The DreamWorks live-action film department, which was later Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures, has the greatest value in the past few years, and their most valuable series of commercial films in the future have already been negotiated by Robert in Rhode Island under Ronan's instructions.

Toy adaptation of movies is also a development direction in the future, and its value is far greater than that of game adaptation films.

According to Ronan's idea, Robert successfully won the film rights of two series of toys, and the two series are interrelated, and if they work well, they can also achieve linkage in the movie.

From the moment he became aware that Spielberg and Katzenberg wanted to take over the overseas distribution network of Embassy Pictures, Ronan never stopped thinking about DreamWorks.

Joining DreamWorks is definitely not on his radar, unless Spielberg and the other major shareholders are willing to cede absolute control.

This is obviously impossible.

Without absolute control, enter DreamWorks and tear up internal friction with Spielberg?

This old man seems to be a good old man, but he is definitely not easy to mess with.

Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures won't be a liability for a long time, but it looks good in the past few years, so Ronan's intention is to win the overseas distribution rights of several DreamWorks Pictures.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't get it.

Because the now-humble DreamWorks Animation Studio is his main target.

DreamWorks Pictures can only be regarded as the present, but DreamWorks Animation Studios represents the future, the future with unlimited potential.

Among them, "Shrek" is a link of great value.

Among DreamWorks Animation's concurrent projects, Shrek wasn't the primary focus, and the bigger investment in My Little Pony was the key project that Jareif Katzenberg focused on.

And "My Little Pony" is more in line with the traditional Hollywood animated film aesthetic, subverting and spoofing various classic "Shrek", even DreamWorks Animation Studios did not expect that there will be a huge success later.

It is precisely because of the success of "Shrek" that DreamWorks Animation Studio has really determined its own style, which is the truth, goodness and beauty of the spoof that Ronan summarized.

The animated feature films from DreamWorks Animation Studios are all in a similar style.

This can be regarded as finding the right way, let DreamWorks Animation Studios learn from Disney's sweet and greasy truth, goodness and beauty and Pixar Animation Studio's laughter and tears, maybe in the end it will become four different.

The most typical is Blue Sky Studios, which has never determined its own style, and animated feature films other than "Ice Age" sometimes learn from DreamWorks and sometimes Pixar, and finally make it a big deal.

A few days after talking to Katzenberg, Ronan received a phone call from Tom Cruise, who officially signed the actor contract for "Minority Report" and became one of the leading actors and producers of the film, and Tom Cruise had a detailed discussion with Spielberg after signing the contract, during which he mentioned the overseas distribution of "Minority Report" and suggested that Embassy Pictures should be the overseas distributor of the film.

Spielberg only said to think about it, and then there was no news.

Tom Cruise is, after all, a nominal producer, and he has very limited say in distribution, and Ronan can't let his friends do more.

This can only be done for the time being.

Compared with Jarev Katzenberg, who was swept away by Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg is more deeply involved with the big six companies.

If DreamWorks' live-action film division didn't plan to work with Embassy Pictures, Ronan couldn't force it, and wouldn't have made any more efforts.

He's been staring at DreamWorks Animation Studios.

On the second weekend after Ronan and Jerev Katzenberg talked, Jareven Katzenberg invited Ronan to visit DreamWorks Animation Studios and showed him Shrek, which had not yet been rendered with soundtracks, subtitles, or partial scene rendering.

After watching this film, Ronan's last concerns have also been put down, this "Shrek" may be an unfinished relationship, which is somewhat different from the one in my impression, but the main plot and main characters have not changed, and they are basically what they look like in their memory.

Shrek, the princess, the donkey, and the fire-breathing dragon have not changed.

There is also a series of spoofed and subverted famous fairy tale characters.

For example, most of Grimm's fairy tales are not original to the Brothers Grimm, but these two people have sorted out and processed and recreated them according to folk tales, which have eliminated many super large-scale things.

Ronan remembers reading a professional literary academic paper that said that when the first edition of Grimm's fairy tales was published, the stories written on it were very different from those that were circulated later.

In the original Sleeping Beauty, Talia was stabbed with a spindle, causing silver twine to penetrate all of her fingernails, ultimately killing her. Faced with Talia's death, the heartbroken father did not bury her, but built her a house in the forest and placed her body in a large bed inside, which was later discovered by a king while hunting and found Talia's body inside, but he thought that Talia was just asleep, so he defiled her......

And Snow White.

It is said that in published stories and early folklore, Bai Xue and the queen were mother and daughter, and because the king fell in love with his daughter, the queen was extremely jealous, and it eventually turned into a tragedy of mother and daughter cannibalism.

After Bai Xue ate the poisonous apple, the encounter with the prince was even more unbearable, why did the prince take a fancy to Bai Xue who died of poisoning? Still in love with Bai Xue? Eat and sleep with Bai Xue? Because the prince is a lover-corpse-fetish, and later when he did something indescribable to the corpse, his actions were too violent, making Bai Xue spit out the poisonous apple......

Of course, "Shrek" can't be so subversive and spoofed, otherwise it won't even have a chance to be released in theaters.

After watching the movie, Ronan chatted with Jared Katzenberg again, although Jared Katzenberg was still hesitating, Ronan could see that Jereif Katzenberg had some bias in his heart.

He got another piece of information from Jarev Katzenberg, that DreamWorks' team of lawyers is cautiously reviewing "Shrek" for fear that the film's spoofs and satire on Disney films, classic characters and theme parks will annoy them and sue them.

Copyright is never a trivial issue.

This reminded Ronan of one thing, in his previous life, I don't know where I read a gossip that said that the prototype of the character of the villain in the film is Disney CEO Michael Eisner.

With the feud between Jerif Katzenberg and Michael Eisner, it's not an exaggeration to do that.

Big shots can sometimes have a childish side.

If this is true, Katzenberg's psychology is not difficult to understand, as a loser, he has no way to take Michael Eisner, and there must always be an outlet for his anger.

It's a great movie for all ages, with cute cartoon characters that children are fun to watch, and the adult humor hidden in it can make adults smile.

No one, including Jarev Katzenberg, would have imagined that such a spoof and subversive film would explode so strongly at the box office after its release, and in the end it would directly become the signature of DreamWorks Animation Studios.

The asymmetry of information is Ronan's biggest opportunity.

But Katzenberg is still hesitating and considering, after all, although the investment of $60 million is not comparable to the scale of $150 million for an animated feature film from Pixar Studios, it is not a small number.

The day after his visit to DreamWorks Animation Studios, Ronan made a special trip to Glendale DreamWorks headquarters to visit Spielberg and once again asked about the possibility of overseas distribution cooperation between Embassy Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.

This time, Spielberg did not hesitate or hesitate, obviously had thought it through, and directly rejected Ronan's proposal for cooperation.

Perhaps, just as the films he made became more conservative, Spielberg became more conservative as he got older, preferring to accept the exploitation of the six major rival companies in order to maintain a stable income with less risk, rather than cooperate with the new forces rising in the circle.

With the strength of DreamWorks Pictures, as well as Spielberg's identity and status, Ronan could not force the other party to cooperate with Embassy Pictures.

Business cooperation is meant to be willing for you, otherwise let alone a win-win situation, it may end up hurting each other.

Thankfully, DreamWorks Animation is still forging ahead, and Katzenberg is ambitious.

Spielberg did not achieve his goal here, and Ronan was not discouraged, and continued to contact DreamWorks Animation Studios, as the overseas box office of "Mankind Clear Project 2" continues to rise, it will also increase Katzenberg's confidence in Embassy Pictures.

And it won't be long before "Human Erasure Plan 2" will also be released offline in many overseas markets.

News also came from the DreamWorks Animation Studio, and Katzenberg and Spielberg had a serious disagreement in an internal meeting, but DreamWorks Animation Studio was within the scope of Katzenberg's power, and Spielberg couldn't interfere for a while.

From the beginning of its establishment, there are great hidden dangers in this model of the juxtaposition of the three giants, and people's desire for money and power will gradually magnify the hidden dangers.

Just before Thanksgiving, Ronan gets the news that DreamWorks Animation Studios and Universal Pictures are in contact again, but the only thing to negotiate is "My Little Pony", an animated feature film, and "Shrek" is not included.

This is undoubtedly good news, and Jared Katzenberg is already considering Ronan's proposal.

Although it is only possible to get the overseas distribution rights, this is "Shrek"!

Having said that, there is also a way to distribute the rights in North America, after all, it won't be long before DreamWorks separates.

Ronan has been paying attention to this aspect, and the contact with Katzenberg has never been broken, but other aspects of work have to be carried out, before the arrival of Thanksgiving, "Twilight: Twilight", which was delayed due to several revisions, was officially published and released.