hollywood melon man

Chapter 289 The Disney Emperor
Entering the new millennium, the world seems to have entered another stage.

Although peace is the mainstream trend, some areas are still turbulent and the world is in turmoil.

In the United States, Gilbert Jr.'s investment firm has sold off a large number of shares in Internet companies. At this time, the North American Internet bubble had begun to take shape. Fortunately, little Gilbert ran away early.

Because of the massive selling of stocks, Gilbert Jr. had a lot of cash in his hands.

Only then did David, Little Gilbert's investment manager, understand why Little Gilbert asked him to sell stocks last year. Sure enough, there was inside information.

When the stock sell-off is almost done, David suggests that you can short the stock in the market to gain greater profits.

Little Gilbert just told David how serious the Internet bubble would be this time, and asked him to be mentally prepared, and left the rest to David to operate.

However, some companies are still in the hands of Gilbert Jr., including search engine portals controlled by Fruit Group, social networking sites, Apple, Amazon, etc.

In fact, there are many companies worth investing in, such as NVIDIA.

But when David approached Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia, Huang Jen-Hsun rejected the investment from Gilbert Jr. I don’t know what he was thinking. Maybe he was emotionally displeased with little Gilbert?

In short, the investment in Nvidia failed, and Gilbert Jr. had no choice but to express regret.

Little Gilbert just doesn't understand technology, and he doesn't understand things like GPU. He only knows that it is needed for playing games, but he doesn't know anything else. Otherwise, he would gather a group of people and do it himself.

Of course, little Gilbert cannot take advantage of all the good things in the world.

To this day, little Gilbert's investment vision has been certified by Wall Street.

The Wall Street Journal believes that if Gilbert Jr. was not engaged in the film industry, his name would be as famous as Buffett, Soros and others.

But the real problem is that little Gilbert became a director. To the world, little Gilbert is actually more famous.

Since I am a film director, I come back to movies. Little Gilbert's focus is not on investing and running businesses, but on making good movies.

Due to the schedule, little Gilbert almost completed the editing work while filming, and the work was very intensive.

Fortunately, editor Mehdi and little Gilbert have worked together for many years and have a tacit understanding. He helped little Gilbert solve a large part of the workload.

As soon as the editing work began, Robert Egger came to China to visit the team.

When he saw the various materials of the film and the trailer that had been edited in advance, he was shocked and praised the crew for completing an amazing job.

"Frankly speaking, little Gilbert, I had doubts about this project before and thought it would take a long time for this project to pay back." Robert Egger said bluntly.

"What now?" asked little Gilbert.

"Now?" Robert Egger was very determined: "I think this film will create a big surprise for us and bring surprises to the fans."

Little Gilbert said with a smile: "This shows that our work is indeed excellent and the film is of high quality."

"Hmm..." Robert Egger agreed.

The topic gradually turned to Michael Eisner. Little Gilbert asked Robert Egger: "I heard that Mr. Eisner was hospitalized again at the beginning of the year. How is he doing now?"

"It's not very optimistic. The doctor advised him to rest more and stop working too hard." Robert Egger said.

"This must be a very painful thing for Mr. Eisner." Little Gilbert actually sympathized: "He must be very reluctant to not be busy working."

"Yes!" Robert Egger also lamented: "Mr. Eisner has decided to retire next year. This is an opportunity."

Ahu doesn't need to explain this sentence clearly, little Gilbert understands it instantly.

If "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is successfully released in July this year, then Robert Iger can remove the subtitle in front of him and officially succeed Michael Eisner as president of Disney.

When Michael Eisner retires, Robert Iger will take control of Disney.

In fact, Robert Iger is now the controller of Disney, but now his name is somewhat unfair. After all, he is only the vice president.

Disputes within Disney can actually be easily exploited to divide and disintegrate Disney.

Especially when it comes to civil strife, it would be a great achievement to win over little Gilbert.

However, Disney shareholders clearly realize the value of little Gilbert, and they are fighting among themselves, but they will basically not touch little Gilbert.

On the contrary, all parties need to obtain the support of Gilbert Jr.

Gilbert Jr. does not own shares in Disney, but he can intervene in the selection of many important positions at Disney. Therefore, there are rumors within Hollywood that Gilbert Jr. is the chairman of Disney.

It feels like little Gilbert is the King of Disney.

He has no real power in his hands, but he can interfere with many people and live a comfortable life. This supreme emperor is very comfortable.

However, with Robert Iger taking control of Disney, the internal disputes at Disney gradually ceased. With the end of internal strife, Disney will surely reach a new level. The first thing to do is to discuss with Little Gilbert the merger of Melon Studio into Disney.

Gilbert Jr. did not express clear support or opposition to Disney's merger. He just said that if Disney wants to acquire it, it must exchange valuable shares.

The situation is the same at Warner. Compared with Robert Iger's difficulties, Doug Walter's leadership of Warner Pictures is much smoother.

He regards Melon Pictures as the most important partner of Warner Pictures, even more important than his own DC.

Holding the same idea as Robert Iger, Doug Walter also hopes that Melon Studios can be merged into Warner Pictures.

It's just that when Doug Walter came to visit the team, the first thing to talk about was not this. Instead, he hoped that Gilbert Jr. could put forward some opinions on DC's superhero movies.

Twentieth Century Fox Pictures has confirmed that "X-Men" will hit theaters this summer.

Gandalf Ian McKellen played the role of Magneto in "X-Men" before he came to the "Lord of the Rings" crew.

At the same time, I heard that Sony is planning to bring the popular Spider-Man to the big screen, and has hired Sam Raimi as director.

Little Gilbert felt it was a pity that when he joined Marvel Comics, the rights to "X-Men" and Spider-Man had been sold.

Also sold were "Fantastic Four", "Blade Runner", "Ghost Rider" comics, etc.

In fact, this solves a problem for little Gilbert. If these copyrights are still in the hands of Marvel Comics, then whether to add them to the "Avengers" universe in the future is a question worth considering.

But now, as long as planning is done well, Marvel superhero movies can be considered a big success until at least "Avengers 4".

The Marvel series of movies began to gain momentum, and Doug Walter, who had a keen sense of smell, smelled something unusual.

He feels that superhero movies will usher in a new era.

But Doug Walter was not sure, so he made a special trip to China to find Gilbert Jr. and ask professionals for their opinions.

Doug Walter and Robert Iger belong to the front and rear. As soon as Robert Iger left, Doug Walter came.

Facing Doug Walter’s question, Gilbert Jr. replied: “As you analyzed, with the development of special effects technology, the era of superhero movies has arrived.

But Doug, although the time is gradually coming, this does not mean that we must rush to start a superhero movie. We must be patient. "

"What do you mean?" Doug Walter was confused.

Little Gilbert continued: "Have you ever considered putting Superman and Batman together to fight against a powerful enemy?"

"You mean, the League of Justice Heroes?" Doug Walter's heart moved.

"Yes, that's right." Little Gilbert nodded and said, "I don't know much about comics, but DC should have many professionals. You can ask for their opinions."

Doug Walter understood: "I understand. When I return to Los Angeles, I will convene people to discuss the feasibility of this plan."

"Well!" Little Gilbert said again: "Also, I have some new ideas about Batman's story. If you don't mind, please give Batman to me.

I hope to make a new trilogy series that will be separate Batman movies from the cinematic universe. "

When Doug Walter heard the biggest good news of his trip to China, he immediately smiled and said: "Don't worry, little Gilbert, Bruce Wayne is yours."

This is indeed good news for Doug Walter.

If Gilbert Jr. plans to make a trilogy of movies, and Bruce Wayne is fully owned by Warner Bros. Pictures, that means Warner Bros. Pictures can completely ditch Disney.

But what Doug Walter didn't know was that Gilbert Jr. and Robert Iger had reached a verbal distribution agreement for movies from the re-formed Marvel Studios in 1998.

Disney will act as an agent for the distribution rights of future movies produced by Marvel Studios. In this way, Disney will also have its own channels.

Not only that, Robert Iger came to China this time to discuss Disneyland with Monk Hai.

Warner also has a hand in this matter, but it is still dominated by Disney. Warner only has a shareholding, so to be precise, it should be called Disney-Warner Park.

This cooperation was promoted by Little Gilbert, and it is also the first in the world.

However, according to the negotiation plan, the opening of this park will have to wait until 2008 at least.

It doesn't matter, at least it's much earlier than in the previous life.

In addition, Robert Egger mentioned that the person responsible for contacting them at Shanghai likes pirate ships very much and hopes that Disneyland will have pirate ships.

Robert Iger expressed confusion, which Disney park does not have a pirate ship?
But when it comes to the pirate ship, little Gilbert thinks of a person, or a movie.

(End of this chapter)