Chapter 406 Refusal

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When it comes to super famous cartoons such as "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo", the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is the production company Disney Animation, but they don't know that these are all produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and Disney Animation is just the distributor.

In Hollywood, Pixar Animation Studio is also super famous, and his many animation technology applications, especially 3D applications, are the top in Hollywood, and it can even be said that if it weren't for Pixar Animation Studio, Disney's animation supergiant would have been squeezed out of DreamWorks long ago.

And when it comes to Pixar Animation Studios, we have to mention John Lasseter, who was later called one of the top ten most profitable directors in Hollywood along with Steve Spielberg and James Cameron.

However, his more important trait is that he is a master of animation who really understands everything from hand-drawn to computer digital technology, and at the same time, he is also a very good special effects master, and such a guy is naturally the core person that an animation company needs.

At Pixar, John Lasseter is not, he is just a very important employee, yes, an employee, and the boss is the famous Steve Jobs, and the other co-founder is Ed Catmoore, who is just an old man when the company was founded, and he is not as valued as he was later.

In '87, Steve Jobs bought their animation studio from ILM. Lucas didn't really like the regret left by this studio, more than a decade later, although he didn't admit it to death, but, undeniably, he always said that Pixar was the best animation studio.

Pixar Animation Studios and John Lasseter are now Chen Jin's two targets, however, neither is easy, the former is owned by Steve Jobs, who is recognized as a stubborn and super-stinky guy, what he likes, it is difficult for him to let go, and he was forced to leave Apple back then, and he was forcibly kicked out by the board of directors, which is also a big hate in his life.

As for the latter, the biggest obstacle is that he is doing very well in Pixar now, and Chen Jin does not have any technical strength to help him, if he comes, everything has to start from scratch, and sometimes, for an employee with good development prospects in a company that is in a good stage of development, he does not necessarily like to suddenly run out and start a business without advantages.

Perhaps, the only thing that is tempting to him is that he will be the real core of this company, he still has equity, and even most of the things are up to him, and his boss is a genius screenwriter, for animation companies, it is naturally very important to have a super screenwriter, although Chen Jin has not yet shown his level of animation screenwriting.

Chen Jin has enough ambition, although he knows whether Jobs can make a move, but he still arranges for Yang Junchao to contact Jobs, and at the same time, Chen Jin also took the initiative to fly to Los Angeles, find John Lasseter, and talk to him privately about cooperation.

The results came out quickly, Jobs really refused to sell, and refused to do so, and, I heard that Pixar is now preparing to go public, and now it is time to go through the procedure, and it can be achieved in a few months, and there is no big problem in it.

The first goal can be said to be a complete failure, unless, according to Yang Junchao, when the stock is listed, it will be secretly acquired, and when it obtains 30% of Pixar's equity, it will be forcibly acquired, which is not allowed in many countries and is illegal, but it can be done in the United States.

However, this is not much different from a hostile takeover, Chen Jin does not want to force it, and the second target is under Chen Jin's personal initiative, although there is no turnaround, but John Lasseter did not refuse, it is not because of politeness, Chen Jin knows that he is a little moved. ..., it is normal for him to have concerns, but Chen Jin understands that everyone has his ambitions and expectations, at first, Chen Jin did not force it, but directly gave him the script of "Toy Story", and asked him and Pixar Animation Studio to help him make this cartoon.

Moreover, Chen Jin said very sincerely that John Lasseter had enough time to think about it, that is, after the release of "Toy Story", at that time, he hoped that John Lasseter would give him a very certain answer.

The meaning of the existence of an animation studio is that there is a steady stream of good films being born, and then making money, and then improving and developing the technology, and so on, that company can continue to grow until it becomes a giant.

With a good script and John Lassett's talent, this "Toy Story" can't be wrong, and Chen Jin is supervising it, and he knows that the future influence of this film is even very important to Pixar.

With the success of the first animated film, presumably John Lasseter already knows how to make trade-offs, and even, if Pixar does not develop very well when it is listed, when the time comes, presumably the stubborn Mr. Jobs will have some changes.

At the beginning of November, "Tornado" had already been released, and he received a super high salary of 522.28 million US dollars, seizing the third place in the annual box office list from "Golden Eye", and a large part of his success came from the special effects of the film, which also made Chen Jin more determined to set up an animation and special effects company after bringing John Rasetra over.

However, it is very difficult for "Tornado" to keep the third position of the year, because it has been released for four weeks, and "Independence Day", which is still being released in North America and has ended overseas, although there are countless criticisms, of course, this is aimed at our genius screenwriter Chen Jin, but it has already won a box office of up to 810.05 million US dollars, and this result has firmly sat in the first place in the annual box office list, and the 791.65 million US dollars of "The Lion King" has been trampled under his feet.

Of course, that's not all, there are still two weeks left in the schedule, and these two weeks will decide a very important thing, that is, if these two weeks get 100 million US dollars, "Independence Day" will break the previous "Jurassic Park" set the all-time high box office record of 895.61 million US dollars.

What's more, if it can collect 100 million US dollars in two weeks, the world will never let it go offline immediately, why, it's very simple, there is such a strong trend of making money, a fool will let him go offline immediately, of course, it is to continue to make a lot of money for another week or two.

Of course, in fact, both Chen Jin and Universal's Edward know that it is not realistic to take another 100 million, because the box office in the fourth week of North America has slipped to about 50 million, of course, the most important thing is that after the best release time of four weeks, many theaters have begun to take "Independence Day" offline, and at the beginning of the fifth week, the number of theaters has only been half of the peak of 3000, 1566, which is the biggest problem in itself.

Not to mention "Independence Day" for the time being, entering November, "The Great New York Robbery" starring Chen Jin first completed all the filming and entered the final post-production process, while "Mr. Sweetheart" seems simple, but Chen Jin spent more thought, but it will take about half a month to end.

One blockbuster after another, when the two blockbusters starring Chen Jin have not yet been released, "Independence Day" is the end of the crossbow, and "The Highest Crisis" with MGM and "The Extraordinary Suspect" with 21st Century Fox have both begun to be released after a two-week warm-up and avoiding the edge of "Independence Day".

After three blockbuster films such as "The Line of Fire", "Liars" and "Ransom Storm", Fa Ge is already a hot first-line movie star in Hollywood, which can be seen from his salary from the previous $2 million to the current $12 million, although there is still a gap between this and superstars such as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger's 20 million, but he has only just started less than two years, as long as the momentum continues, it will be sooner or later. ..., the brother is more successful than Fa Ge, his price in the eyes of the producer has reached 15 million US dollars, and this is also due to the box office of his last "Onslaught" of 380 million US dollars, of course, we have to say that the previous three films have better shown his comprehensiveness, and his almost no obvious role shackles are obviously more valuable in the eyes of the producers.

However, neither of them can compare with Chen Jin, and even all the Hollywood movie stars now cannot compare with Chen Jin, it is said that in the eyes of the eight major Hollywood studios, Chen Jin's salary is a record 35 million US dollars, which is higher than the 25 million that some Hollywood superstars get now. Of course, this 35 million also includes film dividends.

The current success of the two also guarantees the success of the two films, not to mention, both films actually have the participation of many Hollywood A-list movie stars, such as Kurt Trassell and Halle Berry in "The Highest Crisis", Gabriel Al Bird Wyin in "The Usual Suspects" and so on.

"The Highest Crisis" is a pure action cop movie, in fact, whether it is "The Line of Fire" or "Liar", there is no fight scene, until "Ransom Storm", and then to the present, this completely pure action movie is very conducive to Fa Ge to first gain a firm foothold as an action movie star, and then slowly expand the acting path.

"The Highest Crisis" may not have much to say to critics and the media, in addition to more suspense, there are plots such as entering the plane in the air to make the film more exciting, but he has always been an action cop movie, and this kind of film is now the mainstream of Hollywood, and now is also the hottest time for Hollywood action movie stars, including Stallone , Arnold Schwarzenegger, a total of more than a dozen very famous, and the films made in a year are naturally indispensable.

However, once "The Extraordinary Suspect" was released, it attracted praise from countless people, including Chen Jin, the screenwriter, and his brother.

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