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"Our belief in superhero movies has not changed, but DD Films has a different focus. You know we are better at comedies, romance movies. And the acquisition of MGM itself is a very challenging thing. , DD is now carrying a high amount of debt, we must be more cautious, I think relatively speaking Hulk will give us a little less surprise, but the risk will be smaller. In fact, you and I both understand that Hulk itself has no problems , This has been proved by the global box office of 200 million. The problem is the film style and technology. For the former, referring to An Lee's failed version, I think the chances of success are much greater. As for the latter, Weta Digital has made We have accumulated a lot of key technologies, so we will have more confidence in this project.”

Kevin couldn't tell if Daniel was real or not, so he tried to let go.

This time, Daniel went to Alberta to visit Ann Lee, which touched him uniquely. Most people paid attention to Daniel's substantive statement on "Brokeback Mountain" and its subject matter, but Kevin's direction It is quite the opposite.

Regarding Daniel’s trip, the attitudes of conservatives and religious groups are fierce. Daniel supports “Brokeback Mountain” at a certain level. They obviously take this as an offense to them, but Daniel doesn’t really care about this. His image has always had nothing to do with conservatism. What's more, since his debut, he has remained high on the list of men that gays most want to spend a night with, and has even occupied the first place in the past two or three years. Jack Gyllenhaal of Brokeback Mountain failed to shake his position.

As for Leonardo, whose figure is getting out of shape, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, who are deeply in the quagmire of marriage and love, of course they are all the way down in the rankings.

This ranking is actually very representative. This large group is actually recognized aesthetically. Generally speaking, the men on the list are either popular or have unique temperament.

In view of this, the homophobes wanted to include Daniel in their own group. In fact, it is very strange and abnormal behavior.

In such a turbulent public opinion, the plans of Kevin and Marvel's top executives have changed irresistibly.

In fact, everything Daniel and Kevin said was from the bottom of their hearts except one. It is difficult for the new Hulk movie to stand up on its own. It needs other similar movies to add confidence to it, so that it is convincing enough to tell fans that the new Hulk Hulk meets their expectations. Gram is worth the wait.

Obviously. Marvel won't know this, because they have no idea that superhero movies will form an unstoppable trend, and of course they can't imagine that other superheroes can add confidence to Hulk among movie fans.

In June, "The Hangover" was finally withdrawn from North America with a price of 280 million, and the world has reached 450 million, and it is marching towards 500 million.

With an investment of 35 million, this R-rated comedy has become the highest-grossing R-rated film in film history, and DD Films has undoubtedly gained a lot of limelight through this.

Daniel, on the other hand, successfully completed all his first-year college courses-except for a B. The grades turned out to be very good. All others are A.

Fernando and Jeffrey Kane have already rushed to Berlin to start the filming of "The Immortal Gardener". Apart from some things at hand, Daniel will rush there soon. In fact, he has stopped exercising for a while. The image of a British aid diplomat in Kenya is definitely not as energetic and youthful as Daniel, but fortunately, he has already had a similar performance in "The Pianist". not to mention. Justin is far less thin than Spielman, with a little shaping, and with makeup, everything will be fine.

Before going to Berlin to start a two-month shoot. He had to deal with things in Los Angeles first.

The acquisition of MGM will pass the US market supervision department next month, and it is very likely to pass the EU's review in August. If this is the case, then soon, MGM's work in the second half of the year needs to be arranged quickly.

"007" new work, this is a big problem, Pierce Brosnan no longer plays. The new Bond is not yet known, and MGM is in a state of panic and has no rules at all. Now Daniel can't get involved, but it is guaranteed that once he officially takes over, things will move forward quickly, and it won't take long.

In addition, Daniel also needs to list some new films for MGM.

"High School Musical", "Bad Teacher", "Magic Mike", "Dancing Out of My Life" - this wave of low-cost films was prepared by Daniel for MGM early. The script had already been sent to the association for filing, and Disney had nothing to do.

While writing these scripts, Daniel had a good laugh at himself, and at first he was a little embarrassed about taking the doctrine. He has been step by step, looking for scripts and directors, but when he has such a gold-swallowing behemoth like MGM, all the discomforts are gone with the wind, and he can even prepare so much for MGM in advance.

But unfortunately, Zac Efron, Zanin Tatum and other youth idols who are about his age are basically handed over to the producers of DD Films to deal with. He himself does not have this time , he can only list the script, recommended directors and actors, and finally look at the finished film, that's all.

Daniel can imagine what kind of expression Tatum will have when he sees the script of "Magic Mike" that is similar to his own experience. Maybe it can only be evaded by coincidence.

In addition to these low-budget films designed to revitalize MGM's profitability, "Black Swan" will also enter the work process, which is to restore MGM's glory at the Oscars.

Fortunately, he used the screenwriting team of DD Films to do these tasks instead of writing it himself, otherwise it would be too shocking. And he only needs to do this at the beginning. After all, MGM is a tight-fitting Hollywood machine. Once he gets on the fast track, he just needs to hold the steering wheel and find what he wants from the tens of thousands of scripts in Hollywood every year.

But even so, there is no way to avoid Daniel's increasingly miraculous status within DD Films.

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"DD Films announces acquisition of Weta Digital's animation division"

"With obvious ambitions, Daniel recruited Andrew Stanton to take the helm of the new animation department of DD Films."

"Being involved in animation, following the acquisition of MGM Pictures, DD Films has made another big move"

"Success as always, or a big fall?"

"Is Daniel crazy? DD Films has expanded several times within a year."

Sebastian has finally tasted the taste of a Hollywood celebrity. Andrew Stanton doesn't have to deal with these things. He is still busy with "Robot Story" and taking care of "Happy Feet"-animal logic is currently working on The production of the film, after Daniel gave them one or two pointers, the process has now been accelerated a lot.

Pixar John Lasseter has also been quite popular with the media recently. In fact, when Andrew was poached by Weta, he was not as irritable as he is now—because there are too many media, whether it is an official interview submitted to Pixar’s public relations department, Still, the siege and interception that appeared at any time was much higher than that at that time.

Undoubtedly, the establishment of Weta Digital's animation department and the establishment of animation department by DD Films are two completely different things for the media.

It was a trend for large studios to create their own animation departments decades ago, but with the reality of making ends meet, the abolition of animation departments has become a new trend in recent years. In addition to Disney, independent animation feature film production companies have become mainstream, including DreamWorks Animation, which is now an independent animation technology company.

The result of DD Films going against the trend this time has attracted much attention.

Shortly after the announcement.

The launch conference of DD Animation was officially held in Los Angeles, and the media gathered here.

Sebastian, Andrew, Daniel, David, Richard Taylor, Melissa, Ferguson and other key people from DD Films and Weta Digital were all present, while the vice president of Universal Pictures, Ron Meyer, was quite surprised He was invited to attend, and apart from him, there were no other high-level guests of the company. Of course, it's not a secret that Mayer and Daniel have a close relationship. They have been friends since the very beginning. With the success of the "Bourne Shadow" series, it is only natural that Mayer and Daniel will become closer.

Everyone smashed the ice sculpture of DD Animation together, Sebastian introduced the vision of this new company, and handed the stage to Andrew Stanton.

He will be in charge of introducing DD Animation's current projects.

The first one, of course, is "Happy Feet"!

The news of the establishment of DD Animation was released, and it was quickly revealed. Except for Andrew’s direct descendants from Pixar, and two sporadic technical talents dug from DreamWorks and Disney, the rest of the main team is a company called Sydney Animals. Employees of Logic Animation Technologies, Inc. This company collaborated with George Miller on "Happy Feet", and was finally acquired by Weta Digital as a whole due to financial problems.

These are public information that can be directly inquired about.

A naive emperor penguin was released on the big screen. From the brief screen, we can see the sophistication of the film that DD Animation bought halfway.

"Obviously I'm chasing the "Ice Age" trend." A reporter muttered to himself, the magnificent and wonderful southern scenery in the background, of course, reminds people of the "Ice Age" that the blue sky was so successful.

"This is an interesting story about emperor penguins. There is a family of emperor penguins living in the deepest part of Antarctica. There is only one way for males to attract mates: to sing gracefully. I was knocked down, so I don't have this ability..."

Andrew's eloquent voice makes it easy for people to immerse themselves in the scenes behind them.

A clumsy little emperor penguin who is always bullied because he can't sing... Think about it, it is indeed a very attractive story.

When everyone was imagining the future, Andrew pressed the remote control in his hand, and the picture suddenly changed, from the ice and snow Antarctic to the vast starry sky, the earth, the spaceship, the nebula... This is a completely different story. (To be continued.)

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