Ace Hollywood

Kate?

Yes, was it a surprise? Kate Winslet laughed loudly on the other end of the phone.

Daniel and Sally glanced at each other, indicating that they would continue later. He stood up and came to the window. The lush bushes outside separated the villa from the outside world.

I was almost shocked to death. I really didn't expect to receive your call. Aren't you on vacation in England?

Yes, but who made you so popular that it even affected my vacation life.

This really scares me, what happened?

Kate didn't intend to continue playing charades, There is an independent filmmaker in the UK named Simon Channing Williams. He approached me recently. You know that the UK is so big, so it is easy to be connected in a roundabout way. He said He has a script that you might be interested in, and if you want, he wants to come to Los Angeles and talk to you.

Daniel was stunned, he might be interested? He thought for a while, and he didn't seem to be more interested in a certain type of movie outside, so Mr. Williams, who is so determined to hire the most famous actress in Britain, may still be somewhat sure.

Of course, I'd love to host him, but do you know what the script is about?

He said it was a script related to refugees and Africa. I haven't seen it. You know I'm still on vacation, so I really don't want to read the script.

Daniel suddenly realized.

The conversation between President Kibaki and him was reported by Kenyan official media. And the reprints of major news agencies have covered a very large audience, and now many people know about it. Kibaki asked Daniel to make a film about Africa, so that Westerners can pay more attention to what is happening in Africa and the help Africa needs.

Just like Hotel Rwanda did.

Williams is clearly one of them, and he may have just such a story on his hands.

Daniel thought about it, but it was really hard to figure out which story it was because of such out-of-the-box associations. And, maybe it must be a movie that never got made - then of course he doesn't have any memories.

but. He still intends to give Kate this face, the important thing is. Next, he will be around Los Angeles, on the one hand continuing to review for the October exam, on the other hand. Also lead DD Films to continue the post-screening promotion of Pirates of the Caribbean.

July 9,

Pirates of the Caribbean was released on 3,321 screens in North America, and its single-day box office performance is not particularly good. We still need to look at a longer trajectory to see where the final box office figure will go. At this time, it is very important to manage the word-of-mouth after the screening. Robert personally communicated with Daniel about this matter. I hope that dd film industry can fully promote this matter, he promised that during the billing period, he will give them a share of dd's hairstyle this morning

so. Daniel had to come and watch this matter himself.

In fact, this is still very beneficial to him. After all, Daniel knows that Pirates of the Caribbean itself is a work with a good curve, with 70 million in the first five days and 63 million in the second week. Almost a slight drop, the third week began. It fell to 35 million, and then it has been at a rate of 10 to 20 million, and it has broken through 300 million in the long run.

With the blessing of DD, its rating on imdb has been maintained at above 8.5, while the rating of mb movie even reached 9 points in the first week. mb movie rating is a rating mechanism for mb users. Once launched, the popularity has surpassed professional websites such as imdb and rotten tomatoes.

Although its authority cannot be compared with those two, as an indicator of popularity and audience love, mb movie ratings are still valued by more and more film producers, because in the final analysis, whether it is imdb or Rotten Tomatoes, they have to be applied to the general audience in the end to make sense.

Since mb movie ratings have a more direct effect, there is no reason for studios not to pay attention to them.

What's more, with the in-depth cooperation between mb and -- and other box office websites, as well as the official websites of major studios, the trend of using mb as a comprehensive platform for movies has become more and more obvious. mb also participated in the establishment of an Internet ticketing website, which is another cooperation with the cinema.

mb provides a perfect platform, and can achieve a win-win situation with content providers, which is the most important reason why mb is making rapid progress in these matters.

...

Simon Williams came very quickly. After the good news that Pirates received 48.63 million yuan in the first weekend in 3 days, Williams had already called Sally and said that he had arrived in Los Angeles and could meet Daniel anytime.

He's so positive.

“Indie filmmakers are like that, running around for an opportunity, all to make the project work and not die,” Cousa said.

Daniel was talking to Cusa about the progress of Google's negotiations, and Williams could only put it back a little bit.

Things have clearly progressed.

In terms of subscribing for internal original shares, Google has proposed a gradient plan.

Google hopes to raise more than 3 billion U.S. dollars. If this figure is reached, then Daniel will get less benefits. Google is only willing to give a 15% discount, which is 15% lower than the issue price. 10 million shares of the company, and if the expected goal is not achieved, that is to say, the 30 million shares provided to the market cannot be sold at a price of about 100 US dollars, and a gradient plan will be made according to the amount of funds raised by Google.

If it is less than 2.5 billion, the discount will be 20%, and if it is less than 2 billion, Google will give a 35% discount.

This is of course to avoid insufficient development funds that Google eventually obtains, so that Daniel's acquisition can make up for it as much as possible.

Daniel just made Raymond pretend to hesitate for two days before agreeing to this one—why not? Daniel knows that Google is a company that has only been established for a few years, and will develop in the next two decades. The biggest setback encountered.

Google proposed this gradient scheme so thoughtfully, and Daniel couldn't let the other party down at all.

After a breakthrough, other things to be discussed will also speed up.

For example, investing in mb. Google's recent attitude is very positive, especially Daniel's visit to Kenya this time, which led to a large number of social organizations, United Nations organizations and some overseas countries starting to set up homepages on mb to promote themselves. Especially in some places that are famous for their tourism industry, they have begun to try to have a closer cooperation with mb.

This directly led to a sharp rise in the valuation of mb.

Javier has almost become the first big man in the age of social media - the power he wields is growing rapidly almost every day, as MB spreads in all fields. As more and more people joined, it became more and more heavyweight. Every bit adds weight to his power.

He just accepted the cover interview of People magazine, discussing the impact of social media mb on the world.

After the interview, he made a special call to Daniel, saying that he had robbed Daniel of the limelight. But he feels very good.

Daniel was left speechless.

Then he turned to Mark Vaughn and said, look, work hard boy, you will soon be on the cover of People.

The preparatory work of f2f is mainly technical. Some concepts and strategic opinions of Daniel need to be turned into functions and websites through the technicians brought by Mark from Google and other companies, and then they have to go through several months of testing. At least for now, the launch time of f2f is still undecided, maybe by the end of this year. Maybe early next year—this is different from Facebook. The first version of Facebook was a very simple website, and the target group was only Harvard college students. Now f2f is a more mature website. Its complete Frameworks need to be built together.

...

I'm sorry, Mr. Williams. I kept you waiting.

Los Angeles is a very good city, I am very happy here. Your assistant is also very considerate. Simon is obviously not angry at seeing Daniel one day later.

Daniel invited him directly to his home the next day.

He now minimizes going out as much as possible, because the security measures at home are the best.

However, in September and October, he will go abroad to film the second part of The Bourne. At present, Miller is already making a security plan, but the limelight of the attack in New York has weakened, and their pressure has also decreased a lot.

After serving English black tea to Simon, Daniel flipped through the script he brought.

The screenplay is based on the work of a novelist named John le Carré who published the book in 2001, but I had the film rights before that. The female characters in the film Tessa has a prototype. Her name is Yvette Pierpaoli. She is a social activist and a representative of the International Refugee Organization. A few years ago, she died unexpectedly in a car accident, so John shaped her into Tessa. Sha.

Daniel spent a full hour reading through the script carefully.

Is the original work allowed to be published in Kenya?

It was his first question, and he now knew what it was about.

The Immortal Gardener!

It describes a British ambassador to Kenya, for his own accidental death of his wife and her exposure, the scandal of pharmaceutical giants conducting illegal drug experiments in Kenya. The important thing is that there are a lot of corruption issues in Kenya involved in it-Daniel can hardly believe that this work was allowed to be filmed in Kenya?

No, but we can shoot in South Africa.

Daniel looked at him like he was looking at a madman, Well, Simon, can I call you that? Yes, I intend to make a movie with similar themes, but it's not to bash some governments in Africa, Do you understand what I mean? I do not agree that the United States and some Western countries are crazy about promoting so-called values ​​around the world. There is no reason in the world that only one value is correct. And, even if this problem exists, It should also be up to the International Corruption Organization and the Security Council to push Kenya, not me.

So, do you think the President of Kenya invited me to shoot a work, and then I took the script, slapped him hard in the face, and then was banned by Kenya for the rest of my life, would it be my choice? Do I look like an idiot? And, is this your ideal? Simon? (to be continued)

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