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"I'm sorry,"

Pulling out his phone and looking at it, Tony Guzman said to a few people in the room, "I'll take the phone." ”

With that, he walked out of the living room of the hotel suite, came to the balcony of one of the bedrooms, and pressed the answer button, "Hello, this is Tony Guzman of Fox Searchlight." ”

An unfamiliar voice came from the earpiece, and after the other party said a few words, Tony Guzmán frowned, remembered for a moment, turned his head to look at the living room again, and said quite politely, "I'm sorry, Director Stanton, I may not be available in this period of time, I have a project to follow up." ”

He remembered the young director and the interesting movie, and he deliberately exchanged contact information at that time, and originally planned to continue to investigate the film, but then when he watched the movie, he met the object he liked even more, and Fox Searchlight also paid attention to it and needed to follow up immediately.

Tactfully declining the other party's invitation, Tony Guzmán politely said a few words and hung up the phone.

With this new project in front of him, he has basically lost interest in new works like "Hard Candy", and sitting in the living room are executives from Ark Entertainment, who are talking about Todd Field's new work "The Edge of the Accident".

Not to mention that the film stars the famous Tom Wilkinson, there is no comparison between the two directors, Murphy Stanton is unknown, and Todd Field's last work "Ghost Invasion" grossed $90 million at the North American box office......

Tony Guzman couldn't be clearer about what to choose between the two.

He has decided to give up "Hard Fruit Candy", which he thought was good, and is ready to go all out to win "The Edge of the Accident".

At the airport of the St. Denis Film Festival, a big fat man arrived late, and after getting off the plane, he ordered the driver to rush to the hotel immediately, where a number of professional filmmakers and buyers from the company were waiting for him.

Forty minutes later, a meat-faced Harvey Weinstein sat in the hotel conference room, constantly looking through the list of films and materials submitted by many of Miramax's employees, which were basically films that had recently spread rapidly in the media and circles, such as "Lullaby of the Night", "Illusion of Death" and other well-known projects, and there were no unexpected surprises.

"That's all?" He frowned, looked at the dozen or so employees below, and his voice gradually rose, "How do you do things?" It's been almost a week since the festival started, and you're just staring at them? How many publishers are staring at them? How much does it cost to take them down? ”

Although Miramax was acquired by Disney, Harvey Weinstein has a completely different style of operation from Disney, and he still takes the route of running independent films on a small budget.

There was silence in the conference room, and you could see the prestige of this big fat man in the company.

"Do you have any unpopular projects that you are optimistic about?" Harvey Weinstein asked again.

It's still quiet, and projects like "Blair the Witch" don't come across every St. Denis Film Festival.

Harvey Weinstein slapped the conference table with a loud 'bang', as if to vent his anger at this moment, he didn't look at those people, and waved his hand casually, "Let's all get out." ”

Everyone rushed to leave, but Jones Butler remained.

Harvey Weinstein saw her, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

Jones Butler walked over and put a document in front of Harvey Weinstein, "This is a small company made by Stanton Studios, recommended by CAA's Bill Rosies, Moore and I went to see it, and both thought there was some market potential. ”

Hearing her say this, Harvey Weinstein put down his work for a while, flipped through the materials and looked at them, and after a while, looked up and said, "You gave it priority?" ”

"Yes." Jones Butler stood to his right, "I guess the film will cost about $200,000 to $300,000, and I guessed it with the marketing department and thought it could be a million-dollar project." ”

Harvey Weinstein was still more comfortable with Jones Butler, asking, "The project is there?" ”

"No," Jones Butler said, "......there were initial negotiations, and there was a bit of a gap between our offer and the other side's asking price. ”

After looking through all the materials, Harvey Weinstein had a rare interest, "Call them, I'll go see that film tomorrow." ”

Murphy never imagined that when he saw Jones Butler again, the other party would bring Harvey Weinstein, the actual controller of Miramax, let alone him, even if it was Bill Rossis, in front of a predator like Harvey Weinstein, he was an insignificant little person.

And Harvey Weinstein didn't take the two of them seriously, except for a polite greeting when they met, he didn't say much from beginning to end, just patiently watched Murphy's "Hard Candy" screened in the conference room again.

After the screening, Harvey Weinstein said a second sentence to Jones Butler, not very loud and vaguely heard by Murphy.

"Continue negotiations."

After leaving these words, Harvey Weinstein left the conference room directly.

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that Harvey Weinstein, who has always been fond of independent films, will be very busy when he comes to the St. Denis Film Festival, which focuses on independent films.

According to his speculation, this big fat man is nothing more than responsible for the company's business, and the deal of nearly a million dollars is not something that can be reached casually.

Every business and every project in this circle is far from being as casual as imagined from the outside.

Subsequently, Murphy and Jones Butler began a tug-of-war negotiation, the gap between $600,000 and $1.5 million is huge, and the difficulty of the negotiations between the two sides can be imagined, but fortunately, both Murphy and Jones Butler know that if the deal is to be completed, some compromises must be made between each other.

As for the unreliable things such as distribution contracts and sharing agreements for mainstream commercial films, Murphy no longer mentions them, and the cooperation between the two parties will only be carried out in the form of buying out the copyright, and his energy is mainly focused on working for Stanton as much as possible to obtain more money for the sale.

He can't make a project like "Hard Fruit Candy" forever, otherwise he can only stay at the bottom of Hollywood, and he needs more funds to complete his plan in the next step.

Like 90 percent of Hollywood's directors, Murphy has a plan to start with an independent small production and accumulate a certain amount of money and resume, and gradually move towards mainstream cinema.

After three days and five rounds of negotiations, Murphy and Jones Butler finally came to an agreement.