Ace Hollywood

Chapter 252: Negotiations Completed

Daniel has not been in the filming group for more than half a year. After completing the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean in February, he has been gambling on various things. (Baidu search gives you the fastest and most stable update of Li Wenxue.com)

Sometimes, people do grow through experience.

When he first came to Hollywood, he only wanted to take advantage of Hollywood's relaxed film shooting atmosphere and participate in some classic works. However, as his fame and popularity grew, large-scale commercial films, social media, film studios, special effects The company and other attempts that are incompatible with the original intention seem to be able to ignite the fire and excitement in his heart.

Maybe, he just wants to be successful. As for whether it is in performing arts, or in terms of power, money, and influence, it doesn't seem to be that important.

One's ambition needs to be cultivated.

When he can only shoot low-budget movies that are difficult to get into mainstream theaters, no matter what, it is impossible for him to have the idea of ​​fighting in Hollywood.

That's not ambition, that's wishful thinking.

Therefore, returning to the crew, for Daniel, he did not breathe a sigh of relief, not having to participate in complicated affairs for the time being.

Everything has become a habit.

Thinking of this, Daniel couldn't help laughing.

Seeing Paul Greengrass focus on movies is somewhat confusing.

The success of The Bourne Shadow is that Doug Liman created a plain image of a secret agent. This time Doug is unwilling to direct the tube, but retreats to the producer and chooses Greenglass to be the director. . I have to say that this candidate is quite suitable. Universal's boldness in choosing a director has also been well-known in the industry in the past two years.

McFarlane of Fake God has now become a first-class director of comedy films, which can be regarded as the insight of Universal Pictures. This time, the sequel to the hit series Bourne Shadow is handed over to Greengrass, a journalist who has never experienced a new Hollywood power that has proven itself in commercial films. This is also a special attempt by Universal.

According to Daniel's understanding, this was recommended by Doug. He has watched Bloody Sunday and thinks that he has a good command of the camera and rhythm. Of course, the most important thing is style.

Greenglass not only continued the authenticity of the first film during filming, but also made greater progress.

On camera, he likes to use a lot of close-up shots. The picture is direct and powerful.

Many times, Daniel was a little uncomfortable with this style. When he was driving a car to shoot a crash scene, the cameraman sat on the side, and the camera looked at the front of the car and him from the inside out.

have to say. Photographers also take no small risk in their work.

But Greengrass' style is very suitable for this kind of film. At least Daniel can clearly feel the strong impact when watching some filming tapes. For spy war suspense films, this is of course a kind of pleasing style of.

With a workaholic like Greenglass putting everything into work, Daniel was quickly mobilized.

A lot of miscellaneous things are basically entrusted to Kusa Damon and others. He is so busy now that he only needs to decide some more important things, of course. Some work has staged results, and it is necessary to report to him. The phone calls across the Atlantic cost Daniel a lot of money.

Most of the process of Bourne Shadow 2 was over, and when the scenes in Berlin were basically completed, Daniel's protracted negotiations with Google finally came to fruition.

Previously, an agreement on the subscription of original shares had been reached, and the two parties agreed to use the gradient price proposed by Google.

Both Evan Williams and Daniel agreed to replace their own shares in China with Google's shares, so that they will be fully integrated into the Google system, and Evan will occupy 3.3 million original shares with 12% of the shares. Daniel's 16% stake, accounting for about 4.4 million shares, was able to become a natural shareholder of Google, in addition to its own value. It also holds a 30% stake in mb. This part was controversial during the negotiation. The current valuation of mb is quite different. It is conservatively believed that the valuation of 16 million active users is about 1.6 billion, which is more suitable for the Internet. More confident institutions in the social age. The valuation of mb has been raised to 5.5 billion.

With such a disparity in the valuation of institutions, when the two parties are discussing, they have to come and go, fighting for every inch of land.

Specifically on mb, after being merged into Google, Google became the single minority shareholder of mb, accounting for 30% of the shares, and Daniel's Plutos Investment Company still accounted for 70% of the shares. However, Google invested 120 million US dollars for mb technology research and development, publicity and promotion, and user growth. This capital injection was approved by Plutos, but the two parties did not determine a specific operation plan in this negotiation around Google. This is another matter, and will be negotiated separately by Google, Plutos and the management , they are currently only taking this as one of the conditions and confirming it.

After the plan was negotiated, Daniel signed the contract at his home in Malibu when he flew back to Los Angeles on Thanksgiving.

When it was handed over to Raymond, Daniel paused.

These things are becoming more and more difficult to hide. With the listing of Google, mb will eventually go on this road. It is very difficult for Raymond to come to the fore. The relationship between him and Raymond is clear to everyone. .

When Google goes public next year, I suggest that Raymond can officially appear as the head of Plutos Investment Company.

Hearing Daniel's concerns, Kusa immediately raised this idea solemnly, not as if it was a temporary idea, and looked at Raymond after speaking.

In order to play Jason Bourne again, Daniel has increased the amount of fitness exercises before, and now he looks quite strong, with a different style from before. Sitting there, he does not look like a behind-the-scenes boss of a high-tech company.

Raymond looked at him. He was a little uncomfortable talking about this matter. He was in charge of Daniel's affairs, and he could be regarded as the one who knew the most about how Daniel turned upside down in the past few years. Such a big family of people. Therefore, it seems that he is an outsider in this team, but he is actually an important member like Cusa.

Kusa is in charge of most of Daniel's film-related affairs, including investments in Weta Digital, dd Films, and Daniel's investment department. Kusa can reach out. But in the stock market, pure financial operations, such as imp company - although this company claims to be an electronic product company, since its establishment, its only job has been to screen and purchase patents. Laptops, smartphones, tablets, music players and other electronic products have ten years of experience beyond the current level. According to these experiences, he asked imp’s employees to purchase patents. In fact, most of the patents are useless, but Occasionally getting one or two would be enough for them to open for three years. For example, this time Apple acquired their patented technology, which was actually just an audio technology, a patent on LCD screens, and Daniel knew about these Regarding the prospect of patents, it is wishful thinking for Apple to lower prices.

Therefore, Raymond's respect for Daniel is even greater than that of Cusa Damon and others.

Therefore, he did not intend to express his opinion on such important decisions involving himself, but Kusa looked at him, and Daniel also looked at him, and he could not say anything.

Of course it is more convenient to make it public, especially if Daniel has bigger actions in Hollywood, it is not realistic to always rely on Plutos' own funds. It is not realistic to integrate these industries under your control in Plutos Under Toth, it is more convenient to operate.

Raymond is right, and, Daniel, you have shown your paws with Disney, and Robert has been inquiring about the relationship between MB and us recently. Kusa took the words, Disney's relationship network is deeply rooted, rather than being caught by him It’s better to make it public than to come out. If you still have some private investments, it’s not contradictory, just set up another one.”

Daniel nodded thoughtfully.

I see it this way. I will find another investment manager. Raymond will be full-time Plutos. When Google goes public next year, you will come forward again. Everyone will know. We operate in this way, and those who understand what I mean will know. what to do.

Even if Raymond withdraws now and contacts the previous events, he must know in his heart that Daniel is behind Plutos, but by doing so, he is telling everyone that he has no intention of getting ahead, a multi-billion dollar investment The company, and the mb in hand, is enough for friends and opponents to keep a proper silence.

Three people basically set this strategy.

Daniel sighed. When he reached the highest point, he felt that the wind was so strong that it was difficult to stand still. He can imagine that after Google goes public next year, he will have another completely different scene in Hollywood.

However, at what stage to do something, you can't always avoid it.

...

After Thanksgiving, I returned to Berlin and continued filming for two weeks. The crew moved to Moscow, Russia, and only stayed for four days. I didn’t even have time to visit Moscow, so I flew to New Delhi, India.

This is Daniel's first time in India.

He doesn't have a good impression of this country, but obviously, this country with a large population doesn't care much about his good impression.

After a day of rest in New Delhi, Daniel turned to Goa.

They will complete the final filming of Bourne Shadow 2 here.

This is mainly about him and Franka Burtante. At the beginning of the second part, they lived in a small town in Goa. With the assassination of the mysterious organization, the short-lived peaceful life was broken.

Except for the difference in Indian race, the atmosphere of this small town is very similar to that of China, with a strong atmosphere of life, unlike a metropolis like Los Angeles.

They will be filming here for two weeks, basically wrapping up in early December.

After getting along for more than a month, everyone has gotten to know a lot, especially Greenglass, who is quite interesting except for being a bit picky at work.

Please don't use local tools, because people here don't use toilet paper, only fingers.

He blinked, looked at Franke's discolored face, and smiled very much. (To be continued.)

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