In other words, Cang Yaozu was really busy this Christmas holiday, busy digging into Warner's corners, and digging two corners, one is "The Lord of the Rings" and the other is "The Matrix".

Of course, although these movies are all released by Warners, they are also different. "The Matrix" was written by the Wachowski brothers and asked Warner to invest, but Warner thought that the Wachowski brothers could not handle such a large investment project, so the film shooting plan was shelved.

And the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" is remembered by Miramax, but now it has nothing to do with Warner. A few days ago, Thomas Tole, CEO of Legendary Pictures, approached Miramax to buy the permanent film adaptation rights of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit".

The Weinstein brothers had no objection to the bid, but the problem was that the permanent film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were not in their hands. They are currently in talks with Saul Zaynz, the owner of the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and the rights are coming soon.

In 1969, United Arts Pictures bought the film adaptation rights to the novels, including The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, from Harper Collins, Tolkien's heir and publisher of the Lord of the Rings novels.

Later, the film adaptation rights of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" changed hands several times, and finally fell into the hands of Saul Zaynz, in fact, in that lifetime, it was on January 22, 1997, that Saul Zaynz and Miramax reached negotiations and completed the deal.

Now that there is an oolong incident, and Legendary Pictures has come to the Weinstein brothers to buy the rights, this matter has become a mess. Finally, the three parties engaged in a negotiation together. Thomas Toole made a direct bid of $12 million.

The Weinstein brothers decided that the rights to the film adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were not worth the price and withdrew from the competition, but they offered to invest in the Lord of the Rings films after putting in a lot of effort and getting nothing in the deal.

Thomas Tur generously said that he is making plans to raise $300 million to make the "Lord of the Rings" movie, and he very much welcomes the Weinstein brothers' investment. When the Weinstein brothers heard about the investment amount, they looked at Thomas Toole like a big fool.

This is a gavel from Wall Street, $300 million invested in a movie, why don't you go to heaven.

The two brothers thought about it, or wait for him to go bankrupt and then pick up the copyright of the film adaptation of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", so the Weinstein brothers completely withdrew, never mentioning the matter of investing in the Lord of the Rings movies, never mentioning it.

In the end, the film adaptation rights of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" were won by Legendary Pictures for $12 million. But all those in the know are not optimistic about Legendary Pictures' shooting plans.

The investment of "Future Water World" is as high as 175 million US dollars, but this super blockbuster only recovered tens of millions of US dollars at the box office, and the industry was scolded.

The investment in "Titanic", which is being filmed, is only about 200 million US dollars, and the industry is also very unoptimistic, and directors of Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron are about to go crazy. You still dare to invest $300 million to make a movie, and a fool invests in you. These movie investors from Wall Street are really playing the piano, and this is not a waste of money.

Regardless of these contemptuous eyes, Legendary Pictures finally won the permanent film adaptation rights of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", and paid $300 million to shoot the Lord of the Rings? Of course, it's just that Thomas Tool didn't say that it was going to be filmed into a trilogy, and it was going to New Zealand to shoot, and the labor and tax exemption policies there were very powerful, with great discounts. Cang Yaozu also asked Robert Iger to contact the channels in Germany to see if these big-investment films can handle tax refunds, and they can save a little.

Before filming, Legendary Pictures also had to buy most of the equity of Weta Digital, which means that the funds used for special effects are just left-handed to right-handed, so that Weta Digital has the funds to develop better, which is a planned thing, so even if it is another 100 million US dollars, Cang Yaozu dares to invest. Having won the film adaptation rights to "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", Legendary Pictures has the biggest leverage in negotiations with Peter Jackson.

Compared with the twists and turns on the copyright side of "Lord of the Rings", Keanu Reeves has no twists and turns. When Keanu approached the Wachowski brothers and told them that Legendary Pictures was going to invest $300 million in them to shoot the "Matrix" trilogy, the two brothers were moved.

Although Legendary Pictures has designated the male and female protagonists, it is not a big problem, Keanu Reeves's current appearance is the most ungodly, Charlize Theron is a very glamorous vase, even if the acting skills are poor, they can always be slowly grinded out, which is not a problem.

Cang Yaozu was very happy when he received these two news, this is not one or two films, these are all trilogies, six films can be hot for a long time, no, add the "Hobbit" trilogy, this is 9 blockbusters. Legendary Pictures will definitely become a true legend.

9 blockbusters are a good thing, that is, the producer has to find some way to choose and distribute the channel, without the distribution channel, he will definitely be stuck in the neck at that time, and he still has to buy it, but Cang Yaozu has no money in his hand, so he can only find a partner, but Cang Yaozu is a little unwilling, it would be a pity to hand over these blockbusters to others for distribution.

As soon as he launched the whole body, acquired Marvel Studios, and established Legendary Pictures in advance, then the distribution channel was put on the agenda, and all of them needed funds, a lot of money.

Fortunately, the time is still early, and the film can't be shot so fast, and when the 97 years pass, maybe Cang Yaozu will have money, the Asian financial crisis is such a big opportunity, you can always eat a piece of meat, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, there will be bread, and there will be funds.

A few days ago, Melissa went to Silicon Valley, in order to acquire two companies, but also for the layout of Cang Yaozu's chip industry, and she really worked hard. At Apple, Melissa's warmth was too timely. Apple CEO Jill Amelio is indeed going crazy, with no cash and stretched.

He was glad to see someone come to give him money, as Jill Amelio and Jobs were ready to axe Apple's low-profit projects, and Newton's sales were simply outrageously low. Someone took over as a way out, and at the last vote on the board, most of the people voted in favor, and Jobs kept a calm face but did not object.

Newton's project has nothing to do with Jobs, and it is a pleasant thing to throw some of the brain-dead behaviors of his predecessors in the trash, and the cash in exchange for it will be invested in the research and development of his iMac computer, which is the heart and soul of Apple, so Jobs has no reason to object.

As soon as Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he began to think about designing and developing new products, great products. Now Apple's management is almost all poached from Dell and Hewlett-Packard, these guys have neither knowledge nor interest in industrial design, and all they want is to stuff parts into the cheapest plastic shells and sell them to users as quickly as possible.

So in recent years, Apple's products have been out of one dead and one dead, and two dead and one pair, and the company's performance is also Wang Xiaoer's New Year, which is not as good as a year, and the stock price and market value have come to a very low price.