Disney and Marvel reached a compromise after several rounds of confrontation. Miramax, who has not yet been laid off by Disney, was merged into Marvel, and then reorganized with Summit Entertainment into a new film and television company, tied with Marvel Studios. The new Marvel company reached an agreement after compromises from all parties. Zhou Shi became Marvel's largest shareholder with a 35 percent stake, Palmat held 25 percent of the shares, and Disney 20 percent. I won't list all kinds of debts, anyway, Zhou Shi himself can't understand it. After the relisting, Marvel's market value exceeded $3.5 billion, and Zhou Shi's investment can be regarded as making a lot of money. Most of the people in the market are optimistic about this, after all, Marvel has top-level IP resources, and Miramax's distribution ability is also very good.

After the acquisition, there is a rectification, Miramax's core management has lost seriously, and Weinstein has set up his own company, in fact, Miramax's life is not easy now, if it weren't for Marvel's acquisition, it wouldn't be long before they would have laid off employees. Zhou Shi became vice chairman and vice chairman of the newly formed Marvel board of directors, Wilson was also the company's CEO, Rob Freman was appointed CEO of Miramax, and Summit Entertainment was merged into it, and the brand would be gradually replaced.

Rob Freman's first act in office was to acquire the rights to the film and television adaptation of "The Hunger Games" under Zhou Shi's instructions, which Susan Collins published last year, which attracted a large number of young readers and ranked first in the New York Times bestseller list. And Zhou Shi was impressed by the name, uh, well, mainly by his eldest cousin, who later starred as the heroine of this movie. He doesn't know who got the adaptation rights to this later, anyway, it's Miramax's now. Since then, the two most successful film and television adaptations since Harry Potter have been classified as Marvel.

Rob Freman's second thing is to release the American version of "Little Times" "Twilight Crescent", which began filming in March this year, after all, it is a youth idol drama, and the post-production is almost completed, and the distribution has become the focus. This is also the time to reflect the value of Miramax's employees, okay or not, and then how to lay off employees depends on this performance. As the pinnacle CEO, Freman is not soft on Miramax's employees.

Of course, Zhou Shi will not give everything to Freman, personnel management, how can there be other people in it. However, things are also quite complicated, Palmat is deeply rooted in Marvel, Disney's strength and influence in the entertainment film and television industry are extraordinary, although Zhou Shi has become the largest shareholder, but in order to express his respect for Palmart, he did not sit in the position of chairman, and he does not have much in Marvel, Kevin Feige can only be counted as half. Rob Freman of Summit Entertainment is also half, and it is difficult to say about other high-level executives. Kevin Feige has been promoted to join Marvel's management team, not just the CEO of Marvel Studios. In the development of Marvel's periphery, there are also Zhou Shi's people, who have developed Internet sales channels such as Amazon, and will gradually become more powerful with the development of e-commerce.

In fact, there is also a legendary film company, but he doesn't have much time to get involved in it, mainly arranging people to be in charge of finances and protect his own interests, but with the improvement of Zhou Shi's status, I believe that those people dare not harm his interests. However, he still entrusted the head of Miramax to join Legendary Pictures and act as his own spokesperson. While alleviating the conflict of this merger, while protecting their own interests, it can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone, not to mention winning the hearts and minds of the people.

Just when Zhou Shi was busy with the adjustment of Yelp's management plan and the reform of Marvel, Huawei's Ren Zhengfei and Sun Yafang and others actually went to Silicon Valley, and Li Yinan accompanied them in front of Zhou Shi, he still couldn't believe it. In 2008, Huawei's sales revenue reached US$18.3 billion, and its net profit exceeded US$1.15 billion.

The combined income of all of Zhou Shi's companies is not that much. Guoke is the best, at its peak, Android smartphones reached almost half of iPhone sales, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, and now even a third is almost one-third. In 2008, IPhone sold more than 12 million units, and Guoke mobile phone sales reached 4.5 million units, and if you add Huaxia sales, it also exceeded 5 million units. Bundled marketing has played a good role, and when it comes to smartphones, everyone thinks of the iPhone and Guoke, which are very different from brands such as Nokia and Blackberry. Apple loves and hates this, and the two companies have joined forces to impact the inherent mobile phone market, but it has weakened the brand value of the iPhone, and more importantly, the iPhone has not fully shown its market prospects, so Apple has not taken too many actions against the shell. Guoke does not emphasize performance and configuration in the market competition, and pays more attention to the user experience, and has made many changes to Android, which is also determined by Guoke's unique position. Like the HTC that appears on the market now, the price is only half that of the iPhone, and it does not have this treatment, one-ninth of it, which is also surprising.

The sales volume of nut smart machines in the domestic market exceeds one million units, and the sales volume of feature phones is about the same, only more than 1.2 million units, after all, there is no strength of traditional enterprises. The unit price of the nut flagship smart machine is about 300 US dollars, mainly because the chip and other configurations are not as good as the shell, and it is mainly in the domestic market, and the price of the flagship machine with the highest configuration does not exceed 3000 yuan soft sister coin. The price of the feature machine is relatively miscellaneous, and it is only a few hundred or thousands of yuan.

The sales volume of tomato mobile phones is okay, mainly concentrated in the price range below 500, but because the market has just been developed, and the market maturity is not as good as that of the United States, the sales volume is not as much as the shell mobile phone, and it is about 3 million units.

In addition, some domestic MP3/MP4, as well as various digital electronic products such as action cameras for the European and American markets also have good sales. Throughout 2008, Guoke Group's operating revenue exceeded $2.5 billion. Profit, well, let's not talk about profit!

The big gap between Guoke and Huawei is scary, as the boss of the telecom market, how can Zhou Shi take the initiative to visit Mr. Ren Zhengfei, and now he is a little flattered.

But fortunately, Guoke mobile phones have a great explosion in the European and American markets this year, especially after Ronaldo's endorsement, Guoke's sales in the European market have faintly exceeded the trend of the American market. The sales volume of Guoke mobile phones exceeded 5 million units in half a year, and the nut flagship phone is also ready to use Guoke's sales network to promote to the world next month. Zhou Shi is really grateful to the iPhone for cultivating the market, if it weren't for the IPhone global telecom operators to talk about, he would not have been able to take advantage of the back. Saves a lot of the cost of market education.

"Hello Mr. Ren, it's a pleasure to meet you. Zhou Shi stood at the door of the hotel to greet Ren Zhengfei.

(End of chapter)