Hollywood Hunter

Simon accompanied Janet on maternity leave, but the year-end schedule did not stop.

The day before the little guy was born, the second week of Thanksgiving officially ended.

Three new films released on November 29, Columbia Pictures' "Baby Lover", MGM's "007's Golden Eye", and De Niro, which Daenerys Entertainment took over from the world, starred in the crime thriller "Angle of Fear" , Did not pose a great threat to Toy Story.

From November 29th to December 5th, for seven days, after the first week’s box office of USD 46.73 million, Toy Story maintained a decline of 23% at the box office the next week, and received another USD 35.93 million, continuing to maintain the first place in the weekly box office list. Name location.

Within two weeks of the painting, the cumulative box office of the first 3D animated movie in Hollywood history has reached 82.66 million US dollars.

According to the ladder-sharing rules signed by Daenerys Entertainment and the theater, the company can get more than 70% of the box office two weeks before the film opens.

This means that the two-week North American gross box office of $82.66 million is enough to allow Daenerys Entertainment to recover the entire $55 million production and publicity budget.

Considering the long-term attributes that animated movies usually have, and the movie viewing rebound that is destined to appear next Christmas period, the total box office in North America of Toy Story is likely to reach 200 million US dollars, becoming the 1991 "Batman: Dark" After "Knight" and "Terminator 2", the third North American total box office movie exceeded 200 million US dollars.

Not only at the box office, the peripheral products of "Toy Story" also continue to sell.

With the current peripheral sales momentum, the industry generally predicts that the North American box office of "Toy Story" may only be 200 million US dollars, but the comprehensive income this project brings to Daenerys Entertainment may be more than "Batman: The Dark Knight" high.

After all, in Batman: The Dark Knight, Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner are going to split the revenue equally.

The profit of "Toy Story" is completely owned by Daenerys Entertainment.

The success of the DC movie universe has just triggered a wave of discovering comic IP in recent years. Suddenly, Hollywood's eyes have to be attracted to 3D animation movies again.

However, after a little investigation, many people regret to find that it is more difficult to follow up on the production of 3D animated movies by Daenerys Entertainment than to follow up with Disney to produce 2D animated movies.

In Hollywood for so many years, only Disney has a firm foothold in 2D animation movies. It is just that. When Michael Eisner just took over Disney a few years ago, he also planned to abolish the declining 2D animation movie department. Disney's classic animations that continued to re-run all year have received a good box office, and the Disney animation department began to recover under the leadership of Jeffrey Kasenberg, only to dispel this idea.

Before Daenerys entertained, mentioning animated movies, the only thing everyone thought of was Disney.Only Disney has produced a series of very successful 2D animated movies.

The animation includes such a big cake around, of course other studios have always tried.

In order to make up for its shortcomings in animation IP, MCA, which also runs the theme park business, has made similar attempts in the past for many years, but there have been no overly successful animation movies.

For 2D animation films, the long production cycle can be said to be the most critical factor affecting the participation of other studios in this field.

Because the 2D animated films of this era were all drawn by animators one by one.

Calculated according to the length of a 90-minute animated film, 90 minutes is equivalent to 5400 seconds, 24 frames per second, which means 24 manuscripts, which is 129,600 combined. A mature animator can only draw 10 to 10 days a day. 20 manuscripts, in order to maintain the unity of the style of the animated film, the number of teams in an animated film should not be too much.

Therefore, the traditional Disney hand-drawn 2D animated film,

However, even so, the threshold for 2D animation films, if they are willing to spend money and patience, is still not too high. There are still many animation film talents in this world.

In comparison, the threshold for 3D animation movies is obviously too high.

It is just the software and hardware system for making 3D animation movies. In this era, Pixar is absolutely the only one with no branches.

Daenerys Entertainment has led the industry for at least five years in software and hardware facilities such as 3D animation software, image rendering software and even the world’s first rendering farm.

Even if it takes five years to make up for such a gap, the shortest time to exit a 3D animation movie is two years, which is seven years.

Moreover, after seven years of continuous investment, which cost tens of millions of dollars, the result is that no one can ensure that a movie can succeed.

In the original space and time, "Toy Story" was born in 1995. At that time, similar 3D animation software had appeared in the industry. However, even after that, after "Toy Story", other companies launched successful 3D animation movies, such as DreamWorks' "Monster". Shrek, or Fox's "Ice Age", also after 2000.

The interval generally exceeds 5 years.

The lighting entertainment in the future is only more than ten years after "Toy Story" was born.

Now in 1991, due to the limited market capacity, graphics software companies such as Autodesk have no plans to develop 3D animation software. Daenerys Entertainment is definitely the only one with no branch.

Not only that, even if other studios use high salaries to build their own team from talented talents, in addition to the risks of time and capital, they also need to consider technology patents.

Daenerys Entertainment has applied for a series of patent barriers enough to build a'moat' in 3D animation software, rendering software and various hardware facilities.Some core technical talents also signed a competition agreement with Daenerys Entertainment. Once they resign, they must not engage in related occupations for at least three years.

All in all, unless Daenerys Entertainment is willing to let go of technical and talent restrictions, otherwise, in a short period of time, in addition to Daenerys Entertainment, it is impossible for Hollywood to have a second studio that can produce 3D animated movies.

Simon certainly won't let go of the technology easily.

Therefore, as long as it is operated properly, the 3D animated film market will be monopolized by Daenerys Entertainment throughout the 1990s.

After "Toy Story", the box office runner-up in the second week of Thanksgiving was taken away by "007 Golden Eye".

Although the protagonist is still Timothy Dalton, under the steady MGM management team and Simon’s personal attention, the quality of "007 Golden Eye" is significantly higher than the previous ones. The cost has therefore reached 50 million US dollars.

In the first week of the painting, "Golden Eyes of 007" won a box office of $32.79 million. Although such results are not as big as bombshells such as "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Terminator 2" and the neighboring "Toy Story", Also met MGM's expectations

You know, the previous "007 Killer's License", the total box office in North America is only $34.66 million.

"Golden Eye of 007" is only released for a week, and the box office level is equivalent to "007's Murder License".

However, the media reputation of "007's Golden Eye" has only reached about 7 points, which is not too good. According to various aspects of the film's data feedback, although the first week started well, it is still quite difficult to break the 100 million box office in North America. .

The third place on the list is "The Adams" by Paramount Pictures.

In the second week of painting, the box office of "The Adams" fell 33%, and received another 20.88 million US dollars. The cumulative box office reached 52.05 million US dollars. According to this box office curve, whether North American box office can break through 100 million, still between two.

Columbia Pictures invited "Baby Lover" starring Macquarie Calkins, with a box office of $14.27 million in the first week, ranking fourth.

The production cost of 30 million US dollars, 14.27 million US dollars in the first week, clearly failed to meet the expectations of Columbia Pictures, the film's word of mouth was also unsatisfactory, with a combined score of only about 5.6 points.

For a'quick-consumer' holiday comedy, McCauly Kalkin's popularity did not attract enough viewers in the first week of the film's opening, and then it will be more difficult for too many people to pay attention to the movie, box office The outlook can only be general.

Daenerys Entertainment's "Horror Horn", which took over from Universal Pictures, opened at the box office for the first week of $14.21 million, lagging behind fifth place in "Little Baby Lover" with a very slight gap.

This remake of the crime thriller starring Robert De Niro directed by Martin Scorsese has a budget cost of $35 million.

The box office with a start of 14.21 million US dollars was also less than expected. However, the reputation of the film was very good, and it is expected to be able to walk out of a fairly good box office curve.

While the chronological period continued, outside of Hollywood, Eaglet Company officially announced the first batch of patents for the upcoming World Wide Web on Monday, December 2.

Although the news has been flying in advance, when Igrid really made such a decision, it still caused a strong wave in the industry.

The media of all parties have different opinions on the whole matter.

In the general direction, many media greatly appreciate the decision of Igret, but some media have raised objections, saying that Daenerys Entertainment's approach is to completely wipe out the possibility of the emergence of broad Internet technology standards in the second week.

Moreover, despite the openness of core patents related to technologies such as HTTP to HTML, Eaglet still holds technical reserves such as browser software, e-mail, and online payment. Therefore, latecomers in the industry are doomed to fail in many ways Compete with Daenerys Entertainment.

Simon does not intend to prevent similar companies from appearing to compete with Igret. In the plan, Igret will gradually authorize even patents such as e-mail technology in the next few years.

However, after the publication of the first batch of patent lists, Eaglet did not rush to publish the second phase of the plan because of media praise or doubt.

As long as you carefully study the published patent list, interested people will find that after the opening of these patents, most of the business of the Igrid portal at this time, including online forums, personal blogs, online games, etc., other companies can not have Follow up with too many restrictions.

This degree of openness has exceeded most people's expectations.

Janet was discharged from the hospital on the third day after giving birth.

The Johnstons also spent about a week in Los Angeles before leaving one after another. Janet hoped his family could spend Christmas together in Los Angeles, but this is obviously not realistic.The Johnston family also has a lot of things to deal with.

As in the ward just that day, Veronica Johnston stayed until the end.

Janet originally wanted Veronica to help her children. She originally hoped to arouse Veronica's desire for family through the little guy. However, during this time, Janet clearly found that things seemed to deviate.

My aunt really loves the newly born little Melbourne.

Only, there is always something wrong.

In these days of living in Los Angeles, Veronica will come to see the children every day, and like to hold the little guy the most. It takes a long time to look at it dizzyingly.

At some point, Janet felt that her aunt seemed to snatch the little guy and raise it as her own child.

This is weird.

I'm also kidding privately, if you like children, find someone to have one yourself.

Veronica didn't hear her ears at all.

Therefore, some doubts inevitably arise in the bottom of my heart.

However, even though Janet is smart, it is difficult to think of things in certain aspects. This is almost a dead end level of thinking. Unless you are involved, it is difficult to understand.Otherwise, Janet would not have misunderstood between Simon and her aunt.

Janet has never been a tangled person.

Since you can't figure it out, don't think about it.

Anyway, leave him alone.

A little guy has been born, and after that, he never wants to have a second child.

It's a disaster.

Moreover, for Janet, after the birth of the little guy, the happiest thing is to be able to sleep in various positions at will.

Women like to hug Simon in bed.

However, in the past six months, women feel that there is a'third party' between themselves and Simon.

Of course, the restoration of the figure is also on the agenda.

And the work before pregnancy began to pick up again.

Westerners have no habit of confinement. A week after the birth of the child, several heads of Cersei Capital came to Los Angeles to personally report to Janet the operation of the company in the past six months, and brought a lot of information. .

The restlessness and anxiety of late pregnancy disappeared.

Simon discovered from this point that Janet's psychological quality is much stronger than him.

All in all, after the little guy was born, Janet seemed to be an elf who had been unsealed, and almost immediately recovered her vitality before pregnancy.

As for a little guy, almost everyone is regarded as a treasure. It is not too much to use the phrase "I am afraid to fall in my hand and be afraid of falling in my mouth". Janet doesn’t need to be a mother. worry.