The Wolf of Los Angeles

Chapter 13 High-end Business War

Under the dim street lights, Hawke and Brand each rushed to the hotel on a bicycle.

On the side of the road, Catherine was standing in front of a BMW and greeted the two of them: "Get in the car!"

Brand knew the doorman and explained, throwing his bicycle next to the hotel and getting on the bike with Hawke.

Katherine said anxiously: "He didn't find anyone in the hotel and went to the Crystal Cinema."

The BMW drove out less than five minutes and stopped on the side of the road again.

Katherine pointed to the entrance of a theater: “There’s there!”

Hawke got off the car first and ran towards the Crystal Cinema.

The funder has not paid the money, so there can be no accident!

Eric blocked the entrance of the theater and shouted: "George Hansen, come out and see me, you will only hurt the **** behind you, come out quickly!"

There were several people coming out of the theater, and the leader was George wearing gold-rimmed glasses.

He stood on the steps, condescending with a friendly face: "Look at who is coming, it turns out to be our future director."

Hawke rushed over at this time.

George turned to look at Hawke and added, "And his brainless follower."

"The people from Castle Stone Film suddenly changed their schedule. Are you the ones who made it?" Eric asked loudly: "You are despicable and shameless..."

George felt guilty, but the strange thing coming from his **** made him full of fighting spirit in an instant, and he interrupted: "I am just a little person, how could it affect Castle Stone Film? Don't go too far, it's not as bullying as you ! ”

Eric just wanted to rush up the theater steps.

Hawke grabbed him and whispered, "This won't solve the problem."

Eric struggled and wanted to rush up.

Catherine and Brand quickly stopped him.

Suddenly, with a muffled bang, the cinema door was kicked open from the inside, and the middle-aged man wearing a cowboy hat walked out with an electric shock stick.

The electric baton was slacking off. He pointed at Eric and Hawk and said sternly, "Foreigners, don't make trouble in my theater, get out of here! Don't leave? I will smash your head into a stinky one. Shit! ”

Weapons are the best sedatives, and Eric won't jump anymore.

Hawk pulled him back and said to the theater owner, "Man, calm down, let's go now."

When the middle-aged man saw four people getting in the car and retreating, he put away the electric baton and shouted, "Don't let me see you stinky **** again!"

George smiled at the boss, "Thank you."

"It is my responsibility to protect the customers in the premises." The boss walked back: "You should hurry up and make arrangements, and you will finish before 11 o'clock."

George followed into the theater.

In the ticket hall, bald head sat in the rest area, drinking alone.

George pulled away the chair and sat down, not very relieved: "I'm sure they don't have a chance?"

Bald head touched his beard and smiled: "Rob Reiner only stayed for one day. Even if they wanted to change the screening time, they could not coordinate the theater. There were nearly twenty theaters in Park City, all of which were full of screenings, and other crews were also We need to entertain buyers and watch movie groups."

He poured George a glass of wine: "They can rent a shed in the open-air area for screenings, but it will only insult Robert and Castle Stone."

George picked up his glass: "Wish us success."

...

Hotel, suite living room.

Eric was dejected, and Catherine quickly told him what was going on now

More than half an hour ago, she received a call from Robert's assistant, who temporarily changed the festival itinerary and would go to see another film tomorrow morning to adjust the "SAR Highland" to the afternoon screening.

But the Great Salt Lake Cinema is full of schedule, and other crews do not agree to coordinate. Catherine contacts other theaters, and the same is true.

The distribution company is just a big deal in the film industry. The small crew finally contacted the distribution company to watch the screening, and no one dared to let the pigeons go.

Catherine asked someone from Robert's team for information about the situation and found out that Robert was going to watch George Hanson's "Lemon Street" tomorrow morning.

The reason is not complicated. The assistant took the color page stills of "SAR Highland" and "Lemon Street" to Robert. The former's Mexican attributes are not favored, while the latter is a white movie.

Although Catherine's father had an old age with Robert, the former died for several years, and that relationship was not enough in the face of commercial interests.

Brand kept scratching his head when he heard this, feeling that it was too difficult to make some quick money, and there were a lot of bad things.

Eric said muffled, "We're done."

"You just admit defeat?" Catherine was pointed at by an electric baton in front of her and couldn't swallow her breath: "Bow your head to a thing that sells her ass?"

Hawke didn't speak, and it was not him who was worried now.

Seeing Hawke calm, Katherine asked, "Is there any way you and your team?"

Hawke spread his hands: "This is not within my business."

Katherine knew it, sneered and took out the checkbook, opened the writing, and then handed it over: "This is a new reward." Hawke looked down at the $5,000 above, and did not answer it immediately, asking, "You What do you want to do?”

Catherine hugged Eric and said, "Find a way to get things back on track and make George Hanson unlucky, the more miserable the better!"

"I've always wanted to develop new businesses, it's time." Hawke was very principled. He thought about it carefully before taking the check and then asked, "I need to confirm something if "Lemon Street" can't Normal screening, can you make Robert look back?”

"Rob has always been an efficiency-oriented person, only staying in Park City for one day, and it is impossible to spare two hours," Katherine said.

Hawke thought for a while before saying, "Tomorrow morning, you go to the airport to pick it up, follow Robert and wait for my call."

"That's it?" Catherine asked.

Hawke stretched out his hand and said, "Borrow your BMW." When Katherine took the keys, he asked Brand again: "When is the general time for theaters to close?"

Brand said, "It will definitely close at half past 11."

Hawke glanced at the time: "Let's go out for a walk."

He came to Eric and patted his shoulder hard: "Man, cheer up, if you are so decadent, the movie will be completely over."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

Eric heard what he had just said and asked, "There is still hope?"

Hawke said, “Yes.”

Eric struggled to cheer up: "What do you need me to do?"

"Make sure there is no problem with copying and screening. Remember, don't let copying be out of your sight!" Hawke said.

Eric said, “I will take two people to guard.”

Hawk took Brand downstairs, finished a midnight snack, went to BMW to check, and confirmed that there was no recorder or something, so he went to the Crystal Cinema.

"What do we do?" Brand never stopped saying: "This is very difficult. You can contact Robert and let him change his mind..."

Hawke reminded: "Observe where there is surveillance on the roadside."

"Parker City public surveillance is ignored, there is almost no private surveillance, and we don't like privacy." That being said, Brand still observes carefully. He is too familiar with Parktown. When the BMW car drove into a lane, He said, "No monitoring, I can be sure."

Hawke pointed to a low wall in the dark: "This is the wall of the Crystal Cinema's backyard."

Brand nodded, “Yes.”

Hawke hasn't stopped: "Do I need to stop and ask you to confirm the cinema cable line?"

Brand's mouth is faster than his brain: "No, Park City is cold in winter, all the cables go underground, and the theater distribution boxes are in a dedicated distribution room."

Hawke kept driving forward, drove out for a while before asking, "Man, do you remember you were studying electronic engineering?"

Brand hadn't realized the problem yet, and he was a little complacent: "So, the cable diagram of Parker City is in my mind."

Hawke thought to himself that he didn't find the wrong person when he got on the bus, and Brand was his own plug-in.

When the car returned to the main street, Brand saw the neon sign of the Crystal Cinema again. His compassion gradually disappeared, his hands and feet began to get cold, and he asked, "Hawke, what do you want to do?"

Hawke said slowly: "We are facing an extremely serious situation. If the situation worsens, not only will we not get the follow-up remuneration, but we will also have to spit out all the money we get, and all the reunions and business will be ruined."

Brand's rare silence.

Hawke whispered: "Whether we are happy or not, a business war, a high-end business war in the film industry has begun."

"But, but..." Brand didn't know what to say: "How can you use these in business wars?"

Hawke parked the car and waited for his mood to calm down slightly, saying, "The higher the business war, the more simple the process."

After getting the money, Brand felt uncomfortable all over when he got it. At this moment, he remembered the girl he was pursuing and couldn't help but nod: "I've done it!"

Hawke asked without any nonsense, "Do you have black clothes at home, headbands that cover your face, strong ropes or whatever?"

"Yes," Brand said. "My parents work in the ski resort, and there are a lot of these things."

Hawke asked again: "With the knowledge you have, can the distribution box or other equipment not look like human damage, and it will not be repaired in a short period of time?"

"It's not difficult." Brand paused for a moment and added: "With Park City's work efficiency, there is a complex failure in the distribution box and it will take two to three days to repair it. Even if the theater is expedited, it will take as soon as one day."

"I remember you mentioned once that Parker City has local regulations that commercial cables are not allowed to go to the ground," Hawke said.

Brand automatically answered: "We sent someone to stare. Crystal Cinema dared to pick up the power from the neighbors, we reported it."

I have to say that Brand has learned a lot with Hawk these days.

Hawke nodded slightly, "Your friends Lewis and Damian have nothing to do, and you can hire them."

He thought for a moment: "Do it again soon, and don't leave them any reaction time, and you also need to see if they have backup generators..."

In this high-end business war, Hawke used one of the three ultimate tricks of pulling the power switch, grabbing the official seal and collecting access control.

(End of this chapter)