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Chapter 395 Mr. Golden is too strong, let's balance him out
🕑 Added 2025-07-17 15:05:25 +0000 UTCAccording to the current forecast of Washimine's marketing department, Nanaya estimates that the peripheral revenue of "Cars" will definitely be more than the sum of the two FSN films.
Moreover, compared with the characters of FSN, the animated characters of "Cars" also have more advantages in long-term returns.
If FSN peripherals can be sold for 3 years, then the other party can at least sell them for more than 5 years.
It's normal for "Cars" to achieve such commercial success, and Nanaya does not feel jealous or any other emotions.
He cares about this and is jealous of that all day long, so Kiryu Nanaya doesn't have to do anything.
Nanaya's only regret is that he and Washimine were not able to seize the opportunity to acquire Pixar before Disney did.
Because at that time, Washimine's cash flow really couldn't keep up, and the offer from Pixar's owner Steve Jobs was really too high, which Washimine couldn't bear.
After all, at this time Washimine was spending money everywhere to build his own entertainment empire. Although Washimine made a lot of money in recent years, he also spent money in many places.
Boss Qiao's offer of nearly 10 billion US dollars made Washimine unable to agree.
From this we can see the disadvantages of Washimine as a newcomer and outsider in Hollywood.
You should know that for the same conditions, CEO Steve Jobs offered Disney $7 billion, which was a 30% discount.
Finally, in early 2006, Disney acquired Pixar for $7.4 billion, marking the first step in building its entertainment empire.
Of course, the equity exchange agreement offered by Disney was also one of the reasons why Jobs preferred Disney.
Many people are familiar with Steve Jobs and know that he led Apple to its peak.
But few people know that Jobs only got a small amount of money from Apple. Although this amount of money is an astronomical figure for the general public, for Jobs himself it is just a drop in the bucket of his personal assets.
The most valuable asset of Jobs came from the money he made when Disney acquired Pixar.
In this acquisition, Steve Jobs personally acquired 6.05% of the shares of Disney headquarters, becoming Disney's largest shareholder.
More than 5% of the shares of one of the world's top media companies, just thinking about it makes people drool.
Compared with Boss Joe, this guy Nanaya is really a worthless existence.
It’s a pity that in his previous life, Boss Joe didn’t get to see the scene where Disney single-handedly defeated the Big Four and acquired Fox.
Even so, when Jobs was alive, Disney was already showing signs of being one of the top six companies.
This deal should be the most successful deal that Jobs had ever made in his previous life.
As for this life, Nanaya can't guarantee it.
As we all know, since 2005, Disney has launched a strategic layout of pan-entertainment concepts and increased its focus on IP operations.
Among them, Disney's own IP, subsidiary IP and IP of small companies are the three pillars that ensure Disney can implement this strategy.
However, these three pillars are extremely unbalanced. Among them, the younger brothers of the Disney family have not been very strong since 2000, and they can hardly even make ends meet.
As for its own IP, Disney only made Captain Jack Sparrow famous after 2000, but all the others have failed one after another.
The only thing worth watching is the 3D version of Disney's classic animation, but in Nanaya's opinion, this is a shameless operation that overdraws the IP.
What really makes Disney powerful is the IP of its subsidiaries.
Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar, these three are the cornerstones of Disney's real rise.
Although Nanaya missed out on Pixar, he has Marvel in his hands.
"Lucas still needs to work harder. He can't let Disney win so easily."
Business competition is like rowing against the current. If you don’t move forward, you will fall behind.
Nanaya sees nothing wrong in stealing competitors' things.
He and Disney are on the same starting line. It is Lucas's own decision who to choose in the end. Both sides are in fair competition.
Seeing Nanaya drooling, Shion asked curiously, "What are you talking about to yourself?"
"I just think George Lucas needs to move around a bit."
Nanaya didn't explain much. He just laughed and read the last copy of the newspaper that Lily brought.
There was no specific news in this newspaper. The entire page only contained a poster with a large skull logo printed on it, and three people, two men and one woman, standing below it.
"Pirates of the Caribbean 2..."
Nanaya sighed. This was probably the movie he cared about the most.
The former box office champion in 2006 is UBW’s biggest enemy this year.
“Is this movie already released?”
Nanaya asked, pointing at the poster.
Lily nodded her head and said, "Yes, it just came out. I went to see it before I came here."
Then she was hit by Shion with a folding fan.
"You little girl, you are aiding the enemy! You actually went to see the competitor's movie and gave them box office support?"
"It's not like I need the money for the movie ticket alone. Besides, it's not just me, Sister Ori is going too, and there are others too."
"……elder sister."
The corners of Nanaya's mouth twitched. He didn't know what Ori would think when he heard this name.
"So what about the movie's first run box office performance?"
Lily thought for a moment and replied, "The first weekend box office performance was 130 million U.S. dollars, which is a little worse than ours."
"That's good."
This result is similar to that in Nanaya' Memory, so it can be estimated that the North American box office of this movie should be around 400 million.
“How’s the reputation?”
Nanaya has not seen "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" in this world. He doesn't know whether, under his influence, this movie will be different from the version he saw in his previous life.
It’s not that Nanaya is narcissistic, but this is the current situation in the film market.
After the release of FSN last year, because of the outstanding three-way campus melee, many movies this year also incorporated the three-way melee plot.
Even Fox, who always looked down on Fate, added a scene in "X-Men 3" that Fate had never seen before, in which Wolverine, Dark Phoenix and Magneto fought each other.
Although there are only a few people who can achieve Nanaya's level, this itself is a kind of change.
Hollywood has always been a place that is very good at learning, or it would be more appropriate to say that it is following the trend.
Nanaya is not sure whether "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", which originally had a three-way sword fight, will be modified because of FSN.
I think there should be an impact, but whether this impact is good or bad is really hard to say unless Nanaya goes to watch the movie and compares it with his own memory.
But it is unrealistic for Nanaya to put down his work and go to the city to watch a movie now, so Nanaya can only make an estimate based on the reviews.
"The reviews are average," Lily replied. "The film's pacing is a big problem, the plot lines are too loose, and some of the dark plots are too obscure."
Having worked with Nanaya on film sets for so many years, Lily has been deeply influenced by him.
Although her taste in movies is different from Nanaya's, her standards for evaluating the commercial value of movies have basically been assimilated by Nanaya.
"Depp is the highlight of the movie. It's no exaggeration to say that he is charming. The male and female protagonists in the previous movie were basically beaten up. It seems understandable that the knight who kicked me would be anxious."
At this point, Lily showed a gloating expression, and it seemed that she was still very unhappy that Lancelot, played by Orlando Bloom, was stronger than herself.
"What about the action scenes?"
"Hmm... I can't really say." Lily answered hesitantly, "Although it is indeed very good, there is always a feeling of half-hiding the face of the lute, which is a little lacking. Maybe it's because there will be a sequel, but it is far from our FSN."
[The evaluation is similar to that of the previous life. 】
Nanaya noticed that Lily didn't specifically mention the part about the three-person sword fight, and it didn't seem like there was anything particularly impressive about it.
"How much is the UBW box office already?"
"420 million in North America, just over 1 billion worldwide." This time it was Shion who answered, "According to estimates, the North American box office should be able to achieve 440 million before it is released. There are still a few places in the world that have not been released yet. Although it is hard to say how much the box office will be, it shouldn't be a problem to get tens of millions more."
Nanaya threw the newspaper on the table and said to Shion, "Please follow up on the box office performance of Pirates of the Caribbean 2. I want to know the specific data."
"Brother-in-law, are you afraid that others will surpass you in box office?" Lily covered her mouth and laughed secretly, "You really have no confidence."
Pop.
Nanaya talked to Lily on the head for a while: "Stop talking nonsense, do you want me to make you do a few more NGs under the sun later?"
“No…”
Lily begged for mercy immediately, and her change of attitude was quite fast.
Of course, even if the other party didn’t ask for it, Nanaya wouldn’t do that.
He was reluctant to let such a fair and tender Lily Nanaya get tanned.
Getting a tan feels good for a while, but what if you can’t get it back?
If that happens, Nanaya’s sunscreen commercial will go from being a joke to being real.
Gawain also needs to do a good job of sun protection. Unlike Lily who only appears in the desert for a few seconds, in the final battle between Mr. Golden and the Emperor, he has to fight with the Macedonian soldiers for three hundred rounds.
To be honest, Nanaya could never understand why the Emperor would pull people into the position of enemies within the inherent barrier.
Even if the relative distance is fixed, the distance between the Emperor and Mr. Golden should not be so different.
It was so big that when the emperor charged, Mr. Golden was able to slowly pull out EA and then release his real name.
By the time he had finished all this, the emperor's army was still 108,000 miles away from the enemy. It was really a bit ridiculous.
So in Nanaya’s own version, Mr. Golden will not release EA at the beginning. It’s not that he doesn’t want to release it, but that he can’t.
The battle between Iskandar and Gilgamesh in the King's Army will begin directly in the battle formation.
Mr. Golden did start to prepare to pull out EA as soon as he entered the barrier, but the interference of the soldiers prevented him from pulling out EA and releasing the treasure.
So just like the battle between Hercules and Nanaya in the FSN version, Mr. Golden had to fight hard before he could find the opportunity to release EA.
Nanaya needs to create a fighting force that is evenly matched between the Great Emperor and Gilgamesh, rather than the situation in the original FZ where they were kite-ed to death from beginning to end.
It's so frustrating! The three Command Seals that Waver cast without hesitation before the battle were completely wasted!
Decisive...the opportunity is given for nothing.
This is indeed absolutely true.
Of course, all of this is nonsense. Nanaya’s real purpose is to have the opportunity to release a big special effects scene.
The scene that originally ended with just one EA was really an unworthy achievement for the set that Nanaya spent so much money to build.
More importantly, it is indeed a bit uninteresting that the battle between the two kings, which has been the focus of the entire story, ended so abruptly.
