Departing from Mexico, Sean flew non-stop to New York.

John. Frankenheimer's commercial for the American director was held in New York. The story of this commercial, called "Ambush", is simple and the shooting speed is very fast. It seems that after two commercials with very different styles, Sean has finally returned to normal and can shoot a decent commercial short.

This "Ambush" has nothing to attract Sean except for the bullet holes in the BMW. This can only be regarded as clocking in to work for Sean. Even if BMW gave Sean a copy of BMW's latest champagne-colored 740i sedan and a $150,000 salary after the end of filming, it can't change Sean's lack of love for this last commercial.

Not to mention the style created by Wong Kar-wai, Alejandro. Gonzalez's repression, even Guy Ritchie's "Big Star" is at least funny, right? And this "Ambush" can only be said to be very commercial, except for any other highlights, it is completely an advertising film that shows BMW's performance through and through.

Back in Los Angeles, it will take some time for the estate to be delivered, as the wine valley estate is still being renovated and many of the furniture and décor need to be rebuilt.

However, this does not prevent Sean from enjoying the Pinot Noir red wine produced in his manor house. Stern is right, the winemaking of Château de Vale is really good in terms of taste, and it is not inferior to the A-grade premium wines.

The only drawback may be that it is not well-known and the production is not high, the winemakers of the Quanping Wine Valley can produce between 1,500 and 1,800 bottles a year at most, while the real best red wine is only about 100 bottles.

However, what satisfied Sean was that the master of winemaking still chose to sign a contract with Sean and continue to help Sean make wine. In addition, in the cellar of the winery, there are hundreds of bottles of different vintages, of which the longest vintage is 8 years old, but more is about 5 years old, and the red wine of this time is the most suitable for drinking.

Don't look at the TV where a little wine is 82 ashes, and then men and women enjoy the taste, if you really follow the drinking method on TV. Then they are no different from drinking vinegar. Older wines take a few hours or even a dozen hours to be decanted.

Therefore, 2-5 years is the best year for drinking.

For this reason, Sean specially asked Liv to take out some red wine from the winery and give them to some friends he knew.

Doug Liman, Sean personally delivered 20 bottles of the finest Pinot Noir. Nicolas Cage and Russell Crow, Sean chose to let Amex help each deliver 10 bottles of red wine, while Ted Damie, Ridley Scott, Julia Roberts, Soderbergh, Sean considered friends also asked Liv to help deliver wine, and Katie Helms, Penelope-Cruz, Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman Sean also symbolically sent a few bottles of red wine.

As for others, Sean felt that they were at most collaborative. But he wasn't a friend, so he didn't send red wine.

Even so, there wasn't much red wine left from the original brought, and Sean didn't forget the three elders of the little red horse. He even personally delivered red wine, and at the same time, he talked about life with the three elders of the bar again that night. In the end, Sean kept a few bottles of some red wine, and the rest chose to be consigned and sent to Mossville, where Old Cross and Pirlo thought they would like the gift.

Los Angeles in May has begun to show its sunny side, and Sean has experienced a month of trapeze days, and it is rare to have such a quiet time.

Every day Sean is not walking with faith. It was to drive the villain along Highway 1 to the Wine Valley Estate to see the progress of the project.

Otherwise, it is to sit in the Little Red Horse Bar and talk with the three elders while watching the NBA playoffs together, and in the afternoon they will go fishing with Old Jack and feed the pigeons.

Sean and Angelina's affair came to an end, and the overwhelming scolding gradually disappeared. It's not that everyone accepts Sean, but because Hollywood is a place of rapid change, with countless blockbuster news appearing every day, and no one can dominate the headlines forever.

The most beautiful thing recently is tantamount to a beautiful soup, as the release of "Mission Impossible 2" is approaching. Tom Cruise is frequently in the public eye. Talk show shows, street and Australian batteries show affection, marriage scandals, etc., a series of reports continue to bombard people's eyes, this intensive publicity means combined with the super popularity of Liangtang, I think the box office of this "Mission Impossible" sequel can be expected.

Popular superstar + first-class commercial action director + hype of the previous work. Together, the three are destined to be a box office hit for this sequel.

Liangtang seems to be very unwilling to lose the Oscar, and intends to use this commercial blockbuster to prove his superstar status in Hollywood. Therefore, his publicity this time is quite hard, and it can be said that he personally went into battle shirtless to attract attention.

Sean didn't know, in fact, Brother Liang Tang also had his credit for paying so much attention. Watching his enemy make a fuss in the newspaper some time ago attracted attention, how could Liangtang, who has always been small-minded, stand it?

So. The public was fortunate enough to see Tom Cruise, who flew all over the United States and attracted attention by attracting bees and butterflies.

Sean had a leisurely life, fishing, wine tasting, dog walking, watching games, or watching three old guys arguing, and Sean was satisfied with this kind of life anyway.

Even Sean feels that he really doesn't belong to the "strongman" type. Look at how desperate others are at the beginning of their careers, and look at themselves...... Sean poured a glass of wine, skimmed the topic, and continued to look at the three old guys arguing in front of him, his eyes drawn to the Lakers who were fighting the Kings on TV.

The OK combination vs. Princeton tactics, this kind of matchup is absolutely sparkling, and it is very ornamental. Anyway, Sean watched it with relish.

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Between Los Angeles and Burbank, Universal Pictures stands here, and because of Universal's immense influence, the street on which it is located was renamed Universal Street.

Although Universal's stake has been changing in recent years, first to Panasonic, and then five years ago Panasonic sold Universal to Canadian brewing giant Seagram, which is the kind of company that has a lot of fun and looks like it owns the Big Eight in Hollywood, so why does the company have to enter the media and entertainment industry.

Then it bought Polygram and several entertainment-related companies in a frenzy, and this kind of blind acquisition naturally has to pay a price. Then, it was bought by the French water conglomerate Vivendi, and it was acquired by the parent company.

This kind of energy that can be tossed is called a Canadian fat cat by the American entertainment industry.

There is a proverb in the United States, "A cat that eats all the time will not become a tiger, but only a fat cat." ”

Seagram was the fat cat who thought he would become a tiger if he kept expanding, and he was eventually swallowed by the little tiger. That's fucking capitalism.

The equity has been tossed vigorously, but this has not stopped Universal Pictures from stopping, and in general, this equity change has added a lot of resources to it. In addition, the top management of Universal Pictures is relatively stable and self-aware, and understands that the financiers behind them are estimated to not be able to take care of themselves, and Universal will not be as rich as Warner and Paramount, so Universal has always played small and big.

If you look at Universal's investment in recent years, it is definitely small productions that make up an absolute part, and it is accustomed to focusing on the independent film industry, and a large number of directors such as Soderbergh and Ron Howard have become the focus of their attention.

Of course, "Gladiator" is a rare big deal in recent years. But the main body of the film is actually DreamWorks. In fact, Universal still inherited its own small family spirit, but this kind of small family style of play has allowed it to steadily rise.

Universal is one of the eight major studios that are very strange.

In the office of the global headquarters, a gray-haired, glasses-wearing, and elegant Jewish man sat on the sofa next to his desk, holding a wine glass in his hand, and looked at the two acquaintances sitting on the sofa in front of him with a smile.

"Oh, that's a really tight budget, you have to know it's a racing movie." The scruffy bald head glanced at the other bald head beside him, and finally fixed his gaze on the man in front of him, "Lang. Mr. Meyer, I think the investment of 50 million should be able to make this racing movie. ”

"No, no, no, at most 40 million dollars, and that includes later publicity. You must know that the "Speed 60 Seconds" we invested in before only used less than 90 million budget for later publicity. This also includes the salaries of Nicolas Cage and Angelina, you must know that Cage alone has a salary of more than 25 million. But judging by David's script, this street racing-style movie I think maybe 35 million will be done. ”

Bright. Meyer glanced at the other bald head opposite, "What do you think, Neil?" I'm sure you'll give me a satisfactory answer, right? ”

"Rob, I think we can go to the white label advertising, you have to know this kind of racing movie to find these car dealers, we can save a lot of money." As a producer, Neil is naturally responsible for the investment, and looked at his friend Rob Cohen next to him, he smiled and patted the other party on the shoulder, "I'm going to buy back the title of this movie now, oh hell, why do you have to call it that......"

Rob Cohen couldn't help but sigh as he looked at his friend's useless expression. Although he is not very satisfied with the amount of investment, he is just a director, and all he can do is make good movies, and it is not his turn to talk more about investment. (To be continued.) )

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