Hollywood Starts with Animation

After the day-long inspection of Wald Pictures, Zucker, together with the team of the head office, started the second stop of inspection again.

Second stop: UPN TV network.

It is currently the subsidiary company of Zucker next to Wald Pictures, and its importance is needless to say.

Although Zhu Ke has been in and out of the UPN TV network recently, and has been in the program group of "The Talent Show" for a long time, he has not paid much attention to other relevant departments of the UPN TV network.

Taking advantage of this review opportunity, of course, we must take a look at the status of the acquisition of UPN in the past six months.

"Boss, thanks to the popularity of the two ace shows "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "America's Got Talent", the ratings of several other channels on our TV network have also risen a lot recently, especially the newly launched ones. Hot news reports, the ratings also broke 1.5%." The company executive Alexander said.

Zucker nodded.

Zucker still knows Alexander, who holds the post of director of the UPN TV network channel department.

In the recent few exchanges, I found that he is a very thoughtful person.

More than two months ago, Zhu Ke communicated with him for the first time, but only mentioned that he had a good impression of Chinese Americans. In addition, Alexander himself is also a member of Russian descent, and he is also a minority in the United States.

Alexander's mind immediately became alive!

In just half a month, a news column for foreign minority groups was planned and prepared.

The result was unexpectedly good!

You must know that although the news media advertises the principles of fairness, justice, and seeking truth from facts, it is often difficult to do this because of human manipulation, especially for Chinese and Asian groups, and many TV media even take this for a long time. joke.

Well, or to be precise, full of prejudice and discrimination at all!

for example:

In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, in a debate, because the candidates mentioned the "Great Heavenly Dynasty" 12 times, then Fox TV dispatched reporters to Chinatown in New York to conduct interviews and interview public opinion.

Here's to a stroke.

When the "Great Celestial Dynasty" is mentioned in the debate, do you go to Chinatown?

Is there a fundamental connection between the two?

It's like mentioning Mexico, is it necessary to send someone to interview Taco Bell (fast food restaurant)?

In some ways, Chinatown is completely different from Chinatown, okay? !

Another example:

It is also a street interview news on Fox TV.

A satay host in a white shirt interviewing Chinese in Chinatown is nothing in itself, but your mother specially interviews the elderly who do not understand English, and then asks their opinions.

What is this Nima called? !

What can the elderly say to the interview camera because they do not understand English?

They can only respond politely with silence, smiles, nods, etc. However, these responses have become videos of malicious hosts in order to become famous.

As soon as the report came out, not to mention many overseas Chinese were angry, even many netizens in the Great Heavenly Dynasty scolded the host as a sand sculpture!

(Note: This news was quite violent at the time. When the minister read it for the first time, he was also furious. Even if it was discrimination, he did not do that.)

Many foreign news media do not follow the principle of seeking truth from facts. They only agree with the principle of "the results they want" and report false news time and time again.

Therefore, when Alexander launched a news program targeting "Chinese", "Asian" and "minority" groups and adhering to the principle of "fairness and justice", it opened up the market and won the favor of many TV audiences.

This is also one of the few UPN TV networks currently without the participation of Zucker.

The popular show they formed spontaneously.

Talents can get attention wherever they go.

"Alexander, you did a good job. If there is a chance, it is not impossible to transfer you to the head office." Zucker praised.

Hearing this, Alexander was overjoyed immediately.

The UPN TV network is good now, but it's not as good as working in the head office, isn't it?

In the ensuing time, the directors of other UPN departments also reported their work to Zhu Ke.

Especially the person in charge of the advertising department, the corners of his mouth cracked.

The popularity of "America's Got Talent" has not only won the advertising department a lot of platform broadcast fees, but also the advertising fees of other channels are also rising.

Only in the half month after the launch of "America's Got Talent", the advertising fees of other channels also increased by 60% compared with the first half of the year.

Great results!

The current market value of the UPN TV network is several times higher than when Zucker just acquired it half a year ago. Of course, it's mainly the copyright of America's Got Talent that is valuable.

These things can be ruled out, and CEO Donna also contributed greatly. She used the popularity of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and her strong personal skills to increase the overall ratings of the TV network, and the overall operation was smoother, and she got rid of the pre-acquisition debt situation in one fell swoop.

"As expected of a woman in the original time and space who can serve as the president of Universal Pictures, even if her current ability can't keep up with her peak period, it is definitely not bad. It is a lot stronger than many people in the same industry."

While Zhu Ke sighed in his heart, he also had reasons to believe that UPN would definitely become more and more glorious in the field of American cable TV in the days to come.

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The third stop of the tour: Water World Animation Studio.

It was originally just an animation department under Wald Pictures, but thanks to the achievements of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and Zucker's future plans, it became independent and became a subsidiary of Jinshuguang Entertainment Group. .

During the tour of the water world animation studio, Zucker found a lot of new people he had never seen before, and there were hundreds of unfamiliar faces.

"Everyone, I'm your boss, Zucker Wald!"

"Many of you are old people who joined the studio at the beginning of its establishment, and there are hundreds of newcomers who have joined recently, but I want to tell you that no matter how long you have been on the job, no matter where you are from, as long as you have an idea and If you have the ability, then you must be able to succeed in the water world animation studio!"

"The results of "SpongeBob SquarePants", have you seen it?"

"It has achieved a 3% viewership rating, and within a week after each episode is broadcast, it can get 60 million views. It is the ace animation in American TV animation series today!"

"But, are you satisfied with these?!"

"I tell you, this is not our end!"

"The big screen in theaters, the box office charts in North America, and the world's most sensational movies and animations are our goals!"

""Finding Nemo"!"

"Yes, I'm talking about Finding Nemo. It's our first feature-length 3D computer animation, and all we're going to do now is finish it together!"

"Think about it, folks. Just get it done, and the dollars, the fame, and so on, will be on your way!"

An inspirational chicken soup speech was enough to make many new people who joined the animation studio excited for several days.

However, these are not really useful.

It's mainly because Zucker has thought about mouth addiction.

Saying a thousand words and ten thousand, no matter how good the words are, there is no real dollar. Of course, if Zucker had the demagogic powers of the German mustache, that would definitely work. However, if Zucker had that ability, he would definitely be a politician early in the morning.

" "The first more is sent.

Thanks to the book friends of Journey to the West Tang Taizong for the reward again.