Nicole and Pie Kinsley were coming out of a restaurant after lunch when they received a call from Paula Wagner.

Although the sound quality of the Motorola microTAC, which relies on analog signal transmission, is not very good, Nicole and Paula Wagner still heard the other party's tone a little helpless and lonely.

Seeing Nicole hang up the phone, Pis Kinsley, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, asked, "Paula refused?"

Nicole hummed, Paula Wagner chose Cruise this time, but Nicole was not discouraged, although Paula Wagner gave up "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" for the sake of Cruise's production company, but there was already a gap between the two sides. If Cruise's film is a big success next, it's okay to say, but if things go in the opposite direction, then it is only a matter of time before the two sides break up.

"It's easy to understand, Paula has worked with Tom for so many years after all, and there is ...... between them" Pie Kinsley shrugged her shoulders and didn't say any more, but Nicole also knew that it was nothing more than that little between the agent and the actor, but with Nicole's understanding of Cruise's personality, Paula Wagner must have been accommodating to Cruise between them.

Nicole has no interest in talking to P. Kinsley about the gossip, and is about to call Eric to inform her about it, when Pin Kinsley's cell phone rings.

"Hey, I'm Pie Kingsley...... Paula," Patrick Kingsley raised an eyebrow, glanced at Nicole beside her, and continued, "Is there anything you want me to do......"

After a few minutes, Pin Kinsley hung up the phone with a complicated look on her face and stood there. Paula Wagner called. Inform her that Tom Cruise is going to terminate her broker contract.

Nicole heard that, too. Looking at Pie's golden hair, he said, "I'm sorry, Pat, I didn't expect this to happen." ”

"It's not your fault, Nicole," Pin Kinsley smiled quickly with relief, "Actually, that's fine, I've always wanted to represent a few more artists, but I just signed you more." He's like this, and it's only a matter of time before we part ways. ”

Nicole stepped forward and grabbed Pie Kingsley and whispered, "Why don't I treat you to another meal?"

"Okay, I don't blame you for this," Pie Kinsley was several years older than Nicole, and seeing that Nicole looked like a little girl, the original mustard in her heart disappeared: "And oh, let me remind you, you have eaten enough just now." For the sake of your figure, I recommend that you exercise for at least half an hour at night. Don't care about these things, many actresses are slowly out of shape because they don't usually pay attention to these small details. ”

"I know I know," Nicole nodded obediently, "So, what are you going to do in the afternoon?"

"I still have a year and a half left on my contract with Cruise, and he wants to unilaterally terminate the contract, of course I have to discuss compensation with him," Pis Kingsley replied: "Also, I already have a crush on a few good actors, since I am going to terminate the contract with Cruise, I just want to talk to them about signing a contract, hey, you won't sign someone else again like Cruise, right?"

Of course Nicole doesn't care, after Cruise leaves, she is the biggest trump card in the hands of Pie Kinsley, even if she signs someone else now, Pye Kinsley will focus most of her energy on herself for a long time in the future: "Even if you sign it, if they have good acting skills, I can also help you talk to Eric and get a few auditions for the role, but it's just an audition, I'm not sure if it will be successful, it depends on their strength." ”

The audition quota directly obtained from Eric must involve the large-scale zuò movies directly operated by Eric Mania, although those commercial movies are more limited to the actors' play space, but they are definitely an excellent opportunity to brush up popularity, so even the supporting roles in these movies have made many second- and third-tier actors who are not very famous steal their scalps.

Hearing Nicole say this, of course Pin Kingsley will not be polite: "Then it's decided." ”

"Of course," Nicole smiled, and leaned into Pie Kinsley's ear, "Tell you something secretly, don't you say it, you know Jurassic Park, right?"

Pin Kinsley nodded, of course she couldn't have known about it.

"Eric said that all the actors in this movie can only get the minimum salary set by the union, so, you understand?"

Pai Kingsley's eyes flashed, and she quickly understood that actors can only get the minimum salary of the union, which is a measure that many well-known directors often take in order to save production budgets, but there are very few directors in Hollywood who dare to put forward such conditions, and Eric is certainly qualified now.

However, since this condition has been proposed, unless it is an Olympic film, those Hollywood first-line stars who are just popular will not consider joining the movie lightly, so the opportunity is left to those second- and third-tier actors.

Most of Hollywood's most popular stars already have a stable team of agents, and the ones to be signed in the plan are those actors who are in the second and third tier of acting but have great potential. Nicole told her the inside story of the incident in advance, and Pie Kingsley could prepare ahead of her agency, and maybe she could get a few Jurassic Park roles.

"Thank you, Nicole," Pin Kinsley almost wanted to hug Nicole and kiss her hard, she had even made up her mind to put aside the need to ask for compensation from Cruise for the time being, and try her best to win the agent contracts of those actors, and concentrate on arranging for the role of "Jurassic Park".

Nicole, who was separated from Pie Kingsley and got into the car, sat in the driver's seat, feeling a little excited. The three women of TG Films formed a small circle around Eric, and of course she was not willing to be left alone. Now, you've taken a good first step, haven't you?

……

"Since Paula Wagner has given up this position, I'll do it myself," Eric said after getting the news from Nicole.

When Catherine Bigelow filmed "Shock Point", Eric had already worked as a producer, but in fact, the work of producer was not as mysterious as ordinary people think, most of the time. The producer is like a silk thread. It connects all aspects of filmmaking in perfect succession. It's a job that's a bit tedious and requires a lot of control, but it doesn't involve anything too esoteric.

And, unlike Hollywood's independent producers who need to get their hands dirty, in Eric's position, he only needs to move his mouth to do a lot of things, and someone will get things done.

Disney and Columbia, who worked together on Mr. and Mrs. Smith, raised their hands in favor when they learned that Eric would be the producer himself. There is no long incubation period at all. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" quickly entered the stage where the script was set and the funds were sufficient, and several teams also started the preliminary stage of the film according to the requirements of the script.

Although this is not a big deal for Hollywood, the news that Wu Baige accepted Hollywood's invitation to direct the film caused a sensation throughout Southeast Asia, and local newspapers reported the news on the front page for several days.

Hollywood has always been the dream of Hong Kong filmmakers or world filmmakers, because of racial advantages, it is much easier for filmmakers from Western countries to join Hollywood than for Eastern filmmakers. Therefore, every Oriental filmmaker who can make a name for himself in Hollywood will be popular with the local community.

Therefore. After Wu Baige accepted the invitation, he rushed to Los Angeles in mid-March, because of the importance of this opportunity, although there were not too many fist scenes in the movie, Wu Baige still brought a martial arts team at his own expense.

Preavista's Firefly Photography Base is very close to Los Angeles International Airport, and after Wu Baige got off the plane, Eric had the other party directly brought here.

"Hello, Mr. Wu, welcome to Los Angeles," Eric shook hands with Wu Baige and greeted him with a smile at the gate of the studio base.

"Hello, Mr. Williams, I'm honored to meet you, I love your films," Wu Baige said with a familiar politeness, Hong Kong is still a British colony, and many Hong Kong people don't speak Mandarin, but most people have no problem speaking English.

"Thank you, let me introduce, this is Mr. Stan Winston, he is a very good special effects artist, and he is also the CEO of a digital special effects company, this is Robert Huggins, vice president of Columbia Pictures, this is the heroine of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", Miss Nicole Kidman, this is my assistant, Alan Feisman......" Eric introduced one by one, and Wu Baige shook hands with each other one by one.

After introducing here, Wu Baige thought about it, but still did not introduce a few of his entourage, compared with these Hollywood tycoons, he himself can only be regarded as a small person, although the martial arts instructor he brought is from the Yuan family class in Hong Kong, but he can't do it.

However, Eric took the initiative to ask very considerately, and Wu Baige briefly introduced it.

After a pleasantry, Eric took Wu Baige and others into the studio base, just walked into the park, including Wu Baige, everyone's eyes showed a look of surprise, compared to the humble studio in Hong Kong, the studio here can only be described as spectacular.

Eric had set aside 100 hectares of land in Preavista, with a large number of supporting facilities in addition to the studio, and now the number of permanent employees at the studio base has exceeded 200, not counting employees in the digital field.

"What we see are just regular studios, in addition to that, there are two virtual digital studios under construction for shooting special effects scenes, which are expected to be ready for use next year," Eric personally took Wu Baige and others around before walking into the office of the administration building.

At this time, only Nicole, Wu Baige and the two assistant producers of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" were left by his side, and after the vice president of Columbia showed up, he left directly.

Stan Winston just happened to have returned to the office in the digital field to continue working after saying hello, although the special effects work of "Tornado" has ended, and the project of "Jurassic Park" has not started, but since "Terminator 2" last year, the special effects film projects received by the digital field have been busy with him. Several assistants brought by Wu Baige were taken to the resettlement residence by Allen in advance.

"Mr. Wu, I still have a vacant villa in Beverly Hills, you can stay there temporarily during the filming of the film, and if you need anything, you can call my assistant, and of course, you can also come to me directly. ”

Wu Baige was obviously a little flattered, he had gotten some information about Eric from Mr. Jiahe Zou before he came, and he had also heard some cases of Hollywood discrimination against Futurists, Wu Baige even felt a little uneasy about Eric's courtesy: "Thank you, Mr. Williams, but let's talk about the movie, right?"

"Of course it's no problem," Eric smiled and nodded, he also experienced Wu Baige's personal feelings, however, after a few years, he finally met a peer on the other side, although this peer's reputation in the mainland was not too good in the original time and space, but it did not hinder his natural sense of closeness.

A complete copy of the script of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was handed to Wu Baige, because of the need for confidentiality, Wu Baige only read a simple story outline when he was in Hong Kong. Watching Wu Baige open the script, Eric said again: "Mr. Wu, you can read the script slowly in private, let's talk about the production idea of this movie first, you have already read the story outline, can you tell me your thoughts first?"

"Okay," Wu Baige said, taking out some documents from the briefcase he was carrying, handing one to Eric, "Here are some of my thoughts, Mr. Williams, you can take a look at them first." ”

Eric looked through the documents and found that there was not much text in them, most of them were just storyboard sketches, but because he had ready-made movies in mind, Eric quickly recognized the scenes involved in these sketches.

"In my humble opinion, this "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" Although it is an action movie, it is a metaphor for the marriage of men and women inside, so during the filming process, I hope to be able to hint at this with some external sets, such as the villa where the two live, I hope to use a simple and cold style, symbolizing the estrangement between the male and female protagonists, and this villa was finally blown up, which is equivalent to the estrangement between men and women disappearing, and the emotional turn of the male and female protagonists in the movie also began from the scene where the villa was blown up. (To be continued......)