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Chapter 250 Home Delivery
Song Yang knew that the Italians in Hollywood might have a big appetite, but he didn't expect it to be so big, and he wanted to pack all the "Matrix" projects. He wanted to swallow all the projects in one bite. Yes!
"DiVito and the others are from Hollywood and are most familiar with Hollywood. If they are willing to help, this project will definitely go much smoother..."

It's not that Greck doesn't know the tricks, but he still tends to believe in Hollywood's Italian gang. Greck is the last group of Italians in America to be influenced by traditional Italian culture.

This group of Italians still retains some of the habits of Sicily. The family gathers in the same relatively closed community. There are schools, hospitals, and shops opened by Italians in the community. When encountering problems, they will find older members of the ethnic group. People of prestige solve troubles.

This is the only comparable group in America, and it is also the only group of African-Americans, but the African-Americans have no choice but to gather in the same slum newspaper group to keep warm, and they all moved away after they got rich, while the Italians wanted to get together together.

It's just that these rules have long since disappeared. Greg's generation is still affected by these traditional rules. People like Song Yang and Gallo don't care about those rules at all.

"I will consider Divito's suggestion!" Song Yang said to Greg, without directly refusing, but he did not agree either.

Song Yang knew that Greck contacted Hollywood's Italian Gang this time because he wanted to draw the group of people who had the most power to speak in public opinion in America to Song Yang's side.

When Song Yang went to Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, there were a lot of people sitting in a mansion in Los Angeles, among them was Danny DiVito who had been working for Greck in Hollywood these two days.

And if there are people from Hollywood here, they will be able to see at a glance that they are all the main members of the Italian Gang in Hollywood. In addition to Danny DiVito, there is also the core figure of the Italian Gang in Hollywood, Francesco Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert Deni and others.

"That kid rejected our invitation and went to Lucasfilm. What does he want?!"

At this moment in the room, a short, slightly fat young man was walking back and forth in the room, spouting Italian-style curses from time to time.

"I've said long ago that he's not Italian at all, he's just Asian Chinese..."

"Elias!" Francisco Coppola called out the young man's name with a serious face, obviously dissatisfied with his words.

The man named Elias is a younger generation of Italian actors who have become famous in Hollywood in the past two years. Coppola, Martin Scorsese and others also understand that they are already old, and the younger generation of Italian actors Not an advantage in Hollywood.

As for new stars such as Leonardo, they are inseparable from the Italian gang. The second-generation star of the Hollywood Italian gang, Nicolas Cage, who was born in the Coppola family, even announced his separation from the Coppola family. This wave of confuse operation almost didn't break up the Italian gang in place, and Robert Downey Jr. is still in a state of drunkenness and dreaming.

Therefore, the Italian gang also began to intentionally train newcomers to maintain the power and influence of Italians in Hollywood. Elias is one of them. Elias is one of the few people who really came from an Italian gang in this era. Among the underground gangs in Los Angeles, they have a great say.

A few years ago, Elias had squatted in prison for theft, possession of guns, wounding, etc., but after being redeemed by his family, he had no intention of participating in a movie produced by Francisco Coppola. Minor role, but one that got Elias hooked to Hollywood.

With the relationship of the Elias family, plus Elias is indeed somewhat talented, except for being an actor, and he has performed well in screenwriting and directing. Although he has not been famous in the past few years and his image is not outstanding, but relying on The relationship with the Italian gang in Hollywood is also familiar, whether it is movies or TV shows.

However, even though he has entered Hollywood, Elias' character still has the style of some old-school Italian gangsters, and he is quite active in getting involved in a movie. In Hollywood circles, his reputation was not very good, but no one dared to provoke him.

When Elias heard Coppola's words, he also knew that he said something he shouldn't have said. He pushed an ethnicity worth billions of dollars out of the ethnic group. That group of people can faint from laughter.

Raising his hands, Elias signaled to the Hollywood bigwigs in the room that he knew he had said the wrong thing.

"But it may be a film project worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Some media dug it up. As early as last year, he told Kevin Kelly, editor-in-chief of "Wired" magazine, that he would shoot a blockbuster movie, but now, he You turned down our invitation!"

Elias looked aggrieved, and pointed at Danny DeVito, "DiVito has run around and found so many actors, directors, screenwriters for him, as long as we give the movie to us, he will use nothing. Nevermind, from shooting to distribution, we can handle it for him.

As a result, he went to Lucasfilm, which has a close relationship with Disney and DreamWorks. Is this how he treats ethnicity? ! "

Looking at Elias who was aggrieved, everyone sitting here was a veteran in the industry, who didn't know that Elias was so small, he obviously regarded the movie project in Song Yang's hands as fat.

In fact, Elias proposed the whole package to Danny DiVito. Of course, in name, it is definitely not to make money, but to create another pure Hollywood Italian movie, and let this movie Movies, give Hollywood more opportunities for proud directors, actors, screenwriters, etc.!

By the way, Elias wants to be one of the producers and directors of this project, and he can make a lot of money in the film project.

It’s not as ugly as Elias. Although Coppola, Martin Scorsese and others also want to use this movie to restore the decline of Italians in Hollywood, the method will not be so obvious. For Song Yang It is also being tested.

"Maybe, we need to let our youngest rich man know that this is Hollywood, and we are the only ones who can help him and are willing to help him!" Elias sat down and looked at the people in the room He said that he obviously wanted to use some special methods. These methods were used a lot by Italian gangs more than ten years ago. For a movie role, Italian gangs may all come out to solve it.

Hearing what Elias said, Danny DiVito couldn't sit still. He was just a matchmaker and didn't want to get into trouble.

"Elias, have you seen the news about Bruno Song? People from the Trade Commission held the settlement letter and put it in front of him, but he rejected it!"

"He is now in a lawsuit with the Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, the tax agency, and the Tennessee state court in America. Do you think your means are useful to him?!"

Danny DiVito said with a headache, I don’t know if it’s because the smooth sailing in Hollywood over the past few years has made Elias dizzy. With his little means, even including his family, he can compare The trade commission, the Justice Department, the tax agency, the state courts, all in turn?

Even in the face of these federal agencies, Song Yang did not take half a step back. Danny DiVito really couldn't think of any way Elias could make Song Yang take a step back.

"This is Hollywood. The Germans, the French, and those from the Middle East have all been here before. In the end?" Elias said indifferently, "We've been here all along!"

Elias somewhat misses Hollywood for more than ten years, when Italian gangs ran amok in Hollywood, and no one dared to provoke them.

Danny DiVito looked at Elias and shook his head. Before he got in touch with Greck, he knew about the Bruno family. Of course, the Bruno family was nothing special. It was not famous at all before, that is, in the past two years, It has only just begun to become active in western America.

But Song Yang and the Bruno family are two different concepts. Even if they don't know much about Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Danny DiVito is not blind. He doesn't know how to read those news and newspaper reports. It even began to be considered by the media as "America's toughest company in the 90s", and it went public with a wave of lawsuits, and its head is not ordinary!
As a screenwriter, Danny DiVito constructs a movie character, the first thing to start with is character, and even with a little thought, Danny DiVito can know Song Yang's character.

Elias wanted to use tricks against Song Yang. Danny DiVito didn't know what he was thinking. Elias' family was in Los Angeles and had some influence, but he wanted to attack a top rich man in America. Also not sure who gave Danny DeVito the courage.

Moreover, after Song Yang came to Hollywood, the gossip tabloids in Los Angeles tried their best to find out about Song Yang after the Chinese New Year, and the media found out that Song Yang was in Houston. Helping the Sons of Chaos is a bit involved.

These are rumors and there is not much evidence. Then Song Yang has a close relationship with the boss of RICK, the king of nightclubs in America, but it is well known that Song Yang even brought him into the technology circle. Just RICK took care of Elias More than enough.

What is even more well-documented is that although Song Yang did not publicly hold shares in the "Blackwater Security" company, the latter's co-president, Bruno Gallo, was with Song Yang, this security company It has nothing to do with Song Yang, so it's a bit of a lie.

What is the level of this security company? Danny DiVito doesn’t know, but the Hollywood tabloids dug up the news. It is said that a federal private prison is still being acquired recently, and it is receiving orders for mercenaries from the federal government overseas.

What will happen when Elias meets Blackwater Security? Danny DiVito, a screenwriter, can even make up a big drama, but in the end, it may be that Elias' entire family will be killed by a dragon Packed up, cleaned up by bounty hunters, and finally sent to the private prison in Blackwater...

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