Hollywood Starts with Animation

Since the release of "Toy Story", the box office has been climbing.

In just three days, that is, a first weekend, its cumulative box office reached 68.25 million US dollars.

The word of mouth and influence gradually increased, which made Zhu Kele blossom. Because the turnover of the SpongeBob SquarePants House chain in the past three days has exceeded one million US dollars, which is higher than the turnover of the previous month.

Zucker was happy, but the owners of movie-peripheral chains in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah couldn't sit still.

That's right.

In fact, as early as one day after the release of "Toy Story", many people found Zucker and wanted to obtain the surrounding authorization of their state, but they were all scared off by Zucker's asking price.

"Zuck, you bloody, black-hearted bastard, you're charging such a high price, are you killing us like fish? You bastard." The owner of one of the surrounding chain stores yelled.

Ha ha!

For him, Zucker scolded in turn: "Fuck you!"

However.

Just this morning.

The boss who scolded Zu Ke in person, together with the owners of the surrounding chain stores in other states, a full thirty or so people, appeared at Zu Ke's door.

"Mr. Wald, good morning!"

"I've heard that Mr. Wald is young and promising. When I saw it today, it really is!"

"Little George, aren't you talking nonsense?"

"That is, before the release of "Toy Story", Mr. Wald dared to bet that it would be a big hit. With such courage and courage, you little George can't match it."

Sure enough, they are all businessmen, and their verbal skills are amazing.

Ha ha, anyway, it doesn't cost money, how about saying a few good words?

"Okay everyone, I know everyone's intentions today. Then I won't go around in circles. I will try to give the authorization today. After all, if you have money, everyone will make it together."

Zucker didn't have the time to go around in circles with them, let's fight quickly!

The sooner you get the authorization done, the sooner you can make money.

After all, Pixar Animation is coming soon. Compared with the profits from peripheral licensing, Zucker obviously values ​​the listing of Pixar more, which is ten times the profits!

Since he was going to negotiate, Zucker called Condy right away.

Kandi has a lot of skills and the fees are not high, so why not use it?

......

"Mr. Barnett, congratulations, you have obtained a five-year license for the "Toy Story" movie in Nevada." Zucker said with a smile, and pointed to the lawyer beside him.

"Thank you, Mr. Wald."

Barnett is the owner of the largest movie peripheral chain in Nevada, with 19 stores. He used to look down on Zucker, but now he can only grit his teeth in order to make money.

"Damn bastard, he asked me for $1.3 million for a five-year license, and said he sold it to me at a low price." Barnett cursed inwardly.

After scolding in his heart, Barnett gritted his teeth and looked at Candy, who looked "I'm sincere".

"This guy is also a bastard."

The two bastards joined forces, enough to shock the old foxes present.

......

"Mr. Wald, we must have a good chat next time we meet and make a fortune together!" said a fat old white man.

His name is Billy Gilder, and he's the owner of a movie-periphery chain in Utah.

Although his chain is not the largest in Utah, not even in the top five, with only 9 stores, Zucker still sold him the license, who made him the highest bid.

$1.5 million!

"I just like this kind of courageous person who dares to fight "Toy Story"."

I have to say that Zucker likes Old Billy's decisiveness.

......

Movie peripheral licenses in Nevada, Arizona, and Utah,

Zucker is a state-for-one, and in California, where Los Angeles is located, hehe, Zucker is a city-by-city seller.

Especially in downtown Los Angeles, Zucker didn't even want to sell it!

"In other areas, I don't have a store, but in Los Angeles, what's wrong with exclusive business?" Zucker is so practical.

For the whole day, Zucker and Candy were wrangling with them.

All authorizations were not sold until 9 pm. Although Zucker and Candy were almost exhausted, their expressions couldn't help but burst into excitement.

$5.65 million!

Victory!

"Zuck, you really made a lot of money. In just two months, the licenses you won for $800,000 have quadrupled, not counting the peripheral products you sell these days!"

After everyone was gone, Candy started chattering.

"Stop! Stop! Stop!"

Zucker interrupted: "I said buddy, I will take all your compliments, but...I want to add money, but there is no door!"

Hearing this, Kandi jumped up immediately and scolded: "You vampire, am I such a person? You can doubt my character, but you can't question my professional ethics."

"Well, I'm sorry, I apologize!" Zucker said sincerely.

"Uh..." Kandi was dumbfounded on the spot and scolded angrily: "You bastard, you really don't add money!"

After a long time of wrangling, Zucker finally added $100 to him in a good mood, for a total of $2,100 in service fees.

After Candy got up and left, Zucker couldn't help jumping up.

"Yes! This time it's really a huge profit!"

"Toy Story's merchandise licenses alone, including local merchandise sales in Los Angeles over the next month, are estimated to bring in more than $7 million in revenue."

"Well, and the next Pixar listing, you can't miss it."

That night, Zucker thought a lot.

I think the most, or Hollywood.

Yes, Zucker has already decided. After deciding to make a big splash on Pixar's IPO, he bought a small Hollywood studio and made money by making movies.

"Although I worked in logistics in my last life, I also graduated from the directing department. Even if I haven't made a movie seriously, it seems that it's not difficult to make some low-cost movies."

Just do what you say, it has always been Zucker's style.

"Lola Run" is the film chosen by Zucker.

The movie tells the story of Lola, who runs to save her boyfriend, and gets 100,000 marks in 20 minutes.

Lola and Manny are young lovers in their early 20s. Manny is a little gangster who doesn't do his job properly. One day he got into a big trouble and lost the smuggled 100,000 marks! And his eldest brother was going to come and get the money back in 20 minutes, so cowardly Manny had to ask Lola for help.

This film contains elements such as time travel, butterfly effect, feminism, etc., and has the potential to be a hot seller.

Moreover, the film was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1998, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award and other nominations, and also won the 1999 Saint Denis Award.

"The movie has a good reputation, and the most important thing is that the cost is cheap!"

That's right, the first item that Zucker is currently considering is low cost.

"Well, there is also the cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants". Since the system has given a full set of information, we can't let it go. We must get it done as soon as possible."

"I can't say, I can still get the title of 'the father of SpongeBob SquarePants' in the future, so beautiful."

Zucker smugly said, "I'm such a clever little ghost!"