Denzel knew in his heart that he was likely to lose this bet, but he did need a reason to convince him.

Jude didn't stay with the Denzel family to watch the entire ceremony, and when Holly Hunter, the last actress in charge of the awards on the TV screen, read out the name of "Tom Hanks", Jude, who won the bet, also got up at the same time to say goodbye.

Denzel did not retain him, Morgan Freeman did not win the award, the advantage is still on his side, and the direction of career development in the future must be adjusted accordingly...... These take time to digest slowly.

Tom Hanks even starred in the actor, "Forrest Gump" unsurprisingly became the biggest winner of this year's Oscars, although the next day the American newspaper news almost all reported on this matter, but obviously whether it is the media or the public, everyone's enthusiasm for the Oscars has quickly faded with the end of the awards ceremony, entering the so-called "Oscar exhaustion period".

This slump usually lasts a week or more, and many new films that are ready to be released avoid this time slot, first because of the thankless publicity effort, but also because they are not compared to some of the blockbuster films at the Oscars.

The new line company chose this schedule at the beginning entirely because of its lack of confidence in "Two Smoking Guns", and at the same time, it also considered that it would not encounter too strong competitors when it was released on this schedule.

As soon as the results of the film's release in the UK came out, the new line company immediately regretted it, but at this time it was impossible to postpone the release schedule of the film, which also showed the gap between the new line company and big film companies such as Warner and Disney.

After the failure of negotiations with the theater chain, the new line company has been worried about the promotion of "Two Big Smoking Guns", and none of the several plans discussed at the following meeting can satisfy Shay.

When he received Lee's call, Shay was in a meeting, and after learning that Jude had a conflict with Sharon Stone's assistant at the Armani store, his first reaction was to try not to let the media know that "Two Smoking Guns" was about to be released, and once such negative news broke out, it would definitely be a heavy blow to the box office of the movie.

But what Li said next made Shay immediately change his mind.

"You know Jude's character, although he has changed a lot after changing his career to become a director, it is impossible to expect him to really become a gentleman, and the media will not believe that a person who has been in the past with a lot of negative news will change immediately, so this incident is actually beneficial in the long run, because it will let everyone see Jude change a little bit, rather than suddenly changing his appearance and making it unacceptable to everyone."

Shay bluntly interrupted Lee: "You want everyone to slowly accept Jude's changes, I have no problem with that, but what you said is what agents should be concerned about, I just want to know what benefits the new line company can get from it?" ”

"The main responsibility for this incident is not Jude, his approach is at most impulsive, and it has not risen to the point where it is so bad that people feel that he has done something wrong, and there is in-store monitoring as evidence, it is impossible for the other party to play any tricks, and the judge may not be able to support Jude's counter-appeal, but we definitely take the initiative in public opinion. The more attention it gets, the more the situation is in our favor, not only because of Jude's changing public image, but more importantly because he is the director of "Two Smoking Guns", and the two are closely intertwined...... Does Mr. White understand what I mean? ”

Shay's eyes lit up, and he used this incident to hype up the upcoming "Two Big Smoking Guns", why didn't he think of this before?

While secretly scolding himself for being slow to react, Shay had some doubts in his heart.

"I tested Jude before, and he was very disgusted with this practice of using scandals and negative news to hype, and even forbade us to use his and Kate's news to promote like the British media.

Litte immediately explained: "This is Jude's own meaning, I didn't expect this matter to be used for movie promotion at first, of course, this time the main reason is that the other party took the initiative to bump into him, such an opportunity is not in vain." ”

"Are you sure?"

Shay was always a little skeptical about this, because he was worried that Jude's purpose for doing this was not pure, just like the last time Jude proposed to go to the UK to shoot "Two Big Smoking Guns", but in fact it was to go there to pick up girls, although the last two things were done beautifully, but this time the situation is different, the price of New Line's support for Jude's publicity plan is that they will offend Sharon Stone and the William Morris agency behind her.

"Don't forget, we're all tied to the same boat now." Leeter reminded.

As Jude's agent, of course, Leet knows that Jude's purpose for doing this is not pure, and privately he even doubts that Jude has had any trouble with Sharon Stone in the past, but this is not important, the important thing is that it is good for everyone.

New Line can take the opportunity to promote "Two Big Smoking Guns", and Jude can use this incident as a starting point to gradually reverse the previous bad boy image in the public mind, the only unlucky one is Sharon Stone, but no one will sympathize with her, because this is Hollywood, everything will only be measured by profit.

After Shay returned to the conference room, he immediately announced that he would stop the discussion of the current topic, selectively repeated what Leet had just said on the phone, and finally put his hands on the desk, leaned forward and ordered: "I want to be reported on this matter in the newspapers of the United States tomorrow, and either the result will satisfy me, or let me see your letter of resignation!" ”

Soon Jude and Sharon Stone's assistant clashed at the Armani store, and the news that both sides were preparing for a lawsuit spread to various media, especially CNN, a subsidiary of Turner Group, the parent company of New Line, obtained the surveillance video and audio recording at that time directly from Jude's lawyer through internal relations, and broadcast it as a news program that afternoon.

The American media, which did not know what news to use to divert the public's attention from the Oscar discussions, immediately surrounded like sharks smelling of blood and joined the camp of reporting on the incident.

[PS: Yesterday there was something that only changed one chapter, and this chapter is to make up for yesterday]