Ace Hollywood

Farewell to Hollywood and headed to Silicon Valley?

Daniel loves money more than movies when he's gone.

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Daniel released a big torpedo at the media preview of Pirate to focus everyone's attention again.

In the middle of 2003, the news that Daniel's team rejected all the itineraries after New Year's Day in 2004 appeared in the newspapers frequently, and everyone's previous speculation that Daniel would break his promise has gradually disappeared.

And Daniel, who wanted to study business, seemed to be able to explain their persistence.

So Trevor, Cusa, Melissa and Sally are receiving calls constantly.

Desaar passed the knife and fork to Daniel, and Sally was now chattering more and more.

All the work calls I take now, people ask about your next plan, and they are all worried that you are going to study in college for four years? And then will you come back?

I just invested 200 million in DD Films, can't it prove my idea?

Ten thousand reasons are not as good as your announcement to go to school.

Sally was never supportive of his decision to go to college.

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After a period of expansion, DD Films has doubled its staff.

The same goes for Daniel Investments.

It was the first time for the newly joined employees to meet the big boss Daniel Sandler. When this legendary figure entered the office, everyone even stood up and applauded involuntarily.

Daniel, David, and accompanying Melissa and Ferguson were all stunned, and it took several seconds for them to react.

Such warm applause feels like saying 'You are too incompetent, boss'... I promise, I will come here often in the future.

He didn't go to David's office, but to Melissa's.

Melissa's position in Daniel's investment department is special assistant, and the department is Ferguson. There is no doubt that the former leads the latter.

Ryan special help in the hearts of the staff. It is also quite enviable. This former agent who has been with Daniel almost throughout his rise is second only to Kusa Damon, the newly promoted senior partner.

Although Daniel can intervene less and less. But with the rapid expansion of Kusa's own network of contacts, the benefits he can bring to the company are also considerable. This trend is the reason why Ian finally promoted his partner level.

In fact, the relationship with Daniel has never been warm, especially after Kevin Goley left to work for Universal Pictures-Lon Meyer's success made his partners see Universal as a good next home. The reason is very straightforward. Daniel is rarely willing to accept packages, whether it is a small gift package or full responsibility. He almost hates this mechanism, because it is almost impossible to form the most suitable team due to the complicated internal relationship. , more or less need to sacrifice a certain aspect.

Daniel rejects all of this.

That's why when Gore Verbinski was withdrawn, he hoped that he could recommend someone from among the clients, but he clearly refused, and then resolutely chose Rob Marshall, who was not well-known at the time. Facts have proved that, just like Denzel Washington in Hotel Rwanda, his vision is advanced and perfect-they have been proved in the Oscars, one is the best actor, and the other is the best picture, and their value has risen sharply .

However, Ian Martin, who puts interests first, did not set up obstacles when Kusa advanced.

Daniel Sandler is a client, which is itself a golden signboard. Many people will be attracted by this signboard when it comes to attracting well-known actors, directors, producers, and cultivating newcomers. Even if they don't get any benefit. But people have such strange beliefs—if one Daniel can be cultivated, maybe the next one can be cultivated, and the next one may be me.

This is of course whimsical.

What about Dan Brown?

After sitting down, Daniel got to the point as quickly as possible.

The Da Vinci Code, published in March of this year. Once published, it immediately became the top of the New York Times bestseller list, and has been on the list for 3 months so far.

There are many interested companies. As far as we know, New Line, Columbia, Universal and Paramount have all been in contact. Lionsgate and Miramax are also very likely.

For this novel. In fact, the movie was not particularly successful. Although the box office is not low, its influence is almost incomparable with the novel. From Daniel's current point of view, it is true that Columbia made a major mistake when operating this P. This book is indeed only so long, the story line is also compact, and there is no huge overhead world. It is extremely difficult to develop it well.

But that's definitely not to say it's impossible.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is its best example. Although Tolkien's influence for decades has made this influential work have a large number of fans around the world, but with the Da Vinci Code The further heat up, what Daniel can guarantee is that in terms of influence, the freshly released Password will definitely not be much weaker.

He hopes to win this P and make it into a series of three parts.

This attempt sounds very risky, because the scale of investment must be large and the future is uncertain. But in fact, it is not that serious. First of all, if Daniel plays in person, the pay is easy to control. And it is said that it is designed according to the trilogy, but in the end it still depends on the results of the first part.

Daniel still has confidence in it.

However, it is very doubtful whether Dan Brown will buy it or not. After all, so many big companies have extended olive branches, and Daniel has no experience in independently operating similar big movies.

Dan doesn't seem to be in a hurry to sell. It's impossible for him to understand the principle of selling for a price. Besides, he is not short of money now. The book has been sold for a few months, and the royalties are already rich enough. Ferguson was quite troubled. , When I came to talk about this topic, he almost told me to shut up.

... Daniel didn't expect it to be so difficult to win the copyright.

Ferguson showed a smug look on his face, letting him know that things should be turning around.

But I, Ferguson, am not one to give up easily. I went to her mother's choir, talked to her, and 'accidentally' found out that she was Dan's mother. I told her that I was a huge fan of Dan's books. Hoping to see Dan. So it all fell into place, and Dan was a lot nicer with his mum.

I should give you a salary increase, Ferguson. Daniel really appreciates this kind of work attitude, which of course also shows Ferguson's serious attitude towards the new job at present, Then what does he say?

He said that he didn't really care about selling at a good price. He hoped that the film would be made well and become a classic. But he didn't give me a firm word in the end, which means that he has not yet decided. , I hope to think about it again.”

Okay, Ferguson, let someone make the project plan first, and then I will talk to Brown.

Letting go of this, Daniel started talking about other projects

Before, Melissa wrote a simple story outline for the dozens of projects that had passed their preliminary selection, and then sent it to him. There were indeed many surprises in it.

Ferguson, let me see the horror movie Qiao Sen handed over.

The Jigsaw Massacre?

Huh? Daniel was taken aback, and immediately realized that its tentative name is indeed this, Yes, that's it.

There is a script in Melissa's office, and Daniel has been looking through it for half an hour. He has already confirmed that he has made no mistakes.

Good luck. Daniel muttered to himself.

Since David decided to start filming Ghost Omens, more horror scripts have been handed over. Even so, Saw, now known as Jigsaw, almost never came—and Daniel didn’t remember the movie either. In the end, he received a call from Joson Zhu, who was the director of the short film when Daniel participated in the USC short story competition. It was because of this short film that he and Ferguson met for the first time.

On the phone, Qiao Sen mentioned that he had a friend who wrote a script and hoped to let him read it.

James Wen - also Chinese.

Qiao Sen said that James did not have the confidence to let him watch it. He originally planned to find some film funds to invest, and then he would accompany him to make up a pool. If he could get about 300,000 yuan, he planned to start filming. However, Qiao Sen thought the script was good, so he recommended it to Daniel.

Daniel asked carefully, only to find out that he had sent it to the Daniel Investment Department of DD Films.

He asked Ferguson to find it out, and showed him the outline—he just said to browse it a little bit, so that when he replied to Qiao Sen, it seemed to have something to say. , and only knew two or three, Lin Yibin and An Li, and the like, and with an American name, he couldn't tell the difference even more.

So when Qiao Sen said James Wen, he didn't have any memory at all-this has nothing to do with memory, it's because the name didn't remain in his cerebral cortex at all.

But after flipping through this outline, there is a vague sense of familiarity.

He is no longer familiar with horror movies, but he has seen such popular movies as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, and Chain Saw.

He first called Qiao Sen and asked for James' contact information, saying that DD Films had a preliminary intention. The other party thought he was limited by Qiao Sen's face, and was quite embarrassed.

James is 77 years old, only seven years older than Daniel.

He collaborated with his good brother Ray Warner on this script, so the only request James made was that he direct and Warner be the first screenwriter.

This is an impolite request, given both the director and the lead actor, presumably the average studio would not be willing to accept the filming even if they were interested in the script.

Daniel only said that he would consider it, and then came over today to confirm the script.

Lightly tapped twice on Melissa's desk, Take this first. (To be continued.)

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