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"Wow, that's an unexpected number."

James Sam looked at the report in his hand and gave his partner David Lind an unexpected grimace.

Daniel's special screening held at the Oriental Cinema in early December, although there was no hype, the major media gave a lot of coverage. After all, the names of those big names are enough to attract readers, not to mention, the media also won the title Reported the news with terrifying headlines such as "The New Member of Super-a-", "Hollywood's Youngest Power Figure", "The Coming-of-Age Ceremony of a Superstar".

So even if Good Machine Pictures did not spend too much energy on publicity, the popularity of "The Pianist" in Los Angeles continued to rise.

This gave them a big surprise when they talked about the scale of the screening.

Originally they thought they could have 30 screens, thank God, this is the beginning of the screening after all, if the response is good, they hope to start the second phase of the release at the end of December - limited release, at that time, if there is a 3, 400 A block screen is not bad. The third stage, of course, is the best situation. "The Pianist" won several Oscars and will be fully released at the end of March. With the fame of Oscar, it can be opened in the range of about 800 yuan. , take a long line, grind to 30 million, and then complete the task in North America. After all, the main market of "The Pianist" is still in Europe. Outside North America, its box office has exceeded 60 million. For investment , not really making money, but adding North American expectations. It doesn't make much money, but at least this will not be a project that loses money.

However, James and David were hit by a surprise at the beginning. The major theater chains have more or less given a screen in the early ten dollars. What is even more surprising is that some independent theaters are also quite generous.

This brings the entire screening scale to about 55 yuan.

They know what the problem is because they completely underestimated the gold content of Daniel's brand, the legend of "Greek Wedding", as Hollywood practitioners, of course they know it very well. That's the kind of beautiful thing any independent studio would want to happen to them.

The significant rise in Daniel's status and power has also strengthened the value of his personal brand.

In fact. During the negotiation with the movie theater, they were asked by many people whether the movie was invested by Daniel Investment Department or DD Films. When the answer is no. The interest of the people in the theater has decreased a lot, and even so, James and the others still have a surprising record.

After the data from the first day of the screening came back.

Once again, James and David knew that they not only underestimated Daniel's status in the cinema and on the chain, but also underestimated his appeal to moviegoers.

The single-day box office of "The Pianist" was $614,332, and a single screen contributed more than $11,000.

omg!

James felt that only these three words could express his inner feelings.

"This is Daniel?"

"This is Daniel!"

After trying to calm down, James looked at David again, "David, maybe we should try to find Daniel to make a movie. Work hard."

"But, are we really going to spend that much money on him? Wouldn't it be too risky?"

This is the truth, the films of Good Machine Pictures may not be able to invite big stars. But many big stars do not necessarily have to pay 10 to 20 million yuan for each film. Hollywood has so many big investment projects every year. One male lead and one female lead, or two male leads and two female leads, can accommodate various levels. The number of stars is not many. More stars can only act in low-budget films, such as "Greek Wedding" and "The Pianist." Their cast and crew may not be weak, but the remuneration does have to be discounted.

But Daniel is different now, he is already one of the highest priority in Hollywood, the 20 million club members who have never missed, unless he beats himself, then these big productions will be lined up The team let him choose, and after he has chosen it can be his turn. Under this premise, unless the script of a good machine can impress him, and then add an extra part to the budget to pay his salary, or want to cooperate, I'm afraid it's not possible in the last two years.

Of course, there is one most important factor, Daniel is going to retire in 2004 - and his work in 2003 is almost full.

"Even so, I'm afraid it will take until 2005 to have the opportunity to cooperate, if his pension budget is one year."

At this point, James sees clearly enough, "I think we should see what suitable roles are available, and then contact them as soon as possible to arrange a schedule for the beginning of 2005, you have no idea, this young man is now a current Banknote Bank, those powerful companies will not let him rest for too long."

Of course, Daniel also has this data in his hand. In fact, since the battle friendship of "The Greek Wedding", his team is now really very simple and straightforward to get the box office data. Whether it is David or Ferguson, there are numbers in the phone. The telephone numbers of ten statistical companies, and the telephone numbers of - are also available.

"The performance is amazing, your halo is bigger."

"Isn't the colorful bubble one step closer to bursting?"

Cusa arrived in Burbank only today to handle the end of the investment with Disney. Although the two sides have reached an agreement, it is necessary to complete these procedures without disturbing the media, and it must continue for a period of time. Basically, this time Cusa came over and was able to deal with the matter.

Cusa was obviously a little surprised by Daniel's pessimism.

"Aren't you supposed to be complacent at this time, and then the whole world is in the palm of your hand?"

"You know better than me, no one will fail, I'm not a god, at most I'm acting as an impostor, oh, by the way, I don't know how they're doing, it's my ten-point share, anyway. Twenty million."

If only there was a way to describe Kusa's mood. It was probably a case of a woman pretending to be innocent, taking off her pants in a hurry and saying "so shy".

Daniel is like that.

Say no to. The tongue is honest.

It was only when I said that I had no confidence in the box office miracle, it was a bubble, but when I turned around, I took it for granted that "Fake God" could have a box office of more than 200 million. According to the division, Daniel's 10 points should be divided into 10-20 million, then Universal will be divided into 1-2 million, and the total box office will naturally be 2-3 billion.

Cusa, who was not in the mood to be polite with Daniel, had no choice but to turn his attention back to this report.

"This thing is expected to irritate a lot of people."

"Who cares?"

Of course. There are many people who care, but Daniel himself is not included.

Like New Line's Saya. Peter Jackson, Disney executives, and Marvel's Kevin Feige -- the more he read the news, the more his heart ached. The plan to cooperate with Daniel's investment department on "The Punisher" has been rejected by Marvel and Lionsgate. In other words, everything is now back where it started.

Although there is no deterioration, no good is a deterioration, isn't it?

"Have their plans changed?"

This is to say that the machine film industry has performed so well that it seems that there is no need to wait for an Oscar with uncertain results.

"I've contacted them and nothing has changed, it's business as usual."

"Sturdy choice, oh. Scarlett finished filming, right?"

Kusa hesitated for a moment, but still felt that it was up to Daniel to deal with it himself, "Well. Yes, she's over, let me apologize for her. But, I have something else—"

"She said it herself? Oh, you said it."

"I was on the phone with James Sam, the owner of the Good Machine. They seem to be interested in asking you to be part of their film."

"What movie?"

"It shouldn't be decided yet, and it must have been stimulated by this data. But I have learned about their latest book, maybe you can take a look when you return to Los Angeles."

Daniel rubbed his temples, "You're going to have more work after Christmas."

"It's never been easier."

After a slight cough, Daniel decided to return to the original topic, "So, do they want to sign up first?"

In fact, James and David don't have a lot of books, and their company's trump card is the big Oscar nominee, Chinese director An Li, who has just become famous all over the world with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". An Li has just released a film in Hollywood. When it is, it is a good machine to operate.

So after the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" fire, An Li also promised to make a film for them.

It's just that the subject matter of this film is not particularly attractive.

So when they talked to Kusa on the phone, although they had this book in their minds, they still didn't say it. And Kusa investigated this book, hesitantly did not say it directly.

This is an independent studio trying to get out of the back door. Daniel already has a lot of such connections, so he doesn't particularly care. Instead, he was in a good mood and discussed Christmas arrangements with Cusa.

"Collins is coming to America and we're going skiing in Aspen. Do you and Jones have other plans?"

"We haven't talked about this yet, maybe it's a good choice to bump into the rich people~www.readwn.com~ Aspen is a vacation destination for the rich people in the United States. It is very different from the busyness and anxiety of other big cities in the United States. , like an alien space where the flow of time is twice as slow.

This is what Collins proposed.

"Maybe get Fred and Andy and ask someone else."

"So, the stingy Grandet is planning a big year-end reward? Invite the poor employees to go to high-end places to play for a week?"

"If I said I was actually going to... aa, would you do something irrational?"

"Without a doubt, I will."

It's like a movie theater in full swing, the blockbusters are sweating, and the United States is looking forward to a wonderful Christmas at this time, because it means holidays, reunions and chic, no need to wear formal clothes, wear pajamas all day, you can sleep It's very late, and you can brush as many episodes as you want. (To be continued)

ps: The third update, I finally keep the golden body of my little prince in the third update