Seven Hundred and Four - 3rd Floor

No girl can be eighteen forever, but there will always be eighteen-year-old girls, and Cate Blanchett always understands this. Therefore, she had never imagined that she could really have any feelings for Wayne, and her head was always as clear as it should be.

Everything is a transaction between Chi Luoluo, which means that he must obtain the greatest generosity from the transaction partner within the possible scope. At least at this moment, she desperately needs this man to support her, because if you miss some opportunities, you may never get them again.

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Basically every year across North America, large-scale entertainment media will make some statistics. Among them, the most interesting to ordinary people are undoubtedly the sexiest women in people's hearts and the men they want to date the most.

In recent years, Wayne Greenberg, a legendary name in Hollywood, has frequently been among the top men that girls across North America want to date. He has a career that can be called a dream. This latest synonym for the American dream is not only second to none in earning power, but also has a strong body and a tough and handsome face.

According to statistics released by several entertainment tabloids, the name Wayne Greenberg has never left his name in recent years, ranking among the top three North American girls' most desired one-night stands.

Whether it is the person North American women most want to date or the person North American women most want to have a one-night stand, his name basically never falls out of the top three. This has to do with Warner Bros. and Time Warner's efforts to manage his personal image, as well as the ongoing controversy in the media.

No matter in which era, celebrities who can be discussed by ordinary people will undoubtedly have some controversy. The controversy surrounding Wayne comes from his stories with Hollywood female stars. Even movie fans as far away as Europe know that this epoch-making director is an out-and-out playboy.

The word playboy seems to be born with mixed interpretations. Some people think that he does not respect women at all and plays with women's emotions wantonly. Some people think that he should be like this, and his living and working conditions make people envious from the bottom of their hearts.

However, when the media immediately went to the streets of North America to interview girls on the roadside about this issue, the statistics they obtained were very surprising.

Among the 1 female group, more than 85% of the women interviewed expressed their desire to go on a date with Wayne, and more than 50% said that they would never refuse Wayne's invitation to spend the night.

Even this seemingly perfect man, who has been widely reported by the media that he likes to abuse women, has never changed this result.

The girl interviewed by the entertainment media only knew information about this man based on public reports and movies. But Cate Blanchett, who was sitting next to the man at this time, was in Hollywood and needed to know more.

She knew full well that this was a bad guy with masculine charm. He has a strong personal worth, a huge reputation in the circle, a winning temperament that he has continuously successfully created, a body and face that women naturally like, and most importantly, this man has the top power in the circle.

Therefore, she always reminds herself that this is just an object of fair trade. You must not have any other emotions in the other person. Once the most undesirable emotions are added to the trading balance, it will definitely ruin your entire life.

Yes, Cate Blanchett did once fantasize about being the mistress of this manor. It's a pity that those things only exist in fantasy. At least for now, she doesn't believe that any woman can do it, even her "best friend" Naomi Watts.

Don't be stupid, just when she came under the awning, the man lying on the lounge chair opened his eyes and looked at the emotions he showed at first glance, as if he was looking at a new and interesting toy, or as if he was looking at A pet that interests men.

From the moment she noticed the other person's eyes, she kept ringing alarm bells in her mind, reminding herself that she must not lose sight of her position. A man's sweet words would be said without blushing to another beautiful girl he is interested in, even though the temptation of these sweet words can easily make people dizzy.

"Kate, you are so beautiful that it overpowers the sunshine in Los Angeles."

Leaning on the recliner, Wayne looked up and down at the woman he hadn't seen for a while. The other party is tall enough, and she is in her best age now, and her whole body seems to be shining white. "Well, girl, you are so hot today that I can't even take my eyes away."

I have to admit that the shelf life of European and American women's youth is not long, but the more temporary the beauty, the more attractive it is when they are young. Blonde hair, delicate face, white and straight long legs, almost all adjectives that represent a girl's sexy beauty are applicable to Cate Blanchett at this time.

Due to the temperature in Los Angeles, today she only wore a pair of simple denim hot pants and a fitted white T-shirt, which basically showed off her figure advantages.

Especially when she squeezed Wayne and sat cross-legged on the recliner, her two long white shining legs firmly attracted the man's attention.

This picture made him couldn't help but marvel in his heart. It seemed like a woman from Australia had frighteningly white skin? Naomi Watts is like this, and so is Cate Blanchett now. The most famous one should be Nicole Kidman. That Mrs. Cruise, even after her peak appearance has passed, is still white. Amazing.

"Honey, the Weinstein brothers are here."

Cate Blanchett took out a bottle of beer from the ice bucket next to the lounge chair and drank a few sips. The cold liquid seemed to bring people back to their senses. But before she put down the beer bottle, she rolled her eyes at the man and whispered a reminder.

"uh-huh......"

As soon as the woman finished speaking, two brothers who were not too different in size appeared under the awning. Harvey Weinstein smiled warmly, ignoring Wein's hand on the woman's thigh, and said hello loudly.

"Congratulations, Wayne, the third installment of 'The Matrix' has done amazingly at the box office."

"Thanks."

Waving to the two brothers, Wayne sat up from the recliner cross-legged with the same warm smile. Pointing to the lounge chair and ice bucket next to him, he said, "Harvey, Bob, sit down and chat. With this damn weather in Los Angeles, why did you even think of coming to my place?"

"Harvey wants to talk to you about Shakespeare in Love."

Cate Blanchett on the side interjected. Seeing the man's eyes turning to her, she shrugged and gestured to the beer bottle in her hand.

"Ha, "Shakespeare in Love"..." Wayne nodded slightly.

Greenberg Studios owns half of the investment in this film. Although the production cost is not high, with a total investment of just over 20 million from both parties, this film can still make a lot of money as long as it runs well.

To put it more clearly, any film that can gain something from the Oscars can make a lot of money for investors. After all, the glory of the Oscars in this era is far from faded, and it is still the most valuable marketing award in the world.

"This isn't the first time we've worked together, let me be blunt, Wayne."

The reason why the two brothers waited for Cate Blanchett to come together was so that this woman could help fan them while they had the same interests. And what he said was not the first time they had cooperated, and both parties knew what was going on.

To this day, "Blair Witch" is still criticized by fans, but basically all the blame has been taken by Harvey Weinstein.

Looking at his partner sitting cross-legged on the recliner, he simply said directly: "The post-production work of "Shakespeare in Love" will be completed soon. You know my plan. I am going to conduct several rounds of internal test screenings, and I will invite a large number of film critics and Relevant media are building momentum for the awards season in advance. But..."

"But the most important point has not been determined yet, Wayne." At this point, he paused for a moment, glanced at Cate Blanchett without any trace, and then continued: "Shakespeare in Love" "We need a publisher and a distribution platform with enough influence!"

When he heard about the issue of the release of "Shakespeare in Love", Wayne was slightly stunned and looked at the two brothers in confusion. "Miramax's North American distribution network should be considered the best among medium-sized film companies in my opinion, right?"

When Miramax started, it relied on slowly building its own North American distribution network, and then making money by distributing low-cost genre films, buying the films at low prices at overseas film festivals, and then introducing them for North American distribution. In fact, it is not just Miramax that does this, many medium-sized film companies do this, but Miramax does it well enough.

The water here is very deep, as long as it has anything to do with film distribution, the water is very deep. Even Wayne today still can't figure out many twists and turns inside.

"Harvey, are you really willing to give up these benefits?" He picked up a cigarette and a fire from the table. He tilted his head and, using the cover of lighting a cigarette, whispered: "Listen, although I am in "Shakespeare" "Shakespeare in Love" accounted for half of the investment, but I am not unreasonable. If Miramax wants to release "Shakespeare in Love", I will not have any objections."

As we all know, in the North American film industry, or Hollywood as a whole, only distribution companies can occupy the upstream industry, and it is the distribution companies that really make money.

As he said, he did invest half of "Shakespeare in Love", and of course he enjoyed half of the profits from the movie. But according to Hollywood rules, these profits must wait until the film distribution expenses are deducted before investors are eligible to share the money.

This film can be said to be entirely prepared, shot, and produced by Miramax. Wayne has always been a hands-off shopkeeper, so he never expected that the other party would give up the distribution rights with huge profits.

"We're targeting awards season, Wayne."

Without any hesitation, Harvey Weinstein stretched out a thick finger, tapped back and forth between the two of them, and said cheerfully: "Only when there is something to gain during the awards season, can 'Shakespeare in Love' satisfy you." My interests are maximized. Therefore, "Shakespeare in Love" needs a big platform, a big platform that Miramax cannot match!"

Exhaling a cloud of smoke, Wayne smiled and asked, "Warner Brothers?"

"yes."

One thing that no one can ignore is that after Warner Bros.’s rapid development in the past few years, the biggest improvement is not the revenue figures that surpass Hollywood, but the complete distribution network that has been quickly built around the world.

Whether it's online, we get the treatment from major theater companies in North America and contact theater companies in hundreds of countries and regions overseas. Still offline, Warner Bros. is developing at an astonishing speed by gradually investing in more movie peripheral factories and contracting with various authorized merchandisers.

After looking through the entire Hollywood industry several times, the only distribution company that can now be said to be able to stabilize Warner Bros. offline is Walt Disney, which has been developing for decades.

To some extent, the person who deserves the most credit here is Bruce Rosenblum. As the distribution director of Warner Bros., he has continuously improved the global distribution network over the past few years, and Warner Bros. offices have begun to appear in some remote overseas areas.

There is no way. If you want to maximize the money-making ability of superhero movies, you must not only have your own online and offline distribution network, but also continue to build, contact, and communicate with more platforms. Only in this way can the interests of Warner Bros. maximize. Therefore, the first driving force for the company's progress is always huge profits.

"Harvey, I can explain it to you directly."

Wayne pointed to the ice bucket on the side. Cate Blanchett understood and quickly pulled out a bottle of beer and handed it to him. After raising his head and taking a few big sips, he used the fingers holding the cigarette to lightly light it on the recliner and continued seriously:

"Warner Bros.'s distribution network is indeed large and complete, but the films produced by Warner Bros. itself, as well as the films produced by its subsidiaries, are already crowded in all distribution schedules. And this is related to the company's entire year's revenue plan. , basically no changes will occur once made.

And a very important point, Harvey. None of the six major distribution networks is cheap. "

"That's why I came to you."

Harvey Weinstein obviously thought of this, and his intention was quite direct, using Weinstein's special relationship with Warner Bros. to obtain a distribution agency fee that is relatively normal within the industry.

In fact, the core of Hollywood film business operations is hair style and promotion. Although the literal translation means distribution, Hollywood's operating rules include distribution and promotion.

This is the core operating system of Hollywood. If you want to explain it simply, you can divide the Hollywood business world into three levels.

On the first level, at the top of the Hollywood business are the Majors, which are the six major Hollywood giants. When people walk into the theater to buy tickets and watch movies, the first thing they generally see is the title animations of these six distribution companies.

The second level is the middle scale and influence, that is to say, the companies that are second only to the six major companies in terms of production and distribution, which are often referred to as medium-sized film companies.

However, with the development of the times, the number of intermediate levels with complete distribution networks in North America has actually become very rare. For example, typical Miramax, New Line Cinema, later DreamWorks, etc., let alone overseas distribution networks, North America has just done a relatively good job, and will be squeezed and acquired by the six major companies in a tacit understanding.

Of course, the third level, which is the lowest level, is independent, which generally distributes what people think of as niche independent films. It is said here that they are at the bottom of Hollywood. It is just a simple classification. The actual situation is much more troublesome than rough classification.

It can also be understood that the main purpose of the Big Six in Hollywood, including the subsidiaries of the Big Six with distribution capabilities, as well as the medium-sized companies in Hollywood with hairdressing capabilities, is to distribute movies that cater to public tastes and aim to make profits.

Independent films, on the other hand, pay more attention to social attributes, disadvantaged groups, and other films that convey emotions to the audience from the director's perspective. In North America, this type of film also has its own exclusive theaters, such as the American Artists Cinema chain, which not only screen commercial films, but also various independent art films.

This is the problem. Everyone knows that the film industry must not only include commercial films that cater to public tastes. To put it bluntly, film art must have literary films that represent artistic tastes.

From an artistic point of view, there is no one who is higher or lower, but the universal value is money, so there is a huge status gap.

In fact, throughout Hollywood, what has always been at the top and constitutes the huge film industry is distribution. Without a distribution system, no matter how excellent its content production and output capabilities are, it will remain a medium-sized film company until it dies, just like DreamWorks, which is about to enter its glory days.

There has always been a subtext circulating in Hollywood that it is the distribution company that makes money. Note that the distribution company mentioned here is not a film company in the broad sense. If you look closely, you will find that film companies that produce content have very weak ability to resist risks.

The emergence of a popular movie may make a movie company make money, but a big investment in the movie can also cause a large movie company to go bankrupt and reorganize. But these problems and risks have nothing to do with the distribution company at all. Even if the film company loses everything, they will still make money. It is just a difference between making more and less.

"I'll be on the phone with Bruce Rosenblum."

After thinking carefully for a while, Wayne looked at Harvey Weinstein and said slowly: "You go to Warner Bros. to talk to him about the rest. Harvey, I believe that for my sake, the Warner Bros. Distribution Department We will give you a relatively reasonable distribution agency fee. However, I want to remind you!"

Wayne unceremoniously stretched out the fingers holding the cigarette and tapped Harvey Weinstein's fat face from afar. "I don't care about all the rest, but I want to remind you that according to Hollywood's distribution rules, the film rights of "Shakespeare in Love"..."

Unexpectedly, the big fat man didn't hesitate at all and nodded directly. "Trust me, I'll talk it over with Warner Bros."

According to Hollywood's distribution rules, generally speaking, film copyrights will fall into the hands of the distribution company, and this is obviously not in line with Harvey Weinstein's interests and conflicts with Wayne's interests.

But he believed in the big fat man's ability. If he remembered correctly, "Shakespeare in Love" should have been produced for the same reason. The distributor in Wayne's memory was Universal Pictures. However, it did not affect the award winnings of "Shakespeare in Love", nor did it affect subsequent copyright operations, making use of the blessing of the Oscars to make money.

"There is one more important thing!"

Seeing that the distribution platform for "Shakespeare in Love" was secured, Harvey Weinstein observed Wein's face and saw that he was in a good mood, so he considered it and spoke slowly.

Cate Blanchett, who was sitting next to Wayne, also tensed up at this moment, with a trace of unconcealable complexity in her eyes as she stared at the man next to her. This was the purpose of both parties coming to the manor together, and it was also the reason why she was willing to come with the two brothers.

"Wayne, if you want to replicate your success in "The Departed", you will have to spend a lot of money to win prizes..."

F**k, of course you have to spend money on the Golden Dollar Raiders. With a vague smile on his lips, Wayne turned to look at Cate Blanchett and secretly cursed in his heart. "It seems that this bitch came with them to ask me for money?"