At first, I just wanted to make money

Jeffrey Katzenberg is the founder of DreamWorks Animation and one of the three founders of DreamWorks Pictures.

At that time, he was kicked out by Disney - during his stay at Disney, he launched "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin" and other well-received and well-received cartoons, which made Disney animation regroup and realized the 90s of last century. The first great "renaissance" marked by "The Lion King".

Just when Katzenberg thought that he would definitely be promoted to the No. [-] position of the company, the company's board of directors headed by Eisner directly emptied Katzenberg and trampled his dream to pieces.

Then, Jeffrey Katzenberg founded DreamWorks Animation, which once crushed Disney animation with the "Shrek" and "Madagascar" series!

Of course, Disney later acquired Pixar and achieved industrial upgrading, reaching the top with "Elf", "Frozen", "Big Hero [-]", and "Zootopia"...

By the way, Jeffrey Katzenberg is actually quite shameless. His entrepreneurial work "Ants" was 'borrowed' from Pixar's "A Bug's Life".

Katzenberg met with Lasseter to get in touch. Lasseter is the director of "A Bug's Life". He described "A Bug's Life" with an ant as the main character to Katzenberg, and gave He told the whole story: the protagonist organizes other ants and, with the help of a group of insect circus performers, defeats the grasshopper.

Lasseter is extremely proud that he came up with the insect idea.

Lasseter later said he "should have been on the alert because Geoffrey kept asking me when I was going to release it."

Lasseter felt that it was too late. With the support of Katzenberg, "Ant and Heroes", which started very late, was released six weeks earlier than "A Bug's Life".

Lasseter was furious when he heard the news, and called Katzenberg to ask why he plagiarized his idea. Katzenberg coughed several times and said that they had thought of it a long time ago.

"Fuck you!" Lasseter blurted out.

He is usually polite and polite, and he hardly utters bad words.

In the following ten years, Lasseter did not say a word to each other again...

After all, Shen Xudong and Jeffrey have a good relationship. They almost bought DreamWorks Animation back then, but Jeffrey's asking price was too high...

Moreover, Shen Xudong does not have the ability to develop and market peripherals - the reason why DreamWorks Animation's profits are poor is because of its poor peripheral development capabilities. Disney earns US$53 billion a year from selling skirts, while DreamWorks Animation only earns US$5600 million in peripheral marketing per year!
Last year, DreamWorks Animation acquired the famous cartoon company Classic Media, which owns the copyrights of Felix the Cat, Ghost Horse, Sirishman, etc. This year, it will establish Oriental DreamWorks in China...

Ren Zhonglun hopes that Shen Xudong can also join them...

Shen Xudong shook his head: "I'll forget it. I plan to integrate more than a dozen animation company labels under my company. I have no idea to invest for the time being..."

"...Don't you have high hopes for animated films? I think you have poached many North American animation directors?"

"I want to make traditional Chinese fairy tales, and I need their technology..." After a pause, Shen Xudong asked: "Eastern Dreamworks is established, what about Shangmei Factory?"

"It's already half dead..."

"Don't save it?"

"How to rescue? This is an economic account. With the Oriental DreamWorks, we can use the overseas channels of DreamWorks to spread the world. What about the American factory?"

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Oriental DreamWorks, the shareholding structure is very troublesome, Chinese Culture, Shanghai Media, Shanghai Lianhe Investment Co., Ltd., and DreamWorks Animation.

Ren Zhonglun wanted Shen Xudong to join, mainly to increase his voice.

I want to use him to fight against Li Ruigang...

However, Shen Xudong was too lazy to wade into this muddy water.

According to the evaluation of the animation world in later generations: Oriental DreamWorks does not have a big boss, it is just a company suitable for retirement!

Indeed, a large part of the reason why Oriental DreamWorks was established was because of cheap labor.

The animation industry has expensive taxes and employee expenses in the United States, making major studios relocate...

Illumination Entertainment is the company that made "Despicable Me". The basic production is outsourced to an animation company in France. It seems to be called Caramel Film. That company also made "Felicie the Great"...

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The Shanghai Film Festival is still a publicity platform for major domestic films.

From the time point of view, its holding period is basically the beginning of the summer file, and the film festival has gathered many practitioners.

Attention has always been high.

Golden Harvest's "Suit Thug", Tianmei's "Painted Skin 2", China Film has "Ruffian Heroes All Out War", "Pen Fairy", Enlight Media "Four Famous Catchers", Bona's "The Wind Listener", "Hedong Lion Roar 2" "...

The most eye-catching is Huayi Brothers, "1942", "Tai Chi" trilogy...

By the way, Leshi also brought "The Disappearing Bullet"...

Jackie Chan, who appeared in the finale, brought "Flying Eagle Project 3: Zodiac"

All major film and television companies regard the Shanghai Film Festival as an important publicity position.

Shen Xudong walked the red carpet with "Painted Skin 2".

Holding hands with Chen Hao, oh, the director of "Painted Skin 2" is Lu Yang...

Shen Xudong has never been able to accept Wu Ershan's art... Chinese gods, three eyes are vertical, and they look like the Tianjin fans in "Dragon Ball"!

In addition, as a person who is not of his own nationality, he has no scruples to make public comments on another nation, which in itself is a kind of arrogance and insult.

It's quite embarrassing. When our public figures express their views on other ethnic groups in formal occasions, which one is not cautious, which one does not add a lot of prepositions: "objectively speaking", "from a scientific point of view", "From a historical point of view", lest the inappropriate comments offend the parties involved.

Pulling back, Chen Hao asked him in a low voice: "You came yesterday?"

"Yes…"

"Then why don't you look for me?"

Shen Xudong explained in a low voice: "I'm here for serious business..."

"What's the real business?"

"...I'm going to work with the Shanghai Film Group to shoot the Chu-Han Fighting Hegemony series..."

"Chu and Han fight for supremacy... Then can I play Concubine Yu?"

Shen Xudong glanced at her: "Eldest sister, Yu Ji, you will be 40 soon..."

"Pooh!"

Chen Hao couldn't hold back and hit him...

"Ahem," Zhou Xun next to him quickly coughed, signaling that someone was taking pictures in public...

"...Brother Xun, how was the filming of "The Wind Listener"?"

"I don't feel anything..."

"Can it compare to "The Wind"?"

"Hard to say…"

"Hehe," Shen Xudong smiled, and then went to the interview area...