Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion Chapter 393

Chapter 393 Harvey's Party

 “Link, do you want a massage?”

 The old father-in-law took off his clothes, lay on the massage table, and breathed out comfortably.

“Oh, no, I'm not feeling well.”

Link looked at the two hot masseurs and wondered whether he should go out so that his old father-in-law could do things.

“Link, don't look at my poor health now. When I was young, I often ran marathons and won third place in the New York area.”

 The old father-in-law said breathlessly after being pressed down.

 “Yes, I can see that you are in good health.”

Link was leaning on the balcony with a lollipop in his mouth, looking out the window at the small lake, the green green, and the scenery was very nice.

"Link, you and Eva have been dating for more than half a year. When are you going to get married? Eva is not young anymore."

 The old father-in-law suddenly changed the topic and asked.

Link smiled helplessly, not expecting that he would be urged to marry him in person. He thought for a while and said that he would seriously consider the matter after finishing the work at hand.

The old father-in-law hummed a few times but lost his voice. He pinched the physiotherapist's big **** with both hands.

Link covered his forehead. With his old father-in-law like this, even if he succeeds in running for election, he will be kicked out. For his own benefit, maybe he should find a time to persuade him to be a good person.

After finishing work in New York, Link flew to Los Angeles to attend the Weinstein Films' celebration party.

The party was held at the Beverly Hills mansion owned by Weinstein. This mansion is adjacent to General Garden and covers an area as large as five football fields. According to the current housing prices in Beverly, the price of this villa is 30 million. It is worth more than US dollars and is also a famous mansion nearby.

 “Hey, Link, why are you here too?”

When Link got out of the car with Jennifer Lawrence, he happened to meet Casey Affleck driving a red Porsche sports car. In the car sat his wife Summer Phoenix, who is also Joaquin Phoenix's biological sister.

 “Harvey invited me here.”

Link smiled lightly, said hello to Summer, and then said to Cassie, "I forgot to congratulate you for winning the award at the Berlin Film Festival. Now many people say that your brothers are all-powerful brothers in Hollywood."

“Haha, no matter how powerful we are, we can't compare to you. You are the world-recognized all-powerful superman.”

Casey Affleck laughed.

At the end of last year, Cassie's debut film "You're Still Here" was completed. In January, it participated in the Berlin Film Festival Awards and won the Documentary Biographical Film Award, gaining a lot of attention in Hollywood.

His brother, Ben Affleck, is a Hollywood first-line movie star. His representative work is "Pearl Harbor". In recent years, he has turned to director. He has successively filmed "Gone Baby Gone", "Gimme Shelter", and "The City", which was released in September last year. 》.

This movie was written, directed and starred by Ben Affleck. It cost 37 million and grossed 154 million at the global box office. The supporting actor Jeremy Renner was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. It was a double success in both word-of-mouth and box office. .

Ben Affleck has also become a relatively successful director in Hollywood. He has received many praises and is known as "Clint Eastwood's second".

Brothers like Cassie and Ben Affleck, who are both actors and directors and are very successful, are rare in Hollywood. The two brothers were also named "Twin Stars in the Film Industry" by Variety Magazine.

While the two were talking in the parking lot, two more luxury cars stopped next to them.

One is the white Fiat 8V driven by Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe, and the other is the famous director Robert Rodriguez in a Porsche sports car. Both of them are accompanied by celebrity female companions.

Link did not cooperate with the two, but he knew them. After greeting Jennifer, he took Jennifer into Weinstein's luxurious estate.

 At the party scene, there are more stars.

There are director Quentin Tarantino, an old acquaintance, director Steven Soderbergh, who became popular with "Sex, Lies and Videotape", and director Martin Scorsese, who has collaborated with Harvey many times. The King's Speech director Tom Hopper.

There are also big stars Richard Gere, Kevin Spacey, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth, Bradley Cooper, Meryl Stewart Rip, Michelle Williams, Renée Zellweger, Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Heidi Crews Mu and more than 200 film actors or film and television workers.

The whole party was star-studded, with more stars than there were at the 'Oscar Night' party.

It is currently the busiest period in Hollywood. When Harvey held a party, so many people put down their work and came to support him. When Link saw him, he had to admire each other's connections.

If I had broken up with Harvey directly on that phone call last year, given his connections in the industry, Palm Beach Pictures would probably not be able to find suitable directors and actors if they wanted to make a movie.

And he himself and the actors under the Palm Bay Agency will probably be isolated by these people.

This is not alarmist. Many actors and directors on the scene are very loyal to Harvey.

 For example, Matt Damon and Russell Crowe.

After Harvey's fall, there were reports that in 2004, New York Times Magazine reporter Sharon Waxman was preparing to write a report exposing Harvey's arrangement of a special manager, Fabrizio, to search for beauties in Italy. .

 Matt Damon and Russell Crowe were instructed by Harvey to call reporter Sharon one after another, asking the other party not to report and putting pressure on the other party. In the end, the report ended in vain.

There is also the old lady Judi Dench, who got "Judy loves Harvey" tattooed on her **** to thank Harvey for helping her win the supporting actress Oscar.

There is also Nicole Kidman, who has been collaborating with Harvey since the 1990s, including films such as "Island", "Moulin Rouge", "The Hours", "Cold Mountain" and "Nine". She is considered to be working with Harvey. The most dimensionally bound actress.

There are also directors Rodriguez, Quentin, and Soderbergh. Their success has a lot to do with Harvey.

If they were to compete with Harvey, even if they were worth billions of dollars, these people would probably choose to support Harvey, because Harvey can help them win the Oscar, which Link can't do yet.

“Hey, Link, I didn't expect to see you here. It's a big surprise.”

Director Quentin shouted to the crowd.

 “Director Quentin!”

Link saw the ferocious-looking director and came up to chat.

  Quentin is a talented director and a representative of the dark and violent American genre. Almost all of his films have achieved both critical acclaim and box office. He is also a worthy partner.

 As long as Harvey is here, Quentin will not look for other companies to cooperate for the time being.

Other people saw him appearing at the party and turned to look at him. Some were surprised and confused, some were envious, and some had hot eyes.

Although the people present are all celebrities, few are as famous as Link on a global scale, and their net worth is far behind, not to mention that Link is only 22 years old.

Others also came up to say hello, mostly female celebrities, including Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek, supermodel Heidi Klum, Elizabeth Banks, etc., who came up one after another.

Jennifer Lawrence saw the women coming up and subconsciously grabbed Link's arm to prevent him from being seduced by these women.

Link pinched her finger and asked her to relax. Although he was lustful and lustful, he had no interest in these older women.

Not far away, Harvey Weinstein was discussing a movie with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

He also saw it when Link came, but he had called Link a few times to invite him to a private party, but this guy had resisted and refused to do so, giving him no face at all, and giving him no chance to drag Link into the water.

 Harvey was very angry about this.

Seeing Link arrive, he originally planned to wait for Link for a while and let him take the initiative to come over and say hello. As soon as Link arrived, the women gathered around him enthusiastically, eager to cling to him.

Men also talked about him quietly, with praise and envy in their words.

Link suddenly became the life of the party.

 Harvey squinted his eyes, the heavy bags under his eyes trembled, laughed, and said to Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, "It's better to be young. Women all like young and handsome men."

 “Harvey, you are not old. The beauties at the scene are all here for you.”

Matt Damon raised his glass and smiled.

Harvey was very pleased with what he heard. He laughed with a big belly, gave the assistant a vague wink, and walked towards Link with the wine glass in hand.

 “Haha, Link, welcome to my party.”

While Link was chatting with director Martin Scorsese, Harvey walked through the crowd, with a big belly, a toad-like mouth, and a somewhat unpredictable smile on his face.

　　The big stars in the middle retreated and gave him the space in the middle.

Link reached out and shook hands with the other party, "Mr. Weinstein, your party is the coolest party I have ever seen. There are all big stars here, which is shocking."

“Haha, Link, don't forget that you are also a big star, but you are more famous than them and harder to hire.”

“I don't want to be famous, but it's just a lot of part-time work. You should have heard that I am a model worker.”

Link joked to himself.

 Harvey laughed, and the stars around him laughed too.

After chatting for a while, Link took the initiative to mention "Silver Linings Playbook". The film started shooting in February. In more than a month, the main scenes will be completed. The next step is post-production and scheduling of the film for release.

 At the time of filming, Weinstein Pictures had only allocated the first batch of funds, and the second batch of about 6.5 million US dollars had not yet arrived. If the funds cannot be allocated on time, it will affect the post-production of the film.

Producer Broadbent speculated that Harvey wanted to control the editing and distribution rights of the film in this way.

 At the time of the original discussion, the film would be jointly promoted and distributed by the two companies.

If the film promotion and distribution work is handed over to one company, the other party will have the opportunity to make false accounts and multiply the cost of promotion and distribution several times. It will first make up the money on promotion and distribution. After the movie is released, even if it loses money at the box office, it will be able to stand still. The place of defeat.

 This is also a common practice among the six major Hollywood film studios.

 The six major film studios, including Universal, Disney, Warner, Fox, Sony and other parent companies, all have TV stations, newspapers and magazines and other publicity and distribution agencies. They are often more convenient than independent production companies in promoting movies.

Some movies may seem to be making huge losses, but if they make money through publicity channels, they are still profitable for the parent company.

This is also the reason why the six major film studios can remain standing in Hollywood. The original seventh major MGM suffered from the lack of publicity channels, so it went bankrupt and was divided by the six major film studios.

“Link, this is an oversight by the financial department. I'll call him later to ask about the situation. If he doesn't ask, just transfer the funds and don't delay the filming.

Today is a celebration party. Let's not talk about work first. Let's come over and talk. I'll introduce you to some good friends. "

 Harvey pulled him and said enthusiastically.

Link did not refuse and followed Harvey to meet several well-known directors and producers in the industry.

Among them is a producer named Julie Taymor, who is also a female director. Her representative work is "Frida" starring Salma Hayek in 2002, which won the Academy Award. Five nominations, including "Psalm's Vengeance", "Oedipus the King", "Across the Sky", etc.

Last year, the literary film "The Tempest" directed by her was nominated for Best Costume Design at the recent Oscars.

These two films were also co-produced with Harvey.

  Director Julie Taymor met with Harvey and spoke euphemistically about the box office share of "The Tempest", saying that her company had not received the first box office share yet, and asked Harvey why.

 Harvey's face suddenly turned cold, and he turned around and said to the assistant beside him: "She is no longer my guest, let her leave."

"Mr. Weinstein, I'm sorry. I don't want to talk about it here. It's just that I went to the Weinstein Films to look for you more than ten times and couldn't see you. I can only tell you here. "

Director Julie Taymor said with a dejected face.

 Harvey waved his hands and asked the two assistants impatiently to take director Julie Taymor away.

Director Julie Taymor's husband, who is also a composer, came to stop it.

 said that according to the contract, after the release of "The Tempest", their company should receive 22% of the North American box office share.

It has been nearly half a year since the movie was released, and the company has not received the first payment of revenue.

The company is about to close down, so we have to wait in line to find Harvey Weinstein.

"Shut up!"

 Harvey pointed at the other person's nose and cursed, “The North American box office of this movie is only 13.5 million, which is less than one-third of the production cost. You still want a share, not even a cent. Get them out.”

 Harvey had a sullen face, the flesh on his face kept beating, and his short and thick neck and big belly kept bulging as he panted.

The assistant took Director Taimo with a few bodyguards and dragged her husband backwards from the splendid and bustling hall of the villa.

Many people saw the scene, but no one would interfere at this time. Weinstein is a well-known 'tyrant' in the entertainment industry and has a bad temper. If he interferes in his own affairs at this time, he may receive the same treatment as Director Taymor. .

　　After Director Taimo and his wife were taken away, the party scene became lively again.

Link looked at the lively party and smiled softly.

 It is rumored that Harvey is arrogant, arrogant, ruthless, affectionate to those who can help him make money, and very cold to those who cannot help him make money. Now it seems that the rumors are true.

"Haha, Link, don't get me wrong. The thing between me and Director Taimo is not what you see. Before the filming of this movie, we had a contract. Only if it sells well at the box office will we get a share. If it loses at the box office, we will get no share. I'm following the contract completely."

 Harvey turned back to a smile and explained.

Link nodded and didn't say much.

He can probably understand the cooperation method between the two parties. Director Taimo's company uses the director's salary and part of the capital to invest in the stock, and after the film is released, it will receive 22% of the North American box office share. This method is very common in Hollywood.

It's a pity that this movie only had a box office of 13.5 million in North America, but the production cost was as high as 35 million US dollars, and the project suffered a loss of tens of millions.

 Harvey was not happy after losing money. In order to reduce the losses of his company, he swallowed up all the movie box office and cheated by not giving his partners their due share.

 Director Taymor cannot get paid and has two options.

 First, litigate with the contract. Litigation costs money, and you may not win the case. It is not a good choice for people with financial constraints.

The second is to use her own money to make up for the shortfall of the crew. If she cannot come up with this money, there is a high chance that she and the company behind her will go bankrupt.

This is Hollywood, a casino bigger than Las Vegas.

Link did not sympathize with Director Taymor's experience, but he was more wary of Harvey.

 (End of this chapter)

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