Chapter 14: Negotiation of Brokerage Companies (Part I)

On June 21, Lester was just about to return to the crew of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2", when he was told by Spielberg on the phone that Harrison Ford suffered from a herniated lumbar disc because of his careless elephant riding during the filming of the elephant riding scene, and the aggravated Ford had to fly to Santinella Hospital for rehabilitation, and George Lucas had to suspend the filming of the film.

Lester wanted to rush to the hospital immediately to see how Harrison Ford was doing, but after considering that he had to settle the agent's matter, he had to call Harrison Ford, sorry to be seeing him the day after tomorrow.

In Europe, whether it is a celebrity, an author or a businessman, they will have their own agents, unlike on the other side of the ocean in the 80s, where the broker chain has not yet matured, and even brokerage companies have not yet appeared.

In Hollywood, there is already a professional agent chain, including film and television, publishing, production, games and other chains.

In the 80s, there were no Hollywood agencies in the five major family agencies, and now there are only three Hollywood agencies: WMA-William Morris Agency, CAA-Innovative Artists Agency, and ICM-International Innovation Management Company.

In particular, CAA-Innovative Artists Agency and WMA-William Morris Agency were established the longest, and the two companies were established at the same time in a similar time.

Although ICM International Innovation Management was founded in 1975, it has become one of the three major brokerage family companies in Hollywood, along with CAA and WMA.

But none of the three major brokerage companies is Leicester's first, not to mention ICM and WMA, the packaging plan that CAA has been secretly implementing makes Leicester very passive.

Today's Hollywood agencies have the largest CAA business and have become the leading Hollywood agencies, even ICM and WMA agencies can't compare!

And the reason why CAA agency is now the leading Hollywood agency is because in the seventies, the founder of CAA: Michael Owitz!

The leader of the CAA, Michael Ovitz, planned a CAA packaging plan to monopolize the entertainment part of the business.

The so-called CAA packaging plan is to use a complete plan to turn the star into a pawn of the agent and become a star player.

CAA's package covers production, directors, stars, television, art, film, advertising, etc., making Hollywood companies have to use directors, stars and others from CAA's agencies.

Michael Olitz is high-profile, but low-key.

His CAA package was not discovered by a keen journalist until 1986, when it was exposed, shaking the whole of Hollywood. This matter has also been put on the surface from the secret and is well known to insiders.

In order not to be restricted everywhere in the future, Lester thought of the two major brokerage family companies that had not yet appeared, UTA-United Elite Brokerage and Endeavor-United Elite Brokerage.

UTA and Endeavor are brokerage family companies that only appeared in the 90s, and in the 21st century, they are known as the five major brokerage family companies in Hollywood with CA, WMA, ICM.

Although UTA and Endeavor are new agencies, they have grown rapidly, ranking among the top five brokerage family companies in Hollywood in just a few years. In particular, Endeavor - United Elite Brokerage Company in the 21st century is a dramatic gathering of superstars and powerful brokers.

What Leicester has to do now is to let these two brokerage companies appear a few years in advance to cope with future developments, although they cannot appear immediately, but they can also prevent some and take more measures.

In a private room in a hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, as soon as Leicester opened the private room door, he saw that the dining table was divided into two sides.

Veteran agent Marty Ball and his good friend entertainment lawyer Peter Bennydik sit on the left.

On the right sit the two founders of the leading artist; Jim Burkus and Gary Cousse, whose specialty is agency development for the television industry.

The four of them sat at the dinner table and chatted, although the people on both sides did not often interact, but as Hollywood entertainment professionals, everyone inevitably dealt with each other, and they still knew a little about each other.

Hello everyone!

Leicester's push door came in, interrupting the conversation between the four of them, and they all looked up at Lester.

When they found out that it was a sixteen-year-old boy, they were all stunned, obviously not expecting that the person they were talking to would be a teenager.

"Hello everyone, I'm the author of Twilight: Lester Lorey.

Lester walked over with a black bag, sat on the chair with a smile on his face, looked at the waiter behind him and said, "Have a glass of juice."

Yes, sir!

The waiter hurriedly walked outside.

Lester then looked at the four people sitting on either side and looked at them without moving!

It was in the 90s that the four men in front of them merged their own companies together to form UTA, a United Elite Agency, known as one of Hollywood's five brokerage family companies.

Lester asked them out to talk about things as the author of "Twilight", otherwise as an ordinary person, he probably wouldn't even see each other.

Surprised?

Seeing that the four of them had not come to their senses, Lester shook his hand and said;

"No, I can't believe that the author of "Twilight", who wrote so hot, could be such a young child. ”

As a famous lawyer in the entertainment industry: "Peter Bennedek" was the first to come back to his senses with an incredulous expression;

Hearing Peter Bennedek's words, the other three came back to their senses with amazement.

How popular "Twilight" is now, everyone here knows very well, and it has always dominated the sales list of the "New York Times".

When they came, they thought that the author was a few years younger than them, but they didn't expect that the person they met would be a teenager.

''I would have thought you were asking me to be your publishing agent, but...

Marty Bauer pointed to his friends: Peter Bennedek and the two leading artists, and his eyes flashed with a glint of doubt; Apparently you didn't hire me because of this, or because you were going to develop Twilight City, you invited someone from a leading art company!

I thought you wanted me to be your publishing lawyer, but apparently I was overthinking.

Peter Bennedek shrugged his shoulders and asked curiously;

Jim Burkus and Gary Cousse looked at Lester with twinkling eyes, and they were equally puzzled by the question.

Do you want to be one of the Hollywood brokerage giants like the other big three?

Lester didn't say anything else, nor did he directly say the ambition in the hearts of the four, but said directly;

The bodies of the four of them shook slightly, but their expressions did not show any expression, but their hearts were flooded by Lester's words.