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Chapter 489

May 4st stalls usually kick off in late April.

This year is led by DreamWorks Animation's "Crazy Primitives" (released on the 20th).

"Crazy Primitives" is the second part of the 10-film priority investment agreement signed by Cheng Yu'an and DreamWorks.

The first one was "How to Train Your Dragon", which was released in 10.

According to the investment agreement, Cheng Yu'an personally has the priority investment rights for the next 10 feature-length animated films of DreamWorks Animation except the "Kung Fu Panda" series, and each investment should not be less than 6000 million U.S. dollars.

The cost of "Crazy Primitives" was only 1.3 million US dollars, and Cheng Yu'an paid more than half of it.

He wanted to participate in the investment of the "Shrek" series and the "Madagascar" series, but DreamWorks refused to agree.

Cheng Yu'an only voted for unsure new movies, and he was not even allowed to vote for derivative movies like "Puss in Boots".

There are still seven movies left in the balance - "How to Train Your Dragon 2" has started production, and Cheng Yu'an invested another 7000 million.

I don't know if the seven films can be cast in ten years. The key is that Cheng Yu'an cannot transfer this agreement unless DreamWorks repurchases it.

"Crazy Primitives" has a very good opening performance. As the first animation giant produced by DreamWorks and Fox, Fox has given great hope to "Crazy Primitives".

The film was released in more than 50 markets around the world, with as many as 4046 theaters, ranking 11th in history in terms of the number of theaters opened.

The strong distribution ability also brought back a gratifying box office for the film.Three days after its release, "Crazy Primitives" successfully topped the North American box office with a box office of 4470 million US dollars, and its overseas box office was 626 million US dollars. The total global box office exceeded 1 million US dollars in a week.

When it was released in China, the North American box office of "Crazy Primitives" exceeded 1.5 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office exceeded 4 million U.S. dollars.

Cheng Yu'an was cast in a world-best-selling cartoon.

When "Crazy Primitives" premiered in Beijing, Cheng Yu'an's old friend, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg invited him to attend.

Cheng Yu'an happily went.

The appearance of Cheng Yu'an made the scene a little awkward, and Liang Jiahui was also there.

Cheng Yu'an and Hong Kong movies have become like this, and the reporters have asked Cheng Yu'an:

"Director Cheng, what do you want to say about the failure of the Academy Awards?"

"Today is the premiere of "Crazy Primitives". I won't say anything that has nothing to do with the movie."

"Mr. Jia of LeEco suspects that remote use of industry advantages to suppress film schedules, what do you think of this matter?" The reporter didn't care at all.

"I do not understand what you are saying."

The reporter who had made friends with Yuan Yuan immediately changed the subject, for fear that Cheng Yu'an would get angry if the buddy continued to ask: "Director Cheng, why did you come to the premiere of "Crazy Primitives" today?"

Cheng Yu'an knew this reporter, and said with a smile: "I am an investor in "Crazy Primitives", and I have known Katzenberg for many years. I should come to help both public and private."

"How does Jeffrey evaluate Cheng Dao?"

Jeffrey Katzenberg said with a smile: "Cheng is an investor with a vicious vision and a generous shot. He is also a talented director. His colleagues at DreamWorks like him very much."

"Has Mr. Jeffery heard of the Academy Award incident a while ago?"

Jeffrey obviously did his homework, and said with a smile: "Cheng is a natural film artist, and his films are very popular in the United States and Europe (this sentence is obviously bragging, Cheng Yu'an's Chinese films basically follow the copyright route in Europe and the United States. won’t sell much at the box office), if the best director Oscar can’t win, I don’t know who will be eligible.”

Well, what I want is your sentence.

Cheng Yu'an did not respond to the incident, but Katzenberg, a foreigner, is also the owner of DreamWorks, and his evaluation is enough for reporters to publish a report.

The premiere ceremony went on as usual, but there was no scene of "Cheng Yu'an coldly confronting Liang Jiahui".

Cheng Yu'an has no prejudice against Liang Jiahui, and the communication between the two at the scene was very smooth and happy.

The two tacitly didn't mention the Academy Awards, and only talked about the interesting story of dubbing "Crazy Primitives".

Cheng Yu'an just came to give himself a platform for cartoons, and left after chatting for a few words.

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Su Lun's appeal is indeed not as good as that of Zhao Yanzi in Yuan Shikong, so Cheng Yu'an does not have the same expectation of Yuan Shikong's 7 million for "To Youth" in her hand.

However, Yuanyuan’s youth films have a very stable base, which will not be lower than 2 million, but no matter how high it is, it will not exceed 5 million.

The cost of long-distance youth films is not high, roughly controlled at around 3000 million, and the box office is 2-5 million, which is already a big profit.

This is also the reason why Tian Tian and Yang Yang, who are already famous, are still willing to act in youth films that are used to promote newcomers. Why not act in movies that are guaranteed to make money.

The heroine of "To Youth" is Tian Tian, ​​but this film is obviously used to praise Nazha remotely.

Tiantian didn't compete with Nazha, but she heard that Nazha signed an 18-year contract with Yuan Yuan in one go.

Nazha joined the company in 11 years, contracted for 18 years, and got 29 years to go. It can be said that she will never want to leave Remote in her life.

Such an artist must be praised by Yuan Yuan.

Tian Tian doesn't have the eyesight to compete with Nazha for the spotlight.

Is "To Youth" bad?Not really, but it's bloody enough.

But in recent years, most of the films in the youth film market are like this, and the box office is not bad.

According to the estimation of the marketing department, youth films can only be eaten in the past two years.

The company has decided that after finishing the "My Youth" series this year and helping Liu Chang finish "You at the Same Table", they will no longer make youth films.

The company will make the youth series into an online drama and broadcast it on Tudou's Sunshine Theater, and several books are already being written.

"I first wanted to find Yifei to play Ruan Wan." Su Lun shared interesting stories about the crew on stage, "I called Yifei and said that you are so beautiful, you are the most suitable to play the school belle.

"Yi Fei wanted to act, but her schedule was so tight that she couldn't make it at all. Then she said that she saw an XJ girl when she went back to the company, and she was shocked.

"Who am I talking about, there are three XJ girls in our company, all of whom are bubblingly beautiful.

"But Yifei couldn't remember her name, and said she seemed to be called Nezha or something."

Su Lun's words made the guests and audience on and off the stage burst into laughter.

Liu Yifei actually misremembered Nazha's name.

"I found out later that the girl's name is Nazha."

Putting it on other crews, it is ashamed to mention this kind of thing about making characters.

No one wants others to know that their role is not given up by others.

But this kind of thing often happens in the remote department, and it is regarded as a good talk in the circle.

Because of the long-distance training mode of bringing in new actors, not only old directors (producers, producers) are required to bring in new actors and new directors, but also old actors are required to bring in new actors.

Those who have suitable roles but cannot take them by themselves can be assigned to newcomers.

Didn't Liu Yifei give "You Now You See Me" who she couldn't act in to Reba who had only appeared in variety shows but never acted in a serious role-how many little girls were jealous of her to death.

Now she has given "To Youth" to Nazha, it seems that she wants to take both of them under her banner as little sisters.

(End of this chapter)