Hollywood Starts with Animation

a few days later.

Wald Pictures' post-editing room.

As the producer and director of the movie "Boom Drummer", Zucker's recent mood can be described as very wonderful.

On the one hand: After the film "Booming Drummer" was successfully cut, the fine-cutting process started very smoothly, and the overall work was carried out in an orderly manner. It is expected that all post-production work will be completed in mid-June;

On the other hand: Spider-Man DVD and VHS, big sale!

After the first day sales exceeded 650,000 DVDs and 490,000 cassettes, the "Spider-Man" movie continued to sell well in the offline market in the next few days.

510,000 DVD discs and 380,000 video cassettes;

420,000 DVD discs and 350,000 video cassettes;

......

For one week in a row, the cumulative DVD sales of "Spider-Man" exceeded 2.9 million, and the sales of video tapes also reached 2.45 million boxes;

With $20 million in publicity dollars and such an astonishing amount of revenue in a period of time, to put it bluntly, Wald Pictures is about to start making big money again.

According to the data report given by Taro Hashimoto, President of the Home Entertainment Department of Jin Shuguang Entertainment Group: "From the first release date of May 15th to the end of May, the "Spider-Man" movie is expected to bring 12 million US dollars to the offline market. profit."

"It is expected that by the end of 2001, its final overall revenue will not be less than $40 million."

The benefits are amazing!

In particular, this part of the income belongs to Jin Shuguang Entertainment Group.

Other investors in Spider-Man, you say?

hehe~

Sorry, the income of the offline market has nothing to do with the investors and investment institutions of the "Spider-Man" movie.

Don't say Zhu Ke has a bad heart, that's how the contract was signed!

Similarly, the income of the offline movie market, the income of TV broadcasting fees, the income of peripheral product operation, etc.,

Accumulated, it is not inferior to the income of the box office market, or even higher. In general, however, investors outside of Hollywood enjoy little of this benefit.

It's not that Zucker has a bad heart, it's the whole industry!

"James Wing, the editing style of the latter part of "Boom Drummer", I hope to be more aggressive, deepen the conflict between the hero Andrew and the devil's mentor Fletcher, and let the audience experience the paranoia and madness between the two more clearly, and Contradictions abound.”

Zucker said in the editing room.

Wen Yan, James Wen (Wen Ziren), the assistant director of the film, nodded and said, "Okay, Mr. Wald."

At the same time, James Wing also made a lot of good suggestions throughout the editing process.

As long as it is reasonable and reasonable, Zucker will generally follow the advice.

Zucker has never denied James Wing's talent in directing, and accordingly appreciates it very much.

"Chainsaw", "Fast and Furious 7", "Aquaman"......

These future famous movies are all from the hands of James Wing, who has the "King of Hollywood Horror Movies".

dong dong dong~

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

The editing room door was pushed open.

Chief Assistant Alexander walked in.

"Boss, this is the latest data from last weekend's North American movie box office charts." Alexander handed Zucker a data report.

"Oh?"

Zucker took it immediately, and he was eager to know the box office status of the movie "Shrek" produced by DreamWorks.

【$33.05 million! 】

So far, on May 18, um, the animated film Shrek, which hit theaters on Friday, has grossed $33.05 million at the North American box office in three days last weekend.

Ranked NO.1 in the North American movie box office chart last weekend.

However, the No. 1 position in "Shrek" was very unstable.

Next, the No. 2 movie was "Tomb Raider", which was released for ten days. Last weekend, it collected another 29 million US dollars at the box office.

The difference in box office data between the two is only more than 4 million US dollars.

The film "Shark Shore", which was released in mid-April and produced by Wald Pictures, has been released for nearly 40 days. This weekend, the box office increased by 1.2 million US dollars in three days, and the cumulative North American box office exceeded 83 million US dollars, struggling to reach 9,000. The million dollar mark is approaching.

The production cost of "Shark Shore" is only 12 million US dollars, which is a medium-low-cost film investment, and it can achieve a North American box office of nearly 90 million US dollars, which is already a quite remarkable box office achievement.

On the other hand, DreamWorks Group is relatively... sad reminder!

The production cost of the movie "Shrek" is as high as 75 million US dollars, plus various publicity costs, labor costs, copy costs...

The overall investment in "Shrek" is no less than 100 million US dollars.

However, the box office data for the first three days of the first weekend was only $33.05 million!

Not too low~

However, it fell far short of DreamWorks expectations!

"Extremely nasty!"

"Everything, it's all about that guy, Zucker Wald!"

"If it wasn't for him, the DVD and videotape of the "Spider-Man" movie broke the first-day sales record in the offline market and stole a lot of popularity, then the three-day box office of "Shrek" in the first weekend, It's definitely not less than $40 million!"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of DreamWorks Animation, is full of resentment.

They are all adults, so how can there be so much love and hatred, everything is an entanglement of interests.

"Hehe~"

Zhu Ke looked at the report in his hand, and couldn't help but feel relieved: "In the original time and space, the box office of the animated film "Shrek" exceeded 42 million US dollars in its first weekend and three days. But, what about now? It is only 33.05 million US dollars. "

"A full $9 million less!"

"Tsk tsk tsk~, one word - cool!"

Katzenberg is full of resentment towards Zucker; Zucker is also very unhappy with his Katzenberg, trying to make him feel bad.

Childish?

It is very naive and loves to hold revenge, but who makes a man a teenager until he dies?

Two hours later...

It's noon break.

"James Wing, and the big guys, take a break. The work on "Boom Drummer" is not in a hurry." Zucker clapped his hands and said.

Hearing this, everyone stopped working, but they all shouted that they were not tired.

"Can you say tired? But no one dares!" An editor muttered.

Isn't it?

In the face of Zhu Ke, the big guy, it was too late for everyone present to express their eagerness. How could they complain and feel tired?

Break time.

James Wing comes to see Zucker.

"Is something wrong?" Zucker asked in surprise.

James Wing nodded, then adjusted his mind, and said solemnly: "Mr. Wald, Ray Warner and I have written a script together recently, and I would like to ask you to give me a thumbs up."

"no problem."

Zucker agreed immediately: "I'll be in the editing room lately anyway, you can bring the script over at any time, of course, even if I'm not in the editing room, you can come to my house to find me, um, you know my address ."

Hearing this, James Wen was overjoyed.

After the conversation changed, he said nervously: "Mr. Wald, if the company adopts this script, then I hope that I will become the director of this film myself."

He recommended himself to be a director.

For the young director, facing Zhu Ke, he is undoubtedly full of courage at this moment.

pondering~

Zu Ke finally said: "As long as the script is OK, then I will give you a chance to be the director!"

accepted!

Of course you must!

In a matter of words, Zucker had figured out that the movie James Wyn Ray Warner was writing was called Saw.

"Chainsaw" series of movies, classic horror/thriller movie series.

Each film in the series has grossed at least $100 million at the global box office.

How could Zucker refuse it?

" "The first more is sent.