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In fact, although the media has written a lot of stories about Daniel's head, but in real life, no one will really kneel down and communicate with Daniel. √∟

How is the work, or what.

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

The version that Martin Campbell produced is already revised.

Daniel seems that there is not much difference from the original work. If it is better, it is not. For DD Films, it is the first time to operate such a large-scale production. It still lacks some experience and can maintain the standard. It is already a satisfying thing.

"What do you think?" Daniel obviously agreed with the quality of the film, which made everyone including Martin Campbell, Paul Walker, and Megan Fox breathe a sigh of relief. To be honest, the entire team of creative staff knows that no matter what Ferguson, Melissa, or even David think, the most important thing is Daniel’s opinion. If he says no, then it’s not possible. Some people said that it can't be done before, and it can be done in the end.

This is Daniel's authority in the company.

Although he seldom dictates his own way, the Transformers crew is deeply rooted in this belief, based on trust, sometimes blind trust, in him.

Martin Campbell, "An amazing piece of work."

At the beginning, Campbell was not very interested in directing a live-action movie where the toy IP changed. In his opinion, this is even more boring than making a full-length animated feature film. It is important to know that animated feature films are not necessarily exclusively for young children. But toys, generally speaking, are not liked by adults—of course, he didn't know that Transformers were also quite popular in the adult world.

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

"I have to admit, the previous thinking was too narrow. "Transformers" is an emotional subject matter, and it will succeed."

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

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

Campbell waved his hand exaggeratedly.

This kind of general optimism is becoming more and more frequent in DD Films, and Daniel doesn't mean to make them sober. Under the premise of strict quality control, optimism can help improve work efficiency, that's for sure. As for whether it will be because of blind optimism. And affect the judgment of the market-Daniel believes that he can make the management deeply understand this truth.

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The next day, Daniel entered the crew of "Avatar". Although there was still some time left for filming, James asked the actors to join them. Because this is a completely different movie, it needs to involve a lot of unfamiliar techniques and concepts, so the actors need to adapt and cooperate.

It has been a long time since Daniel entered the group just for training, and his time is too tight. Even "Indomitable Movement", which made him emperor for the third time, did not spend time on training, but only took time out during the filming of "Night at the Museum".

A Fox VP was also present today, though James was puzzled by his presence.

Because he is not a producer - there are three producers who can be named, James Cameron himself, and his old partner Jon Landau. The third place is Daniel Sandler.

Yes, Daniel's first name as a producer will be on Avatar.

He will provide wisdom for the entire process of production, dissemination and distribution of "Avatar". In fact, he has done these things in many of the films produced by DD Films, but never asked for credits. He hopes to give the outside world a more focused image. After all, he has done enough.

In Hollywood, there is nothing wrong with merely retaining the status of an actor.

Although he made an exception on "Avatar", Daniel still has no plans to fully enter the producer's work, this is just an exception. For "Avatar", Daniel has an impulse. He hopes to see that with his full help, this film can achieve even more amazing results. 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 problem of addition and subtraction to further push a work with a global box office of 2.7 billion, and Daniel deeply understands this.

"Walking into your company is like stepping into the future." Daniel said to James, looking at this fairly sci-fi studio.

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

Weta Digital is an important partner of "Avatar", and James also appreciated their outstanding achievements in motion capture technology. Therefore, the joining of Weta is not the result of Daniel's efforts, but more of James Cameron's intention. In fact, when it comes to core technical issues, investors, whether it is Fox or DD Pictures, They don't have much right to speak.

"I'm not familiar with Weta either, but you'll see a lot of models there, but no offices of this style."

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

Daniel is not ignorant of this. As "Avatar" opened the era of China's box office market booming, many Chinese filmmakers and companies have studied it extensively, but after researching, they found that they were the first one without technology, and the first The second one has no money-it costs two to three billion US dollars to make a Chinese movie, unless you really have too much money and burn it.

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

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

"Okay, Daniel, we have to start working first. Mark, do you have anything else?" James asked the vice president of Fox not very politely.

It seems that Mark is used to this.

"It's nothing, I just had a meeting with Daniel today, after all, he just got a lot of money from Fox."

Mark was talking about Night at the Museum.

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

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

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