Chapter 378： Are you angry? hold on!

There are many seniors in the industry in Hollywood, but it is rare to be called a legend, and Roy Disney is definitely a legend among legends.

Maybe he is not as famous as Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, but his prestige in the industry has not diminished. He is the nephew of Walt Disney, the founder of Disney Group!

Therefore, when facing the young junior like Tang En, he naturally cares a little.

Unexpectedly, Dunn didn't care about seniority and had no respect for Roy Disney.

Roy Disney has shorted Dunn for a long time, so Dunn will definitely not give him face.

Come and don't come, it's indecent!

Dunn rejected Roy Disney's invitation to meet, which naturally aroused Roy Disney's dissatisfaction, but now he has no reputation but no absolute power, so there is really not much to do with Dunn.

Even Disney's first-in-command Michael Eisner can't do anything about Dunn, so what can he do with his second-in-command?

The only hope is Disney's upcoming animation "Atlantis: The Lost Empire"!

Although Roy Disney is no longer in power, he is still the chairman of the animation department in name. As long as this cartoon is good at the box office, he will have more advantages in the next meeting with Dunn.

In particular, four weeks after the release of the commercial blockbuster "Unsinkable" by Dunn Pictures this summer, the box office power has been significantly reduced, and it seems to be surpassed by Paramount's "Tomb Raider".

"Unsinkable" has already beaten "Pearl Harbor" in the box office market. If "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" is good enough at the box office, it can not only combat Dunn's arrogance, but also within Disney, attack Michael A. Sna, re-establish his authority.

But... "Tomb Raider" is clearly not as exciting as expected.

The biggest selling point of this movie adapted from the game is Angelina Jolie. In other respects, there are many slots.

The Boston Globe: "While 'Tomb Raider' is as tiresome as most of its kind, Angelina Jolie adds a lot to it."

"Washington Post": "The film is loud, clichéd, empty, frantic, tasteless, monotonous, bloodless violence and sexless sensuality."

The Hollywood Reporter: "Angelina Jolie's T-shirt is more attractive than the film's action scenes."

"Film Review": "The story of the film is not credible, not only because the story itself lacks new ideas, but also because the director did not focus on story planning and character building. Most action movies can't stand logic. However, if the story is exciting, it can complement the fighting scenes to a certain extent, or make up for the lack of fighting scenes. On the other hand, if the story and characters are weak, the audience’s focus must be more concentrated on the action sequences.”

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In short, contrary to the predictions of many evaluation agencies, the box office of "Tomb Raider" not only failed to beat "Unsinkable" in the second week, but also fell sharply.

Monday, $3.01 million, Tuesday, $3.01 million, Wednesday, $2.84 million, Thursday, $2.71 million.

In four working days, it only got 13.6 million US dollars, and although the box office of "Unsinkable" has shrunk seriously during the same period, it still exceeded 15 million US dollars.

Friday, June 22, the weekend is coming!

Disney's cartoon "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" was released, and at the same time, another action blockbuster "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" by Dunn Pictures was also officially released.

During the publicity stage of "Unsinkable", both Dunn Pictures and Universal Pictures called and allocated all available resources to fight against Disney, and even Dunn himself came forward and accepted an exclusive media interview.

In comparison, "Mrs. Smith" is like a wild child, and the conditions are obviously insufficient in all aspects, so that director Luc Besson has repeatedly complained to Dunn.

No way, as far as the current Dunn Pictures and Universal Pictures are concerned, their strength... Compared with other giants, they both have obvious weaknesses.

Don't look at Universal Pictures, which is backed by Vivendi, and can't count on it at all.

Vivendi's ambitions are too big, and they don't want to concentrate on operations, coordinate internal resources, and help Universal Pictures, but continue to carry out **** acquisitions outside!

Following the acquisition of Seagram Group at a sky-high price of $34 billion last year, in May this year, Vivendi spent $2.2 billion to acquire Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company in the United States; within a few days, it paid another $372 million. , acquired the world's largest online music site mp3.

Now, it is said that it intends to continue to develop the cable TV industry and has launched an acquisition to the American Movie Network.

So much so that the American imperial media, who "have the world in mind", repeatedly shouted: "Break through the Japanese/Japanese tiger, and ushered in the French wolf!"

Dunn has been keeping a close eye on Vivendi's every move, because he has long been eyeing part of Vivendi's entertainment sector.

Such crazy acquisition news is a great thing for Tang En.

The current Vivendi Group has debts of more than 20 billion US dollars. Once the acquisition of the American TV network is completed, the debt will exceed 30 billion!

Until next year, Vivendi suffered from indigestion and the financial statements with huge losses were released, which was when Vivendi collapsed.

At that time, in order to avoid bankruptcy, Vivendi can only be forced to sell assets to repay debts, which is the best time for Tang En to hunt for dips!

Compared with such a major event, he doesn't care much about this little bit of trouble in the box office market right now.

On the contrary, seniors, masters, and elites like Roy Disney are paying close attention to the box office market.

Friday, June 22.

"Tomb Raider", a single-day box office of 6.27 million US dollars!

"Unsinkable" grossed $9.5 million in a single day!

"Mrs. & Mrs. Smith", a single-day box office of 20.81 million US dollars!

Atlantis: The Lost Empire grossed $4.8 million in a single day!

Saturday, June 23.

"Tomb Raider", a single-day box office of 7.08 million US dollars!

"Unsinkable", a single-day box office of 11.27 million US dollars!

"Mrs. & Mrs. Smith", a single-day box office of 28.43 million US dollars!

Atlantis: The Lost Empire, $6.75 million in a single day!

Sunday, June 24.

"Tomb Raider", a single-day box office of 5.68 million US dollars!

"Unsinkable", a single-day box office of 8.96 million US dollars!

"Mrs. & Mrs. Smith", $25.84 million in a single day!

"Atlantis: The Lost Empire" grossed $5.14 million in a single day!

With such a box office transcript, Roy Disney almost vomited blood!

He feels that he is conservative enough, even if the publicity of "Mrs. Smith" is not enough, but with Mel Gibson's super influence and Dunn Walker's supervision, the quality of this film will not be too bad.

So he gave up the idea of ​​comparing with "Mrs. and Mrs. Smith" early, as long as the box office can surpass "Unsinkable" is enough.

Unexpectedly, Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" only got $16.69 million at the box office in the first weekend!

The investment of this cartoon is a full 120 million US dollars, which is 20 million more than that of "Mrs. & Mrs. Smith"!

The box office is not as good as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which Roy Disney can tolerate.

But "Unsinkable" is already in its fifth week of release. It earned $29.73 million this weekend. This week's North American box office exceeded $45 million, completely crushing "Atlantis: The Lost Empire".

What's even more unacceptable to Roy Disney is that the action film "Tomb Raider", which was generally not rated highly by film critics, even got $19.03 million this weekend!

Even the Paramount movie can crush Disney's most proud cartoon, which makes Roy Disney, an old man, exhausted.

Roy Disney didn't even eat breakfast. After receiving the latest box office data early in the morning, he sat alone in his study in a daze, deeply emotional.

Although his authority in Disney was completely suppressed by Michael Eisner, his sense of belonging to Disney is far more than the other!

Disney started with animation, but now Disney animation is no longer accepted by the market, which is somewhat desolate in old age.

Look at Pixar Animation, which is in the limelight, and see DreamWorks Animation, which has turned into a big hit with "Shrek", Disney animation seems to have been eliminated by the times.

"Traditional 2D animation is completely dead!"

Roy Disney sighed.

Pixar promotes computer animation. DreamWorks acquired Pacific Digital Imaging Effects Studio last year. This year, it launched the first computer animation "Shrek", which was a great success.

All examples have shown that the hand-drawn animation of Roy Disney's era is completely dead.

Think about it some time ago, Siliwood Animation, a subsidiary of Dunn Pictures, acquired the "Digital Domain" special effects studio at a high price of 20 million US dollars. At that time, Roy Disney also laughed at Dunn's stupid money. Now it seems that it is What a brilliant move!

At this point, Roy Disney had to admit it.

During this time, he took advantage of Michael Eisner's incompetence in the film market and kept attacking in the boardroom, but now his animated film has received the same cold reception, which is somewhat of a blow. Face.

But in his opinion, Michael Eisner is really not suitable to continue to lead Disney.

Disney must change a leader!

In the case of internal weakness, foreign aid is crucial.

Looking at the entire Hollywood, there are many people who hope that Michael Eisner will step down, but there is only one person who is most capable of operating Michael Eisner's downfall, and that is Dunn Walker!

Even in the past period of time, Dunn's behavior seems a little rude, but Roy Disney must endure it for the long-term interests of the company.

He took a deep breath, and finally couldn't endure it, and called Dunn.

"Mr. Disney? I didn't expect you to call me!"

Dunn also just saw the latest box office data and was in a good mood.

"Mrs. & Mrs. Smith" earned $75.08 million at the box office in three days over the weekend. Although it failed to break through 100 million, it broke the monopoly of "Unsinkable" for three consecutive weeks and became the new weekly champion.

Roy Disney smiled: "Today... the weather is good, find a place to sit and chat?"

Tang En raised his head and looked out the window, only to find that there were dark clouds outside, and he almost laughed, feeling even more confident, "How about... go to my office?"

Roy Disney was so angry that he almost scolded it!

He is a senior, an old man!

Dunn actually asked him to come to visit, he didn't even have the most basic etiquette!

"My identity is inconvenient." Roy Disney took a deep breath, endured the anger in his chest, and said lightly: "Well, there is a rattan street between Yulan Street and Sunset Boulevard, where there is a nice century-old home. The shop seems to be run by an old couple, and the coffee is hand-roasted and tastes good.”

Tang En smiled and pushed the boat, "Alright."

(Sanqi Chinese)