"Anthony, Anthony!" With the shouting, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a fat man with a big belly walked in angrily, along with a panicked assistant who couldn't stop him.

"What happened, Harvey?" Minghella asked calmly.

"What happened?" Weinstein stared at him and glanced around for a long time. Minghella then made a gesture, and the people who were discussing the matter with him suddenly left one after another with winks.

As soon as the door closed, Weinstein gritted his teeth and growled in a low voice: "What on earth are you thinking? Now everyone in Hollywood knows that you are going to use a newcomer with absolutely no qualifications as the leading actor! Do you know what you are doing?

!”

"Sean is an excellent actor. He is much better than ordinary newcomers. I think he is very suitable for this role." Minghella still looked unhurried and unhurried, and then spread his hands: "Look, you are both

Since I don’t want to invest more, and I don’t want to delete the live scenes in Italy, I have no choice but to choose suitable actors among the newcomers.”

Weinstein was speechless for a moment, but after a while he softened his tone: "Okay, Tony, it's my fault, I shouldn't have done that to you, and I apologize to you. I'll write you a check for 5 million now,

You can find any actor you want to play the leading role, Tom Cruise, Christian Bale, Matt Damon, no problem."

"It's too late, Harvey, it's too late," Minghella shrugged. "I think Sean is great and I've decided to give him the leading role."

"Damn! Did you listen to me, Anthony?" Weinstein became furious again. "You will destroy us and everyone!"

However, he didn't know that the more he behaved like this, the happier the other party would be.

"The quality of a movie is not determined by an actor. As a senior Hollywood producer, you should understand this, Harvey." Minghella sat on the long table in the conference room.

Weinstein stared at him fiercely, and after a while he gritted his teeth and said: "You should also understand, Anthony, investors don't want to see an unknown guy playing the leading role in a movie they finance."

"There will always be someone interested, Harvey." Minghella crossed his arms and looked at him without giving an inch.

"Okay..." Weinstein finally raised his hands and then raised his voice, "Okay, whatever you want!"

Then, he left the office without looking back, without slamming the door, which was quite civilized. It was only at this moment that Minghella loosened his clenched fists and let out a long breath.

"Just wait and see, old man, it will definitely be a success." He murmured.

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"****!****!****!" Weinstein returned to his office, grabbed a basic magazine, and roared loudly while slamming the table, as if he was about to have a cerebral hemorrhage at any time.

.

After venting like this for several minutes, he finally calmed down. After taking a few breaths, he started to circle around the office, but after not taking a few steps, he punched the table in anger. There was nothing he could do, unless he wanted to

He completely breaks up with Minghella, otherwise he can only watch the other party use that newcomer as the leading actor in this 35 million investment production. Who made him promise his power in the first place?

When negotiating with Minghella, Weinstein promised power in exchange for or to cover up that he had tampered with the contract. In addition, the two-year collaboration on "The English Patient" was quite pleasant. At that time, Weinstein didn't think too much about it.

Now these have become things that tie his hands and feet. Therefore, when the other party shows that they will break up if they don't agree, and shows corresponding determination, Weinstein has no way to restrain him.

If the contract is really broken, Miramax may become a laughing stock. Not to mention that the initial investment has been wasted, and it is basically impossible to start again, because part of the copyright of the novel is in the hands of Minghella. More importantly,

Although this kind of situation does not happen in Hollywood, it is basically not the case for people like Weinstein who once said, "Look for new people."

Of course, if Weinster makes full use of the contacts he has accumulated, he may be able to guide public opinion to keep targeting Minghella, but offending a great director who has won an Oscar in this way will probably cause a lot of backlash.

Being British is sometimes a disadvantage and sometimes an advantage. Moreover, Miramax released several good movies at the end of last year, and Weinstein made several plans. If something like this happened at this time, it would be very harmful to him.

The abacus is very unfavorable.

In short, Weinstein's original plan was based on the fact that Minghella would not break up, so when Minghella really might do this, Weinstein had no choice but to compromise. To put it simply, at the beginning, he

He dug a hole for the other party, but now the other party used this to dig a hole for him.

"Damn it! Where did that kid get out of here!" Weinstein couldn't help but roar.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and then William Hoberg, Miramax's representative on the cast of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and one of the executive producers, walked in.

"Who is that bastard kid who messed up everything?!" Weinstein asked right away.

"He's just a newcomer," Hoberg spread his hands helplessly. "I came to Los Angeles from San Francisco this summer. Then I was discovered by my agent around September and worked as an extra in some crews. I was originally in "Everyone Loves"

There was a personal role in the cast of "Raymond", but because he was involved in a dispute between two producers, he was kicked out again. Finally, he was cast in "Friends"

" found a supporting role. It is said that he contributed a lot to the high ratings of those episodes of "Friends", and the crew of "Everybody Loves Raymond" also kicked out the producer who had kicked him out because of this.

Go out. Then I took part in a small commercial for GUESS, which was recently released, and then I auditioned for "The Talented Mr. Ripley."

"That means he has no background? Such a TV actor also wants to be the leading actor in my movie." Weinstein almost squeezed out this sentence through his teeth, "Who is his agent?"

"My name is Frederick Rogers. He is thirty years old. He is somewhat famous in the industry, but he does not have many well-known actors." Hoberg quickly answered.

"Frederick Rogers?" Weinstein muttered the name, "It seems... from Endeavor Elite Agency?"

"Yes, that's right." Hoberg nodded.

"Have you called him?" Weinstein asked immediately.

"The public relations department just called, but... the other party said that if detailed communication is needed, he hopes that Director Minghella will be present."

"Damn!" Weinstein cursed, "Damn slippery man! Of course he will do this, he wants to take this opportunity to make his boy famous!"

After angrily walking around the room twice, he suddenly stared at Hoberg: "Listen, Hoberg, no matter what method you use, you have to drive that kid out of the crew!"

"But..." Hoberg looked embarrassed.

"No buts, you have to do it! You have to!" Weinstein yelled viciously, as if he was Minghella or even that hateful Sean standing in front of him.

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After closing the office, Hoberg's face suddenly became extremely ugly. This was simply an impossible task! With Minghella's support, even his boss Weinstein had to compromise. He was a small executive producer.

, what tricks can you pull off?

In fact, there is still no one way, but it is not easy to start, and the effect is hard to say. In fact, Hoberg guessed that the reason why Weinstein gave him strong orders was to force himself to use this method. What to say

, this method is very simple, that is to incite the actors to oppose the director's approach!

Although the actors who participated in this movie are not big names, they are all well-known actors. Now that they have to play the role of an unknown person, it is absolutely impossible to say that they don't feel uncomfortable. So as long as you find someone to carefully provoke a few words,

You have to protest, and then connect them through various threads to push out the crew to force the director. The possibility of the director compromising is very high.

But the problem is that Miramax also has a good relationship with the two leading ladies. The movies they released last year were all produced or distributed by them. It is difficult to say about the other supporting actors, especially Jude Law and Jack?

Davenport was personally recommended by the director. It was very difficult to bring them together and force the director.

But more importantly, no matter whether this attempt to force the palace to be imprisoned is successful or not, the initiator will definitely be pulled out as a scapegoat.

Damn it! This is definitely not what I want! Hoberg immediately rejected this approach. Although Weinstein is his boss, he still needs to gamble with his future. This kind of thing is always thankless, if only

It's fine if it's limited to the crew, but once word spreads, it won't take a few years to remove the label.

However, it was impossible for him to do nothing, so what should he do? When Hoberg returned to the crew, his head hurt and he couldn't find a suitable solution.

How could he meet such a guy? At this moment, he hated Sean very much - no matter what, Weinstein was still his boss.

"Hey, William, what are you doing here, come here, we have to get the pre-production project out today." While he was sitting in his chair, unconscious, another executive producer came over.

"We're finally going to start filming?" Hoberg laughed to himself.

"This is an obvious thing. I heard that the start-up time has been set for the 5th of next month." The other party did not care. "Federico Chiciarelli will take his assistant to meet with the young man later.

Signed the contract."

Hearing this sentence, Hoberg's eyes suddenly lit up. After a few words and then sending the other party away, he looked at the time, analyzed it in his mind, and immediately got up and went to Federico, one of the assistants?

Chiciarelli's compartment.

"You want... you want me..." Chiciarelli, who was in his thirties, looked at Hoberg with wide eyes, as if he couldn't believe what he had just said.

"Listen to me, Philly," Hoberg said with a smile, looking quite kind. "This is just a small thing. I don't think you want to see an unknown actor playing the leading role, right? Then

It’s a disaster for us, the crew, and the investors. I don’t want to speak ill of Director Guerra, but he obviously made a mistake this time.”

Then he lowered his voice again: "I think you definitely don't want to work as an assistant for the rest of your life, right?"

Chiciarelli's face turned blue and white, and after a while he asked in a low voice: "Just a few words?"

"Yes."
Chapter completed!