Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

While the lawyers were checking the contract's operable clauses and loopholes, Thomas pulled Joseph aside and personally poured him a cup of tea.

"This is a drink from China, and it was given to me by the chairman. He said that when thinking about problems, drinking tea is more useful than drinking coffee, because this drink called tea can make people calm down, and when facing problems, calmness is often the most important thing."

"Thank you." Joseph thanked while taking the teacup, pretending to take a sip, and then hurriedly talked to Thomas about the fake contract.

"I can be sure that I didn't sign any letters on those contracts. All the contracts were forged by Luke. He signed those contracts under my name."

"And I suspect that he collected extra commissions in addition to the share stipulated in the contract."

"Today I went to his office, and he also found a director who called himself Hank, saying that he wanted me to play a movie called "Man-eating Shark", but I didn't want to play that movie at all, so he threatened me and asked me to cooperate with him."

"Are you sure he threatened you explicitly? Did you record it at that time?" Thomas, who had been listening to Joseph's story quietly, suddenly interrupted and asked.

Joseph shook his head awkwardly. At that time, he was facing the agent who suddenly tore his face, and it was good enough for him to remain calm.

The incident happened suddenly, and he didn't even think of recording.

"If I had known he was a devil, I should have been prepared before entering the office, but I naively thought that I could part ways with him in peace, and I even said that I would pay the full amount of liquidated damages." Joseph put his hands deeply into his hair and said with regret.

Thomas smiled at this time.

"Joseph, don't look so sad. I know Luke. He doesn't have a good reputation in the industry."

"And he is nothing. You come to our Max Films. We will naturally protect your interests, because we are now one, and your interests are also the interests of our Max Films."

"Mr. Thomas, thank you." Joseph said gratefully.

"NO, although we haven't signed the contract officially, I would like to hear you call me BOSS."

"Of course, BOSS!" Joseph immediately changed his words.

While the two chatted, the lawyer team was also working very efficiently.

"Item 13 of the contract has an exploitable loophole."

"Item 27 is an obvious contract trap, which can be used as evidence in future lawsuits."

"Item 65..."

Joseph felt that whether he could survive this difficulty depended on these lawyers, so although he talked to Thomas, he still put some energy on the lawyers.

Joseph was both shocked and relieved when hearing the words of the lawyers. He was shocked because he had never expected that his seemingly normal contract would have so many loopholes and tricks, and he was relieved that he had joined Max Films and had so many powerful lawyers to help him.

About forty minutes later, the six lawyers sorted out the original and copy of the contract, and then one of the lawyers who seemed to be the leader reported to Thomas: "President, we have a general idea of ​​the contract issue. Please give us a day and we will prepare a litigation plan for you."

"Okay." Thomas nodded and agreed, and then the six lawyers left the meeting room.

Thomas stood up with a smile, took out a personal business card and handed it to Joseph, and then said: "Go home and rest for a day, wait for my call."

"Okay, thank you again, Mr. Thomas."

"No, you should thank the chairman."

"Of course, Director Nie is the person I respect the most." Joseph said quickly.

Joseph said this with full sincerity. Everything he had experienced recently made Nie Wei's impression in his heart constantly higher. Now in Joseph's eyes, Nie Wei is just like Don Corleone in the movie "The Godfather", who makes people feel very reliable and respects him from the bottom of his heart.

A week later, Nie Wei once again topped the hot search list on Weibo.

But this time it was not because of the movie, because the box office of "Inception" was still very good. Although the daily box office data dropped slightly because of the popularity period, it was within the normal range, and because the box office of "Inception" exceeded 2 billion, there was a small rebound period in the middle.

Nie Wei was on the hot search because of another thing, to be more specific, it was because of a means of transportation.

The private jet bought by Nie Wei was finally exposed by the media.

The silver-white streamlined fuselage like a supercar, the tip of the upturned wing full of personality, and the top data, of course, the most important thing is the price that makes countless people stop.

In fact, this plane had already landed at Kyoto Airport in March, but Nie Wei had not used it until recently when he was going to the United States with his team for promotion, which made this expensive means of transportation appear in front of everyone.

More than 60 million US dollars, this is the approximate price quoted by the media when interviewing the company that manufactured this plane. The company did not disclose the specific amount, only saying that it was based on this price, because the G650 that Nie Wei bought was not a basic model, but a top-level configuration.

But based on this number, the value of this plane is more than 400 million Chinese yuan, which is much more expensive than those so-called luxury sports cars.

If any star buys such a "big toy", netizens will probably say it is extravagant or even wasteful. However, after Nie Wei's private jet was exposed, netizens only focused on the private jet for a while, marveled at the price for a while, and then were more surprised that Nie Wei bought a private jet this year.

"No way, I thought Nie Wei already had a private jet and a private yacht, but I didn't expect that he only bought his first private jet this year."

"Will Nie Wei be a super rich man who is frugal as much as possible?"

"Hahaha, seeing this news, what do those bosses who are only a few or even a few tenths of Nie Wei think?"

Nie Wei's net worth is 83 billion in this year's Forbes rankings, but anyone with a little bit of brains knows that Nie Wei's wealth must be more than that, even if this number has made him the third on the mainland wealth list.

Many people speculate that Nie Wei's net worth could have made him the richest man in the mainland long ago, and he might have even surpassed Li Jufu in Hong Kong. This statement was even agreed by most people.

After all, the richest man on the list now is Mr. Li from Qianbaidu. In the public's impression, the development of Fanxing Weibo alone is not worse than Qianbaidu, not to mention that Nie Wei also owns so many theaters, film companies, and even game companies and technology companies.

And these have become strong evidence for netizens to question the inaccuracy of the Forbes rankings.

In fact, the Forbes rankings are also very aggrieved. They can only rank according to the wealth revealed by the rich themselves. Forbes can't do anything about people like Nie Wei who can hide their wealth. If they speculate casually, it will make the list even more inaccurate.

In the face of netizens' doubts, the Forbes rankings remained silent, which made netizens feel that they were guilty.

Of course, this kind of thing did not make netizens entangled for too long. Nie Wei's wealth is not a matter of one or two days. Over the years, everyone has long accepted the fact that Nie Wei can make money and can make money.

When Nie Wei first appeared on the Forbes list, everyone was surprised and the topic was discussed for a whole week. But now that Nie Wei has become one of the top three richest people in the mainland, everyone just said "Oh" as a matter of course, and then casually said "Nie Wei's net worth has increased again" and "This kid is too good at making money".

This is not the first time that Nie Wei has entered his own private plane, but it is really the first time to fly into the blue sky on this plane.

Nie Wei feels that it is really good to have his own private plane.

The space decoration is all customized according to his own preferences, and there is no need to worry about other passengers, let alone accept the eyes that those passengers always cast on him.

Zhang Ziyi and Chen Daoming were also invited by Nie Wei to board the plane. Chen Daoming had been communicating with the pilot before takeoff, and kept asking about the parameters of this plane, while Zhang Ziyi was more curious about the decoration of this plane, and looked through the bar, bedroom, bathroom and even toilet.

Then after returning to the plane cabin, he pulled Nie Wei to ask about the price of this plane.

"The total cost is about 460 million. The plane itself is worth 430 million, but I also customized the interior of the space, and the training fees for the pilots and flight attendants are all included."

"Wow." Zhang Ziyi exclaimed, and laughed: "This is the most expensive plane I have ever taken."

"Me too." Chen Daoming on the side also laughed.

Nie Wei smiled and did not continue the topic, but led the topic to American publicity. Among the three, Zhang Ziyi and Nie Wei are not unfamiliar with Hollywood, only Chen Daoming is a "rookie", so most of the topics are about the publicity strategies and precautions there.

Chen Daoming is a bit arrogant, but he is only arrogant in the field he is proud of, such as acting, and he will not force himself to do things he does not understand, but humbly ask Zhang Ziyi and Nie Wei for advice.

After talking for more than an hour, the three of them were a little tired, so they took a break directly.

When Nie Wei woke up again, the plane was only half an hour away from arriving in Los Angeles. Nie Wei looked at his watch and thought that the money was worth it. This Gulfstream G650 is really much faster than ordinary passenger planes.

The three got off the plane, and the special car of Max Films had been waiting at the airport gate for a long time.

The two cars were separated, one of which took Zhang Ziyi and Chen Daoming to the Manhattan hotel that had been booked long ago, while Nie Wei took a car to his private villa in Los Angeles.

When they arrived at the villa, Joseph and Thomas had been waiting here for a long time.

"How is the matter handled?" Nie Wei asked the two while taking off his coat. He was referring to Joseph's contract. Nie Wei has been very busy recently. Since Joseph got Thomas' help, he didn't feel embarrassed to disturb Nie Wei again, so Nie Wei really didn't know much about Joseph's affairs.

"It's ready, and the net will be closed tomorrow." Thomas replied immediately, and Joseph on the side looked a little excited and looked very expectant.

"So I came at the right time, and I can watch a good show?" Nie Wei joked.

"Although it's definitely not as good as the movies you made, it's guaranteed to be wonderful." Thomas flattered Nie Wei quite naturally.

"Director, no, boss, thank you for your help. My parents and I are grateful to you." Joseph also expressed his gratitude at the right time. If it weren't for Nie Wei, he would be so worried that his hair would fall out.

"Okay, as a boss, this is what I should do. I won't entertain you tonight. Report to me about the company tomorrow." Nie Wei accepted Joseph's thanks frankly.

Thomas and Joseph said goodbye tactfully. After leaving the villa, Thomas said to Joseph solemnly in the car: "The chairman wants to see a good show. Remember to play well tomorrow."

"Don't worry, I will let Luke remember that day for the rest of his life." Joseph replied fiercely.

Luke has been very upset recently because Joseph has lost contact. For a whole week, he has not been able to contact this "cash cow", which has put a lot of pressure on Luke.

If Joseph wanted to go his separate ways that day, it has been a big stone in Luke's heart recently.

Although he has more than ten celebrity artists, not many of them can really bring him a lot of income. Joseph's sudden popularity gave him hope, but he didn't expect that he would fall into great disappointment just when hope had just begun.

Fortunately, he still had a few preparations. In his opinion, these methods could at least make Joseph be honestly controlled by him during the next year's contract period, and in a year, he could completely squeeze out the value of Joseph and make a lot of money.

As for whether Joseph's career would be hurt, that was no longer something Luke needed to consider, after all, that kid was about to "break up" with him.

It was not a solution to not be able to contact Joseph all the time. He signed so many contracts, and some of the manufacturers were already communicating with him about the shooting date. If Joseph didn't show up, his pressure would increase.

"Why not just go to his parents directly? Can Joseph hide for another year?" Luke thought to himself, and at this moment, a beautiful woman with a protruding front and a curved back, who was obviously an artificial beauty, knocked on the door and walked into Luke's office.

"Boss, Joseph is here and wants to see you."

"Ah, let him come to my office." Luke smiled smugly when he heard that Joseph was here, thinking that now was the time to obey.

But when Joseph showed up in his office, Luke was a little surprised because Joseph didn't come alone.

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