The water city of Venice is a world-famous city with a long history. In addition to the rivers and landscapes throughout the city, the city is world-renowned as well as the famous Venetian Film Festival.

Sitting in the lobby of a hotel full of medieval architectural style, Matthew looked at the waterway outside and was inevitably a little curious when he came to Venice for the first time.

"I was too busy yesterday and didn't have time to talk to you."

Opposite, Sofia Coppola spoke with a faint nasal voice, "When will you go back?"

Matthew withdrew his gaze from the window and said, "I'll see a friend today and leave tomorrow morning."

Yesterday afternoon he attended the premiere of Sofia Coppola's new film "A Somewhere". If it weren't for the appointment with Rachel Vizi today, he would have taken a flight back to Los Angeles.

"Video..." Sofia Coppola asked, "What do you think?"

Matthew smiled, "I don't know much about this, you asked the wrong person."

He really can't tell whether this kind of literary and artistic film is good or bad.

Sofia Coppola did not hide her ambitions, "I originally wanted to win the Golden Lion Award, but after the premiere yesterday, the film did not respond very well."

"I don't know much about the three major European film festivals." Matthew said while thinking, "but there is no need to be a connection between reputation and awards, right?"

He paused for a moment and asked, "I remember this judges' chairperson is Quentin Tarantino?"

"Yes." Sofia Coppola nodded.

Matthew thought about it and said, "Everything comes from Hollywood, can there always be ways to influence Quentin Tarantino, right?"

The three major European film festivals are essentially no different from the Oscars, they all share cakes, and compared to the Oscars, the three major film festivals sometimes have more incomprehensible award selection choices.

It is not particularly difficult for a judge's chairman to strongly promote a certain film to win an award.

Sofia Coppola nodded slowly, "I'll think of a solution."

Everyone is in the entertainment industry, and no one is too stupid to win awards based on the so-called fair and just selection.

Matthew said that he didn't have much influence in this kind of thing, whether it was the Oscars in North America or the three major film festivals in Europe.

"By the way, Matthew." Sofia Coppola suddenly said, "Can you ask for a favor?"

Matthew didn't respond directly, "Please say."

If he has a range of abilities, he will definitely help, but if there is something that the Coppola family can't solve, he may be powerless.

Sofia Coppola gently pinched his nose and said slowly, "My cousin, Nicholas Cage, have you heard of his situation?"

Matthew nodded, "I heard of a lot."

The story of Nicholas Cage has long been spread throughout Hollywood. This former club member, who was 20 million, had to keep taking pictures of films, one after another due to taxes and debts.

If you don’t accept a movie appointment, you don’t have money to pay off your debts, especially if you owed money from the IRS, you are targeted by the IRS. That’s not an ordinary trouble.

But good projects are not so easy to encounter. Even Matthew, Leonardo DiCaprio and others are extremely cautious in handling films and adhere to the principle of better than nothing.

If you want to make money quickly, you have to take on a lot of film contracts. There are too many projects to take on in a short period of time, and bad films are inevitable. Moreover, with Nicholas Cage's situation, those well-known directors and producers will not cause trouble to work with him.

So, Nicholas Cage was in a very embarrassing position. He didn't make money by accepting movies without a large number of movies. If he received too many movies, he would almost always be bad movies. Once the movies were released, he would only lower the pay he could get. If the movies were paid low, he could only take more movies, and if he had more bad movies, he would be even lower...

This is simply a dead cycle.

"You have invested and operated so many movies." Sofia Coppola is rare to ask for someone for her cousin. "Can you find a suitable role for Nicholas?"

Matthew did not answer, but instead thought that even if Nicholas Cage became the king of bad movies, it would undoubtedly be valuable, otherwise even those bad movie crews would not look for him.

Those so-called bad movies, with low investments, can also be several million dollars.

Unfortunately, those films are just played in theaters and don’t have much pursuit of box office. They can count as much as the box office, and then flow into the disc and rental markets to make money.

But Hollywood's biggest measure of the value of a celebrity is not acting skills or peripheral sales, but box office!

When I met James Wen some time ago, James Wen once said a new horror film plan, which is still a small investment and small production, with family horror as the main plot.

As long as "Luxing" is successful, this series will naturally be put on the agenda...

"I probably have a horror movie series here." Matthew organized the language and said, "The project has not been confirmed yet, and I can't guarantee you."

Sofia Coppola heard Matthew's help and quickly smiled and said, "These are not problems."

Nowadays, who doesn’t know that the movie starring Matthew is synonymous with success, and the movies invested in and produced are also synonymous with success!

It’s not that she doesn’t know what the biggest trouble is that bothering Nicholas Cage. As long as Nicholas Cage can have a big box office hit, it’s not difficult to turn over with its past appeal and the support of the Coppola family.

But where to find a movie that is suitable for Nicholas Cage and can hit the box office?

The reason why I asked Matthew was that he was treated as a dead horse as a living horse.

Matthew still mentioned some things before, "I want to talk about some points first."

Sofia Coppola nodded slightly, "You said."

"First of all, I can't guarantee whether the project will be implemented." Matthew said concisely, "Secondly, the film is a small production, and the starring actors' pay is very low."

"Yeah." Sofia Coppola wrote down, "I will convey it to Nicholas and let him talk to you at that time."

Of course, Matthew is not a bad guy. Although James Winn has not yet confirmed that he has made preparations for serialization. "If the negotiation can be completed, I need Nicholas to sign a trilogy actor contract, and the maximum salary for a single movie will not exceed $10 million."

This is for the sake of future considerations. If the first movie hits the box office and Nicholas Cage demands a super high pay in the sequel, it will be too troublesome.

In the face of huge amounts of money, there are too many people who are as unconventional as him.

For example, in the "Iron Man" series, if Robert Downey Jr. had it not been for Robert Downey Jr., the pay for the second part would have been tens of millions of dollars, rather than less than ten million.

Sofia Coppola frowned and then said, "I will truthfully report what you said to Nicholas."

Matthew suddenly laughed, "Sophia, I have an idea." His finger pointed to the east, "I've been to the other side of the Pacific Ocean several times and found something very interesting, Nicholas is very popular there."

He half-jokingly said, "It would be no good for him to continue to take random movies in Hollywood."

Sofia Coppola was very smart and immediately understood what the words meant, "Are you talking about asking Nicholas to go to the other side of the Pacific to get a film appointment?"

Matthew smiled, but didn't say anything more.

Sofia Coppola looked at the time and said, "Thank you, Matthew." She stood up and said goodbye, "I will visit you when I return to Los Angeles."

After seeing off Sofia Coppola, Matthew didn't stay for too long and went out to take a boat to another hotel.

On the second floor of the cafe opposite the hotel, Rachel Weizi was waiting for him to come. While he was on the boat, he had already made two consecutive calls to urge him to go over quickly.

"Here, Matthew."

As soon as Matthew went up the second floor, he saw Rachel Weizi beckoning at him at the window, hurried over, pulled open the chair and sat opposite her.

"What's the situation?" asked Matthew.

"The show starts soon." Rachel Weizi pointed to a hotel across the river, "The crew of "Black Swan" lives here."

Matthew turned around and looked over there. The hotel had a very Venetian character. It was built on the edge of a relatively spacious river. There was a small pier at the door, and you could dock with speedboats and other boats. The traffic seemed very convenient.

"What can I see when I sit here?" Matthew spread his hands.

Although you can see clearly at the main entrance of the hotel, and even through the glass door, you can see some of the situations in the lobby of the hotel, no matter how many it is, it is not something that human eyes can see.

Rachel Weizi raised her lips, "There was some situation in the crew of "Black Swan" and was causing internal conflicts. Natalie Portman and Darren Aronovsky did not stay in this hotel, but stayed in another hotel three streets away alone."

Matthew was interested, "What contradiction?"

"Bloody love triangle." Rachel Weizi snorted coldly and said, "I should have guessed that Darren Aronovsky is a bastard!"

She said coldly, "Mila Kunis stays in this hotel."

Matthew nodded slightly and roughly guessed what Rachel Weisz said about the bloody love triangle.

"I have exact news." Rachel Vizi looked around and saw that there was no one else on the second floor except them. Then she said, "Natalie Portman is pregnant."

"Oh? Whose child belongs?" Matthew was not surprised.

I vaguely remember that Natalie Portman won the Best Actress Oscar with a big belly.

Rachel Weizi gritted her teeth and said, "If the few people who passed the message to me in the crew were not wrong, it should be Darren Aronovsky's."

Matthew turned to look at the hotel again, will this turn into a bad debt in the future!

"Here!" Rachel Weizi raised his hand and pointed to the river outside the window, "That Venetian speedboat!"

Just as she was talking, a speedboat approached from a distance and quickly arrived here and stopped on the dock in front of the hotel. Matthew could see clearly that Darren Aronovsky was coming off the speedboat.
Chapter completed!