Obviously, Aniston is also very surprised by the appearance of her agent, you must know that although she is an artist with an agent, but in the huge CAA system, Aniston can only be regarded as a small transparent, and she is not the only artist under her agent.

If it weren't for Wu Jianye asking Lauren Donner to contact Aniston in the past two days, she wouldn't have seen her agent for several days.

"What's wrong with Howard?" asked Aniston in a whisper, looking at the agent who had already come to her.

Howard is a man about 30 years old, and his appearance belongs to the public face that no one will notice if he is thrown on the street, when he came to the table, he first smiled politely at Wu Jianye, and then said: "Director Wu, I have an urgent matter here, and I want to discuss it with Aniston......."

Wu Jianye sat there, smiled, and said, "Please!"

Howard smiled politely: "Thank you, Director Wu!"

After speaking, Aniston was taken away from the table, but Wu Jianye saw Aniston put his bag on the table, Wu Jianye didn't say anything, and ate his dessert leisurely.

"Director Wu, I haven't seen you for a long time!" At this time, Nick walked over, smiling, and next to Penny, who had a twisted face.

"Director Wu!" Although Penny listened to Nick's explanation and knew that her family was not Wu Jianye's opponent, she still couldn't make her smile at Wu Jianye immediately!

Wu Jianye didn't care about her attitude, and said to Nick: "Yes, I haven't seen each other for a while. ”

Nick saw Aniston leaving, and there was no one next to Wu Jianye, so he sat on Wu Jianye's side and chatted with him.

Wu Jianye was also to pass the time, chatting with Nick or not, about five or six minutes later, Aniston walked over with a complicated expression on his face, and saw Nick, the person next to Wu Jianye, he just smiled and nodded, and then said to Wu Jianye carefully: "Director Wu, I'm sorry, the cooperation between us just now, now there are some accidents, I need to rethink it, before I can give you an answer to Director Wu!"

Wu Jianye glanced at Aniston, and there was no big change in expression on his face, he just said with a smile: "Of course, the twisted melon is not sweet, I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future!"

Later, after Aniston apologized to Wu again, he picked up his bag and left the restaurant.

Penny habitually said beside her: "It seems that Director Wu's hunt for beauty is not going well today!"

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "There are some small twists and turns in the middle, it doesn't matter, as long as the result is good!"

Now that something like this has happened here, Wu Jianye has no idea of staying in the restaurant anymore, and shakes hands with Nick with a smile and says goodbye.

Seeing Wu Jianye leaving, Penny smiled: "Look, you just said that he was amazing, and now he hasn't even done it as a little actor!"

Nick looked at Wu Jianye's back and muttered, "Although I don't know what happened, I think the next thing is going to be interesting!"

Penny looked at Nick with some incomprehension!

Wu saw that he got into his car at night, asked the driver to drive home directly, and called Lauren Donner on the way and asked him to rush to the manor immediately.

When Wu Jianye's car drove to the manor, Lauren Donner was already waiting for Wu Jianye in the living room.

"What's wrong with the boss?" asked Lauren Donner, knowing that according to common sense, Wu Jianye shouldn't have called him at this time, and he shouldn't have returned to the manor.

Wu Jianye sat on the sofa and said, "Check out Aniston's recent itinerary, as well as the recent movements of an agent named Howard from CAA!"

Lauren Donner didn't ask a reason either, and immediately replied: "Okay boss, I'll give you news tomorrow!"

"Well, let's go back and get busy!" Wu Jianye waved his hand and let Lauren Donner leave.

In fact, near noon the next day, Lauren Donner brought the news that Wu Jianye wanted to know.

"Aniston hasn't been moving much lately, I contacted yesterday at the same time as before, and I know that Howard has only scheduled a few small auditions for Aniston recently, but it's ......."

Wu Jianye glanced at Lauren Donner and asked, "But what?"

Lauren Donner said: "I don't know for what reason, CAA's internal suddenly received a notice from the top that the company's artists should try to reduce their cooperation with the Phantom in the future, and now there is cooperation, and after the cooperation is over, they are not allowed to take the role of the Phantom anymore!"

As soon as Lauren Donner's words ended, the phone in the living room rang, and after Lauren Donner answered the phone, he said, "BOSS, it's Miss Linda's phone!"

After Wu Jianye answered the phone, he heard Linda say on the other end of the phone: "Something happened, there was friction between Hera's agent and CAA because of the competition for an artist's agency contract, and after the star signed a contract with Hera's agent yesterday, CAA no longer allows its own artists to accept Phantom Drama Contracts!"

The whole thing was connected, and after Wu Jianye listened to it, he pondered for a while and said, "You come to my side now!"

Soon Linda was in Beverly Hills.

"Don't panic when you encounter something, isn't it just a CAA, as for being so nervous!" Wu Jianye looked at Linda's face with a hint of panic and said with a smile.

Linda said: "Because of a decision by CAA, many of our films that are being prepared are now facing a shortage of actors, can you not be in a hurry?"

Wu Jianye said: "Let's sort things out first, although Michael Ovitz was named the most powerful person in the whole of Hollywood last year, does he really think he is the king of Hollywood?"

Speaking of the last, Linda had already heard the meaning of anger in Wu Jianye's tone!

Although there is the existence of Hera Brokerage, CAA's development in recent years is still very rapid, and in the area of brokers, Hera Broker has not been able to compare with CAA.

Last year, CAA signed 143 artists, 155 directors and 298 writers, and last year's annual income was as high as 77 million US dollars!

And Michael Ovitz also relied on his strong network resources to be ranked first on the list of Hollywood entrepreneurs by "Premiere Magazine" last year.

Last year, Michael Ovitz helped Panasonic complete the acquisition of Universal.

Although Michael Ovitz is not the owner of a production company, he is still one of the most powerful people in Hollywood!

Even now that Phantom Entertainment has become Phantom Media, it still needs the support of CAA in many places.

But now because of the contradiction between Hera's agent and CAA, it directly led to CAA's ban on Phantom Media, which is a fast and ruthless move, if this matter has a trend, Phantom Media can naturally deal with it, but CAA almost did not have any warning before announcing this decision, which also made Phantom Media a little tired for a while!

That's why Linda is in a hurry.

Wu Jianye asked, "What are you going to do now?"

Linda thought for a moment and said: "Since CAA wants the artist's contract, we will give it to him, and then make a statement to CAA, saying that the agent who operates this matter has been disposed of by us!"

Wu Jianye looked at Linda, and only said after a while: "You mean that we will recognize the bear with CAA?"

Linda hurriedly explained: "It's not us, it's not Phantom Media, it's Hera's agent, what we need now is time, you also know that now Phantom Media has just been formed, whether it's internal problems or external threats, they are all waiting to see our jokes, what we need to do now is to immediately find a way to minimize the impact of this matter, and wait until we finish dealing with the restructured business before we have the energy to turn around and deal with CAA!"

Wu Jianye shook his head and said: "This method can't be used, if we deal with our own employees in order to appease CAA, what will others think of us, people outside will think that we are afraid of CAA, and the people of the company will be chilled by this, who will contribute to the company in the future?"

"This is only a temporary response, and in the past few years, when we have our hands free, we will have time to deal with CAA!" Linda emphasized.

Wu Jianye said: "That's not okay, since CAA wants to play, then let's play with him, the more this time, the more we have to show our own strength, so that everyone knows that Phantom Media is not something that anyone can provoke!"

Linda looked at Wu Jianye helplessly and asked: "Now the largest brokerage company in the United States is CAA, many well-known artists are their signed artists, we want to fight with him, it will inevitably affect the development of our company, now the company has a lot of film and television works waiting to be launched, if there is a lack of artists, there is no way!"

Wu Jianye said in a deep voice: "You also said that CAA is only the largest agency in the United States, not the only agency in the United States, what is the most in Hollywood, that is, the most actors, and we don't eat meat without him Zhang Butcher!"

said that at the end of Wu Jianye, his eyes had already revealed a murderous aura, and Linda trembled for no reason, he had known Wu Jianye for so long, and he hadn't seen Wu Jianye really angry!

"Then what should we do?" Linda saw that since Wu Jianye had made a decision, she also told Wu Jianye the consequences, and Wu Jianye still decided to deal with CAA, so naturally he had nothing to say!

"I will invest 500 million US dollars as Lutai Investment and invest in Hera Brokerage, since CAA relies on its own strength, then let's teach him a good lesson, what is called one force to ten meetings!" Wu Jianye said fiercely: "Then you contact the managers of WMA and ICM, CAA is not the only opponent in Hollywood, tell them that as long as they are willing to cooperate with the Phantom, our future works will give priority to their actors!"

The full name of WMA is William Morris Agency, which can be said to be the longest-established agency in Hollywood, before the establishment of CAA, it has always been the largest agency in Hollywood, and even the five founders of CAA are from WMA, but with the rise of CAA, it has replaced the hegemony of WMA.

ICM was founded in the same year as CAA, and if there was no Wu Jianye, ICM would have been fierce under him, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger is ICM's signed artist, but because of the emergence of Hera's agent, Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Hera's agent.

Today, there are four major agencies in Hollywood, namely CAA, WMA, ICM and Hera Brokerage.

As for the more famous UTA, it is just a small company that has just been established this year, and the other Endeavor, has not yet been established!

So what Phantom Entertainment has to do now is to get the cooperation between WMA and ICM, and with the support of these two brokerage companies, Phantom Entertainment doesn't have to worry about having no actors available!

As for whether they will cooperate with the Phantom, this is actually not a too difficult choice, CAA has been loud and arrogant in the past two years, and it has always been at odds with WMA, and it has also robbed a lot of ICM's customers, and the two sides have long had a lot of grievances.

As for Hera Brokerage, he has always taken the elite route, although there will be friction with the other two brokerage companies, but compared to CAA, he is a good brother who does not fight or grab!

In addition, with the big tree of Phantom Media, it is not difficult to make up for the loss of CAA's blocking, it is nothing more than a matter of paying some more price at this time.

Linda said, "Okay, I'll do it right away, so why do you need to fund Hera's broker?"

If the support of these two companies is obtained, for Phantom Media, it will basically be able to get through this difficulty smoothly, and there is no need to inject capital into Hera's brokerage!

Wu Jianye sneered: "I don't have the habit of not fighting back when others fight, contacting WMA and ICM is just to make the phantom no longer in a passive situation, but it doesn't mean that I don't do anything to CAA." ”

"Now CAA is taking a 10% share with artists, that's because CAA has deep resources in Hollywood, many artists need these resources, so they will endure this level of sharing, let me out of the wind, Hera agent is going to dig the corner of CAA, as long as CAA's agent is willing to come to Hera Agent, the original salary will immediately increase by 50%, as for the share with the star is also exchanged with the agent for 55%, who can bring a star Hera agent to reward him with 500,000 US dollars, and the star share will be reduced to 8% for me! ”

Linda looked at Wu Jianye in surprise and said, "You are breaking the rules of the industry!"

Wu Jianye smiled: "Aren't the rules just used to break, since CAA wants to play, then I'll play a big one with them, and let them know what it means to drop ten meetings with one force!"

Linda asked, "Aren't you afraid that Hera's behavior will cause dissatisfaction with WMA and ICM?"

Wu Jianye glanced at Linda and said: "Why are you so stupid, you can sign a contract with these two companies, before their artist contract expires, Hera's agent will definitely not take the initiative to contact their artists, as long as CAA is defeated, it is bound to release a huge cake in this field of the brokerage company, and then it will be time for everyone to compete!"

Linda didn't say anything about Wu Jianye's attitude, there must be a lot of details to deal with, but she knew that the remaining details were her job, otherwise she would be embarrassed to sit in the position of CEO of Phantom Media!