Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 338: Beautiful sunrise in the early morning, shocking news from Hollywood (4K)

Link shuddered and woke up. He opened his eyes and saw a beautiful face in front of him. Her smile was as beautiful as a flower. Her plump lips were like rose petals soaked in morning dew, and exuded a sweet scent.

It's Angelina Jolie.

She was holding a white goose feather in her hand and had a smile on her face as if she had pulled a successful prank.

Standing behind her was Cameron Diaz, who was wearing a jacket and blue leggings, also smiling with her hands covering her red lips.

"What are you doing? Why are you up so early?"

The bedroom curtains were not drawn, and the sky outside was pitch black, with only a patch of pale light visible over the sea in the east. It was about four o'clock in the morning local time.

Link put his arms around Julie's slender waist and held her in his arms to calm her down.

"Haha, you're too heavy. I can't breathe."

Julie laughed, pushing against his chest.

"Honey, we are going to watch the sunrise at sea and go for a morning run on the beach. Do you want to join us?"

Cameron Diaz asked, crouching down.

"Let's go, Monica and the others said the sunrise here is beautiful, we haven't seen it yet."

Julie said affectionately as she put her arms around his neck.

"All right!"

Link carefully got out of bed, took a shower, washed up, and changed his clothes. When he returned to the bedroom, Michelle and Diane also woke up, with their messy long hair loose, their chests wrapped in blankets, leaning on the pillows and talking to Julie.

"Do you want to go?"

Link asked.

"We won't go until Diane recovers."

Michelle Pfeiffer laughed.

"Okay, you guys take a good rest. I'm going to take them to Diamond Head to watch the sunrise. If we come back late, you guys can eat first."

"Got it, you guys go quickly, or the sun will come out."

"Then let's go."

Link kissed Michelle and Diane on the cheek, then hugged Julie and Cameron and left the bedroom.

Bang!
After the door was closed, Michelle Pfeiffer and Diane Lane lay back in bed.

"Link has a really good temper."

Diane Lane said with a wink.

"temper?"

Michelle smiled and said, "I thought you would praise him for being strong, energetic, skilled, and a great man."

Diane Lane rolled her eyes at her and said, "We'll talk about this later. I mean, Julie and Cameron are so willful and often act up, but Link has never lost his temper or blamed them. He is very tolerant of them."

"Link and I have been together for almost three years, and I have never seen him lose his temper. He has a very stable personality."

Michelle laughed.

Diane Lane pulled up the blanket covering her chest, looked at the window that was gradually brightening and said, "He is perfect. I didn't think there were perfect men in the world before."

"Do you believe it now?"

Michelle leaned over her shoulder, running his fingers through her golden hair.

"That's right. Link's perfection is beyond my imagination. What I experienced in the past few days is a hundred times better than the best in the past."

Diane Lane had a satisfied smile on her face.

Michelle also smiled, "It's good that you know. When I was with Link before, you laughed at me for never meeting a good man and advised me to break up with Link. Now you have become Link's woman, will you break up with him?"

"Of course not. It's my luck to meet Link. How can I bear to leave him? But although I know the benefits of Link, Judy and Meg don't know yet. Should we help them understand Link better?"

Diane Lane bit a strand of hair, looked at her sideways and smiled.

"Meg can, but Judy doesn't like men, so I'm afraid not."

Michelle Pfeiffer thought for a moment and said.

"Not necessarily. Judy often mentions Link and has a good impression of him, but she doesn't have the courage to take that step. Maybe we can help her."

"is this okay?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. If Judy can't accept it, she will just ignore us for a few days at most. If she can accept Link, her future will be very happy. As a friend, I'm happy to see this."

Diane Lane laughed.

"Okay, I support you."

Michelle hugged her and kissed her.

Diane Lane laughed, hugged her and rolled into the blanket, making a mess.
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When Link drove Julie and Cameron Diaz to Diamond Head in an SUV, the sun had already risen over the Pacific Ocean.

They didn't see the sun jumping out of the sea, they only saw it slowly rising.

The sea level in the distance was dyed orange-red by the sun, and countless seabirds were circling and chirping where the sun rose.

The sound came from far away with the sea breeze.

Link took a picture of the two of them with his camera, and then held Julie and Cameron to take a photo together.

Originally, Julie and Cameron planned to do it on the top of the mountain, but Diamond Head is one of the famous attractions on Oahu. There are many tourists who come here to watch the sunrise in the morning. The wind is also strong on the top of the mountain, so it would be very cold if they took off their coats.

They had no choice but to suppress their excitement and return to the warm carriage to relive the experience again on the beach where the waves were surging.

It was already past nine o'clock when the three returned to the villa. Moon Beach and the manor villa behind it were also shrouded in golden sunlight, magnificent and beautiful, like a fairy palace in a mirage.

Julie and Cameron shouted excitedly and started running on the beach.

Link smiled and went back to the villa to have breakfast and chat with Brooke Shields and Jennifer Lopez about their work.

Brooke Shields began to move into the field of television program production last year. With the support of Link and UTA agency, she cooperated with Turner Television Network TBS to launch a food program, in which she herself served as the host.

The first season was aired at the beginning of the year, with a total of 12 episodes and an average viewership of 850 million.

Although it did not create a ratings peak like "Friends", it was also a successful TV show.

The media believes that Brooke Shields has successfully transformed from a vase actor to a mature and elegant host, with an annual income of more than 200 million US dollars.

Jennifer Lopez is also doing well, having filmed two movies this year, including "Money Train" produced by Columbia Pictures and "Jack in the House" directed by Coppola Sr.

At the same time, after more than a year of music training, she is currently recording a new album, which is scheduled to be released in November.

They all developed well, including Monica, Jennifer, Renee and others.

Lin Ke felt that he had done a good job. After breakfast, Lin Ke supervised Liu Qianqian to finish her homework for the day before going to the study upstairs to work and read today's newspaper.

In its fifth week of release, "The Shawshank Redemption" has earned $772 million, bringing its cumulative box office to $8043 million. It is expected that the total box office in North America will be no less than $1.2 million.

"Waterworld", which was released at the same time, has seen its weekly box office fall below 500 million U.S. dollars, with a cumulative box office of 6882 million U.S. dollars in North America.

This week's box office champion is "Congo Shock" released by Paramount Pictures, with a box office of 2464 million US dollars in its first week. The film is also the one with the best opening box office performance among the films released by Paramount this year.

After the weekly box office data was released, many media outlets published articles saying, "Guess What Pictures has another box office hit. It is expected that two films will have a North American box office of over 100 million during the summer vacation. The performance is better than that of the seven major film studios, and it has already secured the position of the biggest winner of the summer vacation."

Due to the high artistic level and excellent quality of "The Butterfly Effect" and "The Shawshank Redemption", "American Express" stated that Guess Pictures not only won the box office during the summer vacation, but also won word of mouth.

The newspaper said that if the Big Seven studios want to defeat Guess What? Pictures, they should not only focus on publicity and distribution, but also improve the quality of their films. As long as the Big Seven studios produce more good films, Guess What? Pictures' films will naturally be ignored.

After reading the weekly box office rankings, a piece of news in the Los Angeles Times caught his attention.

The news claimed to have reliable information that CAA founder Michael Ovitz plans to switch to Disney.

Since the late 1980s, Ovitz has been ranked number one on the Hollywood Power List for five consecutive times and is a very influential figure in the entertainment industry.

The CAA agency he founded is currently one of the most powerful agencies in the entertainment industry.

Now suddenly there is news that he will leave CAA and switch to Disney.

This rumor made people in the circle unbelievable, and they speculated on the reason why he changed jobs.

There are rumors that Ovitz's job change is related to Link's rise.

Since the rise of Guess What Pictures, Ovitz's power and influence in the entertainment industry have declined.

During last year's winter vacation, Ovitz teamed up with seven major film studios to try to suppress Guess What? Pictures, but the result was that Guess What? became the annual box office champion.

This summer, Ovitz once again led the seven major film studios to suppress Guess What Pictures, but still failed. Instead, Guess What Pictures became the biggest winner of the summer.

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Some people believe that Ovitz chose to jump to Disney in an attempt to use Disney's position in the industry to continue competing with Link and regain his lost power.

Some people also believe that after repeated failures, Ovitz chose to give in and prepared to retire at Disney.

In any case, this matter is inextricably linked to Link.

The Los Angeles Times also gave three reasons when reporting this news.

The first reason is that Michael Ovitz’s performance as CAA president has been mediocre over the past three years.

He blindly joined the bet with Link at the end of 93. In order to help "Trap" defeat "Final Destination", he repeatedly used his power to mobilize his artists to endorse the film, but ultimately ended in failure.

This failure intensified the conflict between the two sides, indirectly leading to the "scrap" of Robert Downey Jr., Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman and others, and Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and others also withdrew from CAA.

CAA's influence in the entertainment industry has obviously declined, and the company's profitability has also been greatly affected, gradually being overtaken by brokerage companies such as WMA and UTA.

This also caused dissatisfaction among CAA shareholders towards Ovitz, resulting in a decrease in his voice within the company.

Many shareholders even viewed him as an obstacle to CAA's development.

This was the main reason why he decided to change jobs.

Secondly, during his tenure as president of CAA, Ovitz showed a keen interest in film production and participated in the formation of film projects many times, including "Hook", "The Color of Money", and "Cape Fear".

Now that he has accepted Disney's invitation to serve as co-CEO, he also has the opportunity to realize his ambitions in the film industry.

Third, the media speculated that Ovitz's acceptance of Disney's employment was related to the transfer of Ron Meyer and others.

Hollywood is the center of the North American film industry, and the film industry is the core of the entertainment industry.

Barry Diller, Ron Mayer, David Geffen and others were originally agents. After switching to film companies, their status in the entertainment industry has significantly increased and they have gained greater power.

Perhaps Ovitz saw this and hoped to make a comeback with the help of Disney's territory and compete with Link again for the position of the number one person on the Hollywood power list.

The analysis in this article from the Los Angeles Times was well-reasoned and was recognized by many people after it was published.

But these are just speculations and the specific reasons still need further investigation.

Link smiled after reading the newspaper and called Jamalone to inquire about the CAA board meeting, when it would be held, and what the chances of winning were.

Maloney said the board of directors will meet in the afternoon. Since Ovitz has great influence within CAA and many board members and management follow Ovitz's instructions, his chances of taking over as president are slim.

Link told him not to lose heart and to give his all at the board meeting, and maybe things would turn around.

After hanging up the phone, he hesitated and decided not to call Ovitz first.

Now that the news of Ovitz's move to Disney has spread, it is basically certain that he will jump ship. After he leaves, the position of CAA president will be vacant and a new president will have to be appointed.

Given Ovitz's influence at CAA and the support Maloney has won on the board of directors, if Ovitz agrees to support Maloney, Maloney has a great chance of taking over as president of CAA.

But Ovitz attaches great importance to power. Will he give this important position to Maloney, with whom he has conflicts, because of the previous proposal? Will he give up competing with him and turn to cooperation because of the failure of the summer vacation?
These are questions that need to be answered urgently.

Although Link was very curious about what Michael Ovitz was thinking now, calling Ovitz at this time would seem too proactive and make him easy to be blackmailed by the other party.
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Jingle Bell!
In the office of CAA president, Michael Ovitz heard the phone on his desk ringing. He sat up straight and found that the caller ID was not Link's number. He leaned back in his chair in disappointment and picked up the phone lazily.

"Mike, I heard that you are planning to switch to Disney. Is this true?"

Longmeyer asked over the phone.

"Yes, Michael Eisner invited me to Disney to help him. He was very enthusiastic, and I was ready to try my hand in the film industry."

Ovitz responded.

"Mike, the film production industry is complicated. You should be more cautious."

"You don't need to tell me this. I know as much as you do."

Ovitz interrupted him in dissatisfaction.

"Well, I'm calling to ask you, who will be the president of CAA after you leave?"

Longmeyer asked.

"If you're here, it's you. If you're not here, Ron Meier, Jay Maloney, Richard Lovett, and a few others all have a chance."

"Mike, I hope you can recommend Ron. He's one of our own."

Longmeyer said meaningfully.

"Lang, this is CAA's internal work, you should stay out of it. I have a meeting, let's talk when I have time."

Michael Ovitz hung up the phone and snorted.

Last time, Longmeyer didn't let him interfere in the work of Universal Pictures, but now he is interfering in the personnel arrangements of CAA. He doesn't like Longmeyer's approach very much.

As for the candidate for CAA president, he already has a candidate in mind.

Boom boom boom!
"Boss, the board meeting is about to begin."

The assistant reminded at the door.

Ovitz finished a cigarette silently. Seeing that the phone never rang, he snorted coldly, got up and left the office.

(End of this chapter)