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The Avatar project, there is one thing we must pay attention to. Daniel said slowly while thinking, This is the most remarkable work since the era of special effects. James Cameron's Titanic Before, he was preparing for this work. At that time, because the technical conditions did not meet his needs, he made the big ship ahead of time. There is no doubt about the significance of special effects to the film, including the achievements of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 today. It is possible to surpass The Return of the King, which in itself means that blockbuster special effects films are gradually awakening the hearts of movie fans-if the next film history champion will be born in the next few years, then I think Avatar is at least the most likely candidate movie.

Speaking of the latter, Daniel still couldn't hold back, and made another prediction.

Sure enough, Kusa didn't pay much attention to the previous technical analysis, but heard the last sentence directly.

You mean, Avatar may surpass the global box office of Titanic and become the number one movie in film history?

Strictly speaking, any movie has the potential to surpass Dachuan, but Avatar is more likely.

Kusa is too familiar with Daniel, he will not believe the latter sentence at all, what he said earlier should be his true inner thoughts, that is to say, in Daniel's opinion, either Avatar surpasses the big ship and becomes a new movie history The box office champion, or a special effect blockbuster similar to Avatar achieved this result-then joining Avatar will undoubtedly help DD gain a leading edge in this trend.

This is Daniel's intention.

Kusa peeked into Daniel's heart, and apart from Daniel himself being more certain that Avatar would surpass the big ship, other thoughts were basically important factors that influenced his opinion.

Being able to fully participate in Avatar is definitely a systematic training opportunity for Weta Digital and dd Pictures. Perhaps dd Pictures will still not have James Cameron in the future. But there is absolutely no shortage of alternatives in Hollywood who are slightly inferior to James.

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In early December, Daniel flew directly to France to continue filming Bourne Shadow 3 after he left.

Fox and DD Films issued announcements one after another, announcing that DD Films would undertake 20% of the investment in Avatar and at the same time have the corresponding proportion of income rights in all channels. Today's DD Films is no longer the time to shoot Pirates of the Caribbean 1. At that time, Daniel invested 30%, on the premise that Robert Iger did not have enough confidence in the project, but it was still restricted a lot-such as unequal treaties such as Disney's priority in recovering investment costs, but now, Fox clearly knew that Daniel was very interested in Avatar\

,"One should cooperate but always follow the principle of equal investment and benefits.

Only when your strength has reached this point, can you have principles to tell you, otherwise, you can only accept other people's principles. This is a Hollywood rule that Daniel has long known.

This news, I have to say, has stimulated Paramount again. They picked up a bargain on Titanic, and they have always hoped to continue to join James Cameron's new film, but Fox has been hesitating. . James' film investment is too large, and it's cool for a company to make huge profits, but introducing a resource-rich partner and company, no matter the risk is shared. It is also beneficial to strengthen the publicity and distribution capabilities.

Also not so long ago. Paramount only got a definite answer from Fox - rejecting Paramount's participation.

Just a few days later, Fox announced the introduction of DD Films, and soon the gossip spread that Daniel himself would star in this blockbuster film—according to Daniel’s habit of selecting films in recent years, if it wasn’t for his company’s films, he would Very few are willing to join them. Obviously. It was a quid pro quo that Daniel joined, one of the prerequisites for DD to join.

This is the undisguised advantage of DD Films. Once there is a commercial blockbuster suitable for Daniel, DD Films will easily have the right to participate in the investment - because of an actor of Daniel's level. It itself has the power to share a large percentage. Considering the comprehensive investment together, it is actually more cost-effective than simply hiring people, or simply obtaining investment.

This cooperation also made Hollywood start to imagine another direction for Daniel and DD Films, and MGM is not among them. Although MGM is also an industry owned by Daniel, Daniel has a relatively clear position on it. MGM The released works should minimize the reliance on Daniel's influence, and Daniel's role in MGM should gradually develop into the ultimate decision-maker, rather than the person in charge of specific affairs.

But DD Films is different. This independent film studio with amazing benefits is already inseparable from Daniel to a large extent. Instead of forcibly dividing it, it is better to use Daniel's influence to accelerate its development.

Therefore, in the public opinion, it is mainly based on the analysis of several investments of DD Films, and the former MGM's Hotel Rwanda, and Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, and Fox's Night at the Museum, and the just confirmed Avatar, this trajectory is enough to show the binding effect of Daniel's starring and dd's investment.

As Daniel reduces his production volume and the excitement for various awards weakens, this investment plus performance model is likely to be the only way for producers other than DD Films to cooperate with Daniel. This model relies heavily on Daniel's own box office appeal. If he can maintain his current recognition for a long period of time, there may be a different situation from now, and producers may have to compete for Daniel invested in their blockbuster project.

—The Hollywood Reporter.

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The anger is not limited to Paramount, which has performed very poorly this year, Warner Bros. is also angry at DD Pictures' excesses.

Because of the budget? The previous one has been negotiated, who is with me? The budget requirements are not consistent, so it is also a negotiated? Bill is furious with the head of the production department. He has just been told that he was more optimistic before. On the premise that a project has been negotiated, it was signed by dd film.

It doesn't matter if a project is robbed, what he is angry about is a failure in a certain symbolic sense-Warner Bros. is not as attractive as DD Pictures!

This is what makes him unacceptable.

No matter how fast DD Pictures develops and how popular it is, these old studios don't think that the two sides are on an equal footing. Warner snatched a ready-made project, and the previous co-production with Disney was about to hit the second highest box office in film history; before that, it took MGM abruptly from the hands of the Sony consortium... These signs are unmistakable. Tell Bill that DD Films has really become one of them, cooperating with each other, competing with each other, competing with each other, friends and foes, near and far. (To be continued.) .

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