Daniel previously returned to Los Angeles, apparently to supervise "Love to the House", both "Ghost Omen" in Europe and Asia after the excellent performance of the major box offices, "Love to the House Collapse" this week successfully exceeded 100 million, DD Pictures has achieved good results in many works in recent years, although in the major Hollywood studios, DD Pictures does not have an advantage in terms of scale and number of productions, but it is obvious that at present, DD Pictures continues its boss Daniel. Sandler's 'undefeated' tradition. It is reported that DD Pictures has a number of projects in hand, and the high-profile low-budget horror film "Chainsaw", which attracted much attention at the Sundance International Film Festival, avoided the summer season and should be released in September and October in the second half of the year. As previously reported by the media, DD Pictures is also participating in the competition for Dan. Brown's best-selling book Leonardo da Vinci. The Password. In addition, a new work called 'quite special theme' is also in the pipeline......"

Many people are taking this report from the Washington Post and researching it.

"Saw" is not seen by many people, although it premiered at the Sundance International Film Festival, many people have not seen it, and even those who have seen it have no way to predict the results of this small production. Everyone's attention is still focused on "Leonardo da Vinci. Password" and other new works. The romantic comedy "Love to the Bottom" focuses on online dating, which obviously touches the point of fans, and its popularity can be used as evidence. Novel themes can boost the box office, which can be said to be due to the advantages of new themes in social promotion, and generally speaking, new themes can get more attention on social media.

Since the rapid increase in the number of F2F users, social media has attracted more and more attention, and people from all walks of life are eager to pay attention to the impact that this social change may bring.

Since the explosion of "Greek Wedding", Hollywood can be said to have enjoyed the first benefits of the social media era, and then extended to other industries, even traditional print media, which is also part of the media industry.

The Washington Post went one step ahead and basically reached a cooperation agreement with MB. It can be said that it became the first newspaper in the traditional print media to extend an olive branch to social networks, and the win-win model explored by both sides has won Bradley and Javier a reputation in the industry.

In addition to the focus on DD Pictures' business. The higher levels are more concerned with what DD Pictures wants to express, or what Daniel wants to do with it.

The Post couldn't have inexplicably published DD Pictures' plans, only Daniel could have been behind it.

"He's going to sell DD Pictures? Or do you want to go big? ”

Harvey and Bob, the brothers, of course, have been keeping an eye on DD Pictures and Daniel.

Indeed, DD Pictures has put itself in the limelight. The only possibility is to push up its own value, an independent studio that "never fails", has a clear development plan, and has a number of potential projects in hand, which is indeed attractive to investors, not to mention, DD Pictures also has a superstar who has won three Oscars and top salaries behind DD Pictures.

Now when it comes to the 20 million club, Daniel has gradually begun to not put Daniel in it, and his bid for "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has been passed out, plus DD Pictures' achievements. The 20 million income of a single piece can no longer well describe the remuneration he can get. In addition, the media is chasing gimmicks, consider the packaging contract of "Spy 2 and 3", the salary, share and investment of the "Pirate" series, and now there are 50 million club members, of course, the candidate is not only him, Tom. Cruise, Tom. Hanks was also shortlisted because of the revenue sharing, and Daniel was the confirmed candidate because he had clearly obtained this number in "Greek Wedding", "Pirates of the Caribbean", and "Spy 1". Cruise can also be included because of the "Mission Impossible" series, as for Tom. Hanks. The earnings in Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan should also exceed this figure.

With all this in mind, it's no surprise that Harvey suspects that Daniel wants to sell DD Pictures.

With the current revenue of DD Pictures, the valuation of 400 million to 600 million is guaranteed, after all. Just "Greek Wedding" is still making millions of dollars for DD Pictures every year in terms of DVD sales, airplanes, long-distance buses, trains, etc., as well as peripheral sales.

Not to mention the direct revenue that "Rwanda Hotel", "Ghost Omen" and "Love Collapses the House" can bring.

If Daniel adds a fire and stirs up, it will not be a problem for DD Pictures' valuation to rise by 30%.

Bob. Weinstein didn't agree with Harvey's speculation.

"DD Pictures though everyone attributes it to Daniel. Sandler. But David and his voice in DD Pictures should be comparable, of course, I mean DD headquarters. Selling this kind of behavior may not be able to get David's consent, not to mention, why would he sell DD when the time is right? ”

"You mean he wants to be big?"

"It's clear now that Robert's people want to contain him, and he hasn't responded to the questions so far, most likely because he wants to use it to transform. Daniel has indeed never lost since investing in films, compared to filming, although film investment is not as glamorous as in front of the stage, the income is much higher. ”

Hearing Bob's statement, Harvey frowned and thought about it, he and Daniel can be said to have dealt with each other for many years, and he also knows a thing or two about Daniel's personality.

"Daniel may not admit defeat so easily, over the years, he has encountered a lot of things, but when has he ever suffered a loss? Even if it is Sean. Pan was forced to leave Hollywood temporarily, and now he is not making up for it? If he was still working in Hollywood, it would not have been possible to delay it for so long anyway, and although Robert's plan was still effective, it would have to be discounted. What's more coincidental is that this time it was Sean who competed with him for the best actor. Pan, the two were originally old enemies, and Sean's reputation has always been bad, which somewhat eased him. ”

The two brothers discussed for a long time, but in the end they didn't know what Daniel's purpose was.

Of course, in their minds, as long as they continue to watch, they can finally see what Daniel's purpose is.

But this is obviously not the case, following the exposure of Google's IPO plan this year, MB's IPO plan has also been proposed recently, although it has not been directly confirmed by Javier and other executives, but according to Wall Street news, this should be a certainty.

It is widely believed in the industry that Google's IPO may be the most important reason for inducing MB's IPO. As a shareholding company of MB, once Google is listed, MB's operation may be exposed. In this way, it is better to go public and raise funds to begin to develop drastically.

Although the Weinstein brothers have been paying attention to the relationship between MB and Daniel, they have no way of thinking of the internal connection between these two things, even if the news is placed in front of them, they can't see Daniel's purpose.

……

When he heard the news, Daniel was watching the box office report of "House Down" and was stunned when he heard it.

Larry. Paige came to visit without an appointment.

Daniel has actually been preparing to communicate with Page, but under heavy consideration, he has not been able to make the trip, this time he is running to prepare, the news of MB's listing leaked out of Wall Street, Google, as the holder of 30% of MB's shares, of course, will be very concerned. Javier doesn't know the whole story yet, and he can't explain it to Page, so it's not surprising that Page would come to him in this situation.

After tidying up his clothes, Daniel greeted him out.

The assistant gave a cup of green tea and a cup of coffee, and also left the office.

Paige glanced at Daniel's green tea, brewed with clear water, which was not the usual taste for Westerners.

Before coming, what Page wanted to ask most was, of course, the details of Plutos Investment Company, which he originally thought was Daniel's own company, only registered in the Cayman Islands, which was convenient for confidentiality and tax exemption. However, the injection of DD Pictures, the injection of MB, and F2F are still burning money intensively, and Plutos's financial resources shocked him.

If there is only one Daniel behind this, where does he get so much money?

Daniel's salary and share are indeed very high, but that is only relative to other Hollywood stars, and it is not enough to burn money in Silicon Valley. Even if it is rumored that Daniel is good at financial investment, Raymond does have the means and vision, but if he wants to make such a large sum of money in a short period of time, Page does not believe it at all.

Then there must be other forces behind Plutos.

Whether it was Daniel's will or the will of the other forces behind Plutos to push MB to go public this time was Paige wanted to figure this out.

Daniel paused when he heard Page's tentative tentativeness, he didn't expect Page to misunderstand the power behind Plutos - indeed, who would have imagined that Daniel, the anti-war Guardian of Peace. Sandler also made a fortune in war?

My mind was spinning a little, and it was a good opportunity to mend my relationship with Paige.

“…… Well, Plutos does think that Google's IPO will have some unpredictable impact on MB. This is the most important reason why Plutos is determined to push MB to go public ahead of schedule, and of course the company seems to have some new investment plans, which may also be used to cash out. ”

In his tone, Daniel seemed to be emphasizing that it was the company's decision, and that he wasn't so sure about the investment plan — a blatant misleading Page, of course.

In view of MB's management mechanism, Google has no way to prevent MB from going public, and in addition, from the perspective of the company's development, Google may not really want to prevent it. It's just that Daniel is always doing things in secret, which is always a very unpleasant thing for Google, not to mention that the stake in MB is already a very important part of Google's equity. It's impossible for Page not to be careful.

Two people sit down, from Google's IPO, to MB's listing, to the development of F2F, the future of social media...... There were so many things that we talked about all afternoon. (To be continued.) )