Chapter 47: The Blue Bird
"Okay, since you think it's appropriate, then it's decided, come to the hotel tomorrow morning and sign a formal distribution contract with me. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "As one of the two Co-presidents of Sony's classic movies, Michael Barker still has this decision-making power, and immediately agreed to Liang Baoguang's request, took out a business card and wrote the address and room number of the hotel on the back and handed it over, "I will prepare the contract, if you need it, you can hire a legal consultant to come together." ”
"This Man Is From Earth" itself is a very non-mainstream soft science fiction movie, and it is still made with an anti-Christian theme that most Americans will not like, this kind of movie can sell merch and DVDs? Don't be funny, it's not a series of die-hard fans like Star Wars, Star Trek or Batman, no one will collect this thing. In Michael Barker's view, Liang Baoguang's little request is just an act of seeking face, and it is really no different from giving it away for nothing.
Michael Buck didn't think there was anything wrong with him agreeing, and if he didn't settle the matter with Liang Baoguang quickly, maybe other companies would offer better terms, and as far as he knew, Lionsgate was also very interested in this movie, and he would have to spend more money once there was competition.
After feeling Michael Barker's attitude, Liang Baoguang changed his mind, thinking that it is not so important to sell the movie at a good price, and he can go to other places to operate if he is not funded, but the opportunity to build a good relationship with Sony's classic movies is rare. Compared with the immature work of "This Man is from Earth", he is more interested in the script in his hand that has not yet been filmed, if he can get the channel support of Sony's classic movies, whether it is filming or winning awards, he can get more help.
"I'll be sure to go to the hotel tomorrow morning to find you, and may we have a good time together, Mr. Barker. Originally, Liang Baoguang wanted Michael Barker to introduce a few good actors to him, but after all, he and the other party had just met, and he didn't have a good work to prove himself at the moment, even if he met the right actor, he probably couldn't invite the other party, so in the end he had to give up this idea, shook hands with the legendary independent film distributor again, and sent the other party away.
"Hi, are you an actor, handsome young man?" After seeing Michael Barker leave, Alexandra Ambrosio finally found a suitable opportunity to come over and talk, originally she was not too interested in Liang Baoguang, just to teach her little sisters a lesson, teach them how to show the charm of women, but now she is looking forward to something happening, only people with good eyes can seize the opportunity.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, I'm just an ordinary tourist. Liang Baoguang, who was in a daze because he wanted the script, reacted a little slowly, and it took two seconds to come back to his senses after hearing the voice in his ears, he was already tired of this way of talking, and decided to look at the woman's appearance first and then decide whether to invite her to a glass of wine. When he turned his head, Liang Baoguang found that the woman in front of him seemed a little familiar, "Hey, are you Miss Ambrosio?"
"It's an honor to know me. At this time, Alessandra Ambrosio has not yet soared with the popularity of those Brazilian players, nor has he become a Victoria's Secret angel with wings, and he is not much of a big name in the fashion industry, just a Latin American hot girl who came to the United States to work hard, and is not much different from many of his counterparts from Brazil, "Are you also a person in the fashion industry or the entertainment industry?"
"I'm just a student who comes out to relax, where can I have anything to do with the fashion industry, and if I have to say something related to the entertainment industry, I just make movies casually as a hobby. "Liang Baoguang just read a fashion magazine in New York a few days ago, there happened to be a photo of Ambrosio, because he was a beautiful woman he remembered the name. I have to admit that Latin American women have a unique charm, Ambrosio not only has a good face, but also a bumpy figure, especially the pair of long legs makes him can't help but have an urge to raise his head.
As the saying goes, the country is easy to change and difficult to move, for a real man like Liang Baoguang who is wild at heart, if he can't ride a fierce horse and gallop indulgently, it can be regarded as a trip to Texas for nothing. Fortunately, Scarlett Johansson, an abrasive little goblin, has made him completely out of anger recently, otherwise he might have been impulsive here.
As a person who has eaten bear's paws, of course he refuses to let Liang Baoguang gnaw pig's trotters again, for him Scarlett Johansson is a bear's paw, and all the women with the title of model are pig's trotters. This has nothing to do with looks and figures, only with Hollywood's unique "ecosystem", and if you look at Leonardo DiCaprio's twenty years of collecting fifty-six supermodels to make fifty-six flowers, you should know how unvaluable supermodels are.
"Just playing movies casually as a hobby, you can sit with Mr. Michael Buck from Sony's classic movies and talk and laugh, you actually want to say that you are very talented, right?" Regarding Liang Baoguang's statement that he is a student, Ambrosio still believes it, because Asians have tender faces, and Liang Baoguang pays more attention to his image, so he doesn't look very old. But she didn't believe the rest of the words, she felt that this should be a cutting-edge independent director, and it was also a promising kind, "You rejected Billy just now, and now you shouldn't reject me again, how about a drink together?"
"Girls, stop playing with your phone and come and meet our new friends. Arisandra Ambrosio pulled Liang Baoguang, who was half-pushed, back to their booth and beckoned her colleagues to come over to say hello.
Looking at more than a dozen white long legs swaying in front of him, Liang Baoguang's eyes were spent, the conscience of heaven and earth, he was really forced to come over by this overly hospitable Latin American woman, not that his will was not firm but that the enemy was too strong, and he came over before he could resist, "Hello everyone, my name is Paul Liang, and I am a detective...... Student. ”
Because Liang Baoguang didn't talk much about his career, the enthusiasm of several models quickly dropped, only Hannah Ferguson chatted with him more pleasantly, he noticed that Hannah Ferguson looked at his phone from time to time, and couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked, "Have you come out with any novel apps recently, have you been looking at your phone?"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to. Hannah Ferguson also knows that it is not polite to look at her phone all the time, but a colleague has been making fun of her on the Internet, and she can't help but refute it, "This is a new popular app launched at this year's SXSW conference, called Twitter, and many people are using it now." ”
I don't know why, Liang Baoguang felt very kind when he saw the sign of the blue bird, "The birthday of the Jiaqing bird, the beginning of the fire dragon", as long as you see the blue bird, you will know that it is time again...... The spring of rejuvenation. After downloading one on his mobile phone, Liang Baoguang experienced it for a while, and can only say that this app is average, but it does cater to the preferences of young people, "To promote this at the SXSW music festival, they are in the right place." ”
"I heard that the people who make this software are looking for investors, although this thing is really easy to use, but now there are so many social software, I'm afraid that after this freshness passes, they will not be competitive, and there will be a big boss who is idle and has nothing to do to invest money in them." "Hannah Ferguson still thinks it's even more powerful [Facebook], and the reason why she tweeted it was only because she came to SXSW and found that everyone around her was using it.
At this time, there are indeed many companies or teams that follow the trend of making social software in North America, because the technical content of this thing is not high, and the difficulty is just to build a loyal user group and spread the audience. Generally speaking, Twitter does not have a hard advantage, but Liang Baoguang has moved his heart to make a big mistake, and somehow he is optimistic about Twitter's prospects. "The first special software for young people", just listening to it, there is a feeling that it can succeed in minutes, as long as there is a capital injection and the first users are retained, Twitter is not difficult to become a money-absorbing weapon.
The next morning, a somewhat dazed Liang Baoguang first went to the hotel to sign a distribution contract with Michael Mark for "This Man Is from Earth," and then approached Evan Williams, Twitter's head of publicity at SXSW.
"Friend, I'm very optimistic about you, count me in. Liang Baoguang got straight to the point.
Evan Williams couldn't keep up with the rhythm, this man suddenly came to the door and said that he wanted to count him, and he didn't know what it was, even if he was handsome, he couldn't take himself as the protagonist everywhere, "Sorry, we're an Internet company, and we don't recruit band members." ”
"Of course I know what you do, and I came here to make a deal with you, so I want to take a step to talk. Liang Baoguang was not in good spirits because he didn't close his eyes all night, and instead of spending his energy on a woman's belly, he carefully investigated the specific development background of Twitter. After learning more about it, Liang Baoguang felt that this social project was just built for fun and fun, which was very suitable for his appetite and could also help him earn more money, "I have 10 million dollars of spare money and I have nowhere to spend it, how about you help me spend it?"
"Come on, hand the big guy coffee!" Evan Williams heard that there were 10 million dollars, and immediately shook Liang Baoguang's hand excitedly, he had long heard that the boy who loves to laugh will not have bad luck, he only hates the world so big, such a good thing was not encountered until today.
The company Odeo that he founded has made Evan Williams start to doubt his life, and he was very hurt by the unpleasant experience of finding a friend to be a partner after leaving Google, before he didn't know that the friend surnamed Glass was really a glass, and now that he has made up his mind to leave that company, he lacks someone to push him.