"Titanic" box office 1.88 billion, "My Grand Greek Wedding" box office 420 million, "Wedding Guest" box office 310 million, "Star Wars Prequel 1" box office 1.18 billion......

Before the release of "Spider-Man", Donn received a total of $3.79 billion at the global box office with these four films, successfully surpassing Steven Spielberg and becoming the highest-grossing director in Hollywood history.

After the first week, "Spider-Man" reached $263 million at the box office, and the total box office successfully crossed the $4 billion mark, and the sunglasses system was turned on again, and he was given his fifth chance to "mirror possessed". (Starter Pack has been given once)

Although Don is already experienced, his current personal ability is not enough to direct a movie, and the basic ability attributes are: camera 44, plot design 53, image thinking 49, direction 61, and camera 25......

Simply failed.

So if you want to shoot "A Beautiful Mind", you must use the "mirror possession" function.

As for choosing which director to possess, Don hasn't figured it out yet.

If it's a commercial blockbuster, choose Cameron or Spielberg directly, it's right.

But "A Beautiful Mind" is a straightforward character drama, not to mention Cameron, not even Spielberg.

Don needed a while to think about it, to find a candidate, but fortunately, there was plenty of time.

"A Beautiful Mind" will be released after 911, and there is still more than a year to go, which is too much, just enough time for Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman to figure out the characters.

Done's main focus now is on three areas: the final review of the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" project, the promotion of Cameron's new movie, and the continued marketing of "Spider-Man."

Even the move on Disney has to be postponed.

Don't rush, let's take our time!

Now, "Spider-Man" is a hot hit, and Don only needs to keep making headlines to boost the momentum of "Spider-Man".

Now, for example, Don is on a farm between Los Angeles and Burbank.

Here, celebrities are crowded.

This is where Donn will hold the groundbreaking ceremony of the Donn Williams Walker Building, the headquarters of Down Pictures!

The drawing design of the Tangen Building lasted for two months, and after several revisions, it finally won Tangen's approval.

In terms of appearance, this is a "rotating fourth-order Rubik's Cube", and there is a sense of surrealism and magic in general.

The main building is a four-storey, square structure, with 80,000 square feet (approximately 20,000 square meters) on each floor, providing a total of 800-1,000 office seats.

Tang's office area is on the 4th floor, occupying 50% of the entire floor area, and the other areas are high-level office areas such as document stacks, confidential meeting rooms, president's office, and CFO's office.

The future of Tangen Pictures will be very magnificent, and this four-story office building is likely to not meet the future development scale and job demand.

What to do?

Don has a lesson in the past.

Apple and Amazon, because of the unreasonable construction of the main office building, later spent $5 billion each to build a new office building, which is simply shocking.

In contrast, Microsoft's headquarters structure is much more reasonable and smart.

Microsoft has taken a completely different approach to building headquarters buildings from companies such as Apple and Amazon, and Bill Gates has built a large Microsoft headquarters campus.

In addition to the main building, there are 11 affiliated office buildings in the current Microsoft headquarters campus, which jointly maintain the work needs of the Microsoft headquarters.

If you need to expand in the future, you don't need to rebuild the headquarters building like Amazon, you just need to set aside a part of the land in the headquarters campus and build a few annex buildings.

Such a horizontal headquarters structure is of course not as efficient as Apple's vertical approach, but it is better to have a degree of tension and relaxation, which can better adapt to the rapid development of the company.

Don could foresee that his company would grow rapidly, and he would not be able to renovate a new building in a few years. Therefore, the construction model of Microsoft's headquarters campus is the right choice.

Now in the Tangen Film Headquarters Park, two buildings will be built at the same time, in addition to the main building "Tangen Building", a three-story "Marvel Building" will be built next to it.

After the construction is completed, Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Studios will move to the Marvel Building.

The first phase of the Towne Film Headquarters Park is expected to cost $320 million, including $230 million for the Towne Building, $70 million for the Marvel Building, and the remaining $20 million for infrastructure construction and green space improvements in the vicinity.

Tangen Pictures has continuously invested in so many movies and TV series, and it can't come up with this money, so it is naturally funded by Tangen Capital.

In fact, there is no difference, when Tang Capital injected $1 billion into Tang Pictures, Tang En made the delivery and "sold" most of the shares of Tang Pictures to Tang Capital.

This will make it easier for Don Capital to make major acquisitions and asset restructuring in the future.

……

After a whole morning of communicating with Hollywood mayors, Burbank mayors and other celebrities and dignitaries, Don finally left this wasteland.

Cameron chased after him just right and got into Donn's car.

"Well, bulletproof glass!"

Cameron knocked on the window and looked appreciative.

Don laughed and said, "James, isn't this afternoon the audition for the supporting role? I won't go, I'll wait for the audition for the protagonist, and I'll participate again." ”

Cameron said angrily: "You are a producer, and you don't even participate in such an important job as auditions? Besides, this is not an ordinary supporting role in the afternoon, there is a male number two!"

"Male number two?" Donn was slightly stunned, "Didn't you say that the male number two would choose Brad Pitt?"

The name of the new film, "Unsinkable", was licensed by Cameron and the rights were registered with the Film Society. In the movie, in addition to the male number one and rescue captain Bernie Webb, there is also the male number two, the temporary captain of the tanker, Ray Hibbert.

Ray Hibbert was an assistant engineer on a tanker, who was usually reticent and respected for his extensive knowledge.

After the oil tanker encountered a storm, Ray Hibbert, as the highest-ranking staff member on the ship at that time, was ordered to become the backbone of everyone, benefiting people's hearts, and launched a series of self-rescue at sea, buying enough time for the arrival of the rescue team.

is nominally the second male lead, but his role is no worse than the male number one, and he needs a big-name actor with rich acting skills and market appeal.

Originally, Cameron's idea was Brad Pitt, and Don agreed with it.

The role of "Ray Hibbert" is very dramatic, and it needs to be controlled by strong acting skills. Although Brad Pitt has starred in movies that have been dismal at the box office in recent years, his acting skills are up to par.

Cameron said with a smile: "It was because the budget was tight before, and I really couldn't get a higher salary to hire more appealing actors, but now...... I've sent an invitation to Tom Hanks. ”

Donn frowned, "Tom Hanks, he's in charge of Band of Brothers in Europe, I'm afraid there is no schedule." ”

"I know, so I sent out invitations to Johnny Depp, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Will Smith and a few others. ”

Don looked at him dumbfounded, "This age span is too big, isn't it?"

Cameron smiled: "Ray Hibbert is the second male lead, and he doesn't show life dramas and emotional dramas, so there is no big problem in terms of age." ”

Donn pondered for a moment, "Johnny Depp can't do it!"

"Why?"

"Because...... I had other arrangements and told him that the afternoon audition was not going to be used. Don glanced at Cameron, his face serious, "In addition, Mel Gibson has already taken on the project of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", don't you know?"

Cameron said: "Of course I know, but ...... This was Mel's personal wish, and he even called me specifically to look forward to working with me. ”

"Isn't it?" Tang En was stunned, "He wants to take on two blockbusters at the same time?

Cameron shrugged, "He's a crazy guy when it comes to work, you should know that there will be 4 movies starring him this year!"

Don fell silent for a moment.

If Mel Gibson wanted to be part of the film, Don couldn't find a reason to refuse. In terms of market appeal, he can crush all competitors, not to mention his friendship with Donne?

"I've talked to Bill about the conflict, it's not a big problem. Cameron saw Done's thoughts, and said slowly, "Mel has this experience, and he can handle it calmly. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is an action movie, and he's good at it, and our movie ...... He's just a supporting character, and a shooting period of about 45 days is enough. ”

"Unsinkable" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" are both commercial films, and they don't need to be adjusted and brewed for too long to understand the characters in the play.

These are two completely different performance concepts from "A Beautiful Mind".

The former only needs to use expressionist methods to complete the basic character setting, while the latter needs to use a variety of performance techniques to go deep into life and experience the characters to express more levels of characters.

Donn nodded, "If Mel does pass the audition, I'll agree." But the question is, if Mel becomes Ray Hibbert, will Matthew McConaughey's strength be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the male number one?"

The selection of the male number one has been decided, and James Cameron intends to use Matthew McConaughey, who was abandoned by him in "Titanic".

Mel Gibson is today's number one superstar, and if he plays Ray Hibbert, for the sake of the market box office, he will definitely show more Mel Gibson's personal charm.

As a result, the aura of the second male will overshadow the first male one.

"I believe Matthew!" Cameron has obviously thought about this question for a long time, "In the past few years, he has worked with big-name directors such as Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, and he can handle this problem with actors like Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, and Anthony Hopkins." ”

Tang En looked indifferent, "Anyway, you are the director, if something goes wrong, you are the one with the headache." ”

Cameron laughed, "I have a headache? I messed up the project, and the biggest headache is you, right? $200 million investment!"

Don pouted, "What about $200 million? In my opinion, the fame and influence of filmmakers are far more important than funds!"

"That's because you're so rich!" Cameron muttered, then shook his head, "In fact, compared with the two male actors, the selection of actresses is the most headache, especially the female number two!"

"Actress?"

Tang En's eyes lit up slightly, and he said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's on me!"