Ace Hollywood

"Kate?"

"Yes, is it a surprise?" Kate Winslet on the other end of the phone laughed loudly.

Daniel and Sally looked at each other and signaled to continue later. He stood up and walked to the window. The lush bushes outside isolated the villa from the outside world.

"I'm scared to death, I didn't expect to receive a call from you, aren't you on vacation in England?"

"Yes, but who made you so popular that it even affected my vacation life."

"This really scares me, what happened?"

Kate didn't plan to continue playing charades. "There's an independent filmmaker in the UK, Simon Channing Williams, who recently approached me, and you know the UK is so big, so it's easy to be linked around the corner," he said. He has a script that you might be interested in, and he wants to come to LA to talk to you if you want."

Daniel was stunned, he might be interested? He thought about it for a while, and he didn't seem to be showing more interest in a certain type of movie outside, so Mr. Williams, so sure to invite the most famous actress in the UK, I'm afraid he still has some confidence.

"Of course I'd love to host him, but do you know what the script is about?"

"He said it was a script related to refugees and Africa. I didn't see it. You know I'm still on vacation. I really don't want to read the script."

Daniel suddenly realized.

President Kibaki and his conversation were reported by Kenyan state media. As well as the reprints of major news agencies, it covers a very large audience, and many people know it now. Kibaki asked Daniel to make a film about Africa so that Westerners could pay more attention to what was going on in Africa and the help Africa needed.

Just like Hotel Rwanda did.

Williams is clearly one of them, and he may have just such a story in his hands.

Daniel thought about it for a while, but it was really hard to think of which story it was. And, maybe this must be a movie that hasn't been made - then of course he won't have any memory.

but. He still intends to give Kate this face, the important thing. Next, he will be around Los Angeles, on the one hand, continue to review the October exam, on the other hand. He will also lead the dd film industry to continue the post-screening promotion of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

On July 9th, "Pirates of the Caribbean" was released on 3,321 screens in North America. The single-day box office performance was not particularly good. We still need to look at a longer trajectory to see where the final box office figures will go. At this time, it is very important to manage post-screening word-of-mouth. Robert personally communicated with Daniel about this. Hope that dd film industry can fully promote this matter, he promised that the payment period will divide dd's hairstyle and call them this morning

so. Daniel had to watch this matter in person.

In fact, this is very beneficial to him. After all, Daniel knows that "Pirates of the Caribbean" itself is a work with a good curve, with 70 million in the first five days and 63 million in the second week. Almost slightly down, the third week began. It fell to 35 million, and then it has been at a speed of 1 to 20 million, and it has broken through 300 million in the long run.

With the blessing of dd, its rating on imdb has been maintained at above 8.5, and the mb movie rating was even as high as 9 in the first week. The mb movie rating is a rating mechanism for mb users. Once it was launched, the popularity exceeded that of professional websites such as imdb and rotten tomatoes.

Although its level of authority cannot be compared with the other two, as an indicator of popularity and audience liking, mb movie ratings are still valued by more and more film producers, because in the final analysis, whether it is imdb, or Rotten Tomatoes, they have to be applied to the general audience in the end to make sense.

Now that mb movie ratings have a more direct effect, there's no reason for studios not to take it seriously.

What's more, with the in-depth cooperation of box office websites such as mb and -- and the official websites of major studios, the trend of using mb as a comprehensive platform for movies has become more and more obvious. mb also participated in the establishment of the Internet ticketing website, which is a cooperation with the cinema.

mb provides a perfect platform and can achieve win-win with content providers, which is the most important reason why mb is making rapid progress on these things.

...

Simon Williams came very fast. After the good news that "Pirates" reported 48.63 million in 3 days in the first weekend, Williams had called Sally and said that he was in Los Angeles and could meet Daniel at any time.

"He's so positive."

"That's what independent filmmakers are like, running around for an opportunity, all to make the project work and not die," Cusa said.

Daniel was talking to Cusa about the progress of the Google negotiations, and Williams had to wait a bit.

Things have clearly progressed.

On the subscription of internal original shares, Google proposed a gradient plan.

Google hopes to raise more than 3 billion US dollars. If this figure is reached, then Daniel will get less benefit. Google is only willing to give a 15% discount, which is 15% lower than the issue price. 10 million shares of the company, and if the expected target is not achieved, that is to say, the 30 million shares provided to the market cannot be sold at a price of about $100, and a gradient plan will be made according to the amount of funds raised by Google.

If it is below 2.5 billion, the discount will be 20%, and if it is below 2 billion, Google will give a 35% discount.

This, of course, is to avoid the lack of development funds that Google eventually gets, so that Daniel's acquisition can make up as much as possible.

Daniel just let Raymond pretend to hesitate for two days before agreeing to this one - why not? Daniel knew that Google was a company that was only a few years old, and that it has been developing for the next two decades. Biggest setback.

Google so thoughtfully proposed this gradient scheme, and Daniel couldn't let the other party down at all.

After a point breakthrough, other things to talk about will also speed up.

For example, in injecting mb. Google's recent attitude has been very positive, especially Daniel's visit to Kenya this time, which has led to a large number of social organizations, United Nations organizations and some foreign countries to set up homepages on mb to promote themselves. Especially in some places known for their tourism, they have begun to try to have closer cooperation with mb.

This directly contributed to the substantial increase in the valuation of mb.

Javier has almost become the first big man of the social media age - the power he wields is growing rapidly almost every day, as MB spreads across fields. As more and more people join, it becomes more and more heavyweight. Every bit adds to his power.

He's just been interviewed on the cover of People magazine about the impact of social media on the world.

After the interview, he also made a special call to Daniel, saying that he had robbed Daniel of the opportunity to show off. But he feels very good.

Daniel was speechless.

Then he turned to Mark Vaughan and said, look, work hard, boy, you'll be on the cover of People soon.

The preparatory work of f2f is mainly technical. Some of Daniel's concepts and strategic opinions need to be turned into functions and websites by the technicians that Mark brought out from companies such as Google, and then they must be tested for several months. At least so far, the launch date of f2f is still uncertain, maybe by the end of this year. Maybe early next year - this is different from Facebook. The first version of Facebook that was launched was a very simple website, and the target group was only Harvard college students. Now f2f is a mature website, and its complete The framework needs to be built together.

...

"I'm sorry, Mr. Williams. I kept you waiting."

"Los Angeles is a good city, and I'm very happy here. Your assistant is also very caring." Simon was obviously not angry at seeing Daniel one day later.

Daniel invited him directly to the house the next day.

He now minimizes going out as the security measures at home are the best.

However, in September and October, he will go abroad to film the second part of "The Bourne Bourne". Miller is already making a security plan, but the limelight of the attack in New York has weakened, and their pressure has been reduced a lot.

After serving Simon with English black tea, Daniel turned over the script he brought.

"This script is based on the work of a novelist named John Le Carré, who published the book in 2001, but before that I got the film rights. Female characters in the film Tessa has an archetype, her name is Yvette Pierborough, a social activist, and a representative of the International Refugee Organization. She died in a car accident a few years ago, so John cast her as Tessa Sarah."

Daniel spent an hour reading the script carefully.

"Are the original books allowed to be published in Kenya?"

This was his first question, and he now knew what work it was.

The Immortal Gardener!

It describes a British ambassador to Kenya, for the accidental death of his wife and her revelation of ~www.readwn.com~ drug giants conducting illegal drug trials in Kenya. The important thing is that there is also a lot of corruption in Kenya - Daniel can't believe that this work is actually allowed to shoot in Kenya?

"No, but we can shoot in South Africa."

Daniel looked at him like he was looking at a lunatic, "Uh, Simon, can I call you that? Yes, I'm making a similar film on purpose, but not to bash some African governments, Do you understand what I mean? I do not agree that the United States and some western countries are madly promoting so-called values ​​around the world. There is no reason in the world that only one value is correct. Moreover, even if this problem exists, It is also up to the international corruption groups and the Security Council to push Kenya, not me.

So, do you think that the President of Kenya invited me to shoot a work, and then I took the script, slapped him hard in the face, and then was banned by Kenya for the rest of my life, would it be my choice? Do I look like an idiot? And, is this your ideal? Simon? To be continued)

ps: Thank you 1888 for the tip. I have one more deacon: Ming Ye or Ming Ye; two more disciples and Zhuge Garfield, thank you.

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