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Disney CEO sandy littwatt and President Bill michanik wait in a VIP room at Los Angeles International Airport.

As litwat hung up a phone call, bill michanik asked, "Simon must have refused, right?"

"What happened a few days ago, how could Simon go to the party to welcome the French?" Sandy littwatt said with a smile. He put away his cell phone, took a cup of coffee and took a sip. "Anyway, we just need to finish what we should do, just like Peter guberra had a lot of stars entertaining Akio Morita and coaxing the Japanese You have to be happy. "

Bill michanik cocked his legs, with a little regret and self mockery: "it's a pity that we don't get as good treatment as Cooper and Peters."

"At least in a short time, donkeys won't step on the same spot twice, we just don't have a good time," Sandy littwatt shrugged and laughed, looked at the airport runway outside the glass window of the VIP room, and suddenly said, "have you been in touch with Michael lately?"

Michael, of course, is their former boss, Michael Eisner.

Bill michanik also did not hide, nodded: "I had breakfast together a few days ago. Michael's LinkedIn social networking site did a good job, and he also tested whether I was interested in working together."

Sandy littewart heard michanik say that he was a little disappointed that Eisner didn't get in touch with him.

But it was soon relieved.

As a lawyer, he was once the head of Disney's legal department. Although he managed his business in good order during his term of office, he didn't have much to do. Moreover, he was not familiar with the emerging Internet industry.

What's more, littwatt also knows that Michael essnara has retired from Disney's former president Frank wells as a director and legal adviser on LinkedIn's board of directors. Frank wells, also a lawyer, was the immediate supervisor of sandy littwatt before his retirement. Now that he had this helper, of course, Eisner would not think of him again.

Bill michanik is different.

The former head of Disney's home entertainment department successfully launched a series of Disney's old animated films in the 1980s, which not only created sales miracles, but also directly provided a large amount of funds for the development of Disney in the 1980s, and promoted the rapid rise of Disney's stock price.

All in all, michanik is a practical talent who is very good at business development and marketing. If he moves to LinkedIn, he will hopefully help Eisner improve the business model of this workplace social networking site. Sustainable business model is a problem that many Internet enterprises urgently need to solve at this stage.

With that in mind, sandy littwatt asked, "how did you respond to Michael?"

Michanik shook his head and said, "I refused."

Little Watt was a bit surprised: "why, I think this is a good opportunity?"

"the Internet industry is crazy now, I cannot read a bit," Micha Nick said honestly. "Moreover, I think the bubble wave will last for another year at most. If we go to LinkedIn, maybe we haven't got the business to start, we will face the bubble burst and the market will enter an underestimation crisis. By contrast, it's more stable to stay in Hollywood. "

Sandy littwatt said half jokingly, "in that case, you may have missed hundreds of millions of dollars."

Michanik shook his head and said: "now, whether it's Wall Street or Hollywood, many people are trying their best to squeeze into Silicon Valley. How many people can really make a fortune? These people do not think that once the Internet bubble bursts, can they return to their original fields easily? Moreover, in my opinion, the monopoly pattern of the Internet industry has taken shape, and the westero system has occupied most of the interests. Unless there is another change, fewer and fewer people will dig gold from this field. "

Ritter watt thought about michanik's words for a moment. He had to nod, but he still couldn't help saying, "I heard that LinkedIn is already preparing for the IPO?"

"Yes, it's probably going public early next year. Michael and I have revealed that the IPO value of LinkedIn may be about $500 million. Compared with the initial investment of the website, this is a considerable figure, but it's still far from the new technology giants like igritte. This is why I am not going. If I choose to join in the first place, I will get more shares in the IPO. Now I will get more options for future job hopping. You will know more about this option than I do. Once the bubble burst, those options would be not worth a hair.

As a matter of fact, he was also thinking about whether he would use his savings over the years to fight in Silicon Valley. After listening to michanik's analysis, litwat rubbed his coffee cup, somewhat dejected, and gave up some thoughts in his heart.

After all, they are both middle-aged.

I can't afford it.

Now that they are in charge of Disney together, even under the strict control of Vivendi, there is not much room for them to perform. After all, they are also the seven leaders of Hollywood. Although the French have strict control over Disney, in order to stabilize people's minds, their salaries were not bad.After waiting for more than ten minutes, an assistant came to inform them. They got up and took several entourage to an apron inside the airport for private planes to take off and land.

Vivendi group's new chairman and CEO Jean Marie Messier and his party arrived from France today.

Jean Marie Messier recently took over from guy dejovani, the former boss of Vivendi group for 20 years, the century old giant with a market value of more than $30 billion.

Vivendi had previously been mainly engaged in water, transportation, energy and other fields. When Jean Marie Messier was president, Vivendi began to march into the media field. Vivendi's acquisition of Disney was a project promoted by Jean Marie Messier himself. With the qualifications accumulated in this acquisition, Messier beat other competitors and became Vivendi's new leader.

Just after the handover last week, Messier couldn't wait to arrange the trip to North America.

Even if Disney's current performance is somewhat tepid, after all, the time is still short, and the deal is far from being labeled as a failure. At present, the global media and entertainment industry is growing at a high speed. The acquisition of Disney is just the beginning for messier, who is ambitious to transform Vivendi into a media and entertainment giant.

After getting off the plane, Jean Marie messier, who came to Hollywood with a huge group of subordinates, did not go to the hotel to have a rest, but went directly to the Disney headquarters in Burbank.

A large conference room in Disney headquarters.

Sandy littwatt and a group of Disney executives sat on one side of the conference table, looking at Vivendi's senior executives of France's fourth TV station, the famous French gomont film team and Luc Besson, a little famous French director in Hollywood, and others on the other side of the conference table, feeling a little strange.

The French want to attack Hollywood?

Jean Marie Messier is also an aggressive figure. We sit down and give each other a brief introduction. He goes straight to the theme and says that he will personally promote Disney to focus on building a number of blockbuster projects to compete with other Hollywood film companies. At the same time, in order to share the risks, Disney will strengthen cooperation with major French media and entertainment companies.

After asking sandy littwatt about the progress of the terminator's copyright negotiations and expressing his affirmation, Jean Marie Messier announced on the spot that he would cooperate with the French goment film industry to jointly develop the science fiction blockbuster "the fifth element" series prepared by French director Luc Besson for many years.

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Messier also introduced in person that this is a science fiction series with a complete world view created by Luc Besson since he was a teenager. At present, the complete conception of the trilogy has been completed, and it may develop into a fifth element film universe series similar to DC film universe in the future.

For the Frenchman's surprise attack without prior notice, sandy littwatt and others did not express dissatisfaction.

make complaints about the inside.

Another movie universe, doesn't the movie universe need money?

Moreover, attracting a large number of French filmmakers to cooperate with Disney has made Disney's senior management even less optimistic. It's strange that the French film style can adapt to Hollywood.

Like Luc Besson, although blue sea and blue sky created a French box office miracle in those years, the director, at least at present, has not shown much ability to make Hollywood style films. The killer is not too cold two years ago, which has a good reputation in North America, and the box office is not good at all.

On the third day of his arrival in Los Angeles, Jean Marie Messier presided over a grand press conference at the Disney headquarters in Burbank, publicly announcing that "Terminator 3" and "the fifth" Disney's new stage film development plan is led by the two major projects of elements.

It's June 21, Friday.

The past box office week in North America has just ended. Originally, the topic of "007 ghost party" was hot. Unexpectedly, it was suddenly attracted by Disney's big action.

However, this does not cover up the edge of 007's ghost party.

During the box office week from June 14 to June 20, the ghost Party of 007, which opened its first week, just in the North American market, won $89.17 million at the box office with 3346 pieces of screen. Even if the inflation factor is taken into account, this is the highest box office performance of 007 series since its inception.

Although the total budget for the production and publicity of "007 ghost party" has reached 125 million US dollars, at present, only local cinema distribution can make MGM make a good profit, and overseas and follow-up can make the producers make a lot of money.

In the case of inflation, the highest box office equivalent of the 007 series was the "Thunderbolt bomb of 007" produced in 1965, when the global box office was 140 million US dollars, equivalent to 720 million US dollars in 1996. According to the local and overseas data of the first week of "007 ghost party", this latest 007 movie is likely to break the box office record set by "007 thunderbolt" after calculating inflation, and become the most profitable 007 movie since the beginning of the series.Under the impact of "007's ghost party", the box office of other films in the same period dropped sharply.

The box office of mission impossible 2, which came in second, fell 51% in the third week of its release. It cut back and earned $27.98 million. However, in three weeks, the total box office of this TV drama adaptation action blockbuster, which is also the subject of secret service, has reached 161.24 million US dollars.

Because "007's ghost party" is too strong, in addition to the second place "mission impossible 2" to keep more than 10 million U.S. dollars in box office volume, this week, all other films were knocked down to 10 million U.S. dollars range.

The heart of the dragon, the third place, fell 53% the next week to close at $7.93 million, a total of $24.76 million in two weeks.

Even Romeo and Juliet, which has been performing strongly in a dark horse manner since the beginning of the painting, has seen a relatively high box office drop of 36% in the past week. For the first time, it has dropped by more than 30%, with only US $6.76 million left in a single week, ranking fourth in the list.

It is also a sign that the box office potential of Romeo and Juliet is beginning to run out.

After all, it has been six weeks since it was released. With the box office of 6.76 million US dollars just in the past week, this low-cost love movie, which costs only 15 million US dollars, has successfully broken the box office of 100 million US dollars and successfully entered the box office Club of 100 million US dollars. The total box office in North America has reached 106.43 million US dollars.

Mummy, the fifth, fell 46% in a single week and earned $6.38 million. In five weeks, the fantasy adventure blockbuster jointly produced by Fox and danielis grossed $143.35 million.

In addition to the top five, the box office of other films that are still showing in the same period is less than $5 million.

On June 21, a new box office week opened.

According to the ups and downs rules of this summer season, none of the three major new films this week is too heavy.

First of all, police Empire, a crime drama written and directed by James Mangold and starred by Sylvester Stallone, was released from the end of last year to this summer. The production cost was only 10 million US dollars and the number of screens was 1697.

Then, Disney's two-dimensional animated film "the freak of the bell tower", which is adapted from "Notre Dame de Paris", has 1297 screens.

Compared with "police Empire", it's not worth mentioning.

Because of the rise of 3D animated films, 2D animated films have been less and less expected by the audience in recent years. Although the "freak of the bell tower" has a world-class super IP base like "Notre Dame of Paris", in fact, such an adult oriented theme is very unfriendly to all age audiences, especially the key children audience of animated films.

Disney also mentioned the topic of revitalizing animated films in its grand press conference on Friday. Unfortunately, limited by various factors, few people are optimistic that Disney can achieve this.

Finally, there is "the fury of breaking locks.".

This is a film based on real events. It tells the story of a slave uprising on a slave ship before the civil war in the United States and the final freedom. The film is directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by DreamWorks and distributed by paramount. The production cost is $40 million.

Compared with Jurassic Park, et alien and even Schindler's list, lock breaking rage is almost unknown in Spielberg's list of works, and probably not many people know about it in the original time and space.

Like Schindler's list, lock breaking fury was a project that Spielberg began to prepare in the 1980s. It wasn't produced until DreamWorks was established.

And it's also due to the success of Schindler's list.

As a cooperation project between DreamWorks and paramount, if it wasn't for the previous "Schindler's list" that investors saw such heavy topics, they could also get a good box office. Even Spielberg is unlikely to get the investment.

However, paramount has obviously regretted it.

Compared with "police Empire" and "clock tower freak", the number of opening screens of "lock breaking fury" is only 1019, and there are more than 1000 on the screen, which obviously depends on Spielberg's face.

What's more, unlike Schindler's list, which was treated with great care at the beginning for fear of offending anything, the political correctness of the United States in the 1990s has not reached the extreme level. On the day of the film's opening, the comprehensive media score of 7.7 points is obviously unsatisfactory compared with a film that needs public praise to prop up the ticket room.

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