Located in the heart of West Los Angeles, Century City is strategically located by Beverly Hills to the north and Santa Monica to the south, where Santa Monica Boulevard, Wilzer Boulevard, West Olympic Boulevard, and Sunset Boulevard will meet, just like medieval Rome, crisscrossing roads to reach the heart of this bustling and unique city.

For tourists, it is a famous shopping center, and as the first shopping center in Los Angeles, almost all the top department stores and luxury brands have set up branches here. However, when tourists mention Hollywood and movie stars, people always think of Beverly Hills, Burbank or Universal Studios, and only locals or industry insiders know that Century City can definitely be called the office core of the Los Angeles film industry, and many film companies, television companies, music companies, and brokerage companies have set their headquarters in high-rise office buildings on the west side, even more prosperous than Burbank.

Nestled in the middle of this bustling and bustling area, Lance's apartments stand in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the apartment, with the tree-lined Roxbury Park Park at your feet, and just three streets from there, you can see the Ranch Park Golf Club, the endless green space that stretches out like a carpet, and the beauty of the sea and sky almost makes you forget that you are in the heart of the city.

Leave the apartment, go straight west along West Olympic Avenue, turn the corner on Wasteland Avenue and walk east, enter Green Ridge Street, and then you can see a series of uneven office buildings, two streets to the southwest is the Fox Studio, only one street to the southeast is the hill occupied by the Hilltop Country Club, and along the west and northwest sides, there are densely packed entertainment companies of all sizes, supporting half of the American entertainment industry.

Lance is all too familiar with the area, which is only a five-minute drive from the apartment and can be reached even by foot in a quarter of an hour, while Diorama Pictures is located two blocks away on Constellation Avenue – the densest area of entertainment in the whole of Century City, where the innovative artist agency owns an entire building. Diorama moved in in 2001, when their partnership with Warner Bros. Ocean's Eleven took the company to the next level with a huge victory. So he left the original location of Victor Avenue and entered the Constellation Avenue.

After entering the Green Ridge Street, Reims habitually continued on his way, and the next street was the Avenue de Vidot, and when he reached the street corner. Only then did Lance realize that Diorama Pictures was no longer on Victor Street, and he was no longer a member of Diorama Pictures. Lance had to go around again and circle again, and the car finally stopped at the entrance of Building 21.

Reims is no stranger to the building, with offices for many independent Hollywood studios, as well as several small and medium-sized distribution companies, and a six-story building packed to the brim. This is Century City, a palm-sized area with hundreds of entertainment-related companies. Every office building is in high demand, and compared to the star-studded Beverly Hills, Century City is a land of real opportunity.

After parking his car in the underground parking lot, Lance took the elevator to the fourth floor, and when he stepped out of the elevator, he could see an empty hallway, directly opposite the elevator was a marble-wrapped door, and at each end of the corridor was a spacious office, and the two-family design on the first floor left enough space for small and medium-sized companies to arrange their own office space.

Looking at the empty field on both sides, Lance couldn't help but be stunned. Because offices in Century City are always in high demand, it is not uncommon for a company to exit before a new company wants to move in - Chaos Pictures waited a year to find an office in Century City. And it was also because Theo accidentally discovered the dynamics of this company when he was dealing with business, so he completed the contract as soon as possible.

So, suddenly seeing that the two offices on the first floor were empty at the same time, this situation really caught Lance a little off guard, and now Lance doesn't know. Which one is the office of Chaos Pictures.

"Hey, Lance, here." Albert's cheerful voice came from the right-hand side, "Ian just left, didn't you see him?" Lance looked back at the empty office on the left, shook his head, and replied in the negative, "Ian was going to meet with a client this afternoon, so he left first." Albert quickly explained, pulling Lance into the office, "How's that?" It's been our office for the next two years! ”

It's been nearly two years since Chaos Pictures was founded, but it has never had office space, partly because there are no spare offices for rent, and partly because they don't have enough money. The recent box office success of "The Day After Tomorrow" has allowed Chaos Pictures to take a breather and rent a suitable office.

The office space in front of me is about 3,000 square feet (less than 300 square meters), which is far from large, and can only accommodate 50 people at most, but it needs $450,000 in rent a year! Now, the entire space is emptied and completely self-explanatory, with two separate offices at the ends of the left and right sides, and nothing else.

It's just an empty house, and there's nothing to evaluate at all.

However, for Chaos Pictures, being able to have a spacious fixed office space is a good start. What's more, there are currently less than 20 people up and down in the entire Chaos Pictures industry, and most of them are crew members recruited during the filming of "The Day After Tomorrow", not office staff, so this space is enough.

The most important thing is that the previous "day after tomorrow" actor selection was an open audition, so all the work was handed over to Twentieth Century Fox. This time, the choice of actors to "kill people with a knife" cannot be like this, considering Tom Cruise's many requirements, it is bound to be carefully selected, Chaos Pictures not only needs an office space, but also a place where interviews can be held, and an office is obviously more than just a façade for a company.

"Where's the bathroom?" Lance asked curiously, after a cursory look.

Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes at Lance, and raised his voice speechlessly, "Are you serious?" That's the first question you have when you arrive at a new company? ”

"Why, don't you have to go to the bathroom?" Percy's cold voice came from behind him, which immediately angered Albert. "The bathroom is across the elevator from the elevator, and that's the floor public bathroom."

Lance turned around and cast a puzzled look at Percy, Percy has always been a cold image, but he always seems to have a lot of words in front of acquaintances - Lance is not surprised by this, but he thinks that Percy is recognizable and usually ruthless, so he is naturally more relaxed in front of acquaintances. But for some reason, Percy and Albert bumped into each other, and every time they met, the two of them went toe-to-toe and quarreled.

Percy noticed Lance's gaze and cast a puzzled look, "What's wrong?" ”

"No, I just think you guys are like fighting cocks." Lance shrugged his shoulders, and a single sentence instantly made Percy and Albert both have black lines on their heads, but Lance didn't seem to realize that he had dropped a bomb and walked around the empty office space. Percy and Albert, who were standing behind them, accidentally touched each other's sight, then glared at each other fiercely, and quickly looked away, so that they couldn't help but laugh.

"What's going on on the other side?" Lance walked around, but in fact, there was nothing to see now, there were no office utensils, and even the signboard at the door had not been delivered.

"Well, it used to be a music company, it went out of business, but it was rented out before us, and it was also a film production company, New Market Pictures." Percy quickly explained.

Albert, who was standing next to him, immediately said, "New Market Pictures has been established for 10 years, and it is a very powerful independent film company in the industry. Last year's 'Devil Girl' and 'Whale Rider' were both their family's creations. ”

New Market Pictures, this company Lance has naturally heard of it, this company, like Diora Pictures, started from distribution, they have a very keen sense of smell in the independent film market, and their distribution ability is impressive. In addition to the two works Albert mentioned, "Fragments of Memory" and "Death Illusion" and other works that are among the top 250 films on IMDB are all distributed by their family.

may not be as good as Lionsgate, Fox Searchlight, and Focus Pictures, but they have always had a good reputation in the field of distribution.

"That's not bad, maybe we can cooperate in the future, and it's convenient to negotiate." Lance teased lightly.

As he spoke, a voice came from the door, "Is this Chaos Pictures?" Is Mr. Percy Brandley here? Percy immediately greeted him, but Lance couldn't help but be stunned, until this moment, he had a real feeling that Chaos Pictures would take root here, and then start a new journey, this is their own space, but also their pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info.

The other party is not only responsible for delivering the door, but also responsible for assembling, the whole office suddenly fell into a prosperous scene, witnessing the empty space being filled little by little, the sense of reality is transmitted to the feet, and gradually becomes more and more steady.

"Excuse me...... Is this Chaos Pictures? In the midst of the hot scene in the office, there was a noise at the door, Percy and Albert were directing the staff to lay out the office according to the plan, and Lance, who was standing near the door, had to meet him, and then saw a figure in a suit and leather shoes, and the other party showed a little embarrassed smile on his face, "Sorry, it seems that I chose the wrong time to come to the door, please forgive me for being abrupt." (To be continued.) )

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