If the good momentum of "Saw Horror" ended at 88 million, which makes people feel a little insufficient, then the subsequent release of "The Social Network" is completely enough to cover up all the dissatisfaction and shortcomings.

In mid-November, DD Pictures held its premiere at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Although the biggest protagonist, Daniel, was still absent from the event, the bright stars on the scene and the number of super-rich people were enough to dominate the headlines of the next day's newspapers.

This film, which was unveiled on the cusp of the limelight, was secretly set up and filmed in secret, and it was not known until Daniel's team publicly announced it. But in just three months, repeated publicity and intensive pushing, it has become the most high-profile film work in the rest of the year.

The courtesy it has received in the theatrical field is also enough to prove it.

3,609 screens were released, 27.88 million on the first day, and 92.23 million in the first three days of the first weekend!

Although there is still a considerable gap with the unnatural results of "Greek Wedding", this number is already surprising. The biggest reason why "Greek Wedding" was able to pull off an unprecedented first-weekend miracle was that she enjoyed her first share of the social media movie dividend, and online fans were exposed to the movie for the first time in that way, and the publicity hit rate was very high. Today's "The Social Network", despite its unique strengths, has no way to replicate "Greek Wedding", and over the past period of time, fans have quickly adapted to this new method of promotion, and the degree of buying has also dropped rapidly.

Most of the people who care about Daniel know that the box office of "The Social Network" is definitely not the biggest purpose of the film.

The chance of its release was very coincidental, just before MB went public.

Google has taught a big lesson to all companies that want to successfully list on the NASDAQ, you must fully explain your product to investors and shareholders, whether it is a search engine or a social network, you must describe the connotation of the product and its future, so that everyone can understand how the product works, what the prospect is, how profitable it is, whether the model is advanced enough, etc.

That's the only way. Only then will the market show confidence in MB.

"The Social Network" is a large-scale roadshow for a huge audience.

The whole movie depicts the greatness of the social age and the future of MB: hundreds of millions of users, far-reaching and profitable. Novel model - either one is enough to entice investors to spend their money on MB shares.

The huge success of the movie gave Daniel more confidence when talking to investment banks about going public.

We don't plan to use Dutch auctions, but we have to plan to give up our own interests.

……

"That's an ambitious and amazing young man."

The old man gestured gracefully, and he shook the goblet in his hand. Scarlet wine has a mellow aroma.

Tim. Roland, at the helm of the Snow Eagle Fund.

Snow Eagle didn't make much profit on "The Pianist", but this time the investment was obviously regarded as a success, not only Daniel won the Oscar for Best Actor with this movie, but also the investment vision of the fund, if you don't lose money in the film, and you have a good reputation for the machine, whether it is a director or an actor, this is very attractive.

The person sitting in front of Tim was also very surprising.

Harvey. Weinstein.

Tim and Harvey have a friendship. Daniel has long known that in his first Oscar - it was in the role of Spearman in "The Pianist", or Tim who brought him in touch with Weinstein, thus adding an important boost to the final win of this award.

"Bob and I always thought that behind all of this, there was a bigger plan."

Harvey frowned and said, "If you've been following him, you can clearly see that his plan is very neat and realistic. The power of Hollywood has basically belonged to him since he entered the 20 million club - the highest power an actor can get, and Disney even intends to agree to his horror proposal of 30 million + 20% share in "Pirates of the Caribbean 2". No Hollywood actor has ever been able to get this kind of treatment in a movie of this scale, really, Tom. Hanks didn't get it at his peak, after all, this is a work with more than 800 million box office potential in the world. As for beyond the movies. Leaving aside the shocking secret that has just been revealed, it is completely out of the realm of rationality - what young person can break into a multi-billion dollar career in a colleague in the 20 million club has absolutely nothing to do with the field of acting. His voice on public issues is also pressing.

Daniel is no longer a simple Hollywood actor, whether it is at the box office or at the Oscars. It's no longer the only label on him. Tim, this sober-minded man, could not have done such a great amount of useless work. If he just pushes MB to go public, there is no need for him to personally collude with all parties, let alone push DD Pictures to the top so quickly. Robert was going to kill him, and he had basically broken the game, so there was no reason to put himself in such a hot position. ”

Indeed, the news that Daniel is the owner behind MB and F2F is shocking enough, DD Pictures has been a hit repeatedly, box office success, and soaring valuations are also breathtaking, and Daniel's reputation for "never missing" is getting louder and louder...... This is all the way around, and it always shows that Daniel is driving all this, and he has made himself highly visible and well-funded, which has also boosted DD Pictures.

Why?

In addition, although Harvey did not know the destination and target group of Daniel's private travel in the past few months, he knew that Daniel had contacted some wealthy people who were interested in Hollywood. He doesn't really care much about MB, or F2F, whether it's billions or tens of billions, and he has nothing to do with it, but he's willing to understand what's directly related to Hollywood - even if it's just gossip or preparedness.

"You mean, after offering MB for release, Daniel wants to go all out to make DD Pictures the new big studio?"

"There's nothing impossible, isn't it? MGM's trouble today is nothing more than the thinness behind it, as the last of the seven Hollywood companies with no one behind it, now it has fallen into a predicament, and the media group is an indispensable survival condition for large studios. And now with MB and F2F, DD Pictures naturally has a fight. ”

He wasn't alone in Harvey's idea.

What's next for DD Pictures. The status of Hollywood's Big Seven is not just a box office comparison, such as the MPAA, and if a new company wants to enter it, it must get the consent of all members - obviously. No one would want to have a new member. On top of that, Hollywood's dense network of connections doesn't happen overnight, and Tricker's network for an actor or a small company is readily available, but if Daniel is more ambitious. There's only so much Trickor can do to help.

……

"This year, even Daniel. Sandler ended all his public trips, but we still hear the name every day, Oscar, MB and F2F, Google, Saw Horror, Social Network, ...... Now it's finally MB's turn to IPO. 30,000,000 shares, representing 12% of the total share capital, at an issue price of US$25. Investment banks and Daniel value MB at $6 billion. This figure is not unexpected, but it is still bold enough, and the number of MB users has now increased to 60 million, with further expansion overseas. There is also the possibility that the number of its users will increase rapidly. But for now, investors are far more confident in MB than Google, and they see it as a company with the potential to hold the future......

In the last days of 2004, MB was officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange, yes, not on the NASDAQ, but on New York.

The final issue price was $32, and 70 million shares were snapped up.

Such a spectacle has not been seen for many years.

Even with some observers shouting the slogan of the "tech bubble" again, no one will forget the Nasdaq crash. But no one would believe that MB's success was a symptom of a new stock market crash.

On its first day of trading, MB jumped 48% to $47.36 per share. The company's market capitalization reaches 12 billion, and Plutos still holds 62% of MB's shares, that is, more than 7 billion in wealth. Sandler's? There is a lot of speculation in the media and among the general public, and no one knows about the shareholding structure within Plutos.

But what is certain is that there is no doubt that Daniel's worth has jumped to the 10 billion level.

The rapid growth of F2F users has amazed everyone. By the end of 2004, the number of users had exceeded 20 million, and its three-dimensional rich structure also gave it an advantage when cooperating with enterprises. MB launched a corporate cooperation platform before going public, and customers including HP, Apple and other large companies entered the market as soon as possible, and achieved million-level revenue through online sales - this is nothing compared to the total revenue, but as the beginning of a new model, this achievement has been quite proud, and MB's good performance on the New York Stock Exchange is not unrelated.

This platform is considered to be another important monetization attempt for MB in addition to advertising revenue.

This model will only be better in F2F, which can provide richer corporate information, more diverse forms of publicity and communication methods, and other F2F pages, which are more attractive than MB.

So, shortly after MB went public, the market valuation of F2F was also quickly inflated to 10 billion - and this is a wholly-owned company of Protos, and Daniel owns at least more than half of it, otherwise it would not be possible to master Protos.

MB and F2F alone, Daniel is worth tens of billions.

And that's not even counting DD Pictures and Weta Digital, which have been booming recently.

When all the speculation comes true, it always feels different, and after Daniel becomes a real billionaire, everyone has to change their attitude and way of treating him.

……

Stuttgart, Germany.

Collins' birthday party.

Daniel's attendance is no longer the identity of the "quasi-son-in-law of the Porsche family", but the identity of the chairman of Plutos Investment Company, with a net worth of tens of billions, even in today's huge wealth, it is not inferior.

Although it was a birthday celebration, the elder Porsh apparently made it a business occasion, a purely commercial entertainment that was a bit foreign to Daniel, but he did a good job, at least until he was alone with Collins.

Daniel knew what Collins was doing, Porsche was slowly buying up Volkswagen's shares – Wolfgang's ambitions were still hidden underwater, and he wanted to take control of Volkswagen in a great maneuver.

Last year, Porsche sold less than 80,000 vehicles worldwide and generated revenues of no more than 8 billion euros, while Volkswagen sold several times as much.

Collins' involvement is a clear indication that the young heir to the Bolsh family is becoming more involved in the company's core affairs – which means being busier.

In the past year, the two of them have only met 5 times.

Now they look at each other, and a sense of strangeness makes them a little overwhelmed.

They were too smart, too confident, and thought that they could still maintain the freshness of their relationship without spending time together - which has now proven impossible.

He sighed softly.

Daniel's regret is not the strangeness of the past year, but the irretrievable nature of the following.

Collins is only going to get busier, especially when Porsche's intentions are discovered, and she has a lot more to do. As for Daniel, not to mention the bulk of the work spent at Berkeley, some of the work that has been prepared for a long time will also take up most of his remaining time, not to mention, after June, he will still have time to get into filming. The sequels to "The Immortal Gardener" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" are definitely in need of filming this year. "Spy 3" was pressed to 2006 a little later, and Fox's "Wonderful Night at the Museum" was also scheduled for 2006, and as for more plans, they can't be scheduled now.

Saw 2 and 3, as well as The Hangover, were largely left to the rest of the team.

They don't have the time and the opportunity to salvage it all, unless one of them is willing to give up his own career.

Sadly, neither of them thinks the relationship trumps their own careers.

"I really didn't expect it to be at such a time." Collins looked calm, "Daniel, seriously, I expected this day, I know myself, I was unprepared for a stable relationship, I didn't budget for it with time and energy, and I didn't have long-term plans and goals. So, it's doomed to fail. But...... I'm still sad. ”

Daniel is also reflecting on his own mistakes in the relationship.

He now understands why Hollywood's busy people are always hanging out with different women, perhaps not entirely because they don't want to settle down, but because they lack the conditions.

"Anyway, I wish you a happy birthday and always be happy! Collins. (To be continued.) )

PS: I watched "Seven Fierce Janes" today and was scared to death