(5,000 words, the first update, ask for recommendations and collections in the early morning, night owl brothers, get high ^_^)

Daniel's decision to hire Derack Lane was not a whim, compared to big stars such as Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts, although Daniel is a Hollywood rookie, he is not without any connections, at least in the editing, Draco is willing to help him, because Kusa has just agreed a collaboration with him.

Melissa Lane, Daniel's Circle Bearer, will be a new member of Daniel's team.

Cusa chose Melissa, of course, because of Draco's connections in the circle, you must know that Draco himself is an Oscar judge, and he can provide Daniel with a lot of help that he needs next, and secondly, of course, she is not a threat to Cusa, whether it is from the brain - well, it may not be appropriate to say so, but it is true, with Melissa's IQ, there is really no competition with Cusa. Still from the positioning, neither of them is a competitor, Melissa is more of a transactional talent, and Kusa grasps the overall situation.

As for why Draco sent his daughter to Daniel's team, it was purely optimistic.

In addition, Kusa has indeed spoken to Kevin about Daniel's agent.

Kim Paison also has some rumors circulating within CAA, and relatively speaking, this agent turmoil has made Daniel a lot of enemies in CAA.

But for now, there is no need to worry about this, Cusa is a potential figure favored by the current head of the CAA, Eno Martin, and no one will embarrass them for the time being.

CAA has always given the impression of equality, openness, and equal opportunity. This is impossible, but it does deceive many uninformed young people at the CAA, and Eno Martin himself takes this impression very seriously, which means that he will not allow obvious infighting within the CAA.

Of course, Innova is not single-handed, from the beginning of its founding, CAA is a multi-headed brokerage company, the five founders, and now the senior partner, no one can really say anything.

So, in the final analysis, it still depends on whether Daniel's value can motivate Ino to put more energy into suppressing the other parties.

……

Jessica finally called Daniel that night.

But Horner and Jessica's parents seem to have done some communication, so much so that she is rarely gated.

As an adult, although she is not yet of legal drinking age, Jessica's experience is sympathetic enough.

But she couldn't afford to fight with her parents over rolling the sheets with Daniel.

"Daniel, I can't get out today, they're staying downstairs in the living room."

Daniel lay on the boat, rolling his eyes, he was already ready for security, just waiting to pick up his gun.

"I've got my pants off, you're telling me this?"

"What?"

"Ugh." Daniel patted his forehead, how could he really be like a young man, "Jessica, but I really want to see you, can't you slip out or roll out of the window?" ”

"My room is on the second floor, and I'll break my leg if I go down. Daniel, just wait for me to join the group to film, they won't keep me in curfew. ”

Daniel decided to resign himself to his fate.

"Okay, okay, but what about during the day, we can meet during the day, right?"

"I think so, but don't you need to work?"

"I'll call you when I'll call you, girl, you can't let me go anymore."

The two of them talked late on the phone.

The two have decided on a relationship by default, and to be honest, with Daniel's traditional Chinese education, it is relatively easy to accept a relationship that starts before going to bed. But in terms of men's instincts, it's a bit frustrating.

Jessica simply felt in a good mood, and rolled back and forth on the bed several times after making the call.

"Jesse, haven't you slept yet?"

Jessica's mother's inquiring voice made her roll her eyes and yell at the door, "Mom, do you need to set a time for your regulated daughter to go to sleep?" ”

Jessica's mom and dad looked at each other.

"We seem to have offended our daughter." Mr. Alba glanced towards Jessica's room, "And tomorrow may be even more violent." ”

"Sleeping with that kid two days late won't kill her."

Daniel could never have imagined the gift that the genius Jessica family had prepared for him.

Because he's too busy to get into a fight with MGM.

Kusa made a point to go with him, and it was the first event they attended together after the broker turmoil.

It seems that Kusa is much more like a scheming senior agent than he was going to come before, and Daniel is still the naïve new Hollywood idol, yes, it has to be like this.

This small-budget film with a budget of 18 million is part of a long list of experimental films at MGM, so they were able to offer a price of 2 million + 5 to invite Daniel, who coexists with risk and opportunity.

The basic plate is not lost, the box office of 3,000 to 50 million in this movie is reasonable, and the addition of Daniel will not affect this basic plate, but if their plan succeeds, it means that they can attract more young audiences.

Also participating in the discussion were MGM Vice President Helen Dele, director Robert Luctic, screenwriter Amanda Brown, producer Rick Kidd, plus the two main stars and their agents.

Reese is also a client of CAA, and his agent, Davis, is a much more senior CAA agent than Cusa, and he is really bullish on Reese.

After dropping out of Stanford, Davis won her the second female lead in Columbia's "Deadly Game", after all, she has been away from the mainstream film industry for many years, and she has not been an accomplished film actor before.

The movie got some attention, but Reese's own star fortune did not improve, and then Reese Witherspoon had an affair with the film's male protagonist Ryan Phillip, which made her gain a lot of attention at once.

Then she entered the marriage hall at the age of 23, and also won unanimous praise for this girl.

This is a Tennessee girl who lives in peace, and the mainstream media comments about her.

The opportunity for Legally Blonde came at this time, and MGM's tastes were really consistent.

Whether it is Reese Witherspoon or Daniel Sandler, they are indeed very topical actors.

Needless to say, Reese has recently started to spread the news of her discord with her husband, and Ryan is said to be rude and rude and unhealthy—doesn't this clearly mean that Reese is modest and has a healthy life.

So the filming of the film itself actually doesn't have much to think about, Daniel only gave it a month and a half, and now it's almost April, and after mid-May, Daniel will definitely enter the intensive "Gladiator" publicity period. The focus of the discussion was actually on the propaganda strategy, which belongs to MGM.

Helen Dehler began her cliché, "MGM will have an effective publicity plan, and we will invest two million dollars in it, and the publicity will be creative." ”

Investing 2 million in publicity for a film that costs only 18 million has to be said to be a big deal, but it can also be seen that this old film company is a little scheming, and always has a gambler mentality of fighting big with a small fight.

Davis and Kusa greeted each other in a friendly way at the start, which made Helen feel a little bad.

If the hero and heroine form a strategic alliance, the constraints on the distribution company will be greater.

"Helen, it's not the first time we've worked together." Of course, Davis has other clients on his hands, and although MGM has been getting worse and worse in recent years, it is finally ranked in the top seven, and there are many opportunities for cooperation, "I think everyone is a stakeholder in the film, whether it is Reese or Daniel, they all want the movie to be a big hit, especially Daniel, after all, there is still a share." ”

This is where Davis and Reese are most dissatisfied, Reese, as the absolute star of the movie, not to mention that Amanda has made a big change to the script and added a lot of scenes to Daniel, just talk about the salary, which is enough to make people unhappy.

Reese is a million dollars.

Daniel has two million dollars, and there is actually a 5% share of the surplus.

This is simply saying that the coffee positions of the two people are one level apart.

However, MGM and Davis have communicated many times about this, and Daniel, as a super popular idol who has just risen, is not talking about it now compared to Reese Witherspoon, and it is natural that there is a difference in price.

And if the film is successful, Reese will get far more benefits than Daniel, then Daniel must always get a head, either for salary or reputation, otherwise why would he consume his popularity for such a movie that has no room for expression.

Davis was just.

"So, you can be more direct, Reese and I are mainly worried about the hype, which will hurt Reese a lot, and we think we have to be cautious, at least with our permission."

"Davis, there are provisions in the contract, the actor has the obligation to cooperate with the promotion, MGM will definitely operate moderately, but we can't agree to your request, we must make a publicity plan in advance, and we must keep it completely confidential, communicate with you in advance, the threat of leakage of the release plan is too great, we can't take this risk." Helen refused to budge.

Davis glanced at Kusa and seemed to signal him to speak, but Kusa turned his head to say a few words to Daniel and did not speak.

Helen smiled vaguely, Daniel and Reese weren't as aligned as she had hoped, and that would be much easier.

The two sides exchanged several back-and-forth over the issue, with Davis demanding scale, number of mentions, and descriptive wording, while Helen refused to promise anything that would limit MGM's actions.

"MGM has not shown even the slightest sincerity, we will not give up the right to directly refute your propaganda strategy, I don't think you want to let the Legally Blonde crew break out of the scandal of infighting, this is an inspirational movie after all, and girls are usually sensitive and vulnerable, and any action that may affect their desire to watch the movie should be avoided." Davis leaned forward and put a lot of pressure on Helen, and his threatening words were also an eye-opener for Daniel.

The film hadn't started filming yet, and the actors and producers looked like they wanted to fight.

Although this is the norm, Daniel is seeing it for the first time.

"Who will back down?" Daniel asked Cusa in a low voice, looking like they were discussing something.

"No one will, they just let the other party have scruples, and no one will do less when the time comes, what do you think the negotiations between Bitch and Bitch can achieve in addition to the middle finger?" Kusa's face was stern, as if he was talking something serious.

As Cusa expected, after arguing for more than an hour, the two sides only reserved their opinions, and no one gave a definite commitment.

"Solved one." Helen thought as she turned her head to look at Daniel and Kusa, who were about the same age as her daughter, with softer expressions.

Kusa paused Daniel before speaking, "We require that the post-production remuneration be paid immediately after the completion of the film, which should be written in the supplementary contract, and the box office share is divided into annual units, and the film was released in 2001, so before December 31, 2001, the surplus box office share generated in the current year must be paid to us." In addition, we will ask accountants to intervene in the financial situation on a regular basis. These have to be written down. ”

Daniel's contract stated that the two million pieces of remuneration were to be paid in two installments, one million was paid directly with the contract, and the remaining one million was not specified in time, only vague expressions. As for the terms of the share of surpluses, it is even more incomplete. This time to sign the supplementary contract, Daniel will inevitably ask for clarification of the relevant terms, which MGM is prepared for.

They don't particularly care about the share of surpluses, according to MGM's estimates, "Legally Blonde" may bring MGM 5 million to 15 million in revenue, and 5 percent is 250,000 to 750,000, which is not a lot of money.

Helen did not object to this, but only indicated that MGM was happy to admit that it was because they were sincere about the cooperation.

"Daniel's propaganda can't have negative hype." Cusa's second one sounds a bit unacceptable, "Before talking about this, we have to be honest and say that Daniel is still on a firm footing, and any possible blow will damage his reputation and value, "Gladiator" will be released this year, if Daniel has a good appearance, it means that he can accumulate more goodwill, which is consistent with his Emmett, a perfect Emmett is what female moviegoers need, if you hype up some negative news outside the screen, It's hard to believe Emmett's premise. ”

"Secondly, before we decided to participate in Legally Blonde, there were some agreements, the obligation to promote is one thing, but when it comes to the image of the actor, it is another. To be more honest, Daniel is different from Reese. ”

"Hey, Kusa."

"Davis, you don't have to be angry, I have no malicious intent, Reese is married, and you are already releasing news about marital discord, so making a fuss about this will not affect you much. But Daniel is different, he is still spotless. ”

Cusa said this as a matter of course, and Daniel almost couldn't hold back his blush.

"The third point, Helen, I want to say that this is not exactly our request, you know very well that Daniel took over the Lord of the Rings trilogy before, and they will also launch a huge publicity campaign next year, if you do decide to launch it in the summer, then Daniel's image will no longer be allowed to be smeared, have you ever seen the scandal-ridden elf prince? The new line and Time Warner behind him are not easy to mess with, and I don't think Legally Blonde needs to do a thankless job. ”

Kusa's words prove that the negotiations are all threats in the end.

Helen was visibly silent for a moment, then said she would consider it.

Davis glanced at Kusa several times, obviously a little impressed by the colleague.

It's only now that everyone is ready to enter the discussion time of the movie.

Robert Luktick was deaf, deaf to the argument he had just made, and it was not until Helen announced that he was discussing plans for the film.

"Amanda, tell me about the new script."

Amanda nodded and glanced at Daniel, this version of the script can be said to have been changed simply for him, but I hope it is worth the money.

"The new script mainly adds-"

The pure discussion of the movie eased the atmosphere that was a little tense just now, and everyone expressed their opinions.

"You just mentioned that El will have a lot of clothes to show that she is in different stages, and I think you can also add colors, such as in the beginning, when she was the president of the girls' union, the queen of the prom, El can be all pink, the bed, the dresser, and even the dog's clothes, which will make people know who this person is without thinking about it." As the only young woman present, Reese put forward an idea that was indeed very constructive.

Robert and Amanda kept jotting down everyone's thoughts and opinions on paper, and there were two or three more scripted workshops to follow, which would be more intensive, which was the busiest thing for the writers and directors before filming began.

The final script had to be re-examined at MGM's meeting, and only after the guò could the filming actually begin.

The discussion was very thorough that day, and Helen was satisfied in the end.

Daniel felt that when she finally complimented Reese Witherspoon, she was still a little sincere.

……

"Kusa, you should stand with me, we can fight for more favorable conditions." Davis and Kusa were ahead of the curve, and he kept complaining that he was a capable agent, but not inscrutable enough.

"Daniel, your agent is kind of cool." Reese walked next to Daniel, neither of them had an assistant with them today, Reese wore a pink dress that showed off her calves in April, and it seemed a little cold at this time.

Daniel confirms that she is implying that she should be a gentleman.

"You look a little cold." Daniel took off his coat and draped it over Reese's body, but suddenly felt something strange.

He turned his head to look, but Reese tapped his palm slightly, "Thank you, you're such a flattering gentleman." ”

"No man would give a cold to a lady as beautiful as you, Reese."

"Really?"

"Of course."

"So, you're going to contact me, right? I mean, we should have a good conversation. ”

"Of course, wait for my call." Daniel suppressed his suspicions, smiled decently and sent Reese into the car before returning to his car with Cusa.

"Cusa, I feel as if I'm being calculated."