Chapter 453: Year-end

Simon accompanied Janet on maternity leave, but the year-end schedule did not stop because of this.

The day before the little one is born, the second week of Thanksgiving officially ends.

The three new films released on November 29, Columbia Pictures' "Baby Little Lover", MGM's "007: GoldenEye" and Daenerys Entertainment's De Niro-starring crime thriller "Cape Dread," which took over from Universal, did not pose much of a threat to "Toy Story."

From November 29th to December 5th, in seven days, "Toy Story" not only grossed $46.73 million in the first week, but maintained a 23% decline in the box office in the second week, and collected another $35.93 million, continuing to maintain the first place in the weekly box office list.

Within two weeks of opening, the first 3D animated film in Hollywood history had reached $82.66 million at the box office.

According to the ladder sharing rules signed by Daenerys Entertainment and the theater chain, the company can get more than 70% of the box office two weeks before the film starts.

This means that the bi-weekly North American box office total of $82.66 million is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recover all of its total production and publicity budget of $55 million.

Given the long-term nature of animated films, and the expected backlash in the upcoming Christmas season, "Toy Story" is likely to reach $200 million at the North American box office, making it the third film to surpass $200 million in North America after "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Terminator 2" in 1991.

Not only at the box office, but also the merchandise of "Toy Story" continues to sell well.

Based on the current peripheral sales momentum, the industry generally predicts that the North American box office of "Toy Story" may only be $200 million, but the comprehensive revenue brought by this project to Daenerys Entertainment may be higher than that of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

After all, "Batman: The Dark Knight", Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner are going to share the proceeds equally.

The profits from "Toy Story" are completely owned by Daenerys Entertainment.

The success of the DC Cinematic Universe has just sparked a wave of comic book IPs in recent years, and suddenly, Hollywood's eyes have to be drawn to 3D animated films again.

However, after a little investigation, many people regret to find that it is even more difficult to follow up with Daenerys Entertainment to make a 3D animated movie than to follow Disney to make a 2D animated movie.

Hollywood has been in Hollywood for so many years, and only Disney has gained a firm foothold in 2D animated films, but so, when Michael Eisner first took over Disney a few years ago, he also planned to cut off the declining 2D animated film department, because the Disney classic animations that have been re-released in recent years have achieved good box office, and the Disney animation department has begun to recover under the leadership of Jeffrey Katzenberg, Disney has dispelled this idea.

Before Daenerys entertainment, when it came to animated movies, the only thing that came to everyone's mind was Disney. Only Disney has produced a series of highly successful 2D animated films.

Animation includes such a big cake as the periphery, and other studios have certainly been experimenting.

MCA, which also runs the theme park business, has been making similar attempts for many years in order to make up for its own shortcomings in animation IP, but there has never been a very successful animated movie.

For 2D animated films, the long production cycle is arguably the most critical factor influencing other studios to participate in this field.

Because the 2D animated movies of this era are completely drawn by animators one by one.

According to the calculation of the length of 90 minutes of animated films, 90 minutes, equivalent to 5400 seconds, 24 frames per second, which means 24 manuscripts, which is 129,600 in total, mature animators can only draw 10 to 20 manuscripts per day, in order to maintain the unity of the style of animated films, the number of team members of an animated film should not be too much.

Therefore, the production cycle of traditional Disney hand-drawn 2D animated films takes at least 4 years.

However, even so, 2D animated films, if you are willing to spend money and invest patiently, the threshold is still not too high, and there are still many animated film talents in this world.

In comparison, the threshold for 3D animated movies is obviously much higher.

It's just a hardware and software system for making 3D animated films, and in this era, Pixar is definitely the only one that has no other branches.

Daenerys Entertainment has led the industry for at least five years in software and hardware facilities such as 3D animation software, image rendering software, and even the world's first rendering farm.

Even if it takes five years to make up for this gap, if you want to quit a 3D animated film, it will take at least 2 years, which is seven years.

And, after seven years of investing and spending tens of millions of dollars, no one can guarantee that a film will be a success.

In the original space, Toy Story was born in 1995, when similar 3D animation software appeared in the industry, however, even so, after "Toy Story", other companies launched successful 3D animated films, such as DreamWorks' "Shrek" or Fox's "Ice Age", also after 2000.

The interval between periods is generally more than 5 years.

The lighting entertainment that followed only came to prominence more than ten years after the birth of "Toy Story".

Now in 1991, due to the limited market capacity, drawing software companies such as Autodesk still have no plans to develop 3D animation software, and Daenerys Entertainment is definitely the only one with no other branches.

Not only that, but even if other studios poach talents from Daenerys Entertainment to form their own teams through high salaries, in addition to the risks of time and funds, they also need to consider technology patent issues.

Daenerys Entertainment has applied for a series of patent barriers in 3D animation software, rendering software and even various hardware facilities. Some core technical talents have also signed a non-compete agreement with Daenerys Entertainment, and once they resign, they will not be allowed to engage in related occupations for at least three years.

All in all, unless Daenerys Entertainment is willing to let go of technology and talent restrictions, in a short period of time, it is impossible for Hollywood to have a second studio that can produce 3D animated films except for Daenerys Entertainment.

Simon, of course, doesn't let go of his technology easily.

Therefore, as long as it is managed properly, the 3D animated film market will be monopolized by Daenerys Entertainment throughout the nineties.

After "Toy Story", the box office runner-up in the second week of the Thanksgiving schedule was taken away by "007: GoldenEye".

Although the protagonist is still Timothy Dalton, under the watchful eye of the stabilized MGM management team and Simon, the quality of "007: GoldenEye" is significantly higher than the previous films, and the production cost has reached $50 million.

In its first week, "007: GoldenEye" earned $32.79 million at the box office, which is not as good as this year's blockbusters such as "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Terminator 2" and the upcoming "Toy Story", but it also met MGM's expectations

You must know that the previous "007: Murder License" had a total box office of only $34.66 million in North America.

"007: Golden Eye" has only been released for a week, and the box office level is comparable to "007: Murder License".

However, the media reputation of "007: Golden Eye" only reached about 7 points, which is not too good, according to the feedback of all aspects of the film's data, although the first week started well, it is still quite difficult for the total box office in North America to break 100 million.

The third place on the list is "The Addams Family" produced by Paramount Pictures.

In the second week of the opening, the box office of "The Addams Family" fell by 33%, and another $20.88 million was collected, with a cumulative box office of $52.05 million.

Columbia Pictures invited Macaulay Culkin to star in "Baby Little Lover", which grossed $14.27 million in the first week, ranking fourth.

The production cost of $30 million, $14.27 million in the first week, obviously did not meet Columbia Pictures' expectations, and the film's reputation was also unsatisfactory, with an overall score of only about 5.6.

For a 'fast-fashioned' holiday comedy, Macaulay Culkin's popularity didn't attract enough viewers in the film's first week, and it was even harder to get too many people to pay attention to the film, and the box office prospects can only be described as mediocre.

Daenerys Entertainment's "Horror Corner", which was taken over from Universal Pictures, grossed $14.21 million in its first week, narrowly behind "Little Baby Lover" in fifth place.

This Martin Scorsese remake crime thriller starring Robert De Niro has a budget of $35 million.

The box office of $14.21 million at the beginning was also less than expected, but the film's reputation was very good, and it is expected to be able to get out of a fairly good box office curve.

While the era continues, outside of Hollywood, Egrett officially announced the first list of World Wide Web patents that will be opened on Monday, December 2.

Although the news was all over the world in advance, when Igrete really made such a decision, it still caused a strong wave in the industry.

The media of all sides have also commented on the whole thing.

In general, many media outlets applauded Igret's decision, but some media objected, arguing that Daenerys Entertainment's actions were tantamount to completely extinguishing the possibility of the birth of a widespread Internet technology standard in the second week.

Moreover, although Egrett has opened core patents related to HTML and other technologies, it still holds technical reserves such as browser software, e-mail, online payment, etc., so latecomers in the industry are destined to fail to compete with Daenerys Entertainment in many aspects.

Simon does not intend to prevent companies of the same type from competing with Igret, and plans to gradually license even patents such as e-mail technology in the next few years.

However, after the publication of the first list of patents, Igrete did not rush to announce the second phase of the plan because of the media praise or skepticism.

As long as you carefully study the list of patents that have been published, those who are interested will find that after the opening of these patents, most of the businesses involved in the Igrete portal at this time, including online forums, personal blogs, online games, etc., can be followed up by other companies without too many restrictions.

This degree of openness has exceeded most people's expectations.

Janet was discharged from the hospital on the third day after giving birth to the little one.

The Johnston family also spent about a week in Los Angeles before leaving, and Janet hoped that the family would be able to spend Christmas together in Los Angeles, but that was obviously unrealistic. The Johnston family also had a lot of things to deal with.

As if she had been in the hospital room on the day she first arrived, Veronica Johnston stayed until the end.

Janet originally wanted Veronica to help watch the children, originally hoping to arouse Veronica's desire for family through the little one, however, during this time, Janet obviously found that things seemed to be a little off.

My aunt is really fond of little Melbourne, which has just been born.

It's just that I always feel that something is wrong.

These days of living in Los Angeles, Veronica comes to see the children every day, and likes to hold the little one the most, and look at it for a long time.

At some point, Janet felt as if her aunt was trying to snatch the little one away and raise it as her own child.

That's weird.

It's also a joke in private, if you like children, then find someone to have one yourself.

Veronica didn't seem to be able to listen to such words at all.

Therefore, it is inevitable that some doubts arise in the bottom of my heart.

It's just that no matter how smart Janet is, it is difficult for Janet to think of certain aspects of things, which is almost a blind spot in the mind, and it is difficult to understand unless she is involved in it. Otherwise, Janet would not have had some kind of misunderstanding between Simon and her aunt before.

Janet has never been one to get tangled.

Since you can't figure it out, don't think about it.

Anyway, whatever.

A certain little guy has already been born, and after this experience, he doesn't want to have a second child.

It's a disaster.

Moreover, for Janet, after the birth of the little one, the happiest thing is to be able to sleep in various positions at will.

Women love nothing more than to put their arms around Simon in bed.

However, for most of the past six months, women have felt that there is a 'third party' between them and Simon.

Of course, the matter of regaining body is also on the agenda.

There is also a job before pregnancy is also starting to pick up again.

Westerners do not have the habit of confinement, and a week after the birth of the child, several heads of Cersei Capital rushed to Los Angeles to personally report to Janet about the company's operation in the past six months, and also brought a lot of information.

The anxiety and anxiety of the late pregnancy have disappeared.

Simon found out from this point that Janet's psychological quality is much stronger than all of him.

All in all, after the birth of the little one, Janet is like an elf who has been unsealed, and almost immediately regains her pre-pregnancy vitality.

As for a certain little guy, he is regarded as a treasure by almost everyone, and it is not too much to describe it with the sentence 'holding it in your hand for fear of falling and holding it in your mouth for fear of melting', Janet doesn't need to worry too much about being a mother.