Chapter 795: Win the word of mouth, lose the market
"Hey, dear."
Sitting at the top of the dining table, Ryan fiddled with the fruit salad on the plate and said to Taylor, "Who do you want to recommend?"
In the car he returned, for some reason, Taylor suddenly became silent, and seemed to be in a bad mood. It was not until he arrived at Jenkins Manor and saw Charlize that he returned to his joking look.
"Ska..." Taylor only ate a little vegetable salad and guinea chicken, and then put down the knife and fork. "She has seen some scripts at Ms. Sloan. After hearing that I want to dubb Elsa, I want to dub Anna."
"This character has to sing a lot of songs, Ska's singing..." Ryan shook his head, "She is not suitable for this character."
"I said that too." Taylor frowned, "but she didn't think so."
"Dear." Charlize suddenly interrupted, "You guys won't be quarreling again, right?"
"The concept is not consistent." Taylor muttered, "She is always unreasonable, regardless of the actual situation, and always naively proposes an excessive amount of inconsistent with reality..."
She looked at Ryan, opened her mouth, and finally closed again.
"How many years have you been arguing?"
Sighing, Ryan put down the spoon, picked up a tissue and wiped the salad dressing stuck to his hands, "Don't talk about Scar, you have many problems."
"I know, but..." Her eyes flashed and she closed her mouth again.
"It's really time to throw you two onto the deserted island that is deserted." Ryan stood up and walked towards the living room. "I guess you two won't be making noise any more."
"That would be simple."
Without hearing Taylor's humming sound as much as a mosquito, Ryan couldn't help but turn around, "What did you say just now, Alison?"
"I've eaten."
Taylor walked around the dining table and grabbed Charlize who was standing up and walked towards him. "Do you think so too, Charlly?"
"I'm used to it."
Shaking his head, Charlize followed Ryan out of the villa and walked towards the garden.
Los Angeles is already a little hot in April, but the location of Jenkins Manor is excellent. It occupies a hillside alone, and the occasional night wind blows away the only heat and brings a hint of coolness.
Charlize held Taylor and caught up with Ryan, along the path paved with soft stones, and walked between the flowerbeds full of flowers, discussing their trip to Africa that had ended some time ago.
"We went to South Africa first. You know, Ryan."
Looking back on her trip to Africa, Taylor's interest was obviously high, "Do you know how popular Charlie is there? She is simply a national hero of South Africa, and many media have compared her with Mandela."
"It's not as exaggerated as you said." Charlize was a little modest.
"Charlie is the best." Ryan praised it in due time, "I have always been sure of this."
The three of them laughed, turned around the corner of the garden, and entered the palm forest.
"Do you know what impressed me the most?" Taylor raised his feet and picked a flower from the passing magnolia tree. "I can give you a hint. Ryan, not a human."
"Baboon." Ryan had long received the answer from Scarlett.
"Bingo." Taylor snapped his fingers and said. "I have encountered several guerrilla battles between humans and baboons on the streets of Cape Town. Crowds of baboons climbed on both sides of the apartment, pried open windows, and robbed the room."
"Baboons are protected animals in South Africa," Charlize added.
Seeing Ryan nodding, Taylor continued, "Cape Town residents can only drive them out with paintball guns and pepper sprayers, but human tolerance makes baboons fearless. I see many people suffer property damage and even personal injury due to baboon attacks."
"Has the government not formulated relevant measures?" Ryan vaguely remembered that he had seen news about baboons in South Africa in his previous life.
"Baboons don't hurt humans. They just want to find food in a short time, and stealing at residents' homes will save them energy and time. There is no need to worry about being killed by leopards or lions."
Taylor came over mischievously and inserted the magnolia in his hand into Ryan's collar. "This is the words of an animal expert I saw in the Cape Town newspaper."
"This world..." Ryan glared at Taylor, and after this guy ran away with laughter, he threw the magnolia into the trash can next to him. "Some people always love animals more than humans."
It is nothing wrong to love animals, but those extremists are extremely annoying, especially for Hollywood, which often uses a large number of animals to shoot. Animal Conservator organizations are definitely an unpopular group. If a crew using animals is targeted by these people, it means that the shooting time is unlimited and the cost is greatly increased.
Several of Disney's films have been influenced by them in their production.
For example, "Legend of Narnia 2", which started last year, was expected to use a large number of animal actors, but because of the entry of several animal protectors, they had to give up their original plan and use CG to produce them all, so the crew would have to increase their budget of millions of dollars.
As long as animal actors exceed the specified working time for one minute, these people will jump up and down, while those extras who work overtime just to have enough food will not be watched.
No matter whether you go to extremes, it will only bring about crazy and unreasonable situations.
The three of them were walking around the huge manor, and Taylor and Charlize cooperated to tell their stories in Africa. Although many of them were extremely heavy topics such as poverty and hunger, Ryan would not feel bored. He was not the kind of person born rich and knew how difficult and terrible the bottom of this world was.
"By the way, Ryan." Taylor asked suddenly, "I heard you won't be in the third part of Transformers?"
"Yes." Ryan nodded, turned around and walked towards the villa, "I have notified the Autobot Studio to modify the relevant settings."
"What a pity."
That being said, Taylor had no regrets, "The summer release of "Transformers 2" will be the last live-action Transformers movie you starred in."
As the summer season gets closer, commercial films launched by major companies have also entered a relatively busy publicity period. Disney will have many major productions such as "Iron Man 2", "Robot Walli", "Madagascar 2" and "Transformers 2" released this summer.
In addition, Disney's videos also try to avoid September and October, two months that are most likely to have a financial crisis, so as not to become a burial object on Wall Street.
April now does not belong to Disney. Twentieth Century Fox's animated feature film "Horton and the Anonymous" swept the animated film market, and Sony Columbia's "Lights and Wine Night" and "Decisive Las Vegas" dominated the North American box office rankings for three consecutive weeks. It almost allowed Sony to dominate the North American film market in April.
"Kung Fu King" released by Lionsgate Pictures was also selected to be released this month. The film slightly eliminates the decline of Kung Fu movies in Hollywood. It has achieved relatively good results, which is also related to the film's strategy. In order to please the North American market, I specially found a white American as the absolute protagonist. Perhaps after watching it, the audience on the other side of the Pacific will inevitably have strange ideas.
As for the shuts of the two "Kung Fu Kings" duels, there is not much attraction here, after all, this is North America, not across the Pacific.
After entering May, "Iron Man 2" was the first to land in North American theaters. The film continues the fine tradition of Disney commercial masterpieces in recent years - a very bad professional reputation and a very good audience market.
Amid the critics' critics, "Iron Man 2" received $131.54 million from North America in the first three days. In just ten days, the North American box office of the film easily exceeded $210 million.
Film critics don’t like it, but they can’t stop the audience from paying for it. Moreover, the current film critics are declining, and many of them have been terminated by the paper media that were originally provided, and they can only comment through blogs or Facebook.
"Robot Wall Power", which has been unanimously praised by film critics, has an extremely obvious trend of opening high and closing low. After landing in North America at the end of May with 3,992 theaters, it received US$63.08 million in the first three days. The next week, it dived directly to nearly 50%, with only US$32.5 million in the account.
Perhaps this result is pretty good, but for Pixar Studios, whose box office in North America has repeatedly exceeded 300 million, this result is far lower than the estimate.
According to the later box office trend, the box office of "Robot Wali" in North America is up to about 220 million US dollars. As the protagonist in the film, Wali is not very fond of children, which seriously affects the surrounding market. Although it will not win reputation, it will lose the market. However, Disney cannot expect the box office to get back a total of US$300 million in investment. The return can only be achieved by subsequent accumulation of peripherals.
After telling the story, I ignored the market. There are countless such videos in the past. Fortunately, Pixar Studio has realized that it has begun to show a cold side when it was reminded by Ryan.
As a typical Hollywood business company, neither Ryan nor Disney need to lose money for several years, such as "Shawshank Redemption", and can only wait for the films that were later renamed. The Orion Company was a typical example, and produced a number of high-reputation films such as "Dancing with the Wolves" and "The Silence of the Lambs", but they could only embark on the road of bankruptcy.
When July entered, "Iron Man 2", which was criticized by countless film critics, had a cumulative box office in North America, and the global box office easily exceeded 600 million US dollars; "Robot Vari"'s North American box office was still struggling around more than 120 million US dollars, and the global box office slowly exceeded the $350 million mark.
No one can deny that "Robot Vari" has a good story, but it has to admit that it will be the second worst work in the world after "Car Story" since the new century.
The difference is that the latter has a huge popularity around the world, which has brought Disney two billion in derivative revenue, while the former is not likable and can only hope for the DVD video tape and online on-demand market.
The July holiday is the hottest time for super-large North American productions, and "Transformers 2" was released the day before.
Film critics are ready to repay the insults they suffered after "Transformers". (To be continued)
Chapter completed!