Hollywood starts with an agent

Chapter 259 This guy is pretty handsome

While Aaron and Nicole Kidman were enjoying some happy time together in Australia, things were not peaceful in Hollywood;
Viacom Group, which has been killing Hollywood, has suffered from rising debts and worsening financial conditions due to its successive acquisitions of Blockbuster and Paramount!
Group Chairman Summer Redstone is preparing to sell some businesses to reduce foreign debt, with the primary target being the sports group Madison Square Garden (MSG) Group.

The companies that have ideas about MSG Group, which owns the NBA's New York Knicks, the NHL's New York Rangers, and the "Basketball Mecca" Madison Square Garden arena, are the cable TV group CVC led by Charles Dolan and the telecommunications giant ITT (American Telephone and Telegraph Company)!

After Rainbow Media, a subsidiary of CVC, sold the AMC cable network to Suguang, it also owned the Playboy Channel, which was co-operated with Playboy magazine.

Bravo, a pay channel jointly developed with NBC.

In 1977, Gulf & Western Industries (the predecessor of Paramount Communications) acquired MSG Group for $1.85 million;

Now, many years later, the market value of MSG Group is almost 10 billion US dollars. CVC and ITT want to acquire MSG, but it is not cheap at all.

Barry Diller, who previously competed with Summer Redstone to acquire Paramount Communications, failed, and Hollywood seems to be getting further and further away from him!
Meanwhile, MGM United Artists and Eon Productions announced Irish actor Pierce Brosnan as the next James Bond, following Timothy Dalton's departure from the 17th James Bond film.

In fact, as early as 1986, Albert Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond series, was optimistic about Pierce Brosnan playing the male protagonist James Bond in the series, and hoped that he would play the 15th 007 "The Living Daylights";
It's a pity that Pierce Brosnan had a contract with the crew of NBC's TV series "The Legend of Steele" at the time and had to give up, and Timothy Dalton played James Bond!
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At this moment, on Hamilton Island, the heart of the Whitsunday Islands, a Great Barrier Reef resort in northeastern Australia, surrounded by beautiful white sand beaches and clear waters.

In a holiday villa on the island, the sexy Nicole Kidman is sitting on Aaron, with her blonde hair flying, looking wild and hot!

After an unknown amount of time, Nicole Kidman, dripping with sweat, got off Aaron and laid in his arms. "Well, how is it? Isn't the view here nice?"

“It’s also very quiet, a great place for vacation!”

Aaron smiled and reached out to stroke Nicole Kidman's smooth, white skin. "It's really nice, it makes me relax;"

"Of course, with you, the most beautiful woman in Australia, as my companion, who can refuse?"

Then, Nicole Kidman kissed Aaron on the cheek, "Next, I have to go back to Sydney to participate in the promotion of "The Pelicans";"

"What about you? Are you going back home directly?"

Aaron nodded, "Well, it's almost time to go back!"

At the end of February, Aaron finally returned to Los Angeles, and the Chinese-language film "The Blood and Tears of Chinese Workers" invested by Crescent Films also entered the final preparations;

Another new film by Jack Cheng, "Rumble in the Bronx", a collaboration between Dawn and Golden Harvest, was released in Hong Kong and other Asian countries and achieved impressive results!

"Rumble in the Bronx" grossed HK$5600 million in Hong Kong and NT$1.2 million in Taipei, and also performed well in Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. However, Aaron's impression is that mainland China began its policy of splitting revenue for imported films in 1994, but he doesn't know when this began.
Nowadays, Hong Kong films, if they are not co-productions, are also considered imported films, and of course they cannot enjoy the preferential treatment of co-productions!

At night, in a club in West Hollywood.

Jack Wells was excitedly telling Aaron about the 44th NBA All-Star Game held at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota!

"The Eastern Conference starters were Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O'Neal, BJ Armstrong, Derrick Coleman and Kenny Anderson. Even Patrick Ewing was just a substitute.

"And our starting lineup for the West is Hakeem Olajuwon, Shawn Kemp, Karl Malone, Clyde Drexler, and Mitch Richmond;"

"Although the Eastern Conference won 127-118 and Scottie Pippen was named the All-Star Game MVP, the showdown between the two Eastern and Western centers, Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing, was the most exciting!"

There's no way around it. Ever since Michael Jordan's sudden retirement last year, the Chicago Bulls have received much less attention.
In today's NBA league, the New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets dominate the Eastern and Western divisions respectively. The outcome of the two teams' star players, Patrick Ewing and Hakeem Olajuwon, attracts the attention of many people.

Aaron shrugged, "This year is the 15th FIFA World Cup, and it will be held in the United States;"

"The Pasadena Rose Bowl in Los Angeles is a key venue for this year's World Cup. I don't even pay much attention to news like that, so why would I be watching the NBA All-Star Game?"

Well, even the Super Bowl held in Atlanta at the end of last month, Aaron didn’t pay much attention to it, but Dawn was paying close attention;
Last summer, the movie ads during the Super Bowl halftime show were really worth the money, and this year, more film companies have chosen to buy movie ads during the Super Bowl!
As he was talking, Aaron suddenly spotted Leonardo DiCaprio having fun in the club, "Jack, do you know that guy?"

Jack Wells took a look and nodded immediately. "I know. He's Leonardo DiCaprio, 20 years old. He worked with Robert De Niro in the biopic 'This Boy's Life' last year."

"I also worked with Johnny Depp and Juliet Lewis in the romantic comedy "Under the Sun," and was just nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor;"

"Now, he has also been nominated for this year's Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the movie 'A Different Sky'!"

"Why, do you think he's a good person?"

Aaron smiled and said, "I just think this guy is pretty handsome!"

However, in "A Different Sky" there is the current Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp;
How can the current Leonardo Dicaprio compare with the national idol Johnny Depp?

Because of his fame, status and other aspects, the young Leonardo Dicaprio still belonged to the lower class of Hollywood at that time!

Jack Wells shook his head. "There are too many young people like him in Hollywood. It would be difficult for him not to encounter some good opportunities."

(End of this chapter)