Chapter 255: David's Counterattack

Today's top special effects companies are ILM, Digital and Weta Digital, which are the golden signatures of three of Hollywood's top directors with extremely good works.

In addition to the three major companies, there is also the Sony image processing of the Soni Group, a large company that has everything,

With "Elf Mouse Brother", "Spider-Man" and other films, he won many special effects technology awards, and snatched the special effects production rights of "Superman Returns" from Esc, the special effects production team of "The Matrix". and the 3D animated film "The Chubb Chubb", which can compete with Pixar, won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, but with the relationship between MM Group and Soni Group, the special effects in "Spider-Man 3" are not handed over to them, let alone "Iron Man".

What they can do, Industrial Light & Magic can do, why should they do it, not to mention that their price is more expensive than Industrial Light & Magic.

The core technology of industrial light and magic is CGI animation technology, model shooting, and all-digital high-definition camera technology, and the core technology in the digital field is the digital synthesis software NUKE, which can be arbitrarily combined, scanned pictures, and produced static or dynamic effects.

There is also David was ordered to seduce DreamWorks, in DreamWorks, he is most familiar with Mai Copy, they have cooperated in "Top Secret Flight", the special effects of "Top Secret Flight" are made by D2, and Mai Copy is D2's shareholder, D2 has not had a good business since the king of the world left, as a major shareholder, Mai Copy, naturally wants to pull business for the company, "Iron Man" is a big fat meat, Mai Copy is naturally targeted, he instead asked David to say that he wanted to take this big fat meat.

The bosses of the three major special effects companies all have the same reason for founding this special effects company, they think that the special effects companies on the market can't do what they want, so they build their own one, and they can toss as much as they want to make the perfect picture in their minds.

D2 has a pivotal influence in Hollywood and even the entire international film industry, the company was founded by Scott Ross, a manager of the former Industrial Light & Magic, and the director James Cameron in '93 became a shareholder, and then he introduced his friend Stan Weston (the famous film special effects master "Jurassic Park", "Alien", "Terminator" behind the special effects), "Titanic" and "Dreams Come True" let them win two Oscars for Best Special Effects, D2's signature resounded all over the world.

Later, due to Cameron's strong temper and star halo, D2's creator Scott Ross fell into an embarrassing situation, and at the same time, because Cameron had a strong interest in documentaries after the production of "Titanic", he simply disappeared from commercial films and left D2 to concentrate on making documentaries (some say that Cameron cashed out for divorce, and some say that Cameron had a fierce conflict with shareholders because of the ban on listing), Cameron's friend Stan Weston also abandoned D2 because of his departure and founded his own special effects company.

The departure of the two pillars made D2 exhausted and went downhill, and Rose decided to bring another big director into the team and relaunch D2's signboard.

He is interested in the famous Mai copy in the circle, and Mai Bao has been crazy since "Brave Death Island", "Peerless Tribulation", "Jedi Men 2" and "Pearl Harbor", he also thinks that he has the temperament of a big director, and the special effects companies on the market can't do what they want, this is a rhythm like Lucas, Cameron, and Jackson, so he hit it off and happily joined the shares.

But after moving in, I found out that this is a pit, I have always heard that special effects burn money, and now I know why it burns money so much, and investing that money is like putting it into the pit, and the old book has been exhausted all at once for many years, and in the name of a major shareholder of a special effects company, not only did not get the transcendent status as imagined, but instead begged people everywhere to pull business, where there is also a generation of great director Qing Gao transcendent status?

This "Escape from Clone Island" is a huge pounce, which makes Mai copy much less powerful than before, and the name of box office poison is not going away, but a movie's big pounce, blaming one person, is not scientific, what Mai copy is best at, is a commercial popcorn movie, in terms of shooting and production, it is a perfect answer, if it is unqualified, why did no one question it earlier, asking for a recut and remake, but investing tens of millions more to promote its release?

Of course, it is not okay to say that he is not responsible, the tens of millions of salaries and shares are not easy to take, and he has the right to be naturally responsible, but unfortunately, he has made two consecutive pounces and is facing the dilemma of three strikes, so he is more careful in doing things.

Mai copy and David have a good personal relationship, this is a friendship formed during the production of "Top Secret Flight", David is full of praise for Mai copy's works, his best is the popcorn commercial blockbuster, Mai copy works, the department's appetite for him, "Pearl Harbor" and "Escape from Clone Island" giant pounce, David was the first to comfort him: "It's not that yours you are not good, but the audience is too rubbish!"

In fact, Mai Bao also thinks so, but even if you listen to this kind of words, he doesn't have such a powerful backstage as David, this kid is the same as two consecutive pounces, but what people have is money, and he has become the major shareholder of MM Group, vice president, and looks like I, Hu Hansan, have come back again.

If DreamWorks is the sunset, and MM is in full swing, hot, this hairy big thick leg, Mai copy also wants to hug.

Mark's "Iron Man" is a special effects blockbuster, even the Iron Man suit Mark Type 1, Mark Type 2, Mark Type 3 are all made of special effects, there are a lot of special effects shots in the film, and the special effects cost is nearly 50 million, one can't eat it, the original version is handed over to several companies to do, and Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital eat the lion's share, and then those scraps and scraps are handed over to six other small companies to do, and now it's okay to pack a part for D2.

David's face has to be given, this guy has lost a lot of money when he invests in making movies, but he is asked to lobby the Qiao gang leader, which is a matter of course, this goods are splashed and rolled in the Qiao gang leader's house for a few days, and the Qiao gang leader will Pixar join the MM Group, Pingguo accepts MM's capital injection of one billion and submits it to the board of directors for discussion.

And he cleaned up the flying machine, it was extremely beautiful, Mark thought it was a protracted battle, Huntings would fight for a long time, within a long time, this online disc rental business is the pattern of the triwizard competition, who knows that under David's layout, this guy knelt in a week, Mark can be sure, David has a master around him, Nai Fei started, Mark didn't dare to think about it, he thought that the two sides were fighting to the death, fighting a lot, MM took advantage of the two strong fights, and ate some leftovers or something.

Netfly defeated Blockbuster, an industry giant with 9,000 chain stores and 60,000 employees, in 08, and abused him for another three years to make it bankrupt, and he transformed into an industry giant that the six fears were all afraid of, which no one could have imagined, even Egger, who has always been far-sighted, thinks that Mark organized a group to clean up Netfy, one is because of hatred, and the other is to find a bulk channel for MM's huge film library.

Blockbuster's first store opened in October '85 on the corner of Skilman and the Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas, and was founded by David Cook. The company's innovative technology comes from David A. Cook had experience managing large databases, and then several other branches of the company opened apart, Cook built a $6 million warehouse in Garland, Texas, in the early years of '86, Blockbuster acquired more than 200 stores of its rival Errol in the Mid-Atlantic Coast, and by '89, Blockbuster had more than 1,000 stores outside the United States, and in '92 it became the undisputed leader in video leasing with more than 2,800 stores around the world, and in '94 Viacom acquired Blockbuster for $8.4 billion and went public in '99, and Blockbuster operated more than 9,000 stores at the peak of its development in the early 21st century。

The real industry boss with a monopoly in DVD rental and sales.

And the monopoly of Blockbuster began to die, they imposed overdue fees on users who had not paid overdue, a DVD of about ten dollars or twenty dollars (collector's edition), you can actually levy twenty to forty dollars of overdue fees, (if you don't pay, you will be blocked, and you can no longer rent or buy CDs in Blockbuster's 9,000 stores across the country) Hensjens was fined forty yuan, from which he found business opportunities, and decided that Blockbuster would pounce, and gave birth to the heart that I would replace it.

At the beginning of the dispute between Naifei and BesTV, Naifei relied on this article to gain the upper hand, brother does not charge overdue fees, you can watch as long as you want, anyway, you can rent four discs at a time for 19.99 US dollars per month (20 yuan is not used, and free shipping, The next day delivery) can be rented again after returning, and they let the user send it back in a way is also very intimate, in the package of the disc there is a free envelope with an address, the user only needs to put the returned disc into the envelope, throw it into the mailbox or post office, you can complete the return process, this is not very good, than to go to the store more convenient.

On the other hand, Blockbuster's overdue fee has become a fatal wound, just the overdue fee can open an account in Naifei and play for a month, why don't they cancel it? Because the overdue fee accounts for 16% of their total income, the shareholders will never agree, yes, this is a company that makes profits by fines, they have been doing this, and when it comes to this new product after technological innovation, it is naturally finished.

Mark in the merger and acquisition of Netfy, except for the founder Huntings and a series of departures, all the others stayed, he formed a new management team, continue to use the Netefei set of management and operation model, and MM has the advantage that Netfy did not have earlier, before Netfy was only channels without content, and now MM can do content plus channels, which is what Netfy has a market value of more than 70 billion.

Therefore, David successfully cleaned up Netflix and merged it into its subsidiary, which is equivalent to finding a big financial way for the company, and Mark has a different view of David.

Thank you, book friend, the happiest thing is that you are fatter than me, thank you. Commonwealth of Nations.