The news of an open call for child actors from the "End of the World" crew became one of the most popular conversations after Christmas, and Endeavour Elite Agency and Twentieth Century Fox took advantage of the opportunity to make a splash.

The former has become the most eye-catching brokerage company for senior agents and the most desirable brokerage company for new artists, and even surpasses the three major brokerage companies purely in terms of momentum, after all, the brokerage company is too unfamiliar to most ordinary people, and Endeavor Elite Brokerage has really benefited a lot from the right time and place this time, but the real strong influence will have to wait until the next few months to slowly radiate.

The latter swept away the depression of the past two years, and became a pioneer in the eight major film companies with his head held high, although the "end of the world" investment of 100 million is not the top, but relying on this series of publicity, Kevin Pence's follow-up plans for the company have been promoted, and the company's brand effect is immeasurable.

Just as everyone's eyes were locked on the topic of public auditions for child actors, Columbia Pictures was caught in an embarrassing situation.

Mark Canton has been in a terrible mood for the last few days, terrible! Even so, it was impossible to describe his terrible mood.

Mark knows better than anyone the current state of Columbia Pictures, and he has been working hard to turn things around. In fact, since last year, Mark has been making relevant plans, and the contact with Hugo during the World Cup can only be regarded as a sentinel battle, but unfortunately, Mark has never figured out Hugo's thoughts, and the countless scripts they handed over were finally rejected by Hugo.

Everyone knows this: in Hollywood, no one is irreplaceable, in fact, the reverse is true, no film production company is irreplaceable, including the same is true of the agency.

Normally, the cooperation with Hugo was not successful, there are still hundreds of actors to work with throughout Hollywood, and there are thousands of third- and fourth-tier actors who are eager to succeed.

But those who can achieve Mark's position know a simple truth, the reason why a star becomes a star is because he has corresponding value. The resources and energy required to cultivate a star is very huge, whether it is Tom Cruise or Hugo Lancaster, it is the same, the accumulation of one work after another, the promotion of resources one after another, and the promotion of wave after wave of publicity, this is the result of the condensation of the power of the entire industry - otherwise there are so many meteors that cross the sky, and there are very few stars that can really stay.

The influence of stars is definitely not that simple, and what Columbia Pictures needs is precisely the power of stars. If you've been taking the low-budget comedy route like Universal Pictures and making small fights, then it doesn't matter even if you don't have top stars; But if you want to achieve amazing box office like "Forrest Gump" and "Jurassic Park", you need the cooperation of stars.

Among the many stars, Hugo is the first person today.

However, Mark also knows that there is only one Hugo, everyone is grabbing it, and Columbia Pictures has little chance of winning. So, on the one hand, Mark is still trying his best to win Hugo, and he is always unwilling to give up, trying to maintain a good relationship with Rick; On the one hand, Mark also launched an alternative plan: a 20 million salary plan!

After the salary turmoil in the second half of last year, although the 20 million salary plan of the entire Hollywood has been temporarily put on hold, all the senior executives, including Mark, know that the time is not far away, and it depends on who can grasp it first, break through this film, and achieve this unique "first time in film history".

Naturally, Mark is also in the pipeline, with multiple projects in his hands and talks to Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford and many other top actors, but unfortunately these long-established actors are not so easy to compromise, not only the actors, but also their agents - none of whom are high-level vampires who are not willing to compromise on contract details.

Moreover, being the first recipient of a salary of 20 million can indeed be said to be highly anticipated, but the pressure on his shoulders is also huge, and once the work fails, then the disaster that follows will also rise exponentially. Therefore, they have repeatedly hesitated and considered the script.

Eventually, in desperation, Mark changed his development plan, and he found Jim Carrey, who had been thriving in the past year.

If you insist on finding an actor who can compete with Hugo in the last two years, it is not Brad Pitt, but Jim Carrey. Starting from "Detective Plane Head", to "Strange Hero in Disguise", and then to "Dumb and Dumb", Kim almost experienced a perfect 1994; After entering this year, "Detective Plane Nose 2" achieved another success, and then he also starred in "Batman Forever", which is definitely the only competitor who can compete with Hugo in terms of box office appeal in the past two years.

And most importantly, Kim is currently the hottest comedian, and as we all know, comedies are just as good as horror films, and they can be called models of small budgets. To make a commercial popcorn movie, the expensive visual effects will cost tens of millions of dollars, and the cost will be more than 80 million, but the production of a comedy movie may only cost 20 million dollars, and even if you add Jin's 20 million salary, the cost is only 40 million.

Mark's wishful thinking is that if he can reach a cooperation agreement with Kim and make another work with an investment of more than 100 million yuan and a salary of 20 million, Columbia Pictures can definitely sweep away the decline and regain its strength.

While waiting for Hugo, Tom and others to reply, the negotiations between Mark and Kim went very smoothly, and the "ace correspondent" submitted by Mark attracted the interest of the other party.

The two sides agreed on some details with each other, and finally the prototype of the rotten boy gang that would support half the American comedy in the future appeared.

But at this time, Twentieth Century Fox took the lead and took the lead in announcing the "Armageddon" cooperation project. Everyone knows what is going on, relying on Hugo's incomparable momentum, Twentieth Century Fox and Endeavour Elite Agency steal all the limelight, while Columbia Pictures and Innovative Artist Agency can only be stunned.

For innovative artist agencies, in the competition between them and Endeavor elite agencies, they were actually half a position ahead of each other, and the sense of crisis began to emerge. Perhaps, they should join forces with international innovation management companies to suppress the elite brokerage companies that are in full swing at this time, and avoid the emergence of a fourth giant crocodile in the future.

But objectively speaking, Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company has done a good thing this time, and it can win the support of almost all brokerage companies, and their goal in the future will be the 20 million club. But what about innovative artist agencies? They can now announce that Kim Carrey also got 20 million, which is not difficult for them, the point is that they have lost the opportunity, which is the most embarrassing.

This is even more true at Columbia Pictures.

With the first twenty million, there will naturally be a second, and even the second is bound to cause countless discussions, and this discussion will be maintained at least until the third. After that, people will still sigh that just like the 15 million club, the 20 million club will also become the top deposit, but in terms of topicality, it cannot be compared with the first three.

But the problem is that now everyone's eyes are locked on the "first 20 million", if the second candidate is hurriedly announced at this time, this is completely "following the trend", and the topic discussion heat cannot be compared with the first one at all, and it will even be drowned in the topic wave of the former, and it will not be stirred up at all.

If this news is postponed, then the strategic significance of the "20 million salary" planned by Mark for Columbia Pictures will no longer exist, and all the previous efforts and all subsequent plans will be nullified.

Such an embarrassing situation of not being able to go up or down, and being in a dilemma, made Mark almost have a myocardial infarction, and after planning for so long, he finally fell into such an embarrassing situation, and it is difficult to describe Mark's feelings at this time when he is angry.

But this is Hollywood, this is society, opportunities are changing rapidly, often just a day, an hour, a minute, can pass by opportunities, or collide head-on with opportunities. On the other hand, even if the opportunity is seized now, the future is still unknown, because the possibilities that can happen in a short period of time are innumerable.

After much hesitation, Columbia Pictures and the innovative artist agency decided to announce the news after repeated discussions. Rather than waiting for a better moment to be preempted by someone else, it is better to proceed with the original plan and finally let the box office results of "Armageddon" and "Ace Correspondent" speak for themselves, at which point it is too early to say success or failure.

On the first day of the new year in 1996, Columbia Pictures found the right time and officially announced the news, "We have officially signed a contract with Jim Carrey, and Kim will play the leading role of 'Ace Commissioner', for which we will pay 20 million US dollars!" ”

Compared with the scheming of Twentieth Century Fox, Mark is still a bad move, and the whole news brewing and promotion seems to lack some spark, but fortunately, the innovative artist agency is completely good at this, and they use all the resources in their hands to push the topic of "20 million salary" to the top again.

What the innovative artist agency emphasizes is that Hugo and Kim, the two top actors, have joined forces to create an era of 20 million salaries in Hollywood, one actor may just be an emergency, and the two actors are not just accidental, two 20 million salaries are from different film companies and different agencies, which also means that Hollywood has officially entered a new era of 20 million salaries!

Driven by an innovative artist agency, the momentum has begun to climb again!