Will. The news that the Smith father and son will star in an inspirational emotional film has attracted a lot of attention on the movie page.

As the most well-known action star in recent years, although the salary is not as good as Denzel. Washington, but the attention is higher than that of the more in-depth and simple Denzel.

What's more, the movie he will star in this time is not an action movie at all, but a drama movie, and it is not a special thing for action stars to try to go to a broader path, and many stars who are good at action movies will always try to act in some other films. Tom. Cruise, an action star who is not a pure-blooded person, not to mention Silvestre, who has action classics such as "Rocky" and "First Blood". Stallone, who also tried a crime thriller two years ago, although they are close in blood, is obviously very different from the previous action movies.

The vast majority of the media agreed with Will's decision.

But his decision to change his acting path so drastically is still very scary. Will isn't a dollar either, and the Hollywood media won't all have good intentions.

"Action superstar Will. Smith transitioned to play the role of an investor and a father, and obviously, this time we, Will, who has developed limbs, intend to move fans with the beauty of his heart. He even brought his son, Jaden, who was only 7 years old, and perhaps the sincere father-son relationship between Will and Jaden was indeed touching, but we always want to wonder if the relationship between them was not achieved through fists. Pinkett has become an expert in trauma care. "Entertainment Weekly", a tabloid newspaper with nonsense and paparazzi as its main publication.

The more formal Entertainment Weekly was explicitly skeptical of Will's decision.

"Obviously, Will. . . Smith was taken by Daniel. Sandler was fooled, and it was certainly a safe decision to hand over his transformation to an investor who 'never fails'. But Will could be a victim of this superstitious thinking. Since Daniel officially took MGM into the bag, and "The Social Network" and "The Hangover" have been super successful one after another, the rumor about Daniel has become more and more demagogic - 'Daniel is not going to fail'! It's impossible for anyone in their right mind to believe this, this is Hollywood, how can anyone never fail, and Daniel has only invested in single-digit productions so far. Isn't it ridiculous to assert that he will never fail?

Later this year, MGM will officially become an asset to DD Pictures, at that time. They need to release at least 15 works a year to make sure that all 15 works a year can be profitable? It's not funny at all. Daniel is not God, and God cannot accomplish all this. ”

It's not just Daniel who has seen these negative reports. Smith himself is certainly more concerned about all this.

Luckily, though. Will, who had a strong low ebb, knew he should be more determined.

After Will came to DD to audition, he was officially identified as the leading actor, and in addition to that, Will wanted to be able to work as a producer.

"I wish I had more confidence in this film, it's too important to me after all. It's not an all-or-nothing gamble, but if we face a huge failure, I may not have a better chance to transform in the short term, and for myself, can I still have the courage. There will also be doubts. So, I want to be able to be met for that. ”

When it came time to negotiate the deal, Daniel agreed to it with little to no bargaining.

Will didn't ask for a share - he still knew a thing or two about himself, and his box office appeal in action movies had been proven, but nothing in feature films. If it weren't for his popularity being leading enough, Daniel would not have been able to personally fight for him to star, but even so, he was not eligible to add a certain percentage of the share requirement to the 12 million base salary contract.

Don't look at the fact that Daniel is very polite to him now, and takes him extremely seriously, if in the end he is considered to be ignorant. Daniel turned his face no more gently than those cunning CEOs.

For Will, being able to participate in the film as an executive producer and make sure that the film is in his hands is much more important than that he gets paid more - after all, it is all about action and drama. will open a new mountain of gold for him, and at that time, whether it is a salary or a share, it will not be a problem. Now, as for this, is not the time to worry about that.

With the release of this news, "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has also become one of DD Pictures' latest released projects.

Before that. In 2005, they only had plans for "The Hangover", "Saw 2", and "The Immortal Gardener", and in 2006, only the "Saw" series was announced to be released at a rate of one a year, so there may be "Saw 3" coming out, in addition, DD Pictures and Fox cooperated to shoot "Night at the Museum" with an investment of only 40 million - a large part of this is as Daniel's basic salary expenditure, and the main producer of this film is Fox, not DD Pictures. The same is true for "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", which is still produced by Disney Studios.

Coupled with the "Black Swan" project that circulated before, DD now has only two clear projects in 2006, and none of them seem to be works that seem to be big hits. Considering that John. The biopic that Cash entrusted to Daniel barely reached three.

So within two years, DD Pictures' momentum of going all out seems to be gone, at least not comparable to their acquisition of MGM.

The newly disclosed "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" makes people smell the box office atmosphere exclusive to DD Pictures.

But Will. Smith's addition has affected everyone's confidence.

The Los Angeles Times described the strange phenomenon:

Daniel may want to find a well-known actor to lead the biopic, in terms of age, except for Will . Smith, he doesn't have a lot of options, so it's understandable to make this decision. However, compared to DD Pictures' brilliant record, we don't understand why Daniel would insist on casting according to conventional thinking under the premise that it is not quite suitable. In fact, in addition to "Greek Wedding" and "The Social Network", which Daniel himself starred, "Chainsaw" and "The Hangover", the two main series of DD, all used unknown actors. This tells them, and it tells us, that stars don't have to be that important in DD's films. Maybe it's because Daniel's investment is attractive enough, or maybe DD Pictures' ability to discern pearls is too high, and it can always find the most suitable new actors.

Either way, Daniel's approach to bringing Will into the project is questioned. It's even worse than Daniel tanning himself and then starring in his own right. ”

It can only be said that this decision has sufficient news value, and the media with different views has been extremely hotly discussed, and "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" has already attracted a wide range of attention before it has been established. From this point alone, Will. Smith is worth the price of 12 million, and most of the value of the star lies in the dissemination - the little box office contributed by individual fans is really insignificant.

A user on F2F called "Hollywood Insider" talked about DD Pictures' arrangement in an extremely sarcastic tone, and also criticized Daniel.

"It's nothing more than Daniel. Sandler's new trick of manipulating the media and public opinion, the pity is that the self-proclaimed clever media are being played around by him, and they don't even know that they are being manipulated. As long as we take a little look back at Daniel's rise to fame, we know that he has always been very good at this. Phoenix, the Elf Affair, Greek Wedding, and more, behind every iconic success, there are traces of manipulation. On the one hand, the release of the film promoted MB's listing plan on the New York Stock Exchange, and the value of his assets in MB more than doubled in just a few months. In turn, the IPOs of Google and MB, as well as the rapid development of F2F, were used by him to hype the movie "The Social Network", which made him hundreds of millions of dollars. This time choose Will. Smith's performance in "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" will not be an exception, and when the dust settles, you will know where his name of 'never fail' has come. ”

Daniel was still very curious when he saw this statement, this man obviously knew him very well, and wanted to be able to mention Rivan. There really aren't many followers of Daniel in Phoenix. Despite being his first appearance on the Los Angeles Times, and successfully sniping Jacques. Phoenix, but still holding it to this day, is indeed something that makes Daniel easily interested.

"He's not bad," Kusa dared to say, and the look on Daniel's face was definitely "pleasant." After thinking about it for a while, he understood that this statement, which attracted much attention in F2F, obviously created a credible reason for Daniel's "undefeated legend" - a marketing master. If it weren't for Daniel himself knowing that there was none, he would definitely think that this person had arranged it himself.

Like Miramax's Oscar PR network, this so-called "marketing ability" will also become a core competitiveness of DD Pictures, which does not violate the rules or the law, anyone can do it, if DD Pictures does the best and can act on the box office, this is of course the attraction of DD.

Presumably, those who are aspiring to this will draw a similar conclusion from this retweeted tens of thousands of speeches.

Kusa gave a "tsk" twice, he came to talk to Daniel about DD Pictures' third film, or the third of the three films that didn't include "The Hangover," "Chainsaw 2," "The Immortal Gardener," "Unstoppable" and "When Happiness Knocks."

That's a cartoon! (To be continued.) )

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