Chapter 789: The Significance of "Toy Story" to This Era
In Liu Lang's previous life, the movie "Toy Story" was born in 94 years, this life is 88 years, and the difference between the two is six years, can these six years make up for the technical gap?
In fact, the 3D animated film "Toy Story" in the previous life had no technical problems in the late eighties, and the real time-consuming part of the film was the creation part, which took nearly four years from the script to the production, and finally cost as much as 20 million US dollars, and achieved a global box office of 350 million, creating a miracle.
It took four years in the previous life, of which it took more than a year to create the script, and even during the filming process, the script was constantly changed, but this life is different, the entire script is created by Liu Lang, every detail is written clearly, and the final draft has hardly changed, and all the staff were moved to tears, feeling that this is a masterpiece, and no one can make any changes.
It took Liu Lang a week to write the script, and the time spent was completely negligible, and the future plot was completed step by step according to the script, which was more than a year shorter than in the previous life.
In addition, there is the cooperation of VIE Company, especially the computer expert Cheng Xian jumped from VIE Company to Shengtang Company, even in his previous life, Jobs was also a computer genius, but his level may not be much higher than Cheng Xian, especially the emergence of image processing software Photoshop software, which finally made "Toy Story" come out six years earlier than in the previous life.
After the first trailer was released, it immediately caused a huge sensation in the United States, and every action of the animated image in it has human characteristics, which is completely different from traditional cartoons, and everyone has never seen such cartoons.
A week after the trailer was released, the consulting department gave the statistic that in that week, the trailer had been viewed 10 million times, setting a record for a trailer that was surpassed only by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video in 10 years.
The trailer of an animated film was viewed more than 10 million times in a week, which is insane, crazy and unimaginable, and if there was an ad in it, it would be worth 10 million dollars.
This achievement is not to mention outsiders, even Shengtang Company also thinks it is incredible, how can it be so high?
Liu Lang didn't think there was anything, the significance of this movie was very huge even in the ninety-four years of the previous life, it can be said that it influenced a generation of people, Industrial Light & Magic and Jobs also reached the peak through this movie, Industrial Light & Magic became the world's top movie special effects factory, and then a steady stream of movies emerged, and was later acquired by Disney at a price of 13 billion US dollars, which also laid the foundation for the later Marvel movie world, and Jobs also took this opportunity to appear in front of the world again, and was found back by Apple two years later, and everyone knows about it in the futureTen years later, the Apple mobile phone became an epoch-making product.
You must know that it was six years later, at that time, computers were no longer a rare product in the United States, nearly a million families had already used computers, and in eight or eight years, the penetration rate of computers was very low, nearly 100 million families in the United States, more than 10,000 people could use computers, not a matter of price, but a problem of popularity.
In an era when computers were not yet popular, Industrial Light & Magic produced 3D computer special effects movies, which brought far more shock to ordinary people than six years later, so 10 million viewers a week is really nothing.
Shengtang Company's box office estimate for this movie is 250 million US dollars, but Liu Lang greatly underestimated the box office of "Toy Story", in the previous life, it received a box office of 350 million US dollars, this life is likely to exceed the previous life, reaching 400 million US dollars should be no problem, maybe you can try it for 500 million US dollars.
When Liu Lang proposed that this movie might reach 500 million US dollars, including Lucas, they were all trembling, if others said so, they would not believe it, but Liu Lang said so, then at least 90% certainty, "Vulgar" He expects the global box office to reach 150 million, and now it has been almost half a year, the national box office has exceeded 80 million, the overseas box office is 30 million, the total box office is 110 million, and the remaining 40 million is very promising in half a year.
There is also "Die Hard", Liu Lang's prediction is 250 million, and now the release time is one and a half months, and the box office in the United States has exceeded 40 million.
The box office of the two movies is not much different from Liu Lang's prediction, which proves that Liu Lang's vision is far beyond ordinary people, and now he proposes that the box office of "Toy Story" will exceed 500 million, which is also a high probability event.
"Toy Story" did not have an on-demand screening, and the premiere was also selected at the Metropolitan Cinema in New York, which was not the initiative of the Saint Tang Company, but Chuck Dolan, the chairman of the Metropolitan Cinema in New York, went to Los Angeles to offer sponsorship, of course, the sponsorship fee is also required, one million dollars.
Chuck Dolan is a wealthy man in New York, worth 500 million US dollars, he started in real estate, Madison Square is now his family business, and there are metropolitan theaters and two skyscrapers in New York City, which can be described as a veteran rich man in New York.
This Chuck Dolan Liu Lang knows him, not because he knows him, but because he knows his son James Dolan, this guy is the future owner of the New York Knicks, worth billions of dollars, but the team he manages is a mess, the team's results are poor, and there are a bunch of bad contracts, and he has become synonymous with stupid people and a lot of money.
Of course, the strength of the Dolan family is in real estate, so many of its properties, the location is in a prosperous area, the annual rent is astronomical, and playing basketball is just a side hustle.
Chuck Dolan paid $500,000 for the premiere of "Toy Story," which was the first of its kind for a movie premiere, and it was clear that he valued the impact of the film and was worth the gamble.
Don't look at Los Angeles as the entertainment capital of the United States, but New York is the capital of the world, the largest city in the United States, and the specifications are still higher than Los Angeles.