The initial budget of the movie was 45 million USD with his father investing almost 30 million USD in it. By the end of July, the global turnover reached almost 1.8 billion USD. This reaction from the general audience surprised even John.
As far as John remembered, the total turnover of the 1994 movie was little over 1.2 billion USD. But John forgot the fact that in 1994 there weren't many movie lovers as were in 2002. This helped him a lot.
After such global success many people started discussing on the fact that 'The Lion King' might get Oscar this year as the best animated movie and even awards for the best background music and other such related categories.
Now by the end of October Jameson realized he was sitting on a golden egg because he had already earned more than 1 billion USD and that too by not having done anything. It was also because of the fact that John gave him ideas to commercialize by using toys, merchandise and other stuffs and that helped him earn more money. Jameson really thanked the stars for such a wonderful son. His ideas were so impressive that it even shocked him. He was so happy that he even smiled when asleep.
The only person who wasn't happy at home was Valentina because she noticed that dealing with all this stuff had hampered the studies of John and his everyday life. He hardly went to school an he was able to sneak away from the authorities of school just because of the fact that he was the top student in his class and also because he had produced such an awesome movie that even the school felt proud. The school felt so proud of John that at their school gate they put up a huge banner saying, "The school which produced the lion king."
Although it was blatantly wrong as the school had nothing to do with his success but at least they gave him free reign of not attending school. John even told the principal that he would be producing more movies such as this and in future he would be constantly absent. The principal agreed upon as long as he achieved excellence in his studies and work hard to get into to a good high school.
Though he wasn't sure about how tough the exam would be but he was confident at his knowledge about science from his previous life as John in his previous life too was excellent in studies.
Furthermore, John in this life really didn't have any thirst for science as he would prefer magic over science. The science stuff could be left to Tony for research.
[Ding
"The fan value acquired by the host is 102 million.
Fan value required to bring the character Simba to life - 1 million
Fan value to change the host to Simba - 500,000
(This change will entirely depend on the wish of the host and can interchange between Simba and the main body)
Fan value required for the character Timon - 250,000
Fan value to change the host to Timon - 125,000
Fan value for the character Zazu - 400,000
Fan value to change the host to character Zazu- 200,000
.....
Urging the host to work hard]
"Wow so much fan value from a simple movie. Well I guess I should save the fan value as the movies I have in mind for the future aren't so good and the fan values would be required for future purposes. Well at least I can try this character Zazu and fulfill my wish to fly."
"System I would like to change myself to Zazu." John said in his heart.
[Ding
The command has been accepted.
Remaining fan value: 101,800,000]
As soon as the statement ended he soon realized that in his mind there is one small ball. It astonished him as before this he could never see inside his consciousness and it felt magical. The small ball had the markings of a horn-bill bird and as soon as he tried to touch the ball he realized that he had turned into a bird in real life. A majestic horn-bill with big wingspans appeared in his place and he could feel that he could fly.
After seeing this he couldn't stop himself. It had been almost a year that he had been in this world and finally got the fruits of the labor. He flew out from the open window in the room without any difficulty.
He flew out of the home which was in Manhattan and flew over the top of the buildings. Even though there was wind in the topmost part it didn't stop him as he felt free for the first time in his life. This freedom gave him joy and eagerness to make all his previous dreams come true. He even got to see the famous Stark tower from far but he didn't go too close as he wasn't sure if Jarvis is already online. If he was then it would be a headache. So he returned home after a few minutes.
November 28, 2002
It was Thanksgiving Day. John and Jameson were supposed to have a sumptuous dinner at home. But John insisted on going to California on this day. Jameson and Valentina accepted his insistence and took John to California.
John came to California only for one purpose and that is to buy companies. Even though John didn't say anything to his father but he did ask him to contact a local business lawyer so that he could make contracts easily and fast. After landing in San Francisco they went to Silicon Valley.
After coming into this world John wasn't sure of what happened but he soon realized that the internet has not evolved as the same as in his world. Even though there is Google in this world but it hadn't evolved the way it should have. Well it didn't matter as there was the company of Google in Silicon valley and he could inject some ideas onto Larry Page, the current CEO of Google.
After coming to the office which by the standards of Silicon Valley was a small one, he had already asked the lawyers before to arrange up a meeting with Larry in the afternoon.
J Jonah Jameson, John, Larry and the lawyer sat in the meeting room sipping coffee.
"Mr. Jameson it is my honor to meet you and Mr. John, the avid creator of The lion king." Larry said smiling.
"Huh! Has the story of me being the creator reached here too? I don't think I have done such a huge work to gather the praise of an IT company's CEO." John replied.
"You must be joking Mr. John. Even though your career path doesn't coincide the path of our company but just the fact that you could create such an awesome masterpiece with such high imagination, you Mr. John is worthy of respect." Larry said.
"Thank you Mr. Page but you do forget that I am just an 12 year old kid." John said.
"Well if you want to be a big company like the other IT companies here then I can take your companies to new heights. The heights that even you can't imagine in your life." John added with a smirk.
Now it was the turn of Jameson and Larry's expression to change. Jameson felt surprised because he knew this smile of John. It meant he had a wonderful idea and it might bring a huge change and Larry was surprised that John could even say such thing because he felt that a kid of 12 year old shouldn't know much of IT even if he is famous all over the world. All Larry cared about is if Jameson could invest money in his company and help the company become bigger.
"Mr. Larry, I have a proposal for you. I would buy your comapny's 70% stock and inject an amount of 200 million USD based on the fact that you will follow my ideas and execute it accordingly." John said with solemness.
Jameson and Larry were again astonished by this statement because Jameson felt that such a small company shouldn't be evaluated so highly and Larry felt that it was like a angel serving him a golden platter. Even though Larry wasn't sure of why John came to him with such extravagant proposals. As long as he could get the money and do nothing illegal he would be fine with it even if the ideas proposed by John were total bogus.
"But Mr. John why did you come to me? We are just a small website creators and don't have such high value." Larry asked hesitatingly.
"Because Mr. Larry in this whole world only you have the knowledge to execute my ideas. Don't get astonished Mr. Larry. This is the truth. I have a bunch of ideas in my head and only your company can execute it efficiently. But I wish to settle the contract before we further advance into the negotiation." John said.
After much thought, Larry asked to excuse himself as he had to ask the co-owners of the company. After about half an hour of discussion while John and the others took a walk around the office they came to the meeting room again.
"Mr. Jameson, we would like to accept the proposal of Mr. John. I hope it would be possible." Larry said as he knew the last word in this whole negotiation were the words of Jameson. Jameson looked at John who was smiling at him. He shook his head in reluctance and said, "Sure Mr. Larry. Shall we sign the contracts?"
The contracts were drawn upon and soon the all the required procedures were processed. It was said that the whole process could take quite a few days and John had no idea of the company's ownership. It was better to leave it to his father.
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