Hollywood Starts with Animation

"Invitation card?"

"And it's an invitation to Disney's year-end reception this year?"

Zucker, who was sitting in the company office, looked at the golden invitation letter in his hand and couldn't help but question Victor.

"Boss, we received the invitation this morning. After all, it is Disney, one of the six major Hollywood companies, so I contacted you immediately." Victor said.

Zucker nodded and said, "Disney doesn't seem to have anything to do with us, how could they contact us? And as far as I know, even the people invited to their year-end cocktail party should be well-known people in Hollywood, including How can some people who have worked with them for a long time invite us?"

Disney's invitation letter, Zucker can't be careless.

That's the Big Six in Hollywood!

"Boss, it was actually an accident," Victor said.

Accident?

Is this unexpected?

Victor continued: "Boss, I was surprised at first, but after I received a phone call, I understood. The person who called me was my former boss when I was in Hollywood, William Bar Ent. He's now in Disney's animation department, and that's why I'm the CEO of Wald Pictures and that's why I sent out the invitation."

When the voice fell, Zhu Kequan understood.

Feelings are thinking too much!

Where is Disney's Wald Pictures that likes Zucker?

The reason why they issued invitations was none other than William Barentt. He is Victor's old leader, and the relationship between the two is quite good. The invitation letter is to promote Victor and expand Victor's contacts.

Victor asked aloud, "Boss, shall we go?"

"Go, of course!"

Zucker said without hesitation: "Of course we can't miss this great opportunity to broaden our network."

Attending Disney's year-end cocktail party is bound to meet many Hollywood bigwigs, including those famous directors, producers, actors and other well-known people in the industry.

Wald Pictures is small now, but Zucker is confident that the company can develop well.

In order to achieve this goal, Zucker will inevitably attend similar receptions in the future. Wald Pictures can only shoot some low-cost movies now, but with the continuous growth of Zucker Capital, it will definitely shoot some high-cost blockbusters. At that time, it will inevitably be with well-known Hollywood actors, directors and other figures. Cooperate to earn the most dollars.

Right now, Disney's cocktail party is a good opportunity to get in touch!

After three days.

6pm.

There is still less than an hour before the official start of the reception.

However, Zucker and Victor came to the scene early. Well, the venue was in a five-star hotel in Burbank.

Zucker and Victor came with the purpose of expanding their network, and there are many people with the same purpose.

Therefore, although it was still early, there were already a lot of people in the reception venue, a total of 100 people.

"Hi Victor, my old friend~!"

As soon as he entered the venue, an old man in his 50s stepped forward and hugged Victor excitedly and enthusiastically.

The person who came is the old leader in Hollywood before Victor!

Now serving as a manager of Disney's animation department - William Barnt.

William Barnt said excitedly: "Victor, I said long ago that you belong to Hollywood, and now I'm really happy for you to see you come back again."

"Me too, sir."

Victor also said happily: "I have been looking forward to seeing you again in the few days I received your call."

After a pause, Victor said again: "Oh,

By the way, sir. Let me introduce to you, this is my current boss at Wald Pictures, Mr. Zucker Wald. "

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Barnt."

Zhu Ke didn't take his posture at the moment, but humbly greeted the old man William.

Anyone with discernment can see the friendship between William and Victor, and with the invitation letter, William really helped Wald Pictures. How could Zucker disrespect such an old man?

"I'm also very happy to meet you. By the way, I've heard of you too. The "Fatal Bend" recently produced by your company has made a name for itself."

In the following time, old man William also introduced Zucker and Victor to some Hollywood insiders he knew enthusiastically.

Somonroe Downs;

Cruise Embitt Wise;

J. Choate Lakist;

Claes James;

......

Wait for these people, it sounds like few people know. But in the field of animation in Hollywood, these people are all god-level figures. The animated films such as "The Lion King", "Snow White", "Mulan" and so on created by them are not famous all over the world?

After some exchange, Zucker and Victor temporarily found a corner to sit down.

"Boss, have you noticed? These veteran characters of Disney animation are quite unsatisfactory in Disney now!"

The keen Victor discovered the sadness between their brows in the communication with them.

"exactly."

Zhu Ke nodded and said: "As far as I know, since the glory of "The Lion King" produced in 1994 and 1995, the life of Disney animation has not been easy, especially "Aladdin and the King of Thieves" which was just released in September recently. , The box office fiasco, and let these Disney veterans live like a year."

"Aladdin and the King of Thieves" cost Disney $65 million, plus $15 million in promotional expenses, for a total cost of $80 million.

However, the box office on its premiere day was only $6 million.

It has been released for more than a month, and now the cumulative North American box office has only exceeded 20 million US dollars, which can be described as a major failure at the box office!

The most important thing is that the reputation is also rotten!

Victor exclaimed: "The animation produced by Disney was once the favorite animation of children all over the world, but now times have changed. The hand-drawn animation represented by Disney is no longer popular; and the 3D computer animation technology represented by Pixar has gradually become a Mainstream."

After a pause, he said: "And Pixar's animation is also distributed by Disney. This kind of child picked up from outside beats his own son, you say, how can these veterans of Disney animation still be able to sit still?"

Zucker agrees!

In fact it is.

The future belongs to the 3D computer animation represented by Pixar!

In the future, Disney princess animation has been lifeless and fell to the bottom. It was not until 2014 that they relied on "Frozen" to return to the peak of the Hollywood animation field!

"what?"

"Zuck, my old friend, and Victor, why are you here?"

At this moment, a suspicious voice entered Zu Ke's ears.

Looking up, it turned out to be an acquaintance.

John Lasseter, the leader of the Pixar Five;

There is also a dragging old man - Steve Jobs.

" "The first more is sent.