Daniel hasn't been in the crew for more than half a year, and since he completed the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in February, he has been playing with all kinds of things.

Sometimes, people do grow through experience.

When he first came to Hollywood, he wanted to take advantage of Hollywood's relaxed filmmaking atmosphere and participate in some classics, but as his fame and popularity grew, attempts at big-budget commercial films, social media, film studios, special effects companies, etc., which were incompatible with his original intention, seemed to be able to ignite the fire and excitement in his heart.

Perhaps, he just wants to succeed, and whether it is in the performing arts, or in terms of power, money, and influence, it doesn't seem to matter that much.

A person's ambition needs to be cultivated.

When he can only shoot movies with a small budget and it is difficult to get on the mainstream theaters, no matter what, it is impossible for him to have the idea of fighting in Hollywood.

That's not ambition, that's wishful thinking.

Therefore, returning to the crew, for Daniel, there is no sense of relief that he does not have to participate in complicated affairs for the time being.

It's all a habit.

Thinking of this, Daniel couldn't help but laugh.

See Paul. Greengrass's dedication to the movie is somewhat incomprehensible.

The success of "Spy Shadow" lies in the fact that Doug . Liman portrays a plain agent, and this time Doug is reluctant to direct again, but retreats to producer and chooses Greengrass as director. I have to say that this candidate is quite suitable, and Universal's boldness in choosing directors has also been well-known in the industry in the past two years.

McFarlane of "The Impostor" has now become a first-class director of comedy, which can be regarded as a pearl of Universal Pictures' insight. This time, the sequel to the hit series "Spy Shadow" was handed over to Greengrass, a new Hollywood force who was born as a journalist and had not experienced the proof of commercial films, and it was also an out-of-the-ordinary attempt by Universal.

According to Daniel, this is recommended by Doug, who has watched "Bloody Sunday" and thinks that the control of the camera and pacing is quite good. Of course, the most important thing is style.

Greengrass not only continued the authenticity of the first part in the filming, but also made a greater progress.

On camera, he likes to use a lot of close-up shots. The picture is direct and powerful.

A lot of the time, Daniel was a little uncomfortable with the style, and when he was driving a car to shoot crash scenes, the cameraman would sit on the sidelines, and the camera would be on the front of the car and him from the inside out.

I have to say. Photographers are also working at great risk.

But Greengrass's style is very suitable for this kind of film, at least Daniel can still clearly feel the strong impact when watching some shooting tape, which is certainly a pleasing style for spy suspense films.

With a workaholic like Greengrass putting everything to work, Daniel was quickly mobilized.

A lot of chores are basically entrusted to Kusa. Damon and the others, he is busy now, and there are only some more important things that need to be decided by him, of course. Some of the work has a phased result, and it is also necessary to inform him, and the phone call across the Atlantic costs Daniel a lot of money.

Halfway through the process of "Spy 2", when the scene in Berlin was basically completed, Daniel's protracted negotiations with Google finally came to an end.

Previously, an agreement was reached to subscribe for the original shares, and both parties agreed to use the gradient price proposed by Google.

Evan. Both Williams and Daniel agreed to trade Google's shares for their own stakes in Blogger, thus fully integrating Blogger into Google's system, with Evan taking 12% of the original 3.3 million shares. Daniel's 16% stake, or about 4.4 million shares, has made him a natural shareholder of Google, and Blogger is worth more than just its own value. It also holds 30% of the shares of MB, this part of the negotiation is more intense, MB's current valuation of the parties is relatively different, conservative that the valuation of 16 million active users is more appropriate at about 1.6 billion, more confident in the Internet social era institutions. MB's valuation has been raised to 5.5 billion.

With such a disparity in institutional valuation, the two sides have to go back and forth when they are discussing, and every inch of land must be contested.

Specifically, after Blogger was merged into Google, Google became a single minority shareholder of MB, accounting for 30% of the shares, and Daniel's Plutos Investment Company still held 70% of the shares. However, Google will invest $120 million in MB technology research and development, publicity and promotion, and user growth. This injection was agreed to by Plutos, but the two sides did not determine a specific plan of operation in this negotiation around Google, which is another matter, and it will be up to Google, Plutos and management to negotiate separately, and they are only making this one of the conditions for now.

After the plan was negotiated, Daniel took advantage of Thanksgiving to fly back to Los Angeles and signed the contract at his home in Malibu.

Daniel paused as he handed it to Raymond.

These things are becoming more and more difficult to hide, with Google going public, MB will eventually go down this road, it is inevitable that Raymond will come to the forefront, and his relationship with Raymond is clear to everyone.

"When Google goes public next year, I suggest that Raymond can officially come forward as the head of Plutos Investments."

Hearing Daniel's concern, Kusa immediately solemnly proposed the idea, not like an impromptu idea, and looked at Raymond after speaking.

Daniel in order to play Jason again. Bourne, who had increased the amount of fitness before, now looked quite strong, not quite the same style as before, sitting there, not looking like the boss behind the scenes of a high-tech company.

Raymond looked at him, this matter, he was originally a little difficult to speak, he was in charge of Daniel's affairs, and he could be regarded as the person who knew best how Daniel had turned the rain and clouds and broke into the huge business in the past few years. So, it seems that he is an outsider in this team, but in fact he is an important member of the team.

Kusa is responsible for most of Daniel's film-related affairs, including investments in Weta Digital, DD Pictures, and Daniel's Investment Department. But in the stock market, pure financial operations, such as IMP - although this company claims to be an electronic product company, but in fact, since its establishment, the only job is to screen and buy patents, Daniel is not particularly clear about these, but after all, he has ten years of experience in the use of electronic products such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, music players, etc., according to these experiences, he asked IMP employees to buy patents, in fact, most of the patents are useless. But occasionally getting one or two is enough for them to open for three years, for example, this time Apple acquired the patented technology in their hands, in fact, it is only an audio technology, a patent on the LCD screen, but Daniel knows the prospect of these patents, and Apple wants to reduce the price is also wishful thinking.

Therefore, Raymond's reverence for Daniel is even greater than that of Cussa. Damon and others.

Therefore, he did not intend to express his opinion on such an important decision involving himself, but Kusa looked at him, and Daniel looked at him, and he could not say it.

Of course, it's more convenient to go public, especially since it's not realistic for Daniel to always rely on Plutos' own funds if he has bigger moves in Hollywood. Bringing all of your properties under Plutos is a little easier to operate. ”

"Raymond is right, and, Daniel, you've flashed your claws with Disney, and Robert has been inquiring about MB's relationship with us lately." Cusa took over, "Disney's network is deep-rooted, and it's better to make it public than to be found out by him." If you still have some private investments, there is no contradiction, just start a new stall. ”

Daniel nodded thoughtfully.

"I look at this, I'll find another investment manager, Raymond will be full-time Plutos, next year when Google goes public, you come forward again, everyone knows it, we do this, those who understand what I mean will know what to do."

Even if Raymond withdraws now and contacts the previous things, he must know that Protos is behind Daniel, but by doing so, he is clearly telling everyone that he has no intention of coming out, a multi-billion dollar investment company, and MB in his hand, is enough to keep friends and opponents to keep an appropriate silence.

The three of them basically set this strategy.

Daniel sighed, and the more he walked to the top, the more he felt that it was difficult to stand still in the wind. He can imagine that after Google goes public next year, he will have a very different scene in Hollywood.

However, at what stage you will do something, you can't always dodge.

……

After Thanksgiving, he returned to Berlin for two weeks of filming, and the crew moved to Moscow, Russia, where they stayed for only four days, and even Mosca didn't have time to go around, so they flew to New Delhi, India.

This is Daniel's first visit to India.

He doesn't have a good impression of the country, but apparently, this populous country, doesn't care much about his good impression either.

After a day of rest in New Delhi, Daniel turned to Goa.

They will finish the final filming of "Spy 2" here.

Here it's mostly him and Franke. In the scene of Botant, at the beginning of the second part, they live in a small town in Goa, and with the assassination of a mysterious organization, a brief peaceful life is shattered.

Except for the Indian race, the atmosphere of this town is very similar to that of China, and the atmosphere of life is very strong, unlike the metropolis of Los Angeles.

They're going to shoot here for two weeks, basically in early December.

After more than a month of getting along, everyone is familiar with a lot, especially Greengrass, who is quite interesting except for being a little nitpicking at work.

"Please don't use local tools, because people here don't use paper but fingers."

He blinked, looked at Franca's discolored face, and smiled very poorly. (To be continued.) )

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