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Chapter 95: The Difference Between Brokers and Managers

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In the reception room, Bruce Willis sat on the sofa and spoke to Pajero, an employee of the Actors Union.

The two of them came this time because Bruce Willis agreed to Leicester's invitation and joined his agency team. Pajero was invited by Leicester to witness the signing of the two.

"The decoration here is really good." Before Leicester arrived, Pajero enjoyed the artistic style decoration around him.

Pajero didn't expect that when he came here with Bruce Willis, he would see such a beautiful decoration style.

"Hello two."

Lester and Paula Wagner walked in, and the two greeted Bruce Willis and Pajero, and each sat down.

"Think about it." Lester asked Bruce Willis as soon as he sat down.

Twenty days are enough for him to think clearly whether to join Leicester's team.

Bruce Willis nodded and said, "I have decided to accept your invitation."

"Okay, let me introduce you. After you sign the contract, Mr. Paula Wagner will be your agent, and as a manager, I have the responsibility to plan for you."

Lester signaled Paula Wagner next to him to Bruce Willis, introducing the two people's identities and positions.



Among the powerful Hollywood agents, there are two industries, namely brokers and managers.

There are two differences between agents and managers. According to the regulations of the Actors Union, agents must hold agents and licensed by Sag before they can engage in the work of the client. When looking for jobs for artists, they have strict familiarity and are not allowed to be producers. This means that they cannot be the employer of their own artists and enjoy the interests of any film production and distribution company to avoid causing conflicts of interest.

Once you have a broker who produces and distributors, you cannot enjoy the interests of the broker.

The opposite of the agent is that the manager is wandering outside the agent, and does not need to hold a license, belongs to the agent's boss, and does not need to be restricted by the actors' union and sag. There is no provision for the contract term and commission limit stipulated by sag.

The identity of managers and artists is to serve artists and hire artists to invest a considerable amount of time and money to explore and develop these artists so that these artists can gradually become attractive to their employers.

Standing in the direction of a manager, developing an artist is an investment. As long as the artist has not succeeded, there is a basis for the manager to be used by the artist.

However, when the manager also has risks. When the artist becomes attractive to the employer, and the contract expires, the artist has no intention to renew the contract. The expiration of the contract will eventually turn the manager's long-term investment into ruin.

From this point of view, it can be seen that managers usually need a contract term that can extend the contract term and a higher commission ratio to encourage long-term and continuous risky development for newcomers and problematic artists.

However, according to Taa's regulations, managers cannot obtain work for artists, otherwise they will be considered illegal. However, as long as the manager plays an active role in a project, they can bypass the taa franchise authorization and directly hire their own customers.

Some managers, as producers, will lower their customers' pay to increase the profit returns of the film, which is a bit of a trick on their artists, but industry supervision turns a blind eye to it.

Of course, in this circle, many artists will not complain about the illegality of managers, especially newcomers who complain. It is difficult for managers and agents to represent them in the future. After all, no one will represent artists who are not good for them.

Now it is the complementary between brokers and managers. After the 1990s, the development of managers led to many brokers becoming managers. Until 2002, after the sag franchise agreement expired, brokers and sag boards initially reached new agreements, relaxing the restrictions on brokers, allowing them to account for 10% and 20% of the shares of artist brokerage companies, making brokers the employer of clients.

The most famous manager is Michael Orwitz. The caa package plan planned by the other party has made many film companies feel terrible.

Leicester plays a manager and an employer in the agency circle. He is not restricted by the actors' union and sag, and he is not interested in being an agent.

The role of the Actors Union is to protect artists from unreasonable contracts and suppression, and to strive for their own equal protection interests for artists.

"This is my agent licensed, you take a look."

Paula Wagner took out the agent's sign and handed it to Pajero to check.

After the process of review, Pajero returned it to Paula Wagner.

"This is a contract, you can take a look."

Leicester puts the contract on the table.

Bruce Willis picked up the contract and read it. After more than ten minutes, the contract was reprinted in Pajero's hands.

"The salary is reasonable and there is no problem. The broker's first contract contract is one year and the renewal period is three years."

After discovering that there was nothing wrong, Pajero returned the contract to him and Bruce Willis signed his name.

After Paroger left, Paula Wagner congratulated: "Welcome to be a member of us."

Bruce Willis said: "Let's take care of it in the future."

"This is the script I gave you. You can read it, I will direct this script."

Lester took out a script and put it on the desktop.

Bruce Willis was secretly happy and picked up the script to read it.

"Die Hard, a series of action scenes, tells the story of Detective John McAllen in Los Angeles to fight the local evil forces headed by Hans."

"Business films, Hollywood is circulating with Leicester as one of the directors of commercial potential."

Bruce Willis was a little surprised by Leicester's work. He asked him to act in an action scene as soon as he signed the contract, and said uncertainly: "This is what I starred in."

"Yes." Lester said under the expectation of Bruce Willis: "It is an action series that will allow you to star in. If the first one is successful, it will allow you to continue to star in the subsequent series."

Then Leicester talked about the payroll to Bruce Willis.

Although he is now an artist in his team, Leicester did not reduce the artist's pay like other managers and gave Bruce Willis a 5 million yuan pay. After all, the other party became popular because of "Blue Moonlight Detective Agency".

Bruce Willis was shocked by Leicester's successive big moves, which made him feel a little dazed.

"Come here, I invite you to star in a movie."

What Lester said at the Golden Globes was once again passed through his mind.

Bruce Willis thought he would be a movie star, but he didn't expect that the other party would directly choose him as the protagonist of the movie. He looked at Leicester with a fiery look. He felt that accepting the invitation was the most right thing he had done.

While Leicester was talking to Bruce Willis, Chris and others received a call from their assistants asking them to hold an important meeting tomorrow morning, which surprised them a little... "It's not long after the annual meeting, and it's held another meeting."
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