"Yes, he's on sick leave right now—doesn't that sound unreal, Cesare, sick leave?" Jenny jumped off the treadmill with her phone, "Just a cold...... Yes, okay, no? I don't know, Mary was taking care of him over there, I went over yesterday to take a look, and he seemed to have a fever. Just fall in love with WwW. LＷＸＳ５２０。 ＣＯＭ”

Although the business of CAA can be handed over to other agents to handle temporarily, and Jenny, who has only one agent in charge of CAA, can wait, but after really letting Cesare's assistant transfer the phone to Mary, Jenny knows how much Cesare's workload is every day - although Mary receives very few calls, judging from the number of inquiries Jenny directly received, there are at least 6 or 7 artists who want to talk to Cesare in the past two days, considering that he has more than a dozen artists, There are also some who are not very familiar with Jenny after all, so to speak, although they are only a member of the agent team, as long as they are artists he brings, basically a heart is on his side.

Of course, there are some things inside Big Dream: Jeanne suspects that Cesare's tired illness is because he has been busy recruiting staff for the distribution department and coordinating the release of "Unlucky Eros", and the cooperation between Big Dream and Fox on "Unlucky Eros" is somewhat inclined to Fox - Big Dream gets the domestic distribution rights for "Eros" and Fox is responsible for overseas. Of course, this also means that Dameng has to lease some copy processing machines, and decide how many copies of film to print in China, how many digital copies to make, and determine the publicity strategy. Since this was the first film released by Big Dream, and the new department had just been set up, and it was still in the run-in stage, Cesare had a firm grasp of the details. Since he is now cultivating, Jenny said that he will share it for you, so he asked the distribution department to give Jenny a copy of the daily work report, Jenny has no golden finger in this regard, whether it is distribution or personnel, her experience is basically zero, this daily work report is expected to be for her to review, or let her learn the specific details of the distribution.

Considering that she is only taking over part of the affairs, and there must be many things that are diverted to others by Cesare's two assistants, Jenny also has an intuitive understanding of Cesare's daily workload, anyway, these things that have been done for her have been overwhelmed a little, and this is still "Avatar" is still in the suspension stage, and the matter has not come to her......

"Why didn't his family take care of him? I don't know. She was a little impatient and clicked on the email as she said, "Chris, just say whatever you want, I don't think you need to spit out." ”

Chris's tone was a little helpless and sullen, "I just think he should be taken care of by others, such as his family and lovers, didn't I see a very beautiful girl at Cesare's birthday party last time?" That's his girlfriend, isn't it? ”

"Chris, are you jealous?" Jenny thought it was funny, "Are you jealous?" ”

There was no immediate reply on the other end of the line, and Jenny resisted the urge to laugh, she put down the mouse she had just picked up, "Oh, it looks like someone is really jealous?" ”

Chris said sullenly, "I know that the whole open relationship is designed to put an end to this sense of insecurity at a long distance—"

He sighed, "Well, I have to admit, I think your relationship is ...... Let me mind, we're in an open relationship, not a multi-person relationship, aren't we? ”

An open relationship is about being open, but the emotional connection is still unique, which is what distinguishes this relationship from the cannon. An important trait of friends, Jenny couldn't have failed to understand Chris's hints, and she laughed even harder. "If you're telling me I can't make friends of the opposite sex—"

"You're blurring the focus—" Chris said, but Jenny's voice drowned out him, "Chesa single-handedly dug me up, Chris, he's my only agent, and I don't think you can fail to see that there's more to our cooperation than that......"

She paused meaningfully, but didn't say anything: it was illegal after all. "If you think I'm going to with my partner, then Chris - do you even know me?"

Chris exhaled and didn't speak, Jenny smiled triumphantly, "Don't think too much, my dear, if I were in London, and you moved to the Chesa house to take care of him, I wouldn't think too much-"

"That's because we're all straight guys!" Chris said protestingly.

"It's hard to say." Jenny laughed and said, "People don't say that in Hollywood, sexuality is like possessions, and no one can ever guess until you come out on your own, do they?" ”

Chris let out a flurry of noises, but didn't sound so much about the whole Chesa incident, "Okay, so I'm guessing it's the same for you - has Avatar progressed lately?" I've heard that Fox seems intent on taking this plate, when can I go to the audition? ”

"You're still trying to dig up news from the Chesa?" Jenny amusedly asked, "You know he won't tell you anything, and why didn't you come and ask me?" - I see! You're the one who has a relationship with the Chesa - it seems! I know why you're angry, Chris-"

"Oh, you cunning, cunning woman." Chris chuckled and burst into several expletives, "Okay, what I want to ask is actually what Leo did to this character, but I guess you don't know the answer, are you still in the game?" They didn't kick you out, did they? ”

"To be honest, I don't know if I'm still in the game." Jenny confessed, "It's true that I haven't heard from them in a while, but I don't think there's a very good chance I'm out, so let's take the time the negotiations are still in the early stages." Since you haven't even found a good funder, let alone choose between you and Leo, if I want to guess, Cameron may want to eliminate one naturally by delaying, so that it is more acceptable to everyone. ”

"yes," Chris smiled wryly, "that's all we can think—"

In Hollywood, as long as you are not the one who holds the core rights, you can be kicked out at any time, and even if everything is not negotiated before the contract is signed, you better not take it too seriously, even if the funder is the same (such as the tragic Universal), even Chris and Leo can't get rid of such worries. Jenny is lucky, she didn't go through that terrible long negotiation, and now "Avatar" is not progressing well, but this has nothing to do with the role, and when it comes to the female lead, no one in Hollywood can compete with her.

- In fact, most actors have a hard time during the audition period, especially for this kind of big production, and the time cost they have to pay is even unbelievably high: it is common for projects to encounter setbacks, and when they can start, I don't know, what months the schedule will be, and how long it will last, I don't know. Let's just say that now, Chris and Leo will have no work after finishing the shooting in their hands, how long can they wait? I don't know. But maybe after you lose patience to take on a new project, the negotiation starts, and finally settles, and the two movie shooting schedules conflict, and the 500 million project does not belong to you. But if you keep waiting, it may be that you choose another person for the final project, and you spend a lot of time waiting, and in the end you get nothing, so you can only rush to find another one in the project waiting to be filmed, and re-enter the competition that is already fierce enough, and squeeze out another group of actors who are smaller than you.

Such a cycle of competition determines that Hollywood is a world soaked in accidents from the top of the mountain to the seaside, since you want to mix in such an industry, the only thing you can do is to adjust your mentality, otherwise it is easy to suffer from various stress disorders. Jenny also understands Chris's feelings - it doesn't feel good to be dragged around, but who made that person Cameron?

"By the way, have you picked a hotel?" She changed the subject, "There's still time, I think if Cesare recovers, I can still squeeze out a week's ......"

In a way, Chris is a very pleasing lover - if they are in a relationship, there may be some truth to the saying that 'the one who falls in love loses first', and Jenny feels that she has more initiative in the relationship, which makes her feel secure and more understanding of Chris's insecurity. She had no intention of playing with him with her immediate-like love tricks, or arrogant and willful, moody, these tricks, Jenny would, but at that time she was in a weak position in love, and it could be regarded as a little initiative for herself, and she had to do it when she had the advantage, which felt no different from mental abuse.

She will regulate Chris's behavior and 'set rules' for him, but she will not make him hot at everything, and she will not be lazy when she should call to report safety and sweet words. - Well, I can't help but admit that Chris, who was simply coaxed by her to speak softly and sweetly, can even be said to be a little cute.

After agreeing on the details of the vacation, Jenny called back some of the missed calls during the phone call - half of them were due to the fact that Cesare had taken sick leave and called to ask for inside information. Diaz even thought Cesare had been diagnosed with cancer, otherwise 'I can't imagine him going to be sick'. By the time she finished talking on the phone and read the day's work emails, the day was coming to an end. Jeanne didn't eat dinner at home—Mary was at Cesare's, and Jim was probably there, sitting alone in front of the TV eating salad, which seemed a little pitiful even to her.

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Surprisingly, it wasn't Mary who opened the door to her - Jenny stepped back and looked at Cesare in some surprise, "You look perfectly fine—what about Mary?" ”

Indeed, Cesare appeared to be fully recovered, wearing a casual polo shirt (which had been ironed as usual), his hair was still a little wet, and there was even a healthy flush on his face: he looked like he had just worked out and had come out of the shower. He stared at her silently for two seconds, then stepped out of the way and let Jenny in.

"I asked her to go on a date with her boyfriend." He said, his tone as if it had completely returned to normal, "Don't blame her, Ginnis came in the afternoon and he said I was fully recovered." ”

"That's good." Jenny breathed a sigh of relief, "You don't know how helpless I am - James from the distribution department asked me how many movie posters we were going to print, and I didn't know anything about it, how many people in general printed?" It just so happened that Robert sent me an email, and I asked him in passing, do you know what Robert said? ”

Cesare made a monotone to indicate that he was listening, and Jenny continued, "He said I didn't need to care about that, as long as the department was spending it on budget. And I thought -- yes, I think it's because you don't know the details, right? Of course, Disney was a big company when you took over, and you had to worry about redundancies and damn balance sheets — did I get that word right? But Big Dream is still very young, this is the first job in the distribution department, and I can't let the children at the bottom feel that they don't know anything......

"You didn't reply to Robert like that, did you?" Cesare led her into the kitchen, "Tell me you don't." ”

"I didn't." Jenny said, leaning against the stove and watching Cesare inspect a piece of beef that had been salted and seasoned, "You're really relieved to get rid of chicken broth, aren't you?" - Of course I didn't, but I asked Virgilia, and she told me that the budget for movie posters is generally around $300,000 for domestic distribution - if we're frugal, if we want some big posters, $500,000 is a reasonable figure, what do you think? ”

"It's a good piece of beef." Cesare said, "It's time, it should be eaten at the right time, do you want a piece?" ”

Jenny looked at him suspiciously, shook her head, and Cesare rolled up her sleeves and asked, "Salad?" ”

"Of course." As Jeanne watched Cesare open the fridge and expertly unpack it, she couldn't help but say, "I didn't know you could cook." ”

"Very occasionally, my cooking skills are average." Cesare said, he turned on the tap, "500,000 dollars is really too much, it's just printing and shipping, the only thing that can be posted for free is the inside of the theater, 500,000 can print more posters, after all, the more copies, the lower the unit price, but it also means more posting costs." Did you reply to James? ”

"Nope." Jenny shrugged, "I'm going to ask you, after all, you're in charge of this - you know, I've not always been a 'bad girl'." ”

She gestured two fingers in her ear, imitating double quotation marks—Cesare choked, and he glared at Jeanne warningly.

"It's good to know that, and you can reply to him that $300,000 is an acceptable figure, but make a scale chart with a corresponding estimate of the advertising costs." Cesare handed the rinsed salad bowl to Jenny.

Jenny looked back at him blankly with her bowl in her hand.

"Would you dehydrate a salad?" Cesare twisted the bridge of his nose and asked patiently, as he showed her, "How many turns like this, using centrifugal force?" ”

"Oh-oh!" It dawned on Jenny that her attention was still on business, "Of course, I would—I've seen others do it many times." ”

Cesare gave her a meaningful look, and Jenny defended herself, "What! Before I became famous, it was cheaper to eat the finished product than to make it myself. It's called the social division of labor, you know? ”

She began to turn the salad bowl, "The poster fee is just a small expense, and the advertising fee is the big one, right?" Are you going to do subway billboard posting? Oh, by the way, James also said that several trailer production companies have already returned the offer, and we are splitting the money with Fox, right? ”

"Yes, advertising is the big one." Cesare said, "And what's the price for the trailer — what do you know?" Forget it, I'll check the mail later. ”

"There are also theater quotations that have also come out, and the houseallowance mentioned by AMC seems to be a cut higher than the rest, is this a normal situation?" Jenny separated the salad bowls, poured out the water from the large bowls, and shook them again.

"AMC's theaters are relatively new, and what you see is the average price that AMC gives you, and finally when you fix it to each theater to sign the contract, the price will be high and low, and they have just renovated a few theaters in New York and Los Angeles, mainly because the houseallowance of these houses has raised the price, but we can take 70% of the share, so the specific difference is not much." Cesare replied. "The market seems to have good expectations for "Unlucky Eros", do any theaters ask to watch the film first?"

"Oh, I know, the bottom line, most theaters give a 65 percent guarantee for the first week — yes," Jenny said, "James wants to have a theatrical viewing next week, but we don't seem to have a final cut soundtrack yet." ”

"It should come out in a few days, Fox's people and we will watch it first, do you want to participate?"

"Of course - what do you think of a 65% guarantee in the first week? Cesare, isn't it a little too low? ”

"We can watch the film before we decide, Big Dream is a new company after all," Cesare, already making the salad dressing, motioned for Jeanne to put the leaves in the bowl, "Start mixing—or you can leave me alone." ”

"I feel like you're flouting my ability to do housework." Jenny rolled her eyes, but quickly admitted weakness in Cesare's obvious eyes, "Well, well, I'm not good at it—but I can still make a salad." Do you think we'll be able to get some good movie distribution rights from Robert? Alice, for example? Or convince Fox to co-publish Avatar with us? Should this be included in the investment agreement? After all, 65% is indeed a small guaranteed share. ”

In the agreement signed between the theater chain and the distribution company, generally speaking, the minimum share is adopted, the first week is the total box office revenue - fixed expenses (houseallowance), the distribution company takes 90%, the guaranteed box office income 60%-70%, and then every two weeks the distribution company takes a share of 10%, and finally will roughly ensure that the distribution company gets about 50% of the revenue, but this' Then there are articles, big companies, such as Fox and Warner, directly sign framework agreements with theaters, and most films can get 55% of the box office revenue. But for a small company like Big Dream, in the first week, the theater line will be directly opened by 65%, and here it will be about 5%, and it is likely that they will only get 50% of the box office in the end. There are even weaker companies that can only get 40% back, and strong companies that can get 60% back. -- If it weren't for the fact that Big Dream was backed by Disney, Fox would not have given up the North American distribution rights, and as investors, they must have to ensure that the revenue is secured, and if the distribution company gets back 40% of the box office, it is likely that a project will turn from a profit to a loss. Of course, this is also not good for Big Dream itself, so it is not so easy for them to get the distribution rights in a co-development project.

Of course, Hollywood is not a charity hall, and to the extent that the law allows, all companies will do everything possible to crack down on competitors and erect barriers for rising stars. The theater chain is indeed the rudder of the wind and bullying Big Dream has no qualifications, but you can't call Robert because of this and ask him to put pressure on the theater, Jenny wants to get the distribution rights of some blockbusters, and get the same treatment as the Big Six in the theater - only if they can get 55% in the theater, can they really master the North American distribution, before that, the distribution department of Big Dream will be their weakness.

With a 'zig', Cesare put the steak into the cast-iron pan, and an enticing aroma suddenly filled the kitchen, and he replied while frying the steak, "It's all later, the first movie can only look at the quality, if your quality is enough to convince the theaters, then maybe we can hint at these projects and get a good price, but if the quality doesn't satisfy the theaters, I'm afraid we can only get 65% - that's not a bad number, Jefferson, if you star, then 70% in the first week is definitely not a problem, But Rachel and Chris are both newcomers, and it's not a big production, so you don't need to rush too much. ”

"Okay." Jenny was a little frustrated, "But in this case, will it affect our negotiations with Fox for Avatar?" If it were Fox, they would have taken 5% more—"

"Personally, I don't think so." "But it's hard to say that Fox will give up the distribution rights, and after Titanic, few companies will make such a stupid mistake." ”

He was silent for a moment, shoveled out the steak, paused it on a plate a few times, let the blood flow, and poured in the sauce again. Jenny poured herself a glass of water and walked back to the table with him, suggesting, "You'd better not drink - you were a patient half a day ago - by the way, Chris just called to ask about the progress of Avatar, and I told him we hadn't heard anything yet." ”

"Hmm." Cesare said simply.

For a moment, neither of them spoke, but was concentrating on their dinner, and Jeanne generously gave Cesare some salad, which she thought he should eat more.

"I've seen the folder you left behind." Cesare said, taking a sip from his glass. "So, you've read the script?"

Before Jenny finished her salad, she nodded and struggled to swallow a sweet and crunchy lettuce.

"I've seen it." She wiped her mouth, "It's a good script, I'm interested in it - but let's not talk about it, it's just a supporting role." What we need is a convincing protagonist -- have you read the information I've gathered? ”

"I watched." Cesare's hands were in the shape of a tower—a gesture of his thinking—but there was no script on the market—it wasn't a project." ”

"Yes." Jenny said she leaned forward, "but we can do it ourselves, instead of just picking and choosing ready-made projects like we used to, after all, we have our own studio, don't we?" Cesare, and she's a perfect fit for me—"

Her tone grew excited. "After all, she's a shining legend of the times—Marilyn. Monroe ......"

The author has something to say: Note: Some of the distribution matters mentioned here are true, and I purely deduce the cost of poster printing, because I don't know what to say about the cost of printing in the United States......

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psAbout the readership, I read everyone's feedback, considering that everyone's motivation to join the group may be to communicate with the author, and I don't have time to chat, believe that if I have time, everyone is still willing to write more articles, right...... So, this idea will be put on hold for the time being, at least until I come back from ......> out