Chapter 355

The annual Thanksgiving is coming as scheduled!

Pixar Animation, which has just reached a number of cooperation agreements with Waterworld animation, has hit hard again. Toy Story 2 is a painstaking work after the first film of the series.

The production cost of the first film has changed from US $30 million to US $90 million;

At the same time, Pixar Animation more mature technical level, will be polished more delicate, real;

In addition, Pixar Animation adheres to warm, moving, adventure, childlike innocence and other elements, which play incisively and vividly in this film.

as the acme of perfection!

Toy Story 2 was released on Thanksgiving Day in November, and became popular all over the country!

The box office is booming. It's going like a storm!

Three days after the first weekend, it reaped as much as $75.2 million in North American box office.

Number one!

This weekend's No. 2 box office movie, however, reported only $31 million, which is far from the box office revenue of Toy Story 2.

"Amazing animation sequel."《 New York Times.

"The performance of Toy Story 2 completely surpassed that of the first one, not only in box office, but also in word-of-mouth, breaking the curse of the first golden start and sequel《 Chicago review.

The media is highly praised, and fans are also famous.

Similarly, many analysis companies have made many guesses about the box office trend and final destination of Toy Story 2 through data simulation.

"The $200 million box office in North America is definitely not the end of Toy Story 2."

This conjecture from data analysis and simulation is the data most people believe.

Wald pictures.

"Boss, it seems that Pixar Animation is successful again this time." Alexander sighed.

Chuck said with a smile: "Pixar Animation is successful, so what? Don't forget, jobs signed a series of agreements with Disney, which can be called "humiliating."

Whether it's box office revenue, or offline peripheral licensing revenue, or DVD and videotape, TV platform rebroadcast revenue, more than 70% of which has been intercepted by Disney.

Pixar Animation revenue, very poor ah!

"Thanks to jobs's shrewdness, when toy story was released, Pixar Animation was listed in the U.S. stock market. Otherwise, today's Pixar Animation would have become an accessory of Disney." Chuck chuckled.

Speaking of being smart, Zucker really admires jobs.

In order to get back the profits from Disney that should belong to Pixar Animation, jobs not only resolutely agreed to cooperate with Zhuke's company; Secondly, even if they have the ability to carry out multiple animation works at the same time, they also delay the time and wait for the deadline of cooperation with Disney.

According to Pixar's animation production ability, a Toy Story 2 can definitely be completed in two years, but what about them?

It took four years to complete Toy Story 2.

So jobs is cunning enough.

Dong Dong Dong~

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Bill mcnick, President of Wald pictures, came in.

"You're done, old bill. Well, now that we're done, let's go to industrial light and magic. " Zucker said with relief.

Today, Zhuke made an appointment with Lucas, the boss of industrial light and magic, to see the special effects production results of spider man and Harry Potter.

"I don't worry about going to industrial light and magic, Zhuke. I'll tell you something first."

At the moment, old Bill's face was full of dignity.

"What happened?" Zhuke eyebrows pick, premonition bad things happen.

Alexander on one side also frowned.

Old Bill looked dignified and said in a deep voice: "just now, as many as 12 screenwriters from the company's screenwriting department, such as Winnie, daicoco, monati, Shirley and Jonathan, submitted leave applications to me almost at the same time. Do you know what that means?"

what the fuck!

At this moment, Rao Shizhu Ke was also quite shocked!

There are more than 30 active screenwriters in Wald's screenwriting department. Now there are more than 12 people who submit their leave applications almost at the same time. It must be a big deal!

"Mr. mcnick, is this another writers' strike?" Alexander came out of his mouth.

"Is that so?" Juke looked at Old Bill with a gloomy face.

"Yes, it must be another industry wide strike. Zhuke, now there are 12 screenwriters who have submitted their applications, and our company has more than 20 screenwriters registered with the screenwriters Union. Once they all submit their applications, our screenwriting department will be completely paralyzed! " Old Bill gritted his teeth.

In a word, the screenwriting Department of Wald pictures is running out!

This will definitely cause huge losses to the growing Wald film industry.

The writers strike is not just a company of Wald pictures. Once it appears, it will definitely spread to the whole Hollywood.

Why are the writers on strike?

The reason is very simple, too little money!

They think that they should get more rights and interests and higher income. However... The reality is that their status in the Hollywood industry chain is very low.

The lowest price for a play is 27000 dollars.

In the whole industry, there are more than 90% of the screenwriters, and the price of their scripts is no more than $30000!

And there are the vast majority of full-time screenwriters, whose annual income is less than that of a supermarket cashier. There are many screenwriters who live with the government's relief fund.

In 1999, more than 48% of the West Coast screenwriters in the United States and as many as 8000 were unemployed.

In the whole industry chain of Hollywood, directors, actors and producers undoubtedly account for most of the profits of the industry;

Lighting, makeup, art, props and other behind the scenes working groups, although it seems that the income is not high, but senior practitioners can get a lot of remuneration;

Only screenwriters, they have little income and no voice.

For the moment, let's not mention the poor writer who eats the earth quickly.

Even those writers who earn millions of dollars a year have a small say in the crew.

"The writers strike, to put it bluntly, is to increase the money!" There was a little chill in Zhuke's eyes.

"Hum!"

Old Bill snorted coldly and said, "these guys in our company's screenwriting department are really greedy. Zhuke, you said, "have we ever wronged them in terms of salary and welfare?"

He was really angry.

Those writers who are out of office and not in the film and television company are on strike because of their low income, which is justifiable.

After all, the poor are eating the dirt.

But... Screenwriters working in film and television companies, they are different!

The income of these people not only lies in the sale of scripts, but also in the weekly, monthly and annual salaries given by film and television companies. This income is absolutely not low.

Alexander said in a deep voice, "boss, we must pay attention to this."

"I know." Juke nodded heavily.

In 1988, the writers' strike in Hollywood lasted for 78 days. The crew stopped and the industry was depressed, resulting in economic losses as high as $2.5 billion.

The whole industry, it can be described as pain and pain.

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