Speaking of which, Chris Meledandley and Bill McNick are still very related.

At that time, Bill McNick was at the helm of Twentieth Century Fox, and after the great success of Pixar, he reused Chris Meledandley and asked him to create the Twentieth Century Fox Animation Department and produce his own CG cartoons.

CG Animation Studios is very much a technology company in the guise of a movie, and Pixar is headquartered in Silicon Valley.

After a few years of exploration, Chris Meledandley found it unrealistic to let Twentieth Century Fox run his own CG animation department, and then he fell in love with Blue Sky Studios, which was in bankruptcy at the time, and strongly advocated the acquisition.

Chris Welch, the founder of Blue Sky Studios, and John Rust, the head of Pixar, have an excellent relationship. After the success of Pixar, he also wholeheartedly launched his own CG movie, so they cooperated.

Then, the two sides worked together to launch "Ice Age", which laid the foundation for the success of Blue Sky Studios, and was called one of Hollywood's three major animation studios along with Pixar and DreamWorks!

However, trouble also followed.

Blue Sky Studios is part of the Twentieth Century Fox Animation Department and is under the direction of Chris Meledandelli.

The founder was Chris Witch, but he wanted to have full creative freedom like his friend John Rust.

It's true that Pixar's big boss is Steve Jobs, but he doesn't care about things at all, everything is in charge of John Rust. Chris Witch is envious of this model, and he doesn't want Chris Meledandley to meddle in the affairs of Blue Sky Studios.

This naturally leads to contradictions.

After Tom Rothman's ruling, Blue Sky Studios was required to remain under the jurisdiction of the Animation Department, that is, Chris Weiqi was subject to the leadership of Chris Meledandley.

Chris Waige had no choice but to swallow this breath.

Now, "Ice Age 2: Melting Ice Disaster" has been released and has been a phenomenal success, even beating Marvel's superhero movie "Thor" at the box office!

Not to mention the twentieth century Fox shaking, the whole of Hollywood shook!

This time, Chris Witch is even more confident!

He has a showdown with Tom Rothman!

He doesn't want to be led by Chris Meledandley anymore!

He demanded plenty of creative freedom, as well as dominance of Blue Sky Studios, directly to Tom Rothman!

For Twentieth Century Fox, the biggest contributor to the success of the animation department is undoubtedly Chris Meledandley.

If it weren't for his discernment, Twentieth Century Fox would not have acquired Blue Sky Studios at all.

Blue Sky Studios also didn't have the financial strength to produce Ice Age.

However, the cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook.

The current Blue Sky Studio is strong enough, and the global box office of "Ice Age 2" ...... It is expected to reach about 700 million US dollars!

This is exactly the level of Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, not Disney Animation!

Besides, Chris Witch has a saying that is very moving.

The contrast between history and reality is the most telling thing.

When there was no Blue Sky Studio, the CG animated film "Frozen Planet" launched by Twentieth Century Fox Animation suffered a box office nightmare, and Chris Meledandley was almost blamed for stepping down.

With Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox really had a place in the animation market.

In other words, Twentieth Century Fox's success in the animation industry is due to his Chris Wedge, not Chris Meledandli!

Jeffrey Katzenberg, John Rust and Chris Wedge are the three gods of the Hollywood animation industry!

DreamWorks, Pixar and Blue Sky Animation Studios were created, respectively.

In comparison, What is Chris Meledandri?

Middlemen only.

In short, the contradictions between the two have become irreconcilable.

With the success of "Ice Age 2", the power struggle between the two in the 20th century Fox animation business has become more and more fierce.

"What did Fox do about it?"

"I definitely want to keep the framework of Blue Sky Studios. ”

Tang En breathed a sigh of relief and smiled secretly.

In fact, this is also normal, for Tom Rothman, Blue Sky Studio has achieved such a big success, he can't give Blue Sky Studio a big change of management at such a moment.

The success of Ice Age 2 is truly remarkable.

As a corporate decision-maker, he understands the power of cartoons all too well.

What is the profitability of Ice Age 2? In comparison, Ice Age 2 has created a much higher fortune for Twentieth Century Fox than Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith!

Of course, the majority of the profits of "Star Wars Prequel 3" were taken by Lucasfilm. But even if this part of the benefits is counted, it may not be much higher than the profit of "Ice Age 2"!

Disney spent more than $2 billion on the acquisition of Sriwood Animation Studio from New Globe, you know, Sriwood Animation just made a good "Bone Treasure Adventure".

Sriwood Animation can sell for $2 billion, how much is Blue Sky Studio's current valuation?

Not to mention $4.5 billion!

This valuation is higher than that of Lucasfilm!

The huge success of "Ice Age 2" brought Tom Rothman great joy, he really thinks Chris Wedge is an animation talent, on a par with Jeffrey Katzenberg and John Rust!

In this situation, it is definitely necessary to maintain the stability of Blue Sky Studios and maintain the inherent management and creative team.

As for Chris Meledandli, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox animation department...... I'm sorry, but I'm leaving.

None of the industry was surprised by Tom Rothman's decision.

Hollywood is the content industry.

It is only right that the creators are more important than the managers.

Only, is Chris Meledandley really just a Barry Meyer-esque manager?

Miss by a mile!

Don, who was prescient, saw everything very clearly!

With the success of "Ice Age 2", the industry seems to be full of praise for Chris Witch's achievements, praising him as an animation god alongside Jeffrey Katzenberg and John Rast.

But really, is that really the case?

In the previous life, after Fox fired Chris Meledandley in the twentieth century, the animation industry quickly fell into decline, and it got worse and worse.

Blue Sky Studio's efficiency became lower and lower, and later it fell into a state of loss.

In the past few years, I was able to rely on the "Ice Age" series to support me, and rely on the money earned from this series to make up for the losses of other new animated films.

It wasn't until "Ice Age 5" that the audience finally didn't buy it. The film cost $1.1 billion and grossed only $65 million in North America.

The last trump card of Blue Sky Studio has also fallen!

It's over!

Later, Disney acquired Twentieth Century Fox at a sky-high price of more than $70 billion, how to deal with Blue Sky Studios?

Downsizing!

All 95 employees of Blue Sky Studios are facing careers, and the remaining 5 elites are all incorporated into Pixar and Disney Studios in batches.

Blue Sky Studios was at risk of shutting its doors, and Chris Witchie's animation career came to an end.

On the other hand, what about Chris Meledandri, who left Twentieth Century Fox?

He chose to start a new business!

He founded Illumination Entertainment Animation Studio, and in the years that followed, "Despicable Me", "Pampering Big Secret", "Minions with Big Eyes", "The Voice" and other popular cartoons sold all over the world.

The rapid rise of Illumination Entertainment is in stark contrast to the growing loneliness of Blue Sky Studio.

Chris Meledan used practical actions to slap those who looked down on him in the face.

Are there three animation gods in Hollywood?

Indeed it is!

Jeffrey Katzenberg and John Rust are indisputably going to occupy two of them, the other being not Chris Wech, but Chris Meledandri!

Under the atmosphere of DreamWorks Animation Funny, Pixar Animation Warmth, and Disney Animation Lala, Chris Meledandley survived in the cracks, and finally found the territory of lighting entertainment - selling cute!

Relying on the sale of cute cartoons, lighting entertainment has risen rapidly.

Together with Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, it formed the new triumvirate of Hollywood animation forces.

Cartoons are really too profitable.

The total value of the six "Star Wars" is more than $10 billion, and the peripheral output value of Pixar's "Cars" is more than $5 billion.

It makes sense that Blue Sky Studios is currently valued more than Lucasfilm.

For a talent like Chris Meledandri, Donn will certainly not let it go.

He's been following it for years.

Now, the power struggle in the animation department of Twentieth Century Fox is so big, and it gives Don an opportunity to take advantage of it.

"How's Meredandley going?" asked Donne.

Tosca Musk said: "It's not clear. But...... It is said that he did not want to leave Fox, after all, he had been there for ten years, bringing the animation business of Twentieth Century Fox to the peak, and he was not willing to leave after such great success. ”

Tang En said, "Yes, who would be willing? However, he will definitely leave." I know Tom Rothman, he's very cautious, and he's not going to change the management of Blue Sky Studios for the sake of Chris Meledandli. ”

After all, Chris Witch is the founder of Blue Sky Studios, and most of its employees are his descendants. Once Tom Rothman chooses Chris Meledandley, there will certainly be a large number of employees who will leave with Chris Witch, thus throwing Blue Sky Studios into turmoil.

Tosca Musk said, "In the short term, he will definitely work hard." If the struggle for power fails...... It also takes a long time to process the contract. It will take a long time to invite him to join New Universal. ”

Tang Endao: "Anyway, send someone to get in touch with him first!Invite him to join New Universal!"

Tosca Musk frowned, "How do you want to arrange him?"

New Universal does not have an animation department, and its two animation studios, Pixar and Lego Animation, are headed by John Rust and Tosca Musk, respectively. Nominally subordinate to the Ministry of Film and Television Entertainment, in fact, it has a very high degree of freedom and is directly responsible to Don.

If you put an animation chair in charge of two animation studios, wouldn't that put a spell on their heads?

Who agrees?

John Rust certainly disagrees!

Jobs didn't care about him back then, and Don didn't care about him, and suddenly a deserter from Twentieth Century Fox came to take care of him, is this possible?

Tosca Musk is even more unlikely.

She is the assistant to the chairman of the board of directors and enjoys the rank and treatment of the vice president of the group.

A little chairman of the animation department, can you manage her?

Twentieth Century Fox's mistakes from the past, Donn certainly wouldn't make, waved his hand, and said, "Blue Sky Studios succeeded, but he failed." We're going to give him a chance to prove that Blue Sky Studios' success is because of him, not the so-called Chris Witch!"

Tosca Musk's eyes widened and he understood something, "You mean...... Let's also set up an animation studio for him, each in charge of his own affairs, without interfering with each other?"

Don smiled and said, "Of course, when the time comes, the three major animation studios under New Universal, compare and see, who is more powerful! But in my opinion...... Your Lego animations are the least reliable. ”

Tosca Musk's face darkened, "You look down on me?"

"It's not that I look down on you, it's that they're too powerful. Don shook his head and groaned slightly, "It's really not good, when the Lego studio is almost done, it's better to offer a price and sell it to others." ”

Lego is a toy manufacturer, Hasbro is also a toy manufacturer, and these two are competitors.

Now that both LEGO and Hasbro are working with New Globe, there will definitely be some conflicts. Especially after the "Transformers" movie becomes popular all over the world, Hasbro will definitely protest.

It's okay, it's a big deal, just sell it.

Silklywood Animation was sold to Disney and made more than $2 billion.

Lego animation can be sold to Warner Bros., and the price is not too bad.

……

"Mulan" was released, and the North American box office reached $44 million in its first week, which is not too bad.

According to this trend, the North American box office could reach $101.2 billion.

That's higher than Don imagined.

After all, this is a blockbuster film composed of all-Chinese actors.

But the box office in China is too high.

The box office directly exceeded 100 million in the first week, breaking the box office record of all Chinese films!

The appearance of Chinese stars such as Jett Lee, Gong Li, Miss Zhang, and Zhen Zidan has given this Chinese blockbuster great momentum.

Coupled with the promotion of China Film, it is simply very popular, and it has become the most popular movie in the Spring Festival.

3 weeks after its release, the box office of "Mulan" in China has exceeded 200 million yuan!

You must know that last year's mainland box office champion "Wuji", that is, a box office of 1.8 billion, and the runner-up "Myth" was only 97 million.

The most blockbuster film of this Sino-US cooperation has been a huge success!

How much money you make is actually secondary.

The key is to have a big impact!

Especially in China and the United States, the popularity is very high, and that's enough!

The political role was reached.

Having tasted the sweetness of Sino-US cooperation, on this day, New Globe received another co-production application from China Film, which is adapted from a true story.

In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. As soon as war was about to break out, the Chinese side immediately dispatched naval forces to carry out evacuation operations. After all kinds of complicated and dangerous incidents, the Chinese Navy finally succeeded in safely evacuating 4,885 overseas Chinese from the fighting in Kuwait within 48 hours.

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