From the faces of the heads of departments at all levels such as Holsai, Landley, and even Meyer and Schneider, you can see the optimistic estimation of the movie "Spy Shadow". A few days ago, in the last adjustment of the number of pre-release days, Shanying Company has raised the North American box office forecast to 140 million, which is 20 million higher than the pre-estimated amount, and the total global box office has also reached 320 million.

The forecast is based on "a significant increase in the popularity of key cast and crew members, an increase in audience recognition, and a routine survey shows that the size of young people who plan to watch the film, that is, the group of 17 to 21 years old, has increased significantly, and the young and middle-aged people (25-35 years old), who were originally the main moviegoers, have also increased slightly." In addition, the female movie-watching group has also seen a greater increase. This trend shows that the publicity work of "Spy Shadow" has achieved important results, significantly expanding the potential audience of the movie. As a result, Mountain Eagle decided to raise its North American box office forecast to $140 million. In addition, the film's global publicity budget and distribution costs have also increased, and the star Daniel Sandler recently won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, which is expected to have a considerable increase in the global distribution of "Spy", thus increasing the global box office to 320 million. ”

Daniel now has a detailed forecast in his hands.

After the test of more than a dozen movies and continuous self-improvement, coupled with the in-depth cooperation with Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo and blogger, as well as ABC, "Los Angeles Times" and other television and newspaper media, its quarterly forecast report for the upcoming movies in the next quarter has become the most trusted forecast report in Hollywood.

However, the company's CEO, Mr. Fred, rarely appears in the public eye, and most matters are handled by the spokesperson. The fast-rising analyst firm has already received several acquisition agreements. Among them, Walt Disney's offer is the most impressive, and Disney proposed two proposals, of which the wholly-owned acquisition is worth $470 million. The second option is to buy 51 percent of the shares for $200 million, but allow Fred, including the original management, to continue to make decisions about the company.

Similar pre-acquisition cases have been reported in the financial media, and many people in the industry believe that if Shanying accepts investment from giants in the film industry, it will inevitably damage its fairness and be quite detrimental to the company's development. Therefore, it is a better choice for Shanying to accept neutral funds such as TV networks and major analysis institutions without consortium background.

Fred and Daniel, of course, have had many rounds of discussion on the matter.

The opinions of the two men are not entirely on the same page.

Fred does not agree to accept investment, he believes that the company's current technical reserves in the fields of evaluation algorithms, large number mining, and data analysis are actually quite advanced, with very large investment potential, and the current acceptance of investment may not be conducive to the company's long-term development and existing planning. However, Daniel believes that it is difficult for Shanying to maintain its technological leadership in related fields among the giants in Silicon Valley, so the introduction of funds that can update and improve the technology will help Shanying maintain its priority. In fact, if you don't consider the financial pressure of MB, it is a good choice for MB to invest in Shanying.

However, this debate is not particularly heated, and Daniel, as the absolute controlling party of the company, has the right to decide. However, the day-to-day operation and planning of Shanying Company are carried out by Fred, and even at present, there are no more than three senior managers of Shanying Company who know that Daniel's investment company is the controlling party of the company, so it is very unfavorable for the company to make decisions by bypassing Fred.

This is the disadvantage of entrusting the company to someone else, but for the sake of energy, Daniel still intends to trust Fred, and the corresponding financial and legal executives in the company, Daniel is also in his hands, and the specific operation still respects Fred. This is not the same as MircoBlog, after developing MB based on the blogger public forum, Daniel has a lot of positioning and expectations for this promising new social media platform, so he has to spend more time on company decisions, Javier is the company's CEO, and there is a board of directors on it, Daniel Tongguò board of directors influences company decisions and provides development strategies - this is unavoidable, and Javier obviously does not have this vision.

Retracting divergent thoughts, there are too many things, and it is always difficult to separate them one by one, and considering that thing from one thing to another, sometimes it is a waste of time.

When the box office of "Spy Shadow" came out on the first day, Daniel was at DD Pictures, watching the final cut version of "My Grand Greek Wedding" with David.

"3,211 screens on the first day, a box office of 17.43 million on the first day, and more than 5,300 on a single screen."

Daniel nodded, hung up Andy's phone, his personal phone number was left with Andy, there must be a large number of calls today, but in fact, there is no meaning, although communication is essential, but at this time Daniel does not particularly need to care about these things, and Schneider, Meyer's level of calls, Daniel naturally needs to call later, but ordinary people, there is no need for this, the other party just wants to leave an impression on him - yes, I congratulated you at that time - It's just to meet multiple topics in the future.

The first part of "Spy Shadows", Daniel remembers that there is no such achievement, and the number of screenings may not be more than 3,000 yuan, referring to the standards of other Universal films, it can be roughly estimated that if it were not for his accident, it should only be about 2,500 yuan at most. And it's not that the number of screens decreases, and the box office of a single piece of contribution will automatically increase, without this good thing, the number of moviegoers is consistent with the popularity, usually the screen is added because the theater predicts that the number of moviegoers is enough, and maintaining the conventional screen means that they need to observe the box office of a single screen to adjust the follow-up screenings.

The influence of the leading actor on the film is one can imagine the popularity he received from the major studios.

Daniel is clearly not ready for this at the moment, and he has not been short of scripts and offers. But after today, everything will change, and one of the priorities will come to the fore: he will be the first choice of the producers for most of the candidates, and he will be qualified to take the initiative for the opportunities he sees - this is power.

Andy's call soon came back again.

David glared at him, and the phone hadn't stopped since he came, Andy, Cusa, Melissa—even though he said there was nothing important to bother him today, but everyone's things were very important.

Andy is about to report the box office on the first day, and Kusa is talking about "The Impostor" for him - Universal is rumored to be abandoning Jim Carrey, but now Daniel's value has also increased, and it is up to Kusa to follow up. As for Melissa, endorsement offers and business activities come from a variety of sources, including strongmen outside of Hollywood -- such as a senator from California.

"OK, the last one, definitely the last one."

Yes, Daniel wasn't wrong, this was indeed the last one, as he immediately left DD Pictures and returned home.

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The box office of "Spy" has been greatly adjusted