Hollywood starts with animation

Acquiring MGM?!

Well, Zhu Ke does have this ambitious idea, after all, MGM’s film library has more than 5,000 movies.These film copyrights are not only the heritage of large companies, but also tens of millions of dollars in wealth from the TV stations and DVD and video tape markets every year, and Zhu Ke is not moved.

However, no money!

The only little money will be set aside for the tax payment at the end of April.

"It seems that we have to find a way to get some money, otherwise not to mention the expansion of the film company, even Spider-Man will not be able to shoot."

"System, is it still alive?"

"......"

Zhu Ke couldn't help feeling anxious.This damn system is fucking damn!Except for occasionally providing a little future information, it is useless, and it is not as easy to use as a 21st century computer.

You are the most useless system!

The idea of ​​making money is wonderful, but the actual operation is too difficult.

That's right, "Lola Run" is about to be released.It has a very good reputation in the original time and space, but it is not a high-grossing movie.It's okay to use this movie to make Wald Pictures show off, but the profit at the box office is probably not too much.As for the final profit, Zhu Ke has no idea. After all, it is not the original film, but the rookie director himself.

It is simply too much to expect to use it to make a fortune.

"futures?"

"I remember this thing came in very quickly!"

For an instant, Zhuke thought of futures, and he couldn't help thinking of Soros, an economic predator.

In 1992, he sniped the British pound and made a short-term profit of 1 billion US dollars; in 1997, he sniped the Thai baht and the Hong Kong dollar, which triggered the Asian financial turmoil; in 2012, he shorted the Japanese yen and once again made a profit of 1 billion US dollars.

During the period when Zhuke had just graduated in his previous life, he was very obsessed with the so-called wealth myth. He had studied the stock market and read several Soros reports, and he had a relatively simple understanding of it.

however.

Nima, it's 96 years now!

It is more than a year before the sniping of the Thai baht in July 1997. Where is Zucker's first choice for making money?

stock market?!

At this moment, Zhu Ke thought of the stock market. After all, most of his net worth comes from the stock market, and although its money is not as fast as futures, it is not low.In addition, in the late 1990s, this was the era of the Internet blowout. Otherwise, where did the bubble come from?

Netscape, Cisco, Comcast, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon...

Suddenly, many Internet company names popped up in Zhu Ke's mind.

Netscape?

Zhuke eliminated it first!

Yes, Zhu Ke relied on the listing of Netscape, but because of this, he dared not buy its stock.

Without him, I really know too much.

Netscape went public in August 1995, and its stock price reached as high as $75 on the day of its listing, which is extremely brilliant.In the words of The Wall Street Journal: It took GM 43 years to reach a market value of $2.7 billion, while Netscape took "about 1 minute."

However, it flourished and declined.

Microsoft's IE browser came out and was widely promoted.

The struggle between Netscape and IE browsers was later called the "browser war". By December 1997, Netscape's stock price was less than $20 per share, which can be said to be a complete loss to Microsoft. .

"Buying Netscape now is simply looking for death, but you can short Netscape next year and make some extra money."

"Cisco's stock price, on the contrary, still has a rise, but this year's increase is not large (after all, the increase in 98-99 is amazing), you can consider buying a little, anyway, you will not lose."

apple?

Forget it, before Jobs returned in 1997, Apple was still the rotten apple, half dead;

Comcast?

It is the second largest Internet provider in the United States. By 2020, it has a market value of over 200 billion U.S. dollars. It has been in the process of "buying, buying, buying". It is either acquiring this company or acquiring that company. The stock market has almost been rising, but The increase in 1996-97 was not very large.

Amazon?

Yes, it is a giant company.But man, it was just a company that was established in 1995, and now it's just a little cute, it didn't go public until 1997.

......

After calculating all the way, Zhu Ke surprisingly found:

The stock market can make people rich, but as far as you know, it is almost impossible to expect to get rich overnight in the stock market this year!

(The stock prices of Cisco and Microsoft have been rising. That's right, but getting rich for a while.)

Suddenly, Zhu Ke's dream of making a fortune in the stock market was broken!

"Oh my God, why is it so hard to make money!"

Zhuke almost looked up to the sky and sighed.

Zhuke barely slept this night.When I woke up early the next morning, my whole person was listless, but he still resisted getting up.

No way, today is the beginning of April. The store managers and financers of SpongeBob SquarePants House will have a meeting this morning and report the recent business situation.

.......

Alice Cafe.

It is a coffee shop located near the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, next to Zhuke's SpongeBob House main store, so it has become Zhuke's designated meeting place at the end of each month.

Save money!

"Boss, thanks to the popularity of "Toy Story", even if it is released, our peripheral products are still selling well. All costs of manpower, water and electricity, property, etc. have been eliminated. The head office’s net profit this month "For 70,000 US dollars" head store manager James spoke first.

"Boss, the net profit of the second store this month was $63,000."

"Sandian made a net profit of $40,000 this month."

.......

Finally, the net profit of the seven SpongeBob stores totaled 345,000 US dollars.This is a decrease of 8% compared to the same period last month of US$375,000.

Down again?

Yes, pure profit has been declining since January.

But these Zhuke are acceptable, after all, the heat of "Toy Story" has passed.Moreover, since January, Zhu Ke has also consciously reduced the prices of peripheral products in order to increase the customer's return rate.

In fact, compared to other film chains in Los Angeles, Zucker’s SpongeBob House is still the top three in terms of the profitability of a single store.

Because of Zucker's listlessness today, the meeting ended soon.

Out of the coffee shop.

"Zuke, what are you doing today?" James curiously asked after the meeting.

"No money, not happy." Zhu Ke waved his hand.

Hearing this, James frowned.

Damn it!

With a net profit of more than three hundred thousand dollars a month, what are you unhappy about?Even if the profit may decrease in the next few months, but it is estimated that the income of 3 million US dollars in a year, you still have no money?!

Of course, James did not say this.

After all, the two are at different levels now, and they are considering different issues.

"Jenny, are you really planning to buy Yahoo stock? It is said that this company is not very good, and your investment may lose money."

"It's okay, I don't plan to sell much anyway."

At this moment, a burst of discussion came to Zhuke's ears.

Yahoo?!

In an instant, Zhuke was agitated.