Raiders of the Lost Ark Part IV is a super-budget film that Spielberg and George Lucas have teamed up again for the first time in two decades.

The production cost alone is as high as 185 million US dollars. Coupled with the vigorous promotion of Paramount, the much-anticipated film grossed more than 100 million in its opening week, and the total box office revenue in North America has reached 317 million US dollars.

And that's the North American number. Worldwide, this big-budget film has grossed a whopping $786 million!

Paramount laughed, and Raiders of the Lost Ark was a big success. Not only is the box office harvest, but all kinds of peripheral products are also making a lot of money, and they are definitely gold-absorbing IPs.

With the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the subsequent movies are even more anticipated by the audience.

Then Fox released a small surprise for Las Vegas, a small film that won a whopping $80 million at the box office. Fox was overjoyed.

Sex and the City produced by Warner's new line that followed it won a box office of $150 million at a cost of $85 million, which is a small profit. Then came the 130 million investment Kung Fu Panda won the North American box office of 250 million US dollars, and the global total box office was as high as 630 million US dollars!

Then Disney was not to be outdone and launched Pixar's new robot WALL-E.

The animated film cost $180 million, but it only earned $220 million at the box office in North America. Although the reputation is excellent, it is not popular in the end. Disney is very dissatisfied with the kind of non-blockbuster cartoon that Pixar likes to make albums. You must know that this cartoon has suffered a large loss!

For Disney, Zhang Fan has other plans. After the box office failure of Robot Wal-E, Zhang Fan suddenly expressed his ridicule of Disney through the media.

"Although Disney started by making cartoons, Disney is no longer the kingdom of cartoons. "Zhang Fan and Disney naturally won't leave them with a good face after tearing their faces" This company is now more focused on commercialization, and is no longer a company that makes cartoons for children. The box office failure of the animated films they released was inevitable. Look what they have since The Lion King, nothing!"

In the face of Zhang Fan's ridicule, Disney naturally cannot be indifferent. They quickly countered through the media: "Disney is here to solemnly warn a young man who won an Oscar because of luck, you are just a newcomer who has just made a successful movie, and talking about cartoons in front of Disney is definitely the biggest joke of the century." Your remarks surprise me with the feeling that April 1st has not yet passed. Remember, this is Hollywood!"

Zhang Fan's response was very swift: "I will make an animated film as fast as possible, and if the global box office does not reach a billion dollars, I will never make an animated film again." But if it can reach a billion dollars, please Disney will never mention what kind of animation kingdom it is on any occasion in the future!"

The media were very surprised to see Zhang Fan, who had a good cooperation among millionaires in the slums, and Disney turned his face. After seeing Zhang Fan put forward a gambling contract, the media chased frantically like an excitement meter and reported on this topic.

Zhang Fan is not idle, bored, and has nothing to do to tease Disney. Rather, it has a clear purpose of its own.

Zhang Fan's idea is to build a world-class media group. It's like Murdoch's News Corp. and Lei Shidong's Wilcombe. But if he wants to do that, it's going to be very difficult.

Media groups must first have their own networks, whether it is traditional TV newspapers or the emerging Internet. News Corp. is a giant in the newspaper and television industry, and so is Wilcom. Warner Bros. Pictures' predecessor, Time Warner, has a super network giant called Times Online. Zhang Fan must win the newspaper, television network, and the Internet.

Not only that, but almost all major media groups control a major film company in Hollywood. Expand your influence through the movies that Hollywood has lost to the world. Zhang Fan also needs to have a super-large film company.

Looking at Hollywood as a whole, the most suitable target is Disney.

You know, Disney is the ABC television network, and it's one of Hollywood's biggest studios!

There is another very important reason why Zhang Fan is targeting Disney. That is, Disney owns the rights to distribute the film!

In Hollywood, everyone embraces the famous saying that money comes first.

It's the same whether it's companies big or small or everyone who works hard in Hollywood, even those who keep saying they are made for art. Their ultimate goal is all about money.

And the most lucrative thing in Hollywood is not to shoot a high-grossing work, but to have the right to distribute the movie.

The right to distribute films is only owned by the Big Six in Hollywood. They can make a lot of money every year through the distribution rights of films, which is something that no other film company can compare to anyway. Because of the film distribution rights in their hands, other Hollywood studios can only be forced to accept the exploitation of the Big Six.

If Zhang Fan wants to become big in Hollywood, the distribution right is indispensable.

Moreover, several of Hollywood's biggest companies have been working hard to develop markets around the world for many years, and have strong distribution channels around the world. This point is simply incomprehensible to Zhang Fan.

Even if he can organize a temporary theater chain in North America, he can't do anything in the overseas market. The distribution channels that Hollywood giants have worked hard for many years to obtain, where can Zhang Fan catch up in a short period of time?

This time, the overseas distribution of Iron Man was handed over to Sony Columbia. Because Zhang Fan has a huge reputation in Japan, he reached an agreement with Sony through a lot of connections and handed over the overseas distribution to Sony at a relatively cheap price. Not only this Iron Man, Zhang Fan also handed over the overseas distribution of many subsequent works to Sony. Until he was able to win the film company with overseas film distribution rights.

This is the most important reason why Zhang Fan wants to win Disney. Cinema is one of his core businesses, and it is impossible to put up with handing over distribution rights to someone else for a long time. Even if the price given by Sony is more favorable.

As an Asian company, Sony's foothold in Hollywood has always been hostile. This time, he took the initiative to hand out an olive branch to Zhang Fan, also hoping to be able to pull an ally who can speak in Hollywood.

Of course, Sony's so-called benefits are only compared to giant companies such as Disney. Compared with the usual distribution requirements, it is still a lot higher, and Sony can be regarded as taking the opportunity to slaughter Zhang Fan. After all, this is Hollywood, the Hollywood where money is paramount. As long as there is an opportunity to make money, no one will give up.

Zhang Fan is not a person who is willing to be controlled by others, and he has to get rid of this kind of thing completely no matter what. And the best option is to take a film company with a huge distribution network, directly inherit their network, and use it for your own use.

Looking at the six big Hollywood companies, Warner Bros. belongs to Time Warner, Sony Columbia belongs to Sony, Paramount is above Viacom, and Twentieth Century Fox is News Corporation. As for Universal Pictures, it is a subsidiary of Comcast, a supergiant of the famous American Internet service provider and cable TV and digital phone giant, the top 100 of the world's top 500 companies, and the third largest global media group.

After several rounds of Hollywood, only Walt Disney remained.

It's just that at this time, Zhang Fan's net worth wants to acquire Disney, which is completely impossible. You must know that a few years ago, Comcast once offered a sky-high price of up to $66 billion to buy Disney, but it was ultimately rejected.

At this time, Disney's stock price is still as high as more than $40 billion, and if Zhang Fan wants to buy it, he must marry it far higher. With his net worth at this time, even if you count the loan, it is less than one-twentieth of this number!

Although it was very difficult, Zhang Fan never thought of giving up.

Although Disney at this time is like a mountain in front of Zhang Fan. But Zhang Fan had the confidence to dig up this mountain! Because he had systematic help!

The reason why he took the initiative to attack Disney through the media this time was to attack an important part of Disney, Pixar.

Pixar specializes in animated films, and what they have achieved is even worse than in the Disney era. But Pixar was forcibly acquired by Disney, and Jobs was very simple and rude when he sold Pixar, which made Pixar very dissatisfied after being bought by Disney, and the contradiction between the two sides was very large.

What Zhang Fan has to do is to provoke a blow to their relationship, and if Pixar can slip out of Disney's hands again, it will be the best outcome.

Although this matter is very difficult, Zhang Fan believes that there is nothing that cannot be done. The reason why it can't be done is not that there are not enough skewers, but that there are not enough dollars. Therefore, Zhang Fan is now desperately trying to make money, so as to lay a good foundation for large-scale acquisitions in the future.

Unlike studios that don't know if they will succeed before the film is released, Zhang Fan, who has a system, can be sure that almost every one of his works will be a success! This is something that any filmmaker dreams of but no one can do!

Now Zhang Fan doesn't need to take any questions. What theaters, what distribution, what costs, what publicity, and what risk assessment are useless for Zhang Fan. He just needs to shoot the movie as fast as he can, and then send it to the big screen and wait to collect the money!

After being provoked by Zhang Fan again, Disney was really angry. After some debate, Disney announced through the media that it was willing to make a gambling agreement with Zhang Fan.

If Zhang Fan can produce an animated film that grosses more than $1 billion worldwide, then Disney is willing to give up the throne of animated films. But if Zhang Fan doesn't do it, then ask Zhang Fan to leave Hollywood, where did he come from, where to go back!