King of Hollywood

Chapter 194: The Last Puzzle

“I understand your mood, and in fact, I look forward to Blue Sky Studios, otherwise I wouldn't have personally persuaded you, even though you were still doing CG shots for some commercials or TV shows. I think you should know that I've never done anything for nothing, and since I bought Blue Sky Studios and I agreed to your terms, that means I'm watching over you. Unlike Pix, you are the earlier pioneers, and it is inevitable that you will have a huge gain, and you will certainly have to work harder to get the same gain. [Search latest updates all over]

Besides, the two studios adhere to different styles, Pixar insists on stories that are appropriate for all ages, and you believe in excellence, and human time is always more precious than machines, right? So, no rush, I've arranged it, and just this year, I need you all to work hard on a short animation, eight to ten minutes, and as long as you can get around to Oscar's best short animation, agree to make a long 3D animation, invest at least 50 million dollars, and if you win the prize, there will be more investment. What do you say? ”

These are the promises that Adrian made to Waiki and several core people at Blue Sky Studios after the year. Anyway, Blue Sky Studios was not interested in repeating the process until Fox saw and acquired the best Oscar short animation for short animation produced in '98 and then got the money to make the animation.

Pix, who holds all the surrounding copyrights in his hands, makes enough money and hastens to get Blue Sky Studios to produce as quickly as possible, and Blue Sky Studios will also have an important place in his plan to take the Disney route through AC Media.

With the new year coming, for Adrian, more opportunities awaited him, and AC Media would welcome another opportunity to expand, so as the New Year's holiday came to an end, he began to plan more things.

“Who can tell me what people are most afraid of?” Sitting at the top of the conference room, Adrian swept through the high-level audience and asked.

No one said anything, even Claude and LaVerne, who had been dug out by him, looked at him with a blind eye.

“Well, the question is a bit general, so in a different way, think of people as animals —— higher animals —— in a worry-free situation, what are they most afraid of?” Adrian changed the question.

Still no one answered, and finally Claude cleared his voice: “It's still too general, Ed, maybe you can give more details. ”

“A little more detail would be tantamount to telling you the answer.” Adrian shook his head and looked behind his right: “Can you tell me the answer, Charlie? ”

Charlize, sitting there recording the situation, raised his head with dismay and looked at Adrian's eyes filled with surprise, while Adrian gave her an encouraging smile.

“Hmm...” Charlize finally opened his mouth after careful reflection, "I think you should be talking about loneliness, right? ”

“Yes, loneliness," Adrian shouted, and looked at the executives again, "as a social animal, people were most worried about loneliness when they met their survival needs."

He stopped for a moment, and after they had digested his words, he said, "In my opinion, there are two kinds of loneliness, one for various reasons, isolated from society, abandoned in pristine forests or deserted islands. Was DreamWorks hoping I could lead by Tom? Hanks starred in the movie, but I was euphemistic, and that was the story that the movie told. This should be a horrible experience, no steak, no TV, no baseball, no life and entertainment facilities, most importantly, no one to talk to, if you don't insist on exercising, maybe in a few years you won't even talk, even Robinson will have to be with you on Friday, so you can see the horror of loneliness.

But it's just the first one, and there's a loneliness that's even scarier, the first one because it's accidentally passive and socially isolated, and the second one is socially motivated to abandon you. In short, you're alive, nobody cares. Nobody cares. That's why so many people want to be Miss Beauty, Mr. Kenmei, cheerleader, five quarters, actors, talk show hosts, etc., because that's the only way to show that you're different, that you're different, that you'll feel great and valuable.

Over time, however, there have always been few avenues to showcase oneself, although there have been beauty contests in an ordinary town, and although there have been more and more shows of various kinds, they are still very few in relation to the population as a whole. More people seem busy, and no one cares except their loved ones, even if they do have a lot of special places. But now it's different, a flat world has appeared to them, where they can unleash everything, show everything, attract people's attention in every way. Yes, that's the Internet.

Psychologists have done a test, and if a person wears a mask that no one can recognize, he does everything he wants. That's how it is on the internet. See this New Yorker I got in '94? No one on the Internet knows that you are a dog, a gentleman who observes all kinds of etiquette in his life, and may be a slut on the Internet. A villain in life, also a calm thinker on the Internet. There are endless possibilities in the web, it's both fictional and real, it's not a brand new media channel, but it runs and ferments much faster than any other media, look at the websites we hold in our hands, Yahoo, Amazon, imd

And so on, and so on, and there will be more in the future, who can take advantage of this, who can use people's desire to show themselves, who can propagate to influence, who can shake the lead in the coming twenty-first century. "

This is not the first time Adrian has emphasized the importance of the network, but it was the first time he had said this to executives in private and in companies. This is necessary because in the early years of the twenty-first century, people have shown much more self than they have for over a decade, and after all, anybody can be a celebrity of the online age if they dare not to be cheeky.

Now that several calculations are so easy to become new to the media industry, Adrian would certainly be the stupidest person in the world if he didn't seize this opportunity to expand further into a giant crocodile, and his first opportunity would be blogging.

“Why didn't you mention the blog you were talking about at the meeting?” After the meeting, he went back to Claude's office and asked.

“I've always been in charge of the tone, you arrange specific work, if you didn't mention it, why should I?” Adrian spread out his hands.

“Come on, everybody knows that as long as you don't say these things, I won't.” Claude gave him a white eye, "quickly tell me what the hell you're up to. ”

“Okay, well, for two reasons," Adrian sat down, "first of all, I need them to mock themselves, and they can't just keep doing what I say, can they? ”

“Hey, how does that sound like I'm talking?” Claude suddenly screamed, Adrian ignored him and went on: “Second, I can't slap myself, can I? ”

“Slap yourself? ”

“You forget, two weeks ago, on New Year's Eve, at a liquor party in Hearst's mansion, what they discussed privately. ”

“You mean, the News Union website? But this and... okay, I get it. ”

Adrian shrugged her shoulders, looking at Claude's clear face. In fact, as long ago as the Internet was not fully developed, there was already such a random expression on the Internet, but there was always no fixed form. Since blogs can publish the author's emotional text, they can also be used to record news and information. It is obvious that blogs are much faster than ordinary postings, if you add a sharp search engine...

Large crocodiles in any industry will have only two options for dealing with emerging things. One is to suppress them and quickly absorb them in situations where they maintain their strengths; the other is to find ways to get involved as much as possible and try to split a cup from them. The former applies when the other party is weak, while the latter applies when the other party already has a certain scale.

while AC Media undoubtedly belongs to the latter if it launches blogging services, there is a considerable need for skill in how to bind certain giant crocodiles, especially those from traditional media. Not to mention, I just promised the news joint website, and I immediately got this thing out again, and it was too ugly to eat. Anyway, working well with the Hearst Group and the Newhouse Group would be better prepared for something less bad.

We'll see, and there's a lot of stuff that hasn't come out yet. Adrian thought with satisfaction and then mentioned another topic: "What about Sigram? ”

“There's no suspense, it's loosened up, and they know that blind expansion has overwhelmed them a little," Claude Haha laughed, but with a full face, "but the money in South-East Asia can't be misappropriated for the time being, and Soros has been almost ready in the past few months, so Indonesia will knife soon, so if Sigram makes a decision, we have to finance it. ”

“It doesn't matter, even if I have only 35 shares, I can still hold the power of the company, and I don't even need that much, as long as we have 35 together.” Adrian waved carelessly, but jumped twice in the eye when he heard "would knife Indonesia”.

“Promise me you'll take the Globe.” He watched him say that.

“Well, promise to take the Globe.” Claude Haha laughed.

Yes, the final puzzle of the movie, not MGM, not Colombia, not the Warner brothers, but the Universal movie Colombia, without saying, Sony will not let go, even if the loss is only partially improved. Warner is even more unlikely. The Warner Group is already huge. Unless it is a merger or acquisition, it is unlikely that it will be taken down. How could Adrian afford it?

As for MGM, the scenery was long gone, from Kirk? Khorian sold and bought it back several times. It can be seen that Adrian and Claude are decent people in the circle, and how can they have too much contact with these people, even if they have already been cleansed?

So Universal became the best option, as early as the late '80s, when Sony joined the Hollywood Japanese company, and there was another one, Panasonic, which acquired Universal. Unlike Sony, Panasonic retained the management of the globe and gave it considerable autonomy, but cultural differences were not so easily eliminated and expanded too quickly, some indigestion, and the benefits of the globe were not very good, so it was sold to the Sigram Group earlier.

In the early 1990s, Adrian had a number of good works, but because of Adrian's involvement, the Schindler List disappeared, Jurassic Park became a joint investment, and global revenues were considerably lower than at the same time in previous lives, and Panasonic sold them a year earlier.

The Sigram group that took over, famous for its winemaking, was also ambitious to create its own media empire, but unfortunately the gap between winemaking and the media was too wide, and with the same blind expansion as Panasonic, they soon found themselves in a dilemma, not to mention the endless stirring of the Adrian variable, and Spielberg, who had good global relations, had set up a dream factory, and Sigram had begun to seriously consider the possibility of taking it out.

And this is the opportunity for AC Media, you know, Universal Film is Hollywood's second-largest movie company, and although it has been a second-rate movie company for some time, it still occupies one of the top seven movie companies. Especially in the last decade or so, ownership has changed every few years, but in the CEO Lang? Led by Meyer, he still holds the position of a big movie company, especially in the presence of Adrian Mixers, and he has to be described as a very powerful figure.

There is a history in Hollywood, there is a place in MPAA, and movies and TV shows are well made, although the movie library is not as good as Miramax's, but mostly high-quality movies, and there are acquaintances who can help connect, and there is nothing unclean about it. The only problem that is really tailored for AC media is that global overseas distribution sucks, but there is nothing perfect in the world, and this can be remedied for, if it wasn't for Panasonic selling it, Adrian might not have had enough money, maybe he would have done it by then.

But it's not too late, and it might be more appropriate.

With Claude's commitment and the formal presentation of the importance of the network at the high-level meeting, Adrian immediately turned his attention to the end of the Christmas-New Year, after all, the prospects were well planned, but it would take time to complete.

So far, Killing Moments has officially closed the billion-dollar box office in North America, but it can only stop there. For such a film, it's already a pretty good achievement, and it's a good start to Kate's comeback. As for "The End of the World", it is still moving towards 200 million, but the outlook is not very optimistic. It is still unknown whether 200 million can be broken, but if you count the overseas box office, at least cost recovery is fine.

The Titanic, on the other hand, is still sturdy on the estate, although it has shrunk far too much compared to the number of estates in the past few months. It was a miracle that movie critics were amazed, and even the toughest guys had to admit that the film was at least commercially unparalleled.

So far, 700 million has passed for big ships in North America, and the overseas box office reached the end of 1.2 billion years. After a few waves in China, we also got a box office with an incredibly close to 400 million yuan. The third generation will also have to look below to see how the capitalist countries promote themselves, as expected.

Now people around the world who care about big boats have their necks stretched waiting to know if the Titanic can reach the height of an ancient man like the world's 2 billion box office before it goes offline.

“Absolutely." That's Adrian's answer, and while he knows full well that the big ship has broken his memory, there's no better hope of getting a $2 billion box office around the world.

“Tell the owners of the estate that as long as the big boat stays online for a while, as long as I pass through that time, I can scale it up to 70, and they should know which time it is," Adrian said to LaVerne.

It would not have been difficult if it had not been for the fact that it was now too obvious and shaky for him to spend 20 million dollars on pushing the two billion mark.

Look, if it really doesn't hold up, it doesn't matter if it shakes. Adrian thought so.

You don't have to say what time it's going to last, and you'll know that it's the end of Christmas - New Year's Eve, in mid-January of '98, and the third part of the three films that were prepared came late for the premiere. The reason it's happening at this time is because the movie is not suitable for showing in popular slots.

“This is a really good movie, when its main viewing point is nostalgia, it is doomed not to particularly like the crowd. After all, the main consumer in the movie market is around the age of 18 to 25, so it would be terrible to put this movie in the hot spot.” In deciding when to show, an assistant manager in Bosworth seized the opportunity to present his views to Adrian.

Adrian was pleased to accept his opinion and to promote him, although he did not care much about the film, which was scheduled to be shown at the end of the year mainly to impact Oscar, but the box office data were too ugly and not good. As to whether scheduling the premiere in January would disqualify you from competing for the Oscars, oh, don't forget that the L.A. Secret was spotted in Los Angeles as early as Christmas, and it fits perfectly.

But at the premiere, Adrian walked past the red carpet with Zeta Jones, so the reporters on both sides couldn't wait to close the shutter and have something to write about...