In the reception room, Bruce Willis sits on the couch and talks to Pajero, an employee of the Screen Actors Guild.

The two came over this time, and it was Bruce Willis who agreed to Lester's invitation to join his brokerage team, and Pajero was invited by Lester to witness the signing of the two.

"The décor here is really nice. "Leicester hadn't arrived yet, and Pajero admired the art decorating all around.

Pajero didn't expect to come here with Bruce Willis and see such a dazzling decoration style.

"Hello both. ”

Lester and Paula Wagner walked in, and the two greeted Bruce Willis and Pajero and sat down.

"Think about it. As soon as Lester sat down, he asked Bruce Willis.

Twenty days was enough time for him to figure out whether to join Leicester's team or not.

Bruce Willis nodded and said, "I've decided to accept your invitation." ”

"Well, let me introduce you, Mr. Paula Wagner will be your agent after you sign the contract, and I, as the manager, will have to plan for you. ”

Lester gestured to Bruce Willis to Paula Wagner, who was next to him, and introduced the two of them to his identity.

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There are two industries in Hollywood's powerful brokers, namely brokers and managers.

There are two kinds of difference between agents and managers, that is, according to the regulations of the actors' union, agents must hold a brokerage brand, licensed by SAG, before they can engage in the work of the client, and when looking for a job for the artist, they have a strict familiarity, and the agent is not allowed to be a producer, which means that they cannot be the employer of their own artists and enjoy the benefits of any film production and distribution company. Avoid creating conflicts of interest.

Once you have an agent for a production and distribution company, you can't enjoy the broker benefit.

The opposite of the agent is that the manager is outside the agent, he does not need to be licensed, belongs to the agent's boss, and does not need to be restricted by the actors' union and SAG, and there is no contract period and commission cap stipulated by SAG

The identity of managers and artists is to serve and hire artists, and invest a considerable amount of time and money to explore and develop these artists, so that these artists can gradually become attractive to employers.

Standing in the direction of managers, developing artists is an investment, as long as the artist has not succeeded, there is a basis for managers to be used by artists.

However, when the manager is also at risk, when the artist becomes attractive to the employer, and the contract expires at this time, the artist has no intention of renewing the contract, and the expiration of the contract eventually makes the manager's long-term investment come to naught.

From this point of view, managers often need a contract extension and a higher commission rate to incentivize long-term, ongoing risky development of newcomers and problematic artists.

However, according to the TAA, managers are not allowed to get jobs for artists, otherwise it will be considered illegal, but as long as the manager plays an active role in a project, they can bypass the TAA license to hire their own clients.

There are also some managers who are producers who will lower the remuneration of customers in order to increase the profit return of the film, which is a bit of a pit for their own artists, but the industry regulator turns a blind eye to this.

Of course, in this circle, many artists will not complain about the illegality of managers, especially newcomers, it is difficult to have managers and agents to represent them in the future, after all, no one will represent those artists who are unfavorable to themselves.

Now it is the agent and the manager complement each other, and after the 90s, the development of the manager led to many agents to become managers, until the 21st century in 02, after the SAG franchise agreement expired, the agent and the SAG board of directors initially reached a new agreement, relaxing the prohibition on brokers, so that they can take 10% and 20% of the shares of the artist agency, so that the agent becomes the employer of the client.

The most famous manager is Michael Ovitz, and the CAA packaging plan planned by the other party has made many film companies itch their teeth.

Lester plays both a manager and an employer in the agency circle, and is not restricted by the actors' union and SAG, and he has no interest in becoming an agent.

The role of the actors' union is to protect artists from unreasonable contracts and suppression, and to fight for the artists' own peaceful protection interests.

"This is my broker's license, look at it. ”

Paula Wagner took out the agent's sign and handed it to Pajero to look at.

After the process, Pajero handed it back to Paula Wagner.

"It's a contract, look at it. ”

Lester put the contract on the table.

Bruce Willis picked up the contract and looked through it, and after ten minutes, the contract was reprinted into Pajero's hands.

"The pay is reasonable, there are no problems, the broker signs the contract for the first time for one year and the renewal extension is for three years. ”

After finding that there were no problems, Pajero handed him back the contract and Bruce Willis signed his name.

After Parroj left, Paula Wagner congratulated, "Welcome to our team." ”

Bruce Willis said, "Take care of it in the future." ”

"Here's the script I gave you, and I'm going to direct it. ”

Lester pulled out a script and placed it on the table.

Bruce Willis was secretly happy in his heart, picked up the script and read it.

"Die Hard" is a series of action scenes about police detective John McCarron in Los Angeles who fights the local evil forces led by Hans. ”

"Commercial films, Hollywood rumors that Lester is one of the directors with commercial potential. ”

Bruce Willis was a little surprised by Lester's handiwork, and just signed a contract to let him star in the action scene, and said uncertainly: "This is for me to star." ”

"Yes. Lester, in anticipation of Bruce Willis, said: "It's a series of action movies for you to star, and if the first one is a big success, it will let you continue to star in the later series." ”

Then Lester talked to Bruce Willis about the salary.

Although he is now an artist in his team, Lester did not reduce the artist's salary like other managers, and gave Bruce Willis a salary of 5 million, after all, the other party became popular because of "Blue Moonlight Detective Agency".

Bruce Willis was shocked by Lester's successive big strokes, and he was in a trance.

"Come to me, I invite you to appear in the movie. ”

What Lester said at the Golden Globes at that time passed through his mind again.

Bruce Willis thought that he would star in the movie, but he didn't expect the other party to choose him directly as the protagonist of the movie, looking at Lester with fiery eyes, he felt that accepting the invitation was the most right thing for him to do.

While Lester was talking to Bruce Willis about the script, Chris and the others received a call from their assistant, asking them to have an important meeting tomorrow morning, which surprised them a little for a while..."Not long after the annual meeting, the meeting was held again. ”