Chapter 215: Black Widow Reverse

After the Gulfstream G550 landed in Los Angeles, William Chen and Jessica went to his Marbury Beach villa together.

This time Jessica came with him, because MGM Pictures is about to start the 23rd movie. Through William Chen, Jessica got the opportunity to audition, so she came to audition together.

The most important movie of MGM this year is this one, and the rest are still in the process of filming and the second one. In addition, the latest one is also about to start filming. Also, it is the movie that is cooperating with Warner Bros. The film is expected to start shooting between the end of this year and next year.

William Chen's purpose in coming to Los Angeles this time is to meet his cousins ​​Roger and Rick Walton, and to talk to Warner about taking back the distribution rights of the Hulk movie.

I went directly to Rick Walton's villa in Beverly Hills and met them here. William Chen had been to this villa before. It was Rick Walton who first met here. Later, at a party in Hollywood, he talked about the movie.

It's just that after meeting Roger and Rick Walton, William Chen also met another person here, and he was an old acquaintance, that is Delphine Arnault, the eldest lady of the LVMH group.

"What's the matter with these two?"

William Chen pulled Roger aside, gestured to Rick Walton and Delphine who were sitting and chatting together, and asked him.

"I can't see that? They hooked up together."

Roger said carelessly: "By the way, my dear cousin, you are a very rich man now, can you give me some extra budget?"

"cannot."

Chen William said neatly, and then looked at the two people over there who were frowning. I didn't expect that Rick, this guy, has something. I really talked to him casually last time, but I didn't expect that Delphine would really be taken care of. This man's mother-in-law has done it. If he can't make up his joke about the marriage between the first American family and the richest man in Europe, the chance of it coming true is quite high.

This Rick's taste is also quite...that one is special, although Delphine is considered a beauty in terms of appearance, especially from the Arno family, she is really good at temperament, but her temper is really a bit of a manly woman.

Forget it, since it was blessed by your own prophecy, then respect and bless it.

Thinking of this, William Chen talked to Roger about his "Sneak Tracking" variety show. When it came to this, Roger immediately spoke to him with great enthusiasm.

At present, the program has completed the preliminary exercise test. In this process, the detailed process and rules are mainly determined.

For example, as the judge of the arresting party, Roger will, under various circumstances, determine what information the hunter who executes the arrest can obtain based on the clues he has obtained. The information of the fleeing party obtained outside the rules shall not be provided to the hunter. of.

In addition, the producers and photographers who have filmed survival programs in the wild are specially hired to train the follow-up photographers of the fugitives during the program to ensure that they will not reveal the whereabouts of the fugitives for their own reasons under certain circumstances.

After determining these procedures, the open recruitment of fugitives has now begun, and professional lawyers have formulated authorization documents for the privacy of fugitives.

It is expected that the variety show will officially start in mid-April, and then the filming will be completed within a month and post-editing will begin. As a major shareholder of Netflix, William Chen will also take it to Netflix for evaluation after the production is completed, and try to play it on their website.

After they finished talking, William Chen chatted with Rick about the Zoom company.

It can be said that after the Zoom coverage in California, the model has become more and more mature, especially when the product director of Zoom company, Yes Ramos, made a special trip to Yiwu, China. After finding some strong manufacturers there, Zoom's self-operated business has also begun.

After the first batch of small household appliances were put on the shelves, they were quickly sold out with low prices and good quality. From now on, China's manufacturing capacity has indeed surpassed other countries by a large margin. In terms of labor costs, you can say that Southeast Asia has an advantage, but manufacturing is not only about labor costs, but also the education level of workers is very important. In those countries in Southeast Asia, it is difficult to find a country with such comprehensive coverage of secondary and higher education as Hua Guo.

It's no wonder that China beat other countries in the manufacturing industry.

Therefore, after Zoom's first batch of customized products from China were very popular, they found that even with shipping and taxes, the price-performance ratio of these products was far superior to other products, so they were greatly encouraged, and the second batch had already been shipped by sea. La, the third batch will increase the variety and quantity.

Because of the Zoom model, it is difficult to explore in the early stage. Once the entire construction process is specified, it only needs to develop to other areas step by step.

In the current situation of the subprime mortgage crisis, with the unemployment rate so high, it is relatively easy to recruit people.

In Rick Walton's plan, the next step is to expand Zoom to Oregon and Washington state, first completing the layout on the west coast of the United States. Next, skip the states of Nevada, Idaho, and Arizona, where the terrain is complex and the population is relatively sparse, and directly start the layout on the east coast, and enter New York. Land expansion.

It's just that Chen William found that Delphine's attitude towards herself is a little colder now. I don't know if it's because she didn't succeed in buying Hermes here, or whether he ranks higher than Delphina's in the newly announced Forbes rich list. Her father wants to be tall, so her previous rush to acquire Hermes was a bit... wishful thinking?

Although the plan to expand Zoom to the United States is very exciting, in the current reality, the Zoom company has only just spread to California, and the other two states are only in the process of building warehousing and logistics systems, so for Chen William, now Zoom does not need to involve too much energy. At most, it is to inject funds with Rick Walton when the company is short of money.

With Warner Bros., William Chen didn't need to appear in person, he just came to coordinate the distribution of interests between Twentieth Century Pictures and MGM Pictures.

The original plan was that MGM and Warner Bros. would each be responsible for half of the funds during the filming of the film. Now that the filming is approaching, Warner Company hopes to divide the film, which was originally only one film, into three films.

So the final result is that the first of these three films, Twentieth Century Pictures helped Warner Company to provide half of the shooting funds, and then Warner Company released the film that was about to be completed, and then released the remaining film. The distribution rights for the Hulk independent film return to Twentieth Century Pictures.

After resolving this matter, William Chen also met an acquaintance of his, er, it should be said to be an acquaintance of his predecessor.

"You've changed a lot, William."

"You still haven't changed, you're still so beautiful."

Hearing William Chen's words, Scarlett Johansson said with a smile, "It seems that you haven't changed, you still like sweet words so much."

Looking at the woman in front of him, what appeared in William Chen's mind subconsciously was the "Black Widow" in a tight leather jacket, also because the character was too impressive. And the entanglements between her predecessor and her were not experienced by William Chen, so the feelings were not too profound.

"After all, some things are unforgettable, aren't they?"

For this sentence, Scarlett's understanding was in another direction. There was a bit of reminiscence in her eyes, but she quickly recovered as before, and said quite a bit self-deprecating:

"But it's always going to be different. Now that I'm married, and you, you're one of the world's super-rich people, with countless women around you, Ivanta, Paris, Jessica... that's exactly what you liked before. Life."

"You're invincible now, women throw their arms around you, and then get what they want, just like Jessica She's also the new Bond Girl, and that's the reality..."

Uh, what to say about this, seeing Scarlett who was a little drunk after drinking two glasses of wine, William Chen just found out that she also participated in the audition today, but the result is obvious, Jessica finally got the role .

William Chen wanted to tell her that you don't have to envy Jessica, you will soon have your own impressive representative role, that is the Black Widow in 2.

It's just that the first movie hasn't been released yet, so it's too early to say this. In the end, he can only say:

"You knew from the very beginning, Scarlett, that's what Hollywood is like, and you don't have to care about that now. Your fame, there will always be a role that suits you who will come to you."

Uh, this kind of words are a little weak, but what can we say?

Sure enough, Scarlet drank the wine in the glass, looked directly at William Chen, and said:

"Your tone of voice is already sympathetic to the superior, William."

She got up, walked to William Chen's side, leaned over to his ear, with some hoarse temptation, she said softly:

"I can't wait, William, maybe I should give myself to you in exchange for some opportunities?"

William Chen felt her hand on his shoulder, across his chest, and down...

"Scarlett, we shouldn't be like this, you're already married..."

"Is it? But it seems to tell me that you lied, William, there are places where you can't lie."

Scarlett put her lips against William Chen's ear and said:

"William, take me back..."