Rebirth In Hollywood

Even if Ryan is the largest shareholder, it is not a simple matter to eat DreamWorks Animation Studio. This involves an acquisition of more than one billion US dollars. Unlike the previous small shareholding, Disney will definitely evaluate the argument carefully. , and in addition to preparing the necessary funds, if the resistance is too great, even prepare for stock exchange.

Behind every quickly completed acquisition, there is a lot of preparatory work.

These will naturally have a more professional team responsible for follow-up, and specific matters will be discussed in the next board of directors.

The time is getting closer to July, when Sandy was born a month ago, another big production of Walt Disney - "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World" officially landed in global theaters, and won the first weekend in North America. More than $131 million.

Although Roger Albert and the like have issued such as 'a 168-minute long and tedious pirate adventure story, Pirates of the Caribbean fans are advised to enjoy a seafood feast and wait for the film to start half an hour before entering the theater. Even so you won't miss any of the episodes' comments, but nothing can stop the pirates from looting the wallets of global audiences.

In just seven days of release, "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" stole a full $418.57 million from 102 countries and regions around the world, including North America, creating a new global box office with the fastest breaking 4. billion dollar record.

Of course, this record does not have much practical significance. After all, most films cannot achieve such a large-scale global simultaneous release.

Clearly, the film's global box office hit the billion-dollar mark.

The most important thing is that because of the simultaneous shooting of the trilogy, the average cost of a single film is less than 150 million US dollars, which is much less than the production cost of 300 million US dollars for the third film alone in the previous life. "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" has just been released, and Disney has made nearly $250 million in net profits from the box office of this series alone.

Box-office revenue is only part of the profits that Pirates of the Caribbean brings, with various peripheral rights and spin-offs bringing in more than $600 million in net income for Disney long before the third installment, including the addition of the bay at Shang Hai Disneyland. Areas are all follow-up spin-off projects of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

This series can generate large profits for Walt Disney every year, and Disney will not end there, and plans for a fourth installment have been put on the agenda.

However, director Gore Verbinski and the two leading actors Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom are sure not to appear in the next film, which has both the factors they want to transform and the opening of the film. The price was too high and was rejected by Disney.

Walt Disney is currently trying to keep Captain Jack Sparrow.

But Johnny Depp's conditions are equally expensive, and this negotiation is bound to drag on for a long time.

But Ryan is not in a hurry. After the trilogy, it is undoubtedly the wisest choice to release the fourth in a few years. Otherwise, the continuous bombardment is very likely to lead to aesthetic fatigue.

Besides, Captain Jack Sparrow is now inseparable from Johnny Depp, so Johnny Depp can leave the role of Jack Sparrow?

Maybe Johnny Depp thinks he has super appealing power, but he has relevant memories of his previous life. Ryan is very clear that after leaving the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, the audience also does not buy Johnny Depp's account, except for almost seeing The supporting roles of "Alice in Wonderland" who are not in their own face, Johnny Depp's other films are simply money-losing goods, and some even have huge losses.

Ryan will certainly not forget "Alice in Wonderland", the highest peak of the past-life remanufactured 3D film, and Disney Pictures has already started the preliminary demonstration.

Of course, if the film officially starts production, it will definitely not be a fake 3D film of the previous life.

When it comes to 3D, although there are very few movies made with 3D technology, many movies will release the corresponding 3D version in theaters through post-processing technology, even if there is a quality gap between these pseudo 3D and real 3D movies, but Quite a few viewers still bought it.

At the beginning of the new century, a time-saving and labor-saving 3D movie production method developed and promoted by Ryan and James Cameron's imax company has played a huge role, that is, the ordinary 2D version of the movie is directly converted into a 3D movie. imax's dmr - digital remastering - technology can even convert regular 35mm film to 70mm imax3d format, converting a standard-length film for around $6 million and in about six weeks.

This move greatly expands the content source of 3D movies. Hollywood can "produce" a 3D movie in more than a month, but the defects are also obvious. Not a lot.

Until the first two years, most of the 3D films that appeared on the market were made through this transcription technology. Even so, 3D and imax theaters have grown by leaps and bounds, especially the number of 3D screens in North America. It has rapidly increased from a few hundred pieces at the beginning of the century to more than 2,400 pieces.

Among them, a film that imax company cooperated with Warner Bros. played a huge role.

Thanksgiving Christmas in 2004, Warner Bros.'s animated blockbuster "Polar Express" was officially released. This film, shot by Robert Zemeckis, director of "Forrest Gump", used a lot of imax3d technology, and its visual effects were transformed. The film is absolutely incomparable. The film has achieved a total box office of nearly 60 million US dollars in more than 80 imax theaters around the world, setting a record for imax commercial screening. More than 30% of its North American box office revenue comes from imax3d, which even caused A grand scene that is hard to get a ticket, the charm of 3D movies can be seen from this.

After "Polar Express", North American cinema chains have completely seen new revenue growth points. More than half of the newly added screens in North America in the past two years are 3D screens, including nearly 100 imax cinema chains.

In recent years, Ryan has never relaxed the promotion of 3D and imax. Now in North America alone, the number of 3D screens is close to 3,500, and the number of imax theaters is close to 170.

Hollywood producers and distributors need more exciting ways to attract audiences, and cinema operators also need new movie viewing technologies as revenue growth points. These are all stakeholders, and they have huge common interests in this regard. .

As early as last year's American West Expo, many film companies and theater operators cheered for 3d and imax technology, saying it is the third film technology after sound film and color film, and they are optimistic. Digital 3D movies will be the mainstream of the future movie industry.

Similarly, several Hollywood directors James? Cameron, Steven? Spielberg, Robert? Zemeckis and Michael? Bay are all fans of digital 3D movies, the latter three have become the forerunners of physical practice.

"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" has been raging for two weeks. At a time when the film's global box office exceeded 650 million US dollars and the growth momentum has slowed down significantly, it was jointly invested by Disney Pictures and Universal Pictures, and the production cost was as high as 100 million. The $50 million "Jurassic Park 3" has officially landed in major theaters in North America.

This is a real 3D movie. The total length of the clips shot with the imax3d camera alone reaches 30 minutes. In this day and age, this is an absolute visual killer.

The film was opened in 3,845 theaters in North America, of which the number of 3D screens and imax theaters reached 2,750 and 158 respectively.

The three days of this weekend are completely three days of dinosaurs. It is hard to get a ticket in the imax theater. Even if you want to watch the 3D version, movie tickets are also in short supply.

Compared with the popularity of 3d and imax, the performance of the ordinary 2d version can only be said to be very mediocre, and the first-week occupancy rate of most 2d theaters did not even exceed 30%.

"Jurassic Park 3" did not disappoint Disney Pictures and Universal Pictures in its first week at the box office. It earned $150.12 million at the North American box office in three days, and 3D and imax screens contributed nearly 6% of it. fifteen!

In the past few years, imax has promoted imax 3d cinemas not only in North America, but also in major ticket warehouse markets around the world. Today, there are more than 280 imax cinemas used for commercial operations in the world, of which 90% have joined the screening. In the ranks of Jurassic Park 3.

In addition, more than 4,400 3D screens around the world, including North America, have also signed contracts for the screening of Jurassic Park 3.

Maybe because of regional differences, the situation is different in different places, but in general, the ticket price of the ordinary 3D version is twice that of the ordinary film, and the imax is generally about three times.

Although the number of 3D and imax theaters is not as large as it was a few years later, there is also a lack of strong 3D films as competitors in this era. Even if the plot of "Jurassic Park 3" is a bit thin, the structure is similar to that of Spear in recent years. Like all of Berger's films, they suffer from rigid stereotypes, but for the vast majority of viewers, the dinosaurs that seem to jump off the screen and devour them at any time are worth the price of admission.

In the same seven days, relying on the strong performance on 3D and imax, "Jurassic Park 3" from the movie market in 93 countries and regions around the world, harvested a box office of up to 445.85 million US dollars, refreshing "Jurassic Park 3" Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End just broke the record for the fastest global box office hit of $400 million.

Three days later, and ten days after the film was released simultaneously worldwide, the global box office of "Jurassic Park 3" successfully exceeded 500 million US dollars, which is also the fastest global box office record of 500 million US dollars in history.

Among them, 3d and imax contributed a total of more than 365 million US dollars, and the visual effects of the film even caused a huge discussion boom around the world. r1152 ()