The Beverly Hills Hotel, a favorite hangout of Hollywood's biggest names, is a 12-acre strip along the palm-shaded Sunset Boulevard, known in the industry as the "Pink House." The bars here are very famous in the world film industry, because a large number of agents, producers, and investors negotiate cooperation here every day, and their prices are often written on the coasters, so they are nicknamed 'coaster bars'.

On a sunny April afternoon, former MGM president Benjamin Reno, more than a year after disappearing from Hollywood, shook hands with a lean young man carrying a briefcase and made his way to the bar of the Beverly Hotel.

Benjamin? Reno used to be here too, when he was the president of MGM, and when he was driven crazy by those two stupid bosses, he came here for a drink, just to see the people who were bargaining quietly, to remind himself not to make mistakes, or else he would have to come back here to find a job.

However, since being fired by MGM, Benjamin has stopped coming here, and today is the first time in more than a year. As soon as he sat down in his old seat, someone came over to greet Benjamin with a wine glass, and he also clinked glasses one by one to socialize, but his eyes were always staring at a middle-aged man in a dimly lit corner, who was talking with a young OL girl.

The balding middle-aged white man was Anthony Wayne, who Benjamin was looking for. Few people may have heard of this name, but if you want to talk about what he or a few of them have in their hands, it is estimated that few people don't know, and that is "007"!

Ordinary viewers may think that "007" is MGM, but in fact, it is very wrong. The copyright of "007" is actually in the hands of several rich second generations in the UK, and MGM is just a part-time worker, filming and distributing for them, and earning some hard money! And this Anthony? Wayne is one of those rich second generations, and he is the person in charge of the "007" series of films.

The "007" series of movies is a real cash cow, each of which can be a box office hit, making the rich second generation who inherited the shadow of their ancestors make a lot of money. Last month, this Anthony? Wayne chartered a resort in Hawaii, paid $700,000 per person, hired ten Oscar Best Screenplays to write stories, and two-time Best Screenplay winner Sun Ziming also received a pure platinum invitation letter, and the salary was a blank check!

Seeing that under the dim light, Anthony's bald head was like a light bulb, Ben Jerry guessed with evil interest, if China Ming filled in 100 million US dollars, I don't know what the expressions on the faces of those rich second generations were?

The topic is far away, Benjamin is here today, just to make an appointment with this Anthony. It's just that I didn't expect that the rich second generation is the rich second generation, and I don't have a little family background, and seeing that I am not the president of MGM, I arranged other people before discussing with myself.

After socializing a few old acquaintances, the OL girl in the corner went to the bathroom, and the bald Anthony seemed to have just seen Benjamin, and raised his glass to signal him to wait a little longer. Benjamin smiled and raised his glass to indicate that it didn't matter, knowing why the other party was like this. This guy is still as shallow as before, and he doesn't even know how to respect each other, he only knows how to let potential partners compete nakedly, and he will profit from his own fishing.

That's right, for a super blockbuster like "007", whose copyright is in the hands of others, these people's favorite is the bidding. Open a bidding meeting, let several major film companies compete, promise how much to shoot and promote the film, and only take how much box office share, so that they only spend a small amount of screenwriting fees, but take the biggest piece of the cake!

Just like last year's "007: Golden Eye", which was unlucky, it bumped headlong into the demonic epic blockbuster "Braveheart", invested 80 million in filming and 60 million in publicity, but only got 70 million box office in North America. Of course, they made a lot of money, but they kept MGM busy.

Ben Jerry shook the brownish, yellow, reddish BlueLabel whiskey in his shaker glass, sniffed the burnt aroma, and then poured it into his mouth, a dry, mellow sensation that permeated his mouth. After a drink, Ben Jerry motioned for the waiter to have another one, waiting for the second ancestor to finish.

A black waiter came out of the bar with a drink, and at the turn of the corner he touched the hot girl who had just come out of the bathroom, and a small ball of paper fell into his hand without moving. This black boy is Garry, the son of Sun Ziming's cook Aunt Mary, who entrusted his brother and now a well-known Hollywood screenwriter Jeffrey? Kruger's blessing went from being a parking waiter to a bartender.

Garry came to Benjerry's table with a glass of BlueLabel whiskey, smiled at him, then paused with a paper ball in his hand on the table, and smiled, "Sir, your BlueLabel." ”

Ben Jerry was stunned when he saw the white paper ball in his black fingers, and quickly reached over quietly, covered the small paper ball, and smiled: "Thank you, boy, where have I seen you?" ”

Although the black boy can't read, his brain is smart enough, and he bowed slightly and said, "Mr. Reno, I used to be a parking waiter at the entrance of the hotel, Jeffrey?" Kruger and I were in the same class, and this job was recommended by him. ”

Remember, Jeffrey? Kruger is the screenwriter of "Apollo 13", China Ming's current little follower, this should be his new boss of the child Gali.

"Boy, you're lucky to have made a good friend."

Garry grinned, showing a mouthful of big white teeth, and echoed: "I think it's the same, a good friend of mine often says, be kind to others, and God will inadvertently reward you." ”

Ben Jerry smiled slightly, and after Garry left, he drank a small half of whiskey and went to the bathroom.

Entering the bathroom, Ben Jerry closed the small door, took out a small paper ball and looked at it, 48,000 hairs on his body stood up, and the crumpled little note said that the reserve price of Industrial Light and Magic was 45 million US dollars, which was exactly 1 million US dollars lower than that of Light and Shadow Company!

After being stunned for a while, Ben Jerry crumpled the small note into a ball, threw it into the toilet bowl and flushed it with water, opened the small door and washed his hands slowly in front of the dressing mirror, but his heart set off a turbulent wave. The information can't be wrong, but how can the get such information? Ben & Jerry is the former president of MGM, and he knows that it is impossible for such a trade secret to be leaked except for a few high-level executives and handlers.

China Ming wants to investigate himself, it is impossible to use his connections to help himself, that is just a small waiter, how can he buy those high-level or their closest people? Who will be the one who secretly helps himself?

After thinking about it for a while, Ben Jerry didn't figure it out, and when there was no one in the bathroom, he took out the phone and instructed the assistant outside to revise the text, and then Shi Shiran went out of the bathroom and continued to drink and listen to music.

After a while, Anthony finally finished talking, brought the slim OL girl just now, sat down at Ben Jerry's table with a wine glass, and stretched out his hand to him, "Ben Jerry, I haven't seen you for a long time, what are you busy with?" ”

Ben Jerry got out of the chair, shook his hand with a smile, took out a business card and handed it over, and said with a smile: "I just got a good job yesterday, this is not to come to you to catch up with the old days and see if there is an opportunity to cooperate." ”

Anthony's big fat hand took the business card and glanced at it, gently placed it on the table, and the smile on his face turned into a joke, "Acting general manager?" Congratulations, my friend. Digit? Light and shadow is a promising company, do you want to get our special effects business? ”

Benjamin smiled disapprovingly, this guy made an exception to participate in the special effects work of the film, didn't he just want to take revenge on the dog in China? As a rule, the "007" series has always been in charge of the scripts, and MGM has priority to obtain the filming rights and is fully responsible for the production and distribution of the film.

"No, I'm here to clear up misunderstandings for my new boss, you are all big shots, some things are inconvenient to say, only small people like us can run errands."

Anthony was happy at once, Benjamin is the former president of MGM, and he was neither humble nor arrogant in front of him before, how could he ever see him with such a low profile?