Hollywood Starts with Animation

Britney Spears' concert in Los Angeles, but Zucker still didn't make it.

Because Zucker is busy!

Busy throwing money all over the place.

After the dot-com bubble burst, Zucker invested $600 million and took a 6.1% stake in Mars;

Invest $100 million for a 30% stake in Elon Musk's (payment) company;

US$1 billion investment in gold projects;

Lending to Beiguangtou at ultra-low interest through three-party lending means, a full 500 million US dollars;

Subsequently, it invested 100 million US dollars in a batch of new Internet companies;

Overall statistics, in this short one month, Zucker has spent 2.3 billion US dollars. This is definitely a big deal.

Although this $2.3 billion investment is not at all comparable to the $181 billion acquisition of Time Warner Group by AOL with cash + stock a few months ago, it is still possible to make such a large investment after the Internet bubble. , Zucker is completely the first person!

Countless people are jealous!

Apple chairman Steve Jobs said very bitterly: "This bastard is really rich."

Affected by the Internet bubble, Apple fell to the bottom again, the stock price fell a lot, and the overall market value lost more than 60% in this more than one month.

"Fortunately, Apple is not a pure Internet company. We are still selling personal computers. Otherwise, our market value loss will definitely exceed 80%." An Apple executive all sighed.

Jobs said solemnly: "The money he spent on Zucker Wald in just one month has almost caught up with our entire Apple company."

He came into contact with Zucker very early, and witnessed Zucker's growth from a hairy boy to a super rich.

But!

But even so, Jobs never imagined that Zucker would be so rich.

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Viacom Group.

Lei Shidong sighed: "The growth rate of this kid's assets is really amazing!"

Jordan nodded and said, "Yes, no one thought of an Internet bubble that swept the United States and the world, causing countless companies to collapse, and many giant companies to suffer heavy losses, but... what about him?"

Zucker got out in time, not only was he not affected by the Internet bubble, but he took advantage of the opportunity to short and made a lot of money.

For now, Zucker dare not say that he is the richest person in the United States, but he must be one of the people with the most cash.

"With the bursting of the Internet bubble and the downturn in the US stock market, the situation in Hollywood will also undergo dramatic changes!"

Redstone looked into the distance and said solemnly: "Colombia belongs to the Sony Group, Disney has serious internal conflicts, Time Warner merged into AOL, and MGM was completely ruined by that gambler. We are a Viacom company. Paramount's is also in a difficult situation now ... the situation of the major studios is not very good."

"And now, he Zucker Wald is very rich!"

"Once he acquires the only remaining Universal Pictures, then he, Zucker Wald, will become a real Hollywood entertainment and media tycoon!"

Although Redstone admires Zhu Ke, it does not mean that he will not be wary.

The cake is so big, and if one more person comes to share the pie, Redstone, who is a vested interest, will naturally take every precaution.

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20th Century Fox.

"Ha ha!"

"In a month, 2.3 billion US dollars is spent, which is really a big deal!"

"If I guess correctly, even if he doesn't buy the Big Six in Hollywood, he will start mergers and acquisitions, film and television, music, TV, radio... He will never miss this opportunity!"

"Now all industries in the United States are facing a shortage of funds, and he has billions of dollars in cash reserves in his hand, and he will definitely act."

"Damn it! Suddenly, he has grown to this point?!"

News tycoon Rupert Murdoch is quite upset at the moment.

Although his net worth is very high, or he is richer than Zucker, if he is asked to take out billions of dollars in cash at one time, he can't do it at all!

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Sony Columbia.

"Zuck Wald, we have to pay attention!"

"Today, the amount of video tape market has dropped significantly; on the other hand, DVD sales are growing rapidly."

"Our Colombian parent company, Sony Group, is developing the latest DVD format technology, which will require a large number of library licenses, and Zucker's Wald Pictures has a library of nearly 3,000 movies."

"Especially now, he will also increase the acquisition of film and television copyrights if it is not guaranteed."

"3000 movie rights is definitely not the end of Wald Pictures."

"Therefore, we must win him as soon as possible and let Wald Pictures join us in Sony's latest DVD format camp, otherwise we will definitely pay a huge price in the future!"

The executives of Sony Columbia have been quite passive recently, and they are even more shocked.

Spending 2.3 billion US dollars in a month, a proper amount of money!

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Marvel Corporation.

Affected by the Internet bubble, Marvel, which was already getting worse, was delisted again, and its value fell very much.

"Yesterday, the representative of Mr. Wald, once again initiated the acquisition of our Marvel company, let's talk about your views." The current chairman of Marvel, Sal Perlmutter, said solemnly.

The voice fell, and the scene fell silent for a while.

The executives did not speak, after all, they are now in an extremely difficult situation.

The copyrights of a series of popular superheroes were sold by Marvel; there were also a large number of superhero copyrights, which were also mortgaged to banks by Marvel, which was struggling to operate.

What a "miserable" word!

In the end, it was Avi Allard, the big boss of Marvel, who spoke.

He said: "I'm still saying that, we can give up a part of the shares to Zucker Wald, but he can't afford to buy Marvel at all! Unless I die!"

Avi Allard is a stubborn diehard;

Similarly, the current chairman of Marvel, Sal Perlmutter, is roughly the same. He once said, "I'd rather drag Marvel to hell than sell all my shares."

But, now...

The price that Zucker offered is really tempting!

300 million US dollars to fully acquire Marvel's equity and assume the 390 million US dollar debt owed by Marvel to the bank!

You know, the current situation of Marvel is not very good.

To be honest, Sal Perlmutter, the current chairman of Marvel, is very excited about the price offered by Zucker. After all, his current personal financial situation is not ideal.

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At this moment, the vast majority of Hollywood film and television companies are envious and jealous of Zucker, and they are even more worried that Zucker's future actions will greatly change the existing pattern of Hollywood.

As vested interests, they naturally don't want Zucker to eat a few more cakes.

Especially the "Butterfly Effect" produced by Wald Pictures is an invincible existence in the April schedule, which makes them grit their teeth.

Of course, some people are very happy to see that Zucker is so rich.

For example: Seattle local government.

As early as half a year ago, Zhu Ke and his team began to inspect Seattle, intending to build an emerging technology industrial park.

The local government in Seattle is very concerned about the investment with a total price of no less than 3 billion US dollars, not to mention that the United States is currently in the environment of the Internet bubble.

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