95 Actress Candidate

"Nick, congratulations, our father will be proud of you. Congratulations on your first movie being a great success and complete!"

Standing at Levi's party, Bruce had mixed feelings. Two years ago, he can still vividly remember the scene where he took Levi to the queue. Two years later, he never thought that he would also start participating in the celebration party of Levi's movie.

In just two years, his incompetent younger brother was already impressive. This made Bruce very proud: at Levi's party, many critics were invited. It is not easy to get these people to attend. As a media worker, you should have a sense of news at this time.

But he is different from them: the movie's director is his younger brother, and for his younger brother's film, is it possible that someone else will have the priority interview right? Watching his peers running around busy, but he can leisurely sip wine, walk around, and then get an exclusive interview — Bruce is rarely happy that he has a good brother.

With such a younger brother, not to mention that he doesn't have to worry about his manuscript, and even help in other aspects is not without — Bruce also remembered his purpose of coming here, so he also walked up and talked with Levi.

"This movie is not over yet. It's the awards season soon, and you have to figure out a way for me." When Bruce and Levi were chatting, Levi also opened his mouth, "You have to help me take care of the things here."

Movies have entered the awards season since the end of January, and these days are when various film awards in the United States are presented. The role of the media was highlighted at this time, and Levi also had this consideration in organizing the party.

Just speaking of this, Levi also had some headaches: he initially thought that he would go to Europe to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, but in January, he found out that among the hundreds of awards in the United States alone, which one should receive the award? Anyone who doesn't go will have to waste time.

Oscar must attend- he is not as nervous as Woody Allen. Then there's the Golden Globes — he has to attend, whether for film or TV. Then, the Directors Guild Award and the Screenwriters Guild Award also have to attend. These two awards are second only to the Oscars in importance. Since he is likely to be nominated, he has to go, and then... the National Society of Film Critics Awards not going? It seems he should go, so will he attend the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards? Will he attend the New York Film Critics Circle Awards? Fortunately, there is no awards ceremony for the North American Broadcast Film Critics Awards, so he doesn't have to think about it, but what about the Golden Satellite Awards? What about the People's Choice Awards? Which of these awards should he attend, and which should not? He is a little confused. If you don't go, you offend people, and if you go to what you shouldn't, it's embarrassing. These things are really annoying enough.

Levi didn't want to offend people — just in the past few days, a discussion about actors broke out. Leonardo DiCaprio, the star of Titanic, also said in an interview that he wouldn't participate in the Oscars if he can't get nominated. This is equivalent to saying that Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, and others will not attend the Oscars. Titanic is so popular, but Leonardo said so arrogantly. In this way, Levi really understands what it means to die if you don't think about what you are doing. If you don't give Oscar a face, Oscar will not give you a face in the future...

Levi has no interest in being Oscar's mortal enemy like Martin Scorsese. He doesn't want to offend others, so he has to be careful about this.

"I can do this without you telling me, don't worry, I have experience," Bruce said, "I have something else that I want to discuss with you. I heard that you recently want to shoot a new movie."

The question Bruce raised just made Levi look at him with some confusion. He didn't know why Bruce cared about it. "Yes, I have a new idea for a film."

"For creators, don't you have to make it immediately after you have an idea? Nick, I don't know why, but in the past two years, you have obviously made a lot of progress, and it made me admire it."

What kind of creative peak period? It is all copied... Levi said something in his heart, but at this time, he also heard it, and it seemed that Bruce had ulterior motives.

Bruce is a film critic who doesn't care if there are no movies in theaters. So, he asked himself about the new film, was he asked to discuss it by someone?

"Bruce, what exactly do you want to say? You might as well just say it." Levi asked directly, "What exactly do you want to ask?"

"I saw your script." Hearing what Levi said, Bruce couldn't help. There's nothing more to hide, "To be precise, I didn't see it, but other people saw it. Someone is very interested in this movie script..."

"He didn't want to buy my script, did he?" Levi asked back.

"Of course not. Your script is yours, and no one can take it away. Someone is willing to invest in you to make the movie, and I hope I can speak for them."

"Who?"

"Columbia Films is willing to invest 20 million in you to shoot this movie." What Alexander brought was really good news, "You can get 20 million investment, after the movie is made, Columbia Corporation will distribute it, and they are willing to pay you a very generous share or salary, and They can minimize the distribution fee."

"Then what are they asking for?" Levi couldn't believe it; the conditions seemed too generous.

Such a contract means that when the income is not high, Levi can have a salary return, and if the income of the movie is high, he can also share it. If the movie loses money, it is Columbia who loses money. No matter how you listen to it, it's a bit too good.

It stands to reason that 20 million is not a particularly large price. Even if Levi's company is not big, he doesn't care about such a small amount of money now, let alone a big company like Columbia. However, as a big company, Levi doesn't think that Columbia doesn't care about the 20 million investment.

Moreover, with such investment conditions, even if Columbia came to the door by themselves, they could have a good talk with themselves, so why entrust Bruce? He gave very good conditions and asked acquaintances to introduce him. Whether his reputation is that big or they must have something in mind.

"Columbia also has conditions."

Sure enough, they have additional conditions.

"They want to cast Emily."

"Their cast?" Levi sighed.

No wonder people are not afraid to spend money on movies. They just want to praise their own actors.

Logically speaking, production companies do not have their own actors under the current Hollywood system. However, a theory is always just a theory. In this circle, one person's power is limited, and there are too many times to cooperate. Whether it is a film company or an actor, they all need to collaborate with others. Although the contracts can no longer be tied together, some actors still maintain a good cooperative relationship with the production company. Some actors have their own company in the office building of the film company or the studio. Every day they go to the small offices of these big companies. Although, in theory, they just rent a house, it would be strange to say that there is no in-depth cooperation.

Because of the cooperation with each other, the upper management of the six major companies is not guaranteed to do some nonsense. It is possible that they will suddenly look at an actor and think that he is very good, and they want to make him popular. It is also possible that they have some strange transactions with the actor, such as concealing their sexual orientation, illegitimate children, etc., in order to let others cooperate with them. At this time, of course, they will look for low-budget movies, especially movies that are not box office-oriented. Who knows those guys think with the above head or below?

"Who do those guys in Columbia want to play in my movie?" Thinking of this possibility, Levi was also a little uncomfortable: he doesn't care much about things like unspoken rules, but if it is because of unspoken rules, he can't make his own film; that's a different story. He can ignore other things, but he has to pay attention to movies alone.

"What are you thinking?" Bruce waved his hand, "It's not what you imagined! In fact, your movie was spotted by a movie star, and she wanted to play Emily in the movie herself. She convinced Columbia to invest in you. She is an Oscar nominee, but she just wants to use your film to hit the Oscars. Don't think wrongly — you are a well-known director anyway, and Columbia is not stupid. They won't foolishly offend you just to make someone famous."

"Who is this movie star?" Levi became curious.

Although his movies are already famous now, two weeks ago, his name was, at best, an excellent TV producer. People who produce TV dramas don't have any movie stars to like them, and the script they wrote is a relatively niche script. How could anyone fall in love with it?

"You should be able to figure it out. Those who are eligible to hit the Oscars are following the literary route, and their age is about the same as your script requirements. Columbia believes that she can play the role of Emily well," Alexander spread his hands, "Of course, the one who is interested in your script is none other than Winona Ryder."

Winona Ryder? The name made Levi raise his eyebrows.

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