Daniel quickly glanced at the woman in front of him.

A long tan hair is on the side, with big waves, exquisite makeup, and serious eyebrows.

"It's great that we have the opportunity to work together."

Hearing this sentence as soon as they met, Rachel paused for a moment, understood, and her eyes lit up suddenly.

Daniel had no intention of giving her another test, and Rachel did well in the original, and it could even be said that she had the best performance of her career. And since both Fernando and Simon approve of her, Daniel doesn't see the need to do more.

Rachel had no idea of this.

She thought that today was the ultimate assessment, accepting investors, leading actors, and Hollywood's super-authority Daniel. Sandler's assessment, but he didn't expect to say anything, and he was told that he was selected.

Sure enough, within more than three hours, they had lunch together, and they talked about their understanding of Justin and Tessa, as well as the love between them.

Rachel did do quite a bit of homework.

It is inevitable that this meeting will be photographed, Daniel is now so swaggering, the paparazzi informants all over Los Angeles have already sold him, Miller can protect his safety, but there is no way to hide him.

Andy, Ferguson and others also proposed that they take some better photos and provide them anonymously to newspapers and websites, so that the fat water will not flow to thousands of people's fields, but they are suppressed by Sally and Kusa with cold eyes. But Daniel knew that since then, Mr. Triver had secretly provided a number of photographs to the media partners — not for personal gain, of course, but as a resource to exchange their positions on certain matters.

Once the heroine is finalized, the follow-up selection is very simple.

Basically, it's all left to the casting director, Fernando is famous for his penchant for using non-professional actors, and this time he can't do it, but a lot of supporting roles and tricks must be used by Kenyan natives, for him, using the characteristics of the locals to emphasize the background of the story. It's a great idea.

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Entering May, "The Hangover" officially entered the North American 200 million club at the end of the fifth week, which is surprisingly similar to the original, although this "Hangover" was released four years earlier. The schedule is not exactly the same, but what is shocking is that the box office figures have almost not changed at all, and for this reason, Daniel is reluctant to think deeply. When you are just a person, you will always unconsciously think that there may be some rules in this world that human beings cannot understand.

The direct impact of "The Hangover" entering 200 million, in addition to Bradley and other four actors becoming hot, DD Pictures' performance this year has also attracted much attention, in the eyes of observers, the main work of DD Pictures this year must be the acquisition of MGM, and the completion of resource sorting and institutional arrangements, if you want to appear last year's grand occasion, I am afraid it is unlikely.

But at present, the North American box office of "The Hangover" reached 200 million in the early part of a month. Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Colombia and other more than a dozen countries were released simultaneously, the film was very popular in Australia and Belgium, with the release in France and Germany, it is obvious that it will quickly accumulate the box office, and there is almost no suspense about more than 400 million in the world. This film will bring DD Pictures more performance than most independent studios, even underperforming giants like Paramount. In addition, DD Pictures is bound to launch "Saw 2" this year, and the investment in the second part is slightly higher than the first. Wen abdicates to make way for Hyun - in fact, it is not the initiative, and the rustiness and lack of ability he showed in the first part are the main reasons. Of course, he still worked on the crew, Ray. Werner is still the screenwriter, but says goodbye to the role he doesn't like very much. New director Darren . Bausman. A young director who is a year older than Daniel will take over, and the starring role will be replaced by Downey. Wahlberg, the most well-known movie he has acted in is, of course, "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", which invested 40 million but cut 670 million red films around the world, which really added great points to the establishment of Downey.

DD gave the new team a budget of 6 million. Even if the previous work exceeds 100 million worldwide, the box office estimate for the second part of the series is still only 30 million to 50 million, which is an estimate made taking into account the reputation of the previous work. Although Daniel knows that the second part of the series is not inferior to the first, there is no need to say it now.

"The Hangover" and "Saw 2" alone were basically able to get DD Pictures a satisfactory annual box office worldwide. DD Pictures currently has three films still in preparation, "Wonderful Night at the Museum" is mainly the work of Fox, DD Pictures is preparing to produce its own films, "Unstoppable" needs Daniel to act, so it is in a state of slow progress, similar to last year's "Soul Singer", which is a legendary film of a legendary singer. Cash and Joan. Carter's career and love story. Although this film is famous, it did come to the door from time to time. Cash - a Grammy-winning singer who has not yet passed away, and he and his wife Joan hope to be led by Daniel and Reese. Witherspoon came to star in the film version of their biography.

It's easy to get quite Legally Blonde, but it's not.

Impress John. Cash's performance, "Gladiator", Daniel's portrayal of the Roman emperor, moved John, and he felt that he was similar to this image in many ways when he was young, so he insisted that Daniel play it. As for Reese, it's also because of the personality traits she shows and Joan. Carter fits perfectly.

Fox was intrigued by the story, but Daniel was on vacation at the time and really had no plans to make the film.

In September 2003, when John was about to die, he entrusted the story to Daniel, although everything was not known to the media, Daniel was still ready to shoot it as soon as possible, but this year he really didn't have time, and next year he will obviously enter a new crazy filming stage.

"Wonderful Night at the Museum", "Unstoppable" and "Spy Shadow 3", these three films have basically been scheduled to be filmed next year.

Fox's "Avatar", Daniel actually didn't have much hope. For Cameron, inviting a superstar to join may not have much impact on the box office in addition to the sharp increase in costs. But "Avatar" is indeed a big fat meat, and Daniel's itching heart can only be held back temporarily.

In addition to "Unstoppable", the project that David is currently promoting is "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", which is also a work based on a true story. But it's very difficult to invite the right actors.

Almost unanimous but almost all skeptical of this choice - Will. Smith!

Very contradictory.

In the process of promoting this project, everyone from Daniel himself, to David, Melissa, Ferguson, and many others, are hesitating about this.

The male protagonist had to be black, because the real protagonist of the story was a black investor, and he certainly couldn't have agreed to a white man playing himself - that would be ridiculous.

Then there are not too many options to choose from, if you just choose one that is almost suitable, of course, there are a lot of scripts in the union. In Hollywood, there is no real fairness, although there are some top black male stars, such as Jamie, who won the Oscar and Best Supporting Actor this year. Fox and Morgan. Freeman is the most well-known actor in blacks, and in addition, Denzel, who is also an Oscar-winning actor. Washington has an excellent reputation. But it's hard to count more familiar names. Inside, Will. Smith is the most suitable person in terms of box office appeal and age.

The only thing that's suspicious: he's an action actor, and "When Happiness Knocks" is a complete drama.

Whether his acting skills are enough to bear this story, biopics have always been Hollywood's favorites, but the film is prone to problems, too serious will become a documentary, too playful will be vulgar, if you want to make a good biopic, in addition to a good script, actors are also very important. If the performance is not attentive and moving enough, it is easy to see the incongruity between the characters and the actor - especially in the eyes of insiders, it is very obvious, and you can see that there are two people standing there, one is the actor himself, and the other is the character image given by the script. The two people seem to be one, but they are clearly separated left and right, and this extremely awkward viewing experience is fatal to the damage to the movie.

But this doesn't actually affect DD Pictures to Will. Smith offered the offer because they could audition, and Daniel had the full Oscar-like vision — and if Will couldn't meet the needs of the role, he wouldn't be able to escape their eyes.

But the problem was Will Smith's attitude.

"He hesitated for a long time, but he still rejected us."

Daniel was a little disappointed by this, but there were not many surprises, as an action superstar, you need to be very cautious if you want to transform, because once you fail, you may be framed in action movies for the rest of your life, of course, it is not that action movies cannot give birth to superstars, but no one with ambitions will want to stop there. Moreover, as I get older, I can't continue to shoot action movies, and it's hard to stick to torture-like body maintenance and physical training.

Raphael. Alabama was one of the producers of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door", and he was responsible for the work of contacting Will.

In recent years, many talents have joined DD Pictures, and DD Pictures has a not very good habit, DD produces films, rarely invites outsiders to produce, this role is actually very important, but generally speaking, some department heads within DD Pictures, or Ferguson, Melissa or even David, can intervene, generally speaking, this helps the director and the management to communicate, especially when the management has a strong understanding of the film. But this situation needs to change as the company grows. Hollywood's professional development has its own advantages. (To be continued.) )

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