There are two big toy companies in the world today, Hasbro, which owns "Transformers", and Mattel, which owns "Barbie".

Don had big ambitions and wanted to package all the adaptation rights for both toy companies, which was not impossible.

Hasbro and Mattel are both traditional brick-and-mortar toy companies, far away from the Internet and Hollywood, and many of the orders in their hands are derivatives from Hollywood movies.

Movies are entertainment leaders, and with the strong influence of movies to promote, toys can sell better!

Even Don Pictures does not need to pay a penny of copyright adaptation fees, as long as the cooperation agreement is signed. When you shoot a big movie in the future, you can also get a huge amount of sponsorship from the toy company.

That's what's good about Hollywood.

Of course, this is only for 2000.

If it was placed in the previous life, after the movie was released and became popular all over the world, everyone understood the importance of toy copyright, and at that time, it would not be so easy to easily get the adaptation copyright.

Hasbro, Mattel, and up-and-comer Lego have all set up their own movie studios.

In particular, the series produced by Lego, although the quality of the movie is not high, has achieved unprecedented success because of the strong brand effect. Because it is the nature of cartoons, the sales volume of derivatives has exceeded in one fell swoop!

Coupled with the change of the times and the change of social atmosphere, the "deformed and distorted" Barbie doll is no longer loved by people, and everyone prefers the healthy, positive, and self-autonomous figure of Beyoncé and Kardashian, rather than the pathological aesthetic of classicism of Barbie.

Repeated mistakes in the conservative Mattel strategy allowed Lego to the top and became the world's largest toy company.

Don has no interest in toy companies, no affection for Barbie, all he cares about is movies, and all he cares about is Hollywood.

Animated films are the biggest source of peripheral derivatives, and the future of Tangen Pictures must be indispensable to the layout of animated films.

So the question is, who will take the lead?

Animated films are completely different from live-action films, and you don't have to have a director or producer to start the project.

The core of animated films is technology, especially in the year 2000, when special effects technology was not yet mature.

Disney's hand-drawn version of 2D cartoons is already in the past, and computer-generated 3D cartoons represented by Pixar are the mainstream direction of the animation industry in the future.

But the special effects production team is a scarce commodity.

If you just make a young cartoon for a children's channel, you can make it shoddy and have an interesting plot, and it doesn't cost most of the cost at all, but the movie is different.

If you want to establish a special effects animation team belonging to Tangen Pictures, without a soul leader, years of continuous capital investment, and the training of technical personnel, you will definitely not be able to make high-quality animation.

Don has a bit of a headache, if he had been reborn a few years earlier, he would have been able to attack Blue Sky Animation Studio directly. Although Blue Sky Animation is not as good as Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, it has a mature special effects team and professional animation talents.

When I first filmed, there were several special effects shots, which were done by Blue Sky Studio's rendering CGI studio.

At this time, Bill McNick once again played an important role.

"Don, I have an old subordinate. ”

Don En smiled dumbly, the current Donn Films, many department heads, are Bill McNick's old subordinates, "Who?"

"Chris, Chris Meledandri. ”

Bill McNick pronounced the name, and Donn always felt familiar.

"When I was working at Disney, he was my head of production, and then I came to Fox and brought him over and put him in charge of Fox Animation. ”

"Fox Animation?" Donn pouted, "I remember that the special effects of this movie were made by Fox Animation." and fight in the ring...... I think that when it is released, Fox's animation department will definitely be banned. ”

Bill McNick waved his hand, "The incompetence of Fox's animation department has nothing to do with Chris, it has been like this for many years, and he can't change this result." If there is another achievement of his, it will definitely be recognized by you. ”

"What?"

"It was his persuasion that I agreed to buy Blue Sky Animation Studios on behalf of Fox. ”

Don's face was a little ugly.

Chris Meledandley, it turns out that this guy is demolishing Donn Pictures!

If he hadn't led the acquisition, Blue Sky Studios would definitely belong to Down Pictures now...... Huh? Wait! Chris Meledandri?

Don's eyes widened suddenly, and he finally figured out why the name was so familiar.

O god of Hollywood animated films!

Hollywood's animated films have three monuments -

DreamWorks Animation's soul Jeffrey Katzenberg!

Pixar Animation's soul John Rast!

And then there's Chris Meledandley mentioned by Bill McNick!

This great god, during his tenure at Fox, successfully launched Blue Sky Animation Studios and series, and later left his job because of disagreements with Fox's philosophy and established his own animation studio "Illumination Entertainment".

The name of Illumination Entertainment is not well-known, and the brand effect is difficult to compare with DreamWorks and Pixar, but the cartoons produced by Illumination Entertainment have a ...... box office market Crushed the entire Hollywood animation market!

Series, series, series, series......

DreamWorks animation is characterized by spoof and funny, Disney's animation is characterized by sweet to greasy, Pixar's animation is characterized by warmth and moisturizing, and the animation of lighting entertainment is characterized by cuteness and cuteness to death!

"Dig, dig him up for me at all costs!" Don En's face showed excitement that could not be concealed

Bill McNick looked at him in amazement, "Don, Chris is now an executive of Fox and the top head of Fox Animation, and it is not easy to poach him." ”

Don waved his hand, "Bill, Don Pictures needs an animation department! I can even delegate power and set up an independent animation studio, so that he can be in charge." ”

Bill McNick frowned, "Chris is my old subordinate, and we have been friends for more than ten years...... I'll give it a try, and I hope he's willing to go through another struggle like me. ”

……

Seeing that the Cannes Film Festival is about to open, the secretary has already arranged an itinerary for Donne.

On the day of the opening ceremony of the film festival, Don will appear on the red carpet with the crew members, and in the next day or two, Don will meet with the judges of the film festival to meet, talk about films, and discuss Hollywood.

Then, Donn would join the crew for a wave of publicity in Europe.

It will be released in North America on June 22, and at the same time, more than 30 countries and regions around the world will be released simultaneously on this day, mainly in Europe.

At the end of June, it is the most popular period of the entire summer file, and it is also an opportunity for major movies to compete for the market.

Universal provided $60 million for the publicity and distribution costs, and Tang Pictures added an additional $40 million, which is to build momentum, create the most powerful momentum, sweep away all cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and pave the way!

At the same time, Time Warner, Comcast, and Viacom also began to exert their efforts to clean up the stains that Disney and Fox had stained on Donn during the past period.

To Donne's surprise, Wall Street was behind the shot.

Now Wall Street, affected by the bubble crisis, is withering, especially some large securities institutions, investment banks, have begun to tighten monetary policy.

Some small investment funds, like Don Capital, can take advantage of this opportunity to make a big short position and take advantage of the stock market crash to make another profit.

But not for large institutions!

It's like a luxury villa on fire, a group of young people can steal things quietly, and the bosses' minds are all about putting out the fire.

Because villas are their property!

More than half of the entire NASDAQ is in the hands of the big Wall Street institutions, how can they be empty? Together with others, grab their own money?

Now, Wall Street's biggest job is to cooperate with the federal government to prevent the bubble crisis from expanding and make the bear market as bad as possible.

At present, the media widely reports negative news about investors' divorces, bankruptcies, and suicides, constantly putting pressure on the stock market and breaking down investors' last psychological defense step by step.

It's like a talisman, forcing investors to sell all the stocks in their hands.

This is obviously not in the interests of Wall Street, and in order to maintain the stability of the stock market, reducing holdings and increasing holdings is always the best means.

Therefore, the giants of Wall Street have already thought about giving confidence to investors and injecting new hope into the NASDAQ at this critical juncture!

Way...... has been found, it is the hottest and most controversial big man in the United States today - Donn Walker!

On this day, more than a dozen large investment institutions, such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, all sent professional negotiators to Towne Pictures.

In Donn's office, negotiations lasted more than eight hours.

No one knows the details of the negotiations, but the attitude of Donn and Wall Street can be seen afterwards that the two sides should have reached a secret agreement.

Tang announced that over the next one to two years, Tang Capital will continue to invest in high-tech companies. On the one hand, it finances emerging high-tech companies, and on the other hand, it acquires shares of a large number of high-tech companies on the stock market. High-tech stocks are not finished, the shock of the NASDAQ, this is a normal reaction to crazy investment in recent years, high-tech stocks, is still the biggest choice to increase holdings!

At the same time, major Wall Street newspapers and television stations have relayed Donn's words, and praised Donn's miraculous methods in the past three years in the stock market.

Market analysts from large investment banks such as Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley also made high-profile statements in interviews - Don Walker is the god of stocks in the new era!

Listen to him and increase your holdings of high-tech stocks, there's nothing wrong with that!

Following Comcast, Time Warner, and Viacom, the entire Wall Street came to the rescue, completely dismantling the despicable methods of Disney and Fox's "moral kidnapping", and pushed Donn to the throne of the god in one fell swoop.

In exchange, Donn will take the lead as a stock god and continue to make high-profile investments in high-tech industries, bringing new hope to investors and the NASDAQ......