You don't understand the happiness of the director

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

After leaving Tibei, Wang Quan and Dudu flew directly to North America to promote the film.

Although North America is now at the end of its release, I still want to go there and talk to the MPAA about AI dubbing because of the support.

It’s also time to discuss the rise of the dragon as Hollywood’s new top six.

The current six major Hollywood studios are also members of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), namely Disney, Universal, Warner, Paramount, Sony Columbia and 20th Century Fox.

However, there will soon be only the top five left, because Disney is in the final stages of negotiating the acquisition of 21st Century Fox, the parent company of 20th Century Fox.

Murdoch is about to reach 90. Although he is still persisting in divorce and marriage, he is still able to play with women, but he is already somewhat unable to play with the company.

So the assets of News Corporation began to be sold off one after another.

When it was reported that he planned to sell 21st Century Fox, Long Toutou was also very active and refused to give in at all during the bidding stage with Disney.

However, not long ago, Long Toutou suddenly stopped participating in the competition of 21st Century Fox, and there were a lot of opinions.

It’s true that a single Dragon Head Head can’t compare to Disney’s big business, but if Dragon Head Head + Netflix, it’s really not certain who is richer.

The actual situation is that Long Toutou participated in the competition and helped raise the price. He first received the support of Fox, and then withdrew from the competition. It did not really affect Disney's merger and acquisition plan, and received the support of Disney.

However, the MPAA belongs to six families. Long Toutou wants to join this family, not break it up, so he needs the support of the other four families.

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

This gave the royal power another weight.

The first thing Wang Quan did when he came to Los Angeles was watch the cartoon "Coco" with his children.

They had been holding back until now just to wait for Wang Quan to come together.

This animation produced by Illumination Entertainment is now the dominant player in the North American market. It is definitely a blockbuster, but it cannot reach the level of explosion. It is only over 200 million. It may not be as high as the mainland box office.

In addition to the poor performance on the first day, the box office of "Coco" in the mainland is getting higher day by day. It was only over 10 million on the first day, 50 million on the second day, and more than 6,000 on the third day. Ten thousand.

Unexpectedly, "Justice League" failed to cause any harm to "Getaway", but this own cartoon interrupted "Getaway"'s consecutive championship status and completed the replacement of the old with the new.

In addition to the mainland, the film also performed well in other overseas markets, especially Latin America. Long Toutou has produced another film that has achieved both good reputation and box office success.

This time the company is preparing to win an Oscar for this film.

In 2014 and 2015, Longtou \u0026 Illumination Entertainment won two Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film with "Zootopia" and "Frozen".

After that, it lost to "Inside Out" in 2016 and "Moana" in 2017. 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 "The Voice".

But with the release of "Coco" this year, Wang Quan no longer has any works to film.

What is slated for release in 2018 is "The Grinch", 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" and "Frozen 2" , "Zootopia 2", "Minions Big Eyes 2".

Now Chris Meledandri is worried that the company will lose its glory in a few years and there will be no high-grossing movies. So when he learned that Wang Quan had returned to Los Angeles, Chris immediately came to ask for advice.

How he hopes that King Quan can create another god series comparable to "Despicable Me" and "Minions". This will at least ensure that the company will have a blockbuster movie every year for five or six years.

King Quan has many countermeasures, one of which is to cooperate with the famous game brand Nintendo to produce an animated version of "Mario Brothers" for it.

Of course, this can only be regarded as a bad strategy. Even if the work sells well, because this is the copyright from Nintendo, and Nintendo is world-famous for its strength, so many benefits belong to Nintendo. This method can only be used to maintain lighting production and ensure The employees don't stop.

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

"The other thing is to choose suitable literary works or children's picture books to adapt. I haven't paid much attention to the New York bestseller list recently. You can find someone to look through it."

Chris Meledandri nodded. 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 Illumination can provide technical support for this project throughout the entire 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 planned to be called "Love, Death and Robots", or "Love to Death" for short. They are all in an alternative and niche style. They are actually completely different from Illumination's family carnival route, but they may give some inspiration to Illumination's 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 have been busy with this three-part new film in the past two years, so how can I have time to create comics, but..."

"Yeah!"

"But I have thought of some story ideas. Pick one to talk to you about." Wang Quan thought of a short video idea from a hot post on the Internet, called "Escape from the British Museum".

Wang Quan used a slightly humorous tone to talk about this topic that actually made the Chinese people feel sad. The more Chris listened, the more his eyes sparkled.

Antique artifacts are personified, and then they escape from the museum and embark on a journey home. There are actually many jokes that can be designed here, and then they can also make fun of British.

This story is a bit like Night at the Museum. This series was a super hit back then.

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

Chris thinks that with the quantity and quality of the British Museum's collection, at least a trilogy of China, Egypt, and Greece can be made. These three countries have the longest history, the largest collections, and are the easiest to make up stories.

Seeing that Chris is interested in this idea, Wang Quan proposed again: "I suggest that Illumination and Inception cooperate, so that both China and the United States can bloom."

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

Moreover, the mainland is now the world's largest market, but the highest box office of animation is only 200 million US dollars, "Zootopia". For animation, the mainland market is actually far from the bottom of the market. Chris believes that the mainland will soon give birth to an animation of 300 million US dollars or even 400 million US dollars, maybe this "Escape from the British Museum".

When the time comes, add North America and other markets, it will easily be another 1 billion+!

"I think it's feasible. I like the movie "The Return of the Great Sage" very much." It seems that Chris wants to cooperate with October Culture, which is the only subsidiary of Inception that has made a name for itself.

After that, Wang Quan was commissioned to write the script for "Escape from the British Museum".

In the following year, he only needs to do the post-production of "Happy Journey 2" and has no plans to make a movie, so he plans to personally handle this script and make a comic version by the way to make a name for himself first.

Wang Quan is not very confident about foreign screenwriters. According to their current script thinking, if a certain Chinese porcelain that has become a little girl wants to return to the motherland, there must be a white or black guy who will help without hesitation.

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

Wang Quan sometimes accompanied Chen Duling to promote, and sometimes asked her to act with Jiang Wen who had just arrived, and he stayed at home with the baby.

After starring in the two films "Star Wars: The Adventurers" and "The Adventurers", Jiang Wen has gained a certain degree of fame in Hollywood. His burly, confident and humorous appearance have made many Western media see the charm of a different Chinese man.

While they were still in the United States, the global box office of "The Adventurers" officially exceeded 1 billion dollars!

This result exceeded the 9.7 dollars of "Wolf Warrior 2", making it the first Chinese-language film to have a total box office of over 1 billion dollars, and also the highest score of Chinese-language films.

Of course, "The Adventurers" also became one of the top 100 films in film history.

This news quickly became known throughout the country under the influence of a powerful propaganda machine.

Wudu Pufferfish: It has only been released for less than 20 days, and Director Quan is so powerful!

Shadow Under the Moon: 1 billion dollars worldwide, even Hollywood has few films this year.

This is probably not right: the above is right, there are only two films that have broken 1 billion this year. One is Despicable Me 3, which just broke 1 billion, far less than Easy Journey, and the other is Lily Collins' Beauty and the Beast, which has 1.263 billion!

Mingyue Yingcangsheng: Oh my god, does Easy Journey have a chance to win the annual championship!

Konggu Ningyin: Don't tell me, it's really possible. It's really unthinkable that a Chinese film will win the global annual championship!

Wuxing Zhenren: Didn't Coco reach 1 billion?

Alien Merchant: Coco is far behind, and it didn't sell as well as Easy Journey in North America.

Bai Ruifeng: Don't forget that there is also a sequel to Star Wars Story in December, which has 1.27 billion. This sequel may surpass Beauty and the Beast.

lymbird: It seems that the biggest obstacles for "Easy Travel" to win the annual championship are "Beauty and the Beast" and "Star Wars: Solo: A Star Wars Story 2".

Lucifer's Heart: Even if it can't surpass them, it's pretty good to be in the top three. Let's look forward to it!

Jinghong Yixianzcx: Although I have watched 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 "Easy Travel".

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 of "Easy Travel" is more significant for Chinese films, which means that Chinese films really have the opportunity to sit at the same table with Hollywood to share the food.

In December, Wang Quan also flew to Europe.

When he returned to China, the total box office of "Happy Journey" in the mainland exceeded 5 billion!

The global total box office also reached an astonishing 1.2 billion dollars, far surpassing "Wolf Warrior 2" and entering the top 20 in film history.

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

Among them, Wang Quan's three Hollywood movies are also among the top ten in film history, and he is also the director with the most.

However, it is very difficult for "Happy Journey" 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 "Happy Journey" in the mainland officially exceeded 5 billion, which was nearly two days slower than "Wolf Warrior 2".

From the current situation, it is basically impossible for "Happy Journey" to surpass "Wolf Warrior 2" in the mainland.

So now the promotion of the box office of "Happy Journey" is mostly about the box office of overseas countries and regions, as well as the global total box office.

The top 20 in film history, or Chinese films, this result is shocking enough.

For this reason, the company specially held a celebration party to celebrate the achievement of 5 billion, becoming the only two 5 billion masterpieces in Chinese films, and both of them are Wang Dao's own. Wu Jing also came to the scene.

The two have made more than 10 billion in the mainland this year. Together with other films, the company's total box office this year is expected to exceed 20 billion!

Seeing that the weekday box office of "Xiaoyaoyou" is only more than 20 million, Huayi Shuangwang and Feng Xiaogang are relieved. They are really afraid that the residual power of "Xiaoyaoyou" will affect the upcoming "Youth".

On December 15, after a wave of set-up and then retreat, and suspected review stuck, "Youth" was officially released.

More than 70 million on the first day, followed by Saturday and Sunday rising steadily, and walked out a box office curve of Sunday\u003eSaturday\u003eFriday. At a glance, you can see that the word of mouth has exploded, and there is a chance of 1 billion!

There are so many billion-dollar movies now, with more than a dozen or twenty each year. Even Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige have billion-level movies. As the director who is the best at getting box office among the three major directors in mainland China, Xiao Gangpao was once confused.

Now it's good, 1 billion box office is in hand.

As long as it can survive next week's "Legend of the Demon Cat" by Kai Ye and "Blood of the Steel" by Big Brother.

At this time, Hollywood spread a big earthquake-like news.

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

The acquisition cost 52.4 billion, and it was also responsible for 13.7 billion in liabilities, which is equivalent to a total of 66.1 billion! Talk!

Even the wealthy Disney needs to pay in cash and shares.

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

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

So far, Disney and Dragon Heads Up have already opened up a gap with the other four major Hollywood companies.

However, this acquisition has turned the six major Hollywood companies into five major companies.

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

This news once again shocked the domestic and foreign countries. Now they know that there is no need to change their words. The six major companies are still the six major companies, but Dragon Heads Up has replaced 20th Century Fox.

This new generation film company, which has been established for less than 12 years since its establishment in 2006, has finally succeeded in Hollywood and become a generation of giants!