Chapter 49 Disney's Year-End Reception
"Invitation?"
"And it's Disney's invitation to the end of the year-end reception this year?"
Juke, sitting in the company office, looked at the gilded invitation letter in his hand and couldn't help but ask Victor.
"Boss, we received an invitation this morning. After all, it is Disney, one of the top six in Hollywood, so I'll contact you right away." Victor said.
Zhuke nodded and said, "Disney doesn't seem to have any contact with us, how could they contact us? And as far as I know, even those invited to attend their year-end cocktail party should be well-known Hollywood people, including some people who have worked with them for a long time, how could they invite us?"
The invitation letter from Disney is not allowed to be careless.
That's the top six in Hollywood!
"Boss, this is actually an accident," Victor said.
Accident?
Is there something unexpected?
Victor continued: "Boss, I was also quite surprised at first, but after I received a call, I understood. The person who called me was my immediate boss when I was in Hollywood, William Barent. He is now in the animation department of Disney. He learned that I was at the CEO of Wald Pictures, so he issued an invitation."
After the words came to an end, Zhu Ke understood everything.
I think too much about my feelings!
Where is Disney's Wald Pictures that looks at Zucker?
The reason they sent invitation letters was simply because William Barent. He is a veteran leader of Victor. The two have a good relationship. The invitation letters are even more important to promote Victor and expand Victor's connections.
Victor asked, "Boss, then will we go and participate?"
"Go, of course you have to go!"
Zhuke said without hesitation: "We certainly cannot miss this good opportunity to broaden our connections."
Attending Disney's year-end cocktail party, you will inevitably meet many Hollywood bigwigs, including famous directors, producers, actors and other well-known people in the industry.
Wald Pictures is very small now, but Zucker is confident that he can develop the company well.
In order to achieve this goal, Zucker will inevitably attend similar cocktail parties in the future. Wald Pictures can only shoot some low-cost movies now, but with the continuous growth of Zucker's capital, it will definitely shoot some high-cost blockbusters. By then, they will inevitably cooperate with well-known Hollywood actors, directors and other characters to make the most of the US dollar.
At present, Disney's cocktail party is a good opportunity to get in touch!
Three days later.
6 pm.
There is less than an hour left before the reception officially begins.
However, Zhuke and Victor arrived at the scene early. Well, the venue was held in a five-star hotel in Burbank.
Zhuke and Victor came with the purpose of expanding their connections, and many people also had the same purpose.
Therefore, although it was still early, there were already many people in the cocktail venue, with a total of 100 people.
"Hi Victor, my old friend~!"
As soon as he entered the venue, an old man in his 50s stepped forward and hugged Victor excitedly and enthusiastically.
The person who came was Victor’s former old leader in Hollywood!
Now he is a manager of Disney animation department - William Barent.
William Barent said excitedly: "Victor, I have said a long time ago that you belong to Hollywood. Now I am so happy to see you return again."
"So, sir."
Victor said with pleasure: "I have been looking forward to meeting you again for a few days after receiving your call."
After pausing, Victor said again: "Oh, by the way, sir. Let me introduce you to you. This is the boss of Wald Pictures, Mr. Juke Wald, who I am now at.
"I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Barent."
Zhuke did not take the initiative at the moment, but greeted Mr. William modestly.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see the friendship between William and Victor, and William has indeed helped Wald Pictures in the invitation. How could Zhuke disrespect such an old man?
"I'm very happy to know you too. By the way, I've heard of you, "The Deadly Bend" recently produced by your company has made a name for it."
In the following time, Old William also enthusiastically introduced Zucker and Victor to some Hollywood insiders he knew.
Somonro Towns;
Cruise Embit Wise;
j. Jote Lazister;
Claus James;
.........
It sounds like few people know about these people. But in the field of Hollywood animation, these people are definitely great figures. Which one of them is not famous all over the world in the animation films such as "The Lion King", "Snow White", and "Mulan" created by them?
After some exchange, Zucker and Victor temporarily found a corner to sit down.
"Boss, have you noticed? These veterans of Disney animation are quite unsatisfactory at Disney now!"
The keen Victor discovered the sorrow between their eyebrows while communicating with them.
"You're right."
Zhuke nodded and said, "As far as I know, since the glory of "The Lion King" produced in 1994-95, Disney animation has been having a hard time, especially "Aladdin and the King of Thieves", which was recently released in September, the box office defeat has made these Disney veterans live like years."
The movie "Aladdin and the King of the Thieves" cost Disney $65 million, plus $15 million in publicity, the total cost is as high as $80 million.
However, the box office on the premiere day only earned $6 million.
After more than a month of release, the cumulative box office in North America has only exceeded 20 million US dollars, which is a major failure in the box office!
The most important thing is that the reputation is also bad!
Victor sighed: "Disney-produced animation was once the favorite animation for children around the world, but now the times have changed. The hand-drawn animation represented by Disney is no longer popular; while the 3D computer animation technology represented by Pixar is gradually becoming mainstream."
After a pause, he said, "And Pixar's animation is also released by Disney. This kind of child picked up from outside defeats his own son. How can these veterans of Disney animation still sit still?"
Zhuke agrees!
In fact, the same is true.
The future is a 3D computer animation represented by Pixar!
In the future, Disney Princess animation has been dead and fell to the bottom. It was not until 2014 that they relied on "Frozen" to return to the peak of Hollywood animation!
“Huh?”
"Zuke, my old friend, and Victor, why are you here?"
At this moment, a sound of surprise came into Zhuke's ears.
I looked up and found that I was really an acquaintance.
John Lasseter, the leader of the Five Pixar Tiger Generals;
There is also the sarcastic old man - Jobs.
Chapter completed!