Chapter 795： Won the word of mouth, lose the market

"Hey, dear."

Sitting at the top of the table, Ryan fiddled with the fruit salad on the plate and said to Taylor, "Who do you really recommend?"

On the return car, for some reason, Taylor suddenly became silent and seemed to be in a bad mood. It was not until he came to Jenkins Manor and saw Charlize that he resumed his joking look.

"Scarlet..." Taylor only ate a little vegetable salad and pearl chicken, then put down his knife and fork. "She saw part of the script from Ms. Sloan. After hearing that I was going to voice Elsa, she thought Voice for Anna."

"This role has to sing a lot of songs, Scarlett's singing..." Ryan shook his head, "She is not suitable for this role."

"I said so too." Tyler wrinkled his nose, "but she doesn't think so."

"Honey." Charlize interrupted suddenly. "You guys won't quarrel again, do you?"

"The concept doesn't match." Taylor muttered, "She is always unreasonable, regardless of the reality, and always naively proposes an unrealistic excess..."

She looked at Ryan, opened her mouth, and finally closed it again.

"How many years have you quarreled?"

Sighing, Ryan put down the spoon, picked up the paper towel and wiped the salad dressing on his hands, "Don't say Scarlett, you have a lot of problems."

"I know, but..." Her eyes flashed and her mouth closed again.

"It's time to throw the two of you on a deserted island." Ryan stood up and walked toward the living room. "It is estimated that you two will no longer be arguing."

"That's easy."

Without hearing Tyler's mosquito-like moaning sound, Ryan couldn't help turning his head back, "What did you just say, Alison?"

"I'm done."

Tyler walked around the dining table, holding Charlize, who had stood up, toward this side. "Do you think so too, Charlie?"

"I'm used to it."

Shaking his head, Charlize followed Ryan out of the villa. Walked towards the garden.

Los Angeles in April is already a bit hot, but the location of Jenkins Manor is excellent. Occupying a hillside alone, the occasional night breeze blows away the only heat and brings the slightest coolness.

Charlize took Tyler, caught up with Ryan, and walked along the cobblestone path between the flowerbeds full of flowers, discussing their trip to Africa, which ended some time ago.

"We went to South Africa first. Did you know, Ryan."

Looking back on his trip to Africa, Taylor's interest was obviously high. "Do you know how popular Charlie was there? She is simply a national hero in South Africa, and many media have compared her with Mandela."

"It's not as exaggerated as you said." Charlize was uncommonly humble.

"Charlie is the best." Ryan complimented timely, "I have always been convinced of this."

The three of them laughed, turned the corner of the garden, and entered the palm grove.

"Do you know what South Africa impressed me the most?" Taylor raised his feet and picked a flower from the passing magnolia tree. "May I give you a hint. Ryan, not a human being."

"Baboon." Ryan had already got the answer from Scarlett.

"Bingo." Taylor snapped his fingers and said. "I have encountered guerrilla warfare between humans and baboons on the streets of Cape Town several times. Groups of baboons climbed up to the sides of the apartment, opened the windows, and robbed the house."

"The baboon is a protected animal in South Africa." Charlize added.

Seeing Ryan nodded, Taylor continued, “The residents of Cape Town can only use paintball guns and pepper sprays to expel them, but human tolerance has made the baboons feel safe. I saw many people have suffered property losses due to baboon attacks. Even personal injury."

"Has the government not formulated relevant measures?" Ryan faintly remembers the news that he had seen South African baboons in his previous life.

"Baboons will not harm humans. They just want to find food in a short time. Stealing from residents' homes will save them energy and time. There is no need to worry about being killed by leopards or lions."

Tyler leaned over mischievously and inserted the magnolia flower in his hand between Ryan's collar. "These are the words of the animal experts I read in the Cape Town newspapers."

"This world..." Ryan glared at Tyler, and after this guy ran away happily, he threw the magnolia flower into the trash can next to him, "There are always people who love animals more than humans."

There is nothing wrong with loving animals, but those extremists are extremely annoying, especially for Hollywood, which often uses a large number of animals for filming, animal protectors are definitely an unpopular group. If any crews using animals are caught by these People are staring at it, which means that the shooting time is infinitely prolonged and the cost is greatly increased.

Many of Disney's films have been influenced by them during the production.

For example, "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", which was produced last year, was expected to use a large number of animal actors. However, due to the presence of several animal protection organizations, the original plan had to be abandoned and the production was entirely cg. The crew had to increase for this. A budget of millions of dollars.

As long as the animal actors exceed the prescribed working hours by one minute, these people will jump up and down, and those extras who work overtime just to get enough to eat, they don't look at them.

No matter where one goes to the extreme, it will only bring about crazy conditions that are unreasonable.

The three people walked around in the huge manor. Taylor and Charlize shared their experiences in Africa. Although many of them were extremely heavy topics such as poverty and hunger, Ryan would not be bored. He was not born. The kind of wealthy people know how difficult and terrible the bottom of this world is.

"By the way, Ryan." Taylor asked suddenly, "I heard you won't be in the third part of "Transformers"?"

"Yes." Ryan nodded, turned and walked towards the villa, "I have notified the Autobot Studio to modify the relevant settings."

"what a shame."

That's what Taylor said, but Taylor didn't mean to be a pity, "The "Transformers 2" released in the summer file will be the last Transformers live-action 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 "Iron Man 2", "Robot Walle", "Madagascar 2" and "Transformers 2" this summer. Waiting for many major productions to be released.

In addition, Disney's films try to avoid September and October, two months when the financial crisis is most likely to erupt. In order to prevent the film from becoming a burial object on Wall Street.

The current April does not belong to Disney. Twentieth Century Fox’s animated feature film "Houghton and the Anonymous" swept the animation film market, and Sony Columbia’s "Feasting and Killing Night" and "Winning Las Vegas" dominated the market for three consecutive weeks. North American box office rankings. Almost let Sony dominate the North American film market in April.

"The King of Kung Fu" released by Lionsgate was also selected for release this month. The film slightly swept the decline of Kung Fu movies in Hollywood. Relatively good results have been achieved, which is also related to the film's strategy. In order to please the North American market, a white American was specially selected as the absolute protagonist. Perhaps the audience on the other side of the Pacific will inevitably have strange ideas after watching it.

As for the booing heads of the two ‘Kung Fu King’ duel, there is not much attraction here, after all, this is North America. Rather than on the other side of the Pacific.

Entering May, "Iron Man 2" was the first to land in North American theaters. The film continued the fine tradition of Disney's commercial masterpieces in recent years-super bad professional reputation and super good audience market.

Amidst criticism from film critics, "Iron Man 2" received US$131.54 million from North America on the first three days. In just ten days, the film’s North American box office easily exceeded US$210 million.

Film critics don't like it, but they can't stop the audience from paying for it. What's more, the current film critics are declining. Many of them have been terminated by the original paper media and can only post comments through blogs or Facebook.

And "Robot Walli", which was unanimously praised by film critics. The trend of opening high and going low is unusually obvious. After landing in North America with 3,992 cinema chains at the end of May, the company received $63.08 million on the first Wednesday. The next week’s direct dive was close to 50%, and only $32.5 million was accounted for.

Perhaps this result is not bad, but for Pixar Studios, which has repeatedly surpassed 300 million North American box office for animated feature films, this result is far below estimates.

According to the later box office trends, the North American box office of "Robot Walle" is about 220 million US dollars at most. As the protagonist in the film, Walle is not very pleasing to children, which seriously affects the surrounding market, although it will not win. Word of mouth. It lost the market, but Disney could not expect to get back a total of 300 million US dollars in investment at the box office. Repayment can only rely on the follow-up peripheral accumulation slowly.

Tell the story, but ignore the market. There have been countless such films in the past. Fortunately, Pixar Studios, under Ryan's reminder, has realized that they have begun to appear cold.

As a typical Hollywood business company, both Ryan and Disney do not need "Shawshank's Redemption" for consecutive years of losses, and can only wait for the film to be renamed later. The Orion company of UU Read back then is a typical example. , Produced numerous high-reputation films such as "Dancing with Wolves" and "The Silent Lambs", but they could only go bankrupt.

When the time entered July, the North American box office of "Iron Man 2" that was criticized by countless film critics approached 300 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office easily exceeded 600 million U.S. dollars; "Robot Walle" was still at the North American box office. Struggling near more than US$200 million, the global box office has slowly passed the US$350 million mark.

No one can deny that "Robot Walli" has a good story, but they also have to admit that it will be the second-worst work of Pixar Action Studio in the world after "Cars" in the new century.

The difference is that the latter’s surroundings are hot, bringing Disney US$2 billion in derivative income, while the former’s surroundings are really unpleasant and can only look forward to the DVD video tape and online on-demand market.

The July holiday is the hot screening time for North American super productions, and "Transformers 2" was selected to be released on the day before.

Film critics are eager to repay the insults they received after "Transformers". (To be continued)

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