In the United States in August, the average daily temperature is about 20 degrees, and the hottest time during the day can be 356 degrees.

This Bu Lei Weidong wore a printed shirt, sunglasses, sat in Mercedes-Benz business, blew the air conditioner, listened to unknown hot rock music on the radio, and flew along the coastline, only feeling relaxed and happy.

Calculating the time, Lei Weidong has been in the United States for more than a month, and the things to be done have already been completed, such as National Entertainment, MSI Film Company and Comic Company, all of which have special personnel in charge, Lei Weidong only needs to send someone to check the accounts regularly.

Recently, Lei Weidong's main thing is to invest in CAA, and today this matter is finally done, so he is naturally happy and in a good mood.

CAA Brokers Inc. is founded by Michael. Ovitz, Lang. Meyer, Martin. Baum, William. Hubble and Roland. Perkins was founded by five high-spirited young men, who had previously worked together in William. Morris Brokerage does things.

But William. Morris is a veteran brokerage company, and the system pursued is also quite rigid, paying attention to seniority, and the five young people feel that it is difficult for them to get ahead, so they agree to jump out together and prepare to start their own business.

Every company had a hard time, so in 1975, the five of them drove CAA with just $36,000 in loans, $21,000 in deposits, and two dilapidated classic cars.

When CAA was founded, the five founders had not received a salary from the company for two years, and they had to calculate how to spend even $100 in order to spend every dollar on the market.

At the beginning, the founder of CAA could only fantasize about the first-line stars, because his level was too low to climb.

However, 30 years later, CAA has nearly half of Hollywood's entertainers, nearly two-thirds of the top stars, as well as top directors, producers, playwrights, singers, and bands.

It can be said that CAA has created a legend among brokerage companies, a legend that continues into the 21st century and no one subverts.

He is not only one of the original five founders of CAA, but also personally led CAA for 20 years, with his extraordinary ability and personal charm, he has transformed CAA from a Hollywood nobody to a boss who can call the wind and rain in the entire entertainment industry, and even "cover the sky with one hand".

As the child of a Chicago wine merchant, Michael Ovitz can do anything for the CAA, and he can pay his agency's clients unprecedentedly high for his clients with an indomitable spirit and extremely skilled negotiation skills.

It is also possible to win over a hesitant client by doing a four-dislike tap dance at the conference table;

It can be said that it was thanks to Michael Ovitz's efforts that Sean Connery, the actor of 007, officially signed a contract with CAA in February 1979, and a superstar finally appeared on CAA's customer list.

Of course, CAA was able to develop so fast, and it only took 30 years to complete the legend that its opponents failed to achieve in a hundred years, because Michael Ovitz completely revolutionized the brokerage industry.

It was he who made CAA different from ordinary brokerage companies, and it was he who proposed the CAA integrated package service policy, which changed the traditional Hollywood filmmaking model.

CAA's integrated package service policy can be said to be quite in place for general film companies and those wealthy people who want to enter the film industry.

After cooperating with CAA, the film company can operate completely without brains, in front of and behind the scenes, and even the director, as long as the film company gives money, CAA can help you with the service in place, it can be said that in addition to the distribution channels and funds that need to be troubled by the film company, CAA can handle any other position for you.

The behind-the-scenes employees of lighting and photography are all employees of CAA, give CAA a company a movie script of your choice, and then send the funds over, without your intervention, CAA can shoot the movie for you, this kind of cooperation is too convenient for many laymen who do not know how to do it and have no foundation in the entertainment industry.

As long as you enter this film industry and cooperate with CAA, then your company does not have to worry about not being able to make movies by itself, but it gives laymen a great opportunity to get involved in Hollywood.

Perhaps that's the real reason why CAA went from strength to strength in the eighties.

You must know that Hollywood was extremely weak in the early 80s, every company was struggling to survive, among the eight major film companies, Warner was in chaos, MGM was sold several times, United Arts went bankrupt, Disney was half dead, and Columbia was in debt.

Two superficial companies, life is not easy, 20th Century Fox holds such a trump card as "Star Wars", still has not shaken off the shadow of bankruptcy, and was finally acquired by News Corporation, Paramount seems to have unlimited scenery, but as soon as its parent company, the big boss dies, the top immediately earthquakes, and then wilts for ten years. Finally, it was acquired by Lei Shidong.

However, during this period, the American independent film industry developed very rapidly, and a large number of lay investors entered the film industry with huge checks.

But with CAA, it's different, hang up a sign by yourself, and then sort out the distribution channels, even if it's a distribution channel, you can ask CAA to help, and then the movie will come out.

In a word, as long as you have money and want to make a movie, you can go directly to CAA

Relying on the support of these investors, CAA has grown rapidly and continues to receive those stars and directors under their names.

By the time the six major Hollywood companies relied on computer blockbusters to rise from the top in the 90s, CAA had become a behemoth that no one wanted to offend, so much so that in the 90s, some people said that Hollywood was actually controlled by agencies like CAA.

Of course, these are the later glories of CAA, CAA's rapid development was in the early 80s, the glory was in the 90s, and now CAA is still a small brokerage company, and their leader Ovitz is still lobbying for his own integrated package service policy in Hollywood, striving to sign a big deal.

CAA is key to Lei Weidong's entry into Hollywood, so whether he can take a stake in CAA is very important for Lei Weidong.