Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In fact, before "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" took over to rule the weekend box office in North America, the Galaxy Animation Film Studio (formed by the merger of the original Galaxy Animation Studio and the Galaxy Animation Film Production Company) under Galaxy Films launched "Monsters, Inc." "has occupied the North American weekend box office champion for two weeks.This $1.15 million animation film earned 1.22 million at the North American box office in just the second week. According to Meribo’s analysis, Hollywood animation films have always accounted for half of the North American box office and overseas box office. Huge animated films can fully recoup production costs and still have room to make sequels.

You must know that when Jade established the animation department, he has already established a joint venture with Mattel to form the "Mattel Galaxy" brand, which specializes in selling dolls under Galaxy Animation.Now with the Marvel comics department, Mattel is even more dependent on the Galaxy.Jed also didn't hide his superhero plans from Mattel.After being surprised, Mattel executives discovered the huge business opportunities brought by this plan. After 20 years of intensive promotion of film and television dramas, no matter how bad the doll is, it will be smashed into red, not to mention that the superheroes under Marvel still have a certain amount. mass-based.Because the superhero project requires a huge amount of funds, no matter whether it is considering the financial security of the Galaxy Film Company or the sharing of risks, Jed will not be so stupid as to invest by himself.The bulk will be in charge of myself and Warner, but there is still a part of the funds that will be completed by "placement marketing".Mattel became the first sponsor of Warner and Galaxy's "Superhero Project" with an annual sponsorship of 5 million US dollars and a promise of an annual increase of [-]%.

At first, Warner Company’s first reaction when seeing Jed’s superhero plan was, is it possible that Galaxy Film Company intends to imitate the American “Star Wars” plan to provoke a non-existent space arms race and drag the greatest enemy of the United States to death at the time? --Soviet Union.But soon, Warner executives discovered that Jed's "Superhero Plan" was an executable plan. Although the risks were high, the benefits were too high for Warner to refuse.This also allowed Warner to restart the film adaptation plan of "Batman" and "Superman", although Jed has already bought the adaptation rights of "Batman" for the past ten years.But this doesn't mean that Warner can't continue filming "Batman" later?Warner's executives originally complained about taking over DC Comics. After all, the movie versions of "Batman" and "Superman" have been criticized, but Jed's superhero plan also gave them hope.They can take advantage of Jed's plan and take pictures of DC's superheroes.Especially when Jed proposed the last stage, the plan to let Marvel superheroes and DC superheroes fight side by side made Warner see countless gold.

"Monsters, Inc." is an animation film developed by Galaxy Animation Film Studio based on the newly developed systems FIZT (Complex Solid Model Rendering Technology) and IKT (Inverse Kinematics Tool). Special effects are more realistic, especially to make dynamic virtual characters appear more real.In order to commemorate the help of these two systems to "Monsters Inc", the animation directors specially prescribed two buttons, FIZT and IKT, at the access control of Monster Power Company.

After the movie was released, critics were quick to marvel at the realistic fur of the main character, Sullivan.The biggest difficulty in animated films is the processing of hair, because the computing power of the computer limits the realistic reproduction of the fur of the protagonist in animation.But "Monsters Inc" solved this problem very well this time. Sullivan's fur can change with the light, and when running and jumping, the fur can make realistic effects.Several film critics who were concerned about technology all looked at each other in surprise. They knew one thing very well, that is, Galaxy Animation Film Studio has far surpassed Industrial Light and Magic in the processing of effect technology.Since Industrial Light & Magic has always been a joint venture between Jed and Lucas, although the cooperation has been smooth for many years, Lucas' strength has also made Jed less and less patient with this company.

While film critics have seen that Galaxy Films is relying less and less on ILM for special effects, they still don't know what Jed is doing inside.In fact, after the honeymoon period with Industrial Light and Magic ended, Jed formed the digital field special effects company.Different from Industrial Light and Magic, the digital field has abandoned the traditional special effects department from the very beginning, and the digital field pursues computer special effects, and has become the leading producer of Galaxy Film, Galaxy TV, Galaxy Entertainment, Galaxy Studio and Galaxy Animation Film Studio. The special effects supporter of the department shows up.It's just that in order not to irritate Industrial Light and Magic, the digital field has always been just a code name.They often appear under other names such as the Galaxy Film Special Effects Department or the Galaxy TV Post Production Team. It was not until the release of "Monsters, Inc." that Hollywood filmmakers discovered that the visual effects of "Monsters, Inc." Visual Effects Technologies Inc."And this name also made Lucas remember, because there are not many companies that can make Industrial Light and Magic afraid of visual effects, but the digital field formed by Jed is obviously an opponent that Lucas has to face up to.

Two weeks after the cartoon "Monsters, Inc" dominated the weekend box office in North America, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" landed in major theaters in North America with the high popularity of the TV series.Unlike the previous life, since Jed released the TV series version early, besides the orthodox Harry Potter fans, many TV series fans also went to the theater to watch the movie version.In order to narrow the gap between the movie version and the TV series version, Jed not only allowed the TV series version to directly use the film version's set, but also only changed a few key actors.Because of the foreshadowing of the TV series, Jed discarded a lot of background explanations when adapting the movie script, and concentrated the story on a few climaxes.Film and television, like drama, pay attention to dramatic conflict.If there are too many explanations of the too bland background, the enjoyment of the movie will drop a lot.At that time, the reason why "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" did not dare to lose a lot of background explanations was that they worried that the movie was too much for book fans, which would limit the development of the movie.But what the producer didn't expect was that their caring behavior turned into a quarrel.Fans of the book thought that what should be filmed should not be filmed, and a lot of what should not be filmed were filmed; ordinary movie fans said that they could not understand the movie at all, and hoped that the background could be explained in more detail.Now Jed has let the American audience understand the content of the first movie through TV series, so "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is not only loved by book fans, but also some ordinary audiences think it is very good.

On the weekend of its first week, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" became the champion of the North American weekend box office rankings with a super high box office revenue of 1100 million US dollars.Although film critics were surprised that the movie won more box office in the first weekend, they still couldn't believe it.We must know that when "Shrek" became the weekend champion of 425 with a box office of 2001 million in its first week, film critics thought that this figure was already exaggerated.But "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" not only beat "Shrek"'s record, but also more than tripled the new record.

"We seem to have underestimated the results of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". The box office performance of 1100 million in the first week is definitely not a figure that can be achieved by an ordinary movie. What I want to ask now is 'Harry Potter and Magic' Will 'The Stone' be a member of the global $10 billion box office club by the time it's down?'" -- "Houston Chronicle" "In 1997, a shy single mom brought the world 'Harry Potter' the little wizard, she must not have thought of today. Yes, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is the champion of the weekend box office chart this week, and its weekend box office is as high as 1100 million US dollars. And No. 2's brother "Monsters Inc" seems to be unable to win the championship again, and only ranked second with a box office of 230 million US dollars." - "Hollywood Report" "The most profitable Hollywood producer is back! Galaxy Film still maintains Their benchmark for high-margin movies, whether it's the summer's "Pearl Harbor" or the just-released "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Galaxy Films picks the best of the best. Although Galaxy Movies are expensive to produce , but their movie box office is higher. Here, we have to admire the vision of Mr. Jed Sherman and all the operators of Galaxy Films." - "Vanity Fair" has received praise from film critics, "Harry "Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" continued to be the weekend box office champion with $750 million in its second week, despite a drop in box office.In the third week, although Universal Company took out their annual masterpiece, "Spy Game".It's a pity that this movie not only failed to beat "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", but even the second-ranked "Monsters, Inc.", so Universal's distribution department could only go home and lick its wounds.It wasn't until week four that "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" met its real rival, Eleven Angry Men, produced by Warner Bros.Jed saw the movie released, and he gave up hope that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" would win the weekend championship for five consecutive weeks.First of all, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is an old film, and it is inherently inferior compared to the new film "Eleven Angry Men".Moreover, Warner has gathered many Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck for the filming of "Eleven Angry Men", even if it is enough for the audience to count the stars to play of.

Sure enough, it's the fifth week of the release of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". "Eleven Angry Men" won the weekend with 400 million box office, while "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" only had 200 million box office.However, Warner Bros. has not been happy for a week. Galaxy Films' real annual masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Ring" announced its official release.Unlike rising stars like "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", how many years of readers has "Lord of the Rings" accumulated in the West?And according to the trailers released by Galaxy Movies, Galaxy Movies produced "Lord of the Rings" completely according to the production treatment of an epic movie.Although film critics were somewhat dismissive of director Peter Jackson, the film was listed by countless film critics as "one of the most unmissable films this Christmas."The AmC Galaxy Theater in Los Angeles also specially dressed up in the style of "Lord of the Rings", preparing for the premiere of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring".