Hollywood Starts with Animation

v1 Chapter 350: Observe the results of special effects a

The annual Thanksgiving holiday schedule is coming on schedule!

Pixar Animation, which has just reached a number of cooperation agreements with Water World Animation, once again hit hard. "Toy Story 2" is the first work of the series after a few years of painstaking effort.

The production cost has changed from US$30 million in the first part to US$90 million in the second part;

At the same time, Pixar Animation has become more mature technical level, and polished it more refined and real;

In addition, the warmth, touching, adventurous, and innocent elements of Pixar animation are fully demonstrated in this movie.

Breathtaking!

"Toy Story 2" is scheduled for Thanksgiving in November. Once it is released, it will be popular all over the United States!

The box office is advancing vigorously, and the momentum is like a broken bamboo!

In the first three days of the weekend, as many as $75.2 million in North American box office were harvested.

Rank 1st!

And this weekend's box office ranking of the second movie, only reported $ 31 million, and the box office revenue of "Toy Story 2" can be described as a far cry from the box office revenue.

"Amazing animated sequel works." "New York Times" commented.

"The performance of "Toy Story 2" completely surpassed the first one, not only in terms of box office, but also in terms of word-of-mouth. It broke the first golden start and the curse of the sequel to the sequel." "Chicago Review" commented.

The media is highly praised, and the fans and fans are also well-received.

Similarly, many analysis companies have made multiple guesses about the box office trend and final destination of "Toy Story 2" through data simulation.

"The North American box office of $200 million is definitely not the end of "Toy Story 2"~"

This guess derived from data analysis and simulation is a data that most people are convinced.

Wald Pictures.

"Boss, it seems that Pixar Animation has succeeded again this time." Alexander exclaimed.

Zhuke laughed and said: "Pixar animation is successful again, so what? Don't forget, Jobs originally signed a series of agreements with Disney that can be called ‘losing power and humiliating the country’."

Whether it is box office revenue, offline peripheral license revenue, or DVD, video tape, and TV platform broadcast revenue, more than 70% of the revenue was intercepted by Disney.

The income of Pixar Animation is very pitiful!

"It's also thanks to Jobs being smart enough to list Pixar animation on the US stock market at the same time as "Toy Story" was released, otherwise the current Pixar animation would have become an accessory to Disney." Zhuke smiled.

Speaking of being shrewd, Zhu Ke really admired Jobs.

In order to get back the income that should belong to Pixar Animation from Disney, Jobs not only resolutely agreed to cooperate with Zhu Ke’s company; secondly, even if they have the ability to develop multiple animation works at the same time, they will delay time and wait for the The deadline for Disney cooperation.

A "Toy Story 2", according to Pixar Animation's production capacity, can definitely be completed in two years, but what about them?

It took 4 years to complete "Toy Story 2".

It can be seen that Jobs is cunning enough.

咚咚咚~

At this moment, a knock on the door rang.

Bill McNick, president of Wald Pictures, walked in.

"Old Bill, you can be considered as finished. Well, since it's finished, then we will go to Industrial Light and Magic now." Zhu Ke said with satisfaction.

Today, Zhu Ke made an appointment with Lucas, the owner of Industrial Light and Magic, to see the special effects production results of the two films "Spider-Man" and "Harry Potter".

"Zuke, don't worry about going to Industrial Light & Magic, I will tell you something first."

At this moment, old Bill's face was full of dignity.

"What happened?" Zhu Ke frowned, anticipating that something bad would happen.

Alexander on the side frowned.

Old Bill looked solemn and said in a solemn voice: "Just now, as many as 12 screenwriters from the company's screenwriting department, including Pooh, Deco, Monatti, Shirley, and Jonathan, submitted applications for vacation to me almost at the same time. Do you know what this means?"

Damn it!

At this moment, Rao was also quite shocked by Zhu Ke!

There are more than 30 screenwriters in the screenwriting department of Wald Pictures. Now there are more than 12 people submitting vacation applications almost at the same time. This must be a major event!

"Mr. McNick, could it be said that this is another screenwriter's strike?!" Alexander blurted out.

"Is that so?" Zhuke looked at old Bill with a gloomy expression.

"Yes, this must be another industry-wide screenwriter strike. Zhu Ke, now 12 screenwriters have submitted applications, and our company has registered with the screenwriters union. There are more than 20 screenwriters. Once they Submit applications, then our screenwriting department will be completely paralyzed!" Old Bill gritted his teeth.

In a word, the screenwriting department of Wald Pictures is almost empty!

This will definitely cause huge losses to the growing Wald Pictures.

The screenwriter's strike is not just the only company of Wald Pictures. Once it appears, it will definitely spread throughout Hollywood.

Why did the screenwriters go on strike?

The reason is simple, I don’t think there is too much money!

They believe that their contribution should get more rights and higher returns. However... the reality is that their status in the Hollywood industry chain is very low.

The minimum selling price of a script is 27,000 US dollars.

In the entire industry, there are more than 90% of screenwriters, and the price of their scripts is no more than 30,000 US dollars!

And there are the vast majority of full-time screenwriters whose annual income is not as good as that of a supermarket cashier. There are many screenwriters who live on government relief funds.

In 1999, more than 48% of screenwriters on the West Coast of the United States, as many as 8,000 screenwriters, were unemployed.

In the entire Hollywood industry chain, directors, actors, and producers undoubtedly account for most of the profits of the industry;

Although the working groups behind the scenes of lighting, makeup, art, props, etc., seem to be not highly profitable, senior practitioners can get a lot of remuneration;

Only screenwriters have little income and no right to speak.

The poor screenwriter who eats dirt quickly, let's not mention it for the time being.

Even those screenwriters with annual income of up to one million dollars, their right to speak in the crew is very small.

"The screenwriters go on strike, to put it bluntly, they just want to add money!" Zhu Ke's eyes had a little coldness.

"Humph!"

Old Bill snorted coldly and said, "These guys in our company's screenwriting department are really not greedy. Zhu Ke, you said, we have never treated them badly in terms of salary and benefits?"

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Those screenwriters who are not in the field and who are not working for film and television companies have low incomes and go on strike. This is excusable.

After all, the poor are eating dirt.

But... the screenwriters who work at the film and television company, they are different!

The income of this group of people is not only the sale of scripts, but also the weekly, monthly, and annual salary provided by the film and television company. This income is definitely not low.

Alexander said solemnly: "Boss, we must pay attention to this matter!"

"I know." Zhu Ke nodded heavily.

In 1988, the American Hollywood screenwriters went on strike, which lasted for 78 days. The crew was shut down and the industry was in depression, causing economic losses of up to 2.5 billion U.S. dollars.

The entire industry is painful and painful.

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