Why did Spielberg get into a fight with Paramount over "The Adventures of Tintin"?

In the 80s, the release of the first episode of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" set off a "treasure hunt" around the world. However, the French still maintain their own cultural superiority in this regard, and they compared Tintin to Indiana Jones in the film review about "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and it was this article that coincidentally became Steven Spielberg's key to unlocking "The Adventures of Tintin".

Spielberg impressed Hergé's widow Fanny with her talent, understanding of the story, and enthusiasm, and finally in 1984, Spielberg won the rights to shoot the film version of Tintin. However, due to technical problems, the shooting plan was "hidden" and only recently began to start.

Spielberg wanted to make the film a live-action film, and he turned to Peter Jackson for help in making a digital snow, and the Gollum in The Lord of the Rings was impressive, and its appearance showed that the technology was mature, and Jackson himself happened to be a fan of Tintin, and he convinced Spielberg that the only way to bring Tintin comics to the screen was to perform the trick technique. Spielberg took his advice.

The script of "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" passed through the hands of the screenwriter Melissa Matheson and the British screenwriter Steven Moffat, and finally handed over the script to Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, as the first cannon of the Tintin series of trilogies, the story of this episode of the film combines three "The Adventures of Tintin" comics: "The Golden Claw Crab Cartel", "The Secret of the Unicorn", and "The Treasure of Red Rackham".

However, Paramount is dismissive of the script that DreamWorks spent 8 million to concoct, and the production budget of 100 million is also inflated, and they hope to cut the budget to 70 million.

Everyone knows Lao Si's love for children's literature, which is why the amazing and glamorous "Alien ET" appeared, he is in DreamWorks, living the emperor's life, with a budget of 100 million, Geffen will batch 20 million more, just in case it is not enough, this fund is done, almost crying to him.

Lao Si is not happy in Paramount, he has the heart to change jobs, DreamWorks Animation, he also has shares, and he can also make a profit in this super high offer business, by the way, he is connected with Disney, Disney's creative concept is similar to Lao Si, if the old brother Katzenberg is the boss, will he be treated badly? So in this matter, Lao Si also nodded.

Everyone's opinion is the same, this is a good price, what is the reason for refusal? The person who is worried is afraid of being cheated by the old fox Eisner, who has cheated many people.

Katzenberg and they used their respective network resources to inquire about the matter from Disney shareholders, and confirmed the matter from multiple sources, Disney shareholders are forcing Michael Eisner, he has been working for too long, and he can almost let Disney change its name to Eisner, the two sides reached an agreement, Michael retired with dignity, Disney will not hold him accountable, before leaving, Michael must form a first-class animation department, Eisner is also one of the shareholders, which is in his interests.

Katzenberg's abilities are well recognized, and his proactive engagement has left Disney shareholders as overjoyed as a spring breeze.

What makes them even more happy is that the great director Spielberg's heart secretly agreed, Spielberg said that after the contract expires, he will not renew the contract with Paramount, and Disney is the priority object, which is considered to be a rabbit in the grass.

Shareholders were worried that Eisner would raise a CEO who would be in line with him, and that Katzenberg's takeover would have no problem with that at all, and that Katzenberg would snicker if he didn't tear them apart.

And Katzenberg has worked as the head of the film department at Disney for ten years, and has experience, which is the most satisfactory candidate for shareholders, and it is rare that Eisner also agreed, but Eisner also proposed that he wanted his deputy Peter Murphy to serve as chairman and be responsible for checking and balancing Katzenberg, which was also agreed by the shareholders' meeting.

In this way, this marriage between Disney and DreamWorks Animation was surprisingly easy, and everything fell into place.

DreamWorks Animation and Paramount signed a relatively loose distribution contract, DreamWorks Animation self-financed, self-produced, Paramount is only responsible for distribution, in the copyright can not be touched, and the compensation for breach of contract is not high, the two sides are no different from the general distribution relationship, Paramount of course wants to take DreamWorks under its umbrella, but the bid is not high, Katzenberg is not happy with Mr. Spending Reduction as a person, and the two sides have not been able to pee in a pot.

This time, DreamWorks Animation suddenly announced the termination of the contract and left Disney, which made them regret it and almost made a scene of chasing Han Shin under the moon.

However, Mr. Fund Ge finally gave up, and they decided to increase investment in their own animation department and create their own computer animation company, which is called striking iron and needs its own hardness, and the adopted children are always unfamiliar.

That's a nice thing to say, but with the power of the Big Six, who can build their own top computer animation company, not even Disney, which started as an animation, can only rely on the acquisition of DreamWorks, MM relies on Pixar, and Twentieth Century Fox relies on Blue Sky Studios.

Mr. Expenditure Reduction's idea is that everything is based on opening up sources and reducing expenditures, focusing on guarantees, doing less and making fewer mistakes, and now that his financial statements are good enough, why bother with himself.

Last year, major film festivals are in full swing, and actors and publicists of major film companies are busy participating in various selection activities, but now, as long as there are public large-scale events, screenwriters go to protest and demonstrate, which is very scenic.

Like the vane of the Academy Awards, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild Awards, and more than 40 film critics' awards: North Rice's local film critic awards, mainly New York, Los Angeles, Boston, etc., the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the United States Independent Spirit Awards, and the Golden Satellite Awards have been discontinued, which has made Hollywood a depression.

In this regard, advertising revenue is less, but more people choose to go to the cinema, or rent and buy DVDs, and the big companies still have not reduced their revenues, and the box office of North America is more likely to exceed 10 billion US dollars for the first time in history, and the screenwriters' tricks of trying to make the big companies succumb seem to be a little ineffective.

And at this time, two major events that shook Hollywood occurred, MM acquired Pixar, Disney acquired DreamWorks, and the animation market became a confrontation between the two heroes.

Pixar, which cooperated with MM, was almost abducted by Disney, and DreamWorks, which cooperated with Paramount, was directly abducted, which made Twentieth Century Fox very worried, and directly launched merger negotiations with Blue Sky Studio, he was also afraid that Blue Sky Studio would be abducted.

This film market has always been a family carnival to win the world, Disney is one of the veterans, this animated film has always been the most suitable for a family to watch, so as one of the best, Pixar and DreamWorks have sold a good price much higher than the market price, Katzenberg is based on this to realize the ideal of life, to reach the peak of life, a generation of strongman Michael Eisner after signing a waiver and agreement with the company, officially retired.

This is about a year different from the original version of the retirement, but the situation is a world of difference, the original version of him was ousted by the coup d'état, gloomy retirement, after stepping down, he was also sued by the company for accountability, worked for the company for 30 years, protégés and former officials, all over the world, all were purged.

But now that he is the retirement of the scenery, his deputy Peter Murphy is the chairman, which can ensure the interests of their family to a certain extent, and his big challenger, Joey of the Disney family, this guy has made the most trouble, has been jumping the hardest, this time he still has nothing, a vice president's false title, certainly not satisfactory to him, and the cooperation with Katzenberg, who is as strong as Eisner, will definitely spark between them.

There are only a few companies that can make money from movie theaters and DVDs, like those art films, companies that rush to the Olympics and public relations, which used to be so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, and now they are idle with a fly swatter, like Miramax, Weinstein Pictures, Paramount Advantage, Fox Searchlight, Focus, etc., those who rely on the academy to eat, and there is no work to open, after a series of union awards are canceled, whether the Golden Globe Awards and Oscars, the highlights of the entertainment industry, can be held as scheduled has become a hot spot of media and public concern.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organizer of the Golden Globes, said it had negotiated with the station's screenwriters to broadcast the Golden Globes live as originally planned while the writers' strike continued.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said it had held several talks with writers and signed a "tentative agreement" before David Letterman's company signed a similar agreement with the Writers Guild under which "The Late Show with David Letterman" was able to return to air.

George Kamara, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, said in a statement: "We think the deal signed by The Late Show with David Letterman is very reasonable, and we hope that the Writers Guild will sign the same agreement with us." Kamara said a "tentative agreement" would allow the Jan. 13 Golden Globe Awards to be broadcast on NBC television as planned, without any cordons.

Because whenever there is a large-scale event, the screenwriters' union organizes a large number of people to demonstrate, which is called the cordon, many celebrities and celebrities refuse to cross the cordon to participate in the awards, in a protest and protest, it is a very shameful thing to participate in the awards, some awards activities do not believe in evil and insist on holding them, because no stars come, they are cold and deserted, no one cares, and they have become a laughing stock.

So the key to whether the lottery can be drawn now is to see if there is a cordon.

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