King of Hollywood

“In addition to producing special effects and logos for some movie companies, we have a smaller gaming department that is outsourcing for some gaming companies, but most importantly, animations for Disney. Back in '91, we signed the first three copies with them, but something went wrong.” KAMOR explained to Adrian that he had before him all the information.

“What's the problem?” Adrian asked silently, even though his heart was numbered.

“Michael, Disney's CEO? Eisner doesn't like computer animation, so he has plans to cancel the project, and the person in charge of working with us, Coles, is working on it.” Camor glanced at Adrian, "I thought you had a good relationship with Dinis, perhaps trying to convince Eisner. ”

“What do you think?” Adrian sighed and looked at Rust, Stanton and others.

“That's what we think,” Rust said after a few people exchanged their eyes, "we've done a lot of work, we've drawn boxes of paper just to set the script, the script's pretty complete, and we've made a few clips. If we cancel it now, it will be a huge blow to us and to the development of the studio. ”

Very talkative, these guys aren't fuel-saving lights. Adrian flipped over Rust's file of the first animated film and said in his heart. He smiled slightly as he looked at the final manuscript in his hand, especially the cowboy and astronaut toys.

“Well,” Adrian said after a few minutes of reflection, "I'll talk to Michael, but I won't let him support the project, and I'll let him terminate the contract as soon as possible, even without liquidating damages. ”

“Why?” Stanton asked, fat with a burning face.

“Well, Andrew, listen to Adrian first.” Camor then made a "little restless” gesture, and Rust gave him the same look, and the three of them looked at Adrian together.

With a smile on Camor and Rust's praise, Adrian put his hands crossed on the table with a smile on it for a long time to say: “I roughly browsed the contract and made three animated films for 10 million dollars, all copyrighted to Disney, and the box office was divided into no more than 25% pix... Gentlemen, do you know what that means? ”

A few people did not speak, just stared closely at Adrian, especially Kamal, and seemed to have seen something.

“My intention is to cancel this unreasonable contract with Disney, and then spend 10 million dollars on this animated film, and you can safely devote all your energy to making the animated film that you want to make, and then I can arrange for it to be released.” Adrian smiled softly.

Several people looked at each other again and showed excitement. They never remembered that Adrian, though the chairman of AC Media was no bigger than Dennis, also had his own complete distribution channel, which meant nothing more. Adrian also expressed his strong support and gave them complete devolution, and if they were not excited and excited, they would have met ghosts.

“I think it's okay.” Camor said immediately that he was in good control of his emotions.

But no one else was so calm, Stanton shouted his first punch, “That's great, Ed. That's the best news I've heard this year."

It fits his forthright temper to associate himself with the interrogation just now.

“Looks like we got an equally good boss.” Rust took off his glasses and sighed, and jokingly asked Stanton: “Oh, and, Andrew, which Ed are you calling? ”

Stanton couldn't help but stand still and the others laughed.

After a few more chats with the studio and the animated film being made, Adrian got up and was ready to leave.

“I have films to shoot in New York, so I can't delay them too much.” He explained, and then he patted Carmel's arm: “Anyway, you have Pix's everything, Ed. ”

“No problem, Ed.” Camor nodded and they both gave a thoughtful look.

“I think that's a great name, don't you?” Rust touched Stanton with his elbow and looked at Camor and Adrian laughing and asking.

“It is indeed good, and I think it is necessary to spread the word.” Stanton, who had calmed down, also smiled.

Adrian looked at them and shook their heads, turning around and about to leave, but because he thought of something, he turned back: "Well, take a moment to fax me the script of the animated movie and the whole idea, you know, besides being a director, I'm a writer, and the animated movie and the real person movie may have different places, but I can still do it with some advice. ”

After getting in the car and leaving Pixar's studio, Adrian finally took a long exit and completely relieved himself. Today's itinerary has basically reached his goal, and now all we have to do is wait for Pix to grow on his own.

Close your eyes and think hard in your head, it looks like you don't need to meddle in anything other than to think about how to propose changes to the script. Oh, by the way, the game department can be abolished. What you need is a purely computer animation studio, not another department. Programmers can be placed in R&D - Pix has their own modeling software - and, of course, if they want to continue playing games, they can be merged into the Silicon and Nerve Keys studio.

Speaking of which, the Silicon and Nerve Key Studio should be renamed by now, if the name Snowstorm is registered because of butterfly wings, then it's fun.

Shaking his head, Adrian readjusted his mind and now had to figure out how to get the other person to accept his opinion. The current animated script is not quite what he knows, although it's also a toy story, but cowboy Woody is a pointy, sour character who only mocks people's disgusting characters, and Bass Lightyear is a simple big guy and doesn't call him that name. Although Rust believed in their abilities, the script wouldn't be popular if it were.

Let's start by pointing out the problem and then listening to their opinions. Adrian, with his chin in his hand, thought so, and now the most important thing is to cancel the contract with Dinis as soon as possible before Cales convinces Eisner. The most profitable part of an animated movie is the surroundings it derives from, just think about how much Dinesh's neighborhoods make for it. In fact, this is true for all movies, with the exception of those in the box office, where most of the profits are on tape sales.

And it turns out that Dinis signed such a tough contract with Pixar to use Pixar as a tool, and it turns out that Jobs didn't really put his mind on it. Now that Adrian has it, how can he tolerate most of his interests being taken away by Dinesh? Not to mention that I already have a mature and well-developed distribution channel. Of course, it may be slightly worse than Dinesh's, but the publicity momentum will never be lost to them, because when this animated film is finished, it should also be...

Comfortably stretched out a lazy waist, Adrian pinched his nose and adjusted his mind to management.

Ed Camore's ability is unquestionable, and while it has been Jobs who has been funding the studio, without his management and planning, Pix will not be able to reach today's scale without it.

He started out as a technologist in Dinis when he was an industrial light demon, but when he formed Pix, he realized he wasn't as good at it as Rust and others, so he simply turned to management, and it turned out pretty well. Adrian remembers very clearly that while Jobs had been the CEO of Pix in his previous life, management had always been done by Carmel.

The stunning achievements of Pix had nothing to do with its unique corporate culture, which could be built with Camor's credentials.

Ninety percent of the people in Hollywood are in Pixar if they are still dreaming and struggling no matter what kind of failure they encounter. There are too many temptations, too many people come with dreams, but eventually give in at the feet of reality. But Camor, Rust, they persisted, and although it had nothing to do with their mindset, they persisted and created a unique corporate culture that belonged only to them.

There are no superiors or subordinates, interesting workspaces, pleasant and lively exchanges, etc. It's because of this corporate culture that brilliant animated films like "Find Nemo" and "Wally" are born, which other studios can't learn, even if they give them those ideas, they can't make an animation like Pix.

So Adrian had a lot of respect for them, and the word "dream" was sometimes sacred, and while some people had mediocre dreams, such as dreaming of eating and drinking everyday, others had leaks, such as Rust, who struggled to make computer animations.

This dream represents, to a large extent, the aspiration of humankind to good things, but it is also extremely fragile and can rupture in the slightest touch. Because once you're on the road, dreams are no longer dreams, and there's nothing left but naked * *, like Adrian's plagiarism and plagiarism.

Adrian, of course, never denied his * *, although no one knew that he had copied the plagiarism, but if even he refused to admit it, or even thought it was still a dream, he could only say that the man was hypocritical. It is true that life has to be hypocritical, especially in relationships with uppermost societies, and that hypocrisy is a compulsory subject. But if a person is hypocritical to this point and doesn't even dare to admit his * *, he will only be a complete loser.

So he had a lot of respect for Rust, so he wouldn't interfere too much with Pix's development, so he would nurture them to develop and let them fulfill their dreams.

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