America Tycoon: The Wolf of Showbiz-Chapter 891 - 848 Doomsday Collapse_2

Everyone recalled that Sandra Bullock, who was fifty years old, seemed to really not have noticeable eye bags.

Chen Hu's girlfriend, who was of Chinese descent, came over to have a look and said, "What you're holding there is... hemorrhoid cream!"

Nowadays, with information so readily available, everyone present knew exactly what hemorrhoid cream was used for.

Lily, astonished, said, "Something you put on your butt, you can also apply on your face as cosmetics?"

Jody just shrugged, "I've tried it, and it feels pretty good."

Celine Dion took out her phone and said, "I'll take a picture and try it out when I buy it later."

Jody held the hemorrhoid cream in her palm to let her sisters take photos.

Even Lily and Elizabeth took out their phones to snap pictures, even if they felt they wouldn't need it in the short term.

Catherine also searched Sandra Bullock's Instagram, where Sandra had posted an article about her skincare secrets, which mentioned the hemorrhoid cream.

After the afternoon activities at the club, they had a gathering at a nearby restaurant for dinner.

Elizabeth was effortlessly graceful, keeping the atmosphere among the ladies warm and always full of conversation.

After the evening dispersed, she and Lily even gave a little gift to each of the women.

When they got home, Martin rewarded them well so they could get a good night's sleep honestly.

The next morning, as soon as he arrived at the studio, Bruce brought over a newspaper for Martin to look at a particular page.

"After yesterday's trial concluded, the verdict was announced on the spot," he said. "Ryan Reynolds was sentenced to six years in prison. He might have felt some pressure and declared on the spot that he would not appeal and would accept the verdict."

Martin, not fully understanding the specific legal provisions, asked, "Isn't that a little short on time?"

Bruce explained, "The victim is Ukrainian, not American. Although various women's and children's organizations in Los Angeles are watching, this result is already not bad."

He added, "Regardless of the length of the sentence, Hollywood no longer has a place for Ryan Reynolds."

Martin nodded slightly, picked up the phone, and dialed Scarlett's number, but the call was answered by an assistant.

Scarlett Johansson was filming some interior scenes for "Avengers 2" at Disney Studio and had no time at the moment.

Before long, Scarlett Johansson called back. She took the initiative to invite Martin for a big meal at a restaurant outside Disney Studio at noon.

At noon, Martin arrived punctually for the meeting.

Scarlett had reserved a table and was dressed in autumn attire that accentuated her figure when she met up with Martin at the restaurant.

She was in a good mood and toasted Martin, "Darling, you should congratulate me."

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Martin roughly understood why, "Because of Ryan Reynolds?"

Scarlett took pride in her claim, as if it really was her own doing, "I sent my ex-husband, who once bullied me, to prison. It feels absolutely fantastic!"

Martin clinked glasses with her again, "Congratulations on getting your revenge."

Scarlett took a sip of her drink and asked with a smile, "Do I look like a black widow to you?"

"You don't look like a black widow," Martin joked on purpose, "You're more like a praying mantis."

Scarlett caught on and leaned in closer, "Would you be willing to be the other half of the mantis?"

Martin said, "If you find that other half, I'll congratulate you."

Scarlett frowned, "You've raised my expectations for men too high. It's too hard to find another one." She looked at Martin, "A man like you, wealthy, handsome, fit, capable, skilled, men like that are really rare."

Martin thought to himself, what kind of rubbish talk is this.

He gave Scarlett a smile, "You can come find me anytime."

After lunch, before Scarlett left, she said, "I'm planning to pay Ryan Reynolds a visit."

Was this to kill the person and then destroy the heart? Martin once again realized the horrors of this creature called an ex-wife and asked, "He wants to see you?"

Scarlett said with a smile, "I have my ways of making him see me."

Martin thought of Jolie and Aniston, then looked at Scarlett before him, and thought to himself that marriage indeed held great terror; it was best to avoid it if possible.

Ex-wives are such terrifying creatures, their destructive power is roughly equivalent to a nuclear bomb.

If it explodes just once, it doesn't just impact two people, it could turn many people's lives into a complete mess.

There are far too many examples of this, both inside and outside of the industry.

To this day, Nicole Kidman would drag out Tom Cruise for a stroll just to catch the eyes of the world.

Martin could imagine that after Ryan Reynolds lost his freedom, his spirit was still being critically hit by his ex-wife, Scarlett Johansson.

In the afternoon, Thomas called and Martin headed to the WMA headquarters in Century City.

Over at WMA, they had received a batch of scripts and project proposals, which included film production proposals as well as scripts completed by scriptwriters under WMA.

According to WMA's ranking, Martin was naturally the first choice among all the male actor clients.

Only after Martin had made his selections could the roles in all the projects be passed down to others.

In the meeting room, Thomas led a group of people in organizing the recent accumulation of project proposals and scripts according to the computer directory, piling them up on the conference table in front of Martin.

Martin couldn't possibly look through every single script one by one. Including both external film production proposals and scripts from WMA-affiliated screenwriters, there were dozens of documents.

If he were to carefully look through each one, it would take more than week to finish.

As usual, Martin began by looking through the index directory and content summaries.

Most of the projects were meaningless for Martin, who pursued higher-quality productions.

For instance, when he saw summaries for "Point Break" and "The Last Witch Hunter" in the directory, although he had related memories, it was hard for those films to turn a profit.

Investing sixty million US dollars might take around ten years to break even.

After quickly browsing through dozens of project indexes and summaries, Martin finally found something worthwhile as he singled out one of the scripts.

Finding even one was rare enough because most of the time, there would be no finds at all.

Too many Hollywood projects get a green light first, and only then do they secure a script.

Martin said to Thomas, "This project, it's just a script, right?"

"San Andreas?" Thomas immediately told his assistant, "Find this script right now."

He looked at the index directory, "The scriptwriter is Carlton Cuse's team, one of our top script-writing clients in the company."

Martin nodded slightly, and while waiting for the script, he asked, "What previous works does he have?"

This scriptwriter was quite famous within WMA, and Thomas, who was familiar with his work, said, "He started as a movie scriptwriter, in the eighties he worked on 'Beverly Hills Cop,' then moved on to television, writing for 'Rush Hour' and 'The Tonight Show,' but what really made him a top client in the company were the multiple episodes of 'Lost' that he served as the main scriptwriter for."

Martin had an impression of "Lost," a phenomenally popular TV series at one time.

Soon, Thomas's assistant found a copy of the script and handed it over to Martin.

Martin took it and started to read carefully. Just like the summary, San Andreas referred to the San Andreas fault running through California. Geologists had predicted that this fault line had accumulated massive pressure and, if released all at once, would cause an earthquake of magnitude 8 or above in western California.

This easily reminded him of a famous disaster movie from the past life, which was the most successful disaster film after "2012."

Its Chinese title was "Doomsday Collapse."

Martin could hardly remember the details of the story; what left the deepest impression was Alexandra Daddario. He only remembered her fleeing during the earthquake, which gave people the illusion as if she had caused the super quake.

Yes, and Dwayne Johnson, too.

Martin looked closely at the characters; the male lead was a member of the fire rescue team, divorced from his wife who remarried a wealthy man in San Francisco.

After the earthquake erupted, the male protagonist embarked on a thousand-mile rescue mission, running from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save his ex-wife and daughter.

Martin was absolutely certain this was "Doomsday Collapse."

This film would have great commercial prospects once produced.

After thinking for a moment, he said to Thomas, "Contact Carlton Cuse and his agent, tell them directly that Davis Studio is interested in this project."

Thomas quickly took note and said, "It shouldn't be a problem. The company will also facilitate this transaction."