Hollywood Drawing

"Talk about it."

Since he was not in the mood to work for the time being, Wayne crossed his legs on the recliner with a cigarette in his mouth. He pulled out two bottles of beer from the ice bucket and handed one to Gilmore opposite. The two grown men were obviously ready to listen. Prepare yourself for gossip.

Nina lowered her head to look at her work notebook and said with a joking tone: "The Asian branch of Warner Bros.'s distribution department reported yesterday that there is a team from Hollywood with a highly feasible project in hand. The project plan is being raised with local film investment funds and entertainment companies over there at Bangzi.”

Speaking of this, she paused deliberately, looked at her boss, raised her eyebrows playfully, and then continued: "The Hollywood team that is raising funds is said to be from the famous Greenberg Studio. Not only do they have The project plan is very feasible and convincing, and it also has a series of authorization documents.”

As the assistant lady narrated, she and Wayne both laughed together. They both knew that if nothing unexpected happened, someone over there would be unlucky.

This kind of thing is very common in this era, and almost everyone in the industry knows what is going on. Not to mention this relatively closed era, it still happened frequently in the years after the turn of the century.

The project plan and other things in the hands of the team who claimed to be from Hollywood were all true. I am afraid that the only fake thing was Wayne's photo.

Just as Nina was about to continue talking, Naomi Watts came over dressed as a girl next door with a pair of sunglasses in her hand. "Hey, what happened to make you so happy?"

Wearing a simple pair of shorts and a T-shirt, she looked extremely refreshing. The Australian actress squeezed Wayne who was sitting cross-legged, crossed her long legs together, and sat next to him in the same posture.

Nina shrugged and repeated what she had just said. Completely opposite to their reactions, after hearing this, Naomi Watts immediately looked at Wayne, who was smiling, and looked at him seriously. "Haney, they are infringing on your legal rights. You must contact a lawyer and send a lawyer's letter asking Warner Brothers to stop them immediately."

"No, don't worry, Nami."

Patting the woman's arm gently, Wayne shook his head at her. "Nina, keep talking."

"Okay." The assistant lady nodded. "This studio is called Greene-berg, and ours is Greene-berg. It is also a legal company registered in Delaware. Maybe the office they rent is right next door to us. You understand. ?”

After hearing this, Naomi Watts reacted immediately. She had heard similar things many times, but this time it involved Wayne, so she didn't react for a moment.

Even if the Hollywood team is fully prepared, there is no guarantee that there will be another Wayne Greenberg who does not exist.

In fact, this kind of team is really a Hollywood company. They take advantage of the lag in information communication to raise funds from places that have high aspirations for Hollywood with a very feasible project.

Strictly speaking, they are not scammers, because all their procedures are genuine, and the investment they attract will most likely be used for the production of the project in hand.

In this era when the six major giants are trying their best to steal overseas funds, small and medium-sized companies also have their own way of survival. They will use the funds raised to shoot movies. Regardless of whether the movie loses money or makes a profit in the end, they basically never get it back. possibility.

"Do you want to say hello to Warner Bros. and stop them?" Nina's face also had a relaxed expression of indifference, because even if this was a quarrel in a year or two, strictly speaking, it would not involve her. Over here on the head. "Or wait until those people raise the money and ask the lawyer to talk to them?"

In fact, she prefers the latter method. Those people may have nothing to fear overseas. After all, now that the beautiful country is at its strongest, such overseas lawsuits have almost no results. But if he makes an attack on his side, the other party can only bow his head obediently.

Strictly speaking, the other party is still financing in Wayne's name, regardless of whether it only uses a photo or avatar. As long as he is willing, even if he does not use Warner Brothers' power in the circle, he will just use legal means. You can sue the other party for talking nonsense and even go bankrupt.

"Forget it, let them be."

After waving to the assistant lady, Wayne raised his head and took a swig of beer. If this matter had been put forward three or four years ago, he probably would not have let go of the opportunity to make money. Even if it was tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars, it would still be money, wouldn't it?

But then again, if this matter had gone back three or five years, those people wouldn't have played in his name. Then who would know who Wayne Greenberg was.

"You can't do this, Honey." Naomi Watts looked in disbelief. Now she wanted to reach out to the neck of the man next to her and use force to peel off his face to see if he was possessed by some strange alien. Now, is this still the greedy Jewish capitalist? "I think you have to deal with this matter, otherwise I'm afraid someone will..."

What she was worried about was very simple. She felt that if she knew about it but still chose to let it go, someone else would do such a thing in the future.

"Okay, let me tell you a little story, Nami." Wayne took a big puff of the cigarette and blew out two lines of smoke from his nostrils. He first glanced at Gilmore on the other side of the table, and then started to say: " Within my core team, Schwartz, the casting director, can be said to have a lot of power.

For several years, whenever the crew started preparations and entered the actor audition process, he was the one who made the call and was responsible for the first two rounds of screening for less important roles. More than one person on the crew said to me that Schwartz used his power to seduce sweet-looking young actors, just like the legendary red sofa. "What?" ! "Naomi Watts looked surprised. She stretched out a white finger and poked the man next to her on the forehead. "Damn it, are these two things related in any way? "

"Don't worry, just listen to me and you will understand."

Rolling his eyes at the Australian actress, Wayne avoided her and continued to point his fingers. "Although I have always known that such a situation exists, I have never thought of talking to Schwartz. Do you know why? The most important thing is that he completes the tasks assigned to me very well every time. Excellent, no matter whether he made any small moves or not, it never affected his work."

Not only Naomi Watts had a question mark on her face, but Gilmour on the side was also surprised. Does this matter have anything to do with those who raised funds in his name?

Seeing the two people's reactions, Wayne shook his head helplessly. "Okay, let me tell you one more thing. Nina has told me more than once that my accountant Colin Howard will get some benefits every time when he leads the team to connect with Warner Brothers.

Note that he will get a little bit every time, not much, probably less than 3% of his salary, but Warner Brothers will make a tacit understanding with him every time.

You have to understand that no matter who is doing what, if there is an extra motivation, it will only be good for the work. The premise is that without damaging my income, you have to allow similar situations to keep happening. "

"Hey Hey hey!"

Naomi Watts and Gilmore looked at each other, and then looked at Wayne and Nina who were smiling. She raised her hands and said loudly: "Damn it, are these three things related? The smiles of the two of you made me suddenly feel like a fool!"

Gilmore on the side nodded in agreement. He also felt baffled and felt that his IQ had been seriously insulted.

The assistant lady slapped herself on the forehead, and under the gaze of the two people, said: "Okay, let me explain to you, the boss means that you must allow others to do this, as long as it does not harm our own interests. This can not only improve the quality of work, but also maintain better team unity.

Of course, you can punish them for similar selfish motives, but doing so is totally not worth the gain. In the opinion of the boss and I, this is a good thing. As long as we know what they are doing and how they operate, it is a rare and great thing.

Because you can stare at the same thing in the future. In that case, if these team members become greedy in the future and want to get more at the expense of the boss’s interests, then we will receive feedback as soon as possible, because we have always Staring at them.

Okay, why does the boss say these two things? In fact, there is no difference in nature at all. The reason why they dare to do this is that on the one hand, it is not a new thing in Hollywood, and few people will actually pursue it. On the other hand, their company is too small, and we have to worry about the cost. If you put the time cost elsewhere, you will only gain more.

But all this must be done without harming the interests of the boss. You see, why don’t any medium-sized companies or even the Big Six dare to do this? Because once they do something similar, we will immediately go to them to demand compensation. Warner Bros.’s legal department will lie on them and suck their blood until the last trace of profit is squeezed out. "

In fact, Nina had suggested that she replace Colin Howard a long time ago, but Wayne always laughed it off and asked the assistant to keep an eye on it.

Perhaps this white skin and the more than twenty years of living, studying and working here have seriously Westernized his way of doing things and thinking, but he still remembers very clearly what his father always said in his previous life. , that means you can’t run a house without being deaf or blind.

He always believed in his heart that the principles summarized by his ancestors over thousands of years were definitely more useful than using strict rules to lead a team.

In the same way of thinking, Nina, whose IQ is obviously higher than that of normal people, can figure it out and understand it better with just one explanation from him. But in the eyes of Naomi Watts and Gilmour, everything should be done according to the set rules, and even after explanations, they still feel a little confused.