Lang came to Philadelphia with full confidence. In order to wait for this opportunity, he began to plan after the box office success of "Seattle Night" was released in the first week.

International Innovation Management Company is now at a historical turning point, but it is also an opportunity. Internal power struggles can add more bargaining chips to powerful agents and truly become a figure at the top of the Hollywood pyramid. For agents, an excellent actor may be worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in their hands. In addition to increasing his own weight within the company, the added confidence when facing a production company, is the representative of power.

International Innovation Management Company is currently one of the three top brokerage companies in the United States. If you can take the initiative in this competition of rights, you can win benefits and power in the future. Fame and fortune are both gained. This is the beautiful wish of anyone.

Lang knows his biggest disadvantage. He has a lot of outstanding actors under his command, but there is no top superstar he has cultivated himself. At present, Hugo is the most potential to become a superstar, and will surely make up for Lang's loophole.

Putting aside this matter, Hugo actually has many people coveted it in the company now. It is not easy to find any actor who can win the box office and get praise for acting. Therefore, Joseph, who owns Hugo's agency contract, has also become an important bargaining factor in the company's power struggle.

After comprehensive consideration, Lang felt that cutting off the fire from the pot was the best plan, and holding Hugo's brokerage contract in his hands was obviously the most guaranteed way. After waiting for a full three months, Lang finally had an excellent opportunity.

Long has been paying attention to Joseph's recent trend. The signing of Nicholas Cage with two new actors made Joseph busy and unhooked, and the company's partners began to extend an olive branch to Joseph. Joseph's social life was very lively for a while. I even heard that co-president Marvin Josephson intends to arrange an office for Joseph on the 22nd floor. You should know that the company's partners are all working on the 23rd floor, and the 22nd floor means the identity of a preparatory partner. It can be seen that Joseph is currently in a hot position within the company.

In such a situation, Joseph, who lacked experience, naturally neglected his care for Hugo, and there was a huge loophole.

Since the success of "Seattle Night Without Sleeping", there have been more scripts to come to Hugo to find him, but Joseph refused all of them. This matter is no secret in the circle, because after Joseph emphasized "Schindler's list", Hugo needed to rest for a while. Even so, there were scripts that would be sent to the company, but unfortunately Joseph still did not give in.

But what is surprising is that there was a project from Columbia Pictures temporarily kept by Joseph, so Lang was careful. Although Lang didn't know the specific details of the subsequent events, he still guessed them.

The first time, Joseph almost missed the "Shawshank Redemption" because of his negligence, which made the relationship between Hugo and Joseph a little tense. After that incident, Joseph became concerned about "Shawshank Redemption" and his contact with Frank became frequent, but surprisingly, a few days ago, Long heard the news that Tim Robbins emerged and was infinitely close to "Shawshank Redemption".

Tim's agent is Lang's old acquaintance, and he soon found out the news. Originally, Frank had made up his mind to cooperate with Hugo, but because Hugo had some ideas about the script, Frank still needed to communicate with Hugo further. Frank handed the script to Joseph and waited for Hugo's response. But the problem is that Frank had not waited for the news. Obviously, Joseph forgot about this because he was too busy, so Frank had to urge Joseph.

At this moment, Joseph and Frank tried to contact Hugo, but neither of them succeeded. It was because Hugo's phone had a problem and he lost contact. So Joseph believed that they should sit down and discuss the details of the contract first, and Hugo could talk slowly after the script; but Frank insisted that the contract was discussed after the script was negotiated. This put the negotiations between the two sides into a deadlock.

Afterwards, Frank seemed to have urged Joseph to have another script. This time, Joseph still wanted to gain more advantages in the contract negotiation process and did not give a positive response.

Frank was angry in the face of Joseph's repeated neglect. So Tim came from behind. Judging from the current situation, Hugo was still kept in the dark. If this trend continues, Hugo will inevitably pass by "Shawshank's Redemption".

Lang realized that the opportunity had come. In Lang's opinion, no matter how busy Joseph was now, it was a very fatal thing for him to ignore Hugo. As an agent, it is his job to arrange his work as a artist and a source of interests. Since the agent is also an ordinary person, he also has his own preferences and relationships, under limited attention, there will inevitably be people who care about and neglect others, which is inevitable. But if you want to become a successful agent, you must hide this preference, at least not too obvious on the surface.

When a job appears, no matter how busy the agent is, he should at least follow up in time. Whether the work can be negotiated is a different matter, timely update the news and actively contact the producer are all basic tasks. Negligence in this regard should never occur, because if the artist misses the job due to the agent's own omissions, it will definitely be a fatal blow to the cooperative relationship between the two parties. This is a manifestation of the agent's unprofessional and irresponsible behavior.

Therefore, Joseph's mistake is very fatal. What's more, Joseph's neglect is Hugo, the recently popular Hugo, Hugo, who brought important turning points to his work, is absolutely impossible.

Long thought that he would be sure to win after he came to Philadelphia, but he did not expect to be rejected in front of Hugo, and Hugo did not give him any chance at all. Although he had talked a lot just now and the conversation between the two lasted for about five minutes, Long knew that Hugo had never given him a chance at all, which made Long puzzled.

Could it be that Hugo didn't know the truth about the matter, and Joseph's negligence led to the "Shawshank Redemption" crew choosing another person?

After venting just now, Lang's emotions had stabilized. He began to think about whether he should give up completely or re-plan it?

Standing there, Lang's cheeks were unstable. Hugo's hard bone was really troublesome, but the interests involved in him were really touching. Lang thought about it and first looked at the relationship between Hugo and Joseph after this incident. If he wanted to make any moves, he had to be before the release of "Schindler's List", otherwise he would lose the opportunity.

After making plans, Lang looked back at the direction where Hugo disappeared and spitted on the ground. Although he had already sorted out his thoughts, Lang still couldn't swallow this tone of Hugo's ignorant behavior and his self-righteous attitude just now. "Then let's take a look!"

Lang stood in his eyes and felt surging in his heart. Hugo returned to the hotel room, but Lang was no longer talking nonstop beside him, and Hugo's thoughts calmed down. It was all Lang's family's words just now. He didn't know the truth of the matter, so he should have figured it out.

Even if "Shawshank's Redemption" is indeed another choice, the reason may not be Joseph, and there are countless possibilities. For example, Frank is not satisfied with the revision of the script and feels that there is no need to cooperate with Hugo; or Columbia Pictures thinks that Hugo is too long to participate in the script creation.

The casting of a role in the circle is very complicated. If you only hear a few words like Lang, it is naturally impossible to get a glimpse of the whole story.

After Hugo calmed down, he still called Joseph as usual. To his surprise, the person who answered the phone actually had a woman's voice, "Hello, this is Joseph Gibbs' office. What can I do to help you?"

"Uh, this is Hugo Lancaster. Is Joseph here?" Hugo frowned slightly.

"Mr. Lancaster, good afternoon, I am Mr. Gibbs' assistant Anna." The other party obviously knew who Hugo was, and his voice immediately became much warmer.

But after not contacting Joseph for more than half a month, he actually had an assistant, but it makes sense to think about it. At least he wouldn't be able to contact Joseph like before. "Where is Joe? Isn't you in the office?" Hugo's eyebrows were still slightly frowned, but his voice relaxed a little.

"He is holding a work conference with Mr. Cage now, and it may take some time. Do you have any urgent matters?" Anna said exactly.

Hugo thought for a while, "No, tell Joe that I have been on the phone, please make sure to contact me as soon as possible. Oh, by the way, I may not bring my cell phone in the afternoon, so tell him that I will call him in the evening."

"No problem, I will convey it. Is there anything else?" Anna said politely, which made Hugo feel a little weird. He always felt that it was not like he was talking to Joseph, but he seemed to be talking to Lang, but he knew that Lang's assistant Gary was a little more enthusiastic.

"No, there is no more." Although he had an idea in his heart, Hugo still said it neatly and hung up the phone.

Looking at the landline, Hugo couldn't help but feel a little confused. Joseph has been very busy recently and is holding a work meeting with Nicholas Cage. He probably wants to choose a new work for Nicholas. He should be happy for Joseph, right?
Chapter completed!