Five Hundred and Fiftieth IX Pit Daughter

Chapter 559

As Mel Gibson's agent, Ed Limato was very disappointed when he saw that his employer's first self-directed and starred "The Faceless Man" only made a mere $300,000 at the midnight box office, but he was helpless. ↑; lww ∷↖↓Although the cost of this film is less than five million US dollars, this is only the production cost without calculating Mel Gibson's personal worth. The Hollywood superstar of the two super-hit series "Weapons", Mel Gibson's salary at this time is already about 15 million US dollars.

Although I feel that Mel Gibson should concentrate on his career as an actor, at Mel Gibson's current level, his influence on actors as an agent is already very low, let alone control. Ed Limato could only hope that the cash cow in his hand would not continue to be 'not doing his job properly', but this morning, after reading the news on the entertainment page of the newspaper and receiving a series of calls from major film companies, love The haze in De Limato's heart was instantly swept away.

After hanging up a call from the top of Paramount again, Ed Limato came to the door of Mel Gibson's luxurious suite and hurriedly rang the doorbell.

As soon as the door opened, Ed Limato couldn't wait to walk into Mel Gibson's suite, ignoring the figure of a certain girl who hid in the bedroom in a hurry, raised the newspaper in his hand and asked, "Mel, yesterday Has Eric Williams' personal assistant approached you?"

Mel Gibson frowned in displeasure, took a look at the newspaper in his manager's hand, and scolded, "These goddamn paparazzi can even hear what I'm saying in the coffee shop."

Ed Limato was about to speak when the mobile phone in his hand rang this time. He made an apologetic gesture to Mel Gibson, walked to the balcony of the suite and pressed the connect button.

After returning to the living room after a while, Ed Limato said with some eyebrows: "Mel, guess who called just now?"

Mel Gibson was leaning on the living room sofa, reading the newspaper Ed Limato had just brought over. Hearing Ed Limato's excited tone, he said with disapproval, "God?"

Ed Limato choked, but he had to take the initiative to explain: "It's Michael Eisner from Universal Pictures, and also. Just now, I have received continuous inquiries from Warner, Paramount, and Fox. They are all calls from executives at the president level, hehe, these guys haven’t been so polite to us in a long time.”

Mel Gibson is not stupid, he raised the newspaper in Yang's hand: "About this?"

"Yeah. Mel, almost everyone in Hollywood now knows that Eric Williams is interested in Braveheart. Didn't you get the call?"

Mel Gibson shook his head,

Glancing at the bedroom with the door open, Chunxiao was worth a thousand dollars, how could he let the messy things disturb him.

Ed Limato made a clear expression, stopped worrying about it, and asked, "Mel, what did Eric Williams' personal assistant talk to you about yesterday?"

Mel Gibson raised the newspaper in his hand again: "Didn't you read it, Braveheart. The joint venture between Firefly and MGM intends to invest in this project. Yesterday Alan Fissman came over in person. , we talked about my thoughts on the film."

Ed Limato said: "What about Firefly, what kind of conditions do they offer?"

Mel Gibson shook his head and glanced at the newspaper in his hand. At this time, he no longer had the anger that he had just seen being photographed, and realized why his agent was so excited, saying, "I spent most of the time yesterday. I was saying that Alan Fisman brought a document back with him when he left." Mel Gibson said, got up and went back to the bedroom. He quickly came out and handed the information about "Braveheart" to the agent: "That's all."

Ed Limato had already seen the materials of "Braveheart", and some time ago, he and Mel Gibson lobbied to several major film companies. So I just picked it up and flipped through it at random, then raised my head again and said, "Mel, this is a good opportunity for you. But first, you have to talk to Eric Williams in person."

"My personal thoughts are all in these materials, I don't think there is anything to talk about," Mel Gibson said, pointing to the newspaper that was thrown on the coffee table, "And. This is very disgusting, but I think that since Eric Williams is optimistic about this project, several film companies should no longer refuse to give investment, and I can use this to gain a greater right to speak. Although I I admire the ability of that little guy Eric Williams, but I don't really want to work with Firefly because then, it's impossible for me to gain too much control."

"Mel, it's another $50 million movie," Ed Limato said. "If you screw it up, you're going to have absolutely nowhere to go in Hollywood in the next few years. Think about that movie two years ago. "Cutthroat Island", and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was paid $15 million before "The Last Action Hero", but because "The Last Action Hero" failed at the box office, he was in Firefly's film The new film only took 3 million yuan, which is not even as good as some second-tier actors."

Mel Gibson was silent for a moment and said, "What did you mean just now..."

Ed Limato noticed the looseness in Mel Gibson's expression, and said, "Eric Williams has never missed a movie he personally participated in so far, so you and Eric Williams have never missed a beat. He talked to him in person, set out his specific thoughts on the film, and then we negotiated the conditions, so that even if we can't reach a deal with Firefly in the end, we can cooperate with other film companies to ensure that nothing goes wrong."

"Ed, what do you think Eric Williams would do if Eric Williams finally found out that he had been tricked?"

Ed Limato showed a familiar look and said: "Mel, what I just said is just a possibility, if Eric Williams is really optimistic about this project, I think our conditions He will definitely agree. Even if the two sides don't reach an agreement in the end, and you use some of his ideas in future productions, I don't think it's a big deal. You are an A-level superstar now. As long as the interests of both parties are the same in the future, you will definitely still be. continue to cooperate."

Mel Gibson thought for a moment, then nodded: "Then you can contact the meeting time, and we will go back to Los Angeles together."

...

about the same time. In Malibu, Los Angeles, Eric is reading today's newspaper depressingly. Drew is sitting opposite Eric, showing a few gloating laughter from time to time: "Eric. It's a good show, you promised last night. someone else."

Eric thought of Sophie, and regretted that he was too eager. Although "Braveheart" won a lot of Oscars in memory, it was not very good at the box office. Therefore, Eric will definitely not go for this project at all costs. If Mel Gibson's price is raised due to the competition of several major film companies, Eric will directly abandon the project.

Reflecting on this little mistake in his heart, Eric quickly began to think about countermeasures.

After a while, Eric looked up: "Drew, get me a pen?"

The little girl who was sipping the milk in the glass like a cat stayed on the chair without moving, and shouted outside the restaurant: "Natasha, bring a pen."

Moments later, one of the Russian twins showed up in the dining room with a sharpened pencil, handing it precisely to Eric.

Eric took over and thanked him. Seeing that the Russian girl, who didn't know if it was her elder sister or younger sister, took away the empty tableware beside her, she said to the little girl, "You are really getting lazy."

Drew was not ashamed: "I'm lazy, you find it too late now."

Eric shook his head with a smile, lowered his head and wrote something in the blank of the newspaper, and continued: "By the way, what's going on with TG?"

Drew pouted in dissatisfaction: "It took you so many days to remember that you came back. I thought you had forgotten our small company."

Eric ignored Drew's small complaints.

Drew had to continue: "The Detective Plane 2 has been filmed, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer has also been filmed in general, and there are a few more movies that will be handed over to Fox's production department at that time. Liz will go. Twentieth Century Fox as vice president, it's settled."

Eric recalled Murdoch's offer to TG a few months ago and asked, "What is the final offer?"

Drew blinked: "Don't you know?"

"Huh?" Eric raised his head awkwardly.

Drew also noticed something: "Liz said that you and her old man have negotiated, and Fox will buy TG for 120 million US dollars. 80 million US dollars to redeem the distribution rights of Firefly, and TG produced the movie. The overseas distribution rights are given to Firefly.”

"That's what I said at the time. Although the price was reasonable, I didn't agree."

Drew was stunned for a moment, and suddenly put down the milk cup in his hand: "This guy Liz lied to me, I'm going to go to her to settle the account. This matter is no fun!" Xiao Nizi said, the whole person has not yet been in Eric He ran out in time to stop him, and the hall remembered a call of 'Natasha', and it soon became quiet.

Eric looked at the instantly empty restaurant and shook his head with a smile. Although he didn't agree, he didn't object. Eric didn't think Elizabeth's straightness would lie to Drew. It was probably the old fox from Murdoch. Some word games, even his own daughter got into it.

It's lively now. I've seen cheating fathers and cheating daughters. It's really rare.

...

"Eric, I'm so sorry, I didn't expect it to be like this," Alan appeared in front of Eric as soon as he arrived at the company, holding a copy of today's "Seattle Times" in his hand.

"It's okay, it was just an accident, and the main thing was that I didn't think it through."

The two walked into the office together, and Allen said, "Mel Gibson's agent just called me. Mel Gibson hopes to talk to you in person."

"Talk to me in person?" Eric repeated this sentence, then showed a knowing smile, and then asked, "Then how did you reply to them?"

"I didn't give them an accurate answer," Allen said. "However, Mel Gibson was already at the airport when we called. Eric, do you want to meet him?"

"Do you think they saw today's newspaper?" Eric didn't answer, but asked instead.

Allen nodded: "That's for sure, and, I think, maybe several other major film companies have already contacted Mel Gibson to ask about this."

"Then why do you think they want to see me in such a hurry?"

Allen thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I don't quite understand this, but it shouldn't be a bad thing."

Eric smiled, picked up a sticky note from the side, quickly wrote a string of words, and handed it to Allen: "You don't need to meet, you can ask the production department to talk to them according to the above conditions. Well. In addition, if the management of DreamWorks is determined, the negotiation of this project will be transferred to DreamWorks, and the bottom line of our project is on my note.”

Allen looked at the contents of the note, nodded, and walked out of Eric's office.

...

"What, that side refused?" Standing in the lobby of Los Angeles International Airport, Mel Gibson heard his agent Ed Limato's words after hanging up the phone, with a tone of surprise and neglected anger.

Ed Limato nodded, his face a little unsightly, and said: "I think, maybe the Firefly thinks that the news in today's newspaper is deliberately released by us, you know, similar things have happened more than once."

If it was really revealed by himself, Mel Gibson wouldn't feel anything at all, but he was wronged because he didn't do it himself. How could the arrogant Mel Gibson endure this kind of anger? , said: "Forget it, didn't you just say that Universal Pictures Michael Eisner also called, maybe we can make an appointment with him to talk."

"I think it's better not to," Ed Limato said.

If it was really revealed by himself, Mel Gibson wouldn't feel anything at all, but he was wronged because he didn't do it himself. How could the arrogant Mel Gibson endure this kind of anger? , said: "Forget it, didn't you just say that Universal Pictures Michael Eisner also called, maybe we can make an appointment with him to talk."

"I think it's better not to," Ed Limato said. (To be continued.) ()