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Chapter 400 Disney's Celebration Party
🕑 Added 2025-07-22 15:07:26 +0000 UTC"Okay, that's enough for today. Call it a day, call it a day."
Shiki didn't care about the trivial matters between Nanaya and Shion, but he still reminded Nanaya.
"Nanaya, I think you need to eliminate other things from interfering with your acting. You always care too much about trivial things."
"I'm beeping you!"
Nanaya didn't care whether the sound was muted or not, he just yelled directly at Shiki Matsuno.
"Calm down, I'm doing this for your own good." Shiki tried to comfort him, "The scenes later on will be even more complicated. If you keep doing this, you'll probably have to spend twice as much time on NGs as planned."
"Although what you said is indeed true, but when it came out of your mouth I felt like I deserved a beating!"
"Okay, stop wasting time on this guy."
Because they were still on the set, Shion did not change back into her original outfit for the sake of confidentiality. She walked over to Nanaya and whispered, "By the way, there's a party tonight. You can come with me later."
"Party? Whose party?" Nanaya was a little curious.
Shion smiled and replied, "Tonight, Disney will hold a celebration party for Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and they have invited you."
"How come I never knew that?"
"It was sent to you by Orlando Bloom, but you were filming in White Sand before, so it was transferred to me." Shion stuck out her tongue and said, "I was too busy to pay attention to the Internet. It was only when Iioka reminded me when I went out this morning that I remembered it."
Nanaya felt that Shion probably didn't forget, but deliberately waited until the last minute to give it to her, so that she would be the only female companion who would be invited.
"I see. I'll go with you tonight."
Nanaya knew he couldn't refuse, so he could only nod and agree to Shion's request.
"Very good, then let's meet at the Washimine Entertainment office building later. I need to dress up properly. I can't go out and meet people in this outfit."
Shion seemed to have heard very good news, she left the set humming a little tune.
Shiki Matsuno put one hand on Nanaya's shoulder, and he winked at his friend and joked, "Nanaya, I thought it was a great thing that you could marry the eldest daughter of Lin Bao's family, but I didn't expect that you could actually bring the girls of Washimine's family back home."
And Nanaya directly gave him a middle finger in response.
"Get out of here!"
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Disney has not been very lucky in recent years. Although Disney's classic animations have always occupied an important position in the offline market, Disney is not very strong in the live-action film market.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" project is the only project that Disney has been able to show off since entering the new millennium.
So as long as the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project does not fail suddenly, Disney will definitely hold such a celebration party to show its presence.
Although Nanaya is a director affiliated with the Washimine school, he will not be rejected by Disney.
The Hollywood circle is neither big nor small.
As one of the most famous commercial film directors in Hollywood, Nanaya may collaborate with Disney one day.
As a media group that has been operating for decades, Disney has this magnanimity.
Perhaps in Disney's view, Washimine's glory is only temporary. After all, since the founding of Hollywood, countless companies have wanted to challenge the position of the Hollywood Big Eight.
But the fact is, the Big Eight have become the Big Six, but still no new company has managed to successfully rise to the top.
It never happened before, and it is even less likely to happen in the future.
"You are welcome to the party, Director Kiryu."
A middle-aged man in his fifties greeted Nanaya and Shion at the entrance of the party.
Although he had seen him in a TV interview in his previous life, this was the first time that Nanaya saw the legendary "Smiling Mickey Mouse" in this life.
Nanaya quickly shook the hand that the other party extended, "Thank you and Bloom for the invitation, Mr. Iger."
"No, I'm also very happy that the director of the Fate series and the chairman of Washimine are here."
I have to say that Robert Iger's smile is really contagious. If you didn't know his achievements in business, you would think he is just an amiable uncle next door just by looking at his face.
But Nanaya knew that the other party was not only an outstanding business elite, but also the biggest contributor to pushing Disney to the top of the world's entertainment group.
Although it is certainly inappropriate to attribute all of Disney's success to Robert Iger alone, his precise strategic vision and decisive business methods as an entrepreneur made him the key figure in Disney's rapid growth after 2010.
His hero is my enemy.
Out of competition with Disney, Seven Nights has regarded Robert Iger as a big enemy.
But Nanaya could only keep this thought secretly in his heart. On the surface, he still showed the same smile as Robert Iger.
"Congratulations to Pirates of the Caribbean 2 for reaching $300 million at the North American box office. Disney's influence on the film market remains as strong as ever."
It's still early for "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" to be taken off the screen, and normally a celebration party shouldn't be held so early, but Disney's recent development is indeed not that good, so it is very necessary to use "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" to stabilize the morale of the troops.
Robert Iger shook his head at Nanaya's compliments: "No, Disney can't compare to you. If nothing unexpected happens, UBW should be the box office champion this year."
Nanaya acted very modestly: "Don't be ridiculous, Mr. Iger. I am far behind Disney. I was just lucky this time."
"Compared to Disney, I'm just a small director." Nanaya said half seriously and half jokingly.
"This is not a joke." Robert Iger answered seriously, "The movies Disney has released since the new millennium have always been problematic. Pirates of the Caribbean is our only profitable project in the past five years."
[Not 5 years but 20 years, if you don’t count the large number of 3D live-action fairy tale movies. ]
Nanaya was secretly thinking about this, but on the surface he encouraged Robert Iger: "Mr. Iger, please don't be discouraged. This is just a small setback encountered during Disney's development stage. I grew up watching Disney animated films, and it was your films that solidified my dream of becoming a director."
Shion secretly rolled her eyes on the side. She had heard this before, when Nanaya was fooling George Lucas, the father of Star Wars.
[Could it be that Nanaya is also optimistic about this manager and wants to trick him into joining? ]
Shion secretly looked at Robert Iger, the smiling Mickey Mouse, and couldn't help but have such doubts in her mind.
In fact, Shion was wrong. Nanaya had no intention of recruiting Robert Iger at all.
The reason is very simple. Washimine is unable to give the other party a position of corresponding status.
The position of CEO of Washimine belongs to Satoru, although Satoru is now only in charge of the game department, other matters including Washimine Entertainment are directly under the jurisdiction of Shion, the chairman.
But neither Shion nor Nanaya had any intention of replacing Satoru.
In this case, the only position available to Robert Iger is a branch company leadership position such as CEO of Washimine Entertainment.
If it were five years ago, this position might have been a little attractive to the "Smiling Mickey Mouse".
But now Robert Iger is already the head of the Disney media group, so he was asked to lower his status and become the leader of the Washimine branch.
This would not be possible even if he was fired by Disney. Even if he left Disney, Robert Iger would only go to another company to serve as a top CEO.
Therefore, for Robert Iger, Nanaya’s only plan is to defeat him in business competition.
If, Nanaya meant if, Washimine could acquire Disney, Nanaya would be generous enough to let Robert Iger continue to sit in the position of President of Disney.
But this kind of thing is just a thought.
Even though Disney is not developing well now, and even though the current market value of Disney is slightly lower than that of the Washimine Group, Robert Iger is still the head of a Fortune 500 company.
It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of an ox.
Robert Iger would not fail to understand this.
"I hope so." Robert Iger did not guess Nanaya's sinister intentions. He thought Nanaya was really encouraging him.
"Disney now needs new projects to open up the film market. If there is an opportunity, I hope Director Kiryu can come to help Disney make a movie."
"I'm sorry, my Erque Studio has an agreement with Washimine Entertainment. My movies will be sold by Washimine Entertainment."
Nanaya immediately declined Robert Iger's offer.
"That's a shame."
Robert Iger felt a little regretful, but he did not doubt Nanaya's words.
After all, this situation is not uncommon in Hollywood.
For example, before Pixar was officially acquired by Disney, they also had a similar agreement, so all animated films produced by Pixar would be handed over to Disney for distribution. This was also the basis for Disney to officially acquire Pixar this year.
For example, Nolan's films will also be handed over to Warner for distribution.
This model is also a means for the Big Six to indirectly control Hollywood.
"But nothing is absolute, right? After all, anything can happen in the future." Robert Iger continued to test, "If there comes such a day, I hope Director Kiryu will not refuse."
"Mr. Iger, look at what you said."
Shion, who had been patient for a long time, spoke up. She warned angrily, "Washimine has existed for more than a hundred years, which is longer than Disney!"
