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Immersion is less than a year old, and it's time to invest. Henry sent someone to tell them that he wanted to buy shares, and brought a lot of cooperation orders after taking shares. This makes Immersion feel very happy!

Unlike the Chinese, Americans are not particularly interested in the absolute control of companies, because absolute control is almost rare in the United States. There are many investment institutions in the United States. If a company wants to develop, financing is indispensable in the process. In the end, the founder can get 10%, which is considered a lot. Except for Henry, of course.

Henry invested $5 million in Immersion and eventually held a 70% stake.

After acquiring Immersion, Henry first let Immersion cooperate with Atari to develop the shock pack function! Since then, there are still many orders, such as mobile phone button vibration function, ATM touch vibration function and so on! Now ATMs are already using resistive screens, and resistive screens can function through pressure sensing. Apple's AppleNewton handheld computer also uses a resistive screen, which uses a stylus to replace the key output!

The opposite of the resistive screen is the capacitive screen. The capacitive screen is sensed by the current of the human body, which is the touch screen commonly used in smartphones in the future. However, the technical requirements of capacitive screens are much higher than that of resistive screens, and they cannot be developed for the time being!

Henry then told Rich Howard what a trigger button is. The trigger button is designed to follow ergonomics. An L button is added to the back of the joystick. As long as the index finger is naturally bent, it can be hooked, reducing input errors.

After explaining this, Henry was ready to make the "Pokemon" cartoon.

The painting style of "Pokemon" is Japanese style, and the animation is best produced by a Japanese animation production company! Henry thought about it for a while, and then decided to go directly to Toho Co., Ltd. to make the "Pokemon" cartoon. Because in the past life, the animation of "Pokemon" was produced by this company.

Toho Co., Ltd., referred to as Toho, is one of the five major film companies in Japan. In Henry's memory, the company was not very strong in film and television, and was best known for the Godzilla series of films produced by the company. But Toho Co., Ltd. is too great in the field of animation production, and has produced Doraemon series, Naruto series, Crayon Shin-chan series, Detective Conan series, Pokémon series, Reaper series, Inuyasha theatrical series series Wait for a very classic cartoon!

Henry thought it was time for Galaxy Films to leave America too.

Henry immediately instructed Galaxy Films to annex Toho Co., Ltd. Once Toho Co., Ltd. was acquired, the strength of Galaxy Films would grow by leaps and bounds in the field of animation!

Although Toho Co., Ltd. claims to be one of the top five film companies in Japan, it is hardly worth mentioning when compared with Hollywood giant film companies. Galaxy Films can be called a Hollywood giant after all! In 1993, Galaxy Films released more than 60 films, especially the films produced by Galaxy Films, which created a box office miracle. In this year, Hollywood belonged to Galaxy Films, and the top four grossing films in the world were all from Galaxy. Works by a film company! Therefore, 1993 was also called "Galaxy Movie Year" by many fans!

This year, Galaxy Film invested and produced four films, "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Mission Impossible" and "Independence Day". Together with its subsidiary Pixar's "Toy Story", there are a total of 5 self-made films belonging to Galaxy Films.

The highest-grossing film is "Independence Day", which has a global box office of more than 1.15 billion US dollars. The extremely shocking special effects of the movie shocked everyone, especially when the White House was destroyed by an alien spaceship. It was a bunker. At that moment, many people in the cinema could not help but scream!

Second at the box office was "Forrest Gump," which grossed more than $900 million worldwide. Starring actor Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and others, this film depicts the congenitally mentally retarded small town boy Forrest Gan, who is constantly improving himself, and finally "stupid people have stupid blessings" and is blessed by God. Inspirational stories of miracles in this field. After the film was released, the word of mouth was overwhelming and moved countless people!

The third-highest-grossing movie was Toy Story, with $620 million worldwide.

Fourth at the box office was "Mission: Impossible," with $470 million worldwide.

The box office of "The Shawshank Redemption" can only be regarded as average, but it is unprecedentedly popular in the video tape market, with a high reputation and is regarded as a classic by countless people!

In addition, this year, Henry's personal investment, Spielberg's "Schindler's List" was released and released with the help of Galaxy Films. The film recreates the real historical events of German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler and his wife Emily Schindler who went bankrupt during World War II and protected more than 1,200 Jews from being killed by fascists. In the film, Schindler doesn't start out as a hero, but he ends up being a hero. The film does not provide an answer, but directly presents his behavior and psychological reactions to the audience, allowing the audience to experience and analyze it for themselves.

Spielberg used a small symbolic effect as a foil, the little girl in red. Every time Schindler looked at her, his belief became stronger. She symbolizes an innocent and fragile life, as well as the courage and strength to overcome evil, and is the only color in the film.

After the film was released, U.S. President Clinton was very impressed after seeing the film, and at a press conference he couldn't help but exclaimed: "I urgently ask you to go and see this film."

"Schindler's List" has deeply attracted countless people with its powerful shock and deep and painful artistic charm. Although the movie is so heavy, the box office is rising steadily. The U.S. box office is as high as 120 million US dollars, the overseas box office is as high as 280 million US dollars, and the total box office is as high as 400 million US dollars. As an art film with a small theme, it is shocking that the global box office is so high!

When the film was released in Germany, the German President personally attended the premiere of the film! ! !

At the end of the movie, there is actually an Easter egg. The Easter egg is a micro-movie of less than 10 minutes. The name of the movie is "Visa for Life". pressure to issue Jews visas to China, and this visa has almost become a 'life visa' to save Jews...

As soon as the Easter egg came out, the Chinese side immediately contacted the Galaxy Film Company to request the introduction of the film!

This is totally giving the Chinese a face!

As an investor in the film, Henry not only received the friendship of the Jews, but also the favor of the Chinese government.

This year, Galaxy Film Company has had infinite scenery and no two in a single moment.

Next year's Oscars ceremony will be the most watched one. Whether it's "Forrest Gump", "Schindler's List", or "The Shawshank Redemption" all have the qualifications to compete for the best film, which film can win the award, it is exciting!

For Galaxy Films, the awards will belong to them anyway, it doesn't matter.

In terms of profitability, the box office plus the peripheral income, Galaxy Film Company makes a lot of money, and its name as a Hollywood movie giant is well deserved! ! !

At present, Galaxy Film's cash flow is more than five billion US dollars, and it is not difficult to merge Dongbao Co., Ltd.!

Under Henry's order, Galaxy Films launched a takeover request for Toho Co., Ltd.: "Galaxy Film Company spent 2.5 billion US dollars to acquire Toho Co., Ltd.!"

Faced with the acquisition of Hollywood movie giants, many people in Toho Co., Ltd. are panicked. It is very likely that Toho Co., Ltd. will become a subsidiary of Galaxy Films!

Henry no longer cares about the details of the acquisition. If the goodwill acquisition cannot be completed, then he will take over hostilely, forcibly acquire shares in the stock market, or buy shares at a high price from some major shareholders! ! !

Toho Co., Ltd. held a board discussion and finally decided to negotiate with Galaxy Films.

The two sides soon entered the formal negotiation process.

Soon, 1993 ended and 1994 began. And this new year will be very exciting!

(To be continued ~^~.)