Ace Hollywood - Chapter 417

. However, for Cusa’s question, Daniel certainly can’t say the same. network

“The “Avatar” project, we must pay attention to one thing.” Daniel said slowly while thinking, “This is the most remarkable work since the special effects era. James Cameron in “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 in advance. The significance of special effects to the film does not need to be doubted, including the results of “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” today. The possibility of surpassing “The Return of the King” itself means that special effects blockbusters are gradually awakening the hearts of 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 too much attention to the previous technical analysis, but directly heard the last sentence.

“Are you saying that ‘Avatar’ has the potential to surpass ‘Titanic’ at the global box office and become the No. 1 film in movie history?”

“Strictly speaking, any movie has the potential to surpass the big ship, it’s just that “Avatar” is a little more likely.”

Cusa is too familiar with Daniel, he will not believe the latter sentence at all, what he said before should be the real thoughts in his heart, that is to say, in Daniel’s view, either “Avatar” surpasses the big ship and becomes the new film history The box office champion, or a special effects blockbuster similar to “Avatar” achieves this result – then adding “Avatar” will undoubtedly help dd gain an advantage in this trend.

That was Daniel’s intention.

Cusa peeped into Daniel’s heart, except that Daniel himself is relatively sure that “Avatar” will surpass the big ship, other ideas are basically important factors affecting his opinion.

Being able to fully participate in “Avatar” is definitely a systematic exercise opportunity for Weta Digital and DD Pictures. Maybe DD Pictures will still have no James Cameron in the future. But Hollywood definitely has no shortage of replacements that are slightly inferior to James.

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

Fox and dd Pictures have successively issued announcements, announcing that dd Pictures will undertake 20% of the investment in “Avatar”, and at the same time have a corresponding proportion of revenue rights from all channels. Today’s dd film is no longer the time to shoot “Pirates of the Caribbean 1”. At that time, Daniel invested 30%, or under the premise that Robert Iger did not have enough confidence in the project, but it was still restricted a lot – for example, Disney can give priority to recovering investment costs and other “unequal” treaties, but now, Fox clearly knows that Daniel is very interested in “Avatar”, and should cooperate but always follow the principle of equal investment and income.

Only when your strength reaches this level can you have principles to tell you, otherwise, you can only accept the principles of others. This is a Hollywood rule that Daniel has long known.

This news has to say that it has stimulated Paramount again. They picked up a bargain on “Titanic” and have always hoped to continue to join James Cameron’s new film, but Fox has been hesitant. . James’s film investment is too large, and it is cool for a company to make huge profits, but introducing a resource-rich cooperation company, whether it is risk sharing. It is beneficial to strengthen publicity and distribution capabilities.

Also not too long ago. It was only until Paramount got a definitive answer from Fox that it refused to join Paramount.

Just a few days later, Fox announced the introduction of dd Pictures, and soon the gossip spread that Daniel himself would star in this blockbuster-according to Daniel’s habit of choosing films in recent years, if it wasn’t for his own company’s films, he would Few are willing to join in. Obviously. It was a quid pro quo that Daniel joined and was 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 to star in, DD Films will easily have the right to participate in investment – because of Daniel’s level of actors. It 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 has also made Hollywood begin to imagine another direction of Daniel and DD Films, and MGM is not among them. Although MGM is also an industry under Daniel, Daniel has a clearer positioning for it. The works launched should minimize the reliance on Daniel’s influence, and Daniel’s role in MGM should gradually develop to the ultimate decision maker, rather than the person in charge of specific affairs.

But the headquarters of DD Films is different. This independent 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, the analysis mainly focuses on several investments of the dd film industry, and the former MGM’s “Rwanda Hotel”, 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 performance and dd’s investment.

“As Daniel reduces his production and his excitement for various awards wanes, this investment-plus-show model may well be the only way for producers other than dd to work with Daniel. This model relies heavily on Daniel’s own box office appeal. If he can maintain his current recognition for a longer period of time, there may be a different situation than now, and producers may rush to demand Daniel Invest in their blockbuster project.”

–The Hollywood Reporter.

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The anger is not limited to Paramount, which performed very badly this year~www.mtlnovel.com~Warner Bros. is also angry at dd’s excesses.

“Because of the budget? The previous one has been negotiated, who is it with me? The budget requirements are inconsistent, so it’s also called negotiated?” Bill was furious with the head of the production department. He was just told that he was more optimistic about it before. On the premise that the project has been negotiated, it was signed by dd Pictures.

It doesn’t matter if a project is robbed, he’s angry about a symbolic failure – Warner Bros. isn’t as attractive as DD Pictures!

This is what makes him unacceptable.

No matter how fast the development of dd Pictures is and the more the limelight is flourishing, these old studios do not believe that the two sides are on an equal footing. Warner snatched a ready-made project. The previous co-production with Disney was about to rush to the second-highest box office in film history; before that, it was forced to grab MGM from the Sony consortium… These signs are unmistakably in the Tell Bill that DD Films has really become one of them, cooperating with each other, competing with each other, competing with each other, being both enemy and friend, both far and near. (To be continued.).

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