Legendary Hollywood Producer

If the Hollywood circle is regarded as a company, then the president of the company is by no means a big star or the six major studios. The most powerful and qualified one should be the three major brokerage companies-WMA, UTA and CAA (Innovative Artist Agency).

The protagonist to be introduced today is the CAA brokerage company.

In 1975, Michael Ovitz and four agents defected from WMA and established CAA. Their brand culture is positioned as teamwork. This kind of cooperation is based entirely on a relatively equal basis and serves its artists.

In Hollywood, CAA is recognized as the most powerful and influential brokerage company in the world. There are nearly 60% of the first-line stars under its umbrella. If you add musicians, writers, directors, sports stars, etc., the total number of signed artists will be several thousand.

Among the more famous ones are director Steven Spielberg, movie stars Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Will Smith...

In the eyes of outsiders, these superstars or big directors are very important, but in Hollywood reality, they are just a chess piece, at the mercy of others. Everyone is following the rules, or they will be abandoned.

And it is precisely because an excellent agency such as CAA has resources from directors to artists, as well as talents in various film and television dramas. Anytime, anywhere, you can create a full set of teams needed for a film and television drama, and it can be the top of all industries. With such a huge power, CAA is also a powerful force.

However, CAA is not an overbearing company. Although it has a heavy weight in the circle, it cannot cover the sky with one hand. Those production companies are also willing to show goodwill for this force. After all, the United States still has an anti-monopoly law. CAA can't make full use of the resources in its hands to produce film and television dramas and then release them for profit. It can only choose to cooperate with production companies.

Frankly speaking, it is definitely a good thing to have a good relationship with such a concentrated body of resources. At that time, the various film and television shooting of Manhai Entertainment, if CAA is willing to help, it will definitely save a lot of energy...

While Roman was still in a daze at the Los Angeles Country Club, Kevin Howen had returned to the headquarters of the Hollywood CAA.

He first handed over the cooperation project with Manhai Entertainment to the people below, and then another person found the agent in charge of Peter Heggis in the company's internal intelligence database.

After contacting the agent, Kevin Howen asked him to contact Peter Heggis for a time, and the two sides met.

In the afternoon of the next day, the two discussed in the conference room of CAA.

This is a small meeting room with a small area. Peter Heggis sat opposite Kevin Hoween, and the two began to communicate.

"Mr. Haggis, Roman should have told you about this," Kevin Howen explained. "A Marvel-owned Punisher character is adapted into a TV series. It will be directed by you."

Peter Heggis sat in his seat and looked at Kevin Hoween. He knew who he was, the most powerful group of people in CAA. Hearing the question asked by Kevin Hoween, Peter Heggis nodded, raised his hands, placed it gently on the table, and replied, "Yesterday, Roman called me and told me about it. I agree." He has been in this Vanity Fair for more than ten years, for a long time, but he has not gained much reputation and profit. Although it was a pity that he wasn't going to make a movie this time, he didn't hesitate to find him for such a project, and he agreed directly.

As the director of this TV series, Peter Heggis, Roman promised to pay him $50,000 for an episode. This offer made him very satisfied and didn't want to refuse.

"Roman has handed over the preliminary preparations for this project to CAA, what do you think you can tell me?" Kevin Hoween looked at Peter Heggis, and did not choose to ignore him because he is an unknown director. The existence of, now his words almost imply that Peter has any requirements or stuffed people into the crew, and they can be told to him.

Peter Heggis has been mixing for so many years, of course, he understands that such things as the production staff are originally a reasonable request of the director, as long as it is not too excessive, it can be passed. He was not polite, and asked for a position of assistant director plus a lighting engineer.

Just as Kevin Hoween and Peter Heggis were discussing the preparations for the TV series, Roman also began to establish a publicity and distribution plan for the movie "The Hangover."

In the drawing room of Western European Pictures, Roman, Shulman, and Mr. George of Paramount Pictures and executives of the distribution department are watching the edited "Hangover" movie.

After the film was screened, George first said, "This movie is very good, Roman, you are going to succeed again."

Roman smiled, and did not deny George's statement that this movie is more brilliant than the previous life, and the probability of success is too high.

George on the side continued, "Roman, give the overseas copyright of this film to Paramount Pictures for distribution. We have always worked together very happily, haven't we?" George, who read countless films, watched this film. I was tempted immediately.

"Of course, we are partners." Although they are partners, the share that should be given to Manhai Entertainment cannot be less, Roman thought in his heart.

With the initial verbal intention to cooperate, George also stopped this topic at the right time. He came here today. In addition to being invited to see the final edited version of the movie "The Hangover", there is also a consideration of the film’s distribution value. It now appears that it is time to build a good relationship with Manhai Entertainment and continue to cooperate.

Although there are outsiders here, Roman didn’t mind, stood up, walked to the front, facing the people from Western European film industry, and said, “This movie will be released on the North American market on November 10th. You are still close to it. Within a month, we can work out an appropriate publicity plan."

Roman paused and gave everyone time to think before he went on to say, "Schulman, how is your contact with the theater?"

"I have communicated with the people in the theater companies. They are willing to invest resources in showing our films, but the scale is not very large. They need to further observe our publicity and audience reputation."

Cinemas are like this. The amount of resources given is not only related to the production cost of the film, but also has a lot to do with the promotional effect. After all, their purpose is to make a commercial profit. As long as the film can really attract money, the resources will be invested in a sum of money. Intensified.

Roman also understands this.