Heads Up Hollywood

"Titanic" has a box office of 1.88 billion, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" has a box office of 420 million, "Wedding Crashers" has a box office of 310 million, and "Star Wars Episode 1" has a box office of 1.18 billion...

Before "Spider-Man" was released, with these four films, Twain had a total box office of 3.79 billion US dollars worldwide, successfully surpassing Steven Spielberg and becoming the director with the highest grossing total in Hollywood history.

After the first week, the box office of "Spider-Man" reached 263 million U.S. dollars, and the total box office successfully broke through the 4 billion U.S. dollar mark. The sunglasses system was turned on again, and he got the fifth chance to "mirror possession". (The novice gift pack was given once)

Although Tang En has rich experience, his current personal ability is not enough to direct a movie. The basic ability attributes: palm camera 44, plot design 53, image thinking 49, directing 61, camera 25...

Not at all.

So if you want to shoot "A Beautiful Mind", you must use the "Mirror Possession" function.

As for which director to choose for possessing the ability, Twain hadn't made up his mind yet.

If it is a commercial blockbuster, it is right to choose Cameron or Spielberg directly.

But "A Beautiful Mind" is a character drama film that grabs people's hearts, not to mention Cameron, even Spielberg can't do it.

Tang En needed a period of thinking to find candidates, but fortunately, he had plenty of time.

"A Beautiful Mind" will be released after the 9/11 incident, and there is still more than a year, which is too much, just giving Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman more time to figure out the characters.

Tang En's main focus now is on three aspects: the final review of the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" project, the promotion of Cameron's new movie, and the continuous marketing of "Spider-Man".

Even the hands on Disney have to be postponed.

Don't worry, let's take our time!

Now that "Spider-Man" is in theaters, Twain only needs to keep making headlines to boost the momentum of "Spider-Man".

For example, now, Tang En came to a farm between Los Angeles and Burbank.

Celebrities abound here.

Tang En will hold the groundbreaking ceremony of Dunn Films Headquarters - Dunn Williams Walker Building here!

The blueprint design of Tang En Building lasted for two months, and after several revisions, it finally gained Tang En's approval.

From the appearance, this is a "rotated fourth-order Rubik's Cube", which has a sense of surreal magic in general.

The main building has 4 floors and a square structure. Each floor has 80,000 square feet (about 20,000 square meters), and can provide a total of 800-1,000 office seats.

Tang En's office area is on the 4th floor, occupying 50% of the entire floor area. The other areas are high-level office areas such as the document library, confidential meeting room, president's office, and chief financial officer's office.

The future of Tang En Pictures will be very grand. This four-story office building may not be able to meet the future development scale and job requirements.

what to do?

Tang En has a lesson from the past.

Apple and Amazon, because of the unreasonable construction of the main office building, later each spent $5 billion to build new office buildings, which is simply shocking.

In contrast, Microsoft's headquarters structure is much more reasonable and smart.

Microsoft has adopted a completely different approach to the construction of headquarters buildings by companies such as Apple and Amazon. Bill Gates has built a large Microsoft headquarters park.

In the current Microsoft headquarters park, in addition to the main building, there are 11 subsidiary office buildings, which jointly maintain the work needs of Microsoft headquarters.

If expansion is needed in the future, there is no need to rebuild the headquarters building like Amazon does. It only needs to set aside a part of the land in the headquarters park and build a few ancillary buildings.

Such a horizontal headquarters structure is of course not as efficient as Apple's vertical approach, but it is more flexible and stretchable, which can better adapt to the company's rapid development.

Tang En could foresee that his company would develop rapidly, and it was impossible for him to rebuild a new building in a few years. Therefore, the construction model of the Microsoft headquarters park is the right choice.

At present, Tang En Films Headquarters Park will build two buildings at the same time. In addition to the main building "Tang En Building", a three-story "Marvel Building" will be built next to it.

After the construction is completed, both Marvel Entertainment and Marvel Pictures will move to the Marvel Building.

The first phase of the Tang En Film Headquarters Park is expected to cost 320 million US dollars, of which the Tang En Building costs 230 million US dollars, the Marvel Building costs 70 million US dollars, and the remaining 20 million US dollars are used for the infrastructure construction of the nearby traffic and green space improvements.

Tang En Pictures has invested in so many movies and TV series in a row, but if they can't come up with the money, Tang En Capital will naturally invest.

In fact, there is no difference. When Tang En Capital injected 1 billion US dollars into Tang En Pictures, Tang En made the delivery and "sold" most of the shares of Tang En Pictures under his name to Tang En Capital.

This will make it easier for Dunn Capital to make major acquisitions and asset restructuring in the future.

...

After communicating with celebrities and dignitaries such as the mayor of Hollywood and Burbank all morning, Tang En finally left this wasteland.

Cameron chased him just right, and got into Tang En's car.

"Well, bulletproof glass!"

Cameron knocked on the car window with a look of admiration.

Tang En couldn't laugh or cry: "James, isn't this afternoon the audition for the supporting role? I won't go. I'll attend the audition for the leading role."

Cameron said angrily: "You are a producer, and you don't even participate in such an important job as an audition? Besides, this afternoon is not an ordinary supporting role, there is a male lead role!"

"Male number two?" Tang En was slightly taken aback, "Didn't it be agreed that the male number two will be Brad Pitt?"

The name of the new movie "Unsinkable" has been licensed by Cameron, and the copyright has been registered with the Film Association. In the movie, in addition to the male number one and the rescue captain Bernie Webb, there is also the male number two and Ray Hibbert, the temporary captain of the tanker.

Ray Hibbert, an assistant engineer on the tanker, was usually taciturn and respected for his extensive knowledge.

After the tanker encountered a storm, Ray Hibbert, as the highest-ranking staff member on the ship at that time, was ordered in danger and became the backbone of everyone. He gathered people's hearts and launched a series of self-rescue at sea, winning enough for the rescue team time.

Nominally he is the second male lead, but his role is no worse than that of the first male lead. He needs a big-name actor with rich acting skills and market appeal.

Originally, Cameron's idea was Brad Pitt, and Twain agreed with it.

The role of "Ray Hibbert" takes a lot of drama and requires strong acting skills to control it. Although Brad Pitt has starred in dismal box office movies in recent years, his acting skills are up to standard.

Cameron said with a smile: "The budget was tight before, and I really couldn't afford a higher salary to hire more charismatic actors. Now... I have sent an invitation to Tom Hanks."

Tang En frowned, "Tom Hanks? He's in charge of "Band of Brothers" in Europe. I'm afraid there is no schedule."

"I know, so I extended invitations to Johnny Depp, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, Will Smith and a few others."

Tang En looked at him speechlessly, "Isn't the age gap too big?"

Cameron said with a smile: "Ray Hibbert is the second male lead, and he doesn't show life scenes and emotional scenes. Age is not a big problem."

Tang En pondered for a while, "Johnny Depp can't do it!"

"Why?"

"Because... I have other arrangements, so I told him that I won't come to the audition in the afternoon." Tang En glanced at Cameron with a serious face, "Besides, Mel Gibson has already accepted the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" project, don't you Know?"

Cameron said: "Of course I know, but... this is Mel's personal wish. He even called me specifically, looking forward to cooperating with me."

"Isn't it?" Tang En was stunned, "Does he want to take on two blockbuster films at the same time? Is he crazy?"

Cameron shrugged, "He is a lunatic in terms of work. You should know that there will be four movies starring him released this year!"

Tang En suddenly fell silent.

If Mel Gibson wanted to take part in this movie, Twain really couldn't find a reason to refuse. In terms of market appeal, he can crush all competitors, not to mention his friendship with Tang En?

"I have communicated with Bill, and the conflict of schedules is not a big problem." Cameron saw Tang En's thinking, and said slowly, "Mel has this kind of experience, and he can handle it calmly. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is An action movie, he's good at it, and our movie... he's just a supporting character, and a 45-day or so shooting period is enough."

Both "Unsinkable" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" are commercial films, and it doesn't take too long to adjust and brew to understand the character of the characters in the play.

This and "A Beautiful Mind" are two completely different performance concepts.

The former only needs to use expressionistic methods to complete the basic character setting; the latter needs to use a variety of acting skills to go deep into life and experience characters to express more character levels.

Tang En nodded, "If Mel really passes the audition, I will agree. But here comes the problem, if Mel becomes Ray Hibbert, then with Matthew McConaughey's strength, can he shoulder the burden?" Is it the important task of the male number one?"

The candidate for the male number one has been determined by default, and James Cameron intends to use Matthew McConaughey, who was abandoned by him when he was in "Titanic".

Mel Gibson is the number one superstar today. If he plays Ray Hibbert, for the sake of the market box office, he must show more of Mel Gibson's personal charm.

Such a result will cause the aura of the male number two to overshadow the male number one.

"I believe in Matthew!" Cameron has obviously considered this issue long ago, "In the past few years, he has cooperated with big-name directors such as Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis. It's actors like Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins who can handle that."

Tang En looked indifferent, "Anyway, you are the director, if something goes wrong, you are the one who has a headache."

Cameron laughed loudly, "I have a headache? I messed up the project, and you are the one who suffers the most, right? 200 million US dollars investment!"

Tang En pouted, "So what about 200 million US dollars? In my opinion, the fame and influence of a filmmaker are far more important than money!"

"That's because you're so rich!" Cameron muttered, then shook his head, "Actually, compared to the two male actors, the choice of actresses is the most troublesome, especially the second female lead!"

"actress?"

Tang En's eyes lit up slightly, and he said with a smile: "Don't worry, wrap it on me!"