Chapter 350 Watching the Special Effects Results, It Stopped Abruptly!

The annual Thanksgiving season is here!

Pixar Animation, which has just reached a number of cooperation agreements with Water World Animation, strikes again. "Toy Story 2" is the first part of the series, after several years of painstaking work.

The production cost went from $30 million for Part 1 to $90 million for Part 2;

At the same time, the more mature technical level of Pixar animation, the more refined and realistic it has been polished;

In addition, the warmth, touching, adventure, innocence and other elements that Pixar animation upholds have been brought into full play in this film.

Stunning!

"Toy Story 2" was released on the Thanksgiving schedule in November, and once it was released, it became a hit in the United States!

The box office is booming, and all the way is like a broken bamboo!

In the first three days of the first weekend, it harvested as much as $75.2 million at the North American box office.

Rank #1!

The No. 2 movie on the box-office list this weekend only reported $31 million, a far cry from Toy Story 2's box-office revenue.

"A stunning animated sequel." Reviewed by The New York Times.

"The performance of "Toy Story 2" completely surpassed the first one, not only in terms of box office, but also in terms of word of mouth, breaking the curse of the first golden start and the sequel." "Chicago Review" commented.

It was highly praised by the media and praised by fans and fans.

Similarly, many analysis companies have made multiple guesses about the box office trend and final destination of "Toy Story 2" through data simulation.

"200 million US dollars at the North American box office is definitely not the end of "Toy Story 2"~"

This guess, derived from data analysis and simulation, is the data that most people believe.

Wald Pictures.

"Boss, it seems that the Pixar animation succeeded again this time." Alexander sighed.

Zucker smiled and said: "Pixar animation is successful, so what? Don't forget, Steve Jobs signed a series of agreements with Disney that can be called "dishonoring and humiliating".

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Whether it is box office revenue, offline peripheral licensing revenue, or revenue from DVD and video tapes, and TV platform broadcast revenue, more than 70% of the revenue has been intercepted by Disney.

The income of Pixar animation is very poor!

"Thanks to Jobs being shrewd enough to list Pixar animation on the US stock market at the same time as "Toy Story" was released, otherwise Pixar animation would have already become a subsidiary of Disney." Zucker grinned.

Speaking of being shrewd, Zucker sincerely admires Jobs.

In order to get back the income that should belong to Pixar animation from Disney, Jobs not only resolutely agreed to cooperate with Zucker's company; secondly, even if they had the ability to develop multiple animation works at the same time, they would drag their time and wait until Deadline for Disney collaboration.

A "Toy Story 2", according to the production capacity of Pixar animation, can definitely be completed in 2 years, but what about them?

It took 4 years to complete "Toy Story 2".

It can be seen that Jobs is cunning enough.

dong dong dong~

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Bill McNick, president of Wald Pictures, came in.

"Old Bill, you're done. Well, since you're done, let's go to ILM now." Zucker said with relief.

Today, Zucker made an appointment with Lucas, the boss of Industrial Light and Magic, to see the special effects production results of the two movies "Spider-Man" and "Harry Potter".

"Zuck, don't worry about going to Industrial Light and Magic, I'll tell you something first."

At this moment, Old Bill's face was full of solemnity.

"What happened?" Zu Ke raised his brows, feeling that something bad happened.

Alexander on the side also frowned.

Old Bill looked solemn and said solemnly: "Just now, as many as 12 screenwriters, including Pooh, Dai Coco, Monati, Shirley, and Jonathan, from the company's screenwriting department, submitted vacation applications to me at almost the same time. Know what that means?"

What the hell!

At this moment, Rao Shizuk was also quite shocked!

There are more than 30 screenwriters in the screenwriting department of Wald Pictures. Now there are more than 12 people who have submitted leave applications almost at the same time. This must be a major event!

"Mr. McNick, is this another screenwriter strike?!" Alexander blurted out.

"Is that so?" Zucker looked at Old Bill gloomily.

"Yes, this is bound to be another industry-wide screenwriter strike. Zucker, 12 screenwriters have submitted applications, and our company has more than 20 screenwriters registered with the screenwriters union. If they all submit applications, then our screenwriting department will be completely paralyzed!" Old Bill gritted his teeth.

In a word, the screenwriting department of Wald Pictures is almost empty!

This will definitely cause huge losses to the growing Wald Pictures.

The screenwriters strike is not just a company called Wald Pictures. Once it appears, it will definitely permeate the entire Hollywood.

Why are the writers on strike?

The reason is very simple, too little money!

They think that what they pay for should get more equity and higher income. However... the reality is that their status in the Hollywood industry chain is very low.

The minimum selling price for a script is $27,000.

In the entire industry, more than 90% of screenwriters write scripts that sell for less than $30,000!

And the vast majority of full-time screenwriters earn less than a supermarket cashier a year, and there are many screenwriters who survive on government relief funds.

In 1999, more than 48% of screenwriters on the West Coast of the United States, as many as 8,000 screenwriters, were unemployed.

In the entire Hollywood industry chain, directors, actors, and producers undoubtedly account for most of the income of the industry;

The behind-the-scenes working groups such as lighting, make-up, art, props, etc., although it seems that the income is not high, but senior practitioners can get a lot of rewards;

Only screenwriters have little income and no right to speak.

The poor screenwriter who eats dirt quickly, not to mention it for the time being.

Even those screenwriters who earn millions of dollars a year have little say in the crew.

"The screenwriter's strike, to put it bluntly, is to increase the money!" There was a little coldness in Zu Ke's eyes.

"Humph!"

Old Bill snorted coldly and said, "These guys in our company's screenwriting department are really greedy. Zucker, you say, why have we treated them badly in terms of salary and benefits?"

He was really angry.

Those screenwriters who are out of office and are not working in film and television companies, their income is low, and they go on strike when they strike, which is understandable.

After all, the poor are about to eat dirt.

But... the screenwriters working in the film and television company, they are different!

The income of their group is not only from the sale of scripts, but also from the weekly, monthly and annual salary from the film and television company. This income is definitely not low.

Alexander said solemnly: "Boss, we must pay attention to this matter!"

"I know." Zucker nodded heavily.

In 1988, the Hollywood screenwriters' strike in the United States lasted for 78 days. The production team was suspended and the industry was depressed, causing economic losses as high as 2.5 billion US dollars.

The industry as a whole is a pain in the ass.

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