Hollywood Starts with Animation

"The company's name is Baokai Games, which is affiliated to Jinshuguang Entertainment Group and becomes its subsidiary."

"There is no need to be accountable to other people, as long as I am responsible to myself and the group CEO Victor, and the group head office is directly and vertically led."

"The company's location is tentatively set to be the city of Seattle."

"Of course, when my technology industrial park falls, I'll reserve a great spot for Popcap Games."

"Pokai Games has invested a total of 5 million US dollars, and the first batch of project funds will be 2 million US dollars, which will be in place in 3 days; the follow-up funds of 300 US dollars will be distributed in batches within 6 months."

Zhu Ke introduced it like a lot.

The first $2 million in payments was technically used to acquire a gaming company. After all, building a new company from scratch can be time-consuming and labor-intensive.

It's not just money.

Is Zucker the one who lacks money? !

Not to mention the profitability of the various subsidiaries of Jin Shuguang Entertainment Group, the billions of dollars in cash lying in the personal accounts are enough to be called rich.

Obviously, it is more efficient to directly acquire a game company.

"Dave Roberts, uh, I'll just call you Dave." Zucker laughed.

"Boss, please speak." Dave Roberts said sternly.

Zu Ke smiled and said: "Don't be nervous. The development direction I set for Baokai Company was mainly to provide educational and casual games for social software companies such as MSN and ICQ in the early stage. I hope to see it within two weeks. your report."

"Boss, I can get it done in a week."

Dave Roberts' answer was very sonorous and forceful, and he was completely suffocated at the moment.

Before you know, although he was a middle-level manager of Microsoft Corporation and had extremely rich management experience, he sat on the bench for a long time because of serious internal disputes within Microsoft. He didn't want to think about anything else right now, he just wanted to do it fast.

"Don't be in a hurry, mate, haste is not enough."

Zucker looked at Dave,

He smiled: "Of course, if you submit a hunger report to me in a week and I am satisfied, I will consider an additional investment of $1 million."

500+100=$6 million!

"Guaranteed to complete the mission," Dave assured loudly.

The three of John immediately looked at Dave with hopeful eyes. After all, it was an extra $1 million!

As of 1999, $1 million was a huge amount. Of course, even in 2020, not many people will be able to take out $1 million in cash at one time.

After a few hours, the meeting was over.

Dave and John and others left happily one after another.

"Boss, I have some doubts and want to ask you?" Alexander said suddenly.

"Uh? You want to ask, with our huge amount of funds, why don't we play big computer games that are popular nowadays, but choose small puzzle games, right?" Zhu Ke smiled.

"Yes."

Hearing this, Alexander nodded immediately and said: "Looking at the global game market, whether it is Electronic Arts in the United States, Vivendi, Ubisoft in France, or Sony, Capcom, and Nintendo in Japan, in recent years, All of them have added a lot of money to large-scale computer game projects, after all, the market in this area is hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times that of small puzzle games."

Do big computer games make money?

Of course it's very profitable!

"Need for Speed" series, "Warcraft" series, "Resident Evil" series, "Half-Life" series, "Command and Conquer" series......

Which one is not a big win?

Zu Ke is very greedy, but he has more than his heart and is not enough!

As a traveler, Zhu Ke, even if he was not good at playing games in his previous life, he knew a lot about it. Right now, he has a lot of game designs in his mind, but... they need people to complete them!

"I'm short of people, I'm short of talent!"

Zhu Ke spread his hands and said helplessly: "Electronics, Vivendi's Blizzard, Ubisoft, Capcom and other game giants, their talents are very scarce now, let alone us? There is no way to recruit them in the market. Talent!"

Puzzle casual games are just a helpless choice at the moment!

Of course, Zhu Ke is also waiting. When the Internet bubble bursts, a large number of Internet companies will go bankrupt. At the same time, game companies will also be affected widely, and many game talents will be forced to enter the market.

"After a few months, are you still afraid of lack of talent?" Zu Ke thought to himself.

In fact, Zucker wasn't in a hurry either.

Puzzle casual games are actually very profitable!

For example, Tencent Group's QQ software, which relies on platform games, makes money from small games every year, which is definitely not a small amount, on the contrary, it is a very large amount.

But the premise is that this platform must be owned by its own company.

Otherwise, with the game production company, the money earned is at most the rest of the platform's soup.

"Skype (Internet telephony) it's my trump card!"

"As long as Skype is successfully developed, then I can quickly build a new instant messaging platform. By then, I will definitely make considerable money by tying up game companies."

For a time, Zhu Ke had a lot of thoughts.

......

In the blink of an eye, more than 20 days have passed.

The annual Halloween time is not far away.

All major Hollywood film companies, as long as they shoot movies with horror/thriller themes, will be released during this schedule to compete for the audience of the Halloween schedule.

Especially small and medium-sized film companies, they do not have much money to invest in the shooting of blockbuster and high-cost movies, so they can only focus on horror/thriller movies.

There are many movie companies that count on using low-cost horror movies to sell money every year and wait for the rice to cook.

You say, can they ignore it?

...

Warner Bros. Pictures.

"It can be said that it is not a book by coincidence!"

"Who would have thought that on Halloween, we would run into Wald Pictures again!"

"God! How many times is this this year?"

"Three times, man!"

A group of executives of Warner Bros. Pictures, looking at the list of movies to be released on Halloween, couldn't help but complain when they found "The Death Is Coming" produced by Wald Pictures.

"Would we really be enemies with Wald Pictures?" An executive raised his forehead.

Valentine's Day schedule: "My Big Greek Wedding" Vs "Message in a Bottle";

April schedule: "Spartan 300 Warriors" Vs "The Matrix";

The current Halloween schedule: "Death is Coming" Vs "Haunted House";

At this moment, even the veteran Warner executives are very reluctant to run into Wald Pictures. After all, they have one loss and one draw so far.

"It's not bad to win, we're still going to lose a lot of box office."

An executive complained: "Damn Wald Pictures, why don't they die~"

That's right, in this year's Halloween schedule, Wald Pictures' "Death Comes" movie will be released on October 29th along with Warner's "Haunted House" movie.

"Okay, gentlemen, be quiet."

The new president, Barry Mayer, looked at everyone and said loudly: "It's pointless to argue about this now, all we have to do is win this Halloween battle!"

"Beat the new film from Wald Pictures~"

......

Paramount Pictures.

"Hehe~"

Boss Lei Shidong looked at the report in his hand and couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect that I just negotiated a cooperation with that guy Zuke, but now there is competition again? It's really interesting."

Shortly after the release of Wald's new film "Death Comes", Paramount Pictures' new film "Sleepy Hollow" will also be released on November 9.

At that time, there will be a lot of battles between dragons and tigers.

......

Wald Pictures.

Zhu Ke said with a smile: "It's still a matter of fighting. If I'm afraid, I'll just disarm and surrender."

Bill McNick echoed: "This year is still a good year. After all, the sequels of "Moonlight Panic" and "Heterosexual" were not released on Halloween this year, otherwise it will definitely be a pot of porridge."

"Hahaha~"

Zucker laughed and said, "Old Bill, look at it. This year's Halloween season, it's going to be a mess!"

" "The second is sent.