Chapter 280: Fear and Test Film
As a former life that has gone through the era of the Internet explosion in the 21st century, Zhang Junyi has a deep understanding of Michael Eisner's personality and work style, and knows better what kind of existence Disney will become under Michael Eisner's management. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
"All the companies that entertain and inform people are competitors to Disney. In his previous life, Michael Eisner, the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, built his one-man dynasty in the old entertainment empire with his iron fist, and continued to expand his hegemony as a ruler of the world.
Michael Eisner is the only ruler of Disney, and this assertive style and overconfident personality have turned Michael Eisner into a leader who does everything in detail. He pays attention to every detail, from theatrical performances, to Disney TV commercials to the costumes worn by the actors in the park. He even personally selected each piece of furniture in the design of the hotel and discussed it with each painter. Few entertainment moguls would bother with the daily programming of a television station like he did, and even Mr. Murdoch was puzzled by the style, but Eisner just liked to enjoy the feeling of being in power.
In fact, it's not that he doesn't trust his subordinates, but he just doesn't want to be robbed of the limelight. He relies on and loves his team, claiming that he especially likes to be surrounded by a group of talented people, when in fact he only likes the atmosphere of the stars. Everyone is shrouded in his mind and loses his independent creativity. Perhaps this is a manifestation of Eisner's split personality, who effectively organizes and promotes his team while maintaining his supremacy. In Hollywood, Michael Eisner was notoriously ruthless, even beating up employees in the office. He demanded absolute loyalty from his subordinates, and when he was hurt, he would be angry, and even stick out his claws like an enraged lion to retaliate harshly. In his previous life, when Katsenberg left Disney, he demanded a large amount of compensation, and since then he has been cursed by Michael Eisner for life. He didn't miss a chance for revenge, and his ABC refused to broadcast a TV show produced by DreamWorks. Michael Eisner's arrogance drove many people away, and it really made him the only real star of Disney.
"My value is to make sure everything we do is ethical, meaningful, and with high-quality ideas. "Michael Eisner is protecting Disney's reputation as much as he is his own, and for him, the two are the same.
For the various online revelations that happened in his previous life, Michael Eisner's actions, Zhang Junyi can understand how Michael Eisner is an iron-fisted and cautious character.
Zhang Junyi has a deep understanding of what kind of savior Michael Eisner played in his previous life after stepping into Disney.
When Michael Eisner stepped into Disney's castle in 1984, the company was in a state of leaderless chaos, the theme park was losing its life, and Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were almost a distant memory. Eisner is like waking up Disney, the prince of Sleeping Beauty, who saves the magical kingdom. The entertainment wizard has played the role of savior twice: in the '70s, when he brought ABC back to life, and in the '80s, when he took the helm of Paramount Pictures, which brought the studio from the bottom of Hollywood's big six to the top.
Through a series of drastic reforms, including the frenzied development of brand-driven product sales, the upgrading of Disneyland, and the opening of a film and television department that produces non-G-rated films, Michael Eisner made Disney the industry leader within a few years, and "The Lion King", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Pocahonta" were sold around the world. He also expanded Disney into television and publishing through step-by-step acquisitions, becoming a giant transmedia conglomerate.
Michael Eisner has also consolidated his throne step by step over the past decade, and he has completely merged with Disney. The most direct interest is that his salary is linked to the company's profits. But it doesn't stop there, Michael Eisner is an imperialist careerist. Although he is still essentially just a hired employee, he wants to make Disney his own, and he is the sun shining on this country. He carefully protects this absolute power and strengthens it in a way that is either overt or implicit. Michael Eisner likes to have two or three people run a department, blurring authority and encouraging internal competition. His miserliness for power has led to rumors in the business world that he is reluctant to grooming a successor β in 1994, he underwent four surgeries and was in a precarious situation, and he arranged a future for Disney in the style of a feudal Chinese monarch: he sealed the name of the heir in an envelope and announced that it could only be opened if the operation was unsuccessful. Of course, in the end, he escaped the ghost gate, and no one knows whose name is in the "edict".
So even if he is quite scruples about Michael Eisner, it's not that Zhang Junyi is afraid of Michael Eisner, or that sentence, there is no need to offend Michael Eisner to death because of some things, after all, if you have an indissoluble enmity with a person who is quite capable in the Hollywood circle, it is not a wise thing for Zhang Junyi at all.
In other words, no matter what, it is impossible for him to carry out humanitarian destruction on Michael Eisner, so it is always a hidden danger to himself to offend such a high-powered elite who can bring many companies back to life in his previous life.
Of course, this is not to say that Michael Eisner is a perfect and undefeated godman.
Any dictator who insists on going his own way, no matter how capable he is, any misjudgment he makes will personally push the company he runs from the top.
Zhang Junyi remembers that in his previous life, after the dictator brought Disney out of the predicament, he spent a huge amount of money to shoot "Pearl Harbor" and boasted that Haikou wanted to break "Titanic" The acquisition of ABC wasted too much time and energy, but still did not bring any substantial benefits, Disneyland Paris made a strategic mistake because it did not carefully study the consumption concepts and consumption habits of the locals, underestimated the impact of the Internet on the entertainment industry, delayed its response, and rushed to enter the Internet industry and encountered Waterloo.
These series of bitter fruits sown by Michael Eisner have made the former Disney dynasty precarious, and in the previous life, Michael Eisner single-handedly created the glory of Disney, and then single-handedly created a dilemma.
In the 21st century, in the face of Disney's growing losses, the company held a shareholder meeting in March 2004, and 43% of shareholders voted no confidence in Michael Eisner. On March 13, 2005, Michael Eisner announced that he would resign as CEO of Disney a year before his contract with Disney expired. In September of the same year, Michael Eisner resigned as CEO and left the board of directors at the same time, severing all ties with Disney. He waived all contractual rights, including the right to use the company's jets and a personal office at Disney's headquarters in Berpenk.
After two decades of glory and regret, Disney CEO Michael Eisner finally came to an end in his previous life amid a chorus of shareholders.
In fact, Michael Eisner caused the final end of his previous life, and Zhang Junyi knew that it was largely due to Michael Eisner's personality.
Michael Eisner is a combination of good and bad for Disney. He created the huge expansion of Disney's assets and was also the main culprit that led to the sacrifice of profits and the dilution of its brand.
Although Zhang Junyi knows what kind of outcome Michael Eisner will face in the end, it does not mean that he doesn't care about Michael Eisner, on the contrary, Zhang Junyi is even more jealous of Michael Eisner to a very high level.
After all, in his previous life, Michael Eisner only took a few years to bring Disney to a very glorious point, and the board members of Disney at that time could be said to have resigned themselves to Michael Eisner.
After all, no matter how capable Michael Eisner is, he has always been just a part-time worker for Disney, even if he finally controls all the power of the entire Disney, but Disney will never let Michael Eisner let such a character and his own company fight each other, then Zhang Junyi himself is really stupid.
Because in Zhang Junyi's view, no matter how successful Michael Eisner is, no matter how capable he is, if he doesn't become the owner of the company for a day, then he will never be able to become a porcelain, so as a porcelain, it is impossible for himself to collide with a pottery, and the truth that the gains outweigh the losses still understand.
As the saying goes, barefoot people are not afraid to wear shoes, but you don't know how this dictator will hate himself after Michael Eisner takes over Disney and wants to buy Disney at all costs.
However, even if Zhang Junyi is jealous of Michael Eisner, it does not mean that he has no way to do it.
The simplest example, "The Lion King", which was handed over to his own publishing house for distribution, is an obvious counterweight to Disney's development progress.
Michael Eisner has never had a person like himself who travels through memories of his past life to know the general trend of Hollywood's development in the future.
So the gold finger that I carry with me is precisely the biggest cheat that I can limit the success of Michael Eisner.
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A few days later, at half past nine in the morning, in a luxurious screening room of 20th Century Fox, in addition to Zhang Junyi and Alain Ryder Jr., the head of 20th Century Fox, dozens of people, including representatives of the distribution department, publicity department, and film companies, gathered.
Zhang Junyi is quite satisfied with the formation arranged by Alain Ryder Jr. today, after all, the more complete the characters come today, the more serious Alan Ryder Jr. is about his commitment.
After all, if Alain Ryder Jr. wanted to be perfunctory about himself, he didn't need to invite representatives of film companies outside the company to come over. Even if the status between the representative of the film company and the 'Big Seven' is a relationship of asking for people, Alain Ryder Jr. will not be okay to offend people.
So for little Alan Ryder to help himself so sincerely, Zhang Junyi definitely keeps this sincerity full of human affection in his heart, of course, he only remembers it in his heart, Zhang Junyi will not say it stupidly on the spot, after all, people who have achieved such results as they know that some things are to be done in the future, not how to say it now.
Before the movie was played, Alain Ryder Jr. took Zhang Junyi to introduce him to the director of the distribution department of Twentieth Century Fox.
Although the identity of a director of the distribution department of Hollywood's 'Big Seven' level is not at all comparable to that of Alain Ryder Jr. and a rich tycoon like himself, such a referral just shows that Alain Ryder Jr. has sold him a lot of favors.
After all, although his current value and status are far higher than that of the director of the distribution department of Twentieth Century Fox, he is a newcomer to Hollywood, and he has just stepped into the Hollywood circle, and he is lacking the pulse of this circle.
Since Zhang Junyi has decided to step into this circle of Hollywood, he will inevitably have the opportunity to deal with the distribution departments of these film companies in the future, so Alain Ryder Jr.'s behavior can be described as full of sincerity.
Although Alain Ryder Jr. does not have any hope that Zhang Junyi can make a movie above the standard, it is precisely his style that has gained Zhang Junyi's greatest favor.
At this time, Alain Ryder Jr. will not realize that it is his sincerity today that will lead to the sale of his Twentieth Century Fox in the next two years will greatly increase the amount of hundreds of millions of dollars compared to his previous life, of course, this is all for later.
Of course, at this moment, the attitude of everyone in the screening room towards Alain Ryder Jr. attaching so much importance to Zhang Junyi can be said to be full of emotions, but no one put the thoughts in their hearts on their faces, after all, no one is a fool, and the attitude that can make the head of Twentieth Century Fox attach so much importance just proves that Zhang Junyi is not simple.
With the broadcast of "Home Alone", the witty plot and the performance of the Aina people in the movie quickly pulled the scattered thoughts of everyone in the screening room to the movie screen.
Although there was no slap in the face, as the movie ended, even little Alain Ryder was surprised or surprised at the moment, he had no idea that this excellent comedy movie was made by this boy who was less than twenty years old in front of him.
Although Alain Ryder Jr. is not a professional in reviewing the quality of films compared to the rest of the room, Alan Ryder Jr. is the top leader in control of Twentieth Century Fox, and in this case, even an ordinary viewer who doesn't know anything can see the quality of this movie, let alone Alain Ryder, Jr., who deals with movies all day!