Jobs's suggestion to Donn to buy Apple stock is like someone giving him a pillow when he's sleepy, not to mention how comfortable it is.

Words come and go, when you're lucky, drink cold water...... It's all comfortable!

By August, "Spider-Man" had been released for 40 days, with a total box office of $440 million in North America and $620 million at the overseas box office, with a total box office of ...... $1.06 billion!

Just like when the movie was first released a month ago, the media widely predicted, after "Titanic" and "Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghost Man Menace", the third film with a global box office of more than $1 billion was born, and the director ......

It's Donn again!

Or Donn!

"Spider-Man", a superhero movie that was once very unfavored by many professionals, has also been written into film history and has become a typical representative of commercial blockbusters.

Donn has heard that in the past period, the University of Southern California School of the Arts, the American Film Institute, the Columbia University School of the Arts, Syracuse University, and Chapman University have all launched new research topics around the movie "Spider-Man".

Even New York University's Tisk School of the Arts, which has always scoffed at Hollywood, made an exception and approved $2 million to establish an academic project called "An Examination of Cinematic Rhythm and Narrative Flow Related to Spider-Man."

Done Walker's name is not only thunderous in Hollywood, which has a strong commercial atmosphere, but also after a series of successes, as a commercial film director, he has entered the textbooks and textbooks of art colleges, I have to say, this is a miracle!

Even the famous Steven Spielberg entered the art academy by relying on "Schindler's List", not commercial films such as "Jaws", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and ".".

In April, Donn suffered a series of bad luck, first being targeted by the federal government, investigated by the FBI, and then calculated by Disney and Fox, and even at that time, the Cannes Film Festival was still studying whether to cancel the entry of "Soul Shifter", and they did not want a criminal suspect's work to be shortlisted.

Time comes and goes, and in July, luck starts to come, and in August, it's good luck!

In addition to the box office success of "Spider-Man", Don Capital successfully acquired 18.45 million shares of Pixar for $190 million, becoming the second largest shareholder of Pixar after Jobs;

At the same time, at Apple's shareholders' meeting, it was formally voted to take the position of independent director on Apple's board of directors. Moreover, the shareholder voting link went through, with more than 78% of the shares, supporting Jobs's bold move to implement Apple's reform and revitalization plan;

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" has officially started filming in the United States, and with Luc Besson's connections and connections in France, he has won no less than $15 million in tax rebates for the film.

Coupled with the previous nearly $20 million in automobile, clothing, cosmetics and other brand sponsorships, the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", Don Pictures nominally invested $100 million, but the actual cost was ...... It has been reduced to $65 million.

That's the benefit of superstar joining, a modern standard commercial blockbuster.

But compared to these happy things, Bill McNick is what makes Donn truly feel good luck.

Now, Donn still has an unresolved conundrum on his mind, which is to build a complete independent film distribution division for Donn Pictures.

Bill McNick was a relief in disguise, "Donn, I'd like to recommend someone to you, who is a good fit for the company's current vacancies. ”

Don didn't think this proposal was so important at first, and joked with a smile, "Wouldn't it be your old subordinate again?"

Bill McNick's old face turned red and waved his hand in a wrench, "That's right, it's an old subordinate!"

Donn's face turned grim, "Bill, it was just a joke. As long as it is beneficial to the development of the company, even if you recruit all the old subordinates from the past, it will be fine!"

Bill McNick looked calm and said slowly: "You know, this summer Fox released a blockbuster called ".", counting the publicity and distribution costs, the total investment is close to 100 million US dollars, but the global box office is only more than 12 million US dollars, which is a miserable loss. Now that the film has been released in North America, Fox has launched an accountability mechanism to quell the anger of shareholders. ”

Don snorted coldly, "Doesn't Tom Rothman want to fight in the ring? This is what will happen to me Don En against, he's going to step down?"

Bill McNick let out a long sigh and shook his head frequently, "Tom...... It's not me, he has already had a way to deal with it in private. ”

"Huh?" Don was stunned for a moment, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, "Fight Club only lost more than $40 million, so it took down you, the old hero of Fox." "There's no pants left, and Tom Rothman can still sit on Tarzan?"

"So, the competition for power...... Or their kind of administrative work is better at it. Bill McNick had a little helplessness and relief on his face, and seemed to have figured out that he was really not wronged when he was killed by Tom Rothman.

When it comes to the content of the movie, Bill McNick prides himself on being no worse than anyone else, but when it comes to power competition...... He was really convinced by Tom Rothman.

"." The loss is so miserable, Tom Rothman can still sit comfortably in the position of chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, this ability, must be served!

Don heard some deep meaning in Bill McNick's words and tone, "You mean...... Tom Rothman has found a scapegoat?"

Bill McNick nodded heavily, "That's right!"

Don took a breath and secretly admired Tom Rothman's methods.

Fortunately, the contradiction between Down Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox is mainly in the film aspect, and the competition in this area is all done under the sun.

As long as the quality of the movie is good and the reputation is excellent, there is a market guarantee, and it is not the mastermind behind the scenes who can control it.

In this regard, Don never suffers, which is his greatest confidence.

However, in private competition...... Don was no longer sure of victory, and even suffered repeated setbacks.

For example, Mattel's classic toy Barbie.

At the end of last month, Mattel publicly announced that it had reached a partnership with Disney to create a series of dolls in the "Disney Princess" series. At the same time, Mattel announced that it will establish Mattel Animation Studio to independently develop "Barbie" cartoons.

This is tantamount to announcing to the public that Mattel refuses to cooperate with Hasbro in the strategic development of toy copyrights with Down Pictures!

They're going to fly solo, go solo, and go solo, and go to Hollywood alone!

In the eyes of many Hollywood insiders, this is a complete joke.

Without the guidance of Hollywood forces, outsiders also want to develop in this industry?

Dream!

Maybe Mattel's executives think that if they reach a cooperation with Disney, they can get help from Disney's animation department, and if so, then Mattel's executives can resign en masse.

When Donn wanted to take a stake in Nick Rodeon's channel, Viacom was afraid of raising tigers, and would rather face the risk of being eroded by Disney, so he chose to refuse.

Now, Mattel thinks Disney is defenseless?

Barbie and Disney princesses are originally in a competitive relationship and are oriented to the same consumer group. It's just the competition in the toy industry, which is just a small fraction of Disney's revenue.

If Mattel tries to make the image of Barbie appear on the big screen and compete with Disney princesses...... That's a fool's dream!

Disney has never been relentless when it comes to cracking down on its competitors.

Don just fought back against Bruce Willis, the star of "The Sixth Sense", and now he is incompatible with Disney.

If Mattel Animation Studio dares to launch a "Barbie" series of movies, Disney will definitely immediately terminate all cooperation with Mattel and suppress it with all its might.

Through a simple analysis, it is conceivable that Mattel Animation Studio will never launch a big movie, at most it will produce a few shoddy children's cartoons, or TV movies, and show them on children's channels, which will not have much influence.

Every time he thinks about this, Tang En feels that the top management of Mattel is a pity, a pity, a pity, a pity, a pity!

Holding the super IP of "Barbie", but not knowing how to develop, only caring about the meager income of the "Disney Princess" series of dolls, but not seeing the huge potential value of the "Barbie" series, it is really tyrannical!

Of course, on the other hand, this also reflects the treacherous methods and superb vision of Disney's top management.

Just licensing the "Disney Princess" series to Mattel cut off the possibility of "Barbie", a very dangerous potential opponent, entering the big screen, and smashed Donn's layout in the animation and IP industry in one fell swoop.

It can be described as killing two birds with one stone, killing two birds with one stone!

Through this incident, Don also understood a truth.

That is, if you want to defeat big companies like Disney and Fox, the small means of making small troubles will not be on the table at all, and they may have an effect in a short time, but it is impossible to shake their foundation.

In order to win in this competition, we must have stronger strength and power to seize market share by means of yang, so that they are invincible and unguardable.

It's going to be a long time.

It's good that Donn is young!

Donn shook his head, no longer thinking nonsense, but focusing on Bill McNick in front of him.

Through a simple conversation, he has understood that Tom Rothman has found a scapegoat within Fox. And this scapegoat...... happened to be valued by Bill McNick again, and wanted to be hired in Donn Pictures to play light and heat.

The loss is extremely heavy, and the person responsible must be of no low status in Twentieth Century Fox, if not Tom Rothman, at least at the vice president level.

Donn is looking forward to what kind of talent Bill McNick will bring?