When he returned to the room, Wu Jianye saw that Isabel Adjani had just hung up the phone and asked casually.

"Who's calling?"

"A CAA agent named Lauren Donner is looking for you!" Isabel Adjani stood barefoot on the floor, wearing silky floor-to-ceiling pajamas that reflected her good figure.

"CAA people?" Wu Jianye was slightly stunned and asked, "What does the other party want to do?"

"I want to meet you, I guess I want to sign you!" Isabel Adjani walked up to Wu Jianye and gently kissed Wu Jianye on the cheek, as for the previous quarrel, the two had long forgotten about it.

CAA agency is now a new upstart in Hollywood, although it is not a studio, but it has a very high voice in Hollywood.

Founded in 1975, CAA was founded by Michael Owitz, who was William Morris Brokerage at the time, but then co-founded the current CAA brokerage with Ron Mayer, William Harbour, McRosenfeld, and Roland Berkins for philosophical reasons!

At that time, they did not know what kind of existence an ordinary brokerage company CAA would grow into in the future, especially after entering the 90s, CAA would gradually grow into the largest brokerage company in the world.

Its artists include Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, David Letterman and a series of other star-studded stars.

At the same time, CAA is also actively entering other fields, including sports, and most of the best athletes in various fields are also CAA people, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Mourinho, LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, etc

At the same time, in 2009, it was praised by Fortune magazine as "the most influential company in the entertainment industry".

CAA invented a packaged way to participate in Hollywood's film operations, and naturally it has not grown into one of Hollywood's seven most hated companies!

In the 10s, Hollywood's production costs skyrocketed, and the existence of CAA was a very important part, and even Hollywood studios attributed the main reason to CAA.

In the early nineties, Ovitz became a corporate strategy consultant, helping to manage Crédit Lyonnais's entertainment loans, and Panasonic's acquisition of CA/Universal, was made possible with Ovitz's help.

In '95, Ovitz was named the most powerful man in Hollywood even though he was not the general manager of any studio, so you can see how powerful CAA is.

However, as the most powerful agency in Hollywood, and at the same time the most hated company of all Hollywood studios, it has successfully participated in the production of movies because of the packaging model invented by CAA.

Before the advent of CAA, Hollywood was still prevalent in the "1v1" single-point combat play, but CAA boldly released new moves. Finalize the script and screenwriter, embed the right actors, including finding a good director and producer, after this series of work is completed, a set of project packages is born.

When the complete project package is taken out and placed in front of the studio, the other party is simply not too happy, oh, this model that can save time and effort if you can spend money immediately ushered in a spring breeze. Especially after CAA almost covers the directors, screenwriters, and actors at the head of the market, the quality of this kind of wrapping project is more and more guaranteed.

At that time, the major studios had not yet discovered the hidden problem.

For example, if there is no Wu Jianye, CAA will take the lead in buying the adaptation rights of "Jurassic Park", and at the same time, CAA will recruit Spielberg with the adaptation rights of "Jurassic Park", because "Jurassic Park" is favored by many studios, and all companies want to invest, and at this time CAA will recommend its actors to the studio, if you don't agree, then good, let's change the studio.

"The Big Bang Theory", "House of Cards", "Game of Thrones" and a number of American drama fans are all born under the operation of CAA.

In 2010, all the Oscar winners were signed by CAA, and this "grand slam" also added another "crown" to the project packaging model.

And this trump card model has naturally continued to all kinds of film and television and entertainment businesses expanded after CAA, and has become a classic in the industry. Packaged aggregation and sales of ideas, information, and human resources may also be a prototype of the big brokerage model.

Using a core star as a bargaining chip to launch other actors signed by their own company is the packaging model of CAA.

Now that CAA has found Wu Jianye, it should want to sign Wu Jianye, but whether CAA wants to sign Wu Jianye or Lauren Donner, as an agent, wants to sign Wu Jianye, it is unknown.

However, one thing can be determined, that is, the CAA does not attach much importance to Wu Jianye, otherwise it would not be this agent called Lauren Donner, who Wu Jianye has never heard of, to find Wu Jianye.

"Don't worry about them!" Wu Jianye replied casually, Wu Jianye naturally couldn't join CAA, Phantom Entertainment itself has a cooperative brokerage company, Hera Brokerage, but the operation here is more complicated, because this brokerage company also belongs to Shanhai Investment.

There are also a lot of actors and directors under it, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis, as well as child star Leonardo DiCaprio, and Cheng Long's business in Hollywood has also been handed over to Hera's agency.

Actresses include Monica Bellucci, who had a dewy relationship with Wu Jianye at the Cannes Film Festival before, and Chen Chong, who has decided to develop in the United States.

By the way, because the previous cooperation with "The Terminator" was very smooth, James Cameron is also the signed director of Hera's agency.

It's just that now Hera's agency has more resources to connect with Phantom Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox and Universal, which have a cooperative relationship with Phantom Entertainment.

There is still some gap with CAA.

Isabel Adjani said, "I think you'd better meet that person, CAA has a lot of energy in Hollywood, aren't you always looking for an actor from "The Ghost Is Not Over?"

Wu Jianye thought for a moment and said, "Okay, did that person leave the phone?"

Isabel Adjani walked up to the phone barefoot, took a piece of paper, and said, "This is Lauren Donner's cell phone number!"

Wu Jianye dialed Lauren Donner's phone, and when the other party heard that it was Wu Jianye, he immediately said excitedly, "Director Wu, hello, I'm Lauren Donner from CAA!"

"Hello, did you have anything to do with the phone call before?" Wu Jianye asked.

Lauren Donner said, "Director Wu, can we meet? If it's convenient for you, I can go to the hotel where you live right now." ”

Wu Jianye was slightly stunned, is the agent of CAA so humble, but then he agreed, Lauren Donner's request.

"Okay, I'll be waiting for you at the hotel café!"

"Okay, I'll be at your hotel in half an hour!"

After hanging up the phone, Wu Jianye said to Isabel Adjani, "I'll go meet this Lauren Donner later!"

Isabel Adjani nodded and said, "I have something I want to tell you too!"

Wu Jianye asked, "What's the matter?"

"I'm ready to go home!" said Isabelle Adjani, earnestly.

Isabel Adjani naturally has her own apartment in Hollywood, but it was only because Wu Jianye has now arrived in Hollywood that she moved to the hotel.

Wu Jianye glanced at Isabel Adjani, but did not stay, and said with a smile, "Okay, when will you go, I'll let the driver send you!"

The two are already in an abnormal relationship, and there is no need for anyone to be responsible for whom, and now that the two are about to collaborate on a new movie, it is better to have fewer abnormal relationships.

Isabel Adjani is also a free and easy person, otherwise she would not have taken the initiative to bring it up, and said with a smile, "Let's leave tomorrow morning, if you need anything in the future, you can still call me!"

Wu Jianye understood what Isabel Adjani meant, and said with a smile, "Each other, you can also call me if you need it, I will buy a villa in Hollywood during this time, and invite you to come over for a party when the time comes!"

"Of course!" said Isabel Adjani with a smile.

When Wu Jianye saw Lauren Donner in the hotel café, he knew why the other party was so eager, looking at his early 30s and wearing a somewhat wrinkled suit, he knew that there were no famous stars under his hands.

"Director Wu, hello, I'm Lauren Donner!" Lauren Donner said with a smile after seeing Wu Jianye.

Although Wu Jianye saw Lauren Donner's situation, he didn't leave directly, and said with a smile, "Hello, please take a seat!"

"Director Wu, I came here this time in the hope of signing Director Wu, as the agent of CAA, as long as Director Wu signs our CAA, I believe your development in Hollywood will be very smooth!" Lauren Donner said.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "At this time, shouldn't you introduce the situation of CAA to me, and then talk about what specific benefits I can have if I sign up for CAA, just say it dryly, it doesn't seem to be convincing!"

Lauren Donner's face was slightly red, he did just join the CAA not long ago, and he didn't even have a star in his hand until now, he knew the news that Wu Jianye came to Hollywood two days ago, and immediately reported the news to his superiors, but in Hollywood, he knew the relationship between Wu Jianye and Phantom Entertainment, and the relationship between Phantom Entertainment and Hera's agent was almost transparent.

So Lauren Donner's superiors didn't pay too much attention to it, but Lauren Donner still decided to give it a try, although Wu Jianye is not famous in the Hollywood film industry, but the "Jurassic Park" in his hand is a sweet spot in the eyes of all studios, but now Phantom Entertainment has already released the news that this movie will be directed by Wu Jianye after directing "People and Ghosts Are Not Over".

This made many production companies fall into a wail, thinking that the movie would be destroyed in the hands of Wu Jianye.

Coupled with his status in the music industry, it's enough to make any agent go crazy.

"Then I'll introduce you to Director Wu now!" Lauren Donner said immediately.

Wu Jianye waved his hand and said, "No need." ”

After seeing Lauren Donner himself, Wu Jianye no longer had any hope for this meeting, and he didn't leave directly just now, just out of politeness.

Lauren Donner said a little anxiously, "Director Wu, please believe in our ability, really, our CAA is very powerful!"

Wu Jianye shook his head slightly, this Lauren Donner really has no art of speaking, but he said so dryly that CAA has strength, even if someone wants to sign CAA, it is estimated that Lauren Donner will not be responsible for his future career.

After casually dealing with Lauren Donner, Wu Jianye left, and paid Lauren Donner's coffee money by the way, to be honest, he was really worried that if he didn't pay, Lauren Donner wouldn't have enough money to pay for this coffee.

Lauren Donner sat in the café, looking a little depressed, this is the first time I don't know how many times I have failed, as Wu Jianye thought, Lauren Donner, as the agent of CAA, is actually very attractive to some newcomers who want to come to Hollywood for development.

But many people obviously saw Lauren Donner first, but when they signed with CAA, they all offered to sign with other agents, not Lauren Donner, which hurt Lauren Donner.

When I saw Wu Jianye this time, I thought that something would change, but I didn't expect the other party to even talk to him

After Wu Jianye returned to the room, Isabel Adjani asked Wu Jianye about the meeting.

After hearing Lauren Donner's situation, Isabel Adjani also showed a wry smile.

Originally, this was the end of this matter outside of Wu Jianye, but the next day, when Wu Jianye walked out of the hotel, he saw Lauren Donner guarding outside the hotel.

Looking at my watch, it was only a quarter past seven in the morning.

"Director Wu, I thought about it all night, I may not have a very good talent as an agent, but I work hard enough, I hope you can give me a chance!"

Lauren Donner walked up to Wu Jianye and said seriously.

Wu Jianye said impatiently, "Some things can't be done by hard work, okay, you better go back!"

After saying that, Wu Jianye didn't pay attention to Lauren Donner, got in the car and came directly to Phantom Entertainment.

When she met Linda at Phantom Entertainment, Linda brought good news to Wu Jianye, Linda's mother had agreed to Wu Jianye's request and would help him acquire Lane Publishing!

"Wu, the publishing industry in North America is a very competitive industry, and even if we buy Lane Publishing, we need to have good works to be able to compete in the publishing industry," Linda said.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "I've already considered this, and there will be a way to do it then!"