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0362【Video conference】

Both Golden Harvest Entertainment and Sasha Entertainment have many plans for 2009, and Po Animation and Marvel Comics also have many plans.

For example, "Angels and Demons", which was released in May this year, is a big production of Sasha Entertainment, with an investment of up to 5 million US dollars.As a sequel to "The Da Vinci Code," which brought Sasha Entertainment $1.5 million in global box office in 2006, it's worth the cost.

However, this movie failed to set off the first movie's upsurge. Although the reputation was not bad, it only earned a sloppy box office of 1.33 million US dollars in North America and 4.86 million US dollars worldwide.Making money is making money, but I didn't imagine making more money. Of course, as long as there is money to be made, there is no problem in making a sequel.

Sasha Entertainment has already negotiated with Dan Brown, the author of the original book, but Brown started to write the third novel, named "The Lost Symbol".Unfortunately, Ron Howard, the director of the first two films, has decided to withdraw from the creation of the third film because of the failure of the sequel.

This is bad news for "The Lost Symbol". New director candidates, script creation, and shooting time are all postponed and discussed, and a decision can be made after the right time. .

The slight setbacks in the Da Vinci Code series did not shake Sasha Entertainment. On the contrary, a movie "The Hangover" written by Wan Xiaohu was released in June, which was a big success.Wan Xiaohu registered the script for this comedy movie a long time ago, and invited Todd Phillips to direct it last year.

The budget cost was only 3500 million, which can be said to be a small cost, but it caused a huge sensation in North America. The three-day opening weekend was 4498 million US dollars, but the three-day drop of the second weekend was 27.1%.It won 3279 million US dollars, and it only dropped 18.4% in the three days of the third weekend, and won 2675 million US dollars, becoming the blockbuster movie with the smallest decline in the summer file.

Thus ends its entire box office journey, taking in $2.77 million in North America alone.Constrained by differentiation overseas, it only took 1.9 million yuan, with a total box office of 4.67 million US dollars, making a lot of money.

The movie was a hit. Correspondingly, Sasha Entertainment immediately announced that the sequel "The Hangover 2" has entered the creative stage.

Except for these two movies.The film "The Hurt Locker", which has high hopes for the Olympics, will start its road to the Olympics in September this year. The seventh part of the "Chain Saw" series "Chain Saw 9" will also be released on Halloween as always. As for whether this will be the last one, the box office needs to make a decision.

In addition, in addition to five small-budget films that Sasha Entertainment did not expect much, there are two other films that have attracted much attention.One of them is the second "Twilight Saga: New Moon" in the "Twilight Saga" series, and the first one has successfully set an example.With legions of fans of the novel vouching for it, the future looks bright for The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

The other one was a little apprehensive.

This one is a movie of the same name adapted from the comic "Sherlock Holmes" created by Lionel Wigram. As a reborn, Wan Xiaohu will naturally not let go of this series.When the comic came out, Wan Xiaohu asked his assistant to buy the copyright of the comic, and then found a group of Sherlock Holmes fans to start writing the script and filming.

The director is Guy Ritchie, who has filmed "Two Smoking Barrels" and "Travel".Speaking of which, the director has some connections with Wan Xiaohu.Wan Xiaohu's idea "Crazy Stone" for Ning Hao is an imitation of "Two Smoking Barrels", and the copyright of this movie is in the hands of Peak Entertainment, which was annexed by Sasha Entertainment.

In the past few years, Guy Ritchie has made several movies that are so bad, so "Sherlock Holmore" is also worrying, but Wan Xiaohu, who knew the result, asked the producer and Guy Ritchie to do a good job early on. In preparation for the sequel, this is destined to be a blockbuster.

With these blockbuster films, it is not a problem for Sasha Entertainment to enter Hollywood's annual box office big film company, and it is not even a problem to squeeze into the top three box office revenue.Even more pleasant is the end of the year.Sasha Entertainment invested 8500 million US dollars in it, the masterpiece "Avatar" is about to be released, and the 3D revolution is coming.

In the 3D movie revolution, Sasha Entertainment, which has already made all preparations, is destined to be one of the winners.

Compared with the coquettish Sasha entertainment.Golden Harvest Entertainment kept a low profile. This year, there are thirteen films scheduled. Among them, only "Eavesdropping", "On the Journey" and "October Besieged City" have relatively large publicity, and the rest are small-scale.At the same time, its Dandelion Film Investment Company also has some overseas film investments, such as the Indian co-production "Three Idiots in Bollywood", and the Korean co-production "National Representative" and "Haeundae".

In terms of movies, Golden Harvest Entertainment cannot compare with Sasha Entertainment, but the pan-entertainment industry chain is not free. Golden Harvest Entertainment is very productive in TV dramas and entertainment programs, and the development of peripheral industries is also gradually making efforts. Several theme parks.

It is planned to build a superhero theme park in Hong Kong, Magic City, and Beijing. The plan will not only include old and beautiful superheroes, but will also add China's own superheroes in the future, as well as various films from Abao Animation and Sasha Entertainment. theme.

At the same time, the scale of theaters and cinemas continues to expand. 3D cinemas and IMAX cinemas are being vigorously constructed. Even Yageo Screen is about to be developed, and cinemas are planned.In order to cope with the increasingly hot Chinese film market, Golden Harvest Entertainment is exploding its production capacity.

How big is China's film market?

Wan Xiaohu only knew that in January 2014, there were several movies that raked in billions of dollars at the box office.According to this momentum, it is not a problem for the total box office of 2014 to exceed 300 billion.

What he didn't know was that the domestic film market in the first half of 2014 was 134 billion. After the domestic film protection month in July passed, another round of Hollywood blockbusters will be released in August. 7 billion a year is a piece of cake.

What he still doesn't know is that in 2014, the first movie with a box office of 20 billion yuan in mainland China is about to appear. "Transformers 4" has refreshed the world's filmmakers' new cognition by surpassing the box office of the North American market ($3.2 million) in the mainland market ($2.36 million). Going beyond the North American market.

Now. In 2009, countless filmmakers saw the explosive power of the Chinese film market, but they didn't see it far enough, because so far, the box office record of the Chinese film market.It is still the 4.219 million yuan maintained by "Kung Fu Panda". The number of 10 billion, for filmmakers, dare not even think about it.

Wan Xiaohu dared to think about it, but he only knew that "Avatar" would remain the champion for several years with 13.6 billion yuan, as for "Transformers 4" with 20 billion yuan.Wan Xiaohu probably didn't dare to think about it.

"Tger, the performance of "p" is very good. The production of one cartoon a year by Po Animation is too low. We should continue to increase investment!"

Andrew Stanton, CEO of Abao Animation, said excitedly in the video conference.Today is June 6th.The bosses of the companies under Tiger Ruiya held a video conference.Summarize the first half of the year and arrange the second half of the year.

"The opening score of "p" is 6810 million US dollars, and the word of mouth is very high. At present, North America has achieved a box office of 2.5 million US dollars, and overseas has exceeded 4 million US dollars. It is no problem to achieve a box office of 7 million US dollars. Tger. We need More cartoon scripts!"

"p" is "Flying House Travel Notes", a script written by Wan Xiaohu. It tells the story of an old man who once agreed with his wife to travel to a waterfall located in remote South America. I decided to fly to the waterfall with the house when I was in the old house. On the way, I had an adventurous experience with the chubby Russell I met.

A touching animated film, and the rhythm of Annie Award and Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.

Wan Xiaohu spread his hands: "Then go buy it and find someone to create it!"

"Won't you give us a few ideas?"

"What?" Wan Xiaohu was stunned, "You regard me as a source of creativity? You regard me as a god, yes. I provided many scripts before, but the company cannot rely on me alone. Andrew, you are Po The master of the animation, the script and the creativity, are your business. I won’t provide anything more, in fact, I don’t have that many ideas anymore.”

Wan Xiaohu was a little speechless, his previous performance was too coquettish, and the script he provided was simply a money printing machine.The consequence is that the company makes a lot of money, but the employees suffer from dependence. This is not a good phenomenon.After all, Wan Xiaohu's memory is limited, so far, he has got all he can get, and there will be no more.

"Wow, well, I'll talk to the employees again. In fact, they also have some good ideas. It's just that the script you provided, Tger, is so comfortable and you can make money without losing money." Andrew Stanton shrugged. The above is just a compliment, Abao animation plans, there are many movies that have nothing to do with Wan Xiaohu.

"There is no business that does not lose money. I can only say that up to now, my luck has always been good."

"Oh, by the way, everyone." Andrew Stanton paused before saying, "Disney is planning to acquire Pixar. I think Abao Animation should also make some preparations, otherwise, it will not be able to compete with Disney."

Disney is the well-deserved leader in the animation field, and Pixar is the leader in animated films. Once Disney completes the acquisition of Pixar, it will not be as simple as a strong alliance.

"What do you think?" Su Ya asked in the video.

"My idea is that DreamWorks seems to be splitting up. Both the film studio and animation studio are looking for buyers. If Abao Animation can acquire DreamWorks Animation Studio, it will make a qualitative leap." Andrew Stein Dun spoke his mind.

Adam Ferguson also interjected: "In fact, within Sasha Entertainment, there is also a proposal to acquire the DreamWorks film studio."

"Are you sure?" Wan Xiaohu rubbed his chin.

"It's not very big. After all, it's not just us who want DreamWorks, but also several big studios. But in business, sincerity is very important."

"Well, let's talk about it in detail..."

The video meeting lasted for more than an hour, and when the other people's videos were cut off, Wan Xiaohu and Su Ya had a private conversation together.

"Hey, Xiaohu, I miss you."

"I miss you and Yangyang too. By the way, come visit the crew tomorrow and bring Yangyang here."

"Do you have the time?"

"Take time."

"Forget it, you'll be back in Beijing to attend the premiere of "Time Planning Bureau" in two weeks, just bear with it. It's important for you to make a movie."

"Making movies is not as important as you."

"Hey, I like to hear this. Is it from your heart?"

Wan Xiaohu put his hands on his heart and made a megaphone gesture: "Listen, it's all talking, every day, every night."

Su Ya smiled like a hundred flowers blooming.

0363【Open】

"Director, all groups are ready, and we can give instructions." Chang Ji ran over and said to Wan Xiaohu.

This is on the cliff near the sea in Chongming Island, on which a three-story ancient palace is built. Not far from the palace is the place where the crew is stationed.Now the entire palace is surrounded by huge engineering excavators. The buckets in front of these excavators all hold a huge white water tank.