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Hollywood Road

Chapter 69

Author: White Number Thirteen
updatedAt: 2025-06-07

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    "Sorry,"

    took out his cell phone and looked at it. Tony gusman said to several people in the room, "I''ll take the phone."

    With that, he walked out of the living room of the hotel suite, went to the balcony of a bedroom, pressed the answer button, "Hello, this is Tony gusman from Fox Searchlight."

    A strange voice came from the receiver. After the other party said a few words, Tony gusman frowned, recalled a little, looked over the living room and said politely, "I''m sorry, director Stanton. I may not be free these days. I have a project to follow up."

    He remembers the young director and the interesting film. At that time, he specially exchanged contact information. He originally planned to continue to inspect the film, but later, when he watched the film, he met a more favorite object. Moreover, Fox Searchlight also attached great importance to it and needed to follow up immediately.

    Politely refusing the invitation, Tony gusman politely hangs up.

    With this new project in front of him, he has little interest in new works like "fruit candy". In the living room, there are senior executives from ark entertainment company. The project they are talking about is Todd field''s new work "unexpected edge".

    If you don''t say that Tom Wilkinson is the leading actor of the film, you can''t compare the two directors. Murphy Stanton is anonymous, and Todd field''s last work ghost invasion grossed $90 million in North America

    Tony gusman knows the choice between the two.

    He has decided to give up hard candy, which he thought was good, and prepare to win edge of accident.

    On the airport of Saint Denis Film Festival, a fat man arrived late and ordered the driver to rush to the hotel immediately after he got off the plane. A group of professional film watchers and buyers of the company were waiting for him there.

    Forty minutes later, Harvey Weinstein was sitting in the conference room of the hotel, looking through the list of films and materials submitted by many employees of Miramax. Most of them were films that had been popular in the media and the circle recently, such as "lullaby at night", "hallucination of death" and other famous projects. There was no surprise.

    "That''s all?" He frowned and looked at more than a dozen employees below. His voice gradually rose, "how do you do things? It''s almost a week since the festival started. Are you staring at them? How many distribution companies are watching them? How much will it cost to take them? "

    Although Miramax was acquired by Disney, Harvey Weinstein''s operation style is completely different from that of Disney. He still takes the route of operating independent films at a low cost.

    The silence in the conference room showed the fat man''s prestige in the company.

    "Do you have any promising projects?" Harvey Weinstein asked again.

    It''s still quiet. Projects like "Blair the witch" don''t come across in every Saint Denis Film Festival.

    Harvey Weinstein slapped down the table and made a loud bang. It seemed that he let off his anger. He didn''t look at the people and waved his hand casually. "Let''s go out."

    Everyone rushed to leave, but Jones Butler stayed.

    Harvey Weinstein saw her. "What''s the matter with you?"

    Jones butler went over and put a piece of information in his hand in front of Harvey Weinstein. "This is a film produced by a small company called Stanton studio, which is recommended by bill rosis of CAA. Moore and I went to see it and thought it had certain market potential."

    Listening to her, Harvey Weinstein put aside his work for a while, opened up the data, looked up a moment later, and said, "did you give it priority?"

    "Yes." Jones Butler stood on his right hand. "I guess the production cost of the film is about $200000 to $300000. I predicted with the marketing department that it would be a million dollar project."

    Harvey Weinstein for Jones butler or more assured, asked, "got the project?"

    "No..." Jones Butler actually said, "we just had the first negotiation. There is a gap between our offer and the other party''s offer."

    After reading all the materials, Harvey Weinstein had a little interest. "Call them and I''ll see the film tomorrow."

    Murphy never thought that when he saw Jones Butler again, the other side brought Harvey Weinstein, the actual controller of Miramax, not to mention him. Even bill rosis, in front of Harvey Weinstein, who is such a big player in the circle, is also a nobody.

    Besides, Harvey Weinstein didn''t pay attention to the two of them. Apart from a polite greeting, he didn''t say much from the beginning to the end. He just patiently watched Murphy''s another screening of "fruit candy" in the conference room.

    After the screening, Harvey Weinstein said the second sentence to Jones Butler. The voice was not very loud. Murphy heard it vaguely."Continue the negotiations."

    After leaving this sentence, Harvey Weinstein left the conference room directly.

    In fact, it''s not hard to imagine that Harvey Weinstein, who has always been in love with independent films, will be very busy when he comes to the Saint Denis Film Festival, which is the main independent film festival. Even if Murphy thinks highly of himself, he also knows that Harvey Weinstein won''t take himself and small productions like fruit candy into consideration.

    According to his conjecture, this fat man is only responsible for the business of the company, and the nearly one million dollar transaction can not be easily concluded.

    Every business and project in this circle is far from as casual as the outside world thinks.

    After that, Murphy and Jones Butler began a seesaw negotiation. There was a huge gap between 600000 US dollars and 1.5 million US dollars. The difficulty of negotiation between the two sides can be imagined. Fortunately, both Murphy and Jones Butler knew that if the transaction was to be completed, they had to make some compromises.

    As for such unreliable things as the distribution contract and sharing agreement of mainstream commercial films, Murphy never mentioned them. The cooperation between the two sides will only be carried out by buying out the copyright. His energy is mainly focused on working for Stanton as much as possible, which is to strive for more selling out funds.

    He can''t always make a project like fruit candy, otherwise he will have to stay at the bottom of Hollywood and need more money to complete his plan next.

    Like 90% of Hollywood directors, Murphy''s plan is to start with independent small production, accumulate certain funds and experience, and gradually move towards mainstream movies.

    After three days and five rounds of negotiations, Murphy and Jones Butler finally reached an agreement.

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