Hollywood Starts with Animation

"Who's ready? I'm ready~!"

"When it comes to money, there is no right or wrong for anyone, SpongeBob SquarePants. But the point is whether there is a relationship, morality."

"Knowledge is no substitute for friendship. I'd rather be an idiot than lose you."

"They all gave up on you, but I didn't because I'm not very smart."

"I want two ice creams, one for me and one for my good friend SpongeBob SquarePants."

...

Since "SpongeBob SquarePants" aired on the UPN network, it has won praise from many people in just one day.

Now, ten days after its broadcast, its influence has swept the entire California area.

The lines in its animated series have also become popular lines one by one, attracting many children to follow suit.

Factors such as humor and positive energy make many parents and adults very happy. They are happy to see their children grow up healthy and happy. These factors make "SpongeBob SquarePants" more and more popular.

Even these days, when Zucker is sitting at home polishing new scripts, there is always good news.

The first person to hear the good news was Zucker's old lord, James!

"Old man, you're going to send it!"

"I can't believe our peripheral products are so popular~!"

"Ten days!"

"In just ten days, the combined turnover of our seven stores has exceeded $2.4 million. Excluding various costs and personnel expenses, the gross profit is definitely more than $1 million."

"The profit during this period is completely equal to our profit in the past three months."

"I can't believe that our little sponge will attract so many customers, well, more popular than the "Toy Story" merchandise!"

There is no doubt that the good news from James makes Zucker very happy.

In just ten days, the profit of peripheral products has exceeded one million US dollars. With the continuous explosion of "SpongeBob SquarePants", the profit in a month must not exceed 3 million US dollars?

Going to take off!

"And, this is just the beginning."

Zu Ke's heart moved secretly.

Subject to the weakness of UPN, the broadcasting platform, "SpongeBob SquarePants" can achieve such brilliant results. Once UPN is allowed to expand, it will definitely detonate the entire United States like the original time and space!

Before 2020, "SpongeBob SquarePants" reached a peripheral profit of 13 billion US dollars, where is it now?

Jinshan!

There is no doubt that this is a huge mountain of gold!

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The second person who came to the news was Ms. Donna, CEO of UPN TV network.

"Boss, the ratings of our UPN Children's Channel have now exceeded 1.05%. I believe that before the end of the first season of "SpongeBob SquarePants", our ratings will exceed 4%."

4%?

Don't look at this insignificant figure, but when you look at dozens of TV networks in the United States and a population of 320 million, the viewership rate of this 4% is at least 12 million households, and the number of viewers reaches at least 25 million.

Pro, a potential peripheral buying group of 25 million people.

There is no doubt that this is a huge market!

Even if only 1% of people buy the peripheral products of "SpongeBob SquarePants", the annual peripheral market will reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

Moreover, this is the first season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" 40 integrated films.

In the original time and space, SpongeBob SquarePants has nearly 180 episodes. But as long as he can make money, Zucker doesn't mind continuing to make it for 300 episodes!

On the phone, Zucker also explained to Donna.

"After "SpongeBob SquarePants" aired,

UPN TV network generates related profits, I will not take out a cent, all for the expansion of UPN TV network, but what I want is not just a children's channel, but the overall ratings of the entire network, you know ? "

"Also, before the end of February, I want to see the news of the official launch of America's Got Talent."

"That's right, I've already contacted the ITV broadcaster in the UK, and I'm striving to create a boom in talent shows with the UK and the US during the summer vacation!"

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Victor, CEO of Wald Pictures, has also received good news one after another.

The film "Juno" was officially released from major theaters in North America, with a total North American box office of $165 million, ranking fourth in the 1996 North American annual box office list.

That is to say, the box office of the same theater line alone is as high as more than 80 million US dollars.

Of course, this is because the film's distribution company and production company are both Wald Films, otherwise it would be impossible to achieve such terrifying earnings.

Well, although the cost of publicity, copying, transportation, labor, etc. is excluded, the final income is definitely less than 80 million US dollars, but the final income is also very considerable if the authorization of DVD, video tape, TV media, etc. is added.

As for SpongeBob SquarePants?

Ha ha!

Nearly a day after "SpongeBob SquarePants" was launched on the UPN TV network, more than 20 peripheral chain stores in North America want to obtain the authorization of its peripherals.

For this, Zucker also made comments.

"Sell!"

"Why not sell it!"

"Of course, you can't sell in a hurry! We have to wait for "SpongeBob SquarePants" to become more popular before selling the peripheral licenses of the states, so that our interests can be maximized."

After hanging up Victor's call, Zucker looked at the densely written papers in front of him.

"The Sixth Sense";

The 300 Warriors of Sparta;

"Death is Coming";

The Human Removal Program;

"Deadly Bend 2";

"Peppa Pig";

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6 scripts in total.

Among them, the script of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" was actually written as early as half a year ago, and it was successfully registered for the record. However, it has been modified and supplemented by many screenwriters of the company, and Zhu Ke is doing the final review. action.

M. Knight Shyamalan, who previously had a rather pleasant collaboration in the movie "Deadly Bend 1".

And this time in "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", Zu Ke planned to cooperate with him for the second time.

After all, in the original time and space, Shyamalan is the director and screenwriter of the film, and he is very good at supernatural/horror movies. It can be said that he is the most suitable person to be the director of this film.

"Man, this is the No. 2 film in the North American annual box office chart in 1999!"

"The North American box office is 293 million US dollars, and the global box office is 670 million US dollars!"

There is no doubt that the box office performance of "The Sixth Sense" is even crazier than that of "Juno"!

Of course, the cost of filming is also very high, requiring 40 million US dollars; if the costs of publicity, copying, etc. are included, Zucker needs to reserve at least 50 million US dollars.

It will be Wald Pictures' highest-budget film since its inception.

"The filming cycle and post-production cycle of the film will take at least half a year. Moreover, the film must be released before December."

"After all, in December of 1997, a terrifying ship was released!"

Zucker is not that hard-headed!

Who the hell wants to touch Titanic, but Zucker won't touch it anyway.

" "The first more is sent.