Chapter 771: The Man Behind It
"Isn't that good news?" Mr. Li, the founder of Marvel Studios, said with some puzzlement, "Disney's share in the Chinese film market is the largest, and the explosion of the Chinese film market seems to be a good thing for us, right?"
Robe
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smiled slightly and said: "On the surface, the explosion of the Chinese film market may be a good thing for us, but from a deeper level, from a longer-term cycle, this is not a good thing. β
"Why?" Lauren, Disney's largest individual shareholder and the head of the Jobs Trust, asked.
When Jobs was alive, he was kicked out of Apple, and Jobs, who was kicked out of Apple, chose to start his own business and created the famous Pixar animation. Pixar Animation has long been a partner of Disney and Disney's biggest competitor, in order to maintain its advantage in the field of animation, in 2006, Disney acquired Pixar Animation for a sky-high price of 7.4 billion US dollars.
And $7.4 billion is a huge amount of money, and Disney can't afford to take out its deep pockets, so it discounted part of its shares to Jobs. As a result, Jobs became the largest individual shareholder of Pixar Animation, occupying 7.61% of Disney's shares.
After Jobs' death, Jobs' estate was managed by the Jobs Trust, so now the Jobs Trust is still the largest individual shareholder of Disney, and it has a lot of voice within Disney.
The trust fund is something invented by the rich in the West in order to avoid the inheritance tax of the first class, and there is no inheritance tax in Huaxia, so when Yang Xiaotian inherited Yang Jun's estate, he did not avoid taxes through the trust fund, nor did he pay the sky-high inheritance tax.
Otherwise, according to the inheritance tax collection method in the West, Yang Xiaotian will have to pay 30 billion in taxes if he inherits 50 billion, which is really a loss and vomiting blood. No one is willing to pay this kind of unjust money, and most of the wealthy people in the West have set up trust funds to smoothly pass on their inheritance to the next generation.
The current person in charge of the Jobs Trust is this Lauren, who has nothing to do and also comes to attend Disney meetings.
"Do you know why Hollywood has risen to dominate the world? It's because the North American market is the world's largest film market. We are sticking to our own film market, excluding foreign films, and finally gradually conquering the world's film market. βRobe
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said, "It has its own huge film market, this is the first film to rise, and now Huaxia has this condition." If we are not vigilant, Huaxia films will become our biggest threat in the future. Relying on the huge market of Huaxia, Huaxia films can be attacked, retreated, and defended, and they may not be able to become the next Warwick. β
Old Man Li was surprised: "This is exaggerated, isn't it? The Huaxia film market has indeed exploded, but the Huaxia film industry is too far behind us!"
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Shen Sheng said: "But sooner or later they will catch up, "Wolf Warrior 2" already has this kind of sign, although it is an action movie, it does not depend on special effects, but the level of "Wolf Warrior 2" is already the level of our A-level action movie." This shows that the progress of Chinese films is somewhat beyond our phenomenon. β
Lauren smiled: "We Hollywood conquered the world, it is a matter of the past few decades, but we have been laying out for almost a hundred years, and the number and quality of our related practitioners are far beyond that of China." If Huaxia wants to surpass us, it will be at least twenty years later, and none of us can say for sure what will happen in twenty years, and we can't control it, so there is no need to worry too much. β
Robe
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He shook his head slightly and said, "Do you know who is behind "Wolf Warrior 2"?"
The manager of Disney's marketing department said: "As far as I know, the director of "Wolf Warrior 2" is Wu Jing, Wu Jing is an excellent actor in Huaxia, and his sudden rise is really unexpected. However, when I investigated the specific situation of "Wolf Warrior 2", I found a familiar figure among the crew of "Wolf Warrior 2", that is, Ni Ruorong. β
"Ni Ruorong?"
"Ni Ruorong ......"
"Ni Ruorong? I seem to have heard this name somewhere. β
The marketing manager said: "Ni Ruorong used to be an agent in Hollywood for a period of time, and he used to be the agent of his eldest cousin, such as the "Hunger Games" series of movies, he has participated in them. Later, he returned to Huaxia and also did well. It seems that this Ni Ruorong has learned some of our Hollywood skills, and I think he is the man who dominates "Wolf Warrior 2"!"
It turns out that Ni Ruorong is the man behind "Wolf Warrior 2". β
"When Ni Ruorong was in Hollywood, he showed good potential, but unfortunately he was affected by the racial ceiling, so he chose to develop, and he was able to concoct a blockbuster movie like "Wolf Warrior 2". β
"This Ni Ruorong is the producer of "Wolf Warrior 2", but I think that he alone cannot improve the level of Chinese film industrialization. β
Disney's top executives have expressed their opinions.
"No! you're all wrong!" Robe
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But he suddenly said, "The man behind "Wolf Warrior 2" is neither Wu Jing nor Ni Ruorong, but another person! That person is Yang Xiaotian, the richest man in China!"
"Yang Xiaotian?"
"That Yang Xiaotian who invented artificial intelligence?"
"That Yang Xiaotian who made the U.S. stock market fluctuate?"
Disney's senior management actually knows Yang Xiaotian. The average richest man in China is far from such a well-known, but Yang Xiaotian is different, Yang Xiaotian's artificial intelligence technology shocked the world, so that the US stock market is still in turmoil, and Apple's market value has not yet recovered. Such a strong record has made Yang Xiaotian's popularity in the United States very high, especially Yang Xiaotian is still very young, and some media in the United States irresponsibly exaggerate Yang Xiaotian.
Ordinary people may not know Yang Xiaotian, but the elites of North America do not know Yang Xiaotian.
Elites will never miss major news about the world economy, and the birth of artificial intelligence can be said to be the most important news in 2018.
"Isn't this Yang Xiaotian engaged in artificial intelligence? Why is he still making movies?" Old Man Li said with some surprise.
"Jobs still made computers and mobile phones, and didn't invest in Pixar animation differently?" Robe
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Laughed.
Lauren shrugged.
"Yang Xiaotian is an investor in "Wolf Warrior 2", this is very important news, if there is no Yang Xiaotian, it may take 20 years for the Chinese film industry to catch up with or surpass our Hollywood, but there is Yang Xiaotian, I am worried that they will overtake in the corner!" Robe
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said, "You have all watched the sample of "Wolf Warrior 2" at my suggestion, and I will tell you a big secret that you have not seen now!"