Chapter 902: Help Me Keep an Eye on MGM

When they came to the parking lot, Eric beat his driver and bodyguards to leave. He and the girl got into her Land Rover and left the MGM headquarters together. Ranwen Library┡Ω81 Chinese Website

After discussing where to eat next, the girl softly posted: "Eric, how about I transfer the MGM shares back to you?"

Eric chuckled and said, "The shares in your hand are estimated to cost 4 billion U.S. dollars. I can't afford it."

"I've already consulted a lawyer, and there is a way that doesn't cost me a penny."

Eric didn't wait for the girl to continue, so he stretched out his hand and hugged her. The girl sat on Eric's lap in close cooperation, and looked over with bright eyes.

Eric held the girl with the same baby face as before, and said seriously: "Drew, can I trust you?"

"Hmm," the girl nodded repeatedly.

"Actually, in a person's life, it is very difficult to find someone who can trust everything without reservation. Most people will never meet in their lifetime." Eric said earnestly, leaning over to the girl's mouth He pecked up and down, and said, "I'm lucky, I happened to meet one. So, help me keep an eye on MGM, don't care what others think, and don't always let me decide. If anyone dares to move their minds, you Take the bottle and hit him on the head like before."

"Yeah," the girl nodded her head and snorted a few times, her body seemed to be a little softer, completely attached to Eric's body, and her little hands rubbed against Eric restlessly, and said softly: "Eric , I suddenly wanted to do it in the car."

"Uh," Eric put his arms around the girl's waist, feeling like he was hugging a kitten that suddenly became emotional, and said, "Well, we seem to be talking about business. Besides, I still like this car a lot , don’t get dirty. You know, my cleanliness seems to be getting worse recently.”

The girl giggled, but ignored it, reached out and pulled Eric's shirt, and ordered the twins to drive the car to the nearby 405 height.

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Century City, netbsp; Richard Lovett has been anxiously waiting for the news from Pierre Truc, and this is also the last chance that might prompt Eric to change his mind.

In addition to the celebrity brokerage business, under the expansion of Michael Ovitz, since the 1980s, caa has been responsible for the advertising affairs of many large companies. Similar to film and television packaging contracts, these advertising projects are generally products for enterprises Provide one-stop services such as finding spokespersons, contacting advertising companies, and making advertisements.

The Havas Group, run by Pierre Truc, happens to be one of the largest advertising media companies in the world. Richard Lovett stops Pierre Truc at LAX, promises a deal, wants Pierre Truc to help lobby MGM to change decision, Pierre Trucburn They came here just to prevent MGM from replacing Brosnan, but they didn't expect such a windfall, so the two sides naturally hit it off.

I couldn't help but look at my watch again, it was already eight o'clock soon.

Richard Lovett was considering whether to take the initiative to call and ask, when the phone finally rang.

He picked it up without hesitation. Richard Lovett heard the other party's voice clearly, and rarely exchanged a few greetings, and went straight to the topic: "Pierre, what's the result?"

"..."

Forcibly patiently waiting for the other party to finish speaking, the last glimmer of hope was shattered. Richard Lovett subconsciously made a gesture of throwing a grenade, but in the end he did not throw out the brand new mobile phone in his hand. Slowly retracting his arm, Richard Lovett held the mobile phone in his palm, clasped his palms together, and stood behind the desk in a posture of becoming a Buddha, quickly thinking about how to deal with Pierce Brosnan next.

There were two knocks on the office door. David O'Connor pushed the door open and came in. Seeing Richard Lovett's posture, he froze for a moment and said, "Richard, I probably can't stop it. Peel said that if you haven't News, he plans to go back today. How is your side?"

Richard Lovett exhaled slowly,

Shaking his head, he said, "I'll talk to Pierre in person later."

David O'Connor immediately understood the outcome of the matter, said nothing, nodded, and backed out.

After spending a day at the CAA headquarters, Pierce Brosnan gradually realized something while looking out the window at night. When David O'Connor left, he looked at Sarah Lindert, the public relations manager who was always by his side, Asked, "Sarah, should I call Pascal or Williams myself?"

Sarah Lindert looked at her client who had been kept in the dark with some pity in her heart.

If you really want to make this call, this morning is the best time. Now, Richard Lovett must have arranged everything, even if he made the phone call, it would not help.

Although she stayed by Brosnan's side, she actually kept in touch with the outside world today. Judging from the current situation, things are probably worse than imagined. Perhaps, she also has to lose this client. Fortunately, David O'Connor has promised to introduce her four clients who are in the same position as Brosnan's cafe. Even if Brosnan loses, it would not be a pity. With that recording, David O'Connor will definitely not Dare to repent.

Just as he was about to comfort Brosnan with a few casual words, the office door was pushed open, and Richard Lovett walked in with a serious expression on his face. He patted Brosnan, who had stood up, on the shoulder and told him to sit down. He sat opposite each other and said, "Peel, I did my best, and MGM has agreed to re-sign with you."

Before Brosnan had time to be happy, he realized that Richard Lovett was talking about re-signing, not re-negotiating: "Richard, what do you mean, or yesterday's conditions?"

Even so, Brosnan suddenly discovered that until now, he still didn't know what kind of remuneration conditions Eric offered him yesterday. Rick Cozman didn't tell him the details yesterday. This morning, when he learned that he was suddenly fired from the oo7 crew, his first reaction when he rushed to the CAA headquarters was to punch Rick Cozman in the face. People naturally don't have any communication. Although he has seen the announcement of MGM on Yahoo's homepage, this kind of announcement will definitely not involve the detailed remuneration terms between GM and him, but only reveals a general concept of "hundreds of millions of dollars package contract".

Richard Lovett shook his head and said: "No, Peele, MGM's current condition is that two oo7 main stories, each with 2000 million US dollars, and two agent movie universe crossover episodes, each with 1000 million US dollars , four package contracts, a total of 60 million US dollars."

After hearing this, Brosnan's face was a little cloudy. A few days ago, Rick Cozman gave him an analysis. With the current box office momentum of "Casino Royale", he can at least get $4000,000 each in the sequels. remuneration. Now, the four films are about 60 million US dollars, with an average of 15 million US dollars, which is less than half of the original expectation.

The imagined contract that should be worth 160 million US dollars has become the current 60 million. Brosnan naturally blamed all this on Rick Kozman and caa. At the same time, he realized that he must have completely lost any room for bargaining.

Suppressing the anger welling up in his heart again, Brosnan asked with the last ounce of temper: "Didn't the Yahoo announcement say 100 million dollars? Why is it so much less?"

Richard Lovett shook his head and explained patiently: "There was no $100 million contract, MGM was just exaggerating. Yesterday, Williams offered four $700 million contracts, and a similar share." The plan, you know, Williams is a self-willed bastard, we rejected him once, and now we want to re-sign, he will definitely lower your salary. So, the split plan was cancelled, he just..."

"No, no," Brosnan couldn't bear it any longer before Richard Lovett finished speaking. He stood up, pointed at Richard Lovett and said, "It's not 'we', it's' You', it's you bastards who took the initiative to reject the MGM contract to get to this point, it's you, you bastards who screwed up everything."

Richard Lovett stood up with Brosnan, still with a good temper, and said, "Peel, calm down."

"Calm down? Why the hell am I still calm down?" Brosnan glared at Richard Lovett, raised his voice again, and at the same time grabbed the chair behind him and smashed it towards the window not far away, the hard tempered glass There was no shattering, but some decorations on the window sill fell together with the chairs, making a crackling sound: "This is all your fault, you must give me an explanation, otherwise, I will do what you bastards did. It all goes to the media."

Although Brosnan had already shown signs of breaking out, Richard Lovett tried his best not to tear up his face with him, and continued to appease him: "Peel, don't do this, I admit that we may not do well in some things, but you like this Doesn't help, you know, MGM only gave us one night, if you still refuse the contract tomorrow morning, it means you will lose the role completely. Think about it, $6 million, Hollywood How many celebrities make $60 million in their lifetime?"

"100 million, this money should have been at least 100 million, but you lost 40 million to me."

"There was never 100 million, 70 million. Williams claimed a few years ago that he would suppress the salary of Hollywood stars, and he is doing it now. I used almost all the connections of CAA today to make him give up the decision to replace you, but less It’s only $100 million.”

"No matter what, I won't sign such a contract. Moreover, I will announce what CAA is doing tomorrow, and you just wait to be ruined."

After being yelled at by the accused, Richard Lovett also grew angry and said loudly: "Be realistic, Peel, if you give up Bond, do you think there will be someone willing to pay you $2000000?" Well, no, it is absolutely impossible. Your image has already been stereotyped, and it is difficult for the audience to accept your role outside of oo7. Also, you know "The Lion King 2", that animated film originally had "Under the Sea "Finding Nemo" has a global box office potential of 1 billion US dollars, but because of the joint blockade of Firefly and Fox, its box office is only more than half that of "Finding Nemo". Therefore, more seriously, considering the pressure from Firefly, most film companies even I will never invite you to act in a movie again rashly, and your career in Hollywood will be over."

"Even if I'm going to doom, I'll drag CAA along with me, and I'll sue you."

"Huh, sue us? You know what's in the papers out there right now? 'Pierce Brosnan deliberately claims ignorance of MGM pay conditions in order to save oo7 contract'. Everyone now thinks you're pretending to be In the dark, if you sue again, it will only be seen as a bad-tempered joke."

Brosnan paused, and suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Richard Lovett by the collar, and slammed him against the wall: "Did you do it right, you must have done it?"

"Let go, you lunatic." Although Richard Lovett was pressed against the wall, he still looked confident and yelled, waving his arms, "In order to help you save the contract, I almost had to spend the whole day. Kneeling all over 10 million people in Los Angeles, do you think I have time to do these boring things, this is just MGM demonstrating to you. "

Richard Lovett's hoarse expression still contained unconcealable grievances. Brosnan stared at the other party for a few seconds, and gradually lowered his raised fist, but he was unwilling to let the other party go like this. After a stalemate for a moment, Sarah Lindert, who had been carefully hiding beside her, tentatively suggested, "Richard, how about this? Didn't MGM only lower the salary by $1000,000? Perhaps, caa can voluntarily give up this offer." The 10% commission in the contract can be regarded as making up for Peel's loss."

Richard Lovett, whose collar was still tightly grasped, struggled to breathe heavily, glanced at Brosnan, and seemed to have deep resentment in his eyes, and after a while, said: "Okay, I agree."

Seeing Richard Lovett open his mouth, Brosnan finally loosened his collar, but he still said coldly with lingering anger: "You shouldn't get a penny, Sarah, let's go first."

After leaving this sentence, Brosnan left the office without looking back. Sarah Lindert proudly raised a hand at Richard Lovett to command, and then quickly followed.

"Bitch. People."

Watching the figure of Sarah Lindelt leaving, Richard Lovett cursed fiercely, slid along the wall and sat on the floor, ripped open the neckline, pulled off the crooked tie and threw it away Next to him, he let out a sigh of relief.

After a while, David O'Connor walked in, looked at Richard Lovett who was sitting at the base of the wall, came over and knelt down in front of him, took out a cigarette case in his pocket, handed it over, and took out a lighter After helping him click, he asked, "Is it done?"

Richard Lovett smoked half a cigarette in one breath, nodded, glanced at the mess by the window, and suddenly cursed in a low voice: "Damn Hollywood." (To be continued.)