Before the second audition began, Duke struck out Scarlett Johnson, and in the subsequent audition, he was the first to determine the candidates for supporting roles.∈◆,

After Duke watched the audition, he was basically sure that Michael Cain played Alfred, Gary Oldman played Inspector Gordon, Lawrence Fishburne played Lucius Fox, and Liam Neeson, who has been confirmed to play Henry Ducad, has basically the main supporting roles, but he will not join the crew for the time being. Charles Rowan will also discuss the actor contract with their agent.

The most important aspect of the male and female protagonists is that after Christian Bale showed strong interest, Duke no longer considered other candidates and was sure that he would be the actor candidate for Bruce Wayne.

In fact, when he was in Iceland, Duke almost rejected Christian Bale. The reason was very simple. He agreed to the audition invitation only on the last day of the crew's deadline.

Originally, Duke had already planned to use Ben Affleck when he did not receive any news about Christian Bale on the last day of the invitation period, but the other party caught the last bus.

Christian Bale is not only interested in independent films as many people think. For example, as a member of the Warner Board of Directors, Duke knew that he had attended Robin's audition in the 1990s but was eliminated by the crew.

After all, every actor who is mingling in Hollywood knows the importance of opportunity.

As for the heroine, Duke was a little hesitant. Although he saw Katie Helms in the audition, he would not consider the other party at all. The remaining Jennifer Garner, Amy Adams, Anne Hathaway and Rachel McAdams each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

He himself prefers Anne Hathaway, an actress who became famous because of "The Princess Diary", has been in the trough of her life in recent years. Although her performance in the audition cannot reach the later level, it is enough to deal with the heroine in the film. And as long as she does not open her mouth and laughs, she is a qualified vase.

Indeed, the other party is relatively strong. In Duke's words, he is tall and thick, but this is a typical American big girl. It is also very consistent with the aesthetics of this country.

Several of his deputy also unanimously suggested using her.

"I think her audition is the best."

In the film studio, after just watching the audition video of several actresses, Anna Prinz expressed her opinion, "Anne Hathaway has a very special temperament. She always gives her eyes a hint of innocence and persistence in her performance, which is very similar to Rachel Daws in the first part."

Charles Rowan nodded, "I agree with Anna."

Duke thought for a moment, "Then Anne Hathaway is OK."

As for Catwoman in the future, Hollywood is full of actresses with similar conditions, and there are countless people who are suitable for it.

Charles Rowan is very efficient in his work. It took about ten days to basically solve the actor's contract. Other actors can figure out the role relatively easily. Christian Bale, Liam Neeson and many stunt actors were summoned by Duke to the training hall on the Warner set to receive Jimmy Carter's three-month endurance and fighting training.

The preparations are proceeding step by step. Time has also shifted to August, and Duke's energy is inevitably dispersed by Silicon Valley firms. One of the most important investments in his life, Google is about to go public for financing.

According to the earliest idea of ​​founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google is not in a hurry to go public.

The reason they want to conduct iPo this month is mainly because some requirements from the US Securities and Exchange Commission prompt it to make a decision as soon as possible.

According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, companies with more than 500 shareholders and assets of more than $10 million must disclose their business information. They should disclose their financial status within 4 months after the end of the fiscal year.

This clause once inspired many American companies to simply develop iPo, and Google also complies with this regulation. It has more than 1,000 employees owning the company's stock option, and its assets have already exceeded 100 million.

Long before listing, Larry Page and Sergey Brin made sufficient preparations for the future to still be able to control the company. Google split up its shares in April and allocated a Class A stock that had voting rights for each Class A stock, which had voting rights, and Google's stock price was halved, which provided small and medium-sized investors with opportunities to participate, and also weakened the voting rights of some major shareholders, thus ensuring the power of the two founders.

This is a move that every normal businessman will do. No one wants to see the company he has worked hard to start and finally fall into the hands of others. Duke doesn't care too much about this. He doesn't know how to run a company at all, and investing in Google is just for money.

On August 19, Google, which has been founded for only six years, went public in a highly anticipated initial public offering. For a company that has been established for only six years, Wall Street has a very high valuation of $ billion!

At this time, Google's annual revenue was US$2.7 billion and its annual profit was US$286 million.

Unlike most public offerings, Google sells shares through auctions and reduces IPO fees.

According to Wall Street's market conditions, the marketers will charge four percent of the fee for this plan to raise nearly $3 billion in IPOS, but Google uses this method with a fee rate of only 2.8 percent.

In theory, auctions should provide listed companies with the highest issue price possible, while providing individual investors with the opportunity to buy stocks in the primary market.

But when Google was doing iPo, the company had to reduce the scale of stock offerings and lower the issue price when demand was weak.

Although the issue price range was once set between $108 and $135, Google finally went public at an issue price of $85, only selling 22.5 million shares, and only raising $1.9 billion.

To make matters worse, Google's stock price rose 18% on the first day of its listing to close at $100.34, indicating that the auction did not achieve some of the expected goals to set the issue price as close as possible to the value investors will give the stock in the open market.

Even as an amateur Duke, you can see that this is not a successful iPo.

But for him personally, this is not the case. The sale of stocks through auction undoubtedly gave him the opportunity. The relatively weak market demand has caused his several foundations to grab a lot of shares, bringing back the amount of shares that had been diluted due to various measures to return to 25%.

If it weren't for the CSRC's regulations that it was necessary to issue an announcement, Duke would have been able to grab more shares, but these would be enough to satisfy him.

This time, IPO was not successful, but Google became a star in the market and media. By the close of the day, Google's market value rose to $27 billion, creating hundreds of millionaires.

There is no doubt that Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Duke became the three most dazzling public offerings.

Of course, shares and the funds you can actually get are two different things. Stock trading is not about buying and selling vegetables in the market. Listed companies have many restrictions on shareholders. Before the lifting period, many people cannot sell their shares.

However, Duke is not short of money, otherwise he would not have purchased Google shares again. Although Google does not distribute dividends, the biggest purpose of his investment is to preserve value. The speed of the US dollar depreciation is too fast.

There is no doubt that with Google's official listing and fundraising, Duke has become one of the top rich people in the United States on the card.

Moreover, after Google went public, its stock price has been rising continuously, and the value of its shares will become higher and higher.

Afterwards, Duke's work returned to the films he was preparing, and it took a lot of time and energy to review and adjust various equipment designed for Batman.

Lamborghini specializes in a temporary production line in the workshop to complete the main design and manufacturing of Batmobile.

Unlike the four Batman movies in the 1900s, the new trilogy tends to be realistic, and Duke does not intend to use some equipment that is too science fiction. Just like before, the success of Marvel movies is in its childish all-age style. The reality style is undoubtedly an important factor in the success of these trilogy.

Not every hero can shoot realistic styles. Bruce Wayne's main setting undoubtedly tends to be this style.

"Iron Man", which Duke intends to start the Marvel series, is in the opposite situation with Bruce Wayne. Tony Stark's personality and many black technologies determine that the film cannot be realistic, and tends to be simplistic in all ages or children. It can be said that it is one of the key reasons for the success of Marvel movies.

How horrible would it be if Duke made a movie like Iron Man into a realistic style, just like making Batman funny?

In a busy working state, time always passes very quickly. Duke spent the whole of August and September in busy preparations. Although he met Ivanka once, his relationship between them did not improve.

After all, Scarlett just induces potential differences and conflicts between the two, and Donald Trump is a corner that the two cannot get around.

Ivanka insisted on introducing Trump Group funds in financing expansion, but Duke, who holds 45% of the equity and has the corresponding voting rights, did not agree, which was simply impossible.

Human greed is always without limits. Duke has made enough concessions to Donald Trump before, and it is impossible to compromise without limits.

Fortunately, both of them are more rational people, especially Ivanka, who has invested a lot of money and effort in this company and will not continue some conflicts into their work.

No matter how deep love is, it cannot withstand the expiration of time. Although the relationship between Duke and Ivanka has not reached the point of breaking, it inevitably fades away. If no one gives in, it will be difficult to go hand in hand. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!