The Best Director

In September 1999, Blue Sky Studio became a member of Flame Films and produced Ice Age at a bowl fee. This cgL animation was released on the big screen of 6 theaters in May 2020 and became the seventh North American box office hit of over 100 million yuan. cgL animation, and finally received 47.6 billion global box office. : This impressive achievement makes Lantian become the fourth largest netbsp after Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks; The first project is Zhao Kouwan's production of Ice Age Doesn't Melt Glaciers. The set director Carlos Erdanha will continue to direct, and the other director Chris Wicki will be fully responsible for the production work.

Compared with the first film, The Melting Glacier not only has a more mature behind-the-scenes production team and experienced animators; it also has leap-forward advanced and detailed cg technology, as well as new voice actors for new characters, the naive and persistent mammoth Ellie is played by the increasingly popular Ben-Latifah, and Ellie's mischievous possum brother invites the hard guy Sean William Newcott of the American Pie series.

At present, this sequel has been produced and has come to the final stage of dubbing and soundtrack. It will be released in North America on May 7 this year in less than three months on time, and it will grab the box office share of the 4-year summer vacation schedule. And it will be in some overseas theaters at an earlier time, such as April 23 and April, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina

This is one of the very few overseas release schedules earlier than North America. Because no matter from the box office, peripheral sales and other data in the later period, it is obvious that overseas markets are more interested in Ice Age, and the great success of the first part has given overseas businessmen confidence, and they agree to cooperate in publicity and schedule. If Ice Age Century 2 entered the North American market with enthusiastic response and praise from overseas, and it will have a box office boost.

Overseas is greater than North America, and overseas is earlier than North America. This is also the market positioning of the Ice Age series and Kung Fu Panda series, and the development strategy of the new series and the entire animation company in the future. Ice Age 2 is the first one strike!

These pandas are so cute... Oh! Look at that one, it's looking at us!

Under the light blue sky, the trees are overgrown, and the black and white giant pandas are lazily crawling on the low muddy ground, or sleeping on the wooden shed, and one is sleeping and hiding in a tall three-pronged tree. Between the branches and forks, it is rolled like a big round hair ball. An adult giant panda walking on the wooden shed looked behind the stone railing far above, and saw some sporadic tourists watching there.

A coffin woman in blue clothes pointed to this side in surprise, and a black man in gray clothes next to her was taking a picture with something. The giant panda only felt a flash of light rushing towards it, and it yawned rather bored, and the coffin woman said happily again. : Haha, it is yawning! Its mouth is so wide open!

After climbing Mount Everest and stepping onto the top of the world, Wang Yang and Jessica left Tibet,

Continue to be alone in the world of two people, enjoy the newlywed honeymoon with ten days to go, and the journey station is Chengdu, Sichuan, the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

The naive giant panda is another key project of Blue Sky Studio. Since the establishment of the Kung Fu Panda project with a budget of 100 million yuan in the early summer of 2020, it has been busy preparing for it. It took more than a year and finally started in early January of 2020. In addition to filming and production, it is scheduled to be released in May 5. For a CG animation film starting from scratch, the speed and efficiency of the 3-year production cycle is already very high.

This is undoubtedly due to Wang Yang, one of the team's screenwriters, planners and producers who provided a lot of advice and directly solved many difficult problems that took a long time, which saved the Panda team from taking many wrong paths.

Producer Chris Wakey, Producer \u0026 Screenwriter Jonathan Abel, Producer \u0026 Screenwriter Glenn Berger... Abel and Berger are both in the same position in the O8 version of DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda The person in charge, they became famous for the 1997 Canadian TV animated comedy The Head of the Family. With a production team and a screenwriter team, who will hand over the main microphone of the director team of Kung Fu Panda?

This is a problem that has troubled Huo Lantian and Wang Yang for a long time. Let alone directing ability, this person needs to know how to be funny and funny, and the style is suitable for all ages; 1. Enthusiasm and understanding of oriental culture, the more the better.

Flaming Blue Sky hopes to invite Xu Chengyi (Raman Xu) to direct.

Xu Chengyi was born in Hong Kong in 1963. Xi Nian Niu Ye graduated from the Graphic Design Department of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He initially worked as a cartoon producer at Quantum Studio in Hong Kong. In 1998, he moved to Canada and entered Cirdan College to study computer animation. Animator of Bat Porridge in 1995, character design and animation director of Little Ants in 1998, animation supervisor of Shrek for 1 year, animation cup producer and first assistant director of Shrek 2 for 4 years ... Wang Yang knew better that Xu Chengyi was the co-director of Shrek in 7 years. Xu Chengyi is the treasure of the animation department of DreamWorks and one of the most important members of the Shrek team. Maybe DreamWorks originally made Kung Fu Panda thanks to him, and maybe one day he will move to Blue Sky Studios, but now, He couldn't come anyway.

Please don't come to Xu Chengyi, then directly invite the two directors of the o8 version of Kung Fu Panda, John Stephenson and Mark Osborne? The problem is that the two are also core members of DreamWorks and the Paramount system. Now Stephenson, Xu Chengyi and others are directing and producing the animated TV comedy Proud Dad, which will be broadcast on the channel this fall; Mark Osborne is Paramount directed the CG animation film The Adventures of SpongeBob SquarePants, which will be released in November this year.

Without Stephenson and Osborne, even if they can come over, judging from the current situation that the list of film and television directors of the two is blank, it may not be a good thing for them to bring Bao to play kung fu.

After searching and negotiating for a long time, Flaming Blue Sky finally confirmed the director candidate, Steve Oderkirk last summer.

Yeah, the mouth is so wide open! Uh, its eyes seem to be mocking us... Beside the stone railing, Wang Yang looked at the digital SLR camera in his hand, and saw a close-up of the giant panda on the screen, so carelessly Lazy and disinterested, he couldn't help dubbing it with a smile: Stupid human beings!! Jessica next to him suddenly said anxiously: It's best to take pictures quickly, hurry up! Oh my god, did you take a picture? She smiled so cutely, It's so cute!

Wang Yang kept pressing the shutter, and the camera showed flashes of light. The giant panda who laughed at them was sitting by a wooden stake, with its black and fluffy palms supporting the wooden stake and its head, with a silent expression of thinking. look. He glanced at her, remembered something, and immediately smiled with great interest: Sweetheart, let's adopt a panda baby! Naturally, the adoption fee is nothing to the two of them, but they have a giant panda in name. panda.

Yes, yes! Jessica nodded with great interest. She looked at the pandas in the garden below, clasped her palms together, and said in a very excited voice, Okay, okay! Baby, let's give it What name? I don’t want to be called Po!”

No, Po will be adopted by Blue Sky Studio later. Wang Yang said with a smile and took several more photos. This is a promotional plan for Kung Fu Panda, and there is a real Po accompanying him It's also interesting to grow up with the film series. Several tourists passed by, Jessica leaned on the railing, rolled her eyes and thought about the name: We have Danny, is it Fanny? Bonnie? Manny?

Wang Yang laughed and shrugged mysteriously: I already have an idea, guess what, a reminder: something we do every night. Jessica thought of it suspiciously, looking at his ambiguous expression, As if to say You know, she burst out laughing: I'm not sure, what? With a click, Wang Yang flashed her eyes with the camera: Don't give up easily! Reminder: Be simple in thinking Point, don’t think so complicated, visualize it.”

Speaking of Po, Wang Yang remembered some things about Kung Fu Panda. It has been on for more than two months, and I don't know how it is going.

Sending off Kung-ur and welcoming Po ()! Faced with the invitation from Flame, Steve Oderkirk was very surprised by the box office Kun Bao Punch and Kung Fu Panda with a budget of 100 million. His first thought was: The magic Yang gang are looking for death? Then Wang Yang said to him, Kun Bao, the reason for his failure is that he is not a panda! It is because Hong Kong is not the era.

But I really died laughing, especially the human-cattle war.

Heroes cherish heroes, and heroes are happy to meet each other., It's rare to meet a bosom friend for a thousand cups of wine, Don't expect to be born on the same day in the same year... In any case, after talking with Wang Yang at that time, Steve Odecock was very happy. I'm a little moved, if audiences all over the world appreciate Kunbao like Magic Yang, and understand the spoofs of each film, that would be great! His heart, which was shattered by the film critics, was pounding again, and the enthusiasm for kung fu fighting has never dissipated.

Without any reason to refuse, Oderkirk readily agreed to the invitation of Kung Fu Panda. Entertainment public studies can also be regarded as temporarily tied to the flames and blue sky.

Sending off Kunbao and welcoming Abao! At that time, the film and entertainment media were as puzzled and surprised as Odekirk. If it was the screenwriter, it would be no surprise, but the director...It's not good to find someone, why find a bad luck director who just lost his underwear?, 100 million cost to hand over It’s a terrible thing to play with Old Kirk! Even many movie fans seem to have seen the tragic end of Kung Fu Panda. How much better can Po be than Kun Bao?

Much better! This is the thinking of the members of the flames and blue sky. No one was optimistic about Ice Age at the beginning, with 47.6 billion;

I guess the baby's name is... s1eep (sleep)? On the feldspathic road full of green bamboos on both sides, the two laughed and talked as they walked. Before Jie Xifeng finished speaking, she saw Wang Yang wrinkled her nose and was about to open her mouth to speak. She hurriedly grabbed him: Wait, I knew! Ve? Ve! She said as she rolled her eyes, her pretty face was full of smiles: It must be Ve! Or jerk.

No, it's just a little bit worse. Wang Yang laughed loudly, seeing her biting her lip in embarrassment, waved his hand and said: Almost almost! There are so many reminders, you need to visualize! He announced: The baby's name is Youka (a), Youka. Jessica was taken aback, feeling very interested: What do you mean? Is that a word? Or is it a combination of our names?

Wang Yang stopped in his tracks, looked into her eyes quietly, and suddenly said: Yes, it is a word, which means what we do every night, combined back and forth. Haha! Before he finished speaking, he He looked up to the sky and laughed and ran forward.

Laughing like Jessica laughed and was angry, and there was no one around to beat her up, so she had to support her waist and let out a breath, she shouted and chased after her: But Ve can do it too!

During the period when the two were happily enjoying their wedding and honeymoon, there were new developments in many movies. Sin City announced that Scarlett Johansson joined. The 25-year-old Rachel McAdams will join the cast, officially entering the ranks of blockbuster films; and the 22-year-old Natalie Portman It has already appeared on the set of Stealing Heart which started in early February...

And a surprising new project of Flame Films has given up its eccentric reputation of like to use bad luck directors. After Kung Fu Panda \u0026 Steve Hudcock, Brokeback Mountain \u0026 Ang Lee, Flame's latest launch of League of Assassins \u0026 John Woo, the John Wu who made MGM and Paramount lose their underwear, John Woo