Fueled by the New Line Company, the American media also joined the ranks of reporting on the Winnie Jones beating incident, and "Two Big Smoking Guns" also entered the public eye.

In less than half a year, Jude first spent $20,000 to shoot "This Man from Earth" became a hot focus at the Toronto Film Festival, and then made amazing remarks on "Oprah Talk Show", although his views on his past experience were resisted by some people, but most people still admired his outspokenness and frankness, and now it has been revealed that he is shooting a new movie in the United Kingdom, and he has also found a football player to star, which has surprised many people.

Approval or criticism, it is an undeniable fact that Jude is rising at a rapid pace, which has attracted the attention of many people, including Jude's former agency, CAA.

"Judging from Jude Locke's recent actions, he is not just playing with tickets as a director, but is ready to make a big difference in this area, and several other executives of the company believe that it is necessary to re-evaluate Jude Locke's potential in the industry, which is some of the evidence they have gathered so far." Peter, the new assistant, placed a document on Ovitz's desk and stepped aside to wait for Ovitz's approval.

Ovitz looked up, not looking at the document, but staring at Peter, who had sent it.

"You seem to have missed a point just now, Jude Locke's current agent is your ex."

"Rhett's resignation was personally agreed to by you, and I thought you knew about his role as Jude Locke's agent." Although Peter's face did not show any nervousness, his palms were already starting to sweat. He believed that Ovitz would not bring it up for no reason, but he couldn't figure out why the other party would do it.

"Jude Locke was voluntarily given up by CAA, and Ritter voluntarily left from CAA, do you think these two people came together, and CAA still has a chance to convince them to come back?" Ovitz pushed the document back in front of Peter, "I don't know Jude Locke, or no one really knew him before, but I know Rhett, he was my assistant for 5 years, and I know what kind of person he is, so this thing is a pile of waste paper to me." ”

Peter didn't expect Ovitz to reject the report that the people below had worked so hard to make, and he stood there a little overwhelmed.

"Trust me, as long as Ritter continues to be Jude Locke's agent, you won't stand any chance, so don't waste your time on this."

Ovitz withdrew his hand from the document and continued to review it, as if he had no intention of bothering with it again.

Peter sighed silently, picked up the papers, and turned to leave the office.

He knew that in Ovitz's heart, he might never be able to compare with Little, who had left, and he didn't know what the Chinese thought, obviously staying by Ovitz's side would have greater development, but he wanted to leave himself alone, and he also put a bet on a person who had been abandoned by CAA.

The office door was gently shut, and Ovitz stopped what he was doing and glanced at the picture frame on the cabinet next to him.

It was a photo of him in 1990 with Sean Connery, the first 007 actor, who was the first big-name star to sign with CAA, for which CAA still maintains a separate office for Sean Connery.

But at this moment, Ovitz is not paying attention to Sean Connery, but standing behind Sean Connery and only seeing a side face, Leet has just been promoted by Ovitz to be his assistant, and more than 4 years have passed in a blink of an eye, which accounts for almost a quarter of the establishment time of CAA.

Today's CAA is the top agency in Hollywood, 2/3 of Hollywood's A-list stars are signed under the company, the all-star lineup is as many as hundreds, and Ovitz himself has been elected the most powerful person in Hollywood for three consecutive years.

It can be said that Ovitz is at the peak of his career and influence at the moment, but he is not satisfied with this status quo.

As a brokerage company, limited by the industry itself, no matter how good CAA is and how large it is, it is only a few hundred brokers with an annual profit of hundreds of millions of dollars, which cannot be compared with Disney, Universal Pictures, Viacom and other giants with tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. Being the president of these giants, commanding thousands of employees and wielding tens of billions of dollars in resources would be somewhat challenging for Ovitz.

Originally, Ovitz was not very interested in such a position, but the "first step" of the two partners made him a little unable to sit still.

At the beginning of this year, Berkins, who started a business with Ovitz, announced that he would leave CAA and start a production company on his own, because he was a person who liked challenges and did not want to stay at CAA, and began to retire under the aura of Ovitz in his 40s.

The bigger stimulus came from Meyer, another founder of CAA.

It was Meyer, who wanted to become independent from William Morris, who wooed Ovitz and organized three other people to found CAA, but he also left CAA not long ago.

If Meyer's departure was just a sad move for Ovitz, then Meyer's subsequent role annoyed Ovitz.

Less than half a month after leaving CAA, Meyer announced that he would become president and chief operating officer of MCA's film, television, theme parks and music divisions. Before that, MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, was in talks with Ovitz himself, and the newspapers were rumored every day that he himself would become the president of MCA.

The MCA's poaching of Meyer, of course, was not entirely MCA's or Meyer's idea, there was a complicated power struggle in Hollywood, but the decision was tantamount to a slap in the face to Ovitz in front of the whole of Hollywood.

Determined to get his field back, Ovitz quickly locked in his next position, president of the Disney Company. His longtime friend, then Disney's CEO and chairman of the board, had already offered him an olive branch to become Disney's president, with full responsibility for all of Disney's media and entertainment industries.

Ovitz thought that his decision would be supported by the people around him, but he didn't expect Littlet to be the first to stand up against it, and even refused the position that Ovitz had arranged for him at Disney, and stubbornly resigned and left.

Originally, Ovitz always believed that after Littlet resigned, he would run into walls everywhere, and eventually he would have to come back to find himself, and the Chinese who had been worn off some of the edges and corners would be more comfortable to use.

Jude's appearance directly disrupted Ovitz's entire plan.

Although Jude is only now directing his second film, has gained a bit of fame through luck and hype, and has yet to show obvious signs of success, it is baffling to be able to get Littlet to put all the bets on him.

Ovitz suppressed CAA's plan to woo Jude, not because he felt that CAA had abandoned Jude once and the two sides could not cooperate with him again, with CAA's current power and status, it would not be difficult for a new director like Jude to become a signed artist of CAA again as long as he offered enough conditions.

Ovitz mainly wanted to give Leett a chance and let him know what a bad decision it was to leave.

As for Jude, Ovitz is not optimistic about how much he can achieve in the future, because in Hollywood, which is full of talents, not to mention that it is difficult for a rookie director of Jude's age to get ahead, even people who have survived until they are forty or fifty years old and have achieved nothing abound, and no matter how lucky Jude is, he will not be the lucky one.