"Wow, that's an unexpected."

James. Sam looked at the statement in his hand and said to his partner David. Lind grimaced in surprise.

Daniel's special screening at the Oriental Cinema in early December, although there was no hype, but the major media gave a lot of space, after all, the names of those big names alone are enough to attract readers, not to mention, the media also crowned "new members of the super A-list", "Hollywood's youngest power figure", "super big man coming-of-age ceremony" and other terrifying headlines to report the news.

So even though Good Machine Pictures didn't spend much effort on publicity, "The Pianist" grew in popularity in Los Angeles.

This made them already have a big surprise when they talked about the scale of the screening.

Originally, they thought that they would be thankful for 30 screens, after all, this is the beginning of the screening, if the response is good, they hope to be able to start the second phase of distribution at the end of December - limited release, at that time it would be good if there were 3, 400 screens, the third stage, of course, is the best situation, "The Pianist" won several Oscars, and it was fully released at the end of March, with the help of the reputation of the Oscars, it can be opened in the range of about 800 yuan, go a long way, and grind to 30 million, After all, the main market for "The Pianist" is still in Europe, and outside of North America, its box office has exceeded 60 million, which is not profitable for investment, but with the expectation of North America. It's not a lot of money, but at least it's not a loss-making project.

However, James and David were hit by a surprise at the beginning. Major theater chains have more or less given more than ten screens, and what is even more surprising is that some independent theaters are also quite generous.

This brought the scale of the entire screening to about 55 yuan.

They know what the problem is because they completely underestimate the gold content of Daniel's brand, the legend of "Greek Wedding", and as Hollywood practitioners, they certainly know it very well. That's really the kind of thing that any independent studio wants to happen to them.

Daniel's significant rise in status and power has also strengthened the value of his personal brand.

In fact. In the negotiations with the cinema, they were asked by many people whether the film was invested by Daniel Investment Department or DD Pictures. When the answer is no. The interest of the theater has decreased a lot, and even so, James and they still have a surprising record.

After the data from the first day of screening comes back.

Once again, James and David know that they are underestimating not only Daniel's status in the cinema and cinema chain, but also his appeal to moviegoers.

"The Pianist" grossed $614,332 at the single-day box office, contributing more than $11,000 to a single screen.

omg！

James felt that only these three words could express his inner feelings.

"This is Daniel?"

"This is Daniel!"

After trying to calm down, James looked back at David, "David, maybe we should try to find Daniel to make a movie." Try to fight hard. ”

"But are we really going to spend so much money on him? Wouldn't it be too risky? ”

This is the truth, and the films of Good Machine Pictures may not be able to invite big stars. But many big stars don't necessarily have to pay one or two million yuan for each film, and Hollywood has so many big investment projects every year, a male protagonist and a female protagonist, or two male protagonists and two female protagonists, and the number of stars of various levels that can be accommodated is not much. More stars can only act in low-budget films, such as "Greek Wedding" and "The Pianist". Their cast and team may not be very weak, but the salary does have to be discounted.

But Daniel is different now, he is already in the highest priority group of people in Hollywood, the 20 million club members who have never missed, unless he waits until he defeats himself, then these big productions will line up for him to choose, and he can only take the turn of others after he has chosen, under the premise that unless the script of a good machine can impress him, and then add an additional part of the budget to pay for his salary, otherwise if you want to cooperate, I am afraid it is impossible in the last two years.

And, of course, the most important factor, Daniel is going to retire in 2004 – and his 2003 job schedule is almost full.

"Even so, I'm afraid it will take until 2005 to have the opportunity to cooperate, if his pension budget is a year."

At this point, James saw it clearly enough, "I think we should see what suitable roles are available, and then contact them as soon as possible to arrange for the start of 2005, you don't know that this young man is now a cash bank, and those big companies with great strength will not let him rest for too long." ”

Daniel certainly has this data in his hands, and in fact, since the battle friendship of "Greek Wedding", his team is now really simple and straightforward to get box office data, whether it is David or Ferguson, there are dozens of stats companies on their phones, and the CEO of Box-Mojo also has the phone number.

"The performance is amazing, your aura is bigger again."

"Isn't the colorful bubble one step closer to bursting?"

Cusa arrived at Burbank today to deal with the investment with Disney, and although the two sides have reached an agreement, these procedures need to be completed without alarming the media, and it will have to last for a while. Basically, this time Kusa was able to get things out of the way.

Kusa was clearly a bit surprised by Daniel's pessimism.

"Shouldn't you be the feeling of being smug at this time, and then the whole world is in the palm of your hand?"

"You know better than me, no one will not fail, I'm not God, at most I'm playing an impostor, oh, by the way, I don't know how they did, with my ten points, it's one or two million."

If there was a way to describe Cusa's mood. It was probably a woman pretending to be innocent, and she was busy taking off her pants while saying "so shy".

Daniel is like that.

They said no. The tongue is honest.

only to say that he had no confidence in the box office miracle and that it was a bubble, but he turned around and took it for granted that "Fake God" could have a box office of more than 200 million. According to the share, Daniel's 10 points will be divided into one or two hundred million, then Universal will have to share one or two hundred million, and the total box office will naturally be two or three billion.

Kusa, who was not in the mood to be pretended to be polite to Daniel, had to turn his attention back to this report.

"This thing is probably going to irritate a lot of people."

"Who cares?"

Of course. There were many people who cared, but Daniel himself was not included.

For example, Saya of the new line. Peter. Jackson, Disney's executives, and Marvel's Kevin. Figo - the more he looked at this kind of news, the more heartache he felt. The plan to cooperate with Daniel Investment Department in "The Punisher" has been rejected by Marvel and Lionsgate. In other words, it's now back to where it started.

It's not getting worse, but it's getting worse if it's not good, isn't it?

"Have their plans changed?"

This is to say that Machine Pictures is good, and the screening performance is so good, it seems that there is no need to wait for an Oscar with uncertain results.

"I've been in contact with them, nothing has changed, it's business as usual."

"Steady choice, oh. Scarlett has already finished filming, right? ”

Kusa hesitated, but still felt that Daniel would handle it himself, "Yes." Yes, she's over, let me help her apologize. But I have something else—"

"She said it herself? Oh, you say. ”

"Me and James. Sam, that's when the boss of the good machine talks on the phone. They seem to be interested in asking you to participate in the film they make. ”

"What film?"

"It should not be decided yet, and it must be stimulated by this data. But I've got a look at their recent books, so maybe you can check them out when you get back to Los Angeles. ”

Daniel rubbed his temples, "You're going to have more work after Christmas." ”

"It's never been easy."

Coughing slightly, Daniel decided to return to the original topic, "So, are they hoping to register first?" ”

In fact, James and David don't have a lot of books in their hands, and their company's trump card - is the big Oscar nominee, the Chinese director An Lee, who has just become famous all over the world with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and An Lee has just launched a film in Hollywood, which is a good machine operation.

So after the fire of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", An Li also promised to make a film for them.

It's just that the subject matter of this film is not particularly attractive.

So when talking to Kusa on the phone, they didn't say it, even though they had this book in their heads. And Kusa investigated this book, and he didn't say it directly when he hesitated.

This is an independent studio trying to get through the back door, and Daniel already has quite a few of these connections, so he doesn't particularly care about it. Instead, he was in a good mood to discuss the Christmas arrangements with Cusa.

"Collins is coming to the U.S., and we're going to go skiing in Aspen, do you and Jones have any other plans?"

"We haven't talked about that yet, maybe it's a good idea to go and bump into the rich guys."

Aspen is a vacation destination for America's wealthy, and it's a different kind of hectic and restless place from other big cities in the United States, like a different dimension where time flows twice as slowly.

This was proposed by Collins.

"Maybe call Fred and Andy and ask someone else."

"So, Grande, who slammed the door, plans to have a big year-end reward? Invite the poor employees to a high-class place for a week? ”

"If I say I'm actually ready to ...... AA, would you do something irrational? ”

"No doubt I will."

It's like a movie theater in full swing, with blockbusters sweating profusely, and the whole country is looking forward to a wonderful Christmas at this time, because it means holidays, reunions, and chic, no formal clothes, pajamas all day, you can sleep late, and you can watch as many episodes as you want. (To be continued)

ps: The third watch, finally saved the golden body of my third watch, Xiao Langjun