Hollywood starts with animation

The annual Thanksgiving holiday schedule is here!

Pixar Animation, which has just reached a number of cooperation agreements with Water World Animation, once again hits hard. "Toy Story 2" is the first work in 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 technically, and polished it more refined and real;

In addition, the warmth, touching, adventurous, and childlike 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 in the United States!

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

In the first three days of the first weekend, as many as $75.2 million in the 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.

"Amazing animation 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." The Chicago Review commented.

The media has spoken highly of it, and 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 US dollars 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 signed a series of agreements with Disney that can be called'being powerless and humiliating the country'."

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

The income of Pixar Animation is very pitiful!

"It's also fortunate that Jobs was 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 capabilities, 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.

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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 solemnity.

"What happened?" Zhu Ke raised his brows, anticipating that something bad would happen.

Alexander also 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 working 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, can 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 screenwriters' strike is not just a company of Wald Pictures. Once it appears, it will definitely spread throughout Hollywood.

Why did the screenwriters 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, more than 90% of screenwriters have written scripts that cost no more than US$30,000!

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, over 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 have low income, senior practitioners can get a lot of compensation;

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?"

He is indeed very angry.

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

After all, the poor are eating dirt.

But... the screenwriters of the film and television company, they are different!

The income of these people is not only the sale of scripts, but also the weekly, monthly, and annual salary provided by film and television companies. 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 US dollars.

The whole industry is painful and painful.

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