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Chapter 671 Drama Market
Robert Egger came to see little Gilbert, of course not to fish or talk about this matter, he had more important things to talk to little Gilbert.

"'EdgeWalker' has achieved good results. Do you have any idea about the follow-up plans?" asked Robert Egger.

"Of course," Gilbert Jr. replied, "In fact, Edgewalker is just a spin-off story. I brought this story out at the beginning just to see how the market would accept it.

It turns out that although cyberpunk is not mainstream pop culture, it still has a large market.

Then we will return to the film and use the film to tell the whole story, and not just the story of one character."

"What about TV series?" Robert Iger asked, "Will there be more TV series produced by Cantaloupe Studios in the future?"

Disney Pictures not only includes movies, theme parks, cartoons, etc., but also TV series production. However, Disney's TV series production is not outstanding and is in the middle of the pack among Hollywood giants.

It seems that the acquisition of Marvel and Lucasfilm in the past life was the reason why Disney's drama business started to pick up, producing a series of good dramas such as "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", "Loki", and "The Mandalorian".

Gilbert Jr. responded: "We don't rule out this plan in the future, but Cantaloupe Studios' main business is film production.

I can’t let Sofia or Nolan direct, or let Zack Snyder make a series, right? "

Almost no one who can be a film director will make a TV series, except for those who are mentally ill like Woody Allen, Spielberg who wants to repay a favor, and Gilbert Jr. who wants to control the quality.

But in fact, in the past, due to the impact of the epidemic, the film market shrank sharply for a period of time. Many Hollywood directors had to join the drama market, and then returned to the big screen after the film market recovered.

Robert Iger thought so too, and he smiled and said, "How is Chris' District 9 going?"

"I heard that the filming in South Africa is almost finished." Gilbert Jr. said, "It should be able to catch up with next year's summer schedule. We will make a decision based on next year's schedule then."

Gilbert Jr. was originally going to direct the movie "District 9" himself, and in order to find an excuse he accompanied Charlize Theron to Johannesburg several times.

But later I was too busy with work and had no time, so I had to hand it over to Nolan.

Gilbert is confident in Nolan's level, and with the participation of his brother Jonathan Nolan, he will not produce an obscure film like "Tenet".

In the event that Warner does not cooperate, starting next year, all films produced by Cantaloupe Studios will be distributed in North America and overseas by Disney.

This means that Disney and Cantaloupe Studios are more closely tied together, and even those on the Disney board who oppose Gilbert Jr. have to admit Gilbert Jr.'s importance to Disney.

Disney's executives are obviously more pragmatic and never care about the stock market's fluctuations. In addition, excellent performance reports can also gain the confidence of the stock market.

In addition, Disney is different from Warner, and has a large number of offline industries, such as Disney theme parks all over the world. Although the benefits generated by this entity are slower than the stock market, it has always been the core of Disney's survival.

Perhaps because of this, Robert Iger dared to stand on the side of Gilbert Jr. even at the risk of Wall Street selling Disney stocks.

In fact, Gilbert Jr. left the ideas for the series more to Xigua Video.

Gilbert knew about the storm that Netflix had stirred up in his previous life. Xigua Video is a replica of Netflix, and it also integrates the functions of YouTube.

However, Xigua Video is currently splitting its business. In the future, Xigua Video will focus on the drama market and become an online drama and movie viewing platform.

The personal video publishing and live streaming functions similar to YouTube that are under development have been separated and will no longer operate together with Xigua Video.

When the time is right, Xigua Video will develop a series of dramas. Gilbert still remembers a few of the popular dramas in his previous life, such as "House of Cards", "Stranger Things", "Dark", etc., all of which are very good. In this way, from online to offline, from movies to dramas, to peripherals, theme parks, plus live broadcasts, short videos, long videos, etc.

Gilbert Jr. will become an unprecedented super entertainment mogul, the first of its kind.

Of course, there are federal antitrust laws.

But as long as the federal government changes its owner, antitrust laws will not work. No one is above the law, but as long as you have privileges and the right to interpret the law, the law will have little control over you.

On June 2250, Edgewalker continued to air its third and fourth episodes, setting new ratings records. The fourth episode had a combined audience of million on HBO and Disney Channel.

In these two episodes, David Martinez puts on Cian Westin and teams up with Lucy to steal the prosthetic. The plot is exciting and thrilling, and it starts to get exciting, changing the depressing plot of the second episode.

The scene where David was lying on the ambulance stretcher, the doctor wanted to remove his prosthesis, and then he was rescued by Lucy was even more exciting.

Watching the stretcher speeding through the tunnel with endless traffic, Lucy and David faced each other and controlled the stretcher to go in reverse at high speed. Coupled with the intense rock music, it was simply exciting.

This scene was talked about by the audience after it was broadcast, and Lucy, played by Scarlett, became the most popular character in Edge of Tomorrow thanks to this scene.

Afterwards, mercenary teams appeared one after another, including the lovely Rebecca, the reliable Falco, Mann, Pew, Dolio, Qiwei and other characters.

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The world of Night City slowly unfolds, with Arasaka Corporation and Military Technology appearing one after another, and gangs such as the Tiger Claw Gang, the Six Street Gang, and the Animal Gang also beginning to appear.

At the same time, the history of Night City also began to unfold for the audience, such as the nuclear explosion of Arasaka Tower in 2023, which was done by Johnny Silverhand and Morgan Blackhand.
In that nuclear explosion, Johnny Silverhand was said to have been captured by the Arasaka Company, while Morgan Blackhand disappeared.

This sets the stage for the story that follows. At the end of the episode, Little Gilbert has an Easter egg, mentioning that a very powerful figure named V appeared on the street.

Only then will the protagonist of the original story appear.

When "EdgeWalker" was popular, the most troublesome ones were probably the summer movies.

The unlucky movie this time is "Jason Bourne" starring Matt Damon. Thanks to the impact of "Edgewalker", the film grossed 3 million US dollars in its first week.

In fact, the results are pretty good and Universal Pictures is very satisfied.

But in the previous life, this movie's first week revenue was nearly 70 million US dollars. Now it has been hit by "EdgeWalker" and its box office has dropped by nearly 10 million US dollars.

The next movie to be impacted is "National Treasure 2," which will be released on June th.

The film was broadcast at the same time as the fifth and sixth episodes of Edgewalker were being broadcast, and the plot entered a high-energy stage. With the blessing of Gilbert Jr.'s birthday, the ratings reached 2580 million.

Due to the impact, National Treasure 2 only earned $4638 million in its first week. Compared with the investment, this first week box office is obviously not good enough.

For the lead actress Cameron Diaz, box office results obviously don't matter anymore. She is now doing more behind-the-scenes production work.

But for Nicolas Cage, things have been tough in recent years, and the failure of "National Treasure 2" has cast a shadow on his future.

(End of this chapter)