mousepad-d2 Chapter 219 The Clownfish Detonates the Screen
Chapter 219 The Clownfish Detonates the Screen
Although Universal Pictures' comedy film "Fake God" won the weekend box office championship for a week because of Jim Carrey's nonsensical performance, but soon Hollywood's summer vacation ushered in the animation film " Finding Nemo".Originally, Hollywood was not optimistic about animated movies. After all, Disney has been tossing and tossing for so many years about animated movies, and in the end, isn't it going to rely on live-action movies to make money?However, since the acquisition of Pixar and Blue Sky by Galaxy Pictures, Hollywood animation films seem to have a new spring.
Although the animated films produced by Pixar and Blue Sky animation studios still inherit the positive tone of animated films, the storylines they describe are no longer aimed at preschool children.Galaxy Pictures hopes that Pixar and Blue Sky's animated films will appeal not only to children, but also to teenagers, young adults, and even middle-aged and elderly people.
Jed said to the creative staff of Pixar and Blue Sky that animated films are also a kind of film, and we should not be limited to the market for children or young children.We can also occupy the market that ordinary movies can occupy.why not?What is the difference between us and ordinary movies?We also tell stories, but they use real people and we use animation.As long as our stories are exciting and compelling, it shouldn't be a problem for animated movies to challenge live-action movies.
With Jed's encouragement and support, as well as Jed's huge technical support, Blue Sky and Pixar finally released their own style of animation films, both "Toy Story" and "Ice Age" have been affirmed by the audience. .It's just that Pixar's family-friendly movies seem to be more popular, while Lantian's inspirational and tough style seems to be less popular, but Jed doesn't blame Lantian nor ask them to learn from Pixar.In Jed's view, the competition between Blue Sky and Pixar is the hope of tomorrow's animated film.Since Disney can't pose a threat to Pixar and Blue Sky in animated movies for the time being, the two brothers have to fight each other to promote progress.
Like Pixar's "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo" is another family movie about family affection.However, unlike ordinary parent-child family movies, "Finding Nemo" deliberately chose to interpret family affection from the perspective of father and son.And unlike the fathers in ordinary movies, the father of "Finding Nemo" Marin is a cowardly and nagging father, which seems to subvert the image of fathers in ordinary movies.But at the end of the movie, Marin traveled around the world and even challenged the human world in order to save his son, allowing people to see a real father.
Maybe every father has their own characteristics, some are nagging, some are sports, some fathers may be superman and your father may be just a passerby, but they will all become the same when they treat their children .No matter what difficulties and obstacles they encounter, as long as they can help their children, all fathers will do it without hesitation.Nemo also finally discovered that his father's nagging was not his weakness, but his deep love for himself.
The underwater world produced by Pixar Studios is not only colorful but also vivid, so Jed specially asked Pixar Studios to make several short films about the underwater world, on the one hand to explain the relationship between Nemo and his friends, and on the other hand for publicity Movie.Jed put these short films on the Nickelodeon Television Network, which is a children's television network under Viacom and the largest children's channel in the world.Not beyond Jed's expectation, the children were really interested in the colorful underwater world, and they didn't even reject it because it was an advertisement.Whether it's Nickelodeon Kids, Nickelodeon Kids, or even Nickelodeon Teens, they've all been popular.
After the success of Nickelodeon, Jed immediately added an advertisement to Viacom's MTV television network, so the three major music channels of MTV television network, MTV, VH1 and CMT, all tried their best to promote "Finding Nemo". Mo's storm has also extended from small friends to big friends.After two waves of successful publicity, Jade also pushed the advertisement to the five major wireless TV networks and the three major professional entertainment TV networks HBO, SHOWTIME and StarZ.
Due to the huge publicity expenses of Galaxy Pictures, the audience's expectations for "Finding Nemo" are also getting higher and higher.A week after its release, "Finding Nemo" topped the weekly charts with $7000 million.In fact, everyone is not surprised by this result. What everyone is curious about is how many weeks will "Finding Nemo" win the weekly championship?
In the second week, although Nemo was sniped by "Fast and Furious 2", he lost to the 4700 million box office of "Fast and Furious 2" with a box office of 5000 million US dollars.But after two weeks, "Finding Nemo" has swept away 1.44 million US dollars in the domestic box office, which makes many analysts feel incredible. After all, this is just an animated movie with a family theme.
In the third week, "Finding Nemo" actually succeeded in counterattacking the champion with a box office of 2800 million U.S. dollars, while "Fast and Furious 2" only won a box office of 1700 million U.S. dollars.
In the fourth week, Nemo was squeezed into the runner-up position by the Marvel hero Hulk.Although Jed won the copyright of Hulk's follow-up, Hulk's first film "Invincible Hulk" was still found by Universal Pictures to direct Li An.Jed admits that Li An is a very good director, but obviously he is not suitable for this kind of summer blockbuster full of Hollywood commercial elements.
Jed went to see the movie "Invincible Hulk" on purpose. Firstly, it was a hero movie owned by Marvel, and secondly, Universal Pictures Group also sent an invitation card. Jed was embarrassed to refuse.Similar to the version in the previous life, Li An is obviously not as adaptable to the commercialized Hollywood as his compatriot Wu Yusen. Li An made the whole hero movie into a literary film full of reflection and introspection.
If Christopher Nolan has finished filming the "Batman Prequel Trilogy" and supervised the production of "Superman: Man of Steel" at this time, Li An's style will still be loved by the audience.As the saying goes, the one who walks first becomes either a leader or a martyr.As a result, Li Eucalyptus became a martyr, and later Nolan became a hero.
As a summer popcorn movie, Li Eucalyptus actually let Hulk not appear until one-third of the movie passed.Since the real protagonist only comes out at this time, it is even more difficult to arrange the various explosive points and climaxes in the movie.
After watching the whole movie, Jed knew that Li An would definitely be criticized by Marvel fans, so he said in an interview with reporters afterwards: "This is not a hero movie in the traditional sense. Director Li An made those omnipotent Superheroes start to learn to reflect on themselves, and I think that's important!"
By the fifth week of "Finding Nemo"'s release, the film had earned as much as 2.54 million U.S. dollars at the box office. Based on the box office investment of 9400 million, "Finding Nemo" at this time has entered the time of purely making money.You must know that "Finding Nemo" has not been released from the United States at this time, and its global release has only started one after another, not to mention the follow-up DVD income and peripheral derivative income.
The income of "Finding Nemo" has allowed major giants to begin to appreciate the profitability of animated films. Therefore, companies that originally had animation production capabilities such as Disney and Warner began to re-emphasize animated films. Fox, Universal and MGM also Started to build an animation studio.In addition to setting up an animation studio, Columbia Films, which is close to the water, plans to rely on Sony Group to represent Japanese animation films from Japan and release them in the United States.
Five weeks after Nemo's debut, the second part of Michael Bay's game "Charlie's Angels" "Charlie's Angels: Full Speed Forward" also began to be officially released.In fact, the first part of "Charlie's Angels" directed by John Woo was scolded by film critics, and Michael Bay's sequel has already been labeled "there is no worst but worse" by film critics.
Fortunately, Michael Bay is more open than John Woo, and he shot the movie entirely in the form of a music video.Anyway, the budget given by Jed was sufficient. Michael Bay simply invited many pop singers from China to sing the soundtrack for the movie, or simply found the hottest and hottest singles from the Billboard singles charts as the movie soundtrack, and then three times The lead actor and the villain heroine showed off their bodies in the movie. I didn't expect that after such a mess, not only the young male audience loved it, but even many film critics were surprised afterwards, thinking that Michael Bay's music video Films with style provide a lot of reference for future film shooting.
Therefore, "Charlie's Angels: Full Speed Forward" actually won 3800 million box office at the weekend box office in the first week, becoming the champion of the week.But the good times didn't last long. In the second week, "Charlie's Angels: Full Speed Ahead" was kicked to the third place by Warner Bros.' "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" and MGM's "Legal Blonde 2: White House Fans". position.
Due to the release of countless sequel films this summer, many film critics joked that the Iraq War in the United States has reduced the income of the people, so the film company had to launch a sequel film to test the waters.However, many of this year's sequel movies have got rid of the suspicion of "dog tail sequel", which makes fans and film critics happy.
After the release of "Terminator 3" and "Legal Blonde 2," Galaxy Pictures' summer masterpiece "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" is also about to be released.Galaxy Pictures' promotion of this movie is very powerful. Not only the major cable TV networks and wireless TV networks have aired the trailer early, but the major movie channels have even broadcast TV specials, and the leading actors have also been on the show. All the entertainment programs and variety shows in the United States, just to persuade everyone to enter the movie theater.
Director John Woo said that Jed Sherman provided the idea for the script of the movie, and Jed said in an interview that the idea came from his own feelings for playing the Disneyland Pirate Ship project.Jed's remarks made Disney feel embarrassed. People can make a movie when they come to your park to play, so what about Disney itself?
Fortunately, the spokesperson of Disney was also quick-witted, and joked with a smile: "We are very happy that our game project can give a famous Hollywood filmmaker an idea. Please rest assured that Disney will not charge any copyright fees for this."
After seeing the interview, Jed said with a smile: "I like this spokesperson with an English accent very much. Let's see if I can recruit him to my company!"