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"Feel sorry,"

Taking out his phone and looking at it, Tony Guzman said to several people in the room, "I'll pick up the phone."

After finishing speaking, he walked out of the living room of the hotel suite, came to the balcony of a bedroom, and pressed the answer button, "Hello, this is Tony Guzman from Fox Searchlight."

An unfamiliar voice came from the receiver. After the other party said a few words, Tony Guzman frowned, recalled a little, then turned to look at the living room and said politely, "I'm sorry, Director Stanton, I may not have time these days, I have a project to follow up."

He remembered the young director and that interesting film, and he deliberately exchanged contact information at that time. He originally planned to continue to investigate the film, but when he watched the film, he met a more favorite object, and the inside of Fox Searchlight also It is very important and needs to be followed up immediately.

After politely rejecting the other party's invitation, Tony Guzman said politely and hung up the phone.

With this new project in front of him, he has basically lost interest in new works like "Hard Fruit". Sitting in the living room are senior executives from Ark Entertainment, and the project they are talking about is Todd Field's new work "Unexpected Edge".

Not to mention that the star of the film is the famous Tom Wilkinson, the two directors cannot be compared. Murphy Stanton is unknown, and Todd Field's last work "Ghost Invasion" raked in 9,000 in North America. million dollar box office...

Tony Guzman knows exactly how to choose between the two.

He has decided to give up "Fruit Hard Candy", which he thought was good before, and prepared to win "Accidental Edge" with all his strength.

At the airport of the Saint Denis Film Festival, a big fat man was late. After getting off the plane, he ordered the driver to rush to the hotel immediately. All the professional filmmakers and buyers of the company were waiting for him there.

Forty minutes later, Harvey Weinstein sat in the hotel conference room, looking at the list of videos and materials submitted by many employees of Miramax. Movies with fast word-of-mouth spread, such as some famous projects such as "Lullaby in the Dark" and "Death Illusion", have no unexpected surprises.

"That's all?" He frowned, looking at the dozen or so employees below, his voice gradually raised, "How do you do things? The film festival is almost a week away, so you are staring at them? How many distribution companies are staring at them? How much will it cost to take them?"

Although Miramax was acquired by Disney, Harvey Weinstein's operating style is completely different from Disney's, and he is still taking the route of operating independent films at a small cost.

There was silence in the conference room, and one could see the prestige of this big fat man in the company.

"Do you have a favorite unpopular project?" Harvey Weinstein asked again.

It's still quiet, and projects like Blair the Witch aren't something that every Saint Denis Film Festival encounters.

Harvey Weinstein slapped the conference table heavily, making a loud 'bang', as if to vent his anger this time, he didn't look at those people, and waved his hand at will, "Let's all go out."

Everyone rushed to leave, but Jones Butler stayed.

Harvey Weinstein saw her, "Are you okay?"

Jones Butler walked over and put a document in his hand in front of Harvey Weinstein, "This is a film produced by a small company called Stanton Studios, recommended by Bill Rossis of CAA, I went to see Moore and the others, and we all think there is a certain market potential."

Hearing what she said, Harvey Weinstein temporarily put down his work, opened the documents and looked at it. After a while, he looked up and said, "You gave it a priority?"

"Yes." Jones Butler stood on his right, "I guess the production cost of the film is about 200,000 to 300,000 dollars,

I and the marketing department estimated that this could become a million-dollar project. "

Harvey Weinstein was more at ease with Jones Butler, and asked, "Have you got the project?"

"No..." Jones-Butler said truthfully, "We just had the initial negotiation, and our offer was a little different from the other party's asking price."

After reading all the information, Harvey Weinstein rarely became interested, "Call them, I will go see that film tomorrow."

Murphy never thought that when he saw Jones Butler again, the other party brought Harvey Weinstein, the actual controller of Miramax, let alone him, even Bill Rossis. , in front of the big players in the circle like Harvey Weinstein, is also an insignificant little person.

And Harvey Weinstein didn't pay attention to the two of them. Except for a polite greeting when they met, he didn't say much from beginning to end, just patiently watching Murphy's screening in the conference room again. "Fruit Hard Candy".

After the screening, Harvey Weinstein said the second sentence, the object is Jones Butler, the voice is not very loud, Murphy vaguely heard.

"Continue to negotiate."

After leaving this sentence, Harvey Weinstein left the conference room directly.

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that Harvey Weinstein, who has always loved independent films, will definitely be very busy when he comes to the Saint Denis Film Festival, which focuses on independent films. Even if Murphy thinks highly of himself, he knows Harvey Weinstein. I don't think too much about myself and small productions like "Fruit Hard Candy".

According to his speculation, this big fat man took a look at it because he was responsible for the company's business, and transactions of nearly one million dollars could not be reached casually.

Every business and every project in this circle is far from being as random as imagined outside.

Subsequently, Murphy and Jones-Butler began a tug-of-war negotiation. The gap between $600,000 and $1.5 million was huge. The difficulty of negotiation between the two sides can be imagined. Fortunately, whether it was Murphy or Jones-Butler , both know that in order to complete the transaction, some compromises must be made between them.

As for the unreliable things such as the distribution contracts and sharing agreements of mainstream commercial films, Murphy will not mention it at all. The cooperation between the two parties will only be carried out by buying out the copyright. The job is to get more sell-off funds.

He can't make a project like "Hard Candy" forever, otherwise he can only stay at the bottom of Hollywood, and he will need more funds to complete his plan in the next step.

Like 90% of directors in Hollywood, Murphy also developed a plan to start with independent small productions, accumulate a certain amount of funds and experience, and gradually move towards mainstream movies.

After three days and five rounds of negotiations, Murphy and Jones Butler finally reached an agreement.

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