MTL - Best Actor-Chapter 38 Just a few words?

"Anthony, Anthony!" With the shouting, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a fat belly came in with anger, along with a panicked assistant who couldn't stop it .

"Did something happen, Harvey?" Minghella asked calmly.

"What happened?" Weinstein glared at him, then glanced around for a while, Mingella immediately made a gesture, and the people who were discussing things with him suddenly winked. left in turn.

As soon as the door closed, Weinstein gritted his teeth and roared in a low voice: "What the **** are you thinking? Now all Hollywood knows that you want to use a completely unqualified newcomer as the male lead! Do you know what you are doing!"

Tan: "Look, you are unwilling to make additional investment, and I don't want to delete the actual scenes in Italy, so I have to choose suitable actors among the newcomers."

Weinstein was at a loss for words, and after a while he softened his tone: "Okay, Tony, it's my fault, I shouldn't have treated you like that, I apologize to you. I'll write it now Here's a check for you for $5 million, and you can get any actor you want to play the male lead, Tom Cruise, Christian Bale, Matt Damon, no problem."

"It's too late, Harvey, it's too late," Minghella shrugged. "I think Sean is pretty good, and I've decided to make him the male lead."

"Damn it! Did you even listen to me, Anthony!" Weinstein was furious again. "You're going to ruin us and everyone!"

However, he didn't know that the more he was like this, the happier the other party was.

"The quality of a movie is not determined by an actor. As a senior Hollywood producer, you should understand this, Harvey." on the table.

as the male lead in a movie."

"There will always be someone interested, Harvey." Minghella folded his arms and stared at him.

"Okay..." Weinstein finally raised his hands and raised his voice, "Okay, whatever you want!"

Then, he left the office without looking back, without slamming the door, he was quite educated. And it was only at this moment that Mingla released his clenched fist and let out a long breath.

"Wait and see, old man, it will be a success," he murmured.

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"shit! shit! shit!" Weinstein returned to his office, grabbed the basic magazine, and slammed loudly while slamming the desk, as if he was going to have a brain haemorrhage at any moment.

It took him several minutes to vent like this before he calmed down. After taking a breath, he started to circle around the office, but before taking a few steps, he punched the table in annoyance. There is no way to do it at all. Unless he wants to completely tear his face with Minghella, he can only watch the other party use that newcomer to play the leading role in this 35 million-dollar production. Who made him promise his power in the first place?

When negotiating with Mingella before, Weinstein exchanged promises of power in exchange for or covered up his manipulations on the contract, plus two years of "The English Patient" The cooperation was quite pleasant, then He didn't think too much about it, and now these are things that bind his hands and feet. Therefore, when the other party puts on the appearance of breaking up if he doesn't agree, and shows the corresponding determination, Weinstein has no way to restrain him.

If it really breaks the contract, Miramax may become a laughing stock, and the initial investment is in vain, and it is basically impossible to start again, because part of the copyright of the novel is in the Ming Dynasty Gera's hands. More importantly, although this is not the case in Hollywood, there is basically no such thing as Weinstein himself said "then look for it from the newcomers".

Of course, if Weinster made full use of his accumulated contacts, he might be able to guide public opinion to always target Minghella, but such offending a big director who won an Oscar may arouse The rebound will not be small, and his British identity is sometimes a disadvantage and sometimes an advantage. Moreover, Miramax released several good movies at the end of last year, and Weinstein made several plans. This kind of thing happened at this time, which was very unfavorable to his abacus.

In short, Weinstein's original plan was built on the basis that Minghella would not tear his face, so when Minghella really could do it, Weinstein had to compromise . To put it simply, at first he dug a hole for the other party, but now the other party used this to dig a hole for him instead.

"Damn! Where did that kid get out of!" Weinstein couldn't help roaring.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and then, William Holberg, the representative of Miramax in the "Genius Ripley" crew and one of the executive producers, left. came in.

"Who is that **** who messed up everything?!" Weinstein asked right away.

"It's a newcomer," Hoberg spread his hands helplessly, "I came from San Francisco to Los Angeles this summer, and was discovered by an agent around September, serving as an extra in some crews Originally had a personal role on the crew of "Everybody Loves Raymond", but was kicked out because he was involved in a dispute between two producers, and finally found a supporting role in "Friends". It is said that "Friends" that He has a lot of credit for the high ratings of several episodes, and the crew of "Everybody Loves Raymond" also kicked out the producer who kicked him out before. The ad, which came out recently, followed by an audition for The Genius Ripley."

"That means there is no background? Such a TV actor also wants to play the leading role in my movie." Weinstein almost squeezed this sentence out of his teeth, " Who is his agent?"

"My name is Frederick Rogers, 30 years old. He is quite famous in the circle, but he doesn't have many famous actors." Hoberg quickly replied.

"Frederick Rogers?" Weinstein muttered the name. "Like... Endeavour Elite?"

"Yes, that's right." Holberg nodded.

"Did you call him?" Weinstein asked immediately.

"The public relations department called just now, but...the other party said that if he needs to communicate in detail, he hopes that director Minghella will also be present."

"Damn it!" Weinstein cursed, "Damn slick! Of course he will, he wants to take this opportunity to make his kid famous!"

Surrounding the room twice, he suddenly stared at Hoberg: "Listen, Hoberg, no matter what means you use, you have to drive that kid out of the crew. !"

"But..." Holberg looked embarrassed.

"No but, you have to do it! Must!" Weinstein yelled viciously, as if he was standing in front of Minghella or even that nasty Sean.

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After closing the office, Holberg's face suddenly became extremely ugly, this is simply an impossible task! With Mingella's support, even his boss, Weinstein, had to compromise. What tricks could he play as a small executive producer?

In fact, there is still no way, but it is not so easy to do, and the effect is difficult to say. In fact, Hoberg guessed, the reason Weinstein ordered himself so strongly was to force himself to use this method. To say, this method is very simple, that is, incite the actors to oppose the director's practice!

Although the actors who participated in this movie are not big names, they are all well-known actors. Now it is absolutely impossible to give a role to an unknown person. So as long as you find someone to provoke a few words carefully, you must protest, and then connect them together through a thread, to push the director out of the crew, and the director may compromise very much.

The problem is that Miramax also has a good relationship with the two leading ladies, who made or released the movies they released last year. It's hard to tell about the other supporting actors, especially Jude Law and Jack Davenport, who were personally recommended by the director. It is very difficult to bring them together to force the director.

But more importantly, no matter whether this forced palace is successful or not, the perpetrator will definitely be pulled out as a scapegoat.

Damn! This is definitely not what I want! Hoberg rejected this approach for the first time. Although Weinstein was his boss, he also had to gamble with his future. This kind of thing is always thankless, if it is only confined to the crew, but once it spreads, it will not take a few years to remove the label on the body.

However, it is impossible for him to do nothing, so what should we do? Hoberg, who returned to the crew, had a headache, but couldn't find a suitable way.

How did you meet such a guy. He hated Sean so much at this moment—weinstein was still his boss anyway.

"Hey William, what are you doing here, come here, we have to get the pre-project out today." As he sat in his chair, another executive producer left come over.

"Finally filming?" Hoberg laughed self-deprecatingly.

"This is very obvious, I heard that the start time has been set for the 5th of next month," the other party didn't care, "Federico Ciciarelli will wait a while. I'm going to take my assistant to sign a contract with that young man."

Hearing this sentence, Holberg's eyes suddenly lit up, and after dealing with the other two, he sent the other party away, looked at the time, and analyzed it in his heart, and immediately got up and went to the assistant One of the cubicles of Federico Cicciarelli.

"You want...you want me..." Chicharelli, in his thirties, looked at Hoberg with wide eyes, as if he couldn't believe what he just said.

"Listen to me, Ferry," Holberg smiled, looking rather kind, "it's just a small thing, and I don't think you'd want to see an unknown actor come Being the male lead, right? That was a disaster for us, for the crew, for the investors, and I don't want to speak ill of Director Gera, but he clearly made a mistake this time."

Following him, he lowered his voice again: "I think, you definitely don't want to work as an assistant for the rest of your life, do you?"

Cicciarelli's face was blue and white, and after a while he asked in a low voice, "Just a few words?"

"Yes."

"Okay, I'm done!"