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"Sorry..." Diana.

"Sorry..." Tom.

Diana and Tom both apologized to old Robert.

Originally, they made an appointment with Robert to discuss the new script after the filming ended, but now it seems that they will miss the script discussion meeting today.

"It's okay, you go and do your own things." Old Robert didn't care much about this matter.

Tom already has two film contracts in his hand, even if the filming will not start until next year, but the early preparations will take a certain amount of time. "Ambition of the Earth" requires accent and etiquette training, and the role of the lawyer in "The Heroes of the Righteous Sea" requires him to master a lot of legal knowledge and experience life in the army.In addition, "Thunder Ambition" will be released next month, and he still has to run promotions and appear on the show... It will be at least more than a year before his script can be filmed, At this time, not to mention one script, ten scripts have been written!

So he is really not in a hurry about this matter. With his status as a screenwriter, he no longer needs to urgently rely on the number of scripts to live.The more important meaning of this job is to reflect the value and fun of one's own existence. Time is really not the most important thing.

"Okay, see you later." Diana nodded.

She likes the old Robert very much, he reminds her of her grandfather, a farmer from France, the greatest pleasure is to fully release their nature in the fields, life is for them to enjoy, not to use For those who oppress themselves, leisurely leisure is the key point, and the option of being in a hurry is never on their life list.

But when talking about her grandfather, Diana remembered one more thing. She didn’t know how the plant hybridization experiment he conducted was going well. It’s been almost 30 years without any results. This thing is really Do we still need to continue?

But she doesn't need to worry about these things now, the grandmother will take care of her husband.What matters to Diane is that her film's lead actress apparently doesn't like her script when Kevin informs her that Julia Roberts isn't available.

"Well, as your co-manager, I don't need to tell you some random lies to deceive you. Julia chose another movie script." Kevin was also quite surprised by this matter.

As a big star who became popular in the United States overnight, in fact, Julia Roberts is far from being as good as she looks now, at least not so good in terms of salary, because she took over the role of "Pretty Woman" before it was released. A movie, Sleeping with the Enemy, directed by Joseph Reuben.After all, before the release of "Pretty Woman", no one expected that the performance of this film would be so good, and it was so popular that it made people feel dull.

Not only Julia Roberts, an actress whose career development has been mediocre, has doubled her salary, even Richard Gere, who was on the decline throughout the late 80s, also turned salty fish and returned to the ranks of big stars because of this film. .You must know that since his famous and popular work "An Officer and a Gentleman", this gentleman seems to have been on the back of his luck. The performance of each movie is not as good as the last one. "Pretty Woman" really saved his career Otherwise, it is estimated that the salary for the next movie will be lower.

And an actress with a mediocre career always has to work hard to make herself popular, so Julia's schedule is also very tight. "Pretty Woman" was completed in mid-October last year, and it was released in March this year. Apart from the promotion of the film and auditions for various crews, she really didn't have much time to rest.As for "Sleeping with the Enemy", the film is scheduled to be released in February next year. According to the current production process of the film, everyone knows that Ms. Roberts is about to join the team at this time.

"Sleeping with the Enemy is not a problem. This film is Julia's next, but the next few films really make her unable to find time to shoot other films in the short term." Kevin was also speechless.

When people become popular, a lot of resources will come to them, and Julia is of course no exception.And she has always wanted to broaden her acting career, and she doesn't just want to stay on chick movies, and she will never let go of these resources that are delivered to her door.

"Robert Altman's The Player, Steven Spielberg's Captain Hook, Joe Schumacher's Keeping a Lover, these are Julia's upcoming films, I think she won't have much time to shoot other movies for about two years." Kevin explained the situation to Diana.

He also didn't expect that the resources would come so violently and quickly, making people so caught off guard.

Before, Julia Roberts could only run auditions from one crew to another to run around for the role, but after "Pretty Woman", she can already sit at home and wait for the producers to come to talk about the salary.This is the difference between red and not red!

And the most important thing is that there are several very famous directors who also handed over olive branches, such as the directors of Julia's next few films, Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg , Joe Schumacher are very famous directors.There are simply too many benefits of working with these directors, not only in terms of works, but also in terms of connections. To be able to get mixed up to this point, Julia knows how to choose, so Diana is so tragic.

"Well, I knew things wouldn't go so smoothly." Diana sighed inwardly, what a great plot!

It's not just Julia Roberts, there are many actors in Hollywood who have a big director plot, or it should be said that most people have this plot.

Because the cooperation of great directors is very beneficial in itself.Why can a great director be called a great director?Of course it is because they are famous and have many honors!Cooperating with them means that your work will be seen and accepted by more people, and your popularity will also increase. Moreover, there are a series of resources and connections behind the big director. As long as you don't tear yourself apart from the director, you can basically The above is a virtuous circle.

If you look at why some actors with weak commercial appeal and mediocre performance always have movies, you can know how important favors are in Hollywood.Later, Natalie Portman couldn't find a job after filming "Star Wars Prequel". Didn't she get the movie because of her previous relationship with the big director on Broadway?

The same is true for Julia. She positions herself not just as a chick movie actor, and Oscar is her goal, so she doesn't want to be completely tied to this subject, and makes a smarter choice.

This kind of situation made Diana couldn't help thinking of a Mr. Matt Damon who has a collection of great directors. This man is really practicing his own collection of directors. He is willing to reduce the salary, but Julia Roberts is far behind him!

"Don't worry, my mental capacity is not that weak, you really don't need to look at me like this." After hehe finished, Diana looked at Kevin who was a little uncomfortable and said.

The agent's responsibility is to choose better opportunities for clients and negotiate better remuneration. From this perspective, Kevin did nothing wrong.Because Julia Roberts made the right choice. Compared with a chick movie by a small screenwriter who has just stepped into the screenwriting world, it is normal for someone with a good mind to choose a big director, right?

It's just that this guy didn't expect that these big directors would get together to hand over the script, and he had already released the words in front of her, and now it's just a little embarrassing.

This is now, if another ten or twenty years pass, Mr. Howien's face may not even be pierced by missiles.Diana thought silently.

After all, Michael Ovitz has not left CAA yet. As the man who promoted Sony’s acquisition of Columbia, managed Panasonic’s acquisition of MCA, and a large number of influential business activities, the real top resources and customers are in his hands. Hold on, another agent will not take over until he goes to Disney.I just don't know if her agent will be able to reap enough benefits from this storm by then.

But being able to hold Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in her hands, even if he can't climb to the top in the future, his power will not be bad, so she has chosen an excellent partner for herself ?

"OK, next time I will pay attention to such unexpected things." Kevin was indeed a little embarrassed.

The client's initial candidate was originally someone else, and it was only under his persuasion that he agreed to give up the priority selection right, and the result was that he was let go.No one would have a good impression of this kind of thing. Fortunately, the Morgan chick is still too young, isn't it as difficult to deal with as those old fritters in Hollywood?

Kevin wiped his sweat in his heart, and felt that it would be better to be more cautious when speaking boldly in the future, otherwise, always being so embarrassing would make customers lose confidence in him!

"In addition, I have delivered the script to Meg Ryan, and she should give me news in the near future." He mentioned another matter.

After confirming that Julia would not appear in the movie, he sent the script of the movie to Meg Ryan's agent, hoping that the lady would like the movie and act in it.

Of course, he was quite sure of that.Unlike Julia, Meg Ryan is not a very aggressive woman in his opinion. She is too slack and satisfied with her current achievements, and chick movies are undoubtedly her strong point. From this point of view Judging, Kevin felt that the other party would not reject the movie.

However, the slap in the face happened so quickly, Kevin just wanted to say a few words to Diana to reassure her when he received a call from Meg Ryan's agent.

Then Kevin who hung up the phone was even more embarrassed.

"So, Meg Ryan turned down the movie?" Diana raised her eyebrows, showing a half-smile expression.

Don't get me wrong, she's really not angry.On the contrary, she actually thought it was quite funny.

Kevin probably had some problems with this script, and he was wrestling with it repeatedly, rejecting him one by one, not waiting for him to breathe a little bit.That wrinkled face made Diana almost burst out laughing!

"Meg Ryan really has no schedule." Kevin almost smiled wryly.

"She has no other film appointments except for Oliver Stone's movie "The Gate"..." Kevin felt a little headache.

"But?" Diana asked intimately.

Since there is no long-term conflict above, there must be other reasons.So Meg Ryan didn't like the script?

"But she doesn't have the energy and time to devote to her career at all now." Kevin said helplessly.

Diana:? ? ?

No time and energy to focus on your career?Is Meg Ryan pregnant and having a baby?

"Daniel Quaid, I mean Ryan's fiancé, got into a big... trouble. He entered the rehabilitation center for treatment because of his co. .” That’s why he said that this is really not a smart woman.

Quaid's reputation wasn't very good. Apart from often getting out of control on set because of cocaine, he was also a playboy.For such a man, she gave up a lot of good opportunities during the rising stage of her career. Is this woman's brain flooded with water?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel that it's better for his clients, one by one, smart or secondly, the key is to know what is most important to them.It's not like Meg Ryan, a woman who has been dazzled by love. She didn't become popular until she was almost 30 years old, and she didn't know how to cherish the opportunity. It's amazing!

Well, from a broker's point of view, of course, the more prosperous the client's career, the more benefits he can bring to himself.Like the biggest card in his hand, Meryl Streep, the Oscar-winning lady, even though people say that family is the most important thing, but she never gave up her career because of her family. Meg Ryan is certainly a terrible client by comparison.

But since her agent didn't have any opinion on this, Kevin certainly wouldn't go idle and say nothing to others, so just refuse if she refuses, Hollywood is not the only actress like this.

"Uh—" Diana didn't know what to say.

Praise Meg Ryan for being so affectionate and devoted to her fiancé?

Or should I feel that this lady has a bad eye for men, one after another, from Daniel Quaid to Russell Crowe, it is simply a competition between scumbags?

Forget it, anyway, it's none of her business, at most it's just a delay in time, she can afford to wait.

"...I will push forward the shooting of "Love in New York" as soon as possible. Believe me, Abby, this is just a small accident." Kevin adjusted his emotions back.

Yes, that's right, in the end, the blood-soaked script was named "Love in New York", because half of the movie's plot takes place here, and the Empire State Building is also located here, so an author named Morgan Chick He directly used such a dirty name.

And he was plausible about it, "So many movies directly use the place name, why can't I use it? Besides, what's wrong with the name "Love in New York"? Can you just point it out?"

Regarding this point, Kevin has no opinion. Anyway, things like names can be changed at will, and we will see the director's opinion at that time.However, he changed his mind about the investment in the movie.

Generally speaking, a film project is initiated by the producer, and then the investment company is found, and then the actors and crew are settled.However, there are also some films whose birth process is not like this. They rely on the favor of the stars to finalize the cooperation matters, and then the producers use this intention and production book to plan to raise funds from investors.Generally, this is what happened to popular genre stars, like Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts, who were very good in the chick flick.

But now that the two stars they are optimistic about have rejected the script, it is impossible to go through this path from the actors. Kevin thinks that it is better to directly raise funds through the film company.

It's just that I feel sorry for Diana for not getting the actor she likes into this project for her, as he promised at the beginning.

"It's okay, take your time." Diana said that she was really not that urgent.

"By the way, I'm going to leave the United States for a few days, just call me if you have anything to do." She remembered another thing.

Her mother's birthday is coming up, and she has to fly back to celebrate her.

In addition, she has not visited her grandfather and grandmother for more than a year. Taking advantage of the school holiday, she decided to fly to France after celebrating her mother's birthday to see how the old Bea's hybridization experiment was going. , By the way, feel the infinitely beautiful Provence.In ten days of vacation, she can have enough fun in France!

"OK." Kevin nodded, "Don't worry about things here, I will take care of it."

Ask everyone why Diana left the United States.He is very caring, but the premise of caring is that his customers need him to be caring.Looking at Diana's appearance, she knows that she doesn't want him to use his strengths at all now, so there is no need to speak up, because respecting the client's **you is another of his strengths.

After the exam, Diana got on the plane to Italy directly and threw herself into the arms of her mother.

As for "Ambition of Thunder", which has been filmed for nearly a month, Diana said that the film was released just in time for her school to start, so there is no need to worry about missing the premiere.

So she fell asleep on the plane for more than ten hours, changed planes twice and took a taxi. Diana finally arrived in a small town in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy.

"Hey, Abby!" After getting out of the car, Diana looked around and soon heard a familiar voice.

"Uncle Alvaro!" Seeing the bearded man, Diana's eyes lit up, and she rushed over immediately, giving him a hug.

"Long time no see. You must have secretly drank a lot of beer recently, and your stomach has become bigger!" She laughed and said, patting Alvaro's elastic belly.

"God, little Abby, you can't wrong me like this, Sofia will kill me!" the bearded Alvaro rubbed Diana's head, rubbing his smooth hair into a chicken coop and said .

Since he was diagnosed with high blood pressure, his wife Sophia has banned him from drinking those wonderful beers.He would only occasionally drink a few drinks secretly when he went to a bar in the city to watch a football game. If Sophia knew about this last hobby, his life would be no fun!

"Okay, okay, I don't wrong you, but I think Sophia must be very curious about the reason why your belly has grown." Diana climbed into the carriage and said with a smile.

Mars is a small town located in the province of South Tyrol, just at the foot of the Alps. Because it is located at the junction of various countries, it has been contested by many countries in history, which has led to a variety of architectural styles and defensive buildings. Packed with rough streets.So even though it has entered the late [-]th century, there are still not many modern means of transportation here.And because this is an agricultural town, most people are more accustomed to using horse-drawn carriages. In addition, bicycles are probably the most used means of transportation.

Along the way, Diana chatted with Uncle Alvaro about what happened in the past year, and soon arrived at Diana's mother's farm.

"Aunt Sophia!" Diana jumped out of the gradually slowing carriage and threw herself into Sophia's arms, rubbing against her body.

The relationship with the Franz couple dates back to the time when her mother broke her leg.

The couple working on Monica's farm took on the responsibility of taking care of Diana when the employer was injured, and even carried the little girl on their backs when they went to work on the farm.It was not until they contacted the Bea couple who traveled around the world that they were relieved of the heavy responsibility, but at that time Monica's foot injury was almost healed, so the Bea couple stayed at their daughter's farm for a few days and continued to be married. Their trip around the world.

In recent years, because of going to school, Diana’s time to go back to Italy for vacation has been reduced from a few months to only once or twice a year. Came back once during Nika's birthday.So it's really nice to see Sophia now.

"MUA——" Aunt Sofia's passionate kiss responded to Diana.

Although this little guy was very naughty when he was a child, she still liked her. After not seeing her for such a long time, she passionately kissed Diana several times.

"Where's Monica?" After the hug, Diana looked around, but she didn't see her mother.

In previous years, she would be waiting for her at the door of the house!

"She went to the mountain with Frank, and a crew over there accidentally dropped a cow to death while filming a movie!" Aunt Sophia said angrily.