Best Movie Star

The last Monday in May is the traditional American Memorial Day. Since 1971, this day has been officially designated as a national holiday. Since the concept of summer vacation in Hollywood was born, the Memorial Day holiday, which is directly connected to the weekend, is also a national holiday. It has become one of the best movie opening schedules. Every year, the movies that are scheduled to be premiered on a large scale in this schedule are all seed players in the big production.

However, not everyone can enjoy the holiday.

Early Monday morning, the Wachowskis came to Plan B, and the signing of the agreement, originally scheduled for nine o'clock, was delayed as Brad Pitt had to temporarily handle the last remaining bit of work on Jennifer Aniston's divestment. for an hour.

In a luxuriously decorated conference room, lawyers and notaries were finally reviewing the relevant contracts. The Wachowskis had nothing to do. Andy Wachowski simply took today's newspaper from the shelf and brought it back. Sitting in a chair and looking over it.

The "Los Angeles Times" was quickly turned to the entertainment section by him.

"Lana, do people succeed in everything they do when they're lucky?" Andy Wachowski asked suddenly.

"Huh?" asked Lana Wachowski, not understanding what he meant. "What's wrong?"

Andy Wachowski flicked the newspaper in his hand. "Another Matthew Horner movie is a box office hit."

Lana Wachowski asked immediately, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3? Last weekend's box office numbers?"

"Yeah." Andy Wachowski sighed. "$137.9 million in three days."

He shook his head and added, "The movie starring Matthew Horner is going to add another box office hit."

"That's fine." Lana Wachowski grinned, "We can continue to hype it up."

Andy Wachowski nodded. "I agree."

Originally, "Cloud Atlas" was a project that even Warner Bros. had doubts about. As a result, they used Matthew Horner's hype to become one of the most watched works in the circle. Many investors came to them on their own initiative. That includes Brad Pitt and his Plan B film company.

Since Matthew Horner has such influence, wouldn't it be a waste not to use it?

Lana Wachowski wrapped a strand of long red hair around her fingers and said quite contentedly, "Compared with us, he is only used for being used."

In their project, no one is indispensable except themselves, and it is not necessary for Matthew Horner. They took the initiative to find Matthew Horner, just because they saw that he has great value, and now they have used Matthew- Horner's value, without paying any price, has brought in someone like Brad Pitt who has promised a $100 million investment. It's really killing three birds with one stone.

The door to the conference room opened at this time, and the Wachowskis thought it was Brad Pitt, and immediately looked up to find Natalie Portman walking in.

"Hi, Lana. Hi, Andy." Natalie Portman greeted the two with a smile, pulled up a chair and sat beside them, asking, "Have you started yet?"

"No." Andy Wachowski shook his head, and then added, "Pete has something to deal with for a while."

Natalie Portman was a little worried, "There won't be an accident..."

For this project, Brad Pitt promised to give her a high salary. If Brad Pitt backs out, everything before will be done in vain.

Lana Wachowski is confident, "Don't worry."

Just after saying this, the door of the conference room opened again, and Brad Pitt appeared with his lawyer and other relevant personnel.

Seeing the Wachowskis and Natalie Portman, Brad Pitt immediately came over to greet him warmly. The Wachowskis will be the guarantee for him to become a first-line star again.

Subsequently, under the witness of lawyers and notaries, the two parties signed a series of formal contracts to start the cooperation on the project "Cloud Map".

After the contract was signed, Brad Pitt, the Wachowskis and Natalie Portman held a joint press conference to officially reveal the news.

Angel agency, in Helen Herman's office, after watching the relevant news screen broadcast on the TV, Matthew took the remote control and turned off the TV.

He turned to look at Helen Herman and breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally signed."

"Yeah, it's finally what you want." Helen Herman said deliberately, "When "Cloud Atlas" is a big hit at the box office and Brad Pitt becomes a first-line star again, you will regret what you did today."

Matthew spread his hands, "Then I consider myself unlucky." He stretched his back, "This kind of thing is like investing, it must be risky, who can guarantee 100% success?"

Helen Herman took off her glasses and gently rubbed her forehead, "I hope things develop as you expected."

Among the three people who planned the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie incident, in addition to Matthew, the initiator, she and Irina Boyar also agreed very much to make Brad Pitt a small person.

Matthew nodded, but didn't say much. In the news just now, Brad Pitt officially signed a contract with the Wachowskis on behalf of the Plan B film company, and will invest 100 million US dollars for the production of "Cloud Atlas". project, and announced that Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman will be the male and female lead respectively.

"It's a pity..." He was somewhat regretful, "The investment in this film is still a little less."

Helen Herman said, "A lot. You probably don't know, Jennifer Aniston completed the divestment from Plan B Films last week, and all of her Plan B shares were transferred to Brad Pitt. Plan B is already a veritable private company of Brad Pitt."

Matthew thought about it and asked, "I remember there were three founders of Plan B?"

"There are three founders. In addition to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, there is Brad Gray, the current CEO of Paramount Pictures." Helen Herman put on glasses, Indifferently said, "The box office of "Troy" did not meet expectations, and Brad Gray was gradually withdrawing from Plan B. Later, Viacom Group hired him as the CEO of Paramount, in order to get rid of the negative related transactions. As a result, Brad Gray transferred all his shares to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston."

Matthew nodded, "Plan B isn't a listed company, right?"

Helen Herman's voice was still flat, "No. As far as I know, Brad Pitt already holds more than 90% of the shares of Plan B in Jennifer Aniston's shares, and the rest The shares of the company are scattered in the hands of some plan B managers.”

She added, "This situation is normal. The shares of many star-owned production companies are basically concentrated in one person's hands."

"The production budget of "Cloud Atlas" is $100 million." Matthew frowned slightly and asked, "How is Plan B going to raise funds? Jennifer Aniston has just withdrawn. Plan B doesn't have so much money on the books, right?"

Helen Herman shook his head gently, "I don't know yet. I estimate that Brad Pitt will solve the source of funds by means of personal investment and external financing. The specific proportion is still a secret for the time being, and we can't find out."

Matthew's fingers slowly tapped the armrest of the chair. Such a project was far from enough, but he couldn't find any other project suitable for digging a hole for a while.

"That's right." Helen Herman changed the subject, "I just received an invitation this morning."

Without waiting for Matthew to speak, she said directly, "Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino have jointly sent an invitation to invite you to play the leading role in a major project of Weinstein Pictures."

"Rejected." Matthew didn't bother to ask about any project, anyway, it's not one or two rejections, "I have no interest in cooperating with Weinstein Pictures."

Helen Herman did not persuade, "I will call to reject him."

How much investment can the so-called big project of Weinstein Pictures have? Dingtian is only at the level of 60 to 70 million US dollars, which is not in line with Matthew's positioning at all.

Matthew didn't think much about it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In my impression, Harvey Weinstein operates and produces some independent literary films for the awards season or cult films directed by Quentin Tarantino. Needless to say, the award-winning literary film tailored for the Oscars, he has no interest.

As for Quentin Tarantino's films, the style really doesn't suit him. He's going the mainstream commercial line, and he doesn't want to mix in cult films, and it's not good for him either.

If nothing else, can Weinstein Pictures pay his exorbitant salary? Do you want him to take the initiative to lower his worth for the fat man Harvey Weinstein?

It's not a few years ago now.

Helen Herman reminded again at this time, "Has Akiva Goldsman called you?"

Matthew nodded, "I did. "Superman Hancock" started filming on July 10, I remember."

The project is produced and distributed by Warner Bros., with Akiva Goldsman serving as a producer and young director Peter Berger directing the scene, with Charlize Theron in the male and female roles.

In addition, the film will be released in North America during the Independence Day holiday weekend next summer.

"Charlize Theron's agent called me." Helen Herman said calmly, "Can you rekindle your old relationship with Charlize Theron?"

"Who meant that?" Matthew asked.

Helen Herman replied, "Charlize Theron shouldn't know it yet, it's her agent who wants to hype it up."

"Forget it." Matthew directly refused.

His cell phone rang at this moment, it was a somewhat unfamiliar number, and it was Andrew Stanton when he connected.

"The first draft of the script for 'Mars Princess' is done," he said by phone. "I've sent it to your mailbox."

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