Chapter 14 Vision and Courage
Los Angeles in April has a warm climate, and it is a sunny spring time!
In West Hollywood, Aaron, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened his eyes. Nicole Kidman was playing with her long hair on his face.
"It's early in the morning, why don't you sleep?" Aaron said, and turned over, facing down. Although Nicole Kidman, who is only 22 years old, is definitely a sexy beauty, she can't resist the grumpiness of getting up.
Nicole Kidman smiled, lying on Aaron's back with her chin on the man's shoulder, "Why, you were like a lion last night, tireless!"
"Well, thank you for the compliment," Aaron rubbed his eyes, "Today is the weekend, there should be nothing important!"
Well, for agents, there should be no weekends, but who makes Aaron not a serious agent?
"Are you going to the Cannes Film Festival?" Nicole Kidman asked.
"Yes, I'm going there at the end of this month. A director named Steven Soderbergh is also going there."
"His work has been shortlisted for the Palme d'Or!"
Aaron hugged Nicole Kidman and kissed her. "Want to go and have a look?"
"Can I?"
"Of course, it's just the Cannes Film Festival. Just treat it as a vacation!"
Aaron went to Cannes to witness the success of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and to take on the distribution rights promotion business of several movies.
"Okay, sleep a little longer," Aaron said, patting the woman in his arms. I wonder if Nicole Kidman will have another chance to meet Tom Cruise?
"Well, did we offend that executive of Orion last night?"
Aaron shook his head. "Who knows if he will remember us? Don't worry, don't think too much. When you have time, read my script "Ghost" several times;"
"Then let's see if your man can help you make a splash in Hollywood!"
"Make a splash?" Nicole Kidman also laughed...
At noon, the two got up and went to a nearby restaurant for dinner. Nicole Kidman was surprised when she saw a piece of news in the newspaper.
Aaron also glanced at it. The entire crew had a sudden food poisoning incident on the set of "Total Recall" filmed by Carlock in Mexico City, Mexico. Only the leading actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was safe and sound because his food was customized in the United States!
"Arnold's salary for this movie is 11 million US dollars. He is getting closer and closer to chasing Stallone," Aaron explained.
Action stars, last year's "Die Hard" has another Bruce Willis, plus Harrison Ford, Easter Clintwood, Mel Gibson, now action movie stars are indeed valuable!
"The gap between male and female stars is too big, the top female stars' pay is only two or three million dollars," Nicole Kidman shook her head.
Aaron glanced at her, "Now you can have a few hundred thousand dollars, first become famous!"
Then, Aaron flipped through the financial newspapers, which were all about some news about Japan, and Japanese companies acquired some assets in the United States, according to the news Aaron knew, Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures should be negotiated, and now it's just a matter of the final official announcement.
Since the Plaza Accord, Japan has started a wave of overseas acquisitions, and resources like Hollywood are the dream place for Japanese investors!
At night, Nicole Kidman lay in Aaron's arms with a ruddy face, and her fair skin was very charming.
"Isn't it a bit bad to go to bed with your own clients so soon?" Aaron said while stroking the girl's body.
Nicole Kidman raised her lips, "Why didn't you say that when you were lying on top of me just now?"
"Well, we'll stay here for a few days, and then we'll go to Cannes together," Aaron smiled. Nicole Kidman is very attractive now!
"Got it..." As she said that, Nicole Kidman took the initiative to kiss Aaron again, passionately.
At the end of April, Aaron will go to Cannes, France in advance to arrange related matters for Steven Soderbergh, after all he is a new director shortlisted for the main competition unit, and it is CAA's job to sell the international copyright of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape".
At the same time, the movie "Over the Horizon" starring Nicole Kidman also reached a box office of 7 million US dollars, this kind of movie only has a month or so schedule, and it seems that it is hopeless to hit 8 million US dollars.
Although the time with Nicole Kidman is still short, I can enjoy it for a while when I go to Cannes next!
At CAA headquarters, Paula Wagner looked at Aaron Anderson in front of her, "What do you think of the international agency of Sex, Lies, and Videotape?"
"It's fine to sell it out, Steven Soderbergh also means the same thing." They are all newcomers, and they don't have any extraordinary ideas.
"It's mainly the Japanese and European markets. I will directly sell the theater screening rights, videotapes and TV broadcast rights in a package;"
"As long as Sex, Lies, and Videotape can earn some fame in Cannes, it will not be difficult to sell the distribution rights!"
Moreover, Miramax has the North American screening rights of the film. As the world's largest entertainment market, North America is of self-evident importance;
anyway, Miramax also hopes that this film can become famous in Cannes, which will be more helpful for them to distribute it domestically.
Last year, the box office of the North American cinema market exceeded the 4 billion US dollar box office mark, with a growth rate of 15% compared to the previous year, after the economic crisis, the domestic industry downturn promoted the development of the film business. After all, going to the cinema is a relatively cheap way of entertainment for Americans.
"Since you have plans, that's great. It's the business of the brokerage company to underwrite the distribution rights of film works. I just didn't expect that you could do this alone!"
Aaron smiled, "Now independent distribution companies mainly focus on horror and bloody works;"
"Not many people pay attention to this kind of literary or overseas art films, and there is little market competition."
Paula Wagner shook her head, "Little market competition means that distributors don't pay attention to it, and there are fewer opportunities to enter the theater!"
Aaron also agreed to it.
Unfortunately, Harvey Weinstein of Miramax is indeed ahead of many people, many of these literary films, other film companies dare not release, but Miramax dares to, and this guy really pays attention to artistic works.
No wonder this guy will be called the king of independent films and the savior of artistic works in the future. He is still courageous!
"When are you going to Cannes?"
"Tomorrow's plane..."
END OF THE CHAPTER....