Ace Hollywood

readx(); On the flight back to Los Angeles, Daniel closed his eyes.

The fellow passengers who wanted to come and take photos were stopped by the flight attendants who had greeted them in advance.

He didn't actually fall asleep because the journey was really close.

The day before he left Silicon Valley, Daniel visited Apple—now called Apple Computer in the United States. Jobs received him personally, and the two sides had lunch and dinner.

The common topic between Jobs and Daniel is not limited to technology.

Because Pixar Animation, the production company of "Finding Nemo" released a week later than "Fake Tenjin", nearly half of it belonged to Jobs himself. He is actually a half-Hollywood practitioner, although he is the one dedicated to technology, whether at Pixar or Apple.

But that doesn't stop them from having more discussion topics.

Especially when Daniel mentioned Weta Digital.

Jobs praised the special effects of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy very much, and he thought Weta Digital's achievements in this area were better than Pixar's. However, his main focus is no longer on Pixar. Apple, which he created and returned, is his favorite.

This year Apple and Motorola developed a new phone that, of course, wasn't very successful.

But for mobile phone manufacturers, there is still a crisis of wolf coming.

Apple's ability to make products is known to the world, and Motorola's technical strength in mobile phones is also unmatched.

The cooperation between the two is believed to disrupt the existing industry.

But no one knows now that Jobs wanted to develop his own mobile phone independently.

Daniel took a phone call and said tentatively, "A thing that gets in the way, apart from texting and making calls, has no more use. I really don't think it's worth it."

Even if Jobs is so legendary, it is not a problem for an Oscar winner to give a performance in front of him that he has no idea.

Daniel's point of view seems to be not paying attention to Jobs, but he can clearly see his eyes and expressions.

Jobs' eyes were astonishingly bright.

Subsequently. He actually started to discuss this topic with him.

"What kind of phone do you want?" Jobs asked with interest. "You know, Apple is developing a mobile phone business. We launched a water test machine in cooperation with Motorola this year. But it has more shortcomings. ."

"Is Apple making mobile phones?"

Daniel looked at Jobs in "surprise", and then asked Jobs, seemingly excited, "I love using your computer and I really look forward to seeing Apple's own phone, it must be great."

"Really." Jobs was praised to a very cool place, and his vigilance decreased, mainly because in front of him was a Hollywood actor, a high school graduate whose SAT was seriously not enough for college scores.

Egotistical geniuses have a hard time giving them attention.

"I know IBM used to put out a 'Siemen' phone that could have some programs installed, just like a computer. I think the phone should go in this direction, a small computer that can connect to the Internet, you know, I love the Internet. I It's fun to think that the whole world should be connected to the Internet so that we can share with each other, isn't it?"

"That's a really cool idea," Jobs seemed excited. "Really, I think it's a genius idea, maybe you should come to Apple a lot, you know we have some creative jobs. Oh, but the salary is definitely not yours. The salary is high. The salary of ten years should not be as good as the salary of your one play.”

At this point, Daniel already knew very clearly that Jobs was already doing it, but he couldn't think of how he could intervene. and whether it is necessary to do so.

It might be a better idea to invest in their stocks.

The last stop is PayPal. This payment company is actually far inferior to the other one. In this industry, Chinese people have achieved an incredible leading position.

PayPal's visit was just a taste, and he wanted to briefly understand the current state of e-commerce. With MB's partnership, arranging this visit wasn't difficult.

Daniel's 6-day itinerary is quite full, and the reception level is also very high, almost all the founders of various companies or come forward.

"He was like the same kind of tech giants. When they received him, they seemed to completely forget Silicon Valley's disdain for Hollywood and the disdain of technologists for actors."

The media's long-winded follow-up reports ended with such an abnormal state of mind.

...

"Daniel, Daniel, Daniel..."

Evans, the website editor for USA TODAY, is doing a Daniel's Newsletter and.

In 2003, half a year has passed, and Daniel's limelight is no different.

Count forward from now.

"The Pianist" and "Rwanda Hotel" both exceeded 100 million yuan. "Fake God" was released in 7 days and the North American box office exceeded 120 million. "Rwanda Hotel" was also produced and distributed by Daniel, and it is not a problem to benefit from it.

The high-level reception interviews of the four Silicon Valley giants also produced a series of reports. After all, whether it is a formal meeting with any one of Larry Page, Steve Jobs, or even Javier, it is a big event. In particular, Steve Jobs was lonely, but he had a good conversation with Daniel, and even in the face of reporters, he was quite excited that Daniel had given him a lot of inspiration.

Going forward, the International Humanitarian Conference and the accidental attack that attracted the attention of many parties, including the White House and Congress, are also quite eye-catching news.

Continuing to count, it is the scandal of former Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Dagmar Dunleavy's discrimination and award manipulation scandal. This accident that brought Dagmar to disrepute obviously started with Daniel. Daniel doesn't matter, that's hell.

Then there's Daniel winning the Oscar, becoming the youngest Oscar winner in history, and the record mentions that he's 23 years old, which makes this honor more and more difficult to challenge.

The Oscars were apparently preceded by the Golden Globes scandal.

Further ahead is the Pirates of the Caribbean studio set on fire.

In just half a year, as long as other big stars meet one of them, it is enough to maintain the exposure rate, but he has not broken the big news at all.

Evans was arranging and writing while arranging, and Daniel's legendary experience was still spinning in his mind.

He made his fortune on the Internet, until he became famous in the operation of "Greek Wedding".

"How could Larry Page and Steve Jobs, and MB and eBay jointly invite him to Silicon Valley just because of this? If you want to take advantage of his popularity, there should have been further plans, but so far , there is no information at all." As the earliest wave of online media, Evans has a strong ability to find information online, and the more he thinks about it, the more unusual he feels that this invitation is very unusual.

Evans opened Paint and dragged a few circles across the page.

Write it down one at a time.

Apple, , MB, Google, DD, then connect Google and connect, then connect MB and connect, and lead a line from MB to DD Films.

After thinking about it, I dragged it around again, wrote PayPal, and linked it with MB. MB and PayPal cooperate to pay online. This is not uncommon news.

In the end, an apple was left alone.

There is no intersection with them. Of course, if you insist on contact, of course Google and Apple can also be connected. After all, they are the top companies in Silicon Valley, and it is normal to have cooperation. There is some cooperation. But this is a normal business behavior, and there is no obvious direction, it is too far-fetched to connect.

Evans added another big circle to MB's circle.

From the connection point of view, MB and DD Pictures have direct cooperation, that is, Daniel's prestigious "Seven Days" planning, at the same time, MB has a stake in the relationship, and is indirectly also owned by Google, and then MB has a close relationship with PayPal, and After the "Greek Wedding" set off a boom in MB users, this cooperation has become very close and deepened.

So, in Evans' eyes, MB is the center of everything.

If all of this is really related, the core person must be MB.

Evans has the curiosity and execution that a journalist must possess. He started looking for information about Javier of MB on the Internet, but found nothing unusual. The company he worked for was not a well-known company like the Fortune 500. Evans even found some remarks by Javier who had some opinions on the virtual community of the internet, which may have been the reason he ended up getting the MB post.

No meaningful clues were found in Javier.

Evans set his sights on MB's mysterious majority shareholder, Plutos Investments, an investment firm registered in the Cayman Islands. Many people have studied it, but limited by its registration place~www.readwn.com~ no one can figure out this company-MB's major shareholder, the minority shareholder.

However, Evans was not discouraged. His purpose was not to find Plutos's footsteps, but to see if Plutos could connect these related parties, and then solve the doubts in his heart.

After hours of efficient searching on the Internet, he even used the channels of USA Today to look up the company in some systems that are not open to the general public.

When he saw Plutos' name in a non-public document submitted by DD Films to the Producers Guild, he almost jumped up. This was a document from more than 2 years ago. Evans even It is not known who photocopied it to the internet.

In this document, David, Daniel, and Plutoth are mentioned in the introduction of the production company. But when Evans clicked on the current DD Pictures official website.

But only David and Daniel, and Plutos was gone.

Evans felt his heart racing as he made an exciting discovery. (To be continued.)

PS: Chapter 4