After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

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CAA building.

In Michael Ovitz's office, Michael Ovitz and Dawson are discussing something.

"Dawson, next, you have to persuade Kevin to accept our most thorough package service, otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to be promoted to the top partner of CAA."

Michael Ovitz said heavily in a slightly threatening tone.

Seeing that Kevin's two movies have exploded one after another, CAA also wants to seek more benefits from him.

The package service Kevin received at this time was not complete, so CAA only obtained the decision-making rights of the behind-the-scenes personnel, some supporting roles and small actors.

In order to seek more benefits belonging to CAA, Michael Ovitz is persuading Dawson to find a way to make Kevin completely accept his package service.

That is to say, except for Kevin himself, CAA is responsible for everything else, and the director can just be a tool person.

"Kevin can't accept it."

Dawson said calmly.

"Doing so will only damage our relationship with Kevin."

Ovitz said coldly:

"This is your problem. If you can't do it, let Kevin out and let someone else take responsibility."

"I'll give you a month. If you can't do it, Kevin will be in charge of someone else."

"Come on, work hard, you can do it."

A trace of disappointment flashed in Dawson's eyes, and he left the office silently.

After all, CAA is still too focused on its own interests, rather than customer experience.

For superstars and directors who have no shortage of opportunities, CAA is more like a vampire, and the most frightening thing is that CAA itself does not realize this.

On the contrary, I feel that my packaging service is so good that anyone can accept it.

But in fact, this packaging system has the greatest impact on the director.

Stars are just one part of it, and what needs to be considered is the movie itself. Directors and other actors are not things that stars can decide.

But directors are different, different people bring different shooting techniques and other things.

A director is the last person to accept a complete package service, and Dawson knows this very well.

Disappointed, Dawson walked out of the CAA building.

Then I happened to meet Kevin who was coming to CAA.

"Dawson, what's the matter?"

Kevin looked at Dawson's expression and asked directly.

He had never seen Dawson's face like this before, and it seemed that something unpleasant must have happened.

Dawson took Kevin and walked for a few minutes, came to the park seat and sat down, and then said:

"Ovitz asked me to let you completely accept the package service, otherwise, I will replace me who is in charge of your business."

Dawson's face reveals a look of dejection, showing that the whole person is a little lack of energy.

Kevin was silent for a while, Ovitz's greed somewhat made him silent.

But it seems not surprising that capital eats people.

Unlike Huaguo's proportion of favors, the United States is more out of interest considerations.

If interests are violated, favors won't work very well.

His thinking was more or less influenced by his previous life.

It caused him to think about problems with human feelings.

Chapter 46 Allocation of Investments

Looking at the decadent Dawson, Kevin said directly:

"Since that's the case, let's leave CAA together. My film company is short of a president. You can do it."

"Kevin..."

Dawson was somewhat moved. If Kevin insisted, he would be replaced at most. For Kevin, he would not have any loss in CAA.

But Kevin is willing to support him, which makes him very happy.

That being the case, there is nothing to hesitate, Dawson summoned up his courage and said:

"Then I will follow you to do things, and I will hand in the resignation form later."

Kevin smiled, supported Dawson's shoulder and said:

"Yes, by the way, help me terminate the agency contract with CAA. Also, help me find an assistant and driver after I leave the company. The assistant is preferably a woman, and the driver is best to be a bodyguard. The cost can be high."

"Leave it to me, Kevin."

The two smiled at each other.

Kevin and CAA signed only the lowest-level contract before. Although the status has improved later, the contract has not been changed.

Basically, you can terminate the brokerage contract by paying a few thousand dollars.

...

Back in the villa, Kevin started creating again.

The selling point of Mission: Impossible 1 is actually very clear, that is, action scenes.

There are three classic scenes among them, the famous scene of jumping the train, breaking the fish tank and lurking back to the intelligence agency to steal documents.

Speaking of this, Kevin couldn't help but think of Jackie Chan.

In the scene of jumping off the train, it seems that Jackie Chan didn't do much.

But at this time, Jackie Chan is still in Hong Kong Island, and has not yet been involved in Hollywood.

Of course, these are not important. The important thing is that Kevin wants to invite the legendary Yuan Baye to be in charge of directing the action scenes of Mission: Impossible.

When it comes to action scenes, one of the European and American blockbusters is more embarrassing than the other.

It doesn't look pretty enough, and it doesn't look real enough.

However, after The Matrix, Hollywood also understood how powerful Huaguo's research on action scenes is. Since then, many Hollywood blockbusters have these behind-the-scenes personnel.

However, the film companies that are more familiar with Hong Kong Island seem to...

The new line seems to be more familiar.

Thinking of the future, the peak moment of Jackie Chan's new line production, Kevin guessed so.

That being the case, there is nothing to say. After the negotiations with Paramount are in place, Kevin will contact the crew members one by one.

.....

Suddenly, half a month has passed.

After extremely complicated business negotiations, Paramount finally reached a specific cooperation plan with MGM and Warner Bros.

First of all, the total investment of Mission: Impossible is 8000 million US dollars, of which the investment amount is divided into four parts, respectively invested by Kevin, MGM, Paramount, and Warner Bros.

The specific investment ratio is 30% for MGM, 10% for Paramount, 30% for Warner Bros., and 30% for Kevin.

The copyright income of Mission: Impossible is also distributed in the same way, but the subsequent sequels of Mission: Impossible are completely owned by Paramount and have nothing to do with others.

To put it simply, Paramount relies on the team headed by Kevin to turn Mission: Impossible into a hot big IP.

They just want to pay the minimum price.

All in all, Paramount doesn't have much to lose if the Mission: Impossible movie fails.

But if successful, a follow-up to Mission: Impossible could prove to be a huge boon for Paramount.

Faced with such terms, everyone still agreed.

More importantly, this movie proves that Kevin is capable enough to direct a movie with a large investment. As for the follow-up sequel, if Kevin is capable, it is not difficult to find other IPs.

...

This news was conveyed to Kevin's ears by MGM.

Faced with this news, Kevin immediately began to form a director team.

Without the help of CAA, some things have to be done by myself.

A classmate from the University of Southern California, Kevin's loyal team, once again chose to join his Morning Sun Film Company, abandoning the CAA contract.

Compared with CAA, being with a famous director like Kevin can bring more benefits.

Some teams are in place, and Kevin still lacks an experienced assistant director. Kevin directly talked to the director union about this.

Anyone interested in this can contact him directly through the directors union.

Finally, an experienced assistant director, Bilet, was selected.

He has qualifications as an assistant director of many films, and Kevin did not study this carefully.

The assistant director is more responsible for checking for omissions and filling vacancies, and the film mainly depends on him, the main director.

At the same time, he also went through various trade unions to gather the other missing personnel one by one.

In addition to action guidance.

Kevin picked up the phone and called Dean.

On the other end of the phone, Dean was regretting not being able to participate in the investment of Kevin's new movie, so he saw Kevin's call and quickly answered it.

"Hi, Kevin."

"Dean, I heard that you are very familiar with people in Hong Kong Island. Could you please contact me with an action director named Yuan Heping. I need some excellent action directors for my new movie."

Kevin cut to the chase.

"No problem, but Kevin, why don't you call us New Line Film Company for your investment in the new movie, it's not interesting!"

Dean half-joked.

"It's my first time directing a big investment, and I'm doing it for your own good, helping you avoid risks. If there is a chance to cooperate in the next film, I will definitely cooperate with you."

Kevin politely said.

Having said that, Dean had nothing to say. After hanging up the phone, he directly helped Kevin contact Yuan Heping, the action director of Hong Kong Island, and his Yuan Jiaban.

On Hong Kong Island in 1993, movies were emerging one after another. In theory, Yuan Heping had no time to come to the United States.

However, in Hong Kong Island, there are many excellent action directors, and he is irreplaceable in the United States.

But on Hong Kong Island, it is not a big problem to recruit someone to replace him.

Therefore, under the condition that New Line Film Company did not make a profit on their promise, Yuan Heping and his Yuan Jiaban finally boarded the United States to Los Angeles.

So far, Kevin's production team has been completely completed, except for a small amount of investment in special effects, everything else has been done.

...

At the same time, news about Kevin's Mission: Impossible movie was also spreading in Hollywood circles.

I don't know how many people are greedy for an action movie with an investment of 8000 million.

Countless people, through various connections, tried to land a role in Kevin's new movie.

After abandoning CAA, these roles do not need to pass CAA now.

Kevin's choice was to hand over most of the supporting roles to the film company to decide.

The heroine was appointed in advance by him as the investor and director, that is, Angelina Jolie.

Chapter 47 Tom Cruise Comes to the Door and Chooses the Male Lead

To put it bluntly, in secret agent action movies, all the heroine needs is beauty.

This is a typical man's play.

The last large-scale casting left is naturally the leading actor.