the next day.

After getting up, Zhu Ke's face was not very good-looking, he was really disgusted!

Overseas box office of hundreds of millions of dollars!

It's gone!

As soon as he entered the door of Wald Pictures, Zucker rushed straight to CEO Victor's office.

"Victor, how is our distribution network now?" Zhuke said straight to the point.

Upon hearing this, Victor took out a stack of information from the cabinet behind his desk and said, "Boss, recently, we have acquired a small movie distribution company in Utah and sent more manpower to improve California's distribution network. Now we can do general distribution in these two states."

Zucker nodded.

It is already the ultimate goal for Victor to develop into the issuance networks of two states with only $3 million in such a short time.

Establishing an issuance network is really expensive.

Zhuke continued: "Victor, you took out $10 million from the company's books and continued to form a distribution network. Be sure to form a distribution network in three states before "Fruit Hard Candy" is released. Is there any problem?"

"No problem, I can do it." Victor affirmed.

It's so frustrating to not have your own distribution network!

Zhuke does not have that much money for overseas issuance networks for the time being, so he will not consider it at this time. However, in North America, Zhuke sets a goal for himself that within three years, he must complete the issuance network establishment work in North America.

"Also, you notify the Human Resources Department that you will be recruiting more than a dozen people in the near future. Oh no, it's still twenty people. Well, it's mainly talents in computer painting."

After Zhu Ke said that, he added: "If you can, you can poach people directly from Pixar, because they have many talents anyway."

Yes, Zucker wants to form his own animation studio.

Zhuke has a good relationship with John Lasseter, but can't he poach people? It's not that Zhuke doesn't want to poach people from other companies. It's because Pixar has too many internal snares, which is too enviable. As long as he can find one or two talents, his own animation studio will definitely be able to develop rapidly.

Two more days have passed.

Zhuke and his company's eldest sister Martha flew to New York.

This time, when he went to New York, Zucker came not to invest in stocks, but to a talent, he was the "father of SpongeBob SquarePants".

——Stephen Helenberg!

Stephen Helenberg, 35, is a marine biologist and a member of the teacher. However, he just left the institute last week because he planned to pursue an animation career. For this reason, he also spent several years studying experimental animation at the California Institute of Arts and obtained a master's degree.

This time he was full of doubts about the visit between Zhuke and Martha.

Even a few days ago, Sister Martha contacted him first.

It's really the reason, it's too incredible!

"Mr. Wald, Miss Hopkins, do you let me be the head of your company's animation department?"

"I'm a little too excited and surprised."

“After all, I haven’t officially worked in the animation industry yet.”

For a moment, Stephen Helenberg was a little incoherent. You should know that although he graduated from a master's degree in experimental animation, he did not officially start his work after all.

Zhuke's visit did surprise him.

What's more, he is still the head of an animation department!

Zhuke immediately smiled and said, "Stephen, oh, please allow me to call you. A few years ago, I had the honor to watch the short film of marine life you created for the Ocean Museum. It was so great. It was not only simple and easy to understand, but also full of fun. It made people laugh while understanding marine life. I thought at the beginning that I must find the creator of this short film and create a great animated series with him. So, I am here today~!"

Small sponge?!

Stephen took over the planning plan for "SpongeBob SquarePants" from Sister Martha.

He kept exclaiming while watching.

“oh~!”

"That's it, this is the effect I want!"

"Oh my god, I'm wearing a white shirt, a little sponge with a red tie, and a pink Pai star, bald Octopus, Boss Crab who treats money as life, and a villain with one eye..."

"Great, this is simply amazing!"

"This is the animation I want~!"

.........

There is no doubt that Stephen Helenberg has been conquered by SpongeBob!

"Mr. Wald, I'm sorry I've lost my composure." Stephen blushed.

"It's okay, I was also very excited when I saw the animated short film you created." Zhuke didn't blink without lying.

Stephen continued: "I felt great today. SpongeBob has undoubtedly given me a huge surprise and I am very willing to create it. Sorry, I can't wait!"

For a whole day today, Zhuke and the other three were chatting about "SpongeBob SquarePants". In the end, Zhuke won a general for the company's animation department as he wished!

To this end, Zhuke will definitely allocate $2 million to the animation department in the early stage, and will be additionally added depending on the situation.

Don't think that the money is a bit small, but it's definitely enough.

After all, "SpongeBob SquarePants" is not "Toy Story", and it does not require much animation technology and picture effects. It mainly looks at the plot and the laughter in it.

With Stephen's joining, Zucker has reason to believe that SpongeBob SquarePants will succeed.

Zhuke has relevant information systematically provided, but he does not understand animation creation. Especially in terms of details, Stephen's role is absolutely indispensable. After all, he is the real father of "SpongeBob SquarePants".

...........

A few days later.

Wald Pictures' animation department has been officially established.

The 20 animation creators recruited have all been in place.

For this reason, Zhuke arranged them in Silicon Valley. This is to separate the animation studio in the future. After all, Zhuke wants more than just "SpongeBob". With "SpongeBob", Zhuke can completely launch "Find Nemo". In addition to the quality and animation technology, the two have many similarities in terms of fun.

When Pixar created "Finding Nemo", he once stated that he had borrowed some of the settings and creativity of "SpongeBob SquarePants" and was inspired by it.

Man, that's "Find Nemo"!

Not to mention its second film, "Where Are Dolly," just the first film, "Looking for Nemo", with a production cost of more than 63 million US dollars, earning nearly 900 million US dollars worldwide in one fell swoop, and its DVD sales are the highest in Pixar animation field.

“Huh?”

"David Messel, talent from Pixar?"

"Damn it, it's him."

When Zucker looked at the list of personnel in the animation studio, he immediately felt aroused when he saw the name David Messel.

There is no doubt that David Messel is indeed a talent!

He was not only one of the screenwriters of Toy Story, but later served as the producer of Angry Birds.

At the same time, the Marvel Universe's vision also comes from him.
Chapter completed!