Chapter 347: The Storm and Clouds (Seeking to Be Complete.) Pen % Fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info)

In the field of ink painting, except for the first step "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother" in the early years, which was painted by Master Qi Baishi in response to the needs of the country, the rest of the "Deer Bell" and "Landscape Love" were painted by the older generation of artists of Mingzhu Art Factory, but it may take several years for those old artists to finish painting a "Zodiac Turn", because there are too few painters who can paint.

And Wang Yao promised Harvey that after the success of this film, he would make other sequels, at least one per year.

With his sensitivity to the market for many years, Harvey has absolute confidence in ink films, coupled with the current oriental cultural trend in the West because of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he will cooperate with Wang Yao no matter what.

Harvey's plan is to cooperate with Wang Yao to create a new film and television company in Hollywood, and the film's account will be divided according to eight to two, the risk will be shared equally, and the cost will be shared equally, with Wang Yao accounting for 40 percent of the company's shares and Harvey accounting for 60 percent.

Wang Yao thought for a while and agreed to this plan, so that he and Harvey were tied together, although this fat man was sleek, his influence in Hollywood was undoubted, and it could be said that he was more powerful than several giants in terms of influence.

Wang Yao cooperates with him, and he will be more attentive to distribution, because this is different from buying copyrights, in addition to making money for movies produced by his own company, it is more important to have a reputation in the special area and build fans.

The introduction of copyright is equivalent to an additional investment, and the money earned is in vain, anyway, since it is a copyright bought, it must be calculated and will not lose money.

The two men's company didn't have many contracts, and after Harvey sorted out the terms and Wang Yao revised a few articles, a company called Yaohua Weinstein Entertainment registered in Hollywood.

Subsequently, the new movie that Miramax had been promoting for a week to be released next week was replaced by a cartoon that suddenly appeared in more than 30 movie theaters in North America, and when the poster was hung up outside the movie theater, it quickly caused a local sensation.

Because of the Tai Chi yin and yang fish shape on the screen, and the painting style that they have never seen before, the cartoon image of an oriental dragon wearing oriental Hanfu is too attractive for Westerners.

"Mom, I'm going to see this! ”

"Honey, don't watch "Shrek" yet, this movie with a strange style is quite interesting. ”

"Dad, I won't watch "The Mummy" anymore, I want to see the name of "Zodiac Turn" and it sounds very exciting"

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'Director Spielberg has gone crazy this year, has made a movie, executive produced two films, and an oriental animation?' -- New York Daily News

Director Spielberg recommended an animated film that could open a new era of Hollywood animation. - LA Evening News

The rogue Harvey's sinful hand reached out to the East, pulling over an animated movie that said it was enough to put Disney to shame. -- New Forces Newspaper

'Is Harvey crazy? Isn't it a slap in the face of the new owner Disney to import animated films from the East?' -- Xinhua Metropolis Daily

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At the end of September, the lake that should have been calm in Hollywood was suddenly thrown into a boulder, setting off a stormy wave.

After sanctioning Harvey, the demon king of Hollywood last year, all the months and markets in Hollywood in 2001 were divided very reasonably, and the small-budget films of small companies still have less than 10% of the film schedule, and the rest are all from a few giants, and each genre is released in a centralized manner to achieve a tacit centralized publicity effect.

And after November, the real big drama, the current number one bestseller in the West "Harry Potter" finally changed the first step of the movie, released in the United States in November, is the gospel of all Harry Potter fans, after all, it has been waiting for many years.

and George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon, three Hollywood actors, and Steven Soderbergh's blockbuster comedy crime film "Ocean's Eleven"

and "The Lord of the Rings", which has been promoted for three years and is finally going to be released under the guise of an epic magic masterpiece.

There are also previous high-quality movies such as "Artificial Intelligence", "Pearl Harbor", "Shrek" to enrich the audience's senses, and drive waves of climaxes, this year seems to have no blank period.

When everything is under control, an animated movie that turns out disrupts everyone's plans.

"Zodiac Turn" was released by Harvey using his private rights to replace the filming volume of a movie by Mystery Max, and it can be said that this movie has been released before many people get the news.

And then Spielberg's propaganda followed, Harvey and Spielberg, two Hollywood bigwigs who were supposed to be rivals, jointly served as the distributor and executive producer of a movie, and this propaganda gossip could reach the level of the topic of running for president.

Three days after its release, the film, which had only been filmed in just over 30 films, spread like a plague across North America, and because it was a cartoon, the first teenagers and children to watch it went back to school to promote to his classmates about the mythical beasts of the East that they had never been exposed to.

Children's yearning and curiosity about monsters are the same as adults' gossip, so the children cried and asked their parents to take them to see this mythical beast movie, but parents went to major movie theaters to inquire and were told that there was no film scheduled.

The children who couldn't see the movie began to cry unreasonably, and finally the parents invariably applied to the cinema, and in the West, if the audience asked to watch a certain number of films scheduled for the film, the cinema could be adjusted.

So in the statistics of the backstage of major film and television companies, the number of film applications for this "Zodiac Turn" that came out of nowhere was born, from a negligible 0.0 percent, climbed at a terrible rate, and when it was liquidated the next day, there were already 2,000 movie theaters showing today as "Twelve Effective Turns".

This growth rate is terrifying, but with the bonuses of Spielberg and Harvey, it is not expected.

What worries them the most is another problem, almost all Hollywood executives will blurt out a sentence when they finish reading the information and evaluation of "Zodiac Turn".

"It is impossible for Huaxia's film and television companies to have such great courage and advanced technology!"

So everyone's finger pointed at Harvey again, and everyone thought that he was involved in planning and investing in this movie, especially Disney's senior management, CEO Ulman personally talked to Harvey.

The two had a big quarrel, and after an unhappy breakup, Harvey proposed to quit Miramax and become the CEO of a new company, that is, the CEO of the "Zodiac Turn" publishing company, and the news exploded like a bomb in North America again.

Any wind and grass in Harvey is a huge effect on Hollywood.

Many female celebrities who have had anything to do with Harvey expressed their doubts and condolences to Harvey in interviews.

It is well known in the industry that Harvey was suppressed by the giants, but they felt that with Harvey's IQ, they would not make such an irrational behavior as turning his face.

But then another piece of news blew up.

Pixar, another company that has worked with Disney for many years, announced that it will no longer cooperate with Disney and form a joint company with DreamWorks and Yew Wah Weinstein.

The news was published exclusively by Time magazine, and there is also a photo of Harvey, Spielberg and Steve Jobs, and the most important photo is that there are two other people, one is a yellow man dressed in embroidered gold, and the other is a very familiar figure in the media industry, the early assistant of the media magnate Murdoch, and later served as the executive president of Twentieth Century Fox Film Company, Hodja.

Even though the headline doesn't contain anything, the photo is enough to make people think about it.

Disney, it's going to suffer, that's a lot of people think together.

At the same time, it has also aroused the vigilance of many people.

This group photo exposes too much information.

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Hollywood's default Big Seven, Warner Bros., Disney, Sony, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures.

are all heroes who have entered the popularization stage from movies and the rise of Hollywood.

In addition to Disney's special ability to create and produce animation, the strength of other companies lies in distribution and investment, and they all rely on a few small teams in the production of special effects, until the emergence of Pixar and DreamWorks.

Pixar and DreamWorks have almost contracted the special effects production work of the seven giants, and they are the undisputed giants in the production industry, but they are not comparable to the seven giants in terms of distribution strength.

The production of the film is important, and the distribution is equally important, no matter how good the content of the production is, if there is no way to release and recoup the funds, it will starve to death, so Pixar and DreamWorks have always relied on the seven giant companies.

The giant companies control the theater chain and the market, and the complete product production process, monopolizing all the details of the film industry, but in terms of production, there is some lacking, because the research and development cost is a little redundant for them, and the cooperation with Pixar and DreamWorks is more cost-effective, which can also be said to squeeze small companies.

Among them, Disney has the closest cooperation with these two companies, because the animation industry is mainly developed to the later stage of the special effects, Disney's animation industry has an advantage over the other six giants is that the target audience is children, children are a huge group, because it is a bundled consumption, children cannot go to the movies alone, at least accompanied by a parent, most of them go together as a family.

Therefore, the audience of animated movies should be more stable and large, and it is easy to cultivate long-term die-hard fans such as feelings from an early age.

In fact, Disney has been going downhill in content for so many years, with the rise of the comic book industry like Marvel and DC, animation has actually been impacted, and some of their new products have failed over the years, but fortunately, the Story series and the monster series have been successful, so that they have been among the best in terms of revenue in recent years.

The company's profitability has given Disney more initiative in cooperation, especially after the acquisition of Harvey Miramax, and it has also strengthened its distribution wings, with a faint trend of Hollywood's largest company.

In this case, Disney's ambition for its best partner Pixar has gradually been exposed, because Pixar's big boss Jobs has been thinking completely about Apple in recent years, which has led to some problems in the management of Pixar, and Disney wants to swallow it slowly.

Jobs found out about this, but there has been no better way to deal with it, because Apple is still in a loss-making state, and Pixar's cooperation with Disney is also very profitable every year, and he does not dare to give up this partner easily.

Jobs's cooperation with Disney was very aggrieved, but he couldn't say it, after all, he thought that this grievance was not worth mentioning compared to what he had to do.

If Spielberg hadn't called him and made a suggestion that he had loved for years, he probably wouldn't have turned his back on Disney so quickly.

DreamWorks and Pixar collaborated, plus Harvey, a big demon who can turn his hands into clouds and rain in Hollywood, and that magical Oriental boy.

Jobs couldn't think of any reason to refuse.

On October 1, 2001, a combination that changed the pattern of Hollywood was born, a combination that changed the direction of human civilization was born, and a terrible opportunity to change the world was born by combining humanities and technology.

Storm clouds are surging over Silicon Valley.

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