He stood up and stretched.

Kusa, who was sitting behind Daniel, looked at his back, "Daniel, you are becoming more and more like a ...... Well, how to say it, I'm no longer a simple actor anyway. Talking about their film projects, and even industry trends, is like a studio owner. ”

Daniel laughed.

"By the way, what did Melanie say?"

A few days ago, Melanie Sloan, the mother of Scarlett Johansson, intended to make Kusa Scarlett's agent. At that time, Kusa also consulted Daniel, and with part of the work of the film project transferred to DD Pictures, Melissa also grew up and took charge of part of the work, although now it is still Kusa to negotiate cooperation with important tasks related to related parties, but compared to before, his workload is much less.

After all, he is just Daniel's big agent, and it is not his job to work in investment and the studio, and from the regulations, he cannot interfere in the daily work of the studio. Therefore, taking this opportunity to expand their customer base is a development direction of Kusa's business.

"It's basically settled. What do you think of Scarlett's development? ”

Daniel glanced at him, "Whatever you want, she will." That's how we came to be. You ask her if she's interested in Elizabeth in Pirates of the Caribbean? I can recommend it to Jerry. ”

"What you said is true?"

"It's just a recommendation, of course I can decide."

That being said, once Daniel decides on a nominee, both Jerry and new director Rob Marshall will take it seriously, and it stands to it. Scarlett, if she is similar to the others, or slightly inferior, is likely to win the role.

This is the heroine of a billion-level investment, even if it is a vase, it is absolutely incredible.

Kusa was obviously moved, and after talking about Scarlett, Elizabeth also flashed in his mind, but the situation is still different, and now there are quite a lot of people who want to fight for this role, after all, Daniel invested in the role, and backed by Disney, some B-list up, A-lisit edge actresses, there are a lot of expressions.

However, this kind of role that doesn't require too much acting skills is often a good opportunity to be used as a favor.

The two female stars in Rob Marshall's new film "Chicago" Catherine Zeta-Jones leaned on the veteran actor Michael Douglas and didn't like this opportunity very much, but Renee Zweig, who was nominated for the first Oscar for the first time with the hit "BJ's Single Diary", handed over her resume through Rob.

However, her appearance is not enough, and Daniel even expressed his incomprehension that Rob chose her to play Lockhee.

Lockhee in "Chicago" may be able to make a living, but Elizabeth's identity background must require this actor to maintain a certain degree of innocence, in addition, beauty is essential, according to the design of the script, Will and Elizabeth should be very good-looking actors to play, otherwise under the charm of Captain Jack, it will really be much weaker. originally played this role Keira Knightley, her acting skills are more than enough for this role, but her appearance is quite insufficient, even if she wears makeup, she has to look at the foundation, at this point, even if she has not yet shown her later peerless stunner style, Scarlett Johansson is more suitable than Kayla with the help of makeup artists at this time.

And Scarlett has another advantage, Jerry's side proposed Will's candidate, the inertia of history came around at this time, Orlando Bloom, who missed Legolas, only played soy sauce in a few British movies after graduation, but he was still favored by Jerry, he can only say that it should be his, it is still his, Daniel has no intention of stopping him, and to be honest, Daniel feels that starting from Will is definitely better than starting from Legolas, although Will is not so eye-catching, but it is a little superficial, is more suitable for the current Orlando than the elf prince who is purely selling his face, if he is intentional enough, Orlando without the restriction of the elf prince may become a well-developed Hollywood actor of this generation.

Now that Jerry has proposed a supporting actor candidate, Daniel wants to sell the heroine's favor, and presumably he will not stop him. As for Rob Marshall, to be honest, "Chicago" hasn't achieved those results yet, and as a director who joined later, he really doesn't have much say in the starring role, after all, Jerry's company is a co-producer, and Daniel is the second largest investor, and he is a superstar who is on the rise.

Kusa also knows these things, so since Daniel has spoken, as long as Scarlett is a little more aggressive, I am afraid that she will soon usher in a big leap.

"I think she thanked you."

"So, are you going to pimp? For a 17-year-old girl. ”

"No, then I'd be worried that my little cash cow would be killed by a Porsche."

Daniel's tongue trembled rapidly in his mouth, making inexplicable sounds. Kusa understood what this meant, which was slightly equivalent to: your gibberish wins.

"I have to go to DD in the afternoon, I'm not very satisfied with the version of "Greek Wedding", there are some materials that are more suitable, I asked David to make an appointment with Nia and Joey, and I need to have a meeting to finalize it."

Kusa nodded, and suddenly remembered that one of his piles of scripts and emails had been seen last night and needed to be discussed with Daniel.

"Miramax's new film, it is said that the investment is not small. The title of the film is tentatively called "Cold Mountain", which tells the story of a deserter during the Civil War. It is said that the heroine was set on Nicole Kidman. Cusa briefly described the story of the script and added a gossip, "Tom Cruise was interested in your role, but then gave it up. ”

"Because of Nicole?"

"It shouldn't be, Nicole hasn't decided on the heroine yet."

Daniel nodded, no matter what, these two will definitely not be able to appear in the same film now, and they may not be able to release their previous suspicions after more than ten years.

He also understands the reason why Kusa put forward "Cold Mountain" alone, his relationship with Harvey is not bad, the Weinstein brothers are among the producers of "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy", not to mention that Daniel's Oscar at the beginning, the two sides also worked together, of course, it doesn't count who owes whom, personal contacts, and dollars pay, it's all business.

Looking down and thinking about it, Daniel still shook his head, "Forget it, I'll call Harvey later and talk to him." I don't have much time in time, and I still need me for the release and promotion of "Greek Wedding". ”

This time, the release of "Greek Wedding", after Tom Hanks and Daniel discussed, decided not to hand it over to the Big Six, but to be done by IFC and DD, IFC has the background of CNN behind it, DD is much weaker, and Tom Hanks's influence in the industry is much stronger than Daniel Sandler, so it seems that the two are actually quite unequal.

However, this cooperation is based on both parties' perception of the reality of the situation. In terms of popularity and box office conversion, Daniel, who is popular and continues to make good works, is establishing his own golden signboard, and his attraction to consumer groups, especially young people, will not be weaker than Tom Hanks. This is not a joke, Fox News recently conducted a social survey involving more than 14,000 people, selected 10 popular Hollywood actors, and asked people of all ages to choose who they would go to the cinema for. Fox did not make a general summary of the results, because the random selection was not determined by the actual proportion of each age group in the population. The results showed that among the 13-17-year-old group, Daniel was a leader, stewing both old soup and beautiful soup, Matt Damon was slightly inferior to him, and Brad Pitt was third. In the 17-21-year-olds, Jim Carrey moved up to third place, while the top two remained unchanged. It wasn't until the age of 35-45 that Tom Hanks finished second ahead of Daniel's fourth, followed by Russell Crowe.

Just this one statistic, Daniel can speak on the theater side, Hollywood is a place where interests come first in the final analysis, and of course it can give you Tom Hanks a face, but when it comes to his own performance, even the seven major Hollywood distributors of this level don't have much to do with the three major theater chains.

It was also a great opportunity for DD Pictures to form its own distribution team.

After this training, the next time when releasing "Hotel Rwanda", you can also follow MGM and Lionsgate to calibrate once, and after two experiences, DD should be able to undertake the independent distribution of a small-budget film, as for foreign distribution, at least the European part, at present, it can only rely on cooperation with local companies to transfer part of the benefits, which is also a last resort, otherwise with the scale of DD, arrange distribution personnel in dozens of ticket warehouses, the cost is too great, it is better to cooperate with others to publish.

Kusa got Daniel's attitude, "Cold Mountain" naturally didn't have to bother, although Daniel cooperated with many times the key films of major companies, but a competent agent couldn't ignore the scripts thrown by those small screenwriters and small companies, not to mention, now there is a DD Pictures in hand, and the requirements for the script are different. Although DD himself has a channel to receive scripts, it is not that no one has thrown it into his hands.

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10,000 words, tomorrow is the weekend, constantly changing, but only one chapter.

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