Hollywood Hunter

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Glancing at the subordinate who caused him a lot of trouble, Lou Weiss said, "Joe, as for your side, Brian De Palma is still the director and will also serve as the producer of The Butterfly Effect. Producer. Fox paid $2 million, plus 10% of North American box office profits.”

Jonathan Freedman nodded.

If it weren't for the two previous failed films, Brian De Palma's salary level should be around $3 million.

Now that Fox is offering $2 million plus a 10% share of the North American box office profits, Jonathan Friedman has no dissatisfaction at all. What he wanted to win for his clients was just a simple fixed salary of $2 million. .

Of course, Jonathan Friedman also understands that the reason why Brian de Palma was able to get this relatively generous contract was mainly because of the exposure of a series of harsh agreements that caused wma infighting in recent days.

Whether it is Fox or WMA, it is necessary to refute relevant revelations in the media through 'facts'.

Thinking of this, Jonathan Friedman began to look forward to Fox's offer for Simon's script. However, he did not take the initiative to speak, waiting patiently for Lou Weis to continue.

Lou Weiss finished talking about Brian De Palma, looked at his memo again, and raised his head: "About the script, the price has been raised to $200,000, and $160,000 is the payment for the script of The Butterfly Effect, $40,000 to reserve that writer's first option for the next two plays."

After listening, Jonathan Friedman paused and asked, "Lu, is it still a buyout?"

Lou Weiss shook his head and said, "This is the basic remuneration, and the sharing terms follow industry practices."

Jonathan Friedman was relieved. If it is still a buyout agreement, even if Fox doubles the base price, he is not sure whether Simon will agree to it.

Now, with just the addition of a scripted preference, Jonathan believes that Simon must know what to make.

Seeing that Jonathan did not raise any objection, Lou Weiss continued: "Joe, in addition to the arrangement of these three people, the original packaging plan has also been overturned. The new budget given by Fox is 10 million US dollars. According to this standard, you will Sort out a list of the main characters and give it to me tomorrow, any questions?"

Jonathan Friedman realized that Lou Weiss now just wants to sign a simplified package contract with Fox as soon as possible, which only involves the core creators, and the current situation obviously does not allow WMA to have a second option. So he nodded again and said, "No problem."

Hearing Jonathan's answer, Lou Weiss closed the memo in front of him, waved at him, and said, "That's it, you can go now."

Jonathan Freedman stood up and saw that the other three were sitting still, and knew that they would definitely discuss the revelations of the past few days.

With such a bad internal leak, wma will definitely pursue it to the end.

However, Jonathan didn't think that the management could find any results at all. The guy who broke the news to the media must be very aware of the serious consequences of doing this kind of thing.

Leaving the conference room, Jonathan Friedman walked slowly through the outer corridor, feeling the warm sunshine through the glass curtain wall in the morning, and suddenly there was an unprecedented relaxation.

The discussion in the media about the incident of wma continues.

Jonathan Friedman is very clear that although he has temporarily crossed the current threshold, affected by this incident, it is almost impossible for him to go further in wma in the future.

Even, once Lou Weiss, who is 75 years old this year, steps down from the chairman position in the next few years and loses this layer of support, he is likely to be completely kicked out of the company by Norman Broca.

However, after letting go of his long-standing desire to climb up, Jonathan felt that the depression, resentment and other emotions that had accumulated in his heart for so many years had all dissipated.

Jonathan also found that, compared to many others in the industry, he was already very powerful.

Relying on the experience and contacts accumulated over the past 20 years, even after leaving wma, he can still live well, or even better.

Now, instead of having to think about trade-offs all the time, he just needs to be single-mindedly responsible for his clients. Then, he believes that no matter what happens in the future, a large part of these people will follow him closely.

Arriving outside his office unknowingly, Jonathan Friedman paused, suddenly remembering the boy who made him do all this, so he walked to the outside assistant and said, "Owen, help me find it. Simon's contact address."

Jonathan Friedman has a total of 37 clients to his name, and Westerners are really not very creative in naming names, and more than one of these clients happens to be named Simon.

However, Owen Wright immediately understood what Jonathan meant, and skillfully pulled out a sheet from the thick stack of address books and handed it to his boss.

Jonathan Friedman took it over and glanced at it, then handed it back to the assistant and said, "I'll go out for a while and come back at noon."

Owen Wright nodded and watched Jonathan leave. He couldn't help thinking that he should have more contact with the boy named Simon Westeros in the future.

leave wma total

Department office building, Jonathan Friedman drove directly to the address of a 7-11 convenience store in midtown Santa Monica.

For the new week, Simon re-rotates the morning shift.

The time is 9:40 am.

The convenience store was at a time when the traffic was relatively low, and Simon was doing a routine inventory of the shelves he was in charge of. Courteney Cox, wearing a pink T-shirt and shorts, walked over casually.

Feeling the faint scent of perfume around him, Simon turned his head and smiled at Courteney, watching the girl hold a few things in her arms with her bare hands, and said, "Are you always so used to holding things when you buy things?"

Seeing that Simon took the initiative to talk to herself, Courteney spoke only then, but she was still somewhat habitually impolite, and said, "Yes, do you have an opinion?"

Simon immediately shook his head and said, "No, if they are all customers like you, the trolleys in our store can definitely be used for many years."

"Oh, next time I'll use a cart," Courteney said, picking out a bottle of ketchup, still holding it in her arms, watching Simon turn his attention to the folder in his hand again, hesitated before As if nothing had happened: "The one in the newspaper in the past few days, um, "The Butterfly Effect", was written by you?"

After all, there is no deep relationship. Except for the "Lola Run" that I accidentally saw, Courteney did not know Simon's other scripts before, and she was not very interested in this matter.

Moreover, in the news these days, the whistleblower did not actually mention the personal information of the screenwriter of "Butterfly Effect", and the other party obviously had his own intentions for doing so.

If the outside world knows that Simon is just an 18-year-old rookie who has just debuted, the article's argument that Fox's buyout contract is too harsh may also be questioned. After all, in an age where most ordinary people earn only $10,000 to $20,000 a year, many people are destined to think that a young man can earn $100,000 just after turning 18. What’s not to be satisfied with?

Courteney actually has a hard time believing that the screenwriter of "The Butterfly Effect", which caused such a big storm in Hollywood, will be Simon, an ordinary boy who can't see any special at all on weekdays.

However, she happened to know that Simon Friedman was the only screenwriter under his name.

Simon glanced at the girl whose expression was inquiring, nodded with a smile, and replied casually, "Yes."

Although it has been roughly determined, Courteney still widened her eyes when she heard Simon's answer, and asked, "Really?"

This time, before Simon could respond, Roger Griffin's chubby body leaned over from the other side of the shelf and said, "Simon, someone is looking for it."

Simon responded, made a mark on the folder, and walked out.

Courteney hesitated, and followed Simon with a pile of things.

As soon as he turned out of the shelf, Simon saw the agent Jonathan Friedman standing at the exit of the cash register and nodding to him.

Courteney also quickly found the figure of the agent, and the surprised expression on her face that had not dissipated came up again.

You must know that since signing the contract, she has never encountered the situation where the ace agent of wma came to find her in person. At the beginning, she could only see Jonathan's assistant in most cases.

Simon walked across the cashier to Jonathan. The agent looked at the clerk's attire on Simon's body, shook hands with him with a gentle smile, and patted Simon's shoulder again, saying, "I didn't expect you to be here, tell me earlier. , I can totally help you find a better part-time job."

Simon joked: "It's not too late now."

"Now, oh, now it's not necessary," Jonathan smiled and shook his head, then turned to Courteney who was approaching, and also reached out and shook hands with the girl, "Kurt, I didn't expect you to be here too, you and Simon knows?"

Courteney clearly felt the difference in Jonathan's attitude towards herself and Simon, but nodded obediently and said, "Yeah, I live nearby, and I often come here to buy things, so I just met Simon."

"Oh, that's a coincidence," Jonathan responded, then turned back to Simon and said, "Simon, can you take a few hours off? Let's go out and talk."

"Okay," Simon nodded, turned his head and glanced, walked towards Roger Griffin, who was poking his head here, came to the convenience store owner, and said, "Roger, my agent is looking for me for a while. matter."

In addition to being very stingy in salary, the middle-aged fat man seemed to be very talkative in other aspects. He glanced at the elegant middle-aged man not far away again, and nodded cheerfully: "No problem, come back before 12 o'clock, it's just you A two-hour absence from work is fine.”

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