When Daniel offered to sell all the shares for 90 million, but retained the right to invest in a possible sequel - just the right to invest, not some fixed percentage or more. wwＷ.lＷＸs520.ＣＯＭ

Disney is starting to get uncertain.

Robert even offered to talk to Daniel in a nearby office alone, trying to understand why Daniel had made the decision.

Not taking any share of the investment in the project means that Daniel will no longer have all rights except for the leading actor, and the title of producer of Ferguson, who is currently stationed in the project, may also be removed. On the other side of the coin, it is equivalent to saying that Daniel will no longer have additional obligations for the film.

The publicity team that he became famous with a fight will not devote himself to this film.

He won't do much more than the publicity obligations set out in the contract.

And the news of his withdrawal will hit the project more deeply and seriously than the news of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" studio fire

Is this Daniel's tactic?

Or did he really change his mind and stop being optimistic about the project?

That's the message Robert needs from his one-on-one conversation with Daniel.

And, quite importantly, at the moment when the series is rampant, DD does not insist on keeping more than a third of the investment in the sequel, which shows that they are also uncertain about the future - if it performs well, they will strive for more investment, and if it does not perform well, they will simply give up, or just symbolically invest a little, basically, unless the subject matter is really approved by the studio. Otherwise, a movie made with a sequel must be a movie that makes money, and such a sequel investment right is actually a transfer of Disney's rights to DD.

But DD chose to leave a way back for himself. That is, to give up the right to invest in three out of three. to avoid the investment risk caused by Disney's executives' continued trust in a loss-making film.

This of course means that DD, or rather Daniel, is not so confident in this path.

Truth be told, Daniel didn't expect Disney's reaction, which was that he underestimated his place in Robert and Disney's hearts, and his judgment and contribution to the project were more important than he thought - which is why Disney allowed them to keep 20%. As a favorite acquisition. A group company that likes to hold everything in its arms can be regarded as a concession.

And the plan he proposed on the sequel is actually very meaningless, because the contract for the sequel must be bound to his starring contract. In other words, if Daniel wants to continue to play Captain Jack, then he must accept DD's investment, and the investment share of the first part is of course a plan that Daniel can put forward with confidence. The reason for mentioning this, of course, is what Robert thought, and it was a tactical act.

This tactic obviously mentions the unexpected, so now Daniel has to brace himself more when it comes to coping.

"Well, of course I'm still confident in this project." Daniel first comforted Robert, "The environment hasn't changed. So I certainly didn't change my opinion. As for our proposal, Robert, this is the negotiation that you proposed, not us, it's not that DD wants to withdraw, but you want DD to reduce the proportion. But now it seems that Disney said that if you don't meet a certain percentage, which is 80%, you don't plan to give full attention to the movie, but you ask us to still do it as the most important project when the rights are reduced - that doesn't make sense, does it? As you said, if we want to start a new project, then for DD, we have to go all out, and at this time, completely quitting "Pirates of the Caribbean" is an option, which will become just one of my films, and it has nothing to do with DD and my investment department, we can focus on something else. This is our most basic opinion, and the quotation is based on our assessment of the film's profit, to be honest, the decision of 90 million is really not expensive, but considering the bonus in terms of capital recovery and reinvestment, we shouted this price. Of course, from Disney's point of view, I can also understand that, after all, in a few months, the movie was only halfway filmed, and the original 35 million became 90 million, which is a bit unacceptable. But that's investing, isn't it? Bob, you know this better than I do, and a few months is enough time to change a lot of things, like my pay, and your power on the Disney board. ”

"So DD doesn't have hard requirements for the sequel, and it's also because you plan to quit, so you can't grasp the follow-up plan?"

"That's pretty much it. Every year there are a lot of money-making movies in Hollywood, and "Pirates of the Caribbean" may be one of them, but DD can't get involved in everything, and if we can't participate in the present, then it is irresponsible to simply hope for the future. ”

After the silence, the two sides returned to the negotiating table and began to move closer in a more detailed direction.

It wasn't until six hours after the negotiations had gone on that the exhausted sides agreed on a basic framework, a plan that was only a castrated version of the contract, and some issues were delayed.

The two parties reached an agreement that DD Pictures would accept Disney Pictures to recoup all 33.3% of its investment share for 85 million, but become one of the distribution companies of "Pirates of the Caribbean" with a 5% box office share. The two parties agreed to continue to retain the original terms until a new sequel agreement was reached, that is, DD Pictures had one-third of the investment rights in the follow-up series.

The two sides will not disclose this adjustment before the release.

In the final process, Robert once proposed that Disney could buy the investment rights of DD Pictures at a price of up to three times the investment amount, but in the end Daniel rejected this proposal, in his opinion, if there is an equity in a billion-level movie, it is good for the growth of DD Pictures, at least when you have a project out, everyone will say, at least you still have a lot of rights in "Pirates of the Caribbean" to guarantee. But if you accept Disney's plan, it will be too passive, how to talk about the acquisition, how can DD talk about Disney?

Daniel didn't think that Disney might have thought that he would use acting as an investment chip - but at this time, no one would know what the character of Captain Jack meant to the series.

Johnny. In the four-part series, Depp did not invest, just the salary and share, and he gained more than 350 million - why would Disney allow him to take such a big piece of the cake? This accounts for almost more than 10% of the total box office, and you must know that in the first part, Johnny's salary was only 10 million, and for this 10 million, he gave up his share. Later in the fourth installment, he was denied a share - but the fixed salary came to a staggering $55 million.

And that's not to say Disney and Johnny. Depp has a good relationship, or Jerry fought for him, but the series can't do without this actor, and no one else can replace the Jack Center formed in the first part. The series and the character of Captain Jack are super-bound, so Disney can only back away in Tracy's aggressiveness.

When they walked out of the conference room, the faces of both parties returned to their friendly smiles.

Yes, they are partners, close partners.

……

Hollywood news is difficult to hide thoroughly, just like the packaging agreement reached between Universal Pictures and Daniel, everyone doesn't know the specific content, but several media outlets combined, they almost guessed the terms in it, and even analyzed the respective thoughts and positions of Universal and Daniel.

This time, Daniel came to Disney with great fanfare, although in the name of visiting, but soon the gossip about the new cooperation agreement between the two sides began to circulate in the media, but the direction was not consistent, and some people took the trouble to say that Disney wanted to kick DD Pictures out, but the movie could not do without Daniel, so they reached an intermediate agreement. Others vowed that the studio fire and subsequent investment had dampened Disney's enthusiasm, and they demanded that DD Pictures take money from the huge proceeds of "Greek Wedding" to increase investment to share the risk.

Of course, among these speculations, Disney is the dominant party, which everyone knows that DD Pictures has a very limited say in the face of behemoths.

It wasn't until Daniel returned to Burbank to resume filming that Disney announced a part of it: DD Pictures would become one of the distribution companies for Pirates of the Caribbean.

Everyone got what they thought was the answer: Disney took a fancy to DD Pictures' experience and ability to operate "Greek Wedding".

The new filming went well during which Amanda . Seyfried even came to play a cameo role, a female pirate on Pirate Island, with a dissolute image, and it was hard for Daniel to imagine his decision, in fact, he also persuaded her.

But the little girl insisted.

In fact, she's been following a plan for Paramount lately, which features a group of troubled teenage girls, and if she wants to get a role, this experience in Pirates of the Caribbean might help. In addition, Jerry was a little indulgent to her, so in the end in the finished film of "Pirates of the Caribbean", there was an extra young female pirate who appeared and had no lines.

It wasn't until early December that Daniel took a leave of absence to return to Los Angeles, and he and Kusa Sally decided on the guest list for the film.

"You, you're going to announce yourself as a superstar in Hollywood? A bar mitzvah for a big shot? ”

Looking at the long list of names on the list, Sally couldn't help but feel a little numb even though she was used to seeing big battles.

She is right that status and power cannot always be disseminated in the media and on the Internet, and a clearer, more straightforward, and more crude declaration is also important. (To be continued.) (LＷXＳ５２０。 ＣＯＭ))

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