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Chapter 132

Makeup artist Michelle Baker was fixing Josie's lip makeup, so Josie only gave Eve a wink and asked her to go into the bathroom to smoke. Eve nodded and turned to go in.

Josie didn't bring her original hair stylist, Chris Hunter, because this person's mouth really didn't know the door, and she didn't really like to keep such timers, bombs, bombs by her side.

Coupled with the fact that Michelle Baker and her assistants are also competent for the current modeling work, she has no choice to continue to cooperate with Chris Hunter.

After finishing her makeup, Josie put on another black trouser suit that is easy to move, a flat-cut top and cigarette pants, the latest design of fashion master Yves Saint Laurent, and a mid-length dress on her shoulders suit jacket.

Eve personally took a set of photos for Josie with a SLR camera in the corridor of the hotel.

"You are a bit like a powerful female boss now." Eve commented, "The kind who will talk about a billion-dollar project in the next second."

"Actually, I am indeed prepared to do so." Josie smiled at Eve, as if she was just joking.

But only she knows that the business she will discuss with Fox next is far more than hundreds of millions of dollars-how much is the income of the Iron Man trilogy worth?

They are going to Vanity Fair's Oscar night party now, and then they will go to Fox's "Titanic" celebration party. Warner also invited Josie to the party, but she starred in "The Devil's Advocate". It was a bit too miserable, so I didn't plan to go there.

Tonight's protagonist is undoubtedly "Titanic".

At the Vanity Fair party, the star lineup that was more star-studded than the Oscars was dazzling. Almost everyone passing by smiled brightly. They sincerely or superficially sincerely wished Josie that the box office would still be a hit in the future. By the way, did she have any I'm interested in seeing my own script and whether there are any roles suitable for me to play... Her popularity is far higher than the winners who actually won the statuette tonight, such as Kim Basinger.

Obviously she won the Oscar, but from the applause at the awards ceremony, she didn't seem to be so popular.

Even now, Josie Horton is surrounded by successive producers, directors and actors looking for opportunities, while on her and Alex's side, only a few acquaintances come to say hello.

"The negative comments on the Internet have exploded. We have to do something, at least not to be ridiculed by the crowd." Alec Baldwin stroked his wife's back and reminded the latter, "For example, we should go up and say hello to her , let someone take a photo of you talking happily."

Kim Basinger's smile froze, and she subconsciously clenched the gold-plated trophy in her hand—it wasn't long before her name was engraved on it.

"Alex, I don't want to..." Her voice was small.

"What, I didn't hear clearly?" Alec Baldwin put on a smile in an instant, and said enthusiastically, "Hi, Martha! Long time no see, I was just about to talk to you about Jin's brokerage appointment. I have to Say, your professional ability is very good, I think we can continue to cooperate happily. By the way, why don't you introduce us?"

Kim Basinger was almost shoved by her husband in front of Josie Horton. This young and amazingly talented actress wore a white dress with a light smile but no one cared, because the box office of "Titanic" It gave her enough confidence to be proud and reserved.

She is already the most outstanding actress in Hollywood in the 70s. Even the former Winona Ryder is not as popular as she is so fast and in such a wide range.

Martha politely perfunctory a few words to the Baldwins, but Josie obviously didn't show face and turned her head to talk to an unknown actor passing by, which made people flattered.

Alec Baldwin was not embarrassed, and stated his most important purpose for coming tonight: "Oh, Martha, don't be so indifferent—we all get together and part ways, don't we?" He gestured to his wife He opened his mouth to smooth things over, and asked again: "I heard about the female thief project, who is your girl planning to cast as the male lead?"

Bill McKennik, who was clamoring about jumping off a building some time ago, did not show any negative emotions of depression or anxiety tonight. Right now is the most beautiful and proud time in his life.

"Hi, Josie!" Bill McKennick seemed to want to step forward to give the heroine of the movie a big hug, but his remaining rationality reminded him that the other party was a "nervous and resistant to intimacy." Jews", and then abruptly turned the open arms into helpless hands.

"Wow, I have to say, you are so beautiful tonight." The CEO of Fox looked at Josie as if he was looking at a walking Franklin, "How about it, is there any time for this year? We have a hundred million Big project for the dollar, the heroine in it is very suitable for you."

"This sounds very good, send the script to my agent, Bill, I will definitely read it then." Josie gave a formulaic answer, but she didn't believe that Fox could still get money to invest, Because their funds are still stuck on the Titanic project.

Bill McKennick could hear Josie's lack of interest. On the surface, he didn't care, but still said enthusiastically: "Okay, maybe we can cooperate again next year—by the way, do you read comics?"

"Manga? Oh, no, I don't have time." Josie smiled slightly, her expression tight.

"Then you must have missed a lot of fun." Bill McKennick served two glasses of champagne from the waiter's plate, handed one to Josie, took a sip and continued: "Fox bought out Marvel's X War in the early years." We are currently preparing for this project, and I think you are very suitable for the heroine Phoenix, and your red-haired appearance in "Titanic" is really amazing!"

Josie showed little interest, and said politely: "You know, Bill, I'm not very interested in superhero movies, otherwise I would have gone to DC to play Batgirl before."

"If you change your mind, be sure to call me." Bill McKennick said, still not completely giving up, "Fox will give you a satisfactory salary...and film dividends."

After Bill McKennick left, Archie Dano immediately joined him.

He opened his mouth and asked, "What happened? I remember you told me on the phone that you wanted to acquire the film and television adaptation rights of an [-]-line superhero from Fox, called Iron Man or something."

"But we forgot to consider the most important point, Archie." Josie put the champagne in her hand on the small table aside, "If Leonardo DiCaprio wants to play Iron Man, you will sell it The copyright of this character, instead of keeping it for self-development?"

"Oh, hell!" Archie reacted immediately, "We have to find a seemingly unrelated European company to do this. I have a way, but it will waste some extra time and money."

"It's okay, we are not in a hurry to develop this superhero project." Josie lowered her voice and quickly ordered, "The most important thing is, I don't just want Fox's copyright from Universal, you have to find a way to buy it out for us , like Fox did to the X-Men."

In fact, among Marvel's superheroes, the most profitable is undoubtedly New York's good neighbor Spider-Man.

Sony Columbia is currently talking to Marvel about the film and television adaptation rights of Spider-Man and its subsidiary characters, but the copyright of this character is very confusing.

21st Century Pictures, which previously owned the copyright of the Spider-Man movie but lacked funds, recruited Caroco Films, which was interested in James Cameron's film, to produce the film together, but when the contract was signed, Caroco Films continued to use "The End". The contract template of "Spider-Man 2" made James Cameron have the advertising rights and sales field decision rights of "Spider-Man".

21st Century Pictures was furious immediately, and directly went to court with Caroco Films and James Cameron. After more than three years of litigation, the two film companies and Marvel Comics went bankrupt successively, so MGM preemptively acquired the two films. The company has acquired the film rights of Spider-Man.

However, what caught MGM off guard was that the court also ruled that the copyright agreement of 21st Century Pictures had expired, which led to Sony Columbia's acquisition of the Spider-Man film copyright from Marvel at a high price.

It is conceivable that without a sufficient network of contacts in the political and business circles, it is not easy to acquire this copyright.

But this doesn't have much impact, because Tianji Films always focuses on second- and third-line heroes that Marvel doesn't care much about, such as Iron Man, Black Widow, and so on.

In 1990, Universal Pictures bought the rights to the characters of Iron Man, Hulk and Namor.Six years later, Twentieth Century Fox Films bought the copyright of Iron Man from Universal Pictures

In the same year, Marvel, which was in decline, was facing a bankruptcy crisis. In order not to take risks and obtain a large amount of funds at the same time, the owner Ronald Perelman chose the simplest and rude way to make money: selling a large number of filming rights of comic characters to make money.

"Buying out? This is not easy to operate." Archie couldn't help frowning, "Besides, the 15-year copyright agreement signed by Universal and Marvel, there is still a long time left before it expires. We really Do I need to spend extra money?"

"Need. You just do what I say, don't worry about money." Josie will not be stingy in this regard, otherwise she may follow in the footsteps of MGM, "And remember to remind me to write you a list , I will tell you the copyright of the characters you want in order of importance."

"Okay, I'll try my best." Archie shrugged. "Marvel just completed bankruptcy and reorganization last year. Now is the time when they urgently need funds to recover, but they usually only sell time-sensitive copyrights."

"It's not about doing your best, but about doing it." Josie said, smiling at Jennifer Aniston who was walking towards her, and said hello, "Good evening, Jenny, you look so beautiful."

Jennifer Aniston wore a champagne suspender dress, her blond hair and smile were classic Rachel's style, she stepped forward and gave Josie a quick hug, and said, "Hi, Josie, congratulations on breaking through ten at the box office. Billion, I don't think anyone could be more charming than you tonight."

"It's all the power of 'Franklin'." Josie said with a slightly self-deprecating tone, and then asked: "Speaking of which, the romantic comedy "Hard to Get" starring you and Paul is about to be released, so you must invite me to premiere it." Is the projection okay?"

"Of course, of course, as long as you don't mind receiving two invitations at once." Jennifer Aniston made a joke.

Josie stood there and chatted with her for a while, when someone called her name not far away: "Josie, come here!"

Well, it was James Cameron who called her, and this face must be given.

Josie bid farewell to Jennifer Aniston politely, then walked over to James Cameron, and the latter asked, "Where's that brat? He won't really plan to even have the celebration dinner tonight." don't show up."

"I don't know." Josie spread her hands, "At least he hasn't been photographed, and it's really gratifying to appear in a Japanese restaurant eating sushi."

James Cameron also followed her example and spread his hands, then said, "Forget it, I'll introduce some friends to you, you just need to keep smiling."

Afterwards, he took Josie to meet many directors and producers in the circle, even his ex-wife Catherine Bigelow was not behind, and he also emphasized on the movie that turned Keanu Reeves into an action movie star "Breaking Point".

Josie didn't understand what James Cameron was doing at the time, and it wasn't until after Catherine Bigelow left that she heard him say: "Didn't you want to make the script of the female thief but couldn't find a suitable director for an action movie? All right, I've been photographing you for months, and I can probably tell what you're thinking when you curl your lips. I'm just introducing her to you, not asking you to hire her."

"Ah oh, I'll consider it." Josie, who had been trained for a long time without changing her face, was not guilty when she was punctured casually, and she still wanted to tease James Cameron, "It's really surprising, you two ex-husbands The relationship with the ex-wife is actually not bad?"

"So, what do you think we should do?" James Cameron was confident, as if it wasn't him who was reported by the tabloids to cheat on Linda Hamilton.

Josie was speechless, so she shrugged.

As one of the investors of "Titanic", Frank Horton also appeared here tonight as a representative of Tianmu Capital. He and James Cameron have regained their previous intimacy, and it seems that they plan to do something film project.

However, Frank deliberately avoided being in the same frame as Josie. After "Titanic" became popular all over the world, they had a conversation to play down Josie's impression of the rich second generation and heirs.

Because this public persona is not approachable enough for a real Hollywood star.