Rebirth In Hollywood

"Hey honey."

Sitting at the head of the table, Ryan fiddled with the fruit salad on his plate and said to Tyler, "Who are you recommending?"

On the way back in the car, for some unknown reason, Taylor suddenly became silent, as if he was in a bad mood, until he came to Jenkins Manor and saw Charlize, and then resumed his joking manner.

"Scarlett..." Taylor just ate a small amount of vegetable salad and guinea fowl before putting down the knife and fork, "She had seen part of the script from Ms. Sloan, and when she heard that I was going to voice Elsa, she immediately I want to voice Anna."

"This role has to sing a lot of songs, Scarlett's singing..." Ryan shook his head, "She is not suitable for this role."

"That's what I said." Taylor wrinkled her nose, "but she doesn't think so."

"Honey." Charlize interrupted suddenly, "You two are not fighting again, are you?"

"The idea is inconsistent." Taylor muttered, "She is always unreasonable, regardless of the reality, and always naively proposes an unrealistic excess..."

She looked at Ryan, opened her mouth, and finally closed it again.

"How long have you been arguing?"

Sighing, Ryan put down the spoon, picked up a paper towel and wiped off the salad dressing sticking to his hands, "Don't talk about Scarlett, you have a lot of problems yourself."

"I know, but..." Her eyes flickered, and she closed her mouth again.

"The two of you should really be thrown on an uninhabited desert island." Ryan stood up and walked towards the living room, "I guess the two of you won't be noisy anymore."

"That would be easy."

Ryan couldn't help turning around after not hearing Taylor's moaning voice, "What did you just say, Alison?"

"I'm done eating."

Taylor walked around the dining table, holding Charlize who was standing up, and walked towards this side. "You think so too, Charlie?"

"I'm used to it."

Shaking his head, Charlize followed Ryan out of the villa. Walk towards the garden.

Los Angeles in April is already a bit hot,

The location of Jenkins Manor is excellent though. Occupying a hilly slope alone, the occasional night wind blows away the only heat, bringing a little bit of coolness.

Charlize took Taylor's arm and caught up with Ryan, walking along the path paved with cobblestones, shuttling among flower beds full of flowers, discussing their trip to Africa that had just ended a while ago.

"We went to South Africa first. You know what, Ryan."

Recalling the trip to Africa, Taylor's interest was obviously high. "Do you know how popular Charlie is there? She is simply a national hero in South Africa. Many media have compared her to Mandela."

"It's not as exaggerated as you said." Charlize was rarely humbled.

"Charlie is the best." Ryan praised at the right time, "I've always been sure of that."

The three laughed, turned the corner of the garden and entered the palm grove.

"Do you know what left the deepest impression on me in South Africa?" Taylor raised his feet and picked a flower from the magnolia tree passing by. "I can give you a hint. Ryan, it's not human."

"Baboons." Ryan had already received the answer from Scarlett.

"Bingo," Taylor said, snapping his fingers. "On the streets of Cape Town, I have seen guerrilla warfare between humans and baboons several times. Groups of baboons climbed up the sides of apartments, pried open windows, and robbed houses."

"Baboons are protected animals in South Africa," Charlize added.

Seeing Ryan nodded, Taylor continued, "The residents of Cape Town can only use paintball guns and pepper spray to expel them, but the tolerance of humans makes the baboons feel safe. I have seen many people suffer property damage because of the baboons attack. even physically injured."

"Didn't the government formulate relevant measures?" Ryan vaguely remembered seeing the news of South African baboons in his previous life.

"Baboons don't harm humans. They just want to find food in a short time, and stealing from residents' homes will save them energy and time. They don't have to worry about being killed by leopards or lions."

Taylor leaned over naughty, and inserted the magnolia flower in Ryan's collar. "That's what an animal expert I read in a Cape Town newspaper."

"This world..." Ryan glared at Taylor, and after the guy ran away laughing, he threw the magnolia flower into the trash can next to him, "There are always some people who love animals more than humans themselves."

There is nothing wrong with loving animals, but those extremists are extremely annoying, especially for Hollywood, which often uses a large number of animals for filming, animal protection organizations are definitely unwelcome groups, if any crew using animals is caught by these If people are watching, it means that the shooting time will be infinitely prolonged and the cost will be greatly increased.

Several of Disney's films have been influenced by them.

For example, "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", which started production last year, was expected to use a large number of animal actors, but because of the presence of several animal protection organizations, the original plan had to be abandoned and changed to all CG productions. For this reason, the crew had to increase Multi-million dollar budget.

As long as the animal actors exceed the prescribed working hours for one minute, these people will jump up and down, and those extras who work overtime just to have enough food, they don’t even look at it.

No matter which aspect goes to extremes, it will only bring about crazy and unreasonable situations.

The three of them wandered around the huge manor, and Taylor and Charlize shared what they had seen and heard in Africa. Although many of them were extremely heavy topics such as poverty and hunger, Ryan would not feel bored, he was not born Those who are rich know how miserable and terrible the bottom of this world is.

"By the way, Ryan." Taylor asked suddenly, "I heard you won't be in the third part of "Transformers"?"

"Yes." Ryan nodded, turned and walked towards the villa, "I have informed the Autobot Studio to modify the relevant settings."

"what a shame."

Having said that, Taylor didn't mean to regret it, "The "Transformers 2" released in the summer will be the last Transformers live-action movie you star in."

As the summer vacation is getting closer and closer, the commercial films launched by major companies have also entered a relatively busy promotional period. Disney will have "Iron Man 2", "Wall-E", "Madagascar 2" and "Transformers 2" this summer. Waiting for many big productions to be released.

In addition, Disney's films also try to avoid September and October, the two most likely months of financial crisis. In order to prevent its films from becoming the funeral objects of Wall Street.

The current April does not belong to Disney. Twentieth Century Fox's animated feature film "Horton and anonymity" swept the animated film market, and Sony Columbia's "Lights and Nights" and "Winning Las Vegas" dominated for three consecutive weeks. North American box office charts. Almost let Sony dominate the North American film market in April.

"The King of Kung Fu" released by Lionsgate Films is also selected to be released this month, and the film slightly sweeps away the decline of kung fu movies in Hollywood. It has achieved relatively good results, which is also related to the strategy of the film. In order to please the North American market, a white American was specially found as the absolute protagonist. Perhaps the audience on the other side of the Pacific Ocean will inevitably have strange ideas after watching it.

As for the boos of the two 'kings of kung fu' duel, there is not much attraction here, after all, this is North America. rather than across the Pacific Ocean.

After entering May, "Iron Man 2" was the first to land in North American theaters. The film continued the fine tradition of Disney's commercial masterpieces in recent years - super bad professional reputation and super good audience market.

Amid criticism from film critics, "Iron Man 2" earned US$131.54 million from North America in the first three days. In just ten days, the film's North American box office easily exceeded US$210 million.

Film critics don't like it, but they can't stop the audience from spending their money. What's more, the current film critics are declining, and many of them have been terminated by the paper media that originally contributed, and they can only post comments through blogs or Facebook.

And "Robot Wall-E", which was unanimously praised by film critics. The trend of opening high and going low is extremely obvious. After landing in North America with 3992 theaters at the end of May, it received 63.08 million US dollars in the first three days. The next week, the direct dive was close to 50%, and only 32.5 million US dollars were recorded.

Perhaps this result is not bad, but for Pixar Studios, whose North American box office of animated feature films has repeatedly exceeded 300 million, this result is far below expectations.

According to the box office trend in the later period, the North American box office of "Robot Wall-E" is at most about 220 million US dollars. As the protagonist in the film, Wall-E is not very popular with children, which seriously affects the surrounding market, although it is not likely to win. word of mouth. But it lost the market, but it is impossible for Disney to expect the box office to get back a total investment of 300 million U.S. dollars. Payback can only rely on the gradual accumulation of follow-up peripherals.

Tell the story well, but ignore the market. There are countless such films in the past. Fortunately, Pixar Studios has realized that it has begun to show a cold side after being reminded by Ryan.

As a typical Hollywood business company, no matter Ryan or Disney, they don’t need “The Shawshank Redemption” which has been losing money for several years. They can only wait for the film whose name will be corrected later. There are a large number of high-reputation films such as "Dance" and "The Silence of the Lambs", but they can only go bankrupt.

When the time entered July, the North American box office of "Iron Man 2", which was badly criticized by countless film critics, was close to 300 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office easily exceeded 600 million U.S. dollars; the North American box office of "Robot Wall-E" was still 1 Struggling around more than 200 million U.S. dollars, the global box office slowly passed the 350 million U.S. dollar mark.

No one can deny that "Wall-E" has a good story, but it has to be admitted that it will be the second worst box office work of Pixar Action Studios in the world after "Cars" since the new century.

The difference is that the latter's peripherals are very popular, bringing Disney $2 billion in derivative income, while the former's peripherals are really unattractive, so we can only hope for the DVD videotape and Internet on-demand market.

The Japanese holiday in July is the hottest time for North American super productions, and "Transformers 2" was selected to be released on the day before.

Film critics are gearing up to pay back the post-Transformers indignities. (to be continued)

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