You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 656 ① The New Hollywood Six ② Escape from the British Museum ③ Success in both China and the United States ④ Hairdressing

After leaving Taibei, Wang Quan took Dudu and flew directly to North America to promote the movie.

Although the film is now entering the final stages of its release in North America, I still have to go there given their support, and talk to MPAA about AI dubbing.

It’s also time to discuss the Dragon Rising as Hollywood’s new Big Six.

The current Big Six in Hollywood are also the six members of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of the United States), namely Disney, Universal, Warner, Paramount, Sony Columbia and 20th Century Fox.

However, there will soon be only five major companies left, as Disney is in the final stages of negotiations to acquire 21st Century Fox, the parent company of 20th Century Fox.

Murdoch is about to turn 90. Although he is still insisting on getting divorced and remarried, he is still okay with women but is no longer able to manage the company.

So they began to sell off News Corporation's assets one after another.

When it was reported that he was planning to sell 21st Century Fox, Long Taizhi was very active and did not give in at all during the bidding stage with Disney.

However, not long ago, Long Taizhi suddenly stopped participating in the competition with 21st Century Fox, which caused a lot of speculation.

It is true that Long Tai Yang alone cannot compare to the wealth of Disney, but if Long Tai Yang is combined with Netflix, it is not certain who is richer.

The actual situation is that Long Taihu participated in the competition and helped raise the price. It first received support from Fox, but later withdrew from the competition. It did not really affect Disney's merger and acquisition plan, and it received support from Disney again.

However, the MPAA consists of six parties, and Long Taizhi wants to join this family, not break up this family, so it needs the support of the other four parties.

With the huge success of "Escape Plan" in North America, Hollywood companies are actually quite worried about the invasion of Chinese-language films.

This gave the king another weight.

The first thing Wang Quan did when he arrived in Los Angeles was to watch the animated film "Coco" with his children.

They have been holding back until now just to wait for Wang Quan to come along.

This animation produced by Illumination Entertainment is now dominating the North American market. It is sure to be a box office hit, but it is not explosively popular, with only a little over 200 million yuan. It may even be lower than the box office in mainland China.

Except for the poor performance on the first day, the box office of "Coco" in mainland China was getting higher and higher every day. It was only over 10 million on the first day, over 50 million on the second day, and over 60 million on the third day.

Unexpectedly, "Justice League" failed to cause any harm to "Free and Easy", but this domestic animation interrupted the winning streak of "Free and Easy" and completed the transition from the old to the new.

In addition to the mainland, the film also performed well in other overseas markets, especially in Latin America, where Dragon Rises produced another work that was a great success in both word-of-mouth and box office.

This time the company plans to strive for an Oscar for the film.

In 14 and 15, Dragon Head & Illumination Entertainment won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film for "Zootopia" and "Frozen".

After losing to "Inside Out" in 16 and "Moana" in 17, Illumination wants to regain its glory this time.

However, compared to the Oscar awards, Chris Meledandri is more worried about Illumination Entertainment's future box office problems.

In recent years, Illumination Entertainment has been adapting comics created by Wang Quan. Last year, it was "The Secret Life of Pets" and the original "Sing".

However, with the launch of "Coco" this year, Wang Quan no longer has any works to shoot.

The movie scheduled to be released in 18 is "The Grinch", which is adapted from the children's book of the same name by children's writer Dr. Seuss. After that, there are only a few sequel projects, "The Secret Life of Pets 2", "Frozen 2", "Zootopia 2", and "Minions 2".

Now Chris Meledandri is very worried that the company will lose its glory in a few years and will not have high-grossing movies, so when he learned that Wang Quan had returned to Los Angeles, Chris immediately came to him for advice.

How he hoped that Wang Quan could create another great series comparable to "Despicable Me" and "Minions", so that the company could at least guarantee a hit movie every year for the next five or six years.

Wang Quan proposed many countermeasures, one of which was to cooperate with the famous game brand Nintendo to produce an animated version of "Mario Bros."

Of course, this can only be regarded as a last resort. Even if the work sells well, because it is a copyright from Nintendo, and Nintendo's strength is world-famous, many profits belong to Nintendo. This method can only be used to maintain the production of lighting and ensure that employees will not stop.

But this project is actually the most stable one, after all, Mario has its own traffic.

"The other thing is to pick out suitable literary works or children's picture books to adapt. I haven't paid much attention to the New York Bestsellers List recently, so you can ask someone to look it up."

Chris Meledandri nodded, saying that best-selling children's picture books are indeed a source of inspiration for many animators.

Wang Quan continued, "Also, Netflix is ​​planning to create a short film series. I suggest that Zhaoming can provide technical support for this project throughout the process. If there is a suitable short film project, we can buy the copyright and expand it into a feature film."

This series of short films is called "Love, Death & Robots", or "Love, Death & Robots" for short. They all have an alternative and niche style, which is actually completely different from the family-friendly approach of Illumination Pictures, but it may give some inspiration to Illumination Pictures' artists.

Wang Quan gave three suggestions, but Chris Meledandri didn't hear what he wanted to hear most, "David, don't you have any creative inspiration recently? How amazing is the creativity of "Zootopia"? "

"I've been so busy with these three new films in the past two years that I don't have the time to create comics, but..."

"Ok!"

"But I have thought of some story ideas. Let me pick one to talk to you about." Wang Quan thought of a short video idea that came from a popular post on the Internet. It was called "Escape from the British Museum."

Wang Quan used a slightly humorous tone to talk about this topic, which is actually quite heartbreaking for the Chinese people. The more Chris listened, the brighter his eyes became.

The antique artifacts are personified, then escape from the museum and embark on a journey home. There are actually many funny moments that can be designed here, and you can also make fun of the British at the same time.

This story is a bit like Night at the Museum, and this series was a huge hit back then.

Although there are a large number of foreign cultural relics in American museums, most of them were purchased, unlike the British Museum and the Louvre, which were basically looted from other countries.

Chris felt that with the quantity and quality of the British Museum's collections, it would be possible to at least film a trilogy on China, Egypt and Greece. These three countries have the longest history, the largest collections, and are also the easiest to make up stories about.

Seeing that Chris was interested in this idea, Wang Quan proposed again: "I suggest that Illumination and Inception Animation work together to achieve success in both China and the United States."

Chris might have hesitated before, but now, he deeply loves the Chinese market. The North American box office of "COCO" was not as expected, but the mainland market was booming and is expected to surpass North America.

Moreover, the mainland is now the world's largest market, but the highest box office for animated films is only 10 million dollars, such as "Zootopia". For animated films, the mainland market is far from reaching the bottom of the market. Chris believes that the mainland will soon produce an animated film that earns million dollars or even million dollars, perhaps "Escape from the British Museum". When combined with North America and other markets, it will easily earn more than billion dollars!

"I think it's feasible. I really like the movie 'The Return of the Great Sage'." It seems that Chris wants to cooperate with October Culture, a subsidiary of Inception and the only one with a good reputation.

Wang Quan was then commissioned to write the script for "Escape from the British Museum".

In the following year he only needs to do the post-production of "Xiao Yao You 2" and has no plans to make a movie, so he plans to write the script himself and make a comic version at the same time to build his reputation first.

Wang Quan is not very confident about the foreign screenwriters. According to their current script thinking, if a certain Chinese porcelain that has turned into a little girl wants to return to the motherland, there will definitely be a white or black guy who will be obliged to help.

But now domestic audiences hate this the most. Why must our success be dependent on the help of you foreigners? Although "The Great Wall" finally broke 1 billion, its reputation collapsed and the box office was actually not as good as expected. It was a miserable failure.

Wang Quan sometimes accompanies Chen Duling in promotions, and sometimes lets her go together with Jiang Wen who has just arrived, while he stays at home with the baby.

After starring in the two movies "A Star Wars Story" and "Escape Plan", Jiang Wen has gained a certain degree of fame in Hollywood. His burly figure, self-confidence and humor have made many Western media see a different kind of charm of Chinese men.

While they were still in the United States, the global box office of "Easy Journey" officially exceeded 10 billion US dollars!

This result surpassed the $2 of "Wolf Warrior 9.7", making it the first Chinese-language film to exceed $10 billion in total box office and also the highest result for Chinese-language films.

Of course, "Xiao Yao You" also became one of the top 100 films in film history.

Thanks to the powerful propaganda machine, the news soon spread throughout the country.

Non-Toxic Pufferfish: It’s only been released for less than 20 days, and Director Kwon is so powerful!
Shadow of the Moon: 10 billion US dollars worldwide, even Hollywood only has a few movies this year.

This is probably not right: what the above person said is right, there are only two movies that have broken the billion mark worldwide this year, one is the rising star "Despicable Me 3", which just broke 10 billion, far less than "Getaway", and the other is Lily Collins' "Beauty and the Beast", which grossed 12.63 billion!
Ming Yue Ying Cang Sheng: Oh my god, does that mean that “Xiao Yao You” has a chance to win the annual award?
Konggu Ningyin: You know what, it is really possible. It is unimaginable for a Chinese-language film to win the global annual championship!

Wuxing Zhenren: Didn’t “Coco” reach 10 billion?

Merchants from Another World: "Dream Seekers" is far behind. It doesn't even sell as well as "Xiao Yao You" in North America.

Bai Ruifeng: Don’t forget that there will be a sequel to “Solaris: A Star Wars Story” in December. The previous film made 12 billion yuan, and this sequel may even surpass “Beauty and the Beast”.

lymbird: It seems that the biggest obstacles for "Escape Plan" on the road to the annual championship are "Beauty and the Beast" and "Solaris: A Star Wars Story".

Heart of Lucifer: Even if I can’t surpass it, it’s pretty good to be in the top three. Let’s look forward to it!
惊鸿一现zcx: Although I have seen it three times, I will support it again for the global annual championship!
Wang Quan is also looking forward to the final global box office of "Xiao Yao You".

He has won the global annual championship twice, once for "The Force Awakens" and once for "The Twilight Saga: Dawn".

However, these are all Hollywood movies, and the top spot of "Easy Journey" is of greater significance to Chinese-language films, which means that Chinese-language films really have the opportunity to sit at the same table with Hollywood and share the pie.

In December, Wang Quan also flew to Europe.

When he returned to China, the total box office of "Xiao Yao You" in mainland China exceeded 50 billion!
The total global box office also reached an astonishing 12 billion US dollars, far surpassing "Wolf Warrior 2" and entering the top in film history.

Including "The Force Awakens", "Inception" and "The Twilight Saga: Dawn", Wang Quan already occupies four seats in the top 20, the most among all directors!

Among them, Wang Quan’s three Hollywood films are also among the top ten in film history, and he is also the director with the largest number of films.

However, it is very difficult for "Xiao Yao You" to enter the top ten in film history, after all, the domestic box office has been a bit sluggish.

After 25 days of release, the total box office of "Xiao Yao You" in mainland China officially exceeded 50 billion, which was nearly two days slower than "Wolf Warrior 2".

Judging from the current situation, it is basically impossible for "Xiao Yao You" to surpass "Wolf Warrior 2" in mainland China.

Therefore, the box office promotion of "Xiao Yao You" now mainly focuses on the box office in overseas countries and regions, as well as the global total box office.

Among the top 20 film history, there are Chinese-language films. This result is shocking enough.

For this purpose, the company specially held a celebration party to celebrate the achievement of 50 billion yuan. These two Chinese-language films have become 50 billion yuan masterpieces, and both are Wang Dao’s own. Wu Jing also came to the scene.

The two of them have earned a total of more than 200 billion in mainland China this year. Combined with other films, the company's total box office this year is expected to exceed billion!
Seeing that the weekday box office of "Xiao Yao You" was only over 2000 million, the two Wangs of Huayi and Feng Xiaogang breathed a sigh of relief. They were really worried that the residual influence of "Xiao Yao You" would affect the upcoming "Youth".

On December 12, "Youth" was officially released after a series of release dates being set and then postponed, and after being suspected of being stuck in the review process.

It grossed over 7000 million on the first day, and then continued to rise on Saturday and Sunday, forming a box office curve of Sunday>Saturday>Friday. You can tell at a glance that the word of mouth is explosive and a billion is a possibility!
There are so many billion-dollar movies now, with more than a dozen or twenty every year. Even Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige have movies worth billion. As the director who is the best at box office among the three major directors in mainland China, Xiao Gangpao has also been confused.

Now, the 10 billion box office is in our grasp.

As long as it can survive next week’s Kaiye’s “Legend of the Demon Cat” and Big Brother’s “Bleeding Steel”, it’ll be fine.

At this moment, earthquake-like news spread in Hollywood.

The famous label 20th Century Fox and its parent company 21st Century Fox were acquired by Disney!

The acquisition cost 524 billion, and the company still had to take on 137 billion in debt, which means the total cost was 661 billion!

Even the wealthy Di Baobao needs to pay in both cash and shares.

In addition to 20th Century Fox, one of the six major film studios, the parent company being acquired also includes National Geographic Channel NatGeo, Asian pay-TV operator Star TV, Star Media and part of the shares of Hulu video website.

This transaction also means that IPs that once belonged to Marvel, such as X-Men, Cameron's "Avatar", and The Simpsons from Changsheng Animation will all become part of Disney.

At this point, Disney and Dragon Rising have already opened up a gap with the other four major Hollywood studios.

However, this acquisition reduced the Big Six in Hollywood to the Big Five.

Just when domestic and foreign media were considering whether to change their tone in the future, MPAA suddenly announced that it would accept Dorothy, CEO of Dragon Heads Up, as a new member of the MPAA's presidium, who would participate in the formulation of relevant policies of the American Motion Picture Association.

This news once again shocked people at home and abroad. Now they knew that there was no need to change their words. The Big Six were still the Big Six, but Dragon Raising had replaced 20th Century Fox.

This new generation film company, which was founded in 06 and has been around for less than 12 years, has finally established itself in Hollywood and become a giant!
(End of this chapter)