hollywood melon man

Chapter 256 Other careers
The current cumulative box office of "Titanic" in North America is US$6.61 million, which just exceeds the previous North American box office results.

The global box office also reached US$18.42 billion, which also exceeded the previous global box office results.

At the end, the film is like a slow snail, crawling up bit by bit, and it may still be able to crawl for a while.

With such high box office revenue and awesome peripherals, Gilbert Jr.'s investment of US$50 million brought him a return of US$200 million.

At this time, the media no longer ridiculed him, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and other major investors as fools. Instead, they all praised little Gilbert for his precise vision.

It is said that several film fund strategies on Wall Street have been finalized. From now on, they will just invest in whatever film project Gilbert is optimistic about.

Little Gilbert has become a benchmark for Wall Street vampires to invest in movies. It seems that little Gilbert will not lose money if he is optimistic about it.

At this time, if little Gilbert has a bad taste and is optimistic about a big project that failed in his previous life, I wonder what the vampires on Wall Street will think?
In fact, what Wall Street wants to invest most in is Gilbert Jr.'s movie project. Not to mention the quick shooter, the quality is still high, and the box office and peripheral profits are terrifyingly high.

It's a pity that little Gilbert's film projects have never been short of money. Even for "Chicago", which was not favored by others, there were still many people paying for him, and Wall Street was not given a chance at all.

In addition to film matters, Gilbert Jr. has made some changes in his investment field. His investment company was officially renamed Fruit Group.

Although gamers often criticize Penguin’s games, it is undeniable that Penguin’s games do make money.

In his previous life, he played the reset version on PS4. After playing it, he thought about it for a long time and wondered what it would be like to make it into a movie.

Things are going well here at Marvel. Since Gilbert Jr. took over, Marvel has divested itself of unnecessary businesses and officially established Marvel Studios in Burbank in June.

So in November 1998, the watermelon game department was officially established and began to recruit people and develop some games.

Why is it called watermelon? Because the flesh of watermelon is red, it symbolizes a red heart facing...

Little Gilbert also wants to bring the story of Joel and Ellie in "The Last of Us" to the big screen. Although this is an apocalyptic story, it is centered on people and is quite exciting.

However, Marvel Studios did not immediately rush into the production of the first project. Gilbert Jr. made a detailed plan for Marvel.

As for superhero movies, to be honest, Gilbert Jr. thinks that having the opportunity to make a "Dark Knight" trilogy is enough.

Although he won Marvel and became the controlling shareholder, he had no intention of directing a superhero movie and found it a bit boring.

This is not over yet. Little Gilbert knows that Penguin Empire is not only social, but the more important business is actually a game empire based on social interaction.

Little Gilbert also provided several suggestions and ideas to the game department. Maybe by then we can see his company developing games such as the "God of War" series and the "GTA" series.

At present, Xigua's market value has reached tens of billions of dollars. It is the largest social networking site in the United States and the largest photo sharing website.

More importantly, games can be linked with movies and become part of the development peripherals.

In order to be more in line with the nature of the fruit, Facebook, which he controls, officially changed its name to watermelon, which means watermelon.

Xiao Ma was in urgent need of funds and agreed without hesitation, which made Gilbert become one of Penguin's shareholders.

Marvel's screenwriters are currently studying the feasibility of movie-making the Marvel Universe and conducting technical verification.

The huge mobile game market is not yet visible, but the game industry based on consoles and PCs is already huge and will become bigger and bigger.

The field of investment in social networking sites does not end here. Shortly after the establishment of Penguin Company in China, Gilbert Jr. gave Xiao Ma a US$1 million in angel investment.

The company with the smoothest development is undoubtedly the Banana Company, which makes search engines and portals. Its current market value has reached 530 billion U.S. dollars, soaring quite quickly.

However, Gilbert Jr. was not satisfied yet. After discussing with Watermelon CEO Mark Ruhl and Chief Technology Officer Honey Mars, he planned to create a microblog as a social supplement to Watermelon.

For example, "Cyberpunk 2077", which little Gilbert has never known where to start, can be made into a movie or a game and make two kinds of money.

With his holdings in banana, watermelon and other companies, as well as several companies held by Gilbert Jr., Gilbert Jr. is worth more than 20 billion U.S. dollars, second only to a few wealthy individuals such as Bill Gates.

Of course, these are publicly known. Many wealthy people in North America actually exist in the form of families and consortiums, which are generally not disclosed to the public.

For example, the Federal Reserve, which is responsible for printing money, is backed by shareholders from twelve major families. To this day, little Gilbert does not know who these twelve major families are.

If these families are willing to turn on the nuclear-powered money printing press at any time, regardless of inflation, the wealth of everyone in their family will easily surpass that of Little Gilbert.

Therefore, little Gilbert never regarded himself as a rich man. Compared with the top people, he was simply a poor man begging for food.

In fact, not many people seem to have noticed that Gilbert Jr. is already a rich man in the United States. After all, compared to these fields that are not often publicized, Gilbert Jr.'s achievements in the film field have attracted more public attention.

Therefore, people basically pay attention to Little Gilbert's identity as a great director, thereby ignoring his status as a rich man.

Little Gilbert's worth, status, and identity are enough to enter some top circles.

He also received many invitations, selectively participated in a few, and became a member of a certain liberal club.

This club has opened a long-term private room for little Gilbert at its headquarters in New York. If little Gilbert wants to, he can live here permanently and do things that are not common to outsiders.

However, little Gilbert's career is in Los Angeles, and he usually stays in hotels when he comes to New York. He has never stayed in this private room for a day.

There was also a party that little Gilbert attended once, spent five hundred dollars on ice cream, and never went to it again.

That is a gathering to support the three-character country on the shore of the Mediterranean. The purpose of the gathering is to donate money. Since they were all here, it was inappropriate not to pay, so little Gilbert paid five hundred dollars and treated the party members to ice cream.

After this move, everyone understood, so the liberals were happy to announce that little Gilbert belonged to the liberals.

Of course the other group was not happy, but they couldn't say anything. After all, this was little Gilbert's freedom of choice. At Little Gilbert's level, as long as he doesn't make the principled mistakes of the squids, the other group of squids can't do anything to him.

Another incident was very famous in the previous life. Someone in New York bought an island and even invited that person to go there.

Of course, little Gilbert was also invited, but when he saw what kind of island it was, he immediately refused.

The reason for rejection was also very strange. He heard that there were tsunamis and earthquakes in that place. The Chinese Feng Shui master said that the Feng Shui was not good, so he did not go.

Now that so-and-so island doesn't have that much energy, and if little Gilbert doesn't go, they can't take him there, so little Gilbert is lucky enough not to be on the list of that so-and-so island.

The occurrence of this incident made little Gilbert realize that as his status rises, he will gradually come into contact with the essence of Western society, and he may need to be mentally prepared, as well as realistically prepared.

In the Western world, there is nothing that interests cannot do. If there is, then the interests are not big enough.

What little Gilbert did was to continuously expand the interest groups around him and become a behemoth. If something unpleasant happens in the future, others will have to think twice if they want to touch you.

Of course, safety should also be considered, and you don’t need anything in a convertible.

All the new cars that little Gilbert bought are of the highest security level, bulletproof, and have all the security measures in place.

Naomi Watts is still wondering why the security at Melon Manor has been strengthened? Little Gilbert didn't know how to explain it, so he could only say to be prepared for a rainy day.

Little Gilbert also prepared a retreat for himself, which was on the far side of the Pacific Ocean.

You can live well in the courtyard house in the capital. If danger occurs in the future, you can go to the other side and live in the courtyard house. Money is an external possession, just enough to survive, but you only live once.

Little Gilbert couldn't guarantee that he would still have such good luck and be born again.

For this reason, little Gilbert must have a good relationship with him there.

But now the relationship between the two parties is good, "Lord of the Rings" is released there, and little Gilbert also has a large number of movie fans there, and is also the honorary principal of Nortel.

In this relationship, all that is needed is a set of national gift porcelain.

In mid-November, "Chicago" officially wrapped up at Warner Bros. Studios, and post-production was almost completed simultaneously.

According to the arrangement, the film will start the on-demand screening mode at the end of December and will continue until the Oscars before it will be released on a large scale in North America.

Although this film is aimed at Oscars, it is also a musical with a strong commercial flavor. Little Gilbert believes that the film will shine in the North American market.

Naomi Watts is starting to get all hyped up in preparation for the Oscars.

As for Catherine, after having several heart-to-heart talks with Naomi Watts and Little Gilbert, she set her sights on winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Tom Cruise is not idle either. In order to win the first Oscar in his career, he started to attract Nicole Kidman to promote the movie.

From time to time in various gossip magazines, we see Tom Cruise carefully holding Nicole Kidman's hand while shopping, and Nicole Kidman's belly has begun to grow in size.

Newspapers and media also began to market Tom Cruise as a dedicated actor, gentle husband, and loving father figure, all for the Oscar.

Nicole Kidman is not without gains. She has attracted a lot of attention through her pregnancy.

She and Tom Cruise were caught together by reporters, both looking happy. They also said in front of reporters: "Tom and I plan to ask little Gilbert to be the child's godfather after the child is born."

The reporter then told Gilbert Jr. what Nicole Kidman had said. Tom Cruise had told Gilbert Jr. about this a long time ago. Of course, Gilbert Jr. would not deny it.

So this unborn child has parents who are Hollywood superstars, plus a big Hollywood director as his godfather, making him more of a princess than Gwyneth Paltrow.

One can imagine what kind of attention this child will receive after he is born.

Tom Cruise also asked little Gilbert: "Actually, I also want to be a godfather. When do you want one?"

Little Gilbert shrugged and said he was working hard.

These tasks are all necessary. Although little Gilbert's status advantage gives him an advantage in the Oscars, it does not mean that there is no need to do any work.

Because awards don’t come to you by themselves, sometimes you won’t get them if you don’t work hard and do public relations.

And the opponent we have to face this time is not simple, "Shakespeare in Love" is in charge of the Weinstein brothers.

In its previous life, it was known as the most Oscar-worthy film, and this kind of film has won Oscars, which is enough to testify to the brothers' public relations skills.

If you think you are sure of winning and don't do what you need to do, you are totally wrong.

Fortunately, little Gilbert knew what the Weinstein brothers were capable of and would never take it lightly.

(End of this chapter)