Hollywood Starts with Animation

The successful listing of Water World Animation has really made many people envy, jealous and hate, and even their eyes are red.

Thanksgiving is approaching, when Zucker was invited to the premiere of "Toy Story 2", the huge sour smell was just blowing in the face!

No, there are two middle-aged men whispering in the venue at the moment.

"Hey, hey, look, that's Zucker Wald," said a middle-aged man with big eyes.

"I saw it. His water world animation can be listed on the US stock market, and it is not impossible for our Blue Sky Studio in the future." The man wearing a baseball cap said confidently.

A middle-aged man with big eyes named Chris Wedge;

The man in the New York Yankees baseball cap named Carlos Saldanha;

The two of them are animation directors, painters, and producers, and they are currently working at Blue Sky Studio.

Blue Sky Studio is a company that started with computer special effects. It was established in the 1980s. After that, it gradually changed its focus of work, abandoned the computer special effects business, and turned to 3D computer animation, which is similar to Pixar animation.

In 1998, the 7-minute short animation "Bunny Rabbit" produced and produced by Blue Sky Studio won the Oscar for Best Short Film, breaking the animation awards monopolized by big companies, and became famous since then!

Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha are both directors and executives of Blue Sky Studio. Although they are not very famous at present, in the future, they will co-direct and produce the animation "Ice Age". Movies are famous all over the world.

"Ice Age" animation is definitely a leader in the 21st century animation film!

And, the most dazzling star in the film is undoubtedly the little squirrel.

Although it has no lines, it just keeps humming and chirping in response to the various heavy injuries it has suffered, but it perseveres in fighting for its pine cones, and its strong spiritual perseverance is also admirable. The little squirrel is the first to appear in the film, it is a needle-like character, and because of its gorgeous scene-stealing performance, it is impressive every time.

Squirrel is an absolute star animation character.

What everyone doesn't know is that the dubbing staff of the little squirrel is Chris Wedge, one of the directors of the film.

The famous animated films "Rio Adventure 1" and "Rio Adventure 2\

,"Also by Carlos Saldanha.

"You are right, if the water world animation can be successful, our Blue Sky Studio will also be successful in the future." Wedge said solemnly.

"Hahaha, that's great dude!"

Saldanha laughed: "Following the box office fiasco of the movie Frozen Planet, Fox Pictures cut the animation department and kicked Meledand and his team out of Fox Pictures; President Murdoch instead Started to support our Blue Sky Studio, and not long ago invested 10 million US dollars in our Blue Sky, and will invest more in the future, I believe that our future will be better."

......

"Hi, Zucker, congratulations, congratulations on the successful listing of your water world animation on the US stock market. Oh my god, in just over half a month, the market value has exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars, which is really surprising."

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of DreamWorks Animation, came up to chat as soon as he saw Zucker.

"Thank you. I believe that once your DreamWorks Animation is listed, its market value will definitely not be low." Zu Ke said with a smile.

"Uh?"

As soon as these words came out, Jeffrey Katzenberg's smiling face immediately collapsed.

"Old man, what are you doing?" Zucker raised his brows.

"DreamWorks Animation's US stock market listing? What a shit!" Katzenberg said angrily.

Of course, his anger was not directed at Zucker, but at two other DreamWorks titans, Spielberg and David Finger.

Katzenberg looked around, and then whispered: "As early as last May, I proposed to list DreamWorks Animation as a subsidiary of DreamWorks on the U.S. stock market separately, but it was rejected by Spielberg and David. I don't even know what to say."

There is no doubt that Katzenberg is very jealous of the successful listing of Waterworld Animation!

He also wants to put his DreamWorks Animation on the market, however, he can't do it!

The other two of the DreamWorks Big Three, Spielberg and David, want to surpass the Hollywood Big Six, so the plan they set is for DreamWorks to go public as a whole, rather than a separate listing of animation and music subsidiaries. It is ambitious.

Even now, the two of them insist on the overall listing of DreamWorks!

But......

It is precisely because of the obstruction of Spielberg and David that DreamWorks Animation missed the best time to market. After all, the Internet bubble that swept the world has lasted for several years, and it has not recovered.

"So, Spielberg and David are really short-sighted~" Zucker said along the way.

"Um!"

Katzenberg nodded heavily.

To be honest, Katzenberg is now dissatisfied with Spielberg.

The two chatted for a while and then separated.

Stephen Solenberg smiled at Zucker: "Boss, it seems that DreamWorks is also full of contradictions!"

Zhu Ke nodded and said: "You are right, their current internal conflicts can be described as extremely serious, between shareholders and shareholders, between executives and executives, the board of directors and management, the struggle this year is quite fierce, but... You also don't take Katzenberg's words too seriously."

"Uh... boss, you mean that he is intentionally misleading us by Katzenberg." Stephen Solenberg is not stupid either.

"Ha ha!"

Zucker said with a smile: "Katzenberg is such a cunning guy, don't look at the serious internal strife of DreamWorks, but in DreamWorks animation, Katzenberg is definitely the leader, Spielberg and the others speak. , it doesn't work at all."

Katzenberg was intentionally misleading Zucker, but he was actually holding back!

......

The "Toy Story 2" animated film, as the sequel to "Toy Story", as the third theatrical feature animation of Pixar Animation, is naturally attracting attention.

However, there are also many people who question this.

Among them, the owners of movie-peripheral chain stores across the United States, as well as dealers in various places, expressed deep concern.

"Last year, Pixar and Disney made us miserable with a "A Bug's Life" animation. I hope it won't be the case this year." A dealer from Chicago gritted his teeth.

"My seven surrounding chain stores in New York lost $1.5 million last year, all because of "A Bug's Life"." A middle-aged man said resentfully.

No wonder they were worried, after all, they were miserable last year.

Last year's "A Bug's Life", before the animation was released, Pixar Animation as the producer and Disney as the distributor made a huge profit of 117 million US dollars from the peripheral licensing in North America alone.

The release of the movie failed to meet expectations; the sales of peripheral products were far below market estimates.

Last year, there were no less than 11 surrounding chain stores that closed because of "A Bug's Life".

"Tsk tsk tsk~"

Zucker looked at John Lasseter and smiled: "Did you hear that? They're talking about the miserable things you cheated on last year."

Hearing this, Lasseter shrugged and whispered, "Blame me. Dude, I'm not Jobs, I'm just an animation director."

Zhu Ke smiled and smiled again: "I heard Andrew say, you also bought the stock of my Water World Animation?"

Lasseter laughed immediately.

Once Water World Animation was listed, he bought a lot of stocks. In just over ten days, he made a small profit, close to 500,000 US dollars.

Today's "Toy Story 2" premiere, as the boss Steve Jobs did not show up, because he is at Apple, planning a big event.

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