"June 1st" International Children's Day is a festival for children all over the world.
After Li Zetian returned from the UK, it will be June 1 in a few days.
Toy Story, the world's first fully computer-generated animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, will premiere on this day.
"Dad, on Children's Day, will you take my brother and I to see "Toy Story"?"
The night before, just after dinner, the ghosts and spirits clinged to them and said coquettishly, "There are many students in our class who said that their parents want to take them to see this movie!"
William echoed excitedly: "The movie promo is so good!!! Many people in our class also said that on Children's Day, we are going to watch "Toy Story"!"
Li Zetian smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll show you guys!"
"Yes!!!" Leisurely shouted happily, "Then we'll agree, no regrets!"
"Your father's promises, what do you regret?!!" Li Zetian said with a smile, his index finger lightly pressed Lean's head, paused, and said, "Okay, hurry up and do your homework, if you don't finish your homework. , I won't take you to see "Toy Story" tomorrow on Children's Day!"
"Yeah!" Leisurely nodded and replied, ready to go back to the room to do her homework.
Li Zetian looked at Little William again and said solemnly, "And you, William, don't keep thinking about playing, and hurry up and do your homework! I heard from your teacher that your grades seem to have dropped recently!"
When Xiao Youran heard this, she suddenly thought of something, she stopped, turned to look at Li Zetian, and made a small report: "Dad, my brother is in love, so his grades have dropped!"
"You, you slander! I didn't!!" Hearing this, Little William immediately blushed and retorted.
"Hmph, why not?? I saw it all! You and your classmates are holding hands together, but they are very close! Oh, I also saw you buy her ice cream!" Xiao Youran said loudly.
Hearing this, Little William's face turned even redder, and he lowered his head, not daring to look at Li Zetian.
When Li Zetian saw William's expression, he didn't know that what Leanran said was the truth.
"Damn it, you are still in elementary school, and you started falling in love, it really gives me a face!!!"
Li Zetian called William to him and said, "Do you know that this is puppy love?"
William nodded, as if admitting his mistake.
"You Ran, you go upstairs to do your homework first. I want to educate your brother well, how can you fall in love early!" Li Zetian said with a stern face.
"Oh~~"
Leisurely stuck out his tongue, glared at William again, and immediately turned upstairs.
Li Zetian began to preach to William at this time.
That's about half an hour.
Finally, he tapped William lightly on the head, told him to have a better memory, and told him to go upstairs to do his homework.
Li Zetian looked at William and ran upstairs as if he was running away. He couldn't help shaking his head and said with emotion: "Ah, being a parent is really not easy..."
Dongfang Yuqin on the side smiled and said, "Don't blame the child, William is like you!"
"like me?"
"Yes, attract girls like you!" Dongfang Yuqin covered her mouth and chuckled.
When Li Zetian heard the words, he smiled bitterly, which made him say something good...
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The next day, Li Zetian led Leisure and William to the cinema to watch "Toy Story"!
The publicity of Disney and Pixar is really in place, plus today is Children's Day, there are so many people in the cinema, so many children and parents!
"Does it look good?" Li Zetian looked at Youran and William and asked.
"Nice!" The two said in unison.
Li Zetian smiled slightly, raised his eyes and glanced around, most of the children looked very seriously.
"Toy Story" is worthy of the joint efforts of Pixar Animation Studio and Disney Company. The program is very exciting and is deeply loved by children.
After the first day of its premiere, it grossed as much as $30 million at the box office. At the same time, the peripheral toys of "Toy Story" are also on sale!
The movie reviews are also excellent!
For four weeks in a row, "Toy Story" has been the No. 1 weekly box office, with a cumulative total of $150 million in North America alone!
Pixar's pure computer animation production model has achieved great success, causing a media sensation and shocking the industry!
The discussion between traditional animation and computer animation is very loud.
What is traditional animation good for? Or computer animation
There is no conclusion for a while!
While Toy Story has been a success, traditional animation has also been very successful, with Disney's The Lion King raking in $775.5 million last year.
However, industry veterans believe that under the current situation, the final box office of "Toy President Mobilization" will never exceed that of "The Lion King", so many people think that computer animation is not as good as traditional animation.
Well, Disney is the representative of traditional animation, so this view has been supported by many people in Disney.
Although Pixar Animation Studios is currently a subsidiary of Disney, Pixar Animation Studios operates independently. This has led to two voices within Disney. Who is stronger and who is weaker, this is related to Disney's future movie investment trend.
Disney's animation department insists that computer animation is inferior to traditional animation.
"Disney's traditional animation has always been very successful, and Disney's success is due to traditional animation!"
"That's right, traditional animation is the foundation of Disney! As for computer animation, it's a side thing. You can play with it, but it must not be regarded as the main development direction of Disney."
"Computer animation has also succeeded in "Toy Story". Who can guarantee the success of the next computer animation? Disney still can't take risks, and should still focus on traditional animation!"
"… "
Of course, the people at Pixar Animation Studio refused to accept it and quarreled with the Disney animation department!
Seeing that the discussion became more and more intense, they were all published in the newspapers. After Li Zetian saw it, he came to the Disney Company.
In the Disney CEO's office, Michael asked, "Mr. Li, why are you here?"
Li Zetian was sitting on a black leather sofa, drinking coffee made by Secretary Michael, and said casually, "I heard that Disney's discussion about animated films is very noisy, so I'll come and see!"
"Oh..." Michael smiled embarrassedly, and he wasn't sure what to pay attention to. In his view, Disney's traditional animation has achieved so many successful cases after all, so the company's investment focus should be on traditional animation. However, Michael knew that Li Zetian valued computer animation and Pixar animation studio.
Li Zetian said lightly: "A quarrel can easily lead to chaos in the company, and the decision-making layer must make a decision as soon as possible! With the development of the times and technology, computer animation is the inevitable development of future animation films! Therefore, they don't quarrel anymore, I will directly make the decision here. It is decided that the focus of Disney's future development is to invest in computer animation. As for traditional animation, starting from this year, the investment will be reduced! Disney's original traditional animation production department, I asked them to learn how to do computer animation. In this regard, we can learn from Pixar Animation The studio asks for help!"
Whether it is traditional animation or computer animation, it is all animation creation, but one uses a pen, the other uses a computer, and the tools used for drawing are different.
There are a lot of traditional animation talents in the Disney company, Li Zetian is impossible to dismiss them, just let them learn to use computers to draw!
Seeing Li Zetian's firm attitude, Michael, a migrant worker, did not refute, but nodded: "Okay, Mr. Li!"
"Um."
Michael said, "Oh, by the way, Mr. Li, have you heard that Time Warner wants to buy AOL?"
Li Zetian was stunned when he heard the words, then shook his head and said, "No! This should be gossip. If Time Warner wants to acquire AOL, I should know! I am a major shareholder of AOL!"
Michael said: "I am familiar with the CEO of Time Warner, and he seems to have this plan. With the rise of the Internet, many traditional media industries have been greatly impacted, such as newspapers, magazines, etc., and Internet companies have gradually become media A kind of. Time Warner's career spans across the publishing, film and television industries, including Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune Magazine, and Life Magazine, and its performance is naturally greatly affected. Therefore, Time Warner Company wants to pass Acquire AOL and use the advantages of the Internet to strengthen its position as a media giant!"
When Li Zetian heard this, he couldn't help but nodded.
correct! Time Warner in the previous life seems to have acquired AOL and spent one or two hundred billion dollars. Sadly, the dot-com bubble came, Time Warner got screwed, and AOL became so worthless that no one wanted billions of dollars.
Li Zetian's eyes lit up in vain. Come on, this isn't giving me the opportunity to invest in Time Warner and convert AOL's shares into Time Warner's shares! ! !
Obviously, Time Warner certainly doesn't have the cash to buy AOL and can only replace it with shares.
"Okay, Michael, I see. If the CEO of Time Warner really intends to buy AOL, I might consider it!" Li Zetian laughed.
When Michael heard this, a trace of unnaturalness flashed on his face, and he worried: "Mr. Li, if Time Warner acquires AOL, then they will have a huge publicity channel, which may have an impact on Disney."
Li Zetian waved his hand and said indifferently: "It's okay, Disney owns ABC, ESPN Sports, Marvel, Pixar, Industrial Light and Magic, and even Star Wars and many other super IP movies. Does Disney's strength still need to be afraid of Time Warner?"
There was a bit of bitterness in Michael's heart. Time Warner is a Hollywood giant, and it's very powerful, right? Owns a range of valuable brands, including HBO, DC Comics, Time, Fortune, Time Warner Cable and Warner Bros., to name a few.
"Yes, Mr. Li, Disney doesn't need to be afraid of Time Warner!" Michael flattered. If he said he was afraid, wouldn't it show that he was an incompetent CEO
After Li Zetian finished his coffee, he stood up and said goodbye.
He is now more interested in whether Time Warner will buy AOL.
"Maybe AOL can take the initiative to hook up with Time Warner..." Li Zetian muttered to himself after walking out of the Disney company building, looking at the endless stream of people.
AOL, Li Zetian is basically a sheep-herding management... well, basically ignored, but run by Steve Case with a team.
Although the development is not as brilliant as in the previous life, it is also one of the best companies in the Internet industry.
Importantly, AOL is involved in multiple Internet areas, portals, e-commerce, chat rooms, games, e-mail, online services, Internet access services, and more, all of which add up to a high market value.
Li Zetian owns so many Internet companies, and AOL is a bit disliked by him, and with the growth of Yahoo, Amazon, Google, eBay, Tencent and other companies, AOL has actually been going downhill. It would be best to sell it early and replace it with shares of Time Warner Inc.!
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A few days later, Li Zetian sent someone to test the attitude of the CEO of Time Warner.
Sure enough, they really have the idea of buying AOL, but they haven't decided yet.
Dongfang Yuqin asked: "Mr. Li, if you take the initiative to say that you will support Time Warner's acquisition of AOL, they may make up their minds!"
"Well, it's just... If we contacted, wouldn't the price drop a bit? Time Warner would definitely bargain wildly!" Li Zetian hesitated.
"Well, that's true!" Dongfang Yuqin nodded, and then said again, "Mr. Li, didn't you say that the Internet bubble is still a few years away? We don't need to worry too much, the market value of AOL will continue to soar! "
Li Zetian supported his forehead and smiled: "Yes, yes, what are we in a hurry? Time Warner's newspapers and magazines have plummeted in sales. They should be the ones who should be worried!"
"Yes, Mr. Li!" Dongfang Yuqin smiled sweetly.
Businessmen are more patient, and Li Zetian is very patient.
At this time, he picked up the newspaper that had just arrived today and read it casually.
"Disney's animation battle has finally come to an end, Chronos Li personally decides, Pixar's computer animation wins! ! ! 》
"The Future of Animated Films - Computer Animation! ! ! 》
"Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen Reunite DreamWorks Animation! 》
Seeing the end, Li Zetian smiled helplessly. DreamWorks Animation is a rival of Pixar Animation Studio. Its well-known works include: "Shrek" series, "Madagascar" series, "Kung Fu Panda" series, As well as "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Crazy Primitives".
In fact, Li Zetian wants to take Steven Spielberg under his command, but others just want to stand on their own, and Li Zetian has no choice.
Come on, it's not a bad thing for Pixar to have one more competitor.