Superstar

Two months ago, when Joseph began investigating the conspiracy behind Ron Mayer and Tracy Jacobs, he had an ominous premonition. At that time, he felt that things must not be that simple. However, Joseph has always focused on the Hugo-related situation, but he did not find that the original ominous premonition was directed at him.

Obviously, Ron Meyer and Tracy Jacobs have been targeting Hugo, and at the same time they want to separate Hugo from Joseph, so the strategy against Joseph is definitely necessary. If Joseph can be truly hit, then it would be equivalent to putting Hugo into an isolated situation, which is basically equivalent to cutting off most of Hugo's connections directly-at the time the support of the Jews for Hugo had not yet been revealed.

Nicholas Cage, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, these three actors are Joseph’s capital and his value as an agent. If they were poached away from Joseph and then split Hugo and Joseph smoothly, then Joseph, a novice who had been in the industry for less than two years, would have lost all his meridian and martial arts.

Although Joseph has limited abilities compared to top senior agents, he considers that Hugo was his first artist, and before Hugo, he was just a newbie who had just entered an international innovation management company for internship, owned by Joseph. All of his abilities started from scratch, and it’s not easy for Joseph to be able to go to this day.

It can be seen that Joseph does have the potential as an agent. But if no artist is willing to cooperate with Joseph-just like Karl before, then even if Joseph has 18 martial arts, there is no place to display it. In particular, the lack of connections among newcomers’ agents makes it difficult to convince them to have a final word.

Ron Meyer, Tracy Jacobs and Hugo and Joseph’s plans for a divorce, once achieved very good results, and even let them have the upper hand, although they did not let the two to tear up the contract, but it can still be seen The ability of Lang and Tracy. The reason why Hugo and Joseph did not break up was because of friendship, but this bond did not exist in Joseph and the others. Therefore, the strategy soon paid off on the other three people.

Matt and Ben, after signing with Joseph last year, did get some job opportunities, and still very good opportunities, but in the process of internal turmoil in the international innovation management company, they received even greater temptation. Doubt, the brokers who are more senior than Joseph, more famous than Joseph, and more capable than Joseph continue to extend their olive branches, it is difficult for them to refuse.

Compared to Matt and originally, Nicholas is already an actor who has achieved good results. It can be regarded as the stage of wandering between the first and second lines, and he has naturally attracted more attention. The olive branch extended by the creative artist agency made Nicholas particularly excited.

After Nicholas and Joseph reached a cooperation agreement last year, Joseph quickly accepted two works for him, "Redstone Town (red...west and "Super Gambler (deadfall. Strictly speaking, these two works. It was a work that Nicholas had already negotiated before, and Joseph was only responsible for negotiating contract details such as pay and working hours. But in any case, these two works can be regarded as a good beginning of cooperation between Joseph and Nicholas.

At that time, Nicholas and Joseph were definitely in the honeymoon period. This was also the time when Joseph ignored the Hugo who was on the road tour. Joseph spent almost all of his time on Nicholas.

It is a pity that both of these works have failed one after another. Whether it is word-of-mouth or box office, they all hit the street. This put Nicholas under tremendous pressure, and even the life with Joseph was not easy. Although Joseph did not accept the work, he was only responsible for negotiating the contract, but Nicholas still inevitably angered him.

However, Nicholas still gave Joseph a chance. Joseph brought him the work "The First Lady's Bodyguard (.tess. From the selection of the work to the contract negotiation, Joseph was responsible for everything, showing Joseph's outstanding ability. .

During the New Year's Eve, although Nicholas was invited by an innovative artist agency, he still decided to give Joseph a chance to see the results of "Lady's Bodyguard..." before making a decision.

"Lady's Bodyguard..." was released two weeks ago, and Yeakage won the first week with a score of 9 million dollars in the first week, but the box office plummeted by 30% in the second week, and the performance was not as expected. , And the reputation of the film is mediocre, and more praise is concentrated on the heroine Shirley McLean (.).

In fact, strictly speaking, Joseph's choice is worthy of recognition. Although it did not make Nicholas another peak, the overall performance is already quite good. At least it has received more positive feedback than Nicholas's two previous works. If you put it at other times, I guess Nicholas would not have any ideas, but he just received an invitation from an innovative artist agency, which makes things intriguing.

Recently, there are not many rumors about Nicholas, Matt, and Ben changing their agents, but there are still some scattered ones. In the eyes of others, this is also a normal situation. It is not uncommon to change brokers in this circle, so it did not cause any disturbances.

But in Joseph's eyes, he immediately saw the clues, and he finally realized what his inexplicable premonition was.

"You know?" Carl was surprised by Joseph's reaction, and he asked in surprise.

Joseph smiled, "Of course, I have a wider source of information than you." Now when it comes to connections, Joseph is indeed much better than Karl, and Joseph's ability growth is obvious to all, so it is impossible for Karl to know about it. Joseph did not hear anything about the incident, that is abnormal.

"So?" Carl didn't pursue the matter either, and immediately turned his attention back to the main issue, "What are you going to do?"

"What do you do?" Facing Carl's seriousness and urgency, Joseph was very relaxed, as if talking about other people's affairs.

Carl couldn't help being a little frustrated, and also a little angry with hating iron and steel, "Cage, are you going to keep him? Are you going to just let it go like this?"

Joseph knew that Carl was worried about himself, he stopped the action of sorting out the clothing catalog in his hand, looked at Carl, and said seriously, "Carl, I have made a choice."

Carlton was stunned, and then carefully savored Joseph's words, he also understood-Joseph chose Hugo, obviously-which made Carl do not know how to respond.

In recent days, although the office is not busy at all, Joseph went to the "Life and Death Hour" crew to supervise Hugo's filming unimpeded, which shows Joseph's determination. Among Nicholas and Hugo, he chose The latter. Or to be more precise, in Joseph's own career and Hugo's career, he chose the latter.

For the multiple-choice question of choosing one of the two, Joseph did not choose himself this time.

Joseph looked at the pause and doubt on Carl’s face, smiled and patted his shoulder, "Carl, making a choice, this is our job. Every choice is difficult, and we don’t know what the choice will lead to. The consequence may be success or failure. But this time I know that my choice is wise."

Karl opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything. In fact, Carl knew that Joseph was still guilty, and what Joseph had done in the past few months was indeed not a wise choice for Hugo. Missed "Shawshank's Redemption" almost missed "Pulp Fiction"; missed the most important concert of glory to death, almost missed the brilliance of "Almost Fame"; missed "Schindler's List" "At the premiere, I almost missed the "Schindler's List" celebration banquet... The most important thing is that Joseph did not give Hugo enough trust. It was Joseph himself that broke this friendship.

Therefore, Joseph now wants to compensate. But Carl didn't know if this was correct.

Joseph looked at Carl’s expression and knew he was wrong. He couldn’t help but smiled, “Carl, I’m not guilty, and I don’t want to make up for it. I just made a right choice.” This made Carl. I was stunned.

"Carl, in friendship and career, I chose friendship because I don't want to be an agent like Lang, remember?" Joseph said seriously, "Also, among Hugo and Nicholas, I choose For Hugo, this is because Hugo is worthy of investment by brokers, and his potential is far beyond our imagination. So, this is just work, don’t think too much."

Although Joseph said so, but Carl was not convinced by him, because he could see dodge and guilty conscience in Joseph's eyes~www.readwn.com~ Carl knew that Joseph was now feeling better than reason, but he didn't either. The way to say that Joseph's decision is wrong, so he can only give up to persuade Joseph.

"Joe, promise me, at least you shouldn't give up fighting." Carl insisted, "You may be right, but at least, we, as agents, when someone is digging corners, we should try to retain artists— —Unless we gave up on the artist, this is correct. Promise me, at least you will try to see it."

Joseph looked at Carl’s insistence and did not answer immediately. He just paused for a while, as if he was savoring it. Finally, he smiled and nodded, "I promise you." After saying that, Joseph put the clothing catalog in the catalog. In the briefcase and left the office.

Carl looked at the back of Joseph's departure, stubborn and firm. He seemed to see the Joseph before he embarked on the journey to the glory of death in July last year. It's just that it's not that time anymore. The changes in the past eight months can really be undone. ?

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