Chapter 68 (1/2)

CHAPTER 68 – PIXAR; THE UGLY DUCKLING

Eric checked his memories on Pixar: a world-renowned leader of 3D animation, and producer of the Toy Story franchise

But before 1995, Disney 2D ani the animated film market, and no one was optimistic about the future of 3D animation It was to the point that Jobs himself started to lack confidence in it

Before Toy Story was released, he had tried to sell this unfortunate ugly duckling at all cost, and had even contacted his good ol’ rival Microsoft to this purpose

During thewith the Microsoft executives and in order to curry favor with their CTO at the time, Nathan Myhrvold, Jobs had even went so far as to deliberately place on his desk, a laptop running Windows

Unfortunately, Microsoft’s offer was not to Jobs’ liking, and without anyway to extricate hiotten himself into, he was left with no other choice but to bite the bullet and bid his time

That was rewarding, since once Toy Story was released, its North Alobal box office reached an astounding 373 eneral production cost had only amounted to 30 million

After that, Pixar’s74 billionwhen it was acquired by Disney in 2006

Ti shi+p’ project[1] Eric i Pixar, but soon shook his head

Although right now Jobs only demanded 50 millionfor it, even if the price was halved, Eric had no way to pay

He didn’t have enough , but he still hadn’t received his final dividend

He reckoned that he would have to wait until Hoet his share In his past life, it wasn’t uncoet theirs

It’sabout, with the annual interest percentage, even if it sat still in the bank, it would grow iree it all out

Eric shuddered at the thought of what they could do Once Ho period, they could choose to add a fewsure the er, and Eric would only be able to helplessly look on

Thanks to their fallout over the gareement, the possibilities of cooperation with Columbia in the short future where near nil Scratch that, it was probably 100 nil With Coluet ahead, he didn’t even want to bother with them, especially with Blount Cohen still at the helm

After much deliberation, Eric felt he should prioritize Pretty Woe too much, then Toy Story’s release wouldn’t happen until six years froh to buy Pixar by then

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Before Pretty Wo had started, the preparatory work had been conducted perfectly, so Jeffrey didn’t need to be here all the time, they could just use other producers in his stead

Eric and the man had talked it o

ut for about an hour, and Jeffrey had hurriedly flown to New York to discuss advertising issues with NBC

Advertising sego, and NBC had already sold 80 of the 20, and a lot of time had passed since, which meant the prices had risen

Three days later, Eric had just gotten up when he received Jeffrey’s phone call The man had scored them their 60 seconds of time

“What, 15 million? Didn’t you say it was 12 million before ?” In the bathroom, a cordless phone nuzzled between his neck and his shoulder, Eric was in thehis teeth when he asked

Jeffrey helplessly said: “If no one else had wanted it yeah, but a New York fashi+on coot interested in the ad and et it at all cost, I offered 300,000more I’m pretty sure that fashi+on company is owned by NBC by the way, but I don’t have any proof”

It was only 300,000 , Eric didn’t want to dawdle on it, he finished brushi+ng his teeth, rinsed hisroom

“Well alright, 15 lass of water: “Sign the contract as soon as possible Ah right, tomorrow’s the Golden Globes, will you make it ?”