Chapter Sixty-Nine: Waves Again
"I don't think he'll have more or better options. "Fun,www.biquge.info" Shirley (Sandberg) said with a smile and hit the nail on the head.
"That's right. Sid nodded, the person in charge of the box office dud, even if he can make a comeback later, but in a short period of time, he is definitely hated by everyone. The fire lion's move to send charcoal in the snow is generally rarely refused.
"If Chris Meledandelli's ability and loyalty can stand the test, then a true dual-track system can be implemented in the future. Sid said with a smile.
"Yes, okay, I see. Shirley (Sandberg) also said with a faint smile.
The so-called dual-track parallel system, at the beginning, when Sid explained to Chris Wetch, said that he would set up different project teams within Blue Sky Studios, imitating Pixar and DreamWorks, to carry out multiple animation projects.
But Sid meant much more than that.
In fact, the reason why Pixar has become the strongest animation studio in history is inseparable from its abundance of top talents.
The five top animation directors known as the "Pixar Five" can be said to have supported Pixar's world - John Lazart, the European and American animation god who created Pixar and the "Toy Story" series.
It was under his leadership that Disney Animation completed its rebuilding journey and produced the unprecedented success of Frozen, Zootopia, and Zootopia.
The other four top directors are Peter Doggett, who directed "Monsters, Inc." and "Flying House". Andrew Stanton, who directed "Finding Nemo," "Finding Robots" and "Mind Squad."
Lee Unkridge, director of "Bug Squad" and "Toy Story 3". and Brad Bird, the director of "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille", who later directed "Mission Impossible 4" and "Jurassic World".
It is with the participation of so many top animators that Pixar has been able to stand at the top of the world's animation for decades.
Whether it is DreamWorks and Blue Sky Animation in the early part of history, or Illumination Entertainment and Sony Animation in the later period, they have not been able to shake the hegemony of the Pixar Kingdom.
Therefore, Blue Sky Animation Studio, if it wants to break the confinement of its previous life and take a completely different path, then Chris Witch alone is definitely not enough.
That's why Sid personally named Chris Meledandri, who was the head of a series of successful low-budget animated classics such as "Despicable Me" and "Minions."
But more importantly, Sid needed to establish a healthy competition within Blue Sky Studios similar to the later Pixar-New Disney.
In this way, it stimulates the staff of the original Blue Sky Studio, who are easy to be stuck in the way and do not want to make progress.
The real two-film merger system is to establish two project teams within Blue Sky Studio, Chris = Chris Wedge and Chris Meledandli, respectively.
At the same time, in order to avoid unnecessary vicious competition and internal friction, after each project, the original project team will be disbanded, and then the director of the new project will lead the establishment of a new project team, and the new project team must have one-third of the personnel, which is different from the old project team.
Of course, Blue Sky employees can also freely express their intentions and move to other project teams at the internal job fair once every six months.
It's about bringing in new people and ideas to inspire new people. Also to avoid the project rivalry between the two Chris from turning into a departmental fight.
Just when Chris Meledandley joined Blue Sky Studios, he was shocked by its drastic changes, and Shirley (Sandberg) began to make subtle changes to Blue Sky Studios.
An unexpected incident spread throughout Hollywood in an instant!
At the press conference at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, a room full of reporters crowded into a spacious room, and the person in charge from France walked up to the press stand, and the flash suddenly crackled.
In fact, simply put, the words of the head of the Vivendi group from France can be summed up in one sentence -- we bought the old owner of Universal Pictures for $34 billion, so we bought the Universal Group! We French people have come to Hollywood to play!
As one of the seven major Hollywood studios, Universal Pictures, although it has been performing poorly in the seven, and even ranked in the annual box office list all year round, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse.
Universal Pictures Group has once again changed its ownership, and its influence is by no means comparable to other small and medium-sized companies. And this change of ownership not only heralded the twists and turns of the ill-fated media conglomerate in the new millennium, but also the first big deal for a major Hollywood studio after the new millennium.
Although the change of ownership of Universal Pictures was in a stir in Hollywood for a while, and many economic and media media expressed various opinions on the matter, the most mentioned of them were the original owners of Universal Pictures, Canada's Seagram Group, and its helmsman, Edgar Bronfman Jr.
In the mid-90s, the Bronfman family, a wealthy Canadian family that bought Universal Group from RB Panasonic, became the top upstart in Hollywood at that time with the purchase of Universal Group.
Edgar Bronfman, who led the deal at the time, became one of Hollywood's hottest top players for a while, alongside top players like Sommer Leishidong, Rupert Murdoch and Michael Eisner.
But now, in just five years, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has abolished his entire group, and this amazing "record" can be regarded as unprecedented.
In fact, as early as the 8 and 90s, Edgar Bronfman Jr. was active in the Hollywood music circle as a music producer. At that time, he had worked with big stars such as Celine Dion and Stallone, but the long-term immersion made Edgar Bronfman Jr. like the glamour of Hollywood Vanity Fair and was reluctant to take over the family business.
And his family business, Canada's Seagram Group, was originally one of the most profitable companies in the world.
For anyone who loves the contents of a glass like foreign wine, no one will not know the top brands of foreign wines, such as Martell, Chivas Regal and Royal Salute, all of which are brands owned by the Seagram Company.
When Edgar Bronfman Jr. was forced north to Canada to inherit the family business, Seagram Group's liquor and beverage business was selling $2.9 billion a year and its stock was returning 29 percent a year. Moreover, at that time, the Seagram Group still held nearly 20% of the shares of DuPont, one of the four largest ABCD grain merchants in the United States, and these stocks provided hundreds of millions of dollars in pure cash dividends to the Seagram Group every year.