Hollywood starts with animation

The successful launch of Water World Animation really made many people envy and hate, and even more eyeballs became anxious.

Thanksgiving Day is approaching, and when Zhu Ke was invited to participate in the premiere of "Toy Story 2", the huge sourness was just rushing over his face!

No, there are two middle-aged men talking quietly in the venue at this moment.

"Hey, hey, take a look, that's Zhuke Wald," said a middle-aged man with big eyes.

"I saw it. Water World Animation can be listed on the US stock market, and it is not impossible for our Blue Sky Studio in the future." The man wearing a baseball cap believes himself.

A middle-aged man with big eyes, named Chris Wedge;

The man wearing the New York Yankees baseball cap is named Carlos Saldanha;

The two of them are cartoon directors, painters, and producers. They are currently working in Lantian Studio.

Blue Sky Studio is a company that started with computer special effects. It was founded in the 1980s and gradually changed its focus. Abandoning the computer special effects business and focusing on 3D computer animation, this is similar to Pixar Animation.

In 1998, the 7-minute short animation "Bunny Bonnie" produced and produced by Blue Sky Studio won the Oscar for Best Short Film, breaking the monopoly of animation awards by large companies, and has since become famous!

Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha are both directors and senior executives of Blue Sky Studios. Although they are not particularly famous at present, in the future, they will co-direct and produce the "Ice Age" animation Movies are famous all over the world.

"Ice Age" animation is definitely the best among the 21st century animation movies!

And, the most dazzling star in the film is undoubtedly the little squirrel.

Although it doesn't have lines, it just keeps humming and humming in response to the various hardships it has suffered, but it persists in fighting for its pine cones, and its strong spiritual perseverance is also admirable.The little squirrel is the first to appear in the film. It is a needle-and-threaded character, and because of its gorgeous stealing performance, it is impressive every time.

Little Squirrel is an absolute star animation character.

What everyone doesn't know is that the voice actor of Little Squirrel is indeed Chris Wedge, one of the directors of the film.

The well-known "Rio Adventure 1" and "Rio Adventure 2" animated films were also made by Carlos Saldanha.

"You're right, Water World Animation can succeed, and our Blue Sky Studio will surely succeed in the future." Wei Qi said solemnly.

"Hahaha, dude said it was great!"

Chardan laughed and said: "Following the fiasco of the movie "Frozen Planet", Fox Pictures cut the animation department and kicked Mailedand and his team out of Fox Pictures; President Murdoch turned to I started to support our Blue Sky Studio. Not long ago, we invested 10 million US dollars in our Blue Sky. We will invest more in the future. I believe that we will be better in the future."

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"Hey, Zhu Ke, congratulations, congratulations on your successful listing of Water World Animation on the US stock market. My God~ In just over half a month, the market value has exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars, which is really amazing."

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of DreamWorks Animation, came up to talk as soon as he saw Zhuke.

"Thank you. I believe that once your DreamWorks Animation is listed, its market value will never be low." Zhu Ke said with a smile.

"Uh?"

As soon as this was said, Jeffrey Katzenberg's smiling face immediately collapsed.

"Old man, what's the matter with you?" Zhu Ke raised his brow.

"DreamWorks Animation's U.S. stock market? Last fart!" Katzenberg said angrily.

Of course, his anger was not directed at Zhuke, but at the other two giants of DreamWorks, Spielberg and David Finger.

Katzenberg looked around, and then whispered: "As early as May last year, I proposed to make DreamWorks Animation a subsidiary of DreamWorks Corporation and listed on the U.S. stock market separately, but it was met by Spielberg and David. I don’t know what to say."

There is no doubt that Katzenberg is very jealous of the successful listing of Water World Animation!

He also wants to market his DreamWorks animation, however, he can't do it!

Spielberg and David, the other two of the Big Three of DreamWorks, want to surpass the Big Six in Hollywood. Therefore, the plan is for DreamWorks to go public as a whole, rather than a separate animation and music subsidiary. It can be described as ambitious.

Even now, the two of them insist on the overall listing of DreamWorks!

but......

Because of Spielberg and David's obstruction, DreamWorks Animation missed the best time to market. After all, an Internet bubble that swept the world, but lasted for several years, did not slow down.

"So, Spielberg and David are really short-sighted~" Zhuke said along the way.

"Ok!"

Katzenberg nodded heavily.

To be honest, Katzenberg is now dissatisfied with Spielberg.

The two chatted for a while, and then they separated.

Steven Solenberg smiled at Zhuke: "Boss, it seems that DreamWorks is also full of contradictions at the moment!"

Zhuke nodded and said: "You are right. Their current internal turmoil is extremely serious. The fight between shareholders and shareholders, executives and executives, and the board of directors and management has been very fierce this year, but... .Don’t take Katzenberg’s words too much."

"Uh...boss, you mean, he Katzenberg deliberately misled us." Stephen Solenberg is not a fool.

"Ha ha!"

Zhuke laughed and said: "What a cunning guy Katzenberg, don’t look at DreamWorks’ current internal dumping is very serious, but on the DreamWorks animation, Katzenberg is definitely the one and only master, Spielberg talks. , It doesn't work at all."

Katzenberg deliberately misled Zhuke, but he was holding back!

.......

"Toy Story 2" animation film, as the sequel to "Toy Story", as the third feature animation of Pixar Animation, it is naturally attracting attention.

However, there are many people who question this.

Among them, the owners of film chains around the United States, as well as distributors all over the United States, expressed their deep concern.

"Last year, an animation of "Bug Crisis", Pixar and Disney made us miserable. I hope this will not happen this year." A dealer from Chicago gritted his teeth.

"My seven surrounding chain stores in New York lost 1.5 million US dollars last year, all because of "Bug Crisis"." A middle-aged man said resentfully.

No wonder they are worried, after all, they were miserable last year.

Last year’s "Bug Crisis", before the animation was released, Pixar Animation as the producer and Disney as the distributor, only peripheral licenses in North America, made a huge profit of 117 million US dollars.

When the movie was released, it failed to meet expectations; the sales of peripheral products were far below market estimates.

Last year, there were no fewer than 11 surrounding chain stores that closed down because of "Bug Crisis."

"Tsk tut~"

Zhuke looked at John Lasseter and smiled: "Have you heard? They are talking about what you smashed last year."

Hearing that, Lasseter shrugged and whispered, "Blame me. Man, I'm not Jobs, I'm just an animation director."

Zhuke smiled and said with a smile: "I heard Andrew say that you also bought the stock of my Water World Animation?"

Lasseter laughed and said nothing.

Once Water World Animation went public, he bought a lot of stocks. In just a dozen days, he made a small profit, close to 500,000 US dollars.

Today’s "Toy Story 2" premiere, Jobs as the boss did not show up, because he is at Apple, planning a major event.

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