Chapter 13: Wald Pictures
The next morning, Zhuke got up, washed briefly, and drove out. In addition to paying attention to Pixar's stock today, Zhuke still has many things to do. The most important thing is to inspect the seven SpongeBob Stores.
Hollywood and Highland Mall.
SpongeBob House second store.
Apart from the main store, it has the best business because of its good location and many tourists. Sometimes the business is better than the main store.
"BOSS, welcome to come to inspect the work, you are not here today, I also plan to go to you to report on the work at night." Victor said.
Victor Jones, male, white, 30 years old, married, has a two-year-old daughter, and is currently the store manager of the second store; before serving as the store manager of SpongeBob House, he was a local toy factory in Los Angeles The factory director, that is, the general manager, has achieved outstanding results, but because the factory owner is addicted to gambling, he lost all his fortune in Las Vegas, and then he switched to Zhu Ke.
Victor Jones is undoubtedly the employee with the best personal resume under Zucker.
Before the release of "Toy Story", the second store led by Victor was the store with the highest turnover, and it was also the only profitable store for two consecutive months.
From this point of view alone, who else does Zhu Ke value him?
Talent is rare!
"Victor, I heard that you worked in Hollywood for a while before you became the manager of the toy factory?" Zhu Ke asked.
Victor nodded and said, "Yes, boss, I didn't get good grades when I was young, and after graduating from high school, I came out to work and worked in Hollywood studios. Later, I also worked as a manager for several years."
While speaking, Victor couldn't help showing a look of nostalgia.
After all, that's Hollywood!
"Oh? Then why don't you continue to do it?" Zhu Ke was curious.
"BOSS, the company was planning to transfer me to the New York branch as a manager, but my wife was pregnant and her pregnancy reaction was serious every time. As a last resort, I had to quit my job and then went to work in the toy factory. You know everything down here," Victor said.
Hearing this, Zhuke nodded.
Victor Jones is indeed a very thoughtful and capable manager.
Before the release of "Toy Story", Zhuke was hoarding peripheral products, and was questioned by many store managers, including James, who thought Zhuke was too crazy.
Victor is the only one who supports Zhu Ke's approach!
He gave the reason: "Since Steve Jobs took over Pixar, although he has invested heavily and has been unable to make ends meet, he has studied a lot of useless things, but they have also accumulated a lot of advanced 3D animation technology; moreover, as long as you have seen it. They produced the Best Animated Short Oscar of "Little Soldiers of Iron" a few years ago. You will find that their rendering skills and storytelling capabilities are very outstanding, and they are undoubtedly standing at the top of Hollywood and even the world. "Toy Story" is their work, which took four years to build. The possibility of success is far greater than failure."
is from that day.
Zuke confirmed: Victor is a real talent.
As for why Zhuke has not heard his name in the future, what's weird?
Are there few talents buried in Hollywood?
Besides, sometimes opportunities and opportunities are more important than one's own ability!
"Victor, you will sort out your work in the near future and prepare for the handover work." Zhu Ke said.
"Uh...boss, did I do something wrong?"
Victor's heart jumped when he heard Zucker's words.
What are you doing?
Are you going to fire me?
I am short of money now, after all, my wife needs money to bring her two-year-old daughter at home! What if I don’t have a job?
"you misunderstood."
Zhu Ke laughed blankly and said, "I plan to acquire a Hollywood film company in the near future, um, the smaller one; the original film company manager, I don't think he can do it, do you want to try it? Of course, you can also choose to refuse and continue. This job."
"I accept! I am very eager to join in."
Victor can't help himself. After all, he has been in Hollywood for nearly ten years. This relationship doesn't mean that you can give up if you give up. Now the opportunity is right in front of you. How can you let it go?
...
In a blink of an eye, half a month passed.
Zhuke did not hesitate to settle the liquidation after the market value of Pixar Animation broke through 1 billion US dollars. The earnings ratio did not reach 10 times Zucker's expectations, but it also reached 4 times.
is scary enough!
"The investment of 6 million US dollars, it became more than 24 million US dollars after half a month, and the profit was 15 million US dollars, which is quite good."
Zhuke, who holds a cash flow of more than 20 million US dollars, is undoubtedly in a good mood.
Three days later.
Zhuke, Victor, and Condy finally reached an agreement after a week-long negotiation with Hughes Pictures.
With a fortune of 2.8 million US dollars, Zhu Ke completed the acquisition of the entire equity of Hughes Pictures and changed the name of the film company to-Wald Pictures!
Full name: Zhuke Wald Film Entertainment Company.
That's right, Zhuke is so narcissistic.
"Look at the two film media groups, Disney and Warner, which one is not named after the last name? This is to write your name into film history!"
The other four of the six Hollywood, Paramount, Columbia, Universal, and Twentieth Century Fox, although they are equally great, but people who are not familiar with the history of Hollywood, who will remember their founders?
Zhuke’s current net worth is close to 30 million U.S. dollars, and as a traverser, he firmly believes that he will be richer in the future. Shouldn’t he pursue more?
For example: engraved in the history of film!
"Zuke, congratulations, starting today, you are officially a member of Hollywood!" Condy looked at Zhuke and laughed.
"Condy, congratulations too, I made another $10,000 from me!" Zucker said.
Hearing this, the corners of Condy's mouth twitched slightly: "You vampire, my charge is low enough. I have to change someone else. I don't have $30,000. I won't even watch it."
"Thank you, my friend."
This sentence, Zhu Ke is really sincere.
Generally speaking, the company responsible for taking over the acquisition will have to take a lot of money. For acquisitions of less than ten million U.S. dollars, the market price is at least 5%;
Michael Ovitz, one of the founders of CAA, is one of the representatives of the entertainment industry.
In 1989, Sony Group purchased Columbia Pictures, one of the six largest Hollywood studios, for US$3.4 billion, and paid Ovitz a personal commission of US$35 million. In 1990, Panasonic Group acquired MCA for US$6.59 billion, which also paid a high amount. The commission is a full 40 million US dollars.
In this way, Kangdi’s charges are really not expensive.
This time, he gave Zhu Ke a big price for friendship!
Of course, with Zhuke's vampire-like attributes, he would not want to get a high service fee.
"Victor, you are now the CEO of Wald Pictures, then I have to wait and see." Zhu Ke said suddenly.
Upon hearing this, Victor Jones said immediately: "Boss, I will not let you down."
Zhuke nodded, and then left Wald Pictures with Condy. As for the scheduled speech in front of all employees after the acquisition of the company, Zhu Ke did not attend either.
Boss, you have to use the staff!
Okay, that's not the case.
Generally speaking, after the new boss acquires the company, he will more or less increase the employee's salary and benefits by 10% to 20%, which is not a small amount of money. Zhuke·Nobody wants to make more money for me·Wald, is online again!
Of course, Zhuke still has work to do now!
"Now that the Hollywood company has completed the acquisition, let's start making movies as soon as possible."
It's impossible for Zhu Ke not to get excited.
Make a movie!
Zhu Ke, who graduated from the Department of Directors in his previous life, was surprised that he had not been a director for a while. Well, well, I have never been an assistant director. Now I am a director in Hollywood. How can I not be excited? !
