The 300 million prediction still surprised Turan, because the deal between Disney and DD Pictures is still unknown to the outside world. In other words, the budget of "Pirates", even if the supplementary investment in the first and later stages is 30 million, which is about 140 million or less, this figure is still much lower than that of "Pearl Harbor".

If there are 300 million in North America, it means that just in North America, Disney and DD's investment can be recovered. Overseas markets, peripherals, and other revenues can be added to profits – which is already a very good result for a big production.

After all, the proportion of the box office of Disney's movies in the total revenue is 35 percentage points, and it is unrealistic to intend to recover all the investment within 35 points.

Especially "Pirates", a movie that is closely related to Disneyland, is intangible to the profit promotion of the entire Disney amusement park, and it will not be shared with DD Pictures.

"Isn't Disney going to make a fortune?" Turan sighed, and after saying this, he seemed to think of something, and turned his head to look at Daniel, "You just said that Disney spent a lot of money?" What does that mean? ”

This is definitely not something that a co-investor would say, and it makes sense for Daniel to say something like "we spent a lot of money".

People like Turan, who play with words every day, are very sensitive to this kind of thing.

Daniel was also stunned, he didn't expect that Turan would find out if he missed a sentence in his mouth.

But the movie is not far from being released, on the 9th of next month, he thought about it, and it definitely has nothing to do with Turan - after all, in the final analysis, even if he is affected, it is not him who suffers the most, whether "Pirates" is 200 million or 300 million in North America, of course it has an impact on him, but 280 million and 300 million. The impact of this gap on him is very small.

The possible consequences of his withdrawal so far are probably 2, 30 million box office.

If it had been revealed earlier, the impact on the project as a whole would have been much greater. But for now. The impact is within his reach.

According to his original plan, he was going to reveal this after the release, so how much he lost was an imaginary thing - Robert would definitely think more. With 300 million, people will count on 400 million.

This is definitely good for subsequent cooperation.

Thinking about it this way, Daniel has no regrets about leaking his mouth.

Leaned over and whispered to Turan, who was getting bigger and bigger with his mouth and eyes.

He still remembers not being able to say it out loud, but only to keep it low.

"There's no way he's going to buy your investment at the original price, right?"

"It's a trade secret." Daniel smiled, although he didn't say it explicitly, but Turan could also see that DD Pictures must have taken a good price, otherwise Daniel would not have been so happy to be robbed of investment. After all, this is his prediction of 300 million movies - how much one-third of the revenue will be. Turan guessed in his heart, 35 million, more than doubled, probably possible, that is, 7, 80 million. Considering that the payback period has been much shorter, it is not surprising that Daniel would be receptive.

But in this way, Disney's investment is a bit scary, with an initial investment of 7 or 80 million, an investment ratio of 7 or 80 million to buy DD, and a later supplement of 30 million. In this way, the total investment has reached 170 million or 80 million, so that 300 million in North America wants to recover the total investment. It's impossible.

If you hope to make profits on the surrounding income, the disadvantages are very obvious for DD Pictures, which is jointly invested. Disney's channels are strong, and the company is also an old brand, how much money DD Pictures can get in the end almost depends on how much Disney's sincerity remains.

Withdraw investment. That seems like a smart move.

"I see." Turan's thoughts wandered back, "No wonder I see that you don't pay that much attention to it, until now, you haven't even seen the film, this is really not like your previous style." Well...... On the movie review, do you want to press it a little? ”

"Say whatever you think, there's no need to be far-fetched if there are bad things."

Turan breathed a sigh of relief, being able to tell the truth, of course, is the best way to maintain a personal brand.

Nodding with Turan, sharing a secret, Daniel turned to other people, today the media are running the line of film entertainment, with Daniel's exposure, and they are still relatively familiar, talk to you a few words, talk to him about the current situation, ready to have a few hands of Tai Chi, and confuse the idea of listening to his 2004 plan.

The screening has basically begun.

Rob. Marshall, Jerry. Bruckheimer, Kayla. Knightley and Orlando. Bloom, plus Daniel himself, five people stood in a row.

Rob takes the lead, Jerry is behind him, this is the convention, a film, no matter how strong the producer is in the shooting, but in the publicity, public activities, it must still be led by the director, the producer is a pure behind-the-scenes career, and the director has half of the star attributes. What's more, with an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a Best Picture, Rob was at the time of the hot spot, and the publicity value was also the greatest.

Now in this group, except for Daniel, it belongs to Rob who has good news.

Unlike Daniel, Kayla and Orlando were mostly present for the entire promotional trip — they had fewer jobs and more demanding contracts. This is also very understandable, there are not enough coffee seats, and diligence is to make up.

However, Kayla almost offended Disney, which was also known to Daniel later, these things are not very related to him now, unless he has his permission, otherwise no one on the promoter will dare to fry his relationship - he has a girlfriend after all, if this is affected, it is to make a feud. There are not no Hollywood people who are willing to make a feud with Daniel, but there are certainly not many of them.

Disney's promoter wants Orlando and Kayla to have a relationship.

Kayla was reluctant and resolute.

In fact, Disney didn't seek the opinions of the two people at all at first, just let them cooperate. Kayla's attitude clearly angered the person in charge of propaganda.

Later, the filmmaker made a big move, suppressed the final payment, and directly contacted Kayla's agent and company.

In the end, she had to agree, but it was impossible to think about what to fry it to.

Orlando is very cooperative at this point, and Daniel suspects that he wants to fake it at all, but unfortunately, the English Rose has thorns, and Orlando can't do it.

Rob opened his mouth to welcome everyone to come, and several people described their characters in turn.

"To put it simply, Jack. Sparrow is a hero, a jerk, a bully, a righteous man, but most importantly, he is unique and unbeatable. ”

That's what Daniel said.

The lights in the screening room dimmed.

After the Disney head, a sea of water waves and mist gradually appeared in the sky of Mars, and a delicate ship peeked out of the fog.

Daniel's eyes lit up, and he assured that the special effects of this "Pirate" were definitely better than the original.

The surface of the sea, the bow of the ship, real and shocking.

"Do you have any plans to move to 3D? Or IMAX? Watching little Elizabeth stand at the bow of the boat and sing, Daniel and Jerry next to him whispered.

Jerry has seen it several times, and it's rather boring to sit here.

"Converted to 3D?" Jerry shook his head, "If you want to do 3D, you have to prepare from the beginning of shooting, and the investment is estimated to be at least half." IMAX doesn't have it either, the main thing is that the screen ratio is too small, and this is not the main IMAX, and it's a bit of a waste to spend that money. ”

Nodding, Daniel squinted his eyes and looked at this magnificent big ship, feeling a little pity, if it was in 3D, it would be quite shocking.

When Kayla appeared and the Governor brought the clothes, Daniel suddenly smiled.

When he looked at the original, he remembered this picture very well, because the view from the window of the Governor's Palace was so fake that it was like a painting hanging outside. Now, with a lot of investment, Weta Digital is clearly doing better.

Jerry glanced at him and didn't say anything.

Turan sat in the back, flanked by Ted, a veteran film critic at Variety.

Both of them were a little unhappy about not seeing Daniel until about 10 minutes, because it meant that the layout was too long and not straight to the point — something that commercial films pay a lot of.

But as soon as Captain Jack came out.

The scenery is infinitely holding a rudder, the image is so special, and the face is full of spirit, which catches people's eyes at once.

Interesting!

"Daniel's malleability is really strong." Ted knew that Turan and Daniel had a good relationship, which is entirely evident from the fact that he basically did not criticize Daniel's work.

Turan nodded in agreement, "At least he can grasp these various shapes, which is rare." ”

Just as the camera went down, there was a burst of laughter in the screening room.

Jack's expression was very solemn just now, as if he was in charge of a big ship at the beginning, but it turned out to be only the smallest boat, and it was actually leaking.

At this time, seasoned film critics basically understood that the tone of the movie may be light-hearted and humorous, and as for whether there are other features, they have to continue watching.

But then, it's all idle humorous scenes, which seem to be in order to do a good job of background elaboration and shape the characteristics of the characters.

When Jack stepped on the watchtower of his slowly silent boat and came to the docks, it was really cool.

Playing tricks with the Royal Docks staff and playing tricks with the two soldiers guarding the ship - this really tells the audience that Captain Jack is a cramper.

However, it is undeniable that the film has not been "engaging" at 15 minutes so far, and critics do not have to struggle out of the plot to evaluate and observe the whole movie.

This kind of "labor-saving" somewhat disappointed Ted and Turan.

Fortunately, the plot is not boring, at least Daniel's Captain Jack is always causing laughter, and from the point of view of ornamentation, there are not many flaws. (To be continued.) )

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