Chapter 23： Recruitment

Due to the popularity of "The Blair Witch", Ryan easily passed the membership application of multiple unions, including the well-known Producers Union and Directors Union.

If the producers union can dominate Hollywood, then the status of the directors union is second only to the producers union.

George Lucas once quit the directors' union and never applied for membership again, but he never quit the producers' union.

Of course, none of the Hollywood unions can be underestimated.

With growing doubts from the media and the public in North America, 20th Century Fox finally paid a buyout copyright fee, totaling $800,000.

However, 10% of it belonged to Helen's commission, and after deducting more than 50,000 US dollars in debt, there was only more than 600,000 US dollars left in Ryan's account, and there was still a long way to go before becoming a millionaire.

As for the box office ladder share, it will take some time. If it is a little slower, it is likely to wait until "The Blair Witch" is completely released in North America.

Of course, generally speaking, a big-selling movie, as the copyright buyout party, 20th Century Fox, will not delay for too long for a mere few million dollars, and will also use part of the income as the director, actors and crew personnel rewards.

Maybe not many, but there will be.

By the way, there is also a celebration banquet.

Twentieth Century Fox is likely to hold a large-scale celebration dinner.

It's just that none of this has much to do with Ryan.

According to the funds currently in the account, Ryan can only calculate carefully, and it is impossible to spend all the money in one go, so as to prevent the follow-up funds from not arriving on time.

Also, the studio that Helen helped to register has been successfully completed. He didn't bother to name it, so he simply called it Ryan's studio.

The studio can be said to be a shell company, registered in Delaware, where taxes are relatively low, like most Hollywood companies, sharing an office and an operator with at least five companies.

No way, the taxation in Los Angeles has always been terrible, but Delaware is much better. Even Disney, Paramount and other large film companies are registered in Delaware.

However, according to Ryan's plan, it is best to rent another office near the Star Brokerage Company and recruit an operator and cleaner.

Delaware is so far away, and it's obviously not very convenient to share an operator with five companies.

At the same time, he also needed an assistant to take care of some daily affairs, and Helen couldn't always be an assistant.

Ryan didn't bother about renting an office. With Helen's help, he rented an office not far from Xingkong Brokerage Company at a very cheap price.

The only downside is that the area is a bit cramped. Except for a passable office, there is only a very small front desk outside. There is no separate bathroom or meeting room. If you want to go to the bathroom, you can only go to it Another floor.

I found a housekeeping company to do some simple cleaning and at the same time, advertised a job in the newspaper.

First of all, he needs an operator. The job of this position is very simple. On weekdays, he is mainly responsible for receiving calls, emails, letters, etc., or cleaning up occasionally.

Next, it is necessary to recruit an assistant and crew coordinator.

Compared with the operator, this position is much more important.

Not only do you need to help him share some daily things, but you also need to have a certain amount of work experience in the crew, so that you can properly handle various emergencies in the crew.

The job advertisements posted took effect quickly, and someone came to apply for the job the next afternoon, a black woman in her forties.

Apparently she's here to apply for an operator job.

Oh, yes, and a part-time cleaner.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Ryan!" She seemed a little nervous.

"I'm Ryan Gosling, you can call me Ryan." Ryan nodded.

"Hello, Mr. Ryan, my name is Keisha, and I'm here to apply for an operator." The black woman named Keisha quickly introduced herself and took out a resume at the same time.

Ryan took it over and took a look at it. There was nothing wrong with the plain resume, and he said, "As long as you agree to come over every morning and clean up by the way, then you can come to work tomorrow."

"As for the salary standard, it has been clearly stated in the recruitment advertisement."

What he recruited was only an operator, and he didn't have any requirements for other aspects, and he didn't care about skin color.

Of course, the premise is that you are willing to work part-time as a cleaner.

"Okay Mr. Ryan, I can totally agree."

Keisha suddenly showed a smile. She knew very well that it was difficult to find a suitable job with her background and education, let alone just cleaning the house by the way.

"Well, here is the key to the office, you can come here tomorrow morning."

Ryan took out a key from the drawer and handed it to her. There was nothing valuable in the office anyway.

"By the way, some people may come to apply for the job in the past few days, and they need to register."

After briefly talking about the precautions, Ryan asked her to go back first and come back tomorrow morning, while he himself would continue to interview the next candidate.

At this time, on Santa Monica Avenue, a very young blonde girl kept looking at the house numbers on both sides of the road through the window glass, as if she was looking for something.

"A genius director!"

"I hope it's the same as what Helen said."

Obviously she was introduced by Helen.

Otherwise, UU Reading may not be such an easy task to recruit a suitable assistant based on Ryan's requirements for assistants and the relatively modest salary.

In fact, if it wasn't for Helen's introduction, and she just wanted to find a job to enrich herself, otherwise she would never apply for a job at a newly established studio, and she wouldn't even take a look at it.

She comes from a family of performers, her father is a famous director, and her cousin is also a well-known Hollywood actor. When she was a baby, she starred in a movie.

It can be said that she knew Hollywood very well since she was a child.

If it wasn't for the fact that she was very dissatisfied during the release of the last film, she won the Worst Newcomer Award and the Worst Supporting Actress Award at the 11th Golden Raspberry Awards one after another. I don't know how many media have ridiculed her.

If she became angry from embarrassment and decided not to take any more films, she might still be an actor now.

After finishing her acting career, she went to Paris and soon found a job in Chanel, answering the phone for Karl Lagerfeld, the artistic director of Chanel, a very promising position.

Then, under my mother's persuasion, I entered the California Institute of the Arts to study painting, but the good times didn't last long and I finally dropped out of school, and I have been doing nothing until now.

Only then did he come to Los Angeles on the recommendation of his friend Helen, hoping to find a job to kill time.

No matter who you are, seeing such a resume, you will inevitably feel envious.

Now she just wants to find a job to enrich herself and kill time by the way.

Of course, she was also a bit curious about the genius director Helen mentioned. Being from an acting family, she naturally knew very well what a movie with a box office of over 100 million in North America represented.