Chapter 1377: 1377

Walking out of the elevator, there is a huge glass door about five steps away on the left hand side, which can accommodate at least six people to enter side by side. Inside the glass door is a shadow wall, with light blue as the bottom and embellished with navy blue fonts. "Elite Brokerage Company" came into view at once, and around the screen wall was dotted with brown hollow plywood. It didn't look gorgeous and cumbersome, but it revealed some elegance, adding some historical heritage and bookishness out of thin air.

Before the shadow wall was a huge service desk. At this time, there were two people sitting behind the arc-shaped reception desk. After seeing someone at the elevator entrance, one of them stood up and greeted the four people with a bright and gentle smile. , "Good morning, Mr. Burns." The receptionists are obviously trained and know big names in Hollywood, "Rick has been looking forward to your arrival."

The receptionist's kindness made Roland and Dean feel a lot more at ease. Kevin's expression remained as calm as ever, only to hear the receptionist say skillfully, "Please follow me and have a rest in the conference room. K's going to visit you in the conference room soon."

Kevin also smiled politely, "Please lead the way."

Going around the shadow wall, you can see the neatly planned office cubicle at the back. The spacious and bright windows allow the sunshine of Los Angeles to flow down without any hindrance. The office cubicle in front of you is not narrow, on the contrary, the field of vision is very unobstructed. It can be found that each office cubicle corresponds to the frosted glass offices on both sides of the aisle. After a rough calculation, there are about fifteen offices on this floor, with thirty office cubicles.

It seems that this floor is where the real top brokers of Endeavour Elite Brokerage Company work, and those compartments are the desks of the assistants.

Just a meeting, Kevin can feel the ambition of this company. The design of the whole office environment is very atmospheric. Even the most powerful creative artist agency at present does not have such calmness and courage. It seems that the future goal of Endeavour Elite Agency is definitely not just the top of Hollywood.

"Kevin." Dean patted Kevin's arm quietly. Kevin was looking at his surroundings calmly. He noticed that each office was two-thirds frosted glass on the top and one-third on the bottom. Through the transparent glass, not only could he vaguely see that the furnishings and designs of the offices were completely different, but he also noticed that there was a small wooden sign hanging on the door of each office, which made him want to see for himself, and couldn't help but be a little distracted.

After being reminded by Dean, Kevin took his eyes back, and then saw the oncoming Mark Canton, the CEO of Columbia Pictures.

At this time, Mark's face showed obvious surprise. He didn't hide his expression, but took the initiative to say hello, "Alan, I didn't expect to see you here, why, come to Los Angeles for vacation?" Obviously, Mark also knew Alan.

When Kevin was distracted, Alan was very focused. He held Mark's right hand and said politely and restrainedly, "This is not a city suitable for vacation." He took it with a simple sentence. , and did not intend to answer Mark's question, "What about you, are you here today for business?"

Mark rolled his eyes and chuckled twice, "This is Los Angeles, one of my areas of activity, I just stop at random." Completely snoring, then Mark's eyes met Kevin's. , The two competitors showed a polite and perfunctory smile, and even hugged each other, "It seems that you are very busy today, I will not disturb you."

Mark didn't intend to spy on Kevin either, and wisely avoided the core directly. Kevin naturally cooperated very well, "If you have something to do, go first and come out to eat together another day."

Mark said hello to Allen again, then staggered past, raised his foot and left. After walking into the elevator, the smile on Mark's face disappeared, and he muttered in a low voice, "Alan Strello, why did Kevin come with him..." Mark's brows furrowed. , turned to his assistant and said, "This matter has to be investigated, Kevin Pence was never someone without a plan."

Although the assistant standing by the side was very curious about who this "Alan Strello" was, he knew that in Hollywood, don't take the initiative to ask for news, because you often hear news that you shouldn't know. A truly wise man can hear many, many news as long as he pricks up his ears.

Kevin also turned around twice in his mind at this time. Although there were outsiders beside him, he couldn't exchange opinions with Allen and Roland, but he had already thought about it himself. He doesn't believe in coincidences, especially in a situation like Endeavour Elite, where only one of a hundred coincidences may be true. In other words, the meeting between Mark and him was obviously arranged by Rick, but why?

In the past few years, Columbia Pictures, led by Mark, had a great reputation, but it has turned sharply since last year. In 1994, Columbia Pictures did not have a single work that exceeded 100 million yuan. It's just a thousand, it can be said to be a complete failure. So far this year, there is only one "Jumanji" worth mentioning. Before "Jumanji," the highest-grossing "Jedi" was only $65 million.

Arguably, Columbia Pictures is even worse off than Twentieth Century Fox.

Mark has been trying to build a good relationship with Hugo, especially after the "Wolf" was defeated by "Life and Death" last summer. Unfortunately, Mark's method was always wrong, and no cooperation has been reached so far. What is Mark here today for?

Several thoughts flashed through Kevin's mind. He remembered that Columbia Pictures had a project called "Men in Black". This project not only invested 90 million US dollars, but also invited Steven Spielberg to serve as the director. The producer invited Hugo to star as early as last year, but unfortunately, because the script was too bad, Hugo directly returned it - Hugo still refused in front of Steven's face.

In addition, Columbia Pictures currently has more than 80 million projects in the pipeline, with at least three.

Kevin's temple couldn't help but jump twice, obviously, this is Rick's disgust for him, no matter what Mark and Rick talked about, but it is certain that 20th Century Fox is not the only choice for Hugo, and it is better than Hugo. From the desperate Columbia Pictures, perhaps their conditions are not the best. Although Kevin knew that this was Rick's negotiating tactic, he couldn't help but buy it, because now Hugo is a buyer's market, and it's the only one with no semicolon.

Originally, Kevin felt that he had shown enough sincerity by coming to Endeavour Elite for an interview in person today, but now it seems that Rick has no plans to buy it at all. Kevin had a hunch that the negotiations today would not go well.

In the blink of an eye, the thoughts in Kevin's mind have changed several times. After entering the conference room, he whispered to Roland, "Change to the second plan."

Roland's face couldn't help but be stunned. They had just sat down, and Kevin had already taken the next step. However, Kevin immediately turned his head and had no plans to discuss in depth. Roland knew that things were definitely not that simple. This made Roland a little nervous.

The group of four people had just sat down, and before they even brought the coffee, Rick and Joseph had already appeared at the door of the conference room. At least in terms of etiquette, Rick is still in place.

"Sorry, there were some errors in my schedule, I couldn't go out to meet you in person, sorry." Rick said sincerely with a deep apology on his face, which made Roland and Dean relax a little bit. , but Kevin and Allen became slightly tense.

Nothing in the mall is that simple. Even if it is a coincidence, it must be treated with a correct attitude, otherwise Kevin's plans for the past six months may fail.

"Has anything happened to Hugo today?" After the greeting, Allen looked around and asked politely with a warm smile.

Rick looked at Joseph, and Joseph said calmly, "I'm Hugo's manager, Joseph Gibbs. Hugo participated in a charity event today, and he was a volunteer. Since he couldn't be there, he let I bring my apologies, and I hope next time he has the opportunity to invite you to dinner and apologize face to face."

Charity activities and commercial blockbuster talks, which is more important, is actually not difficult to choose, but Hugo chose the former. And this excuse also makes it impossible for Kevin to complain - it can't say "Hugo shouldn't do charity". However, Kevin was mentally prepared, and he was not surprised by such a situation. He sighed in his heart. He didn't know which link went wrong, but the current difficult situation could not be ignored.

Although Kevin got a good grasp of Hugo's psychology and made a huge plan, Kevin never really understood Hugo's thoughts, so he couldn't understand the state of mind at this moment. However, this did not prevent Kevin from getting up and dealing with it, "It's okay, it's okay, this is just an interview, originally we just wanted to talk to Hugo about his views on the script, our screenwriter also came over in person, if If you have any ideas, you can communicate directly on the spot. However, I think Joseph's appearance must have come with Hugo's opinions, so things will be no problem at all."

Kevin was very calm, but the other three showed disappointment. Obviously, Hugo's absence showed that he didn't take this cooperation seriously. In particular, Alan's blue eyes showed a strong expression. Disappointed, even the eyebrows could not help but frown slightly, and the whole person seemed to be disillusioned.

"Actually, Hugo is not satisfied with the script. He is not very interested in this script." Joseph's answer made everyone look over, and Kevin looked at Rick for the first time, only to see inside Ke still had a polite smile on his face, "Kevin, don't tell me, do you expect such a script to impress Hugo?"

Rick fired full force without any pretense, leaving this negotiation bogged down from the start.