Hollywood (我就是好莱坞) Part I

Chapter 124 - The Oscar

Hanks's agent leaving, means giving up all the qualifications he acc.u.mulation, even if in the future he wanted to return to the CAA, he will have to start from the bottom.

Kapoor and hanks agent Simon Wilson were the witnesses to the secret contract between Eric and Hanks, the only other witness is a well-known notary public in Los Angeles. After signing the contract, Hanks was kind enough not to let Eric set the $100 million fund they talked about in the restaurant.

The only thing that CAA can do is make Tom Hanks pay a small amount of money as liquidated damages, as well as a cut of Hanks 《Running Out of Time》 paycheck.

After Hanks signed the contract with the Firefly, Tom Cruise learned about Hanks's paycheck conditions, and as Eric expected, Cruise lowered his demands. Finally, the day before the Oscar ceremony, that The two sides quickly signed the contracts, Cruise took a $5 million fee and 5% of 《Running Out of Time》 North American profits, those conditions were fully consistent with Eric's expectations. And Eric finally decided to start shooting 《Running Out of Time》 on the 5th of April.

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In March 29th, after more than a month of preparations, the 61st Oscar awards ceremony was officially held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Eric will serve as the presenter of the best-supporting actress award, it is said that the organizers originally intended to invite the newlyweds, Melanie Griffith and her husband, Don Johnson. Although Don Johnson isn't very famous, his wife Melanie Griffith has directly jumped to the frontline star position by virtue of her new film 《Working Girl》. But unfortunately, Melanie Griffith couldn't compete with Eric, who had the support of Columbia who had a lot of contacts with the Oscar organizers, who chose the more famous Eric, over Melanie Griffith and her husband,

"Eric, is my dress okay, there is no problem, right?" in a Lincoln car that was slowly moving toward the Oscar red carpet, Virginia nervously asked Eric, she has never dreamed that she would walk on the Oscar red carpet.

Eric patted her hand and said: "Vicky, relax, you look beautiful."

Still unsure of herself, Virginia gently touched her hair trying to find any loose hairs. Remembering another thing, she asked: "ah ... ... Eric, if 《Tin Toy》 won the prize, Are you really going to let me go up to receive the prize?"

"Of course," Eric nodded. "I don't want the first time I get on stage in the Oscar, to be for the best animated short film?"

John La.s.seter, who should have been present at the awards ceremony, has become a complete workaholic after Eric put Pixar management in his hands, right now John wishes he could live in his office. If the Oscar organizers didn't send the invitation, John would certainly forget about the short film award.

But after receiving the invitation, John La.s.seter directly called Eric, saying he was too busy and can't leave, and that if 《TinToy》 won the award, Eric should receive it.

Eric didn't need to be persuaded either, he was sure if Pixar walks on the same road Pixar did like in his past life, then winning the Academy Awards in the future will be easy, so he didn't feel bad about it. Originally John La.s.seter and Steve Jobs wanted to win this award, mainly because they were hoping that by winning the award, they can bring more business to the company, but now that he has access to Eric money the Oscar is just a waste of time. At the same time, Eric didn't want to board the Oscar podium for the best animated short film award, so he was gonna take this opportunity to let Virginia show her face to the public.

Just then, the Lincoln stopped at the entrance of Oscar's red carpet, the screams, and calls fans could still be heard even though he was in the car and they were far away.