1770 Bundled cooperation
Andre Hamilton pushed open the apartment door, looked back with surprise, and said loudly, "Renly, you didn't lock the door? Didn't you say that someone just broke in last week? Although It's said that your nerves are thicker, but you're not so stupid.？”
Entering the room, Andre saw the respectful expressions on Andy and Matthew's faces. This made Andre pause for a moment, slowly turned his head, and then saw Renly's face. With a calm face on his face, he couldn't help but blink his eyes, straightened his back slightly, and still said in his own way, "Why, you are allowed to be stupid, but I am not allowed to complain.？”
Andre knew that Renly was a man who could take a joke..
Despite this, Andre avoided looking, went straight into the room, sat down on Matthew's right side, and began to look for glasses and red wine. "What are you discussing? Go ahead and ignore me.".”
There was a smile in Renly's eyes, he looked at Andy again, and continued the topic just now.
“What you mean is that there is actually a list within the company, but you are not sure what I think, and you are worried that your choice will be criticized by me, which will easily create confusion. It is best to understand my thoughts in advance, and then everyone within the company Only senior brokers can grab the benefits in advance, right?？”
The overall operating system of the Innovative Artist Agency is unique in Hollywood: resource sharing and equal profit sharing - that is, the company's resources are fully open to all artists, and the company's profits are shared by all agents. Such a unique operating model allows They firmly occupy the top spot in the industry.
But the success of such a model has historical origins and cannot be copied or imitated. Michael Ovitz, who once personally created such a model and led the company to the top, later left the Creative Artist Agency and became the president of Disney. After failing to achieve success, he founded another small brokerage company and started from scratch again, but also failed to achieve success..
Although resources are shared and interests are equally distributed, people's hearts are biased. Every agent hopes that the actors he is closer to will get more opportunities..
“"Jurassic Park" is such an opportunity. Steven Spielberg serves as the producer and Renly Hall plays the leading actor. It is already destined to be a major project before filming begins. Although within the Creative Artists Agency , the opportunity is shared, and every actor under the banner is qualified to be shortlisted for the competition; but the agents still show their magical powers, hoping that their actors - and even the director will be appreciated by Renly.
Even Andy has become a fragrant steamed bun.
Renly directly exposed Andy's intention. Andy was not angry. He still held the red wine in his right hand and his left hand on his beer belly. "Since you know my situation, why not let me know a little bit about it?" You can take the opportunity to show off. You know, even actors now come to the company to say hello and bring me coffee..”
“Ha. Just a cup of coffee? "Andre sat next to him and said meaningfully..
Andy pursed his lips, and a smile appeared in his eyes, neither confirming nor denying..
Renly also chuckled, "You can tell them what actors they want to recommend and list them all. My acceptance range is very wide..”
These meaningful words made Andy roll his eyes directly, "Do you expect them to believe it?"？”
“I'm answering the question seriously, but they don't believe it, and there's nothing I can do about it." Renly shrugged, expressing his helplessness..
Renly is serious.
Of course, he can recommend the cast and production of the cast based on the final performance version of the previous life, which is very easy. But in this case, it is hand-picked, and there are bound to be more complicated possibilities for the trend of things; instead of this, it is better to let it take its course. Of course, if a more suitable candidate appears, why not? After all, history has now changed its trajectory, just as the entire production line-up of Edge of Tomorrow has changed..
So, Renly is really opening up all possibilities now.
Andre picked up his wine glass, "What are you trying to make them believe? You should tell them that if they don't want to believe Renly, then there is no need to believe you. You are Renly's agent. They need to see your face, not the other way around.”
Of course, the tone is still condescending and domineering, but if you think about it seriously, it actually makes some sense..
Andre then continued, "Since Renly has no standards, isn't it up to you to set the standards? You can choose the list of actors based on your closeness, or enjoy the benefits; anyway, when the time comes, you can say no, and finally Renly is the one who makes the decision, just leave the blame to him..”
Andy and Matthew both glanced at Andre. Although there were no special expressions or special words, the meaning could not be more obvious: Renly is in front of him, are you sure it doesn't matter?？
But Andre straightened his back and said calmly, "Renly is a devil, he never minds. Those kind people are deceived by his appearance. We do good deeds and let them After seeing Renly's true face, they knew that this person would never be teased casually in the future, right?？”
“So have you ever thought about the reason why you are still able to jump around now? "Renly said calmly..
“……”Andre met Renly's radiant and restrained gaze, blinked, then pretended not to hear, lowered his head and took a sip of red wine, and then said to Andy, "I'm just a suggestion, just a suggestion. How to operate it? and execution, it still needs to be decided by yourself.”
That pretending to be calm really makes people laugh..
Slowly, Renly turned his attention to Andy again and said with a smile, "Just tell them that I don't have time for the moment, and there are more important tasks that need to be completed recently." Renly gestured to the table with his eyes. "Whether a 'Jurassic Park' is more important or these are more important, I believe it is not difficult to make a judgment.".”
If Sisyphus Pictures officially begins to produce movies in large quantities, then the Innovative Artist Management Company will definitely be the first beneficiary, and a large number of job opportunities will be in front of it..
Andy understood and nodded in agreement..
Andre also turned his attention back at this time and joined the discussion topic freely, "Is there any progress on the project now? I had a drink with Eaton last night. He felt that we can work together on two fronts, and some projects can be put into production first. Putting aside the development plans of the streaming platform for the time being, the Sony Classics collaboration can still proceed normally; in addition, Disney will also select two projects from our production, right?？”
Renly nodded in agreement..
Creating a streaming platform is not something that can be done in a day or two, but the film production department of Sisyphus Pictures can start to put in work. After "Crackling Drummer" and "Nightcrawler", their cooperation with Sony Classics has gradually I have figured out the way, and now I can enter the next stage of original content production..
“There are too many items and I’m still picking them; but I’ve made a list……”
Renly was mid-sentence when Andrei interrupted, "There's a list here too.？”
Quiet.
completely quiet.
But Andre didn't seem to know that he had told a cold joke. He looked at Renly with a calm face, and then saw Renly slightly nodding his head, "Yes, there is a list here, and there are horses on my refrigerator." Write a supermarket shopping list, otherwise, after our meeting here, you go to the supermarket？”
“I think it’s better not to use it.” The young Hamilton man in front of me has never shopped in a supermarket in his life. “I don’t think the supermarket’s personality fits well with me..”
“So let’s just focus on the list in front of us, what do you think? "Renly's calm words made people feel a creepy feeling of horror. Andre couldn't help but cast his gaze towards Matthew, "What happened to him today?？”
“You can try reading for eight hours a day and continue for a month without interruption." Matthew said calmly..
Andre shuddered immediately, "Then I would rather choose death.".”
“So, can we discuss this list now? "Renly's voice made Andre quickly look away, and he couldn't help but sit up straight, just like a well-behaved primary school student. He no longer had the carefree attitude just now, and he sat upright to show that he was highly focused..
Renly handed the list on the table to Andre, "I didn't carefully count how many works I have counted now. I just added one when I saw one. However, I made some simple notes at the end. , do you still remember our old high school poetry notes? I recorded them in that way; you can make a simple judgment and then decide the order of production..”
Andy also sat up straight and leaned over.
It was a piece of white letterhead, completely handwritten. On the left side was the project name, neatly arranged in a row; on the right side were some notations of vowels and numbers. For those who understood it, it was clear at a glance, but for laymen To humans, it is like a wordless bible. But what is certain is that the neat and beautiful fonts indeed have the quality of British poetry, and they do not seem to have anything to do with movies and television..
“The first and second pages are movies; the third page is TV shows." Renly then explained, "Also, have you ever considered making an animated series, like 'The Simpsons,' 'Family Guy,' or maybe It’s the kind of Japanese anime……”
The production process of animated series is relatively less cumbersome, and the investment cost is relatively easy to save. Of course, the audience group is also narrower, and success is more difficult..
Andre shook his head and expressed his denial, "Renly, we are already too busy now and have no time to acquire the rights to adapt novels or comics. More importantly, our capital chain cannot keep up. Let us first Focus on this list, it's more practical.”
Faced with Andre's decisive words, Renly didn't say much. He pursed his lips, and then nodded to express his understanding: It seems that the pie he spread is a bit too big..
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