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Chapter 194 The Last Puzzle

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I understand your mood. In fact, I am optimistic about the prospects of Blue Sky Studio, otherwise I would not have come to convince you in person, although you were still making CG shots for some advertisements or TV series at that time.I think you should know that I never do useless work. Since I acquired Blue Sky Studio and agreed to your conditions, it means that I am optimistic about you.You are different from Pixar. They are earlier pioneers, and it is inevitable to have huge gains. If you want to get the same gains, you must make greater efforts.

What's more, the two studios insist on different styles. Pixar insists on the story of being suitable for both young and old, and you believe in striving for excellence. Human time is always more precious than machines, right?Therefore, don’t worry, I have already arranged it. Just this year, I need you to do your best to create a short film animation, which can be done in eight to ten minutes. As long as you can be shortlisted for the Oscars’ best short film animation, I agree to you to create a long 3D animation with at least $50 million. If you can win the award, then the investment will be more. How about it?

The above is the promise Adrian went to Blue Sky Studio after the New Year's Eve to Weiji and several core personnel.

Anyway, Blue Sky Studio was attracted by Fox after winning the Oscar for the short film animation produced in 1998, and then he had the funds to create animations. He didn't mind repeating this process.

Pixar, who holds the copyrights in his hands, is enough to make money, and he is not in a hurry to make Blue Sky Studio generate benefits so quickly. In his plan, Blue Sky Studio will also have an important position in AC Media's Disney route.

The new year has arrived. For Adrian, more opportunities are waiting for him, and AC Media will also usher in an opportunity for expansion again. Therefore, as soon as the New Year holiday ended, he began to plan more things.

Can anyone tell me what people fear the most?Sitting in the upper head of the conference room, Adrian glanced at the senior executives attending the meeting and asked this.

No one spoke, and even Claude and Lavern, whom he discovered, looked at him with a little clarity.

Well, this question is a bit general. So, to change the question, regard humans as animals and higher animals without worry about food and clothing. What are they most afraid of and worried about?

Adrian changed his question.

No one answered, but in the end, Claude cleared his throat: It's still too general, Ed, maybe you can give more detailed conditions.

If you have more details, it means you will tell you the answer clearly.Adrian shook his head and looked to the rear right of himself: Can you tell me the answer, Charlie?

Sitting there recording the situation, Charlize raised his head in surprise, looking at Adrian with surprise, and Adrian gave her an encouragement smile.

Well... Charlize finally spoke after thinking carefully. I think, what you should be talking about is loneliness, right?

That's right, loneliness!

Adrian snapped his fingers and looked at the executives here again. As social animals, after meeting their survival needs, what people are most worried about and afraid of is loneliness!

After pausing for a while, after they digested his words, he spoke again: In my opinion, there are two types of loneliness. One is that it is separated from society for various reasons and abandoned in primeval forests or uninhabited islands.Previously, DreamWorks hoped that I could direct a movie starring Tom Hanks, but I declined it, and that movie told such a story.This should be a terrible experience. There is no steak, no TV, no baseball, no life and entertainment facilities. The most important thing is that no one talks to you. If you don’t insist on exercising, maybe you won’t even say anything in a few years. Even Robinson has to be with him on Friday, which shows the terribleness of loneliness.

But this is just the first type, and there is also a kind of loneliness that is even more terrifying. The first type is passively separated from society due to accidental passive separation, while the latter type is actively abandoned by society. Simply put, no one cares when you are alive, no one cares when you die!

This is why there are so many people who want to be Miss Beauty, Bodybuilder, Cheerleader, Four-point Five, Actor, Talk Show Host, etc., because only in this way can you show your uniqueness and show your uniqueness and feel that you are outstanding and valuable!

However, for a long time, there have always been few channels to show themselves. Although there are beauty pageants in an ordinary town and there are more and more talent shows, there are still very few relative to the overall population base.

More people seem to be mediocre, and no one cares except their relatives, even though they do have many special things.

But now it’s different. A flat world has appeared in front of them. In this world, they can vent everything about themselves, show everything about themselves, and use various methods to attract other people’s attention!

Yes, this is the Internet!

Psychologists once did a test that if a person wears a mask that no one can recognize, he will do everything he wants to do without restraint.That's the case with the Internet. Have you seen the book "The New Yorker" in my hand, which was released in 1994?No one on the Internet knows that you are a dog, a gentleman who follows all kinds of etiquette in life, and may be a shrew on the Internet.A villain who is in life is also a calm thinker on the Internet.There are endless possibilities in the Internet. It is both illusory and real. This is not a brand new media channel, but it runs and fermentes far faster than other media. Look at the websites we hold, Yahoo, Amazon, imdb, etc., all of which are the same, and there will be more in the future. Whoever can use this to show people’s desire to promote and influence will be able to lead in the upcoming 21st century!

This is not the first time Adrian has emphasized the importance of the Internet, but before, I have talked about this with the company's executives in private, and it is the first time I have been told at the meeting.

This is very necessary because in the early 21st century, people showed much more selves than in the past decade. After all, as long as they dare to be shameless, anyone can become a celebrity in the Internet age.

Since he has finally become a newcomer in the media industry after several calculations, if he does not seize this opportunity to further expand into a big shot, then Adrian will definitely be the stupidest person in the world, and the first opportunity is a blog.

Why not mention the...blog you mentioned at the meeting just now?He asked after the meeting, returning to Cloud's office.

I have always been responsible for the tone. You are here to arrange the specific work. Since you haven’t mentioned it, why should I mention it?Adrian spread his hands and said.

Come on, everyone knows that as long as you don’t talk about these things, I won’t talk about them either.Claude rolled his eyes and told me quickly what other ideas are you trying to do.

OK OK OK, for two reasons.Adrian sat down. First of all, I need them to figure it out by themselves. I can't always say whatever I say, they just do what they do, right?

Hey, why does this sound like it's about me?Claude suddenly shouted, Adrian ignored him and continued: Secondly, I can't slap myself in the face, right?

Slap yourself in the face?

You forgot, two weeks ago, on New Year's Eve, at a cocktail party in Hearst's mansion, they discussed in private.

You mean, news joint website?But this and...well, I get it.

Looking at Claude's clear look, Adrian shrugged.

In fact, before the Internet was fully formed, there was already such casual expression on the Internet, but there was never a fixed form.

Since the blog can publish the author's mood text, it can also be used to record news and various information. Compared with ordinary submission methods, the blog is obviously much faster. If you add a sharp search engine...

The bigwigs in any industry only have two choices for emerging things. One is to suppress them and quickly absorb them while maintaining their own advantages; the other is to find ways to participate as much as possible and strive to get a share of it.

The former applies to the situation when the other party is weak, while the latter applies to the situation where the other party already has a certain scale.

If AC Media launches blog services, it will undoubtedly belong to the latter, but how to tie some big players, especially the big players of traditional media, is quite skillful.

What's more, I just agreed to the news joint website and immediately made such a thing again, so it's a bit ugly.

Anyway, we have cooperated well with Hurst Group and Newhouse Group, so it is not a bad thing to do more well.

Let's wait and see, and there are still many things that have not been taken out.Adrian thought with satisfaction, and then mentioned another topic: How is Sigram over there.

Without any suspense, they had already let go, and they knew very well that blind expansion had made them feel a little overwhelmed.

Claude laughed, but then his face became full. However, the funds in Southeast Asia cannot be misappropriated for the time being. In the past few months, Soros has prepared almost the same and will soon be attacked by Indonesia. So if Seagram makes a decision, we must raise funds.

It doesn’t matter. Even if I only have 35% of the shares in my hands, I can still hold the power of the company, and I don’t even need that much. As long as the two of us have 35% combined, it’s also OK.

Adrian waved his hand indifferently, but his eyelids twitched twice when he heard that he would stab the Indonesian knife.

Assure me, take the Universal.He looked at him and said.

OK, guaranteed to take the Universal.Claude laughed.

Yes, the final puzzle of the movie is not MGM, not Columbia, nor Warner Bros., but Universal Movie!

Needless to say, Colombia will not let go, even if the losses will only improve partially.

It is even more impossible for Warner. Warner Group is already a behemoth. It is impossible to take it under its command unless it is merged and acquired. How could Adrian be willing to do so?

As for MGM, the glory of the original moment has long disappeared. It can be seen from Kirk Kerkorian selling it several times and buying it back that it may be a money laundering activity. No matter what, Adrian and Crowder are still decent people in the circle, so how could they have too much contact with these people, even if they have been whitewashed.

So Universal became the best choice. As early as the late 1980s, there was another Japanese company that took over Hollywood with Sony, which was to acquire Universal Panasonic.

Unlike Sony, Panasonic retained the management of Universal and gave considerable autonomy, but the cultural differences were not so easy to eliminate, and it expanded too quickly and was somewhat indigested. In addition, Universal's benefits were not very good, so it was sold to the Sigram Group early.

Speaking of which, there are also Adrian's contributions. Originally, Universal had several good works in the early 1990s, but because Adrian made a move, "Schindler's List" was gone, and "Jurassic Park" also became a joint investment. Universal's revenue was much lower than that of the previous life, so Panasonic sold it one year in advance.

The Sigram Group, which took over, is famous for brewing wine. After taking over, she also ambitiously wanted to establish its own media empire. Unfortunately, the gap between brewing wine and media is too big. In addition, they quickly fell into trouble with the variable Adrian, and Spielberg, who has a good relationship with the world, also formed a DreamWorks, and Sigram began to seriously consider the possibility of taking action.

And this is the opportunity for AC Media. You should know that Universal Pictures is also the second oldest film company in Hollywood history. Although it has become a second-rate film company for a while, it still occupies one of the seven major film companies.

Especially in the past decade, ownership changes every few years, but under the leadership of CEO Long Mayer, he still maintains his position as a big film company, especially when Adrian disrupts the situation, he has to be said to be a very powerful figure.

Having history in Hollywood, having a place in MPAA, and having good production of movies and TV series. Although the film library is not as good as Miramax, most of them are high-quality movies, and there are acquaintances to help contact, and there are no other unclean forces. This is simply tailor-made for AC Media!

The only problem is that Global's overseas issuance is relatively bad, but there is nothing perfect in this world. Besides, this can be made up for it. If it weren't for Panasonic's lack of funds when he sold it, Adrian might have taken action at that time.

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

After receiving the promise of Claude and formally raising the importance of the network at a high-level meeting, Adrian immediately focused on the end of the Christmas-New Year period. After all, although the prospects are well planned, it will take time to complete them.

So far, "The Hour of Killing" has officially broken the box office mark of 100 million yuan in North America, but it can only stop there. For such a movie, it is already a pretty good result, giving Kate's comeback a good start.

As for "The End of the World", it is still moving towards 200 million, but the prospects are not very optimistic. It is still unknown whether it can exceed 200 million. However, if it counts as the box office in Shanghai, at least it is no problem to recover the cost.

However, "Titanic" is still firm in theaters. Although the number of theaters has shrunk too much compared to the past few months, it is still persisting.

Film critics all marveled that this is a miracle. Even the most harsh guy has to admit that this movie is at least unparalleled in commercial terms.

So far, the box office of Da Ship in North America has exceeded 700 million, while the box office of overseas markets has reached 1.2 billion!

After several twists and turns in China at the end of the year, it also achieved a box office of nearly 400 million yuan. As expected, the third generation project also wanted to see how capitalist countries promoted themselves.

Now everyone around the world who pays attention to the big ship has stretched their necks and is waiting. I want to know whether "Titanic" can reach an unprecedented height of 2 billion yuan in the world before it is offline.

Sure enough!This is Adrian's answer. Although he is very clear that the ship has broken the records in his memory, he still has great hope of achieving a box office of $2 billion worldwide.

Tell the bosses of the theater that as long as the big ship is kept online for a period of time, as long as that time is spent, I can increase the share ratio to 70%. They should know which time it is!

Adrian said to Lafone.

If it weren't for the fact that this is too obvious and ostentatious, it wouldn't be difficult for him to spend 20 million out of his own pocket to push the 2 billion mark.

Look, if you really can't hold on, it doesn't matter even if you are so lucky.Adrian thought so.

It goes without saying which time to last. Then we will know that in mid-January 1998, it was already the end of the Christmas and New Year period, and the third of the three previously prepared movies was held at a premiere.

The reason why it will be held at this time is because the movie is not suitable for release in popular schedules.

This is indeed a good movie. When its main highlight is nostalgia, it is destined that there will not be many people who like it. After all, the main consumer groups in the film market are around 18 to 25 years old, so it would be very bad if this movie was put into a popular schedule.

When deciding on the release date, a manager assistant from Bosworth took the opportunity to give Adrian his opinion.

Adrian accepted his opinion with relief and promoted him. Although he didn't care much about the movie and was scheduled to be released at the end of the year mainly to win the Oscars, the box office data was too ugly and not good.

As for whether the premiere will lose the qualification to compete for the Oscar in January, oh, don’t forget the requirements of the Film Academy. "Los Angeles Secret" was previewed in Los Angeles as early as Christmas, which is fully in line with it.

However, at the premiere, Adrian walked across the red carpet with Zeta Jones, so as soon as he appeared, reporters on both sides couldn't wait to press the shutter and there was something to write again.