After attending the premiere of Chicago, John spent two days in Los Angeles.

On the first day, he went to Crown Studios and arranged some tasks, although the current Crown is nominally a studio, but the scale is already like a small film and television company, with a professional production team, a publicity team, more than a hundred theaters overseas, and also owns the copyright of "Friends".

"Friends" has become an American drama, this TV series has brought NBC more than 200 million in revenue, a proper cash cow, I don't know how many people are snorting about its copyright, but John will not sell it.

After arranging the work of Crown Studios, John then went to the new line to give Devin Morgan the script to be filmed on the new line this year, and discussed some work by the way.

"John, you're just in time, I have a movie from China here for you to see if it's worthwhile. ”

"What movie?"

"The port Golden Harvest Film and Television brought it is called "Red Fan District". ”

"Red Fan Zone!"

John was a little surprised to hear the name, he had seen all of Chen Long's movies, and "Red Fan Zone" was no exception, and "Red Fan Zone" was Chen Long's film that entered the North American market.

In fact, in the 80s, Golden Harvest intended to promote Chen Long to the world, so he invited Hollywood directors to make several movies, but these movies did not cause a sensation, until "Red Fan Zone" appeared and won a box office of 32.3 million US dollars, Chen Long knocked on the door of Hollywood.

Then John and Devin Morgan went to the screening room to watch "Red Fan Zone", which was the first time John had seen Chen Long's movie since he was born.

It's still a familiar figure, a familiar taste, or the way it looks in my memory, and it hasn't changed at all.

"This movie is good, the box office should be within three to forty million dollars, and you can pay $8 million to buy and distribute it, more than 8 million is not cost-effective. After watching the movie, John gave a suggestion, although "Red Fan Zone" is a big hit, but there is not much profit, 8 million to buy, box office 32.3 million, excluding the sharing and distribution costs of the theater, there is only 10 million left, and after removing the cost of purchase, you will make one or two million dollars of hard money. plus the videotape and copyright authorization, it will earn about 10 million at most.

"Understood, I'll have people talk to them. Devin Morgan listened to John's words.

However, after watching "Red Fan Zone", John suddenly remembered Chen Long's "Rush Hour", the return of this series is not bad, you can invest in filming, and when the book is written next year, I will find Chen Long to shoot, so that the new line can have one more series copyright.

After arranging the work, John returned to the Purple Star Manor.

The next day, he went to the Hilton Hotel to meet Jobs.

The madman had returned to Apple, but just when he was about to save Apple by himself, he found that it was difficult, the company's largest shareholder was against him everywhere, making him powerless, and if he wanted to save Apple, he had to drive out the major shareholder, and if he wanted to get rid of the major shareholder, he had to buy back the equity, so he asked John to meet.

"Hello Director Chris Deng!"

"Hello President Steve Jobs!"

John shook hands with Jobs and sat opposite each other.

"I didn't expect Director Chris Deng to do a big business, and he is actually Apple's largest shareholder!" When Jobs interviewed the major shareholder, he learned that the major shareholder of Apple turned out to be just a spokesperson, and the major shareholder was someone else, and he was also a person he was very familiar with.

"That's just a ticket...... It's just a ticket, and directing is my job. John smiled and took a sip of his coffee.

"Since it's a ticket, does Director Chris Deng intend to sell his shares? I'm willing to buy it back at twice the market price. "If Jobs wants to reform, he must take back John's shares, otherwise how can he reform if he runs into a wall everywhere.

"No problem! It's just that I don't want money, I'm not short of money, and I'm not interested in money. ”

"And what do you want?"

"You give me Pixar Animation Studios, and I'll give you the Apple back. Of course, Pixar Animation Studios is worth more than my Apple shares, so I'm making up $200 million for you. ”

John gave Jobs a difficult problem, Apple and Pixar Animation Studios are one son and the other is a stepson, and now the two can only save one, it depends on whether Jobs chooses his own son or stepson.

On the other side, Jobs heard John's words, his whole brow was tightened, and the palms and backs of his hands were full of meat, such a decision was not easy to make, and looking at John's determined look, Jobs suddenly had some doubts in his heart whether John's purchase of Apple's shares had been thinking about his Pixar animation studio many years ago, if this was the case, it would be too terrifying.

"I'm offering three times the market price?" Jobs raised the purchase price.

But John didn't buy it, and just because someone else gave Jobs face doesn't mean that John will give it too. "Mr. Jobs, if that's the case, there's no need to talk about it, if you want Apple, just take Pixar Animation Studios in exchange, I'm adding up to $100 million, you can call me if you think about it, if it's still something to buy with money, don't contact me, I'm busy." John got up and left without looking back.

It doesn't matter if Jobs uses Pixar to exchange for Apple, John doesn't care, Hollywood is not only Pixar, an animation company, without Pixar, John can buy other companies, as for Apple, let it continue to rot! It's only a few hundred million dollars, just spend money to watch a show, and it can also restrict Apple's development and reduce a strong rival for IBM, which is cost-effective.

After John left, Jobs sat alone in the hotel and thought about it all afternoon, and then called John, and he finally chose to kiss his son.

After getting Pixar, John immediately asked Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to acquire the shares of MGM Pictures, and the crown has MGM with global distribution qualifications, and it will be one of the eight major films and television at that time.

Of course, after returning Apple to Jobs, John called IBM back in New York and asked how the desktops and iPods developed by IBM were doing.

When Jobs returned to Apple, he immediately got Bondi Blue's iMac.

In 1997, Apple launched the Bondi Blue all-in-one iMac, and it turned over.

But in this life, it will be difficult for Jobs to turn over!

John has asked IBM to develop an all-in-one machine, and it's exactly like the Apple iMac, and it's not just Bondi blue, but blueberry, grape purple, orange orange, lime green, strawberry and translucent.

These colors were not used until the next generation of iMacs in 1998 and 1999.

Now that IBM has used it first, Apple can only reinvest in research and development.

............

Back in New York, John stayed at home again to continue writing the script, the script for "Independence Day 2" has been completed, and now he wants to create his own film for this year.

John decided to make a sci-fi film this year.

An epoch-making science fiction film with rich philosophies.

"A young cyber hacker (Neo) stumbles upon the seemingly normal world that is actually controlled by a computer artificial intelligence system called the Matrix, and all people are ...... like grazing animals. ”