Hollywood starts with animation

November 29, 1995.

Today is undoubtedly an extremely glorious day for Pixar Animation Studios, because it is listed today.

In the trading floor of the Nasdaq.

"The movie "Toy Story" is the longest advancement in the cartoon field since Disney shot the world's first animated feature film "Snow White" 60 years ago. Pixar did it all. Disney just Publisher."

Jobs, the boss of Pixar, spared no effort to fight against many reporters in order to shape and promote Pixar's image as a new generation of animation film company.

"Mr. Jobs, do you mean that the success of Toy Story is entirely due to you and your team?" a reporter asked.

Jobs glanced at the reporter disdainfully, as if saying that was the case.

"Of course!"

Jobs affirmed.

Well, he is such a person.If you change someone else, you will definitely not speak like this, and you have to take into account Disney's face.

But Jobs was not like that.

What is Disney's face?Now it's time to step on it to the top, otherwise how can the stock price soar to the highest!

Strong, overbearing, paranoid, acrimonious, and not admitting mistakes are the answers of many people.

Of course, it is not completely correct.

Behind the tough, tyrannical man who never admits his mistakes, never bows his head, Jobs also has his knowledge of current affairs and his time to swallow his breath.For example, when Pixar was down, it signed a series of unequal treaties with Disney, which bought time for Pixar's survival.Including Bill Gates, he has made many compromises, cooperation, and of course wars.

Such advancing and retreating offensive and defensive is not just an example in Jobs's business career.

"Jobs is still familiar!"

"arrogant!"

"It's right that he is strong. Who can make people succeed again?"

"Damn rich man, I hope he still has time to fall down!"

........

In the face of Steve Jobs's wild rhetoric, everyone around him, whether it is Hollywood insiders or stock investors, was slightly upset.

"It's really amazing. I dare to say this to my face. The people at Disney are probably embarrassed."

Although Zhu Ke said so, he still yearned for it in his heart, and hoped that one day he would have this confidence and show such a tough side.

The fact is exactly as Zhu Ke expected.

Michael Eisner, the chairman of Disney who heard the news, almost didn't lift the office desk!

Soon, the stock market opened.

Pixar Animation Studio, because of the explosion of "Toy Story", has been sought after by many investment institutions and investors, even if they are slightly unhappy with Steve Jobs.

Who would have trouble with money?

Anyway, Zhu Ke would not. He had contacted an investment company long beforehand, and put in six million dollars without changing his expression, which was almost all Zhu Ke's net worth.

"Pixar animation, and Steve Jobs, this is all Lao Tzu's money!" Zhu Ke prayed frantically.

This time, Zhuke did not use ten times leverage.

Because Zhuke didn't know whether Pixar's earnings on the opening day were up or down.Even if it is known that it is rising, once leverage is used, a wave of leeks may be harvested by Wall Street dealers.Anyway, Zhuke only knew that Pixar's market value soared to $1 billion in a month.

.......

That night.

Zhu Ke was slightly upset and gritted his teeth.

"Damn trash system, can't you provide detailed instructions and information after Pixar goes public? How much money did I make?"

That's right, Zhuke still made a profit today, but still unhappy.

Pixar Animation's stock price rose by more than $45 after opening at a price of $22 for half an hour, then continued to rise to $49, and closed at $39 on the same day.

Zhu Ke invested 6 million US dollars that day, which was 1.7 times higher, and the equity plus income exceeded 10 million US dollars.

Yes, Zhuke made a lot of money, but if he settled at the highest of the day of 49 dollars, his income would be higher, which is why Zhuke was unhappy.

True Zucker Greedy Greedy Wald!

"Ahem..."

At this moment, Condy, the former ace negotiator, walked into Zhuke's home, and he couldn't help feeling a little sour when he saw Zhuke's gritted teeth.

"Well, you vampire, you have earned enough, don't know what's wrong." Condy slowly said.

It's not for no reason that Condy is here tonight.

"Man, all the information for the investigation you want is here, you can read it for yourself."

After Condy finished speaking, he just got up and left without waiting for Zhuke to speak. Sometimes he was such a violent person, because tonight he had an appointment with a beautiful girl.

Zhuke watched Condy leave with a stunned mouth, he couldn't help but curl his lips: "It's really personal. It would be better if the charges were lower."

These days, Zhu Ke is busy, so he entrusted Kangdi to contact an investigation company to help him investigate some situations.

There are two copies of the information on the table.

Hughes Pictures Company

[Steven Heilenberg Personal Information]

........

Zhu Ke first opened the profile of Hughes Pictures.

Hughes Pictures is a small Hollywood company located in Burbank, Los Angeles. It integrates production and distribution. It was established in 1985 and has 49 employees.

This is the research company that Kandi contacted. After a month of investigation and screening, it was the Hollywood company that best met Zucker's requirements.

Although Hughes Pictures is mainly engaged in the production of offline video tape movies, it only has two movies shown on theatrical line, and the total box office is less than 600,000 US dollars, but it is in Los Angeles, including the entire state of California. , Still has a complete distribution channel.

Company valuation: US$2 million.

Estimated purchase price: 2.5 million to 3 million US dollars.

"Sneer...not bad. It seems that if it weren't the owner of Hughes Films, the investment has failed in the near future, and the funds need to be returned to the circulation, and it is estimated that it will not be sold."

Zhu Ke is half of the entertainment industry and knows many inside stories and development trajectories of Hollywood.

Although Hollywood companies such as Hughes Pictures are inferior in Hollywood and have no sense of existence, companies with their own distribution networks are rare.At least, as time goes by, these companies have become more valuable.

Don’t you see the old Wang’s family, Wanda Group spent more than three billion US dollars in 2016 to buy a second-rate legendary film company in Hollywood.

"I bought Hughes Pictures, even if I lose money every year, I can sell it for at least 200 million US dollars in 20 years." Zhu Ke made up his mind and planned to buy it.

.......

The second survey data is the personal data of Stephen Helenberg.

Speaking of Stephen Helenberg, many people may be unfamiliar, but the mention of "SpongeBob SquarePants" animation is estimated to be quite influential in the world.

That's right, Stephen Helenberg will be called the "Father of SpongeBob SquarePants" in the future.

At first, he was not a person in the entertainment industry, but a scientist studying marine life and a teacher of marine biology at the Oran Institute of Oceanography.His original intention of creating Little Sponge was only entrusted by the research institute to draw a cartoon about marine life for the children who visited.

But who would have thought that "SpongeBob SquarePants" was so successful?

Since 1999, it has been broadcast on the Nickelodeon Children’s Channel in the United States and has been widely welcomed by children all over the world.The works have won two Emmy Awards, 12 children's vote awards, and two movies have been launched. As of January 2020, its peripheral products have generated more than 13 billion US dollars in revenue for the Nickelodeon channel.

$13 billion in peripheral income?

"Even if costs and channels are eliminated, SpongeBob's profit is considerable!" Zhu Ke couldn't help but sigh.

Obviously, because of the information provided by the system, Zhuke has undoubtedly dug a gold mine!

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