"yes, okay, I see." This is the answer Zoe gave after listening to Sean's explanation.

Naomi doesn't care about dating Katie in the newspaper anymore, and Jordanna and Camilla both know about it, so the only one who will react to this matter is Zoe, and I still remember the original three chapters of the covenant very clearly.

As a result, the excuses that Sean racked his brains to come up with, and even planned to cover up his own scene by blending in with the characters - which was also true - didn't work at all, and Zoe immediately said that he knew after listening to the explanation, and then there was no follow-up. Of course, she looked at herself for so long before she opened her mouth that Sean had to try to make it look like it was really so, and what did she perceive?

Anyway, she can't guess this girl more and more, and sometimes she even thinks she's a little nervous, and everyone who likes the occult is probably like this? However, Zoe, who doesn't look too noisy, is indeed cute.

Well, let's not talk about this, people are different after all, and Sean can't fully know what others are thinking, so he can only put it aside for the time being, although this is suspected of an ostrich, but it is also the only option at the moment.

With Jessica's promise, there should be no major problems in terms of private life, as long as Sanders and Frederick are told, they will naturally arrange everything next, and although the agent is extremely reluctant to hand over the power, he is still very cooperative when needed. Next, the most demanding acting plot on the side of "The Aviator" came to an end, even though Sean was the protagonist of the protagonists, Scorsese deliberately gave him two days off, and then the "New York Post" side of the matter still needed time for the time being, so Sean came to his production company after the break and discussed things with Vladimir.

"Todd?" Sean pushed the door directly into the office, as the chairman of the company, and had a good relationship with Vladimir, so he rarely said hello.

But he immediately paused for two seconds, because there was a woman sitting at the desk, with short and medium hair, wearing a women's suit, dressed very neutrally, not pretty, but very temperamental.

"Sorry, I didn't know......" Sean quickly apologized and made a gesture to get out.

"It's okay, I've pretty much said about it," the woman smiled, then got up to leave.

But Vladimir stopped her: "Please wait. ”

Then he turned his head to look at Sean: "You're just in time, Sean, let me introduce you, this is Sophia?" Ms. Coppola. ”

Sofia? Coppola? Fortunately, Sean has been reading the company's relevant materials for the past few days, and quickly remembered who the other party was, and immediately stretched out his hand and smiled: "It's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Coppola, I heard that "Lost in Translation" was well received at the Venice Film Festival, congratulations on proving my ability again." ”

"Thank you." Sophia suddenly smiled like a flower.

Speaking of which, Sophia? Coppola as Francis? Coppola, the daughter of a great director, although she began to shuttle between sets at a young age, has suffered repeated setbacks in her career. For example, when the old Coppola wanted to praise her as an actor, he did not hesitate to play Winona, who was supposed to play the daughter of the old godfather, in the third part of "The Godfather"? Red replaced, and the role was given to Sophia.

Unfortunately, Sophia has little talent for this, and after the release of the film, her stiff performance in it was unanimously criticized by the media, and Jin Sumei also awarded her the worst newcomer and the worst supporting actress. Terrible, isn't it? But that's not all, after a few years of depression, Sophia immediately appeared in the first part of "Star Wars Prequel", playing one of Amidala's maids, but unfortunately her performance was still not good, so she finally gave up acting and became a director.

Unexpectedly, she is a little like a fish in water in terms of directing, and her debut film "**** Suicide" was average at the box office after its release in 99, but the reputation was quite good, and the media unanimously praised it for a 180-degree turn. But even so, the impact is still not high, so last year's "Lost in Translation" was born, and then it shone at this year's Venice Film Festival and won the Most Popular Film Award.

Despite the fact that it was only a consolation vote, Sofia was so happy that not long after the festival ended, she came to Vladimir to discuss the release. And it just so happened that Sean came over at this time, although he was the chairman, his focus was on performance, so he was not always there.

"It's really a good movie, that feeling of loneliness, even a young person like me can still feel it, and I'm sure there will be a lot of people who like it." After chatting with each other, Sean complimented him again, and Sophia, who was interested, immediately proposed to go to the company's screening room to watch it together, and then Sean said this after watching it for more than half an hour.

Well, although most of the movies he starred in were a bit literary, this "Lost in Translation" still suffocated him, not that he couldn't understand the movie, but the rhythm was too dull, for most of the hour, Sean was most impressed by the ****** at the beginning, the heroine's figure sounded good, what is her name? Scarlett? Johnson?

It's also thanks to Sophia by his side, as the owner, he has to keep the same, otherwise maybe he will yawn, but maybe he can cooperate in the future, but he is really not interested in playing a role in Sophia's movie.

After seeing Sophia off and returning to Vladimir's office, Sean leaned back in his chair with a long sigh.

"Don't think so?" The other party asked.

"It's okay, at least the graphics and cuts are very good, and some of the shots are really good, people who are used to fast-paced commercial masterpieces may not like it, but there are people who like this taste, if you can use the Venice Film Festival to hype it, someone should watch it...... Invest about 4 million, right? Sean asked.

After receiving an affirmative answer, he nodded: "It should be okay to keep the cost - you plan to release it ourselves?" ”

"When I first invested in the film, I used the name of a leather bag company, so I could distribute it myself." Vladimir shrugged, "At first, I just wanted to ensure the title of an independent film, but I didn't expect it to be convenient for us to carry out distribution work. ”

According to the anti-monopoly law, the company that produced the film cannot participate in the distribution work, but it is very simple to avoid it, just set up a leather bag company to invest.

Independent films are one of the selling points of Lost in Translation, and as an independent film, the funding must come entirely from a single person or an investment institution. Although these are no longer mandatory rules with the development of independent films, for various reasons - for example, this time to be involved in the production of "National Treasure", it was not a small role to meet Cage through Sophia.

Therefore, Samsara Pictures completed the investment in "Lost in Translation", through a shell company, which also allowed them to circumvent the law and hold the distribution in their hands.

Although the distribution channel of Samsara Pictures is still very small, the channel must be continuously used and bring benefits to the theater chain in order to have a chance to expand, since intuitively "Lost in Translation" can at least preserve the capital, it can be used as a test of the company's distribution ability.

"Okay, I got it." Sean nodded, acknowledging Vladimir's intentions.

"Tell me about you, Sean, you certainly didn't come to the company to discuss Lost in Bangkok with me, did you?" Vladimir then asked.

"That's true, I'm here to ask you if you have any ideas for something bigger?" Sean asked in a very serious tone after straightening his collar.

"What kind of big move?" Vladimir asked in surprise and curiosity.

"Cooperate more with big producers, big productions that make sure you don't lose money." Sean said in a bold tone.

"For example?" Vladimir's eyes narrowed.

"Do you know Transformers?" Sean smiled slightly.

If it were him in the past, he would definitely have to wait until the news of the start of production of a live-action movie with Transformers before he remembered that there was such a movie that could have been invested.

But now it's different, now that it's decided to start with Howard? Hughes is the goal to work harder, so surely he should work harder. If it was somewhat passive to expand its own production company at the beginning in order to increase and consolidate its voice in Hollywood, then now it has become the best production company below the seven studios to develop as much as possible.

Although his main goal is to become the best actor in the 21st century, this does not conflict with the development company, he may not be able to compare with Hughes in terms of operation, but if you want to talk about vision, there must still be a little bit of it, plus he has picked up a good CEO, why not try more?

So when Vladimir began to try to involve the company in big productions, he also began to recall as much as possible what good big productions in the past two years were worth investing in.

After searching in his mind for a long time, he finally found one, and that was Hasbro's well-known toy, Transformers that many people born in the 80s played with!

"Please wait a minute." Vladimir made a gesture, then quickly searched for it on his office computer, and after a few minutes he pulled the monitor in front of Sean, "Is this it?" ”

"Haven't you heard, Todd?" Sean raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Of course not, I just wanted to make sure," Vladimir shrugged, "if you're serious, it's really a big hassle for me, and no one seems to have thought of making these toys into a live-action movie." ”

"Transformers have cartoons -- isn't Hollywood, where anything can be made into a movie as long as it's profitable?" Sean said half-jokingly.

"I don't, but that doesn't mean others don't—okay, let's talk about what you think, Sean." Vladimir waved his hand and looked at him with a serious expression, "What are you going to do?" ”

"What else can I do," Sean laughed, "of course it's with a big studio, do you think I'm going to want to be on my own?" ”