Movie Master

Century City, located in the west center of Los Angeles, enjoys a unique geographical location, bordering Beverly Hills on the north and Santa Monica District on the south, where Santa Monica Avenue, Wilshire Avenue, West Olympic Avenue, and Sunset Boulevard will all meet. Just like Rome in the Middle Ages, criss-crossing roads can reach the heart of this bustling and unique city.

For tourists, this is a famous shopping mall. As the earliest shopping mall in Los Angeles, almost all top department stores and luxury brands have set up branches here. However, when tourists mention Hollywood and movie stars, people always think of Beverly Hills, Burbank or Universal Studios in their minds. Only locals or industry insiders know that Century City can definitely be called Los Angeles. The office core of the film industry, many film companies, TV companies, music companies, and brokerage companies have set up their headquarters in high-rise office buildings in the west, even more prosperous than Burbank.

Lance's apartment is located in this bustling and noisy area. Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the apartment, the tree-lined Roxbury Park is under your feet. After that, you can see Arriving at the Ranch Park Golf Club, the endless green space slowly unfolds like a carpet, and the beautiful scenery of the sea and the sky almost makes people forget the fact that they are in the center of the city.

Leaving the apartment, go straight west along West Olympic Boulevard, turn east at Badlands Street, enter Green Ridge Street, and then you can see a series of uneven office buildings, two streets to the southwest is the Fox studio , just one street away in the southeast direction is the hill occupied by the Peak Country Club, and looking along the west and northwest sides, there are densely packed entertainment companies of all sizes, supporting half the sky of the American entertainment industry.

Lance is very familiar with this area. It takes only five minutes to drive from the apartment, and it can be reached within a quarter of an hour even by walking. Diorama Films is just two streets away. On Constellation Boulevard - it is the most densely populated area of ​​entertainment companies in the entire Century City. The innovative artist management company owns an entire building there. Diorama Films moved there in 2001. At that time, they cooperated with Warner Bros. Ocean's Eleven achieved a huge victory, which brought the company's scale to a higher level, so it left the original Victoria Street and entered Constellation Avenue.

After entering Green Ridge Avenue, Lance continued walking habitually, and the next street was Victoria Avenue. After reaching the intersection, Lance realized that Diorama Films was no longer on Victoria Avenue. , and he is no longer a member of Diorama Films. Lance had to make another circle and come back again. The car finally stopped at the gate of Building 21.

Lance is no stranger to this building. Many Hollywood independent film companies have their offices here, as well as several small and medium-sized distribution companies. any vacancies. This is Century City. Hundreds of entertainment-related companies have gathered in a palm-sized area, and every office building is extremely sought-after. A truly land of opportunity.

After parking the car in the underground parking lot, Lance took the elevator to the fourth floor. When he stepped out of the elevator, he could see an empty corridor. Directly opposite the elevator was a door wrapped in marble, and at both ends of the corridor was a spacious The design of two households on one floor leaves enough space for small and medium-sized companies to arrange their own office space.

Looking at the open space on both sides, Lance couldn't help being stunned. Since the offices in Century City are always in high demand, often a new company wants to enter before a company has time to quit——Chaos Shadow Industry is full After waiting for a year, he finally found an office in Century City, and it was because Theo accidentally discovered the company's dynamics when he was dealing with business, that he completed the contract immediately.

Therefore, suddenly seeing that the two offices on the first floor were emptied at the same time, this situation really caught Lance a little off guard, and now Lance doesn't know which one is the office of Chaos Films.

Hey, Lance, here. Albert's cheerful voice came from the right, Ian just left, didn't you see him? Lance looked back at the empty office on the left, shaking Shaking his head, he gave a negative answer, Ian has to meet with a client this afternoon, so he left first. Albert quickly explained, and pulled Lance into the office, How? The next two years will belong to our office!

It has been nearly two years since the establishment of Chaos Films, but it still has no office space. On the one hand, there are no vacant offices for rent, and on the other hand, it is because they do not have enough funds. The recent success of The Day After Tomorrow at the box office has allowed Chaos Pictures to breathe and lease a suitable office.

The office space in front of me is about 3,000 square feet (less than 300 square meters), which is far from being large. It can only accommodate 50 people at most, but it needs a rent of 450,000 US dollars a year! Now, the entire space has been emptied, completely clear, with two separate offices at the ends on the left and right, and nothing else.

This is equivalent to an empty room, and there is no place worthy of evaluation at all.

However, for Chaos Films, being able to have a spacious fixed office space is a good start. What's more, there are currently less than 20 people in the entire chaos film industry, and most of them are crew members recruited during the day after tomorrow filming, not office workers, so this space is enough.

Most importantly, the selection of actors for The Day After Tomorrow was an open audition, so all work was handed over to 20th Century Fox. This time, the choice of actors for Murder with a Borrowed Knife cannot be like this. Considering the many requirements of Tom Cruise, it is bound to need to be carefully selected. Chaos Films not only needs an office space, but also a place where interviews can be held. For a company, it is obviously not just as simple as the facade.

Where's the bathroom? Lance asked curiously after taking a rough look.

Albert couldn't help but gave Lance a blank stare, and raised his voice speechlessly, Are you serious? Is this the first question you ask after you arrive at the new company?

Why, don't you need to go to the bathroom? Percy's cold voice came from behind, which immediately angered Albert. The bathroom is opposite the elevator, and that is the public bathroom on the floor.

Lance turned around and looked at Percy with a puzzled expression on his face. Percy has always had an aloof image, but he always seemed a bit talkative in front of acquaintances - Lance was not sorry for this. Odd, I just think that Percy admits to being a stranger and is usually suffocated, so he is naturally more relaxed in front of acquaintances. But for some reason, Percy and Albert met each other, and every time they met, they would fight each other and quarrel endlessly.

Percy noticed Lance's gaze and cast a puzzled look, What's wrong?

No, I just think you guys look like fighting cocks. Lance shrugged, and his words immediately made both Percy and Albert feel black lines, but Lance didn't seem to realize that he had dropped a bird. Bomb, take a walk in an empty office space. Standing behind them, Percy and Albert accidentally caught each other's line of sight, then gave each other a hard stare, and then quickly looked away, fearing that they would avoid it, which really made people laugh.

What's going on on the other side? Lance walked around, but there was nothing to look at right now, not even any office supplies, and even the signboard at the door hadn't been delivered yet.

Uh, it used to be a music company that went bankrupt, but the opposite side was rented out earlier than us. It was also a film production company, Newmarket Films. Percy quickly explained.

Albert, who was standing next to him, immediately rushed to talk, Newmarket Films has been established for ten years, and it is a very powerful independent film company in the industry. Last year's 'Devil' and 'Whale Rider' were all produced by them. home's work.

New Market Films, this company Lance has naturally heard of. Like Diorama Films, this company started from distribution. They have a very keen sense of smell in the independent film market, and their distribution capabilities are impressive. In addition to the two works mentioned by Albert, Memory Fragments, Death Illusion and other works that rank among the top 250 films on IMDB are all released by their family.

Maybe not as good as Lionsgate, Fox Searchlight, Focus Pictures and other well-known labels, but they always have a good reputation in the field of distribution.

That's not bad. Maybe we can cooperate in the future. It's convenient to negotiate. Lance joked lightly.

While speaking, a voice came from the door, Is this Chaos Films? Is Mr. Percy Bradley in? Percy immediately went up to meet him, but Lance couldn't help being stunned, and kept Until now, he has a real feeling that Chaos Shadow Industry will take root here and start a new journey. This is their space and their starting point.

The person who came just now was here to deliver office supplies, and they had already pre-ordered them. The other party was not only responsible for delivering them to the door, but also for assembling them. Full, that sense of reality is transmitted to the feet, gradually becoming more and more practical.

Excuse me...is this Chaos Film Industry? Amidst the bustling scene in the office, a voice came from the door. Both Percy and Albert were directing the staff to arrange the layout of the office according to the plan, standing Lance, who was near the door, had no choice but to greet him, and then saw a figure in a suit and leather shoes, with an embarrassed smile on his face, Sorry, it seems that I chose a wrong time to come to the door, please forgive my abruptness .”