Chapter 308: Opinions From All Parties

The news that Will Smith and his son will star in an inspirational emotional film has attracted a lot of attention on the film page. (Baidu search gives you the fastest and most stable update of Li Wenxue.com)

As the most well-known action star in recent years, although the pay is not as high as that of Denzel Washington, the attention is higher than that of Denzel, who is more in-depth and simple.

What's more, the movie he will star in this time is not an action movie at all, but a drama movie. It is not a special thing for an action star to try to take a broader road. Many stars who are good at action movies will always try to play some other things. film. Not to mention Tom Cruise, who is not a pure-blooded action star, Sylvester Stallone, who has action classics such as "Rocky" and "First Blood", also tried a crime movie two years ago. Thrillers, despite their blood kinship, are distinctly different from the action films that came before them.

Most of the media recognized Will's decision.

But his decision to change his approach so drastically is still very scary. Will is not a dollar, and the Hollywood media will not all have good intentions for it.

"Action superstar Will Smith transformed into an investor and a father. Obviously, this time, our well-developed Will intends to impress movie fans with his own spiritual beauty. He even brought his 7-year-old son Jaden, Perhaps the sincere father-son relationship between Will and Jaden is indeed touching, but we always want to wonder if the relationship between them is not achieved through fists. It is said that Jada Pinkett has become a trauma nurse Expert." "Entertainment Weekly", a tabloid that mainly publishes nonsense and paparazzi works.

The more formal "Entertainment Weekly" was clearly skeptical of Will's decision.

"Obviously, Will Smith was bewitched by Daniel Sandler. It is of course a very safe decision to entrust his transformation work to an investor who 'never fails'. But Will may become one of these A victim of superstitious thinking. Since Daniel officially acquired MGM, and "The Social Network" and "The Hangover" have achieved super success one after another, the rumors about Daniel have become more and more deceptive——'Daniel is It won't fail'! It is impossible for anyone with a sound mind to believe this. This is Hollywood. How can anyone never fail? Daniel has only invested in single-digit works so far. In this way, he asserts that he will never fail , Isn't it very ridiculous?

Later this year, MGM will be officially a property of DD Pictures, at that time. They need to release at least 15 works per year to ensure that all 15 works per year can be profitable? This joke is not funny at all. Daniel is not God, and God couldn't have done it all. "

Daniel was not the only one who saw these negative reports. Of course Will Smith himself was more concerned about all this.

But luckily. Will, who had a strong low tide, knew that he should be more determined.

After Will came to DD's career audition, he was officially confirmed as the leading actor. In addition, Will hoped that he could serve as a producer.

"I hope to have more confidence in this film, which is too important to me after all. Although it is not desperate, but if we face a huge failure, I may not have a better opportunity to transform in a short time, right As far as I am concerned, whether I can still have this kind of courage. It will also be doubtful. So, I hope to be able to meet this requirement."

When negotiating the agreement, Daniel basically agreed to this without haggling.

Will didn't ask for a share—he still knew a little bit about himself, and his box office appeal in the field of action movies had been verified, but he didn't make any achievements in feature movies. If it wasn't for his popularity, it would be impossible for Daniel to personally fight for him to play the role. However, even so, he is not eligible to add a certain percentage of the basic salary contract to the 12 million yuan.

Don't look at Daniel being very polite to him now, and attaching great importance to him, if he is considered ignorant in the end. Daniel turned his face no more gentle than those old and cunning ones.

For Will, being able to participate in the film as an executive producer and ensure that the film is in his own hands is much more important than him getting more money-after all, action movies and drama movies are all taken. A new golden mountain will be opened for him. At that time, whether it is salary or share, it will not be a problem. As for now, it is not the time to care about these things.

With the announcement of this news, "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" has also become one of the latest public projects of DD Films.

before that. In 2005, they only had plans for three works, "The Hangover", "Chain Saw 2" and "The Immortal Gardener". So there may be "Chain Saw 3" coming out. In addition, DD Films and Fox cooperated to shoot "Night at the Museum" with an investment of only 40 million-a large part of which was used as Daniel's basic salary expenditure. The main producer of the film is still Fox, not DD Films. The same is true for "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", which is also produced by Disney Pictures.

In addition to the "Black Swan" project that was circulated before, DD has only two confirmed projects in 2006, and none of them seem to be blockbuster works. Considering the biopic that John Cash entrusted to Daniel, the number barely reaches three.

So within two years, DD Pictures seems to have lost their aggressiveness, at least not comparable to their acquisition of MGM.

The newly revealed "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" makes people smell the box office atmosphere exclusive to DD Films.

But Will Smith's joining actually affected everyone's confidence.

The Los Angeles Times described this strange phenomenon:

"Daniel may want to find an actor who is well-known enough to star in this biopic. From the perspective of age, except for Will Smith, he doesn't have much choice, so it is understandable to make this decision. However, Compared with the brilliant record of DD Films, we don't understand why Daniel insists on casting roles according to the conventional thinking under the unsuitable premise. In fact, except for "Greek Wedding" and "Social Network", Daniel himself starred in " The two main series of DD, "Chain Saw" and "The Hangover", both used unknown actors. This tells them, and it also tells us that stars are not necessarily so important in DD's films. Perhaps it is the name of Daniel's investment. The headlines are attractive enough, maybe DD Films' ability to know the pearl is too high, and it can always find the most suitable new actors.

Regardless of the possibility, it is questioning Daniel's approach to bringing Will into this project. It's even worse than Daniel getting a tan and acting himself. "

It can only be said that this decision has sufficient news value, and the media with different viewpoints discussed it extremely intensely. "When Happiness Comes Knocking on the Door" has not yet established a group, and it has already attracted a wide range of attention. From this point of view alone, Will Smith is worth a price of 12 million. Most of the value of a star lies in the spread - the box office contribution of individual fans is really not worth mentioning.

A user on F2F called "Hollywood Knowledgable Person" talked about this arrangement of DD Films in an extremely sarcastic tone, and also criticized Daniel.

"This is just Daniel Sandler's new way of manipulating the media and public opinion. Unfortunately, those self-proclaimed smart media are being played around by him, and they don't even know that they are being manipulated. As long as we look back at Daniel's fame History, you know that he has always been very good at this, River Phoenix, the elf incident, "Greek Wedding", etc., behind every iconic success, there are traces of manipulating everything. Especially the movie "The Social Network" , making this performance to the pinnacle. On the one hand, the release of the film promoted MB’s listing plan on the New York Stock Exchange, and the value of his assets in MB more than doubled in just a few months. In turn, Google and MB, and the rapid development of F2F, was used by him to hype the movie "The Social Network", which earned him hundreds of millions of dollars. This time choosing Will Smith to play "When Happiness Comes Knocking" will not be a Except, when the dust settles, you'll know exactly where his 'Never Fail' reputation came from."

When Daniel saw this speech, he was still very curious. This man obviously knew him very well. You must know that there are really not many followers of Daniel who can mention River Phoenix. Although it was his first appearance on the "Los Angeles Times" and he successfully sniped Joaquin Phoenix, he still keeps it in his heart. It is indeed something that Daniel is easily interested in.

"He's not bad at what he said," Cousa dared to say, and the look on Daniel's face could definitely be described as "cheerful." After thinking about it for a while, he understood that this speech, which received much attention at F2F, obviously created a reliable reason for Daniel's "undefeated legend" - a marketing expert. If Daniel didn't know if he knew it, he would definitely think that this person was arranged by himself.

Just like Miramax's Oscar PR network, this so-called "marketing ability" will also become a core competitiveness of DD Films. This does not violate the rules or laws. Anyone can do it. If DD The film industry does the best and can act on the box office. This is of course the attraction of DD.

Presumably, those who are interested in this will draw similar conclusions from this speech that has been reposted tens of thousands.

Cusa gave a "tsk tsk" twice. He came to talk to Daniel about the third film of DD Films, or the three films that do not include "The Hangover", "Chain Saw 2", and "The Immortal Gardener" The third part of the film, in addition to "Move Forward" and "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

That's a cartoon! (To be continued.)

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