"Daniel?"

Simon looked at Boyle with a frown, "Which Daniel?" ”、

"Daniel. Sandler! ”

"What?"

Relative to Danny. Boyle, Simon as a producer is more familiar with the situation in Hollywood, especially Daniel's recent limelight, it can be said that he has swept the whole of Hollywood from beginning to end, and of course he knows what Daniel personally called to represent.

"He probably got the news of our new movie from somewhere and became interested, so he asked his agent to contact me."

"He said he was interested? To Slumdog Millionaire? ”

"yes, I don't know where he saw the script."

"It's not so easy for Hollywood to hide the news from these big companies." Simon smiled, "DD Pictures can know the script of Warner Bros., it must have eyes and ears in their company. But it has nothing to do with us. ”

Simon said to Boyle with great interest, "Daniel is interested in this script, this is a big bargain, even if it can't get Warner to pay more, at least the budget should be a little higher, 15 million, it's too low." ”

Boyle hesitated and asked, "You mean or working with Warner Bros." ”

"Huh?" Simon was stunned, "You want to cooperate with DD Pictures?" It's also a good idea, DD Pictures' movies have never lost money, but we and Warner Bros. have talked about the current level, and a rash change of mind may offend them. ”

The two discussed it for a while, but decided to wait until they met Daniel.

……

Daniel's return to Los Angeles wasn't for "Slumdog Millionaire," but it was a big surprise, and he asked Cussa to learn about the project, and who else was involved besides Boyle.

After this unexpected "accident" was dealt with, Daniel and Cusa got down to business.

"What did Fox say?"

"You play the leading role. The investment ratio of DD Pictures is not higher than 20% and not less than 5%. ”

"Is this their last plan? I mean, with James' approval? ”

Rupert. Murdoch personally instructed Fox Film CEO Bill to contact Daniel and agree to DD Pictures' participation in James's new film project, which is actually already in progress, but the actor part has not yet begun - before that, James has to do a lot of pre-work on his own computer, and the film is not so much made as it is made on the computer. Except for James. Cameron, there is no second director in Hollywood who can do this job, this is not because of talent, or talent difference, but because there is no second person in Hollywood who has Cameron's technical vision and magnificent imagination.

This is also the reason why Daniel has never had the idea of making "Avatar" by himself, and he can do other movies by recruiting talent. Even changing actors and directors is not impossible. But only this movie, James. Cameron is a necessary factor if Daniel can bring in James. Then DD Pictures can do it by itself, if you can't ask for it, then you can't do it!

It's clear that James and Fox have been working together for more than a decade. It's not for Daniel to break, and he doesn't even have to try to know how unrealistic it is to poach James.

Therefore, there is only one way to settle for the next best thing. Join in and get a piece of the action. Even this plan has to go through many years of negotiations, and I know that two days ago, news came from Fox's side that it was willing to cooperate.

But again, for Fox, James is also a necessary factor, so this cooperation must also be agreed by James.

"If James is against it, there's no way Fox is going to make contact with us."

Daniel thought about it and called James.

As expected, he was working at his own technology company, and when he picked up the phone, he knew what Daniel meant.

"Fawkes already told you, didn't he? Seriously, Daniel, I've been hoping to work with you for a long time, but I haven't been lacking the opportunity, and I didn't expect to get my wish on Avatar. ”

James is definitely not the kind of director who only focuses on movies, and he is obviously quite good at dealing with human accidents. This sentence clearly reveals that Fox's relaxation was driven by him because he "wanted to work with Daniel for a long time", and then DD Pictures "joined Avatar".

James really doesn't need to curry favor with Daniel and DD Pictures, but now that DD Pictures has become an investor, Daniel himself will join as the actor, so Daniel himself inevitably has a lot of influence in this project, although "Avatar" is a project for which the director is in charge, but in the process of promoting the project, there will still be many disagreements, and people with the right to speak need to cooperate with each other, such as himself, Fox, Daniel, Jon. Landau and so on, the more people who support James, the more he will be able to make the film according to his own ideas, without being constrained by investors, which is a very important factor for him.

After a pleasant conversation with James, Daniel relaxed his body and leaned back on the couch.

He let out a long sigh.

"I can understand the profit prospects of participating in James films, but 20% doesn't seem that attractive."

Kusa asked, a little puzzled, with a smile.

According to his understanding, even if "Avatar" can make a profit of 500 million, DD can only get 100 million - this figure has been exceeded at the box office of "Youth Musical". And what is the concept of a profit of 500 million? Box office profit is the part of the producer and distributor minus the cost, that is, the 500 million claimed by Fox, then this part of the achievement needs to be as high as 1 billion, squeeze out the cost of Fox, at least about 800 million, worldwide, Fox can get a maximum of about 40% of the total box office, in other words, the global box office must be 2 billion - now the highest in film history is "Titanic", 1.845 billion worldwide, and the second place is "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Return of the King" 1.12 billion, and the third place is "Pirates of the Caribbean: Gathering Soul Coffin", which was released in July this year, and the current box office is less than 20 million less than "The Return of the King", accumulating to 1.1 billion, but it will also be released in some countries, so it is likely to climb to the second highest position in film history.

For Avatar, the goal itself is too difficult.

Of course, participating in the investment of a box office blockbuster is definitely more than just a small piece of box office revenue. But that's still not enough for Kusa to understand the importance Daniel attaches to — he has hardly ever paid such meticulous attention to a specific film project since DD Pictures grew.

Daniel smiled silently, the same question he had asked himself.

"Avatar" will be quite profitable, but the head of DD may not be as good as some wholly-owned films.

But putting your company's logo at the beginning of a film that is the No. 1 box office in film history is an opportunity that anyone who is interested in making the company bigger, you know, even after the release of "Avatar" for 6 years, the two "Titanic" combined are still 600 million short of it, and the third "Jurassic World" is one billion lower than it - except for its sequel, there is no film with the potential to break this record.

That alone was enough for Daniel to make this collaboration happen. (To be continued.) )