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In fact, although the media has been adding a halo round to the back of Daniel's head, in real life, no one will really kneel and communicate with Daniel. √∟

What is the work, or what.

After filming the cover of the special magazine "Vanity Fair" in the morning, I went to dd Pictures in the afternoon to watch the trailer of "Transformers" with a group of executives and the main creators.

The version Martin Campbell took out has been revised.

Daniel seems to be not much different from the original work. If you want to say that it is better, it is not. For DD Films, it is the first time to operate such a large-scale production. It is already satisfying.

"How do you feel?" Daniel clearly agreed with the quality of the film, which made everyone including Martin Campbell, Paul Walker, and Megan Fox relieved. To be honest, the entire class of creators know that no matter what Ferguson, Melissa, or even David thinks, the most important thing is Daniel's opinion. If he says no, it is no. If he says yes, even if Someone said no, but in the end it can.

This is Daniel's authority in the company.

Although he is rarely arbitrary, based on trust in him, sometimes even blind trust, this concept held by the "Transformers" crew is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Martin Campbell, "A stunning piece of work."

In the beginning, Campbell was not very interested in directing a live-action movie with a toy IP changed. In his opinion, this is more boring than making a full-length animated film. Be aware that animated feature films are not necessarily exclusively for young children. But toys, generally speaking, are not liked by adults - of course, he did not know that Transformers also has a very high popularity in the adult world.

Obviously, after such a long filming and production process. Campbell changed his mind.

"I must admit that the previous thinking was too narrow. "Transformers" is a moving subject, and it will succeed."

"I'm also looking forward to it being successful."

"It's going to be released in July. I can't wait to see how stunned everyone is by this movie."

Campbell waved his hand exaggeratedly.

Such general optimism is becoming more and more frequent in the dd film industry, and Daniel has no intention of making them sober. Under the premise of strict quality control, optimism can help improve work efficiency, which is for sure. As for whether it is because of blind optimism. And influence the judgment of the market - Daniel thinks he can make the management understand this truth deeply.

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The next day, Daniel entered the "Avatar" crew. Although there was still a period of time away from filming, James asked the actors to join in. Because this is a completely different film, it needs to involve a lot of unfamiliar technologies and concepts, so the actors need to adapt and cooperate.

Daniel has not entered the group in advance just for training for a long time. His time is too tight. Even "Invincible", which made him emperor for the third time, did not take time to train, but only took time out during the shooting of "Wonderful Night at the Museum".

A Fox vice president was also present today, though James wondered about his presence. Because he's not a producer -- there are three producers who can be named, James Cameron himself, and his old partner Jon Landau. The third is Daniel Sandler.

Yes, Daniel will be listed as a producer for the first time, and it will be in "Avatar".

He will provide wisdom throughout the production, dissemination and distribution of Avatar. In fact, in many movies produced by dd film, he has done these things, but never asked for an attribution. He hopes to give the outside world a more focused image, after all, he has done enough.

In Hollywood, there is nothing wrong with just retaining the identity of an actor.

Despite making an exception on "Avatar," Daniel still has no plans to go full-on as a producer, which is just an exception. For "Avatar", Daniel has an urge to see how this film can achieve even more amazing results with his full help. Maybe it's just a silent self-validation.

It is impossible for others to understand the box office height that "Avatar" will reach. Only Daniel knows how much he can improve on this basis, which is the part of Daniel's self-validation.

It is not a simple matter of addition and subtraction to further boost a work with a global box office of 2.7 billion. Daniel deeply understands this.

"Walking into your company is like stepping into the future." Daniel said to James while looking at the studio with a rather sci-fi feel.

"Isn't that the case with Weta Digital?"

Weta Digital is an important partner of "Avatar", and James also appreciates their excellent results in motion capture technology. So the addition of Weta is not the result of Daniel's push, but more of what James Cameron meant. In fact, when it comes to core technical issues, investors, whether it's Fox or DD Films, They don't have much say.

"I'm not too familiar with Weta, but I see a lot of models there, but there's no office in this style."

"We also have a lot of models. In fact, in 2006, we were making all kinds of models throughout the year, both in the computer and in reality."

Daniel is not ignorant of this. As "Avatar", which opened the era of China's box office market soaring, many Chinese filmmakers and companies have done extensive research, but after research, they found that they were the first without technology~www .readwn.com~ The second one has no money - spend 200 to 300 million US dollars to make a Chinese movie, unless you really have too much money and panic.

Daniel also knew about it. The technicians spent more than a year creating countless models in the computer, ranging from a small insect to a Tyrannosaurus rex and lightning beast. Tens of thousands of models were built and stored. in the computer. Together with the models produced by Weta Digital, they will be used in motion capture technology - to make everything look more realistic and reasonable, the technicians even studied some bird and beast bones to determine how they moved.

This kind of meticulous work is obviously an important factor in the success of "Avatar".

"Okay, Daniel, we have to start work first. Mark, do you have anything else to do?" James asked the vice president of Fox unceremoniously.

It seems that Mark is used to this too.

"It's nothing, I just met Daniel today. After all, he just took a lot of money from Fox."

Mark is talking about "Night at the Museum".

Fox would never have imagined that this film, which had an investment of less than 20 million, eventually scored 600 million at the global box office, and also pushed the global box office of dd Pictures and MGM to 3 billion in 2006, second only to Warner Bros. and Disney came in third.

This result is enough to make everyone stunned. (To be continued.)

ps: Thank you for the vicissitudes of life, the reward in the dark night, and the monthly ticket to Hellfire.