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"Feel sorry,"

Taking out his cell phone and looking at it, Tony Guzman said to several people in the room, "I'll take the call."

After saying that, he walked out of the living room of the hotel suite and came to the balcony of a bedroom, pressed the answer button, "Hello, this is Tony Gusman of the Fox searchlight."

A strange voice came from the receiver. After saying a few words, Tony Gusman frowned, recalled a little, turned to look at the living room, and said politely, "I'm sorry, Director Stanton, I may not have had time recently, and I have projects that need to be followed up."

He remembered that young director and that interesting movie, and he exchanged contact information specifically at that time. He originally planned to continue to inspect the movie, but when he watched the movie, he met a more favorite object. The Fox searchlight also attached great importance to it and needed to follow up immediately.

After politely refusing the invitation from the party, Tony Gusman said a few politely and hung up the phone.

With this new project in front of him, he basically lost interest in new works like "Hard Fruit Candy". The living room was sitting at senior executives from Ark Entertainment. The project they were talking about was Todd Field's new work "The Edge of Accident".

Not to mention that the starring of the film is the famous Tom Wilkinson, the two directors cannot be compared. Murphy Stanton is unknown, and Todd Field's previous work "Ghost Invasion" earned $90 million in North America...

Tony Gusman knew more about how to choose between the two.

He has decided to give up the "Hard Fruit Candy" he thought was good before and is ready to win "The Edge of Accident".

At the airport of the St. Denis Film Festival, a fat man arrived late. After getting off the plane, he ordered the driver to rush to the hotel immediately. A number of professional film viewers and buyers in the company were waiting for him.

Forty minutes later, Harvey Weinstein, who was full of flesh, sat in the hotel conference room, constantly flipping through the list and information submitted by many Miramax employees. It was basically all videos that have been circulating quickly in the media and circle recently, such as "Lullapel of Dark Night" and "Detective Hallucination", without any unexpected surprises.

"That's all?" He frowned, looking at the dozen or so employees below, his voice gradually rising, "How do you do it? The film festival has almost been starting a week, are you staring at them? How many distribution companies are staring at them? How much does it cost to take them down?"

Although Miramax was acquired by Disney, Harvey Weinstein's operating style is completely different from Disney, and he still takes the route of operating independent movies at a low cost.

The conference room was silent, and the prestige of this fat man in the company could be seen.

"Do you have any unpopular projects that are optimistic about?" Harvey Weinstein asked again.

It's still quiet, projects like "Blair the Witch" are not something that can be encountered at every St. Dennis Film Festival.

Harvey Weinstein slapped the conference table heavily and made a loud "bang" sound, as if this vented his anger. He didn't look at those people and waved his hand casually, "Go out."

Everyone rushed to leave, but Jones Butler stayed.

Harvey Weinstein saw her, "You have something to do?"

Jones Butler walked over and placed a piece of information in front of Harvey Weinstein. "This is a video produced by a small company called Stanton Studio. It was recommended by Bill Roses of Caa. Moore and I went to see it, and they all thought it had certain market potential."

Hearing her say this, Harvey Weinstein temporarily put down his work, opened the information and read it. After a while, he looked up and said, "Did you give it priority?"

"Yes." Jones Butler stood on his right hand. "I guess the cost of making a video is about $200,000 to $300,000. I and the marketing department estimated it and thought it could become a million-dollar project."

Harvey Weinstein was quite relieved about Jones Butler and asked, "Have you won the project?"

"No..." Jones Butler said truthfully, "I just had the first negotiation, and our offer was a little different from the other party's asking price."

After reading all the information, Harvey Weinstein rarely became interested, "Call them and I'll go and see that video tomorrow."

Murphy never expected that when he saw Jones Butler again, the other party actually brought Harvey Weinstein, the actual controller of Miramax. Not to mention him, even Bill Roses was an insignificant little person in front of a giant in the circle like Harvey Weinstein.

Moreover, Harvey Weinstein did not take them seriously. Apart from the polite greetings when they met, he didn't say much from beginning to end. He just patiently watched Murphy's "Hard Fruit Candy" screened in the conference room again.

After the screening, Harvey Weinstein said the second sentence, the subject was Jones Butler, and the voice was not very loud, and Murphy vaguely heard it.

“Continue the negotiations.”

After leaving this sentence, Harvey Weinstein left the conference room directly.

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that Harvey Weinstein, who has always been fond of independent films, will definitely be very busy when he comes to the St. Dennis Film Festival, which focuses on independent films. Even if Murphy looks up to him, he knows that Harvey Weinstein will not take himself too seriously and a small production like "Fruit Hard Candy".

According to his speculation, this fat man looked at the big guy and was simply responsible for the company's business, and a transaction of nearly one million US dollars could not be achieved casually.

Every business and every project in this circle is far from as casual as outside imagined.

Then, Murphy and Jones Butler began a tug-of-war negotiation, with a huge gap between $600,000 and $1.5 million. The difficulty of negotiations between the two sides can be imagined. Fortunately, both Murphy and Jones Butler knew that if the transaction was completed, they had to make some compromises between them.

As for the unreliable things such as the distribution contract and share agreement of mainstream commercial films, Murphy will not mention them at all. The cooperation between the two parties will only be carried out by buying out copyrights, and his energy is mainly focused on working for Stanton as much as possible to win more funds for selling out.

He could not have produced a project like "Hard Fruit Candy" forever, otherwise he would have to stay at the bottom of Hollywood, and he would need more funds to complete his plan in the next step.

Like 90% of Hollywood directors, Murphy also formulated a plan to start with an independent small production, accumulate a certain amount of funds and resumes, and gradually move towards mainstream films.
Chapter completed!