Chapter 65 Signing a Contract
After leaving the cafe, Kang Hu hiked and visited the cultural landscape of Hollywood all afternoon. It was not until Kang Hucai took a taxi back to the hotel in the evening. He tasted the hotel's specialty food at the recommendation of a beautiful lady at the front desk.
By the way, Hollywood seems to be full of beauties.
In fact, many people who come to Hollywood to pursue their dreams cannot succeed in one go. Before they succeed, they not only went to various crews to interview, but also found a job near Hollywood. Some of the girls were even deceived, tempted, or degenerate for various reasons. In short, many beauties come to Hollywood's S-love movie studio every year.
After a meal of American-style dinner, Kang Hu enjoyed a cup of espresso coffee unique to the hotel, and then got up and prepared to go back to the room to sleep.
As soon as he stood up, he saw a waiter leading Hingis and Bert towards him. Kang Hu saw the two of them relaxed and smiled, thinking that things were done.
Kang Hu smiled and watched them come, then stepped forward and stretched out his hand, "It seems that our affairs have been settled!"
"Yes Kang, we are here to tell you this good news." Hingis said happily, shaking Kang Hu's hand.
After putting down Hingis's hand, Kang Hu smiled and shook hands with Bert and said, "Does Fox have no objection to our contract?"
Burt held Kang Hu's hand and said, "No, the contract is also very powerful for Fox in fact. Mr. Kang, you have really solved a big problem for me. Since I learned that Hingis had found Jane Fangda to play the heroine, I have been in a state of anxiety."
Kang Hu smiled and modestly, then asked the two of them to sit down, and then said to the waiter: "I just drank three more cups of coffee." After that, he turned to Hingis and Bert and said: "This special coffee is very good, you can try it too!"
The two of them were happy, so they didn't care about this, so they nodded in agreement.
When the waiter put three cups of coffee on it, the three of them stopped talking, but began to talk about some things about the filming of "9 to 5".
"Kang, the coffee you recommended is very good." Hingis took a sip of coffee and admired Kang Hu's eyes, then turned to the topic: "Kang, we are going to start shooting next week. Because there are not many places to shoot, all the outdoor shooting can be completed in Los Angeles, so we are going to take pictures of the indoor part first. We are going to build a large office in the studio, and try to build some other locations in the studio."
Kang Hu naturally hopes that the sooner he starts, the better he will be able to return to Hong Kong to see his women.
"For these, I believe Hingis, your ability. I just learn from it. I hope director Hingis will help you at that time!" Kang Hu said with a smile.
After drinking a cup of coffee, the three of them agreed to take Kang Hu to 20th Century Fox to sign a contract tomorrow morning, and then the two of them left behind. They still had a lot of preliminary preparations to do.
The next morning, Hingis came to the Hollywood hotel to look for Kang Hu. Kang Hu did not waste time and set off with him directly.
When I arrived at Fox, Century City on the west side of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, the lawyer Kang Hu was looking for was waiting at the door for a long time.
It is not possible to sign a contract without a lawyer, especially in a country like the United States where contracts are respected. Kang Hu specially found a lawyer through Bank of America. Although Kang Hu is not a big depositor at Bank of America and does not have any private stewards, it is still okay to spend some money and hire their customer service to help with something.
The reason why Kang Hu looked for an attorney through Bank of America was because he was blinded in the United States and it was easier to be fooled by himself. Moreover, Bank of America, as the second oldest bank in the United States, could later rise again in the 21st century, so its credibility is still worthy of trust. This is also one of the reasons why Kang Hu chose Bank of America without choosing other banks such as Citi.
Kang Hu was holding an American passport. His file was born in the United States and grew up in the United States. Unfortunately, he had nothing but fluent American English...
After Kang Hu shook hands with a lawyer hired by Bank of America, the lawyer introduced himself as Ian Bryce, who was the same name as the famous Hollywood filmmaker Ian Bryce.
But the filmmaker was a bald tall and thin man, and the man in front of him was a fat middle-aged man...
Producer Ian Brass may be awesome, but many of the films he serves as the producer are familiar to people, such as the last three "Transformers", "Save Private Ryan", "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2", "Self-time" and "Tornado", etc.
After introducing each other, the three of them walked into Fox's headquarters building. On the way, Kang Hu explained some details that were not clearly stated on the phone to Bryce, and Bryce also put forward some professional opinions.
Hingis kept bringing Kang Hu and the others to a conference room. After entering the conference room, Kang Hu saw that there were two people besides Bet. One young lady was about 20s. Kang Hu probably should be a secretary or recorder. The other looked like she was in her 30s but was well maintained. Kang Hu thought that this person was 40, and she was in a straight suit and looked like a successful person. Kang Hu probably was the person in charge who Bet said.
Seeing Hingis leading the two of them in, everyone in the conference room stood up. The other two must have heard from Bert's introduction before, so after they said hello to Hingis, they turned their eyes to Kang Hu.
Looking at the young Kang Hu, although foreigners are a little blind to Oriental people, Kang Hu is definitely not listed here, just like Audrey Hepburn is a rare beauty in both the East and the West.
The young lady looked at Kang Hu with curiosity, while the middle-aged man had sharp eyes. He could not tell any thoughts from his eyes. He looked like an old fry at first glance.
"Young Kang, you are finally here." Bert greeted happily.
Kang Hu smiled and said, "I hope I'm not too late."
"It's not too late, in fact, we just arrived." The middle-aged man took over the conversation without waiting for Bert to speak, and stretched out his right hand and continued: "Mr. Kang is so young! My name is Dennis Kane, just call me Kane. I am the manager of the planning department. This is my secretary Miss Susanna. When I heard Bert and the others say yesterday, I was a little unbelievable, but after seeing Mr. Kang today, well, in Chinese words, it's 'a dragon and phoenix among people'!"
"Mr. Kane won the award. I love the movies, and I also believe that Mr. Hingis will surprise us." Kang Hu said with a smile while shook hands with Susanna.
Because Burt had already agreed with Kane and the contract was drafted in advance, Kane had signed the contract and was now waiting for Kang Hu to sign it, so Kang Hu, Hingis and Kane were chatting, and the contract was handed over to Bryce brought by Kang Hu for review.
Bryce looked at it very seriously and would ask about some details from time to time. This made Kang Hu feel that his hundreds of dollars per hour were not in vain.
Half an hour later, Bryce confirmed that the contract had no traps or loopholes, and was formulated completely according to the plan agreed by Kang Hu and them. Then Kang Hu signed his name on the contract and handed over a check of 900,000 US dollars to producer Burt.
After the contract was signed, Bert and Hingis celebrated with high fives. This time, it was obvious that Kane was so skillful. The smart Kane actually took out a bottle of champagne and said that he wished their film a smooth film. Then Kane handed the wine to Hingis and asked him to open it, and wished him a big-selling movie.
Hingis did not shaking the bottle passionately and opened it again, but used a bottle opener to steadily open the bottle plug, poured a glass for everyone on the scene, everyone picked up the glass, and then siege the glasses in a circle, and everyone's glasses clinked together in a "cheers".
After drinking a glass of wine, Kane encouraged Hingis and Bert, and thanked Kang Hu again. Finally, he praised the uncle Bryce, and finally said, "Sorry, I still have work to work," and left the conference room with his secretary.
After Kane left, Hingis also brought Burt to express his gratitude to Kang Hu in excitement, and then went to work on his filming preparations, and once again instructed Kang Hu to come to the crew on time next Monday.
When Kang Hu and Bryce were the only uncles left in the office, Kang Hu first installed the contract, then took out a check of $1,000 and handed it to Bryce.
Bryce put away the check and handed Kang Hu a business card, expressing his hope that he would continue to serve Kang Hu in the future. The two walked out of Fox's headquarters together, and then said goodbye and left after Kang Hu refused to take him away.
Chapter completed!