Hollywood Hunter

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Before you know it, it is already twilight, and the lights on both sides of the street are on.

Simon looked at the stunned and hesitant two women in front of him, and had to remind them in a relaxed tone that it was time to go back. Malibu, in the western suburbs of Los Angeles, was still far from Burbank. Finally, Katherine is suggested to drive, Janet Johnston is too dangerous to drive in high heels.

Seeing that Simon was normal and showed no signs of illness, Catherine was relieved, but she was inexplicably reluctant to explore Simon's past.

Glancing at her friend who was still rolling her eyes but finally stopped beside her, Catherine felt a little funny again.

Let you be out of order all day, and finally be cured.

The female hooligan who pretended to be insane met the real lunatic who came out of the mental hospital, tsk tsk.

After putting her friend in the co-pilot, Catherine also got into the car. After hesitating for a while, the woman still told Simon, who was standing outside the car window, to contact her if there was any difficulty before starting the car.

Turning around at the intersection not far away, Catherine finally nodded to the big boy on the side of the road, slowly stepping on the accelerator, and the burgundy Ford sedan gradually merged into the city traffic in the twilight.

Watching the two women's cars go away, Simon lifted the backpack on his shoulders and turned to leave.

Bought a map of downtown Los Angeles from a nearby store, Simon sat down in an open-air seat at a street fast food restaurant, ordered the cheapest dinner, and began flipping through the map.

Because he inherited the memories of 12 other people, Simon found that not only those professional skills, but also for Hollywood, or the whole Los Angeles, from human geography, to entertainment gossip, and various information for decades before and after, Simon is simply All understood.

It seems that he still has the potential to be a paparazzi.

Thinking with such self-entertainment, Simon easily found the location of wma's headquarters on the map.

Camino Street is just located not far from the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard, the most prosperous in Beverly Hills. Nearby is Century City Park, where media companies gather, and the 20th Century Fox studio is located there. , WMA's rival caa headquarters is also not far away.

After marking the location of the WMA headquarters, Simon found the headquarters address of the Screenwriters Guild of America and circled it.

The waiter brought dinner, Simon filled his stomach and walked out of the restaurant after checking out.

Then began to wonder how to leave Burbank.

In the 1980s, Los Angeles had neither a bus nor a subway, and taxis were equally scarce and had to be booked over the phone.

Wandering around the street with a fluke for more than half an hour, in the end, he failed to meet a taxi willing to take him. Simon realized that he still underestimated the lack of public transportation in Los Angeles, and some regretted not having the cheek to let Catherine give him a ride .

No choice but to stay at a hotel in Burbank.

Early the next morning, with the help of the hotel owner, Simon booked a taxi by phone. After some haggling with the driver who came, and finally paid $15 with a tip, the driver took him to West Hollywood on the other side of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Standing on the street of Melrose Avenue, although there is still a long way to go to the destination, in order to save money, I can only use it next time. Fortunately, Simon has a whole day. Following the guide of the map, I walked for more than 20 minutes along the north-south direction of Fairfax Avenue, which intersected with Melrose Avenue, and came to the outside of the Writers Guild of America (wga) building.

Simon came here naturally not to join the Screenwriters Guild. He does not have this qualification yet, mainly to register the copyright of the script in his backpack.

Under federal copyright law, in theory, the creator automatically acquires the copyright after completing the work. But in reality, once a legal dispute arises, whether to register a copyright becomes a very crucial piece of evidence.

There are many ways to register copyrights in the United States, and there are even some privately run registries.

The most authoritative among them is the Copyright Office, but because the U.S. government departments are known to be ultra-low work efficiency and submit registration to the Copyright Office, creators may have to wait four to six months to get the copyright certificate, and the review progress is slow to Outrageous.

Therefore, in Hollywood, registering copyright through wga has become the first choice for most screenwriters.

Prepare the materials and registration fee, and basically get the registration certificate on the same day.

Of course, registering with the WGA also has the disadvantage that it only saves the registration materials for the creator for five to ten years, and it needs to be renewed when it expires. However, the registration of the Copyright Office is permanent, and legal disputes can also obtain more perfect protection.

After some deliberation, Simon chose to submit all the two completed scripts for registration.

The registration fee for a single script was $20, and the cost of two scripts plus material printing again shrunk Simon's wallet a lot. Leaving the WGA building, thinking of the afternoon meeting, Simon made a copy of the script for "The Butterfly Effect", and then picked out an electronic watch that cost less than $2 at a roadside stand.

After all this was done, it was past noon.

Simply buying a meal to fill his stomach, Simon rechecked his wallet, where yesterday's $198 had quickly dropped to less than $97.

A little helpless, but not too flustered.

The worst is just living on the streets, the possibility of starvation is still very low, the big deal is to find a church to grab some free food

coupons.

The appointment time was four o'clock in the afternoon. In order to make sure that everything was safe, Simon came to the WMA headquarters half an hour earlier.

The WMA headquarters building on Camino Street is a very modern-looking glass and steel structure building. Although the floor is not high, it looks quite imposing compared to other mediocre commercial buildings around. There is a small building in front of the building. The square, these undoubtedly show the preeminent position of wma in Hollywood at this time.

At four o'clock, Simon stepped into the WMA headquarters five minutes early.

Explain your intention to the receptionist at the company's front desk, and the other party has called. After a while, a white young man who looked less than thirty years old greeted him. The young man was wearing a professional white shirt and black trousers. A polite look.

The two briefly introduced that Simon knew that the other party's name was Owen Wright, who was Jonathan Friedman's assistant, and then followed the other party to the interior of the building.

Shuttle in the spacious corridor next to the glass curtain wall, Simon found that the surrounding wma employees were either hurrying or frowning, and some people noticed his unfamiliar face with a little vigilant look in their eyes.

For this situation, Simon did not feel too surprised.

From what he knows, wma has been going through a very serious upheaval in recent months.

In the first half of this year, WMA's chairman and CEO Maurice Stoller and President Stan Carmen passed away one after another.

The vacancies caused by the death of the two core executives not only caused a power struggle within the company, but also brokerage companies such as caa and icm, taking advantage of the turmoil in wma, unceremoniously began to wave their hoes and dig their feet.

Especially after the death of Stan Carmen, the first-line superstars such as Al Pacino, Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hahn, etc. under the name of the Hollywood gold broker, all jumped to caa, This accident directly hurt the vitality of wma.

Simon followed Owen Wright outside an office and waited in the lounge for a while when a middle-aged white man with slightly gray hair pushed the door and walked in.

The middle-aged man looked about forty or fifty years old, wearing a gray suit, not too tall, about 1.7 meters tall, with a thin build, deep eye sockets, a wide nose bridge, black hair, and a typical Jewish appearance.

In fact, Friedman is clearly a Jewish surname.

"Sorry, just finished a meeting," Jonathan Friedman walked straight to him when he saw Simon get up, looked at Simon lightly, with a gentle smile on his face, and politely extended his hand to him, saying: "So, Simon Westeros?"

Simon nodded, shook hands with the other party, and said, "Hello, Mr. Friedman, nice to meet you."

Jonathan Friedman nodded in response, then made a please gesture.

The two walked into the adjacent office together, and the middle-aged man said: "This is the first time I heard the surname 'Westeros', so I remembered it immediately. Simon, this is your advantage, in Hollywood, it's not easy to be remembered."

Simon just smiled and didn't talk.

Jonathan Friedman motioned for Simon to sit down across from the desk. After he took his seat, he rested his arms on the desk relaxedly, and crossed his fingers at will to look at the young man opposite.

The height is about 180cm, which is very standard.

With an angular face and brown hair, he is very photogenic without the childishness of a teenage actor.

Black T-shirt, jeans, simple and plain clothes, but there is a calm and self-confidence beyond the peers, which can attract the opposite sex.

The potential embryo of the popular niche.

There is a potential to develop into the Tom Cruise type, and the recent box office hit "Top Gun" has really attracted too much attention.

However, the boy is a screenwriter.

Jonathan Friedman suddenly didn't have much expectations.

A good screenwriter needs experience, and Jonathan Friedman doesn't think a young man in his twenties can write a good screenplay. Even, he was a little doubtful that the young man had understood how to write the formal Hollywood script format.

In fact, Jonathan Friedman was not familiar with Katherine.

Aside from the occasional meeting at some Hollywood gatherings, the most recent encounter between the two was just one of Friedman's clients vying for the lead role in Katherine's upcoming film.

It is for this reason that Jonathan Friedman agreed to meet today after receiving a recommendation call from Katherine, as a favor to the beautiful woman who has a certain say in the casting of the film.

Jonathan Friedman's original plan was that if the person Katherine introduced was not bad, he would casually recommend him to the literary agency department of wma. After all, even a first-tier Hollywood screenwriter often brings less income to an agent than a second-tier actor, and he has no plans to represent a screenwriter in person. If it doesn't work, anyway, the favor is enough, and there is nothing wrong with directly rejecting it.

But at this time, seeing Simon himself, Jonathan Friedman already had some thoughts of sending Simon away as soon as possible. He has just been promoted to vice president of wma this month. Recently, the company has been in chaos again. At this time, he is not in the mood to perfunctory a young man with high ambitions.

Of course, Jonathan Friedman didn't show this mentality. He has always believed that to be an excellent agent, it is inevitable to maintain a humble attitude at all times.

After a brief inner evaluation, Jonathan Friedman's tone remained gentle,

With a bit of encouragement and expectation, he said, "So, Simon, tell me about your script first?"

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