The meeting room door was pushed open again, and Jeffrey Hansen and Kapoor Sheed walked in. Seeing Eric's gloomy face, they understood that the matter had collapsed.
Kapoor knew that this matter must have nothing to do with him, otherwise, Richard Gere, who was almost out of breath, would not be able to push forward the film appointment of such a popular director as Eric: "Eric, how about I’d better quit my job and go to Europe if I go to Europe, although the European film industry is in a downturn, it’s still easy to find a job based on my ability.”
Eric reached out and rubbed his stiff cheeks, and said, "No, I won't make any compromises, Kapoor, you just have to do your thing well, by the way, the brokerage contract with Julia Sign it, what do you think of Julia?"
"I went to see Miss Julia Roberts's "Modern Cinderella" before, and I just talked to her for a while. To be honest, Eric, I am not optimistic about her potential. This lady has only accepted short-term The performance training, the acting skills are average, and the appearance is not outstanding... "
Kapoor's words became slower and slower, and he looked at Eric's face from time to time, remembering that Julia Roberts was specially recommended by Eric, coupled with the scandal that appeared in the newspaper, the relationship between the two Certainly not ordinary. He was a little worried that Eric would be unhappy if he said it so bluntly.
However, after Kapoor finished speaking, Eric nodded in agreement: "Actually, I think so too."
"Then you still let her be the heroine?" Jeffrey asked, he always wanted Eric to change to a more famous heroine.
"Because I have an intuition that Julia will definitely become popular in the United States, enter the Oscars, and become famous all over the world..." Eric just started, and saw Jeffrey and Kapoor's faces at the same time. 'You liar' expression.
With a smile, Eric changed his words; "Well, just kidding, in fact, although "Pretty Woman" has a beautiful woman's name, it is impossible to really find a girl who is too beautiful to play, and Julia In my opinion, the image of the heroine is just right. If the heroine is too beautiful, the audience will easily shift their attention to the heroine's face, and ignore the deeper theme that this movie wants to express. If the audience finishes watching the movie in the future, mention "Pretty Woman", I can only think of one pretty face, and that is the failure of our movie."
Both Jeffrey and Kapoor have read the script of "Pretty Woman", listened to Eric's analysis, combined with the content of the script, and finally agreed with Eric's point of view.
"Now, the most important thing for us is to find a leading actor." Eric looked at the two people in front of him: "Although my favorite is Richard Gere, but since the other party refused, we have to choose other actors." Actors, do you have any good suggestions?"
"How about Michael Douglas?" Jeffrey first suggested: "In last year's "Wall Street", Douglas played the image of a stock tycoon, which is very similar to Edward's setting in "Pretty Woman"?"
Just as Eric recalled the movie "Wall Street" in his mind, he heard Kapoor remind him softly beside him: "Eric, Michael Douglas' agency is also CAA."
The three of them were silent for a while before Eric said: "Kapoor, you are a professional in this field, you can handle this matter as soon as possible, sort out a list of actors who are suitable to play Edward and arrange auditions, our time is very short tight."
Kapoor nodded and said: "No problem, if there is nothing else, then I will do it." After Eric nodded in response, Kapoor hurriedly left the meeting room.
Seeing Kapoor's leaving figure, Jeffrey sighed softly: "Eric, do you think it's really worth doing this?"
"You mean because of Kapoor, you had a bad relationship with CAA?"
Jeffrey nodded.
"It doesn't matter whether it's worth it, Jeffrey, my situation is different from others, and you will understand in the future. Maybe other film companies are afraid of falling out with a giant like CAA, but I don't have these scruples."
"I really don't understand where your confidence comes from?" Jeffrey shook his head: "Eric, you mentioned the sponsorship of the sports car in the movie before, I contacted the executives of the Ferrari sports car stationed in Los Angeles you mentioned, originally they He readily agreed to provide us with a free sports car to assist in the filming. After learning about the content of the film, the other party hesitated when he heard that the heroine was a prostitute. I think we should contact other sports car brands, right?"
"No problem." Although he likes Ferrari, since the other party gave up this promotional opportunity, Eric didn't force it. Recalling Jeffrey's words, Eric suddenly thought of a question: "Jeffrey, you just said that the other party was originally Promise to provide us with a sports car for free to assist in the filming?"
Jeffrey didn't understand what Eric meant, so he recalled it carefully and nodded.
"You didn't mention the money?"
Jeffrey said: "Eric, with your current reputation, it is very easy to find a sports car brand to sponsor a movie for free. We don't need to give each other money at all."
"I mean..." Eric waved his right hand subconsciously in distress: "The other party gave us money?"
Jeffrey asked in surprise, "How is this possible?"
The behavior of placing advertisements should have appeared a long time ago, but looking at Jeffrey's reaction now, Eric understands that the concept of increasing movie revenue through placing advertisements has not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In the previous era, the industry chain of advertising placement in global film and television dramas has reached an annual scale of more than 20 billion US dollars.
"Jeffrey, just imagine, according to the script, the sports car in the movie will appear one after another in the first 20 minutes, and there is even a plot where the heroine introduces the performance of the sports car, which is equivalent to a 20-minute movie. Sports car ad. Assuming that my movie gets a box office of 100 million US dollars in North America, it means that 10 million people have seen this ad, plus the number of people after the global screening and the release of the video tape, the viewing number will be even greater. Huge, even ten or twenty years later, people still have to watch this 'sports car commercial' every time they watch this movie, do you understand how much advertising effect this will have?"
Jeffrey nodded thoughtfully.
"So, sort out what I just said, and lobby the executives of those sports car brands separately. Remember, the sponsorship fee is less than 1 million US dollars."
"Eric, is 1 million too much, and what you said just now is just a hypothesis, in case the box office of the movie is not good..."
Eric said: "This method is easy to solve. We can agree on a box office figure with the other party. If the box office fails to meet expectations, we will refund part of the sponsorship fee."
Jeffrey chased after him: "What if it exceeds?"
Eric was a little helpless to this long-winded old man: "Jeffrey, these specific details are what you, the producer, have to consider. I still have a lot of things to do. You can't let me worry about these things. Bar?"
Just as he was talking, a staff member knocked on the door of the office and said, "Mr. Williams, the custom-made clothes according to your drawing have been delivered, would you like to take a look for yourself?"
"Okay, I'll come right away, you let Julia put it on first." Eric agreed, chatted with Jeffrey for a few more words, and then said: "Jeffrey, let's go, go and see what I have done for you." Styled by Julia."
Walking out of the well-soundproof conference room, you can hear faint knocking sounds, and some office rooms are still being renovated by workers.
Arriving in an audition room of more than 30 square meters, Julia has changed into the classic vest, short skirt and boots in "Pretty Woman", wearing a red coat outside, Eric just took a look, He frowned and said, "What about the wig, I remember I explained it before."
"In the changing room, are you going to take it now?" Julia asked.
Eric waved his hand: "Hurry up and put it on, and I will take a photo of the makeup later."
Julia walked into the changing room obediently, and the female assistant named Alison who the brokerage company had just assigned to her followed in with a wink to help.
Soon, Julia came out again, not only wearing a golden wig, but also a small black hat on her head.
As soon as she appeared, everyone in the audition room couldn't help but light up their eyes. Against the background of the wig, Julia's face gave people a faint surprise. If Julia's appearance could only be rated as six points, now At least eight points.
Seeing Julia's appearance, Eric still felt that something was wrong, but he just ordered the photographer next to him to take some pictures of Julia.
After finishing these, Eric said: "You all go out, I will talk to Julia."
Several staff members left one after another, and Jeffrey also got up to leave.
When everyone left the audition room, Julia pinched the hem of her clothes a little awkwardly and asked, "Eric, what's the problem? I see you've been... always frowning?"
Julia Roberts felt that the experience these days was like a dream. First, she was inexplicably coaxed into bed by Eric, and got a promise that didn't make much sense.
Eric didn't contact her again for the next week. When she was disappointed to think that Eric's previous remarks were all to play with herself, the other party suddenly called her again. Hastily signed a brokerage contract, Eric threw a stack of scripts in front of her: "The heroine is yours, don't let me down."