Ace Hollywood

Seeing the rapid increase in the number of posts on the page, Daniel understands that his popularity has taken another leap, and he doesn't need to worry about losing too much of his popularity, because there are three books in the Lord of the Rings, which is completely enough to consolidate his popularity, let alone There is The Hobbit series.

"When you decided to get this role, did you expect this result?"

Kusa looked at the posts of those crazy young movie fans, and couldn't help but have some wonderful thoughts about Daniel's choice.

He still remembers what Daniel said to him when he won the role. Yes, Legolas had already given them such a big surprise before it even came out.

As information on Fred trickled down to Daniel and Cusa, Trivor—now a full-fledged member of Daniel's team—had also received a ton of feedback from the media network.

"It was an unexpected explosion."

Trivor put the thick material on the coffee table, "Although "The Fellowship of the Ring" has attracted much attention, Legolas is indeed a not very important character. I thought before that your current worth is not a big deal in a movie. Playing a supporting role in a star's movie is a little too cheap."

Trevor is not just talking. Since he officially took over Daniel's public relations affairs, he has indeed suggested to Cusa and Daniel that they contact Peter Jackson to see if they can discard Daniel's material. Choose a new Legolas - for Daniel, now is a critical time. If he only plays the leading role wholeheartedly, then he will step on the Oscar and become a first-class role for granted. But this insignificant role in "The Fellowship of the Ring" may affect the establishment of his professional impression.

Of course, both Daniel and Kusa refused, and the reasons for the two were the same.

Daniel also didn’t think about this issue in terms of the huge amount of attention that the elf prince might receive. Both he and Kusa believed that compared with letting Peter re-select personnel for shooting, the cost and potential image crisis would come naturally. It's more cost-effective.

However, when the current situation arises, no one will think that this role is not worth it.

The popularity of the so-called "nothingness" is definitely one of the most important things in Hollywood, and it is no different from Oscar - the most obvious representative is Leonardo, the global popularity brought to him by the big ship is enough for him to eat for a lifetime capital.

Next, how Daniel will operate this popularity requires additional work from the team collectively.

"Jerry would like to invite you to the premiere of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii."

Yes, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Michael Bay, the war masterpiece is really huge, with an investment of more than 150 million. It will be released soon, and Disney will hold a huge premiere for it. Screening.

"Honestly, Cusa, I think everyone expects too much from Michael Bay, whether it's James Cameron in Titanic or Steven in Saving Private Ryan, they are far from Michael Bay. Comparable. If you look at the current media, even Disney’s own promotional caliber, they are comparing with these two works, which is a bit whimsical.”

"You don't think so much about "Pearl Harbor"?" Kusa raised his eyebrows in surprise, and suddenly thought of something, "Do you think this movie may make Michael Eisner step down?"

This is a bold guess.

Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner and his deputy Robert Iger are big names in Hollywood,

Of course, the former is now far more popular than the latter. However, Cusa remembers, Daniel seemed to be a little more attentive to Robert, and this change seems to be when "Pearl Harbor" began to show its wind.

Daniel didn't answer him, Robert Iger will replace Michael Eisner, and not long after, as to whether it is because of "Pearl Harbor", he doesn't know, but the process is not so important, the result is important.

"So you're rejecting Jerry?"

"No, explain to him clearly that I don't think much of "Pearl Harbor". If I don't watch it, I can still say a few good things."

"So direct?"

"Yes, you don't like being direct? Isn't Jones direct?"

Kusa rolled his eyes. He and Jones have gotten a little closer recently, and the two of them seem to be really on the verge of a fire of love.

...

"My God." Andy patted his still-shocked chest, "It's so scary."

Daniel is going to attend a public event of Burberry today - this is the responsibility of the spokesperson, but the number of people gathered at the scene greatly exceeded the expectations of the security personnel. Even though the local police temporarily deployed nearly a hundred police officers to maintain order, thousands of people crowded the event The scene still made everyone break out in a cold sweat.

The police chief communicated with Burberry to request the cancellation of the event.

In fact, Burberry doesn't have much opinion. Their goal has basically been achieved. Is there any more popular publicity than the current situation? Secondly, they are of course also afraid of public accidents such as stampedes.

But when Burberry announced the event would be canceled because of the crowd, there were signs of a commotion in the crowd. They had to temporarily change their minds and asked Daniel to come to power and call for order.

When most people were sweating, Daniel came to the stage with a gentle smile and asked everyone to be safe.

Of course, the event was much faster than expected. The event, which was originally nearly an hour long, lasted only 20 minutes.

When Andy got back into the car, his heart was still beating wildly.

"This is crazy popularity. I have no doubt that if Daniel walks into the crowd now, there will be absolutely no hair left." Melissa said.

Andy nodded in agreement. The crazy look she saw in the eyes of those young girls left a deep impression on her. Daniel has always been regarded as a popular star, but such a scene is unprecedented. Those people almost wanted to swallow him.

"Danny, this may become the norm in the future. Come to think of it, MGM is really going crazy."

"Pretty Blonde" has entered the promotional period. Daniel's surge in popularity this time is almost equivalent to millions of publicity expenses for "Pretty Blonde", because most of the reports will focus on Daniel's latest work, which is "Pretty Blonde". "Legally Blonde" was brought up to add a sentence.

"Anyway, I still need a 5% share, otherwise it will be a big loss."

Of course, the five percent now is not enough for Daniel to give more things.

Jerry Bruckheimer has already replied to Cusa, so Daniel doesn't have to go to Hawaii. Jerry is not unhappy. From his point of view, what is the standard of this movie? I'm afraid it may not be necessary to wait until the critics attack collectively. It's just that the market is full of wonderful chemical effects, and a bad movie doesn't necessarily have a box office. Besides, with Disney's operating capabilities, the film's opening number is at least 3,200 screens, 20 million on the first day, and 60 million on the first weekend. There should be no problem with the above. Although this prediction is lower than the current general prediction of over 100 million in four days, it is not bad. After all, movies such as "Shrek" and "The Mummy Returns" are still harvesting box office. It is not without opponent.

Then, after Daniel had a meeting with the post-production team of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" to confirm his ideas, he will rush to Paris to re-shoot "Bourne Shadow". Doug Liman won a year in Universal, and he is working hard , Daniel also had to schedule time to do some reshoots. In addition, Peter Jackson called early, and Legolas needs a lot of reshoots, which shows that they have made a decision to play the Legolas card instead of highlighting the whole movie. Special effects, story, to suppress Daniel's Legolas.

This is a good thing - because New Line will pay a lot of money, one million.

Of course, this is inseparable from Kusa's work. In fact, the contract Daniel signed at the beginning seems really out of date now. 70,000, this is the price tag of those unknown characters who have a few lines in the Screen Actors Union, and it has almost nothing to do with Daniel now.

This time, New Line and Peter decided to make up a lot of shots. Of course, Kusa had a way to make the other party voluntarily come up with a new contract.

One million is not the price of reshoots, but a new compromise performance contract for all of Daniel's performances in the "Lord of the Rings Trilogy".

When he finishes the reshoots of these two films, it will almost enter July. According to the contract, he needs to officially enter the promotion work of "Pretty Woman" until it is released in mid-July.

Looking through his itinerary in the car, Daniel patted his forehead, "What about my vacation, I remember I had arranged a vacation before."

Melissa and Andy looked at each other and remained silent.

"Maybe after Pretty Woman, I can get away from the summer or something."

Daniel could only comfort himself in this way.

At the end of May, "Pearl Harbor" was officially released. The box office of 75.17 million in the first week was quite impressive, but the evaluation from the media was almost one-sidedly negative. The next box office trend still depends on the word-of-mouth given by the first wave of audiences. From IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, of course it has nothing to look forward to.

At this time, Daniel began to fly to Europe to re-shoot "The Bourne". By the way, he also needed to communicate with Polanski about "The Pianist". He needed to start a diet at least a few months in advance to fit the figure of a pianist who fell out of World War II. , In addition, piano and history training also needs to be done.

It is absolutely not an exaggeration to describe Daniel as non-stop. After staying in Paris for more than half a month, he flew directly to New Zealand to meet Peter. Some old friends who had a rival show also flew back. At least Daniel eased his irritability—no Stopped work and non-stop travel are indeed easy to make people feel disgusted.