Rebirth In Hollywood

As soon as the sun rose from the east, there were hurried footsteps on the cobblestone path of the manor. Ryan and Charlize, who were wearing short tracksuits, walked through the woods one after the other, letting their running shoes smash and flicker. The fallen leaves with dewdrops, on the mottled light spots falling from the sun, left traces of their own.

Their speed was not fast. After running out of the woods, they circled the garden again, and finally entered the restaurant through the back door of the villa.

After taking the towel handed by the servant to wipe off the sweat, Ryan and Charlize sat at the dining table and waved to the former bodyguard who had apparently been waiting for a while, "Hi, George, it's been a long wait."

"Ryan, if you don't come again."

No longer engaged in serious security work, George occasionally jokes, "I'm going to eat my breakfast."

"If your stomach is big enough, I have no problem."

Ryan looked at the housekeeper sitting next to Charlize, "I think Lisa definitely doesn't like a fat George."

"Actually."

Lisa, who was holding the doughnut, raised her head and said, "He's already twenty pounds heavier than his normal weight."

"Do you need me to introduce a weight loss coach?" Charlize turned to Lisa and asked, "I promise that in just a month, the old George will be back."

Ryan has never been particular about table manners in private. Several people ate while talking, and it took about twenty minutes before they finished breakfast.

Back in the living room, Charlize and Lisa talked about some trivial matters in daily life, and George talked about the things Ryan explained to do some time ago.

"Sandy's trust fund, Scott has done all the formalities." He flipped through a few documents and said softly to Ryan, "About stocks and dividends, they can be transferred to the trust fund by the end of the month at most. "

"The representative who went to Iran, two producers from Touchstone Pictures and Disney Animation took the initiative to apply for registration."

"Also, this month's Google board of directors..."

"It's better if you participate in my place."

Take the coffee from the servant. Ryan thought for a while, "And the board of directors of Blizzard Entertainment next month, you will also participate for me."

George nodded lightly, then turned to the last page of the document,

"This month, Disney's office system was attacked by a hacker, because we were prepared, the other party did not cause any damage."

"What do Cook Dick and Robert Iger think?" Ryan frowned slightly.

"Their opinion was to report it to the FBI."

Listening to George's words, Ryan raised his chin and considered, "Okay. Also. Remember to remind them to strengthen the network protection, private remarks among employees and opinions on celebrities, do not use emails and office systems to transmit."

After sending George away, Ryan is still thinking about hacking, and it is hard to say that it has nothing to do with Iran.

After all, from "Argo" to "Three Hundred Spartans", although he has not personally made any remarks against Iran, he wants to come to the Iranian government to know what role he and the Walt Disney Group have played.

Fortunately, be prepared in advance. No damage was done, but I can't be careless in the future.

"I'm going to read the script." Charlize stood up to go to the study upstairs, "Will you come with me?"

"certainly."

Ryan walked over and dragged her up to the second floor. "I'm going to work on my new role."

"You seem to be very attentive." Charlize quickly pouted behind Ryan's back, "I heard that this is a movie that you specially prepared for Portman to hit the Oscars?"

"Hey dear."

Entering the study, Ryan closed the door. Pressing Charlize on the chair behind the desk, "If you want to be a director, I can also write a script for you."

"I'm not interested in directors." Charlize shrugged. I took the script next to me, "Why don't we star in this movie together?"

"I remember watching it yesterday..." Ryan turned the desk and sat across from him, "Is the male lead a black man?"

"If you're willing to act." Charlize opened the script, read it, and said without looking up, "Sony Columbia Pictures would definitely be happy to change the role of the male lead."

Ryan knew that Charlize was just joking, and shook his head, "The style of the whole movie is going to change. You should know that I'm not suitable for funny type roles."

"Sony Columbia hired Will Smith." Charlize just nodded slightly.

"Sure enough." Ryan took the script of "Black Swan" and flipped it at will. "The two of you will be paid nearly half of the production cost of the film."

The new movie the two of them were talking about was "Hank for All". In order to impress Charlize, Sony Columbia Pictures directly offered a salary of 22 million US dollars, which made the South African Diamond enter the 20 million club in one fell swoop. .

"What do you think of the script?" Charlize asked suddenly.

For this purely commercial film, she, like most companies in Hollywood, has a kind of blind obedience to Ryan.

"If the director doesn't shoot randomly, plus you and Will Smith's appeal, the film's box office problem shouldn't be a big problem." Ryan's eyes fell on the script in Charlize's hands, "However, this script, how do you say it? Woolen cloth……"

"Huh?" Charlize looked up.

"It feels like there are two styles before and after, as if it was written by two people or two teams." Ryan shook his head and made a joke, "I really doubt that the screenwriter was kidnapped by aliens before he finished writing. , so that Sony Colombia had to make a new substitution."

"I'm not kidding you." Charlize's eyes fell back to the script, "I want to study the characters, and the film will start shooting soon."

With a nod, Ryan put the script of "Black Swan" aside, took the notebook, and flipped through the latest work emails.

Walt Disney's earliest release of "Iron Man" this summer has just rolled off the assembly line in North America. The North American box office finally stopped at 348.55 million US dollars. At present, the overseas box office is also close to 300 million US dollars, and the global box office exceeds 650 million US dollars. Certainly no problem.

On the other hand, the Blu-ray disc of "Iron Man" began to accept online reservations last month, and the current pre-sale sales reached 2.82 million sets. It is estimated that after the official launch of the disc, the sales in North America will exceed 4 million sets in the first week.

Just 4 million sets of discs can bring Disney nearly $40 million in profit.

Compared with "Iron Man", "Cars", which also started Blu-ray disc pre-sale, is much worse. The current North American reservation number is only more than 800,000, and the box office performance is also much worse.

"Cars" came to a near standstill after surpassing $240 million at the North American box office, and the film's box office performance has indeed slipped a lot from Pixar's previous works.

However, as the "Wall Street Journal" commented, it has almost become a "Disney Princess series" for boys, and the sales of the film's peripheral toys have been very impressive under the strong promotion of Disney.

So far, the film's global box office has only exceeded 400 million US dollars, and the global sales of many peripheral products such as toys, models and cultural shirts have exceeded 500 million US dollars.

In addition, Disney's game division is working on a game called "Cars: The Fast and the Fast," and the amusement park company is investigating the feasibility of converting an old parking lot at Disney's Adventure Park in California into a 'Racing World' play area. .

Commercially outstanding performances include "Jurassic Park 3", a film with 3D and imax as its main selling points. Although the dinosaur boom it triggered is far from comparable to when "Jurassic Park" was released, 3D and imax were the main selling points. The high ticket price of imax makes up for the gap in the number of moviegoers.

After more than a month of screening, the North American box office of the film is steadily approaching 400 million US dollars, and the global box office is about to touch the 1 billion US dollar mark.

Perhaps for professionals, this is just an ordinary film showing off visual effects, but for the entire film industry in North America, it has extraordinary significance.

The great commercial success of "Jurassic Park 3" fully demonstrated the benefits that 3d and imax can bring, and greatly accelerated the pace of increasing 3d screens and building imax theaters in North America and even the world.

It has been less than two months since the first week of "Jurassic Park 3" was released at the box office. In North America alone, 170 3D screens have been added, and nearly 50 imax theaters are under intense construction.

Following the trend is a common phenomenon all over the world.

There is also "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End", as the end of the trilogy, the film's global box office is slowly approaching 1 billion US dollars, and the subsequent sequels, because of the need to change directors, starring and with Johnny ?Depp's tug-of-war negotiations will inevitably fail in the short term.

In addition to the film, Walt Disney is still slowly eating into the shares of DreamWorks Animation Studios. The shares held by the Disney Group are infinitely close to the 5% that must be disclosed to the market.

Of course, Disney's films are not without failures. For example, "The Path to Glory", which is about the NBA, released by PWE International, has a total investment of more than 60 million U.S. dollars, and only returned to the North American box office of 32.64 million U.S. dollars. The increasingly important overseas box office aspect is even more appalling.

This film, released at the beginning of this year, has so far only been introduced from three overseas regions, Germany, New Zealand and Australia, and has only received a measly overseas box office of 290,000 US dollars. The weak performance of the film directly affects the confidence of overseas distributors. Other films are sold in bundles, otherwise it would be difficult to find other overseas distributors.

The overseas box office revenue that "Road to Glory" can bring can only be said to be better than nothing, and Disney has no plan to bundle sales. Currently, it is negotiating with some overseas companies to sell DVD video tape copyrights.

However, even if it relies on its surroundings, "Path of Glory" will be the worst movie that Disney has lost in the past two years. (To be continued..) ()