"This is an interview with Fox in Porto San Pedro, Mr. Craig is the night guard of the Pirates of the Caribbean studio that was hit by the fire, and the fire that broke out yesterday night was first discovered by Mr. Craig and called the police. Now we will interview him. ”

As the camera turned, Craig, who was standing next to the female reporter, was revealed, who had obviously not slept all night, and a heavy sense of exhaustion came to his face.

"Hello, Mr. Craig, can you tell us about last night?"

"Yes, last night at about 11 o'clock, I was in my room, suddenly smelled some bad smell, you know, it's the smell of all kinds of materials being burned together, very irritating, I thought it was some electrical appliance in my room burned off, but after I checked, I found that the smell came from the outside. I didn't feel good at the time, and by the time I went out to check, the fire in the studio was already very big, so I quickly called 911 and notified Mr. Bruckheimer from the crew. ”

"According to our interviews with the fire department, the fire is supposed to be caused by the foam props in the studio, which were ignited by sparks from short-circuited wires, which caused the fire, and they have basically ruled out the possibility of artificial arson. Mr. Craig, did the crew have any notice to restart? ”

"I don't know, but I've heard that they might move to Burbank to do the next scene, because there's still a clean-up here, and the insurance company needs to investigate the damaged items. So, I don't know if I can continue to work for the crew. ”

……

Fox News is live-streaming the "Pirates of the Caribbean" studio fire.

Daniel returned to Los Angeles this morning without being caught by reporters, and Jerry, Orlando and others were interviewed in various ways.

"Is this your unified voice?"

Sally has a new pair of tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses that look more like a school discipline inspector.

Daniel nodded, "Yes, Jerry feels that since the fire has already broken out, its impact should be minimized. If we announce that Craig is obsessed with fiction - oh my God. It is still the third episode of the "Harry Potter" series, and I am afraid that there is no other benefit except for adding millions to the box office of "Chamber of Secrets". People will take your loss for granted because the person hired is too irresponsible, and it's your fault. Now, at least no one makes a mistake, everything is an accident, so the loss of millions can more or less pull some sympathy and stir it up when it is released. There is always help. ”

"Considering this is your investment project, this plan is not too bad." Sally was holding her big notebook, and she had changed it to a new one in the past two days, "However, from an actor's point of view, this is an extreme waste of resources." That's not what I said. ”

"I know, Trick, a responsible PR."

"Indeed, in my opinion. If you play a key role in making up for the credibility you lost in the 911 incident, once people will be suspicious, and twice people will still not believe it. But the number will be much smaller. If you can catch it once in the future, it will completely confirm that you have something special. This can create a long-term conversation for you about celebrities who are suspected of having special sensibilities. ”

"Listen, Sally, I don't need to be a god. That's not a good thing. If your movie is a big hit, everyone will say it's not because of your acting skills, not because of the commercial value. It's that it's going to be a big hit, and you just have a hunch of his success, so you chose it. Therefore, all my efforts were drowned out by this so-called 'hunch'. ”

Sally shrugged her shoulders and stopped bringing up the topic, indicating that she was convinced.

"You've got an extra ten days, including the time you need to talk to Jerry about the next shoot. This is very beneficial for you to participate in the promotional itinerary of "The Two Towers", and the media recently discovered that among the movies released this year, in addition to "Spider-Man" in the first place, "The Clone Crisis" in the third place, and Disney's "Omen", "My Grand Greek Wedding", which is only more than a million less than "Spider-Man", and "Spy", which ranks fifth, are all movies starring you. The next episodes of The Two Towers and the ongoing Harry Potter are expected to knock "Omen" and "Spy" out of the top five, but you can still have three films in the top 10 of the year - this is your time, it seems to be a Washington Post report. ”

"Huh?"

"Because of this, I think it's because of this, the world has been more diligent in contacting you recently, and they have basically no good films this year except for "Spy Shadows". "Red Dragon", which was released last month, has not yet broken 80 million, but the momentum has been crushed by "Harry Potter", "8 Mile" looks to be doing well, but unfortunately it is about 100 million potential, and it may not even be able to enter the top 20 of the year, I promise, the whole world is expecting your "Impostor" to bring them a surprise similar to "Greek Wedding". And this ...... Dreaming, of course. They are now counting on you to share a little bit of your miracle aura with them by looking at the ten point split. ”

"Well, is there anything else?" Daniel's confidence in Impostor is now growing, and that's based on his confidence in himself, at least for now, Kim. Carrey's charisma may not be comparable to him. Yes, that's a comedy professional, but isn't it even more gimmick for Daniel to star in a comedy?

"For the arrangement of "The Pianist", you need to contact the machine company."

The U.S. distribution of "The Pianist" was handed over to Good Machine Pictures, which in 2004 would be renamed Focus, the old home of the Chinese director An Lee.

"Kusa can get in touch with them first, he knows the people who are good at machines." It's a bit of a coincidence that the North American release of "The Pianist" was decided by the production company, and Daniel didn't intervene. But one of the most recent works of Good Machine Pictures is Scarlett. Johnson's "Lost in Translation," which Johnson is filming in Tokyo, was delayed a little, but it was almost finished. Kusa, as Scarlett's big agent, has had some contact with Good Machine.

"I've already been contacted, and the other party wants you to put more effort into it, basically the more time you spend on it, the higher the box office will be - this is a rumor in your miracle aura."

Since the complete explosion of "Greek Wedding", the industry's attitude towards Daniel has indeed been completely different. With tens of millions of investments and 400 million box office, this figure is still changing with the release in Europe. This kind of miracle is the most legendary thing, since the explosion of "Greek Wedding", he has not signed a new movie, and the outside world's estimate of his salary has run out. The back-to-back contracts in Universal Legends are now widely acclaimed.

Daniel's salary has been in a state of jumping, and after just entering the 20 million club, it has skyrocketed again, which seems unlikely. Anything is online, and if a movie gives an actor a basic salary of 30 million in the actual budget, then how much money is left for the production of this movie, I'm afraid it's very worrying.

So for so many years, it is not unreasonable that 20 million has become a boundary, of course, he still has some room for growth, but it is not large. So this time, the focus of everyone's speculation is, will he get a legendary salary of 20+20 in the next movie?

Given that he will begin to take a break in 2004, the suspense may have to wait for a while.

After a little thought, "I can come forward and organize a viewing party, when will they be released?" ”

"It's not settled yet, but it should be before Christmas."

"Okay, their arrangement is still the same, I will organize a viewing party at the Los Angeles Oriental Cinema, on the 7th, on the 7th of next month, you can set the guest list with me later."

Sally glanced at him, the decision was clearly not made suddenly.

However, seeing that Daniel didn't mean to explain further, she naturally didn't say more, just nodded and continued to talk about the next trip.

……

In the entire promotion of "Two Towers", in addition to screaming and shouting, everyone complained to Daniel that after this promotion, his ears were about to fail. In the later stage, it is even more because Daniel alone can top the entire crew, so he basically runs a line alone, and the others are in groups of three or five.

The losses of "Pirates of the Caribbean" are also slowly being calculated.

The insurance company will pay 60% of the $1.22 million for the damage to the studio – because there is human liability for piling flammable materials on electrical wires, which is certainly a violation of the regulations.

In addition, during the shutdown, more than 2.2 million was spent on maintaining the crew and preparing for the scrapping of filming, which was uninsured.

In addition to the loss, the crew also needed to rearrange the studio, because to change the filming location, the studios of South Bay, Burbank, and Disney will share the next shooting tasks in the United States, which will require a lot of reconstruction. Even so, the new studio has cost nearly 1.4 million.

With the millions of losses, coupled with feedback from Weta Digital, the special effects budget is definitely not enough.

So for Disney and Daniel, increasing the budget has become something that must be considered.

Melissa and Ferguson have recently brought professionals to study this issue with Disney, whether to split the cost according to the existing investment ratio of 2:1, or adjust the investment ratio.

The result is diametrically opposed to when filming first started, this time Disney wants to increase its capital exclusively in exchange for a larger proportion of investment, and Daniel of course disagrees, it makes no sense that Daniel was optimistic about this project at the beginning, and now that the expectations are a little clearer, you want to get more proportions.

The two sides are at a stalemate, and Robert and Daniel have agreed to communicate before restarting the game. (To be continued......)

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