Heads Up Hollywood

There are two major toy companies in the world today, Hasbro with "Transformers" and Mattel with "Barbie".

Tang En's ambition is very high, and he wants to package all the adaptation copyrights of the two toy companies, which is not impossible.

Both Hasbro and Mattel are traditional physical toy companies, far away from the Internet and Hollywood. Many of their orders are derivatives of Hollywood movies.

Movies are a leader in entertainment, and with the powerful influence of movies for promotion, toys can sell better!

Even Twain Pictures doesn't need to pay a penny for the copyright adaptation fee, as long as they sign a cooperation agreement. When a big movie is shot in the future, he can also receive a huge amount of sponsorship money from the toy company.

That's the good thing about Hollywood.

Of course, this is also limited to the year 2000.

In the previous life, after the movie "Transformers" was released and became popular all over the world, everyone understood the importance of toy copyright. At that time, it would not be so easy to easily obtain the copyright of the adaptation.

Hasbro, Mattel, and up-and-comer Lego have all set up their own movie studios.

Lego, in particular, produced the "The Lego Movie" series. Although the quality of the film is not high, it has achieved unprecedented success because of its strong brand effect. Because of the nature of the cartoon, the sales volume of derivative products surpassed "Transformers" in one fell swoop!

Coupled with the change of the times, the change of social atmosphere, Barbie dolls with "deformed and distorted" figures are no longer loved by people. Everyone prefers Beyoncé and Kardashian's healthy, active, and self-sufficient figures, rather than Barbie. The doll's classicist morbid aesthetics.

The conservative Mattel strategy repeatedly made mistakes, allowing Lego to reach the top and become the world's largest toy company.

Tang En has no interest in toy companies, nor does he have a good impression of Barbie dolls. All he cares about is movies, and all he cares about is the layout of Hollywood.

Animated films are the biggest source of peripheral derivative products. The future of Twain Films will definitely depend on the layout of animated films.

So the question is, who will take the lead?

Animated movies are completely different from live-action movies. It is not possible to start a project without a director and a producer.

The core of animated films is technology, especially in 2000 when the special effects technology was not yet mature enough.

Disney's hand-painted 2D cartoons are already a thing of the past, and computer-generated 3D cartoons represented by Pixar will be the mainstream direction of the animation industry in the future.

But the special effects production team is a rare commodity.

If it is just to produce a younger cartoon for children's channels, it can be crudely produced and the plot is interesting, and it does not need to cost a lot of money, but the film is different.

To establish a special effects animation team belonging to Tang En Pictures, without a soul leader, years of continuous capital investment, and training of technical personnel, it is absolutely impossible to produce high-quality animation.

Tang En had some headaches. If he had been reborn a few years earlier, he would have been able to attack Blue Sky Animation Studio directly. Although Blue Sky Animation is not as good as Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, it has a mature special effects team and professional animation talents.

When shooting "Titanic", there were several special effects shots, which were completed by the rendering CGI studio of Blue Sky Studio.

At this time, Bill McNick once again played his important role.

"Twain, I have an old subordinate."

Tang En couldn't help laughing. In Tang En Pictures, many department heads are old subordinates of Bill McNick. "Who is it?"

"Chris, Chris Meledandri."

The name that Bill McNick uttered was always familiar to Dunn.

"When I was working at Disney, he was my head of production. Later, when I came to Fox, I brought him over by the way and let him run Fox's animation department."

"Fox Animation Department?" Tang En curled his lips, "I remember that the special effects of the movie "Titan A.E." were created by Fox Animation Department. Fighting with "Spider-Man"... I think I will wait for "Titan A.E." to be released. , Fox's animation department will definitely be banned."

Bill McNick waved his hand, "The incompetence of the Fox animation department has nothing to do with Chris. It has been like this for many years, and he can't change the result. If you say another achievement of his, it will definitely be recognized by you. .”

"what?"

"It was because of his persuasion that I agreed to acquire Blue Sky Animation Studio on behalf of Fox."

Tang En's face was a little ugly.

Chris Meledandri, it turned out that this guy was trying to sabotage Dunn Films!

If he hadn't led the acquisition, then Blue Sky Studios would definitely belong to Tang En Pictures now... Huh? etc! Chris Meledandri?

Tang En suddenly opened his eyes wide, and finally figured out why the name sounded familiar.

The god of Hollywood animation movies!

There are three monuments to Hollywood animated films——

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the soul of DreamWorks Animation!

The Soul of Pixar Animation John Last!

And then there's Chris Meledandri that Bill McNick mentioned!

During his tenure at Fox, he successfully launched the Blue Sky Animation Studio and the "Ice Age" series. Later, because he disagreed with Fox's philosophy, he resigned and set up his own animation studio "Illumination Entertainment".

Illumination Entertainment's reputation is not well-known, and its brand effect is hard to compare with Dreamworks and Pixar, but the box office market of the cartoons produced by Illumination Entertainment... has crushed the entire Hollywood animation market!

"Despicable Me" series, "Minions with Big Eyes" series, "The Voice of Joy" series, "The Secret Life of Love" series...

The feature of DreamWorks animation is spoof and funny, the feature of Disney animation is sweet to cloying, the feature of Pixar animation is warm and charming, and the feature of Illumination Entertainment is cute, cute to death!

"Dig, dig him up for me at all costs!" Tang En's face showed an unconcealable excitement

Bill McNick looked at him in astonishment, "Twain, Chris is now an executive of Fox, the top person in charge of Fox Animation, and it's not easy to recruit him here."

Tang En waved his hand, "Bill, Tang En Pictures needs an animation department! I can even delegate power and set up an independent animation studio, and let him make the decisions."

Bill McNick frowned. "Chris is my old subordinate. We have been friends for more than ten years...I'll try it. I hope he is willing to experience another struggle like me."

...

Seeing that the Cannes Film Festival was about to open, the secretary had already arranged an itinerary for Tang En.

On the day of the opening ceremony of the film festival, Tang En will appear on the red carpet with the crew members of "The Girl Who Moved the Soul". In the next day or two, Tang En will meet with the judges of the film festival to meet, talk about movies, and discuss Hollywood.

Then, Tang En will join the crew of "Spider-Man" to carry out a wave of publicity in Europe.

"Spider-Man" will be released in North America on June 22. At the same time, more than 30 countries and regions around the world will be released simultaneously on this day, mainly in Europe.

The end of June is the most popular period of the entire summer, and it is also the time for major movies to compete for the market.

Universal provided 60 million US dollars for the publicity fee for "Spider-Man", and Tang En Pictures added an additional 40 million US dollars, just to build momentum, create the strongest momentum, sweep away all ghosts and snakes, and pave the way for "Spider-Man"!

At the same time, Time Warner, Comcast, and Viacom also began to make efforts to clean up the stains that Disney and Fox had tainted Dun En in the past period of time.

To Twain's surprise, Wall Street was behind it.

Today's Wall Street, affected by the bubble crisis, is dying, especially some large securities institutions and investment banks have begun to tighten their money.

Some small investment funds, like Dunn Capital, can take advantage of this opportunity to make a big short sale and make another profit while the stock market crashes.

But large organizations can't!

It's like a luxury villa is on fire, and a group of Xiaoxiao can steal things quietly, and the bosses are all focused on fighting the fire.

Because the villa is their property!

More than half of the entire Nasdaq is controlled by large Wall Street institutions. How can they be short? With others, grab your own money?

Now, the biggest job of Wall Street is to cooperate with the federal government to prevent the expansion of the bubble crisis and let the bear market reduce losses as much as possible.

Right now, the media are widely reporting negative news about investors' divorce, bankruptcy, and suicide, constantly putting pressure on the stock market, and gradually dismantling the last psychological defense line of investors.

It's like a reminder, forcing investors to sell all their stocks.

This is obviously not in the interests of Wall Street. To maintain the stability of the stock market, reducing holdings and increasing holdings is always the best method.

Therefore, the giants of Wall Street have already made up their minds to give investors confidence and inject new hope into Nasdaq at this critical juncture!

The way...has been found, and it is the hottest and most controversial figure in the United States today—Dawn Walker!

On this day, more than a dozen large investment institutions including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers all sent professional negotiators to Tang En Pictures.

In Tang En's office, more than 8 hours of negotiations took place.

No one knew the specific content of the negotiation, but it can be seen from Tang En and Wall Street's attitude afterwards that the two parties should have reached a secret agreement.

Tang En announced: In the next one to two years, Tang En Capital will continue to invest in high-tech companies. On the one hand, it will raise funds for emerging high-tech companies, and on the other hand, it will acquire a large number of high-tech company stocks in the stock market. High-tech stocks are not finished. The shock of Nasdaq is a normal response to crazy investment in recent years. High-tech stocks are still the biggest choice for increasing holdings!

At the same time, the major Wall Street newspapers and TV stations relayed Tang En's words one after another, and highly praised Tang En's miraculous means of turning the stock market into clouds and rain in the past three years.

Market analysts from large investment banks such as Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley also made high-profile statements in interviews—Dawn Walker is the stock god of the new era!

Listen to his words, there is nothing wrong with increasing your holdings of high-tech stocks!

After Comcast, Time Warner, and Viacom, the entire Wall Street helped, completely dismantling the despicable means of "moral kidnapping" by Disney and Fox, and pushing Dunn to the throne of stock god in one fell swoop.

In exchange, Tang En will take the lead as a stock god, continue to invest in high-tech industries with a high profile, and bring new hope to investors and Nasdaq...