American fame and fortune

Outside the studio, in Martin's rest trailer, Aniston gave an overview of what's going on on her side.

"This matter involves not only you, but also me." Martin is a responsible person: "Don't get too rigid with CAA, everything is on me, just tell them, I will never agree!"

He hugged Aniston, stroking her back with relief: "I have nothing to do with CAA, and it doesn't matter if it's stiff."

The little milk dog's words warmed Aniston's heart, and she shook her head: "It's okay..."

The phone rang, and she took out the phone to answer the call, her face becoming more and more tense.

After a few minutes, Aniston cut off the phone directly.

"What's the matter?" Martin asked.

"Brian Lord, the biggest partner of CAA." Aniston said briefly: "He called and told me that CAA has contacted several popular projects, and the female characters in them are very suitable for winning awards. CAA is going to make a plan. Help me win the Best Actress Oscar."

Martin noticed that there was a problem, but he couldn't explain it clearly. Aniston and Oscar were more difficult than Leonardo's epic.

The other party didn't say it clearly, but Aniston could see it clearly: "Brian wants me to think about the company a little bit about Heath Ledger."

"What did they think?" Martin asked.

"For the offline sharing agreement of Friends, I not only signed it with the producer, but also with CAA, and they can only get 1.5% of it as a financial commission." Aniston has a clear understanding of her own situation: "After the end of Friends, my film career was not very smooth, and there was an age that could not be ignored, so I became a little yellow flower of CAA that was about to wither."

She sighed: "Maybe I overestimated my weight in CAA, or maybe the senior partners of CAA regard themselves as the masters of stars. Michael Ovitz has expressed similar views more than once."

Martin understands how sweet Aniston and CAA's honeymoon period was at the beginning, and how difficult it is to get along with each other after the passion fades.

Aniston has an annual offline income of 20 million+, and CAA can only draw more than 300,000...

"Jane, they are putting bait." The words were not pleasant, but he still reminded directly: "Waiting for you to bite the bait, there may be other plans."

Brokerage companies have also done a lot of things to secretly cheat their clients.

"It's nothing." Aniston didn't seem to be joking: "It's a big deal, I fired CAA."

There was a knock on the door, and Martin opened it, and Aniston's agent, Steve, stood outside.

The latter asked, "Did Brian Lord call you? Jen, if the company pushes hard, you will be nominated for Best Actress..."

Aniston's face changed.

Steve immediately shut up, and changed his words: "There is no other meaning, Jane, we have cooperated for more than ten years, you know, I will always stand by your side."

Martin took the initiative to step aside: "You talk."

When Steve gets into the trailer, he closes the door from the outside.

Martin walked towards a place where there was no one, and considered his current situation based on Aniston's words. After a few minutes, he took out his mobile phone and called Thomas.

Soon, Thomas rushed over.

"How did it go?" Martin asked.

Thomas looked around and said, "Everything else is easy to talk about, but the bastards at CAA are hard to deal with."

Martin was straightforward: "Don't talk to them, let Ward's attorney go to the Brooklyn branch to keep an eye on the pressure, let the crew release the news, and I'm going to hold a press conference."

CAA's business has declined from its outstanding glory in the 1990s to the new century, not only because of other companies catching up, but also because of internal problems.

It seems that the arrogance of Michael Ovitz CAA's final career has infected other partners.

Boom and bust seem to be a common problem for many companies.

Thomas nodded: "I'll arrange it now."

Martin suddenly asked: "Is the WMA interested in Aniston?"

As soon as these words came out, Thomas was stunned for a moment, then quickly came back to his senses: "Of course I'm interested!" His excited hands were shaking: "Can we poach Aniston?"

Martin glanced at Thomas, as if looking at the scumbag: "You want to be Aniston's manager?"

Thomas reacted quickly enough: "I didn't mean that."

"Aniston started working with Steve when he was a young actor, and the relationship is extraordinary." Martin studied Aniston up and down, before and after, and learned a lot: "Aniston didn't I thought about ending my cooperation with him."

At such a time, Martin didn't forget to give a crap: "If other agencies come to poach me, the premise is to kick you out, I will definitely spray him in the face, and let him go as far as he can!"

Thomas' heart was shaken, and he thought that I was already so important to Martin! Never give up!

He believed that a man like Martin could do it, and said, "What do you want to do?"

Martin walked forward again: "The two of us can't represent WMA, and the weight is not enough. I am going to call Ali Emmanuel and ask him to come over."

Thomas kept up: "I will cooperate with you." He suddenly remembered something: "Why are you so active?"

"At the end of this year, I want the company to devote more resources to support me, but I don't have enough coffee..." Martin said a few words.

"They're absolutely going to say yes," Thomas said.

Martin took out his cell phone and dialed Ali Emmanuel.

Over there, Ali put down his phone and shouted to his assistant: "Contact the private jet company immediately, I want a business jet that can fly directly to New York within half an hour! Also, my itinerary is kept secret!"

On this day, the Heath Ledger drug driving incident, which was originally reported by only one gossip media, was forwarded by many online media, and other media followed up.

The award season of "Brokeback Mountain" is very hot, and the film has also attracted attention because of its homosexuality. Heath Ledger is very likely to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor before, which is itself popular.

The media certainly refused to let it go.

When work was over in the afternoon, Damian, the deputy producer of the crew, approached Martin and director Boyle, and said, "Something went wrong. We applied for shooting in Central Park. New York is temporarily postponed due to the weather and environmental protection." Postponed."

Boyle frowned: "The shooting plan has to be changed again? We changed it once because of the heavy snow." He reminded: "In a while, the ice in Central Park will melt!"

Martin said: "Let Warner Bros. get in touch, and the crew don't show up again."

Boyle looked at Martin and roughly guessed, but he was just the director of the crew and didn't want to get involved in unnecessary fights, so he didn't say anything else.

Damian said: "I called Daniel and Warner Bros. is in touch. Even if it can be resolved, the shooting will be postponed."

Like the previous crew, Martin also named the production manager, saying: "Change the shooting plan again, and continue to shoot the indoor scenes of the studio."

Boyle nodded: "That's the only way."

Martin also didn't want the director to be involved in bad things, but instead focused on filming, waited until Boyle left, and asked, "Is there a shadow of Weinstein behind this?"

Damian is Louise's subordinate, and he has no scruples in speaking: "I can't tell, it's hard for us to find out about this kind of thing. The Weinstein brothers worked hard in New York, and they have extensive connections."

Martin, as before, took the same car back to the hotel with Aniston.

Aniston was not very happy: "CAA didn't dare to do anything to me, but put pressure on Steve. It turned out that in their eyes, I had already begun to pass."

Martin said again: "Put it all on me, and I'll deal with them."

Aniston reached out and stroked Martin's face, and said, "It happened to the two of us. How could I let you face it alone? If it weren't for you, I might have been hit by a car."

Martin simply said directly: "In the trailer, you said you were leaving CAA?"

Aniston said: "When I became famous, I was at CAA. For so many years, I have been at CAA, but everything has changed since the end of Friends."

"Maybe in the eyes of those veteran managers of CAA, it is CAA who made you popular." Martin also guessed randomly: "I have never been an entertainment agent, and I don't know much about it, but many commercial companies are far less interested in their employees who have grown up. Those who have been hard-earned from outside value it.”

Aniston smiled: "Why, you want to poach me?"

Martin made her happy: "I dug all the important places about you."

Aniston bit Martin's ear, leaving two rows of teeth marks, before saying, "I'll dig you tonight?"

Martin quickly changed the subject: "Ali Emmanuel is coming to New York to help me with matters related to Heath Ledger, why don't you meet with him?"

Aniston was in a better mood, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the WMA wanted to dig me out, but I was afraid that they wouldn't be able to do so, so they sent you here to use beauty tricks."

"Did my beauty trick work?" Martin asked.

Aniston stopped laughing and thought carefully for a while: "Let me discuss it with Steve, and you talk to Ali first."

Martin nodded: "No problem."

There is no rush for this kind of thing.

Back at the hotel, the two had dinner together and talked about CAA and WMA. Aniston called his manager Steve to talk about the future.

Martin received a call from Thomas that Ali Emmanuel had arrived.

In a business suite at the hotel, Martin met WMA's premier broker and co-partner.

Seeing Martin, Ali rushed forward eagerly, and said, "I understand the difficulties the crew encountered. Don't worry, I've already contacted the staff to deal with it."

Martin heard from Thomas that Ali's brother is very powerful in politics, and he is currently a member of the black charcoal team of the Democratic Party preparing to participate in the next election.

"Whenever we encounter difficulties, having WMA as our reliance can always make people feel at ease." Martin sat on the single sofa and said, "Ali, I feel relieved when I see you."

Ali smiled: "It's within the company." He got to the point: "Are you sure Aniston intends to leave CAA?"

"There are related thoughts," Martin said.

Ali understood: "The main thing is you?"

Martin doesn't deny it: "I can put WMA ahead of other companies."

Ali flew over immediately to keep it secret: "Don't tell the public about this, and I'm not in New York right now."

He knew that if he wanted Martin to contribute, he had to give him enough benefits, so he said directly, "Martin, we are old friends, tell us what you want."

Martin is also not polite: ""The Departed" will be released this year during the awards season. I think the acting is not bad. Director Scorsese has a very high opinion of me. The quality of his gangster films has never been a problem. I want an Oscar nomination. "

Ali nodded, motioning for him to continue.

Martin also said: "The role and the quality of the film are only the most basic of Oscars. Money, marketing, contacts and public relations are more critical. I hope the company can pay enough resources to help me operate."

Ali just thought about it for a while, and said: "Assisting customers to win prizes is the job of the brokerage company. I guarantee that the company will put in 100% effort."

It's three o'clock today