Hollywood starts with animation

The next morning, Zhuke got up, washed briefly, and drove out.In addition to paying attention to Pixar's stock today, Zhuke still has many things to do. The most important thing is to inspect the seven SpongeBob House stores.

Hollywood and Highland Mall.

The second store of SpongeBob House.

Apart from the main store, it has the best business because of its good location and many tourists. Sometimes the business is better than the main store.

"BOSS, welcome to come to inspect the work, you are not here today, I also plan to report to you at night." Victor said.

Victor Jones, male, white, 30 years old, married, has a two-year-old daughter, and is currently the store manager of the second store; before serving as the store manager of SpongeBob Squarepants’ second store, he was a local toy factory in Los Angeles The factory director, that is, the general manager, has achieved outstanding results, but because the factory owner is addicted to gambling, he lost all his fortune in Las Vegas, and then he switched to Zhu Ke.

He, Victor Jones, is undoubtedly the employee with the best personal resume under Zucker.

Before the release of "Toy Story", the second store led by Victor was the store with the highest turnover and the only profitable store for two consecutive months.

From this point of view alone, who else does Zhu Ke value him?

Talent is rare!

"Victor, I heard that you worked in Hollywood for a while before you became the manager of the toy factory?" Zhuke asked.

Victor nodded and said, "That's right, boss. I didn't get good grades when I was young. After graduating from high school, I came out to work and worked in Hollywood studios. Later I also worked as a manager for several years."

As he spoke, Victor couldn't help showing a look of nostalgia.

After all, that's Hollywood!

"Oh? Then why don't you continue?" Zhu Ke was curious.

"BOSS, at the time the company planned to transfer me to the New York branch as a manager, but my wife was pregnant and her pregnancy reaction was serious every time. As a last resort, I had to quit my job and work in a toy factory. You know everything down here," Victor said.

Hearing this, Zhu Ke nodded.

Victor Jones is indeed a very thoughtful and capable manager.

Before the release of "Toy Story", Zhuke hoarded peripheral products, and was questioned by many store managers, including James, who thought Zhuke was too crazy.

Only Victor supports Zhu Ke's approach!

He gave the reason: "Since Steve Jobs took over Pixar, despite the huge investment, he still made ends meet and studied a lot of useless things, but they also accumulated a lot of advanced 3D animation technology; and, as long as you have seen it They produced the best animated short Oscar of "Little Soldiers" a few years ago. You will find that their rendering techniques and storytelling capabilities are very outstanding, and they are undoubtedly standing at the top of Hollywood and even the world. "Toy Story" is their work, which took four years to build. The probability of success is far greater than failure."

That is from that day.

Zhuke confirmed: Victor is a real talent.

As for why Zhuke hasn't heard his name in the future, is this strange?

Are there few talents buried in Hollywood?

Besides, sometimes opportunities and opportunities are more important than their own capabilities!

"Victor, you will sort out your work in the near future and prepare for the handover." Zhu Ke said.

"Uh...boss, did I do something wrong?"

Victor's heart jumped when he heard Zucker's words.

What is this for?

Do you want to fire me?

I am short of money now, after all, my wife needs money to bring her two-year-old daughter at home!What if I don’t have a job?

"you misunderstood."

Zhu Ke dumbly laughed and said: "I plan to acquire a Hollywood film company in the near future, um, a smaller one; the original film company manager, I don't think he can do it, do you want to try it? Of course, you can also choose to refuse and continue. This job."

"I accept! I am very eager to join in."

Victor can't help himself. After all, he has been in Hollywood for nearly ten years. This relationship doesn't mean that you can give up if you give up. Now that the opportunity is right in front of you, how can you let it go?

........

In a blink of an eye, half a month passed.

After Pixar Animation's market value broke through 1 billion US dollars, Zhuke did not hesitate to choose settlement and liquidation.The earnings ratio did not reach 10 times Zucker's expectations, but it also reached 4 times.

It's scary enough!

"With an investment of 6 million US dollars, it became more than 24 million US dollars after half a month, with a profit of 15 million US dollars, which is quite good."

Zhu Ke, who holds a cash flow of more than 20 million US dollars, is undoubtedly in a good mood.

Three days later.

Zhuke, Victor, and Condy finally reached an agreement after a week-long negotiation with Hughes Pictures.

With a fortune of 2.8 million US dollars, Zhu Ke completed the acquisition of all equity of Hughes Pictures, and changed the name of the film company to-Wald Pictures!

Full name: Zhuke Wald Film and Entertainment Company.

That's right, Zhuke is so narcissistic.

"Look at the two film media groups, Disney and Warner, which one is not named after the last name? This is to write your name into film history!"

The other four of the Big Six in Hollywood, Paramount, Columbia, Universal, and Twentieth Century Fox, although they are equally great, but who are not familiar with Hollywood history, who will remember their founder?

Zhu Ke's current total net worth is close to 30 million US dollars, and as a traverser, he firmly believes that he will be richer in the future. Shouldn't he pursue more?

For example: engraved in the history of film!

"Zuke, congratulations, starting today, you are officially a member of Hollywood!" Condy looked at Zhuke and laughed.

"Condy, congratulations too, I made another $10,000 from me!" Zhu Ke said.

Hearing this, Kangdi's mouth twitched slightly: "You vampire, my charge is low enough. I have to change someone else. I don't have $30,000. I won't even watch it."

"Thank you, my friend."

This sentence, Zhu Ke is really sincere.

Generally speaking, the company responsible for taking over the acquisition will have to take a lot of money. For acquisitions of less than ten million US dollars, the market price is at least 5%;

Michael Ovitz, one of the founders of CAA, is one of the representatives of the entertainment industry.

In 1989, Sony Group acquired Columbia Pictures, one of the six largest Hollywood studios, for US$3.4 billion, and paid Ovitz a personal commission of US$35 million. In 1990, Panasonic Group acquired MCA for US$6.59 billion, which also paid a high amount. The commission is a full 40 million US dollars.

In this way, Kandi's fees are really not expensive.

This time, he gave Zhu Ke a big price of friendship!

Of course, with Zhuke's vampire-like attributes, he also didn't want to get high service fees.

"Victor, you are now the CEO of Wald Pictures, so I will wait and see." Zhu Ke said suddenly.

Upon hearing this, Victor Jones said immediately: "Boss, I will not let you down."

Zhuke nodded and took Condy out of Wald Pictures.As for the scheduled speech in front of all employees after the acquisition of the company, Zhu Ke did not attend either.

Well, Boss, you have to handle employees!

Well, this is not the case.

Generally speaking, after the new boss acquires the company, he will more or less increase the employee's salary and benefits by 10% to 20%, which is not a small amount of money.Zhuke·Nobody wants to make more money for me·Wald, is online again!

Of course, Zhuke still has work to do now!

"Now that the Hollywood company has completed the acquisition, let's start making movies as soon as possible."

But Zhu Ke is not excited.

Make a movie!

Zhu Ke, who graduated from the director department in his previous life, was surprised that he had not been a director for a while. Well, well, he has never been an assistant director. Now he is a director in Hollywood. How could he not be excited?!