Ace Hollywood

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

The fellow passengers who wanted to take a group photo were stopped by the flight attendants who had greeted them in advance.

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

On the day before leaving Silicon Valley, Daniel visited Apple—now it is also called Apple Computer Corporation of America. Jobs received him personally, and the two sides had lunch and dinner together.

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

Because Pixar Animation, the production company of Finding Nemo, which was released a week later than Fake God, nearly half belonged to Jobs himself. He is actually half a Hollywood practitioner, although whether in Pixar or Apple, he is the one who is committed to technology.

But this does not prevent them from having more topics for discussion.

Especially when Daniel mentioned Weta Digital.

Jobs admired the special effects of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy very much, and he believed that Weta Digital's achievements in this field surpassed Pixar. However, his current main energy is no longer on Pixar. Apple, which he founded but has gone back again, is his favorite.

This year Apple and Motorola developed a new mobile phone, which, of course, was not very successful.

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

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

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

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

After receiving a phone call from Daniel, he tentatively said, For such a hindrance, there is no other use for it other than sending text messages and making phone calls. I really don't think it's worth it.

Even though Jobs is so legendary, it is not a problem for an Oscar-winner to give a performance in front of him that he does not realize.

Daniel doesn't seem to be paying attention to Jobs from the angle, but he can clearly see his eyes and expression.

Jobs' eyes were amazingly bright.

subsequently. He actually started discussing this topic with him.

What kind of mobile phone do you want? Jobs asked with great interest. You know, Apple is developing the mobile phone business. We cooperated with Motorola this year to launch a water test machine. But it still has many shortcomings. .”

Is Apple making mobile phones?

Daniel looked at Jobs in surprise, and then asked Jobs seemingly excitedly, I love using your computers and mobile phones. I really look forward to seeing Apple's own mobile phones. It must be great.

Really. Jobs was praised to a very cool place, and his vigilance was somewhat lowered, mainly because he was in front of a Hollywood actor, a high school graduate whose SAT score was seriously below the college score.

It's hard for egotistical geniuses to give them attention.

I know that IBM once launched a 'Ximen' mobile phone, which can install some programs, just like a computer. I think mobile phones should develop 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 more often. You know we have some creative positions. Oh, but the salary must not be as good as yours. The salary is high. It should be that the salary of ten years is not as good as your salary for a movie.

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

It might be a better idea to invest in their stock instead.

The last stop is PayPal, a payment company that is far inferior to the previous one. In this industry, Chinese people have achieved a leading position unbelievably.

PayPal's visit is just a taste, he hopes to get a brief understanding of the current state of e-commerce. With MB's partnership, arranging this visit wasn't too 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 seems to be similar to those tech giants. When they received him, they seemed to have completely forgotten the disdain Silicon Valley has for Hollywood, and the contempt that technicians have for actors.

The media's endless follow-up reports ended with such an abnormal mentality.

...

Daniel, Daniel, Daniel...

USA Today website editor Evans, is doing a news collection of Daniel.

Half a year has passed since 2003, and Daniel's limelight has never been better.

Count from now forward.

The Pianist and Hotel Rwanda both exceeded 100 million yuan. Fake God was released for 7 days, and the box office in North America was more than 120 million yuan. Daniel participated in the production and distribution of Hotel Rwanda, and it is no problem to benefit from it.

The high-level reception and interviews of the four Silicon Valley giants have even produced a series of reports. After all, whether it is a formal meeting with Larry Page, Steve Jobs, or even Javier, it is a big event. In particular, Jobs had a lonely personality, but he had a good conversation with Daniel. He even excitedly said that Daniel had given him a lot of inspiration when facing reporters.

Counting forward, the humanitarian international conference and the unexpected attack that attracted the attention of many parties, including the White House and Congress, are also quite eye-catching news.

Counting forward, there is the scandal of Dagmar Dunleavy’s discrimination and manipulation of awards, the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. This accident that ruined Dagmar’s reputation obviously started with Daniel. It's okay with Daniel, that's the hell.

Then Daniel became the youngest Oscar winner in history, and the record mentioned 23 years old, which made this honor more and more difficult to challenge.

The Oscars were obviously preceded by the Golden Globes scandal.

Further on, the set of Pirates of the Caribbean caught fire.

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

Evans was sorting out and writing the manuscript, and Daniel's legendary experience was still spinning in his mind.

It made its fortune on the Internet, until it became popular in the operation of Greek Wedding.

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

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

Write it down on it one at a time.

Apple, , MB, Google, DD, and then connect Google and Connection, then connect MB and Connection, and lead a line from MB until it reaches DD Films.

After thinking about it, I dragged it around again, wrote PayPal, and connected it with MB. MB and PayPal cooperated in online payment. This is not a rare news.

In the end, there was only one apple standing alone on the side.

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

Evans added another big circle outside MB's circle.

From the perspective of the connection, MB and DD Films have a direct cooperation, which is Daniel's prestigious Seven Days plan. At the same time, MB has a shareholding relationship with DD and Google indirectly. Then MB and PayPal have a close relationship, and After the Greek Wedding set off a surge in MB users, this kind of cooperation became very close and deepened.

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

If all this is really connected, the central figure must be in MB.

Evans has the curiosity and execution that a journalist must have. He began to search 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, he has some views on the Internet virtual community, which may be the reason why he finally got the position of MB.

Nothing meaningful could be found on Javier.

Evans set his sights on the mysterious major shareholder of MB, an investment company registered in the Cayman Islands-Plutos Investment Company. Many people have studied it, but limited by its registration place, no one can figure out this company—the major shareholder of MB and the minority shareholder of MB.

However, Evans was not discouraged. His purpose was not to find Plutos' heel, 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 channel of USA Today to inquire about this company in some systems that are not open to the general public.

When he saw the name of Plutos in a non-public document submitted by DD Films to the Production Association, he jumped up. This document was more than 2 years ago. Evans even It is unknown who photocopied it on the Internet.

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

But there are only David and Daniel, and Plutos is gone.

Evans felt his heart beating faster, and he seemed to have made an exciting discovery. (To be continued.)

PS: Chapter 4