"Jimmy, how is the outcome of this negotiation?"

"It's very bad, the Fox Negotiation Team is very arrogant, they think you want too much, this group of damn vampires is still willing to pay you basic directors.

They reluctantly agreed to you as a part-time producer, but they did not agree to you join the post-production. The task of giving you is to finish all the shots, then check out and leave!"

Wayne's angry voice came from the phone: "fxxk, this is my project, what do they want to do? Give me some money, and I will kick me out after taking advantage of it? Damn it."

Jimmy hung up the phone and sat helplessly in the cafe on the first floor of Fox Building. This was the second time that negotiations had broken down in half a month. Fox was unexpectedly tough, and they almost completely denied Jimmy's request.

If you understand Wayne's meaning, Fox doesn't have to accept all the conditions in full, but at least there must be room for talks.

Through "Happy Death Day", Wayne received a considerable degree of training, and it can be said that he has made rapid progress. He has accumulated a considerable degree of experience. He also has a considerable degree of confidence in the second film, and this film is also the type he is best at.

The idea of ​​not caring about the director’s salary and wanting to share the benefits of his work will naturally arise.

Fox's attitude is that when we invest in your videos, we can pay you a project purchase money, or give you a director's salary that matches your value, but you are not qualified to think about anything else.

The post-production will take over, and even the motivational ladder division is not what you should think. It is already the greatest kindness that we can invest in your project.

His attitude has not changed, and everyone feels it is right. If Jimmy is not Wayne's agent, he will also feel it is right, after all, the other party is Fox.

But Jimmy's natural position is against the film company. He must strive for benefits for his clients, which is also the place where he can best reflect his work ability.

After drinking all the coffee in the cup, Jimmy picked up the briefcase containing the copy of the project and walked out of the Fox Building. Since the problem cannot be solved through negotiations, he is going to submit several more companies. Wayne was not a year ago, and now some people are willing to invest in him.

When he saw his boss hanging up the phone in the apartment, he swears in a rare way, Nina handed him a bottle of water.

In the past half month, she not only helped communicate with Wayne's lawyer and family accountant, but also helped follow up Jimmy's communication and negotiation. The process was very difficult and she knew better than anyone else, which made her doubt whether she would lose her job soon.

Half of it was about to watch in July, Wayne was waiting, and Fox's tough attitude also gave him another idea. He and Jimmy had already communicated in advance. If today is still not going well, then suspend negotiations and find other investment channels.

The production cost of $5 million he marked at the end of the plan would hardly cause caution from large companies. Compared with normal commercial film investment, this amount of funds can almost be regarded as workshop production.

Jimmy delivered the project to another company. Compared with the project establishment, the risk assessment work to be done in the early stage is very easy to pass. No company will recklessly decide to invest large amounts of funds in production, but Wayne's project production cost is very low, and it is not difficult to pass the review.

"Investing in movies is like gambling. Once you succeed, you will get a lot of rewards." Nina sighed. "But Fox has clearly had a large amount of revenue experience in your project. Why do you still force you to give in like this? Aren't they afraid that you will switch to another company?"

After slowly letting out a sip of light smoke, Wayne calmed down and said, "No, they are not afraid, they are 20th Century Fox. Just because they know that my project is likely to be successful, they have to ensure that their profits will not be divided by me even a little bit.

The reason why I was not allowed to join the post-production work is that to ensure the success of the film, the producers always have to understand the market and the audience than the director.”

"What should I do now? Are you waiting like this? Boss, I think my job is so easy, it doesn't match the reward you pay me." Nina said in a slight tone. After all these days, she knew that the other party was not a serious person.

"The video must be filmed, don't worry Nina. When the filming starts, you will know how busy you are." Wayne pulled out the cigarette butt and continued to ask her: "What do the real estate agent say?"

Jimmy's bad news made him not have time to care about this. It seems that the project will not be formed in a short time, so he is ready to solve the house problem first.

"We can go and see the house at any time, three are available on Beverly Hills and one is on Marbury Beach. Do you want me to contact them?" Nina took out her record book and answered her boss' questions seriously. She was extremely serious about this job.

"Contact the real estate agent and we'll go and see the house later. This place is too small and I need to change my work environment."

To this day, Wayne still lives in an apartment next to Southern California. Since he had the idea of ​​changing a house, he has always felt that the area of ​​the apartment could no longer meet his needs.

Since he has the conditions to change his living environment, he doesn't need to let himself do it. In Hollywood, the world of fame and fortune, everyone's default is that if there are conditions, they must give themselves the enjoyment that meets or even exceeds their value.

A few days ago, the real estate agent recommended two villas, one in the Santa Monica Valley in Brentwood District. The hillside area here is a traditional wealthy area in Los Angeles. The entire neighborhood is particularly quiet and an ideal place to live.

But the wildfires that spread Marbury in winter and spring made him a little worried about this place. If he didn't care about the distance to the hillside, the usual location of the fire would be less than five kilometers away from the house introduced by the real estate agent.

Whether it is those firefighters who set fire to the mountains and rescue themselves at a fixed time every year in order to keep their jobs, or simply that accidental fires occur every year, Wayne doesn't want to take this risk.

There are neighbor problems in the bad places. The closest family to this house is Matthew McConaughey. This mixed ball likes to take drugs and eat fun, play music that can be heard all over the street, and go naked to provoke the police on the way.

Just against the wildfires and neighbors, he also drew the Santa Monica Valley to the alternative list.

Nina drove all the way to Beverly Hills. After seeing the real estate agent, she followed the other person's car. She drove to the height of Beverly Park before she stopped in front of a manor.

"Mr. Greenberg, I am the real estate agent Henry. The house in front of us is located high in Beverly Park on Mulholland Road. It was designed by the famous architect Howard Scarter. It covers an area of ​​5.3 acres. It was built in March 1970. The previous owner was the owner of the Wall Street investment company."

As soon as he got off the car with Nina, the real estate agent began to introduce the house. Wayne looked at the grand gate and admired the design of the manor from the bottom of his heart.

There are marble door posts on both sides of the gate, which are the quaint and elegant carved gallery columns, full of the sedimentation of the traces of time. All the marble are carved with floral patterns, and the mottled traces look very clean. It seems that the real estate company has been maintaining the manor.

Looking inside from the gate, you can only see the guard room and the woods, blocking anyone's gaze.

"Let's go in and take a look."

Hearing Wayne's words, the real estate agent opened the door and drove to the manor.

The gate is a garden. Since the manor is built against the mountain, all the buildings inside are made of the mountain. The main road is winding and the sides are full of garden trees. It can be seen that this design is to maintain the owner's privacy.

The garden and the wall are planted with huge crape myrtle trees, which not only ensures that everything inside is completely invisible from the outside, but also a large circle of rare beautiful scenery can appear when the crape myrtle blooms in spring.

The garden was obviously carefully maintained and was connected to a flat grassland when you walked to the ground, which was also placed with huge parasol lounge chairs and town seats.

After getting off the car, the real estate agent pointed to the parasol and said, "If you hold a party during the day, you can open the huge awning to avoid the strong sunshine in California."

"This design is very attentive. The place is large and there is a self-used sunshade. Unfortunately, with my personality, it is difficult to invite a lot of people to join the house to have a party." Wayne continued to move forward, and he was very optimistic about these designs, but if there were fewer people, it would be better to use a parasol.

"This manor is more than 5.3 acres. Mr. Greenberg, do you want to go around outside?" He reminded the other party that the huge area means a considerable price.

"Of course, let's go around first." Wayne understood what the other party meant, but with his own income, he could afford it.

I walked around the main building of the manor. In front of the house was a small marble square, with a small fountain in the middle, and on the right was a two-story annex, a storage area garage and a nanny room.

In front is the main building of the manor, with a three-story stone appearance that gives people a dark and deep feeling, but you can see huge floor-to-ceiling windows hidden in it. I believe there will be no lack of light inside.

There was a wooden sign downstairs. Wayne walked upstairs to see clearly, saying Augustus.

"This is the name of the main building, and his former owner's surname is Augustus." said the real estate agent.

Behind this main building is a large outdoor swimming pool surrounding the building. Outside the pool is a large area of ​​flat grass with patterns on it, which is obviously used for helicopter parking.

"Boss, if you live here, you can take a helicopter when you go out to work!" Nina was stunned from the beginning of entering. In her world, she never thought there would be such a large luxury private manor.

"Helicopter? Don't mention that thing to me. I will never sit that thing in my life!" He has a psychological shadow on the word helicopter. He was a hardcore K-B fan in his previous life. This is the thing that their generation of NBA fans cannot accept the most.

Behind the helipad is a large golf course. He took a look and thought that he could shovel some of them and change them to a horse farm. He could take his horse over. He couldn't play golf like this.
Chapter completed!