My Hollywood System

Chapter 61:

Chapter 61:

Just like his Will’s world, many prestigious awards showed existed in this parallel universe too. Oscars, Golden Globes and BAFTA were the same.

All of them existed in this universe and were the global awards that everyone over the world looked up to. Every actor, director and anyone who worked in Hollywood dreamed of one day standing on the stage and receiving such an award.

Although Will felt that sometimes the awards weren’t fair, he still understood their importance. After all, if a movie earned the best picture, then it would basically make its way into the history books.

It was the best way to get recognition for your work.

“The Academy gave me an invitation?”

Will asked, just to confirm. He hadn’t expected the Oscars to invite him. After all, many people in the industry were biassed towards [The Blair Witch Project], saying that it was not cinema since it was not even shot on a proper film camera.

Many film awards were also the same. Even the Golden Globes, which had happened a month ago, didn’t give him an invitation.

“Yeah, it’s a formal invitation too. You can bring a date to it too. What do you think? Will you go?”

Amanda said and looked at him for an answer.

Initially, Will thought to reject the invitation. Not like his movie was nominated, and he was still busy in the pre-production of his movie.

Oscars were just going to take his mind off when all he wanted to do was focus on his movie.

Although it was just a one-day event, the preparation will take too much money and time. He can’t look shabby after all.

He would need to get the best outfits and find makeup artists of the highest calibre to match everyone else in the event. Like Amanda had told him before, he was the face of Dream Vision, so he needed to look his best in the most prominent award ceremony in Hollywood.

And in the end, he agreed to the invitation.

“Yeah, I will go.” He said, thinking of the reason behind his decision. “It’s better not to piss off the Academy. If I didn’t go and they thought I was rude, I’m pretty sure none of our movies would be nominated in the future.”

“Yeah, the Academy tends to act petty from time to time.”

Amanda agreed to his reasoning. Once, a famous actor had not attended the Oscar ceremony due to him not having any nominations. There were rumours that he had angered the Academy, and after that, he never received any nominations even after giving out great performances.

Both Will and Amanda didn’t want Dream Vision to go the same path.

“Now that you are going, I will prepare your outfits and book the makeup artists. Your date will be June, right?”

Amanda listed down some points on a notepad and raised her head before asking.

“Yeah, obviously,” Will replied with a smile.

Due to [Sherlock Holmes], he would be swamped for a long time. Maybe, he and June wouldn’t even be able to see each other, so he felt like going to the Academy awards together was a nice compensation.

After all, it was basically announcing to everyone who hasn’t been aware of their relationship yet that they were a couple.

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As Will agreed to go to the Oscars, Amanda took up the work to prepare him and June for the event. She got busier because she was handling the casting calls too.

Will also began to go through various details of the movie with Jeffrey and his crew. After [The Blair Witch Project], it was going to be their first movie together, and this one was even a periodic movie.

It was based in 1890, and due to that, there were many things they needed to get right. Two of these things were the costumes and the film set.

Jared’s eyes widened hearing that. It was not because he found out that Will already owned a studio. It was because of the fact that he found it surprising that Foxstar was letting someone so young direct such a big production.

“Didn’t you say that this is a nearly 50-60 million dollar production?”

[A/N – Jared here is referring to it as 50-60 million production cause it doesn’t include the cost of actors.]

“Yeah, I didn’t lie to you.”

“Then, why is Foxstar investing so much in a kid?”

Perry shook his head, hearing that and explained.

“They are not investing in anything. The sole producer of the movie is Will Evans himself, and he’s betting all the wealth he got from his first movie on this one. It’s a huge fucking gamble!”

Jared’s mouth hung open upon knowing this. He had felt like Will was pretty lucky before, but now he thought of him as an idiot.

Even if he was talented in directing and scriptwriting, he was a complete idiot in money matters.

Perry began to explain to him that this piece of news was still new and the only reason he knew about it was that one of his friends in Foxstar had overheard this when they were signing the distribution contract.

“Anyway, I don’t think we should care too much about who is producing the movie. This is a good chance to make you a more popular actor, and I think you should take it. After all, movies with a production budget of over 70 million are rare. They are even offering you one of the main roles – Lord Blackwood, the main antagonist.”

“Yeah, but what about the Director?

Jared showed his concern. If he was honest, he was not really confident in the directing ability of someone who was so much younger than him.

“We will know more about it once we begin discussions with them. But I don’t think Foxstar would have agreed if they weren’t confident in his skills; you know they are pretty picky.”

Perry shrugged his shoulders. Contrary to his confident expression, he was not really confident in the project.

The only reason he was trying to persuade Jared was that he could smell money from this project. If Jared got a big paycheck, he would also get a good enough commission.

Although he was a senior agent, Perry saw Hollywood as a business and rather than suggesting only projects he was confident that would succeed to his actor, he believed in getting his actor the highest amount of money.

“I understand all that, but I’m more interested in the role of Holmes.”

Jared had a pretty good build and aura to be a villain, but he was kind of sick of such roles. This time, he wanted to play the iconic character of Holmes.

“Holmes? I don’t know if they have finalised someone for that role yet.”

Perry said, and Jared insisted.

“Then find out. If he’s not a more popular actor than me, I’m pretty sure they would be more than happy to give the role to me.”

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