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Hearing Lei Ting's threatening words, Scarlett was stunned, her face changed several times, but she teased the blonde hair on her forehead and smiled: "How could it be~ Lei, we are old friends, of course I want to help you, I love you the most~~" As he spoke, he stretched out his hands affectionately to hug Lei Ting, and rolled his eyes behind her back while hugging her, thinking about whether he should ask about the salary, but he couldn't help sighing in his heart, forget it...... This favor is worth the salary of a movie, so let's solve this big trouble by working for nothing......

"Li Xiaole, don't laugh at me, you say, can you find an actress with more box office appeal than Scarlett now? Can't the housewife in the script be changed to 25 years old? Even if an American woman gets married at the age of 20, it's normal. Lei Ting turned her head again and asked Li Xiaole coldly.

"Okay...... You win. Li Xiaole helplessly raised his hands in surrender, to be honest, he was just simply unhappy with Scarlett's high-minded attitude, in fact, Scarlett's goal of pre-selling 10 million in his movie must be achievable, why not?

Seeing that everyone was happy, Ah Gai also turned his head and showed two rows of big white teeth and smiled: "Hehe, it's decided, the boss said that we actors have made it up, right?" ”

"Sort of, we should celebrate." Li Xiaole tilted his head and smiled, but looking at Lei Ting next to him, he was still expressionless, so he could only restrain his smile.

"By the way, who is your male lead?" Scarlett asked with a lowered gaze.

"Matthew Perry, you heard, it's Chandbin from Friends." Agai is not without showing off authenticity.

"Oh, that's not bad, what company are you signing with, are you an independent producer?" Scarlett was clearly surprised.

"No, our own company." Lei Ting smiled bitterly rarely: "We are now the controlling shareholder of Luen Mei. ”

"Joint... Beauty......? Scarlett finally couldn't help but open her mouth, turned her head to look at Li Xiaole and said in a lost voice: "He is the Chinese partner of Tom Cruise?" Ray, you're not kidding me, are you? ”

"I'm kidding you!?" Lei Ting turned her head and glanced at Scarlett, and said angrily: "A shell company!" A Hollywood newcomer director! Plus a third-rate actor, a second-rate actress, and the number of debts that are owed every day jumps up at 5-figure dollars, am I kidding you? I think God is kidding me!!? ”

Three days later, in front of the MGM building, the weather in Los Angeles was getting warmer and warmer, Li Xiaole didn't feel cold when he changed into a single clothes, and even when he got out of the car and walked on the road, he could feel the warm sunshine that made his forehead sweat, while Agai next to him looked relaxed.

"The weather in Los Angeles is charming~~" Li Xiaole heard a cheerful voice, felt his shoulders being wrapped around a strong arm, and when he turned around, he saw Tom Cruise's smiling face wearing sunglasses, and the beautiful agent next to him, Vagra, also smiled and greeted him.

"It's really fascinating, I've been here for so many days and I haven't seen rain." Li Xiaole sighed

"Of course." Tom Cruise took off his sunglasses hahadaxiao: "Hollywood Weishenme will be in Los Angeles, just because Los Angeles has natural lights all year round, and the sun is shining~~ This movie alone can save 2 million US dollars in lighting costs, if Hollywood people are the same as the sun here, our lives will be better"

"Tom, are you saying the people at MGM are unfriendly?" Li Xiaole understood the meaning of this, and also looked at Tom Cruise with a smile and asked.

"I don't know, but I think we should always be careful so that we don't get into unnecessary trouble." Tom Cruise wanted to say something again, but leaned over and reminded: "At MGM, many things are very complicated, if you feel unfair, remember to deal with it yourself, no one at MGM will help us." ”

"Yes." Li Xiaole nodded and looked at him: "Tom, don't worry, when Luen Mei grows, I will let the people from MGM help us do things......"

"Of course~" Tom Cruise had a sunny smile on his face, hugged Li Xiaole, pointed to his chest and said, "When the next movie I make is released, everything will be different." ”

Li Xiaole just shrugged his shoulders, he knew what happened to Tom Cruise in the next few years, and I was afraid that the next few movies would only make him fall deeper to the bottom.

After Cork controlled MGM, it changed hands several times, and even sold the copyright of a large number of classic films such as "Gone with the Wind" to competitors, which made MGM panic, and those who were a little capable jumped to other film companies, and the rest was to eat old fritters waiting for death.

It can be seen from the fact that his script has not changed a single word, and MGM is completely incomparable to other competitors in terms of film professionalism.

Sony only needed MGM's library and access to DVDs, and Cork and Canon wanted MGM's internal business conditions to continue to deteriorate and make profits.

The core competitiveness of excellent Hollywood production companies in the development of films is the quality of the "screenwriter doctor" and the shooting team, such as the six major teams led by Warner, which have their own first-class teams, while MGM's team does have a first-class salary, but in fact it is only a third-rate level.

Looking at the comparison between Wu Yusen's filming of "Mission Impossible 2" at Paramount and the filming of "The Stormer" at MGM, it is obvious that there is a huge gap between the behind-the-scenes teams, the same director, the same big-name actors, but the box office results are diametrically opposite.

Li Xiaole walked into the hall and saw that the people in the production team were waiting for the elevator, whether it was the number plate with "lights", "recording" or "photography" hanging on their chests, everyone was angry, as if they were complaining about something to each other.

"Hey brothers~ Hello, I'm Agai, a consultant of Luen Mei Company~~" Agai went up and greeted these colleagues warmly.

"Hello......" The people in the production team nodded as if they were dodging the plague and entered the elevator and closed the door, which made Agai very embarrassed.

Seeing the elevator go up, Ah Gai couldn't help kicking the elevator door angrily, and snorted: "Alas, I really don't understand, how come these movie-making people are like attending a funeral, all of them are so stinky, isn't it good enough to earn tens of thousands of dollars a month?" ”

"Agai, they don't necessarily earn more than you, and it's natural to hate you." Tom Cruise said with a complicated smile, and just wanted to say something, but the female agent next to him, Wagner, shook her head and reminded: "Wait until you get into the elevator." ”

The four of them got on the elevator and saw the elevator door closed, and Ah Gai couldn't wait to urge: "Mr. Cruise, you go on, weishenme they don't earn as much as me, I only earn a few thousand dollars a month~"

"The reason is simple." Tom Cruise pursed his lips with disdain and said:

"Because MGM has been deducting the salaries of these filmmakers, they should get an average of 50,000 yuan when they sign a movie, and the one they get may only be in the early 10,000s, and a considerable part of the rest is included in the equipment loss fee, as well as the various losses they cause, so they are very disgusted with us company executives, and they can't tell who deducted the money."

"This can't be!? weishenme no one went to sue MGM? Agai didn't believe it, this is Los Angeles, and there are still problems that the law can't solve.

"They won't sue." Tom Cruise smiled.

“weishenme！？” Agai looked puzzled.

"There are two reasons, the first is that Canon himself is a Wall Street financial law expert, and he has built a very strong legal department, and he has been involved in various lawsuits on Wall Street and several mergers and acquisitions, and he has been unharmed...... If so, the chances of winning are almost zero. Tom Cruise sighed and turned his head to look at Li Xiaole:

"Secondly, the ability of these people in MGM's production department is worth 10,000 dollars, and the part of the money that Canon earned is only from the investment bank, and in fact, these people have not lost.

Their anger only comes from their unwillingness to know that they are being used, you must know that MGM gives them specifications and claims to be 50,000 US dollars to the outside world, and they can keep the troops too low even if they leave MGM to other companies in the future, but if they go to sue MGM, isn't it equivalent to admitting that they are not worth the 50,000 US dollars at all? Will anyone do such a stupid thing to lower their own value? ”

"Wait...... In other words, if MGM invests 30 million to make a movie, and we want to use 10 million in production personnel and equipment, the actual shooting effect is only 2 million? Agay finally understood the point of Tom Cruise's words.

"Yes, Weishenme's big-budget movies can't be compared to the other big six? It was for this reason that MGM embezzled most of the production costs. Tom Cruise smiled and patted Agay's shoulder, this guy went around him once last time, and he could finally find a chance to take revenge and get some face back.

"Oh my God...... Boss~ Then we definitely can't use their filming team!? We're going to find the shooting crew ourselves~! Agai exclaimed excitedly with puffed out his eyes.

"Agay, it's not as simple as you think." Li Xiaole smiled and said:

"Although there are a lot of professional filming talents in Hollywood, those first-class shooting teams are signed with first-class companies, even if we contact various unions, at most we can only find people of the same level as MGM, and the makeshift shooting team can't finish even if they finish a movie, so it's better to use these people from MGM."

"Oh my God, aren't we dead?" Agai stared and turned his head to look at Tom Cruise: "Mr. Cruise, why didn't you tell us earlier, don't we all have to lose money in the movie now?" Wrong? Do you know that Weishenme is also going to participate in the acquisition of Luen Mei Company? ”