an afternoon, Simon visited several movie rental companies in downtown Santa Monica, inquired 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, ate, bathed, and slept. At 10:50 p.m., I arrived at Roger's 7-Eleven convenience store on time and started the all-night shift.

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

To Simon's surprise, the phone was not answered.

After several unsuccessful calls, Simon was going to make another trip to the WMA, but Jonathan's assistant, Owen Wright, drove to the hotel himself.

A hurried Owen Wright told Simon that Jonathan had completely given up on the "Butterfly Effect" packaging project and had flown to the WMA headquarters in New York yesterday afternoon, hoping that Simon would be patient for a few days, and Jonathan still wanted to continue to serve as his agent.

Owen Wright, who was obviously going to visit other clients, quickly left Simon after a brief chat, and although Simon had a kind of joy and surprise in his heart, he was not too surprised by Jonathan's decision.

The agent in the extremely depressed state yesterday is obviously like a spring that has been suppressed to the extreme. Simon doesn't know how much Jonathan's rally has to do with him, but as long as the agent doesn't completely lose his 'resilience', it's almost a matter of time before it erupts.

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WMA was first founded in New York and later expanded to Los Angeles.

Since the fifties, with the rapid rise of the American television industry and the more than two decades of silence in Hollywood films, 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 shifted westward again, a core cadre of WMA executives is still stuck in New York.

In Manhattan, 25th Street is located in a building adjacent to Madison Square Garden, where WMA's headquarters are located.

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

At this time, in a conference room at WMA headquarters, the quarrel that had been going on for an entire morning continued.

Jonathan Friedman made up his mind yesterday and prepared himself for the rest of the road and flew to New York in a hurry. In any case, he did not want to give up the one he had accumulated after more than 20 years of struggle in the WMA, so he decided to preemptively seek the support of the WMA's top management.

Norman Broka's biased handling of the Butterfly Effect project also gave him plenty of reasons to do so.

Suddenly hearing that Jonathan Friedman intends to give up "The Butterfly Effect" completely, Norman Broka almost burst into a rage, the entire management of the WMA has reached a tacit agreement on this matter, and Jonathan can't know what kind of consequences this packaging attempt failure will have on the WMA, and he dares to do it!

The call back failed, and Norman Broca personally rushed to Jonathan's office, only to learn that the other party had left the company.

In a fit of rage, Norman Broca simply had security guards raid Jonathan's office and even kick Owen Wright out of the company.

Since you left like this, don't come back.

It wasn't until late evening that Norman Broca, whose anger did not subside in the slightest, suddenly received a phone call from New York that Jonathan Friedman had flown to the East Coast.

Soon figured out what the other party was going to do, Norman Broca did not hesitate at all, and chased him to New York overnight.

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

With such a big fanfare from the two executives at the West Coast headquarters, the entire WMA management was naturally quickly alarmed.

So, this morning, WMA's chairman Lou Weiss, the company's CEO Lee Stevens, and a number of other board members rushed to the company's headquarters.

A whole morning of bickering ensued.

Jonathan Friedman is always mild-mannered when dealing with clients, but he also has no shortage of strong side.

In the face of the company's bosses, Jonathan mercilessly accused Norman Broca of his weakness in compromising with only a little pressure on the studio, and also criticized the other party's selfish behavior of considering only their own interests in the details of the follow-up cooperation.

Norman Broca naturally fought back, claiming that he was really thinking about the WMA by implementing the company's first package project as soon as possible.

As for his client, Norman Broca doesn't feel anything wrong with his decision.

Counting "War Games", which ranked fifth at the North American box office in 1983, and "Skipping Class", which is also expected to make more than $70 million at the box office this year, "Skipping Class", only four years after his debut, Matthew Broderick already has two films in the top ten of the North American box office charts.

With such a rising star in cinema who is expected to become the next Tom Cruise, there is nothing wrong with the company making any tilt in resources.

Norman Broka joined the company at the age of 15 with the help of his uncle, who was vice president of the WMA, and has accumulated decades of contacts that almost all of the members of the company's board of directors are on his side.

However, Jonathan Friedman's backer happens to be WMA's chairman Lou Weiss, and his strength should not be underestimated.

Although he was very dissatisfied with Jonathan's initiative to intensify the conflict, but the matter has developed so far, Lou Weiss has to firmly stand on the side of his descendants, otherwise, Jonathan Friedman will be suppressed, and Lou Weiss himself is likely to be implicated.

The two were allowed to quarrel for a morning. It was only around lunch that Lou Weiss stepped forward to mediate and discuss a solution with several other board members.

Jonathan hasn't made his decision to abandon the "Butterfly Effect" packaging project completely public yet, and there is room for maneuver.

After lunch, the rest of the board members left, and Lou Weiss announced to the two the results of their initial discussions.

In any case, the packaging project for The Butterfly Effect must continue. However, Lou Weiss himself will take over the project and revisit the cooperation plan with the film company. In addition, Norman Broka and Jonathan Friedman both need to let go completely and never bother with the matter altogether. All subsequent arrangements for the project are decided directly by Headquarters.

Things have developed so far that Norman Broca knows that it won't do him any good to continue the trouble. Jonathan Friedman also managed to shake off the hot potato in his hands and keep his position at the same time.

So, although they were very unwilling on the surface, both of them agreed.

It's just that there are always too many unexpected changes in this world.

Early the next morning, before Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman could get back to Los Angeles, they saw a piece of news from the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter that caught everyone off guard.

The Hollywood Reporter didn't know where to get the news, and suddenly poked out the whole thing that had happened recently.

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

The continuous turmoil in the first half of the year has not completely dissipated, and the sudden revelations of "The Hollywood Reporter" suddenly plunged the company into chaos again.