Ace Hollywood

If the good momentum of Chain Saw finally stopped at 88 million, which is somewhat insufficient, then the subsequent release of Social Network is enough to cover up all dissatisfaction and shortcomings. (Baidu search gives you the fastest and most stable update of Li Wenxue.com)

In mid-November, dd Films Capital held a movie premiere at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Although the biggest protagonist, Daniel, was still absent from the event, the bright stars and the number of super rich people were enough to occupy the headlines of the newspaper the next day.

This movie, which was unveiled on the cusp of the limelight, was secretly established and filmed, and it was not known until Daniel's team announced it publicly. But in just three months, repeated publicity and intensive pushes have made it the most eye-catching film work in the rest of this year.

The courtesy it has received in the field of theaters is also enough to prove this point.

Released on 3609 screens, 27.88 million on the first day, 92.23 million in the first three days of the weekend!

Although there is still a considerable gap with the sky-defying results of The Greek Wedding, this figure is already surprising. Greek Wedding was able to create an unprecedented first weekend miracle. The biggest reason is that she enjoyed the first social media movie bonus. Fans on the Internet were exposed to the movie in that way for the first time, and the hit rate of publicity was very high. . Although The Social Network is unique today, there is no way to copy The Greek Wedding. In the past period of time, movie fans have quickly adapted to this new way of publicity, and the degree of buying it has also declined rapidly.

Most people who care about Daniel know that the box office of The Social Network is definitely not the biggest purpose of this movie.

The chance of its release is very coincidental, just before the listing of mb.

Google has given a big lesson to all companies that want to be listed on NASDAQ. You must fully explain your product to investors and shareholders. Whether it is a search engine or a social network, you must describe the connotation of the product and its meaning. future. Let everyone understand how this product works, what its prospects are, and how profitable it is. Is the mode advanced enough and so on.

Only then will the market show confidence in mb.

The Social Network was a massive one. IPO roadshows for large audiences.

The whole movie describes the greatness of the social age and the future of mb: hundreds of millions of users, far-reaching influence, considerable profits, and novel models-no matter which one is enough, it is enough to attract investors to use their own money to buy mb stocks.

The great success of the film gave Daniel more confidence when he talked with investment banks about going public.

We do not intend to use the Dutch auction, but we have to plan to give up our own interests.

...

That was an ambitious and amazing young man.

The elderly man has an elegant posture, shaking the goblet in his hand. The scarlet wine exudes a mellow aroma.

Tim Roland, the helm of Snow Eagle Fund.

Snow Eagle didn't make much profit from The Pianist, but this time the investment was clearly considered a success, not only did Daniel win the Best Actor Oscar for this movie, but more It is the investment vision of the fund. If the film you invest in does not lose money, and you have a good reputation for the machine, whether you are a director or an actor, this is very attractive.

The person sitting in front of Tim was also surprising.

Harvey Weinstein.

Tim and Harvey have a relationship. Daniel knew a long time ago that it was Tim who brought Weinstein to him when he first hit the Oscar winner, that is, for the role of Spearman in The Pianist. This added an important boost to finally winning this award.

Bob and I always thought there was a bigger plan behind all of his tactics.

Harvey frowned and said, If you have been paying attention to him, you can clearly know that his plan is very neat and realistic. The power in Hollywood has basically belonged to him since he entered the 20 million club—— The highest power an actor can get, Disney even intends to agree to his horrible proposal of 30 million + 20% in Pirates of the Caribbean 2, never has a Hollywood actor been able to get this in a movie of this scale Remuneration, really. Tom Hanks didn’t get it in his peak period. After all, this is a work with a global box office potential of more than 800 million. As for other movies, I won’t talk about the shocking secret just revealed. This has completely deviated from the reasonable category - which young man can break into the 20 million club colleagues. Create a new multi-billion dollar career, which has nothing to do with the field of performance. His right to speak on public issues is also step by step pressing.

Daniel is no longer a pure Hollywood actor. Whether it is box office or Oscar, it is no longer the only label on him. Tim, the man in his right mind, couldn't have done that much futile work. If it was just to push mb to go public, there was no need for him to collude with all parties in person, let alone push dd pictures to the high stage so quickly. Robert intends to kill him, and he has basically broken the game, so there is no reason to put himself in such a position of burning oil.

Indeed, the news that Daniel is the owner behind mb and f2f is already shocking enough. DD Films has exploded again and again, with a bumper box office and a soaring valuation. Daniel's reputation of never misses is getting louder and louder... All kinds of things can always show that Daniel is promoting all these things. He makes himself attract much attention, has sufficient funds, and also makes dd film industry a big hit.

Why?

In addition, although Harvey didn't know the destination and target audience of Daniel's private travels in the past few months, he knew that Daniel had contacted some wealthy people who were interested in Hollywood. He doesn't really care much about mb or f2f, whether it's worth billions or tens of billions, he has nothing to do with him, but he is willing to learn about the content directly related to Hollywood-even if it's just gossip or precautions consider.

You mean, after mb is released, Daniel hopes to make DD Films a new big studio?

There is nothing impossible, isn't it? MGM's trouble today is nothing more than a weak backing. As the last of the seven big Hollywood companies with no one behind it. Now it is in trouble. The media group is a big studio. Indispensable living conditions. Now that mb and f2f are available, DD Films will naturally have a chance to fight.

Harvey had this idea. He is not alone.

What's next for DD Films? The status of the top seven in Hollywood is not simply a box office comparison. For example, mpaa, if a new company wants to enter it, it must obtain the consent of all members-obviously, no one will be willing to come to a new member. In addition, Hollywood's dense network of contacts cannot be built overnight. Triver's network of contacts is ready-made for an actor or a small company, but if Daniel's ambitions are a little bigger. There was only so much Trevor could do to help.

...

Over the past year, even though Daniel Sandler has ended all his public schedules, we still hear this name every day, Oscar, mb and f2f, Google, Chain Saw, The Social Network... Now finally It's mb's turn. Issuing 30 million shares, accounting for 12% of the total share capital, the issue price is set at 25 US dollars. The investment bank and Daniel's valuation of mb is 6 billion US dollars. This figure is not unexpected, but still enough Boldly, the number of users of mb has increased to 60 million. With the further expansion overseas, the number of users may increase rapidly. But at present, it seems that investors' confidence in mb is far greater than Google, in their view. This is a company with the potential to grasp the future...

In the last few days of 2004, mb was officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange, yes, not Nasdaq, but New York.

The final issue price was US$32, and 70 million shares were sold out.

Such a grand occasion has not been seen for many years.

Some observers even shouted the slogan of technology bubble again. No one will forget the Nasdaq stock market crash, but no one will believe that the great success of mb is a sign of a new round of stock market crashes.

First day of listing. mb rose 48% to $47.36 per share. The company's market value has reached 12 billion, and Plutos still holds mb62% of the shares. That is more than 7 billion wealth, how much of it belongs to Daniel Sandler? There are countless speculations by the media and ordinary people, and no one knows the internal equity structure of Plutos.

But what is certain is that there is no doubt that Daniel's worth has jumped to the 10 billion level.

The rapid growth of the number of f2f users amazed everyone, far surpassing mb company. By the end of 2004, the number of users had exceeded 20 million. Its three-dimensional rich structure also gave it an advantage when cooperating with enterprises. mb company launched an enterprise cooperation platform before listing, customers including HP, Apple and other big companies settled in immediately, and achieved millions of revenue through online sales—relative to the total revenue , This is nothing, but as the beginning of a new model, it is quite proud to have achieved this result. The good performance of mb on the New York Stock Exchange is not unrelated to this.

This platform is considered to be another important profit attempt of mb after advertising revenue.

This model will only be better in f2f. It can provide richer corporate information, more diverse forms of publicity and communication methods, etc. f2f pages are more attractive than mb.

Therefore, shortly after mb went public, the market valuation of f2f was also quickly raised to 10 billion—and this is a company solely owned by Plutos, and Daniel owns at least half of it, otherwise it would not be possible to talk about mastering Plutos.

Daniel is worth tens of billions from mb and f2f companies alone.

This does not include DD Pictures and Weta Digital, which have flourished recently.

When all the guesses come true, the feeling is always different. After Daniel became a real tens of billionaires, everyone had to change their attitudes and ways towards him.

...

Germany, Stuttgart.

Collins' birthday party.

Daniel's attendance is no longer his status as the Porsche family's prospective son-in-law, but his status as the chairman of Plutos Investment Company, with a net worth of tens of billions, which is not inferior even in today's world of rich people.

Although it was a birthday celebration, the old Porsche obviously turned it into a business occasion. This kind of pure business entertainment is still a bit unfamiliar to Daniel, but he did a good job, at least before getting alone with Collins , without showing cowardice.

Daniel knew what Collins was doing, and Porsche was slowly buying shares in Volkswagen—Wolfgang's ambition was still hidden under the water. He hoped to control Volkswagen and make a great operation.

Porsche's global sales last year were less than 80,000 vehicles, and its revenue did not exceed 8 billion euros, while Volkswagen's was several times that.

The involvement of Collins clearly shows that the young heir of the Porsch family is gradually getting involved in the core affairs of the company-which means busier.

In the past year, the two have only met 5 times.

Now the four eyes are facing each other, a sense of strangeness makes them somewhat at a loss.

They are all too smart and too confident, thinking that they can still maintain the freshness of their relationship without spending time together-now, this has been proven impossible.

Sighed softly.

What Daniel regrets is not the strangeness brought by the past year, but the irreversible future.

Collins will only get busier, especially after Porsche's intentions are discovered, and she will have a lot more to do. As for Daniel, not to mention the bulk of his time spent in Berkeley, some of the long-prepared work will also occupy most of his remaining time, not to mention that after June, he will also find time to start filming. The Immortal Gardener and Pirates of the Caribbean sequels definitely need to be filmed this year. Bourne Shadow 3 was pushed to a little later in 2006, and Fox's Night at the Museum was also scheduled for 2006. As for more plans, they can't be scheduled now.

The work on Saw 2, 3, and The Hangover is basically handed over to other people on the team.

They don't have the time and chance to undo this unless one of them is willing to give up his career.

Sadly, neither thinks the relationship trumps their own careers.

I didn't expect it to be at such a time. Collins looked calm, Daniel, to be honest, I expected this day. I know myself. I was unprepared for a stable relationship. I didn't give it a try. It budgeted time and energy, and had no long-term plans and goals. So, it was destined to fail. But... I'm still sad.

Daniel is also reflecting on his mistakes in this relationship.

He understood now why busy people in Hollywood kept hanging out with different women, perhaps not so much because they didn't want to settle down, but because they lacked it.

Anyhow, happy birthday to you, always happy! Collins. (To be continued)

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