Chapter 677： Heroine of Transformers

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

What is the most powerful media in the future? This kind of problem is very obvious to Ryan.

In addition to securing its position in traditional media, Disney has been expanding its network in recent years. Not only does it have close partnerships with Google, Yahoo, and Apple, but its subsidiary yutube is the largest online video site in the United States. And in the financial statements for the first quarter released by Disney this year, this video site finally reached a balance of payments 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 that target Disney's subsidiaries or even the entire group.

In the first half of this year, Google, which has already occupied the dominant position in online 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 Google shares must be exchanged for the purchase.

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

In the past few years, Ryan has been holding 20% ​​of Google’s shares tightly. The two founders of Google and those shareholders on Wall Street are not fools. If his shares continue to increase, he will rely on Disney as a monster. Google's ability to accumulate money, if not sure, will become a holding subsidiary of Walt Disney.

In fact, Ryan really wants to do this, but understands that if this is the case, his good relationship with the Wall Street Jewish group is bound to break, and the acquisition may not be successful. The final result is more than 80% is not worth the gain.

He is now the largest individual shareholder of Google, and he has enough voice on the board of directors. There is no need to get to the end and fight the horrible things like Wall Street alone. Just think about it.

Besides, within a few years, that group of vampires will need the strong support of the media group, so that they can fight for sufficient benefits for themselves.

In addition to Google, another threat comes from Conscat.

In May, Comcast Group announced that it would spend 86 billion U.S. dollars to buy The Walt Disney Company. At that time, the nation was shocked, and many people almost burst into laughter, because Conscart's own market value was not $86 billion. What did they use to raise funds?

Also, the federal government will never allow the merger of the two top five media groups in the United States.

Facts have also proved that Conscart does have another purpose. They shouted that the acquisition of Disney is just a smoke bomb. The actual goal is Disney's extremely profitable espn TV station and its sports business.

However, this world of Disney is not the former Disney who suffered internal and external troubles before Michael Eisner stepped down. Conscart only tried to contact Disney's management. He took the initiative to retreat.

These big groups, just like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, maintain a certain tacit agreement in the competition, which is not a last resort. Will not start a life-and-death battle, not to mention that Disney and Viacom, Time Warner and News Corporation have many common interests and business contacts. If it is countered, it is likely that the fate will be divided by Conscutt.

To know. The wired and network service business in the hands of Conscart is far more attractive to traditional media groups than the business centered on the film and television industry in Disney's hands.

This is a country that advocates free competition. Commercial competition can never be avoided.

With the advent of the ** Day holiday, around the weekends around the time, it has become the schedule for many films to compete for. Among them, the most eye-catching is the successive releases of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Soul Gathering Coffin" and "World War". Up.

After waiting for more than a year, the fans of "Pirates of the Caribbean" finally ushered in another sail from Captain Jack Sparrow. After "The Hunger Games" dominated the box office in June, Disney's film produced another big kill. Quartet.

The premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Gathering Soul Coffin" was still placed in Los Angeles, California. The film opened in North America with 4,133 theaters, and it won the North American box office of US$135.63 million on the first three days. Boarded the throne of the box office leaderboard.

Just like the handover of a relay race, when the North American box office of "The Hunger Games" was approaching US$400 million and gradually stagnated, Disney launched a big production at the right time, which was rampant in the summer file.

This film is indeed full of power. Not only has it topped the North American box office chart for two consecutive weeks, it also took 286.68 million US dollars from North America in just 14 days. It is definitely a veritable gold sucker.

It wasn't until Spielberg's "War of the World" was released every other week that there was a real rival on the film market that could compete with "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Gathering of Souls."

The old Jewish man teamed up with Leonardo DiCaprio’s remake of the science fiction film. In the first week, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Gathering Soul Coffin" was driven out of the box office champion with a total of 77.06 million dollars from 3908 theaters ; The latter’s performance in the three days this weekend is still strong, with a box office of 35.21 million US dollars, sending the film’s North American box office to the 300 million US dollar mark, reaching 321.89 million US dollars.

A movie that can compete with "The Hunger Games" for the annual box office championship has appeared, but this is still a Disney movie.

"If you talk about the profitability of movies alone." Spielger looked at the faintly golden beach and said to Ryan, "There is no company in the world that can compare to Disney."

With a graceful shrug, Ryan stood on the green lawn, assumed a standard batting posture, swung the club in his hand hard, and the white golf ball flew high, drawing a wonderful parabola. Fell by the pond.

"Damn it, it's too bad." Ryan complained, and the shot was pretty bad.

"Steven, Ryan."

Nicole drove the battery car and parked near them, "Do you need me to take you there?"

"Honored."

Spielberg smiled and got into the battery car. Ryan packed up his clubs and sat beside the old Jewish man.

"Stephen." Ryan mentioned the topic discussed earlier, "Do you really plan to sell DreamWorks?"

After a long sigh, Spielberg lifted his eyes and nodded heavily, "It's true."

"Interested, Ryan?" he asked rhetorically.

"There are enough film companies under Disney."

According to the current debt-ridden situation of DreamWorks, the final sale price will definitely not exceed 2 billion US dollars. Although this money is not a big deal to Ryan, there are many classic films missing in the current DreamWorks film library. , The future Transformers series is in his hands again, it is really difficult to attract him.

However, Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox are still very interested in DreamWorks.

The battery car quickly stopped by the pond, Ryan jumped out of the car, took another three strokes, and finally completed the hole four strokes above par.

"Continue?" asked Nicole, who temporarily acted as the driver.

"Let's go back to the rest area." Spielberg shook his head. "When you are old, you will feel tired after exercising for a while."

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

The three people chatted for a few words, and the topic gradually turned to "Jurassic Park 3", which is about to officially begin preparations.

"The location is still Lanai."

The location for the second filming is now Ryan’s private property. It must be the most suitable shooting location. "Kate still acts as your assistant. Disney contacted Stan Winston. He has finished "Iron Man". The model production of "will then be transferred to the crew, and we will still hand over the special effects to Industrial Light & Magic."

"Can I recommend an actor?" The script had already been handed over to Spielberg.

"Steven, if you want, even if you enable it." Listening to Spielberg's meaning, it should not be the male and female protagonist.

"One of my godsons." Seeing Ryan a little bit confused, Spielberg added, "Actually, he has been playing some small roles over the years. I guarantee that his acting skills and imagery meet the requirements of Dr. Gülen'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 goddesses in Hollywood, Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Catherine Zeta Jones. In addition, there is another godson, Shia LaBeouf. .

In general, the old man is still quite good to goddess In the past life, if Spielberg was not the producer, can Shia LaBeouf get the actor in "Transformers"?

However, this is not necessarily the case in this world. Ryan intends to hold a wide range of auditions for the heroes and heroines. This is part of the entire publicity plan. He once asked Scarlett Johansson, but the little fat girl was obviously interested in this pure vase. Characters who are completely embellished 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, for this kind of role, it is enough to find a **** and beautiful vase with basic acting skills.

Maybe you can find an angel from Victoria's Secret to play the heroine?

On the way back to Beverly Hills from the club, Ryan is still considering this issue, which is a typical win-win situation.

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