Rebirth In Hollywood

Because of the different industrial focus, even if it owns the a+e TV network, Disney TV and other newspapers and magazines, Walt Disney is still weaker than Time Warner and News Corporation in terms of traditional media, and it is almost divided into traditional media. Now that it's over, it's hard for Disney to catch up in a short period of time.

What is the most powerful medium of the future? This problem is very obvious to Ryan.

In addition to consolidating its position in traditional media, Disney has been expanding its military presence in the Internet in recent years. Not only does it have close cooperation with Google, Yahoo, and Apple, but its subsidiary yutube is the largest online video site in the United States. And in Disney's first-quarter financial statements released this year, the video site finally broke even for the first time.

Twitter and Facebook can be said to be an important step for Disney to improve its network system.

Of course, while Disney is expanding, it is not without threats. There are also other companies targeting Disney's subsidiaries or even the entire group.

In the first half of this year, Google, which has already dominated the Internet search, tried to buy the yutube website from Disney. At that time, Ryan stated that he could agree to their acquisition, but put forward a condition that he must exchange Google shares for the purchase.

Everyone knows that Ryan is not short of money, and Google finally gave up this plan.

In recent years, Ryan has been holding 20% ​​of Google's shares tightly. The two founders of Google and the shareholders of Wall Street are not fools. If his shares continue to increase, he will rely on Disney, a behemoth that is terrifying. With the ability to accumulate money, Google may become a holding subsidiary of Walt Disney.

In fact, Ryan really wanted to do this, but he knew that in this way, his good relationship with the Wall Street Jewish group was bound to break down, and the acquisition might not be successful. The final result is more than 80% is not worth the loss.

He is now Google's largest individual shareholder, and he has enough say in the board of directors.

Besides, in a few years, those vampires will need the full support of the media group, and they will be able to secure enough benefits for themselves.

Besides Google, another threat comes from Comscart.

As recently as May, Comcast announced that it would buy The Walt Disney Company for $86 billion. At that time, it shocked the United States and made many people almost burst out laughing, because the market value of Conscat itself is not 86 billion US dollars, what will they use to raise funds?

and also,

The federal government will never allow two of the nation's top five media groups to merge.

Facts have also proved that Comscat does have another purpose. They shout that the acquisition of Disney is just a smoke bomb, but the actual goal is Disney's extremely profitable espn TV station and sports business.

However, the Disney of this life is not the Disney of internal and external troubles before Michael Eisner stepped down from the previous life. He took the initiative to back off.

Between these big groups, just like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, they maintain a certain tacit understanding in the competition, and it is not a last resort. It will not start a life-and-death struggle, not to mention that Disney has many common interests and business contacts with Viacom, Time Warner and News Corporation. If it is countered, it is likely that Conscart will suffer the fate.

To know. Comscat's cable and internet services business is far more attractive to traditional media conglomerates than Disney's film-focused business.

This is a country that advocates free competition. Competition in business can never be avoided.

With the arrival of the National Day holiday, around the weekends around, it has become a time slot for many films to compete for, the most notable of which are the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Gathering of Souls" and "War of the Worlds" successively. .

After more than a year of waiting, "Pirates of the Caribbean" fans are finally getting another set sail from Captain Jack Sparrow, and after dominating June's box office with "The Hunger Games," Disney's film is another big hit Quartet.

The premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Gathering Souls" was still held at Disneyland in Los Angeles, California. The film opened in North America with 4,133 theaters, and it earned $135.63 million at the North American box office on its first three days. Climbed to the top of the box office charts.

Just like the handover of the baton in a relay race, when the North American box office of "The Hunger Games" was approaching $400 million and gradually stagnated, Disney launched a big production in a timely manner and rampaged in the summer.

This film is indeed powerful. Not only did it top the North American box office chart for two consecutive weeks, but it also took only 14 days to snatch $286.68 million from North America. It is definitely a veritable money-sucking weapon.

It wasn't until the next week after Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" that there was a real competitor to "Pirates of the Caribbean: Death Man" on the film market.

The Jewish old man teamed up with Leonardo DiCaprio's sci-fi remake, which knocked "Pirates of the Caribbean: Death Man" from the box office top spot with $77.06 million in 3,908 theaters in its first week. The latter had a strong three-day performance this weekend, with a box office of $35.21 million, pushing the film's North American box office past the $300 million mark to $321.89 million.

There is a movie that can compete with "The Hunger Games" for the annual box office title, but it is still a Disney movie.

"If you only talk about the profitability of movies," Spielgerberg said to Ryan, looking out over the looming golden sand, "there is no company in the world that can compare to Disney."

With a graceful shrug, Ryan stood on the green lawn, took a standard hitting stance, swung the club in his hand vigorously, and the white golf ball flew high, drawing a wonderful parabola. fell by the pond.

"Damn, too bad." Ryan complained, and the shot was quite substandard.

"Stephen, Ryan."

Nicole parked near them in a battery car, "Do you need me to take you there?"

"Honored."

Spielberg smiled and got into the battery car. After Ryan packed up his clubs, he sat next to the old Jewish man.

"Stephen." Ryan brought up the topic discussed just now, "Are you really going to sell DreamWorks?"

After taking a long sigh, Spielberg raised his eyes and nodded heavily, "That's true."

"Interested, Ryan?" he asked rhetorically.

"There are enough Disney studios."

Judging from the current debt-ridden situation of DreamWorks, the final sale price will definitely not exceed $2 billion. Although this money is nothing to Ryan, there are many classic movies missing from the DreamWorks library today. , the future Transformers series is in his hands again, it is really difficult to attract him.

Still, Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox are interested in DreamWorks.

The battery car quickly stopped by the pond, and Ryan jumped out of the car and took three more shots to finish the hole at four over.

"Continue?" asked Nicole, who was temporarily acting as a driver.

"Let's go back to the rest area." Spielberg shook his head, "You get tired after exercising for a while."

Ryan took the seat of Nicole's driver and drove the battery car back to the rest area by the sea. The three of them randomly found a small table and sat under the large sun umbrella, enjoying the cool sea breeze blowing slowly. The best coffee from the club.

The three chatted a few words, and the topic gradually turned to "Jurassic Park 3", which was about to be officially started.

"The location is still Lanai."

This location for the second film, now Ryan's private property, must be the most suitable location. "Kate is still acting as your assistant, and Disney has contacted Stan Winston, who has ended "Iron Man". ” model production, and then it will be transferred to the crew, and the special effects will still be handed over to ILM.”

"Can I recommend an actor?" The script was already in Spielberg's hands.

"Stephen, if you want, just enable it." According to Spielberg, it should not be the hero and heroine.

"One of my godsons." Spielberg added that Ryan was a little puzzled, "Actually, he has been playing small roles all these years, and I guarantee that his acting skills and image meet the requirements of Dr. Glenn's students..."

"No problem." Ryan understood. He was probably talking about Shia LaBeouf. "I'll let someone negotiate a contract with him."

As we all know, Spielberg has three star goddaughters in Hollywood, Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow and Catherine Zeta Jones, in addition, there is a godson, that is Shia LaBeouf .

In general, the old man is quite good at teaching girls and children.

In the past life, if Spielberg was not the producer, would Shia LaBeouf get the actor of "Transformers"?

However, this is not necessarily the case in this life. Ryan plans to hold a large-scale audition for the male and female protagonists. This is part of the entire publicity plan. He once asked Scarlett Johansson, but the chubby girl is obviously not interested in this pure vase. Characters that are completely decorative and have no technical content are not interested.

As for whether the final heroine will fall on the head of Miss Fox, it depends on whether she will come to the audition.

Anyway, it is enough to find a sexy and beautiful vase with basic acting skills for this kind of role.

Maybe get an angel from Victoria's Secret to play the heroine?

Ryan was still thinking about it on his way out of the club back to Beverly Hills, a classic win-win.

After going back, let the people from Disney Pictures contact the management of Victoria's Secret. There must be many angels who are willing to appear in such a large-scale commercial film. (To be continued..) ()