Chapter 485 (1/2)

Disneyland in the eastern suburb of Paris, France.

After riding the Indiana Jones roller coaster, the couple in Mickey and Minnie's T-shirt left the scenic spot. They found a lawn and walked over together.

With Simon on the lawn, Janet takes off her sunglasses and lies comfortably on the man's chest.

Wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, and dressed like a pair of ordinary lovers who can be seen everywhere, they have been playing in Disneyland all day. It is inevitable that some hesitant eyes have never been identified.

It's evening.

The soft and warm sunshine in early summer makes people feel lazy.

The kitten rubbed against Simon, and Janet suddenly said, ”shall we not go to Cannes tonight?”

Simon put his arm around the woman's waist and nodded without thinking, ”OK.”

Today is Monday, May 18.

The 45th Cannes Film Festival opened on May 7, and the closing ceremony was officially held tonight.

I haven't been to Europe for a long time. There are a lot of things to deal with here.

Taking advantage of this film festival opportunity, Simon flew here with Janet last Friday.

On Saturday, he spent a day in Florence, Italy. Yesterday, he flew to Helsinki, Finland. Today, he has a free day. On Monday, when there are relatively few tourists, Simon took Janet with him to visit the newly opened European Disneyland.

Actually, it's a personal experience of the operation of Disneyland.

The European Disneyland, which took six years and cost US $5 billion and covers an area of nearly 20 square kilometers, officially opened on April 12. The official passenger flow in the last month or so is less than half of what Disney originally expected. The huge losses and heavy debt burden of the theme park make the high-level Disneyland in a rather embarrassing situation. The failure of

Disney in Europe has made a very significant impact on the Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan.

Most directly, the Osaka Municipal government has finally slowed down its rhetoric during this period. Instead of insisting on converting all the land into shares, it has converted it into half cash and half stock. Municipal government's Universal Studios in Osaka will eventually be able to hold about 5% of the Osaka's universal studios according to the basically agreed plan.

For Simon, the failure of Euro Disney also brought him many warnings.

The Disneyland on the outskirts of Paris was largely built under the influence of the success of Tokyo Disneyland. At the beginning, Disney was full of confidence in this project, and European countries also racked their brains to compete for this theme park project, which can have many positive effects on economy and employment.

The original blindness also brought very serious consequences.

In my memory, European Disneyland, later renamed Paris Disneyland, has been open for decades, and basically has not realized profit. For such a huge project, considering that the consequences of bankruptcy liquidation are too serious, Disney can't even get rid of it, so it has to subsidize its operation for a long time.

The lack of detailed market research in the early stage, excessive optimism led to the project budget out of control, and the lack of market-oriented localization operation These huge mistakes in the European Disneyland are the next thing that Osaka Universal Studios need to pay attention to.

Simon pondered, and suddenly another thing occurred to him.

Disney, which was originally on the time line, has always been a Hollywood giant media group, even in the depressed years at the beginning of the new century.

Now, however, in Hollywood, Disney has been obviously suppressed because of the rise of Denise entertainment.

For example, Pixar, an animation studio that has maintained Disney's long-term dominant position in the field of animated films, has been owned by danielis entertainment.

Some of Disney's best-selling projects in the 1990s, such as ”pretty girl” and ”Lion King”, have also been cut off by Simon.

Miramax, originally an important sub brand of Disney, is now dying.

Even if it is Disney's crucial 2D animation business, because Simon acquired Pixar in advance, the animation production technology has not changed from manual to digital, so the production scale of Disney's 2D animation film is limited.

The wave of integration of American media industry has begun.

Because of Denise Entertainment's series of cuts, now Disney, although in Hollywood's major studios business is still good, but it is impossible to have enough strength to annex metropolitan ABC Group.

It is impossible to realize the transformation from a simple studio to a comprehensive media group. In the industry trend of resource concentration in the media field of the United States, this old film company, which has operated independently for many years, is likely to be annexed by other large media groups in the future.

Twenty or thirty years later, Hollywood's most powerful big studios, whether Disney, Warner Bros. or universal pictures, are actually attached to a huge media group. The rising stars such as lion gate, because of their independence, have not been able to really stand side by side with the traditional big studios. For a short time, they have been popular for a few years with one or two blockbuster series, and soon they are silent.Now Disney has shown signs of internal instability.

Simon can't help but start thinking that maybe one day, this old studio can also be included in the bag. Or let it be as silent as the former United States, thunderbolt and MGM.

Such a heavy burden of Euro Disney can undoubtedly play a good role in promoting the decline of Disney Company.

All of a sudden, a pair of small hands reached over and held Simon's face. A rub interrupted his thoughts.

He made a gesture to bite one of the hands, but his two little paws ”jumped” together happily and shut up.

Discontented and pinched the man's face, Janet let Simon go, arms on his chest, still staring at a pair of beautiful eyes, said: ”don't think about things, think about where we are going to play tomorrow.”

Simon put his arms around the woman's waist and said, ”go to chateau Latour tomorrow.”

Janet nodded and thought of one more thing, saying, ”Dad told me last time to help prepare some red wine for David's wedding at the end of the year.”

Although the old man was not satisfied with David Johnston's fiancee, he was as face loving as ever.

Smiling, he scratched the woman's waist with his fingers. Simon pretended that the meat hurt and said, ”just pick the right one. That's great. I'll be heartbroken.”

Janet's eyes groaned menacingly. She looked like a little daughter-in-law who was ready to turn her elbow out.

But after looking at Simon for a moment, Janet wondered, ”you really don't seem to care?”

Simon pretended to be unhappy: ”in your heart, I am a very stingy person?”

”Of course not.”

Janet said, leaning her head slightly, as if she were pondering.

Simon wanted to imitate the way a woman just rubbed her face, but Janet suddenly attacked him and bit him in the hand.