The Wolf of Los Angeles.

The Ice Bucket Carnival, initiated by Tom Cruise and fully promoted by Twitter, is still in full swing.

Twitter made a preliminary summary.

In the meeting room, Hawke asked directly: "How long can the popularity be expected to last?"

Harland, the technical director, pushed up his glasses and said, "In the early stages of the event, we built a data model. According to the model feedback, this level of popularity can be maintained for about ten days, and then it will enter a decay period, with the influence decreasing every ten days or so until it automatically ends after about two and a half months."

"It's OK. It's better than I expected." Hawke looked at Caroline, the operations director, and asked, "What about user data?"

Caroline said quickly, "There are currently 3841 million registered users, and it is expected that by the end of this event, the number will exceed 4000 million."

She paused for a moment and added: "In the past week, the number of active users during peak hours every day has exceeded 2840 million."

Hawke nodded with satisfaction.

Even on a global scale, Twitter's user growth rate is not as rapid as it was in the beginning.

This is an inevitable trend.

Sasha said at this time: "Currently, there are more than 1460 million topics on Twitter about the Ice Bucket Challenge, and 51 related videos, which have spread to 57 countries and regions. It will become the most successful social activity and iconic Internet event this year."

These data are the most direct market reactions to the Ice Bucket Carnival.

Caroline then told Hawke: "In this matter, it is a win-win for us, Tom Cruise and ALS patients."

Hawke said: "Finally, the predetermined goal was achieved."

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DreamWorks headquarters in Glendale, north of Los Angeles.

DreamWorks, which once had the ambition to rival the Big Six in Hollywood, no longer lives up to its former ambitions after the separation of the three giants Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeff Katzenberg, and even the park has become much quieter.

Even so, the DreamWorks live-action film division headed by Spielberg is still one of the most important production forces in Hollywood.

The preparatory meeting for the "World War" project has just ended.

Producer Kathleen Kennedy followed Spielberg into his office and said, "We need to make a decision as soon as possible on the male lead. Overseas investors are waiting and watching. If there is no superstar with enough persuasiveness to play the male lead, it may affect their investment."

Spielberg sat in his office chair and asked, "Recently the media has been full of good news about Tom Cruise. Is he putting pressure on me in this way?"

Kathleen Kennedy, who has worked with him for more than 20 years, had this to say: "I can't be sure whether there was pressure or not, but Tom Cruise's reputation among the media and the public is much better than it was in the first half of the year. It's not an exaggeration to say that the media and the public have made a 180-degree U-turn in their attitude towards him."

"I watched the Ice Bucket Challenge, too." Although Spielberg did not participate, the whole of Hollywood was discussing it. He had heard about it many times, and the adopted children had even recorded videos of the challenge.

He didn’t mention Tom Cruise again, but put it on the other side: “The Twitter company that cooperated with Tom Cruise is interesting.”

Kathleen Kennedy specifically asked someone to find out about the film project: "It is said that Hawke Osment, the founder of Twitter, planned the Ice Bucket Challenge, which reversed Tom Cruise's dilemma in public opinion in the past six months and helped him regain public recognition."

Spielberg suddenly became interested in checking Twitter, so he simply turned on the computer next to him and said while waiting for the filming to start: "What I was most worried about was Tom Cruise's reputation and his faith issues. He was constantly excluded and smeared by women's organizations. If these cannot be resolved, it will affect our movie."

Kathleen Kennedy said appropriately: "Now all these problems have been solved by Twitter's Hawke Osment."

The problem had been solved, and Spielberg was of course not going to be polite. He said, "Please inform Tom Cruise that the technical difficulties on our side have been solved, and the negotiations for the male lead can continue."

Kathleen Kennedy responded, "I'll make the call right away."

After she left, Spielberg patiently registered a Twitter account and found that getting started was much easier than he had imagined. It was a completely fool-proof tutorial and was very convenient to use.

He tried to send a tweet and @ed his adopted daughter Michaela.

This adopted daughter, who is less than ten years old, has had a dream in recent years, which is to develop in the San Fernando Valley when she grows up.

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Mulholland Drive, Beverly Hills.

In the kitchen of the mansion, Tom Cruise stood in front of the oven, took off his thick oven gloves, threw them on the table, and set the timer.

He looked at the chef and said, "Call me immediately when the time comes. I must bring out the cake myself."

The chef said, "I'll let you know in twenty-five minutes."

Tom Cruise came out of the kitchen, quite satisfied.

Just then, the assistant came over in a hurry: "Tommy, I just received a call from Kathleen Kennedy. The technical difficulties of the "War of the Worlds" crew have been solved. Now she and Spielberg can get away and continue to discuss cooperation."

"Technical problems?" Tom Cruise shook his head and sneered: "These bastards are really good at making excuses for themselves." It was obvious that they had doubts about the cooperation because they saw that his influence and appeal had declined, and there was a lot of negative public opinion.

It is the norm in the industry to flatter the powerful and bully the weak, and big directors and big crews are no exception. Tom Cruise didn't care about this and said, "You reply to her. I will go to DreamWorks tomorrow and pay a visit."

The assistant quickly made a phone call.

Tom Cruise took out his cell phone and called Hawke himself. When the call was connected, he said, "It's me. I have good news for you. Spielberg contacted me and wanted to continue discussing the role of the male lead in "War of the Worlds". We succeeded."

Hawke on the other side said, "Congratulations, Tommy, you got the leading role in another top-notch production."

Tom Cruise was in a very good mood at this time, and said with a smile: "I will go to Twitter in the afternoon, and there will be gifts delivered then."

Hawke said, "You're welcome anytime."

After the call with Hawke ended, Tom Cruise's assistant came over and said that Kathleen Kennedy wanted to talk to him.

The two talked on the phone for some time.

Not long after, the chef came out of the kitchen and reminded Tom Cruise that time was almost up.

Tom Cruise hung up the phone, went to the kitchen, put on thick heat-insulating gloves, took out the baked cake base from the oven, got the cream and chocolate sauce, and with the help of the chef, made white chocolate coconut cake by himself.

This has always been his signature program for friends he recognizes.

In previous years, the event would be held during the Christmas period, but today, for Hawke, Tom Cruise decided to make an exception.

Century City, CAA headquarters.

Nicole Kidman walked into Pat Kingsley's office with her bag on her back and her high heels on.

She plopped down on the sofa and complained, "My acquaintance from DreamWorks just called me and said Spielberg is restarting his collaboration with Tom Cruise."

Jin Sili got a headache when she heard the name and advised: "Nicole, you have to calm down. Tom is a top star. It's normal for Spielberg to cooperate with him."

Nicole Kidman looked very unhappy: "Then what have we done in the past few months? You used media resources to expose his dirty laundry, and I used all means to discredit him in the media and drag him into opposition to women and freedom. All of this was in vain!"

Kingsley couldn't tell the real reason, so she could only make up an excuse: "I didn't expect Twitter to change Tom's reputation so easily."

"Twitter!" Nicole Kidman said, thinking of the Ice Bucket Challenge that is still going on. "This is all planned by Twitter for Tom."

This suddenly reminded Kingsley that Twitter was working closely with Tom Cruise. Could the things Tom Cruise had done before be related to Twitter?
Based on her understanding of Tom Cruise, if he already had these things in his hands, he would not have been able to endure it until now.

On the other hand, Twitter has previously exposed scandals involving Will Smith and Kobe Bryant, who have previous criminal records...

The more Jinsley thought about it, the more she felt that this matter was related to Twitter.

Seeing her silence, Nicole Kidman asked: "Pat, are we just going to watch? Don't we do anything?"

Jin Sili raised her hand to interrupt her: "Wait a minute, I need to know the situation on Twitter."

The hatred that comes after a couple turns against each other makes Nicole Kidman eager to see Tom Cruise fall into the abyss and never climb out.

She was equally unhappy with the tweet that helped Tom Cruise.

Although Nicole Kidman no longer has her ex-husband as a backer, she has the support of bigwigs below and behind her. With an Oscar for Best Actress in her hands, the media is full of praise for her and she is full of confidence.

The Australian woman was very scheming. Her mind worked quickly and she came up with an idea. She said, "What they care about most is the Ice Bucket Challenge. This activity is very popular. Should we make some use of it?"

Meanwhile, Hawke welcomed Tom Cruise on Twitter.

The Hollywood star sent a handmade cake to express his gratitude to Hawke and Twitter staff.

"Try it, everyone try it."

In the conference room, Tom Cruise handed the cake to Hawke, Edward, Sasha, Caroline and others, and did not forget to add: "I made this myself."

Hawke opened it and took a bite, only to find it too sweet.

He called Tom Cruise to talk alone: ​​"The second phase goal has been completed, and the remaining third phase is mainly about film production and finding a new girlfriend..."

Tom Cruise smiled and said, "I can complete the third stage independently."

Hawke had no objection to what the client said. (End of this chapter)