Chapter 121: Success

The previous night's talks, Lester licensed to Disney, and the two companies worked together to develop a perfunctory show of Beauty and the Beast.

Lester and Michael Eisner signed the contract in the presence of their lawyers and others.

"Happy working together!"

"Happy working together!"

Signing his name, Lester reached out and shook hands with Michael Eisner.

Being able to work with Disney feels that this is the best thing in recent days, not having to waste extra time brushing up on the company's perfunctory dramas and other things around "Beauty and the Beast", and being able to use Disney's own fans to go to the cinema to watch it.

In addition to DC fans and Marvel fans, there is also a Disney fan effect, and they have classic animated movies and TV series from their childhood.

So in North America, in addition to film and television works, Disney itself has fans who like this company after their fanaticism.

"I heard you're planning to start the Mickey Mouse Club. ”

After the lawyers on both sides took the contracts from both sides down, Lester and Michael Eisner didn't walk away right away and chatted.

Michael Eisner picked up the coffee on the table and drank it, facing Lester's words, a little surprised: "Mr. Lester's news is really accurate, how can it ...... You are interested. ”

"Not very interested, the Mickey Mouse Club is of no use to me. Lester smiled and shook his head.

Although he is somewhat coveted by the star-making ability of the Mickey Mouse Club, he also knows that Disney will not let outsiders interfere in the operation of the Mickey Mouse Club.

If the Mickey Mouse Club, which has been held for many years, is to function again, a new era of actors will appear, and the candidates in it will be a good place for the agency.

Lester smiled and chatted with Michael Eisner, his face turned sharply, and then buried it silently in his heart.

After staying there for 30 minutes, Lester left Michael Eisner's room and returned to where he was resting.

"The stuff is packed. ”

Lester walked into the room, where Gwen Stephanie and her assistant had packed a large bag of things they had brought with them, as well as things they had bought during their visit.

"Let's go!" Gwen Stephanie put on her sunglasses, stepped forward to take Lester's arm, and walked outside together.

When it was time for their plane to take off, several people arrived at the airport in a car, got on a plane and left the Colombian region of South America and flew back to Los Angeles.

As soon as I got off the plane, the driver who had been waiting for a long time drove a Leicester Lamborghini over and took the driver's car.

"I'll send you back. ”

Handing things over to the assistant, Lester drove Gwen Stephanie out of the airport and planted her back outside her home.

Watching Gwen Stephanie enter the room, Lester drives back to Asuka Films, where he needs to carry out the post-production publicity system for "Die Hard".

Time slowly walked towards the time of Beauty and the Beast.

Chris Weich has been running publicity with the two actors who voiced Belle and the Beast, and in order to make "Beauty and the Beast" popular, both TV interview shows and talk shows are trying to find ways to go up.

Beauty and the Beast posters and trailers are popping up everywhere in Times Square and Times Tower, as well as in other promotional locations.

The production cost of "Beauty and the Beast" is only 2.4 million, although the publicity cost has reached 8 million, it is worthy of such publicity by Bird Film and Television.

Without publicity, no one will pay attention, this is the case everywhere, and the results of the dots and trials have made "Beauty and the Beast" gain word-of-mouth and people's attention, and it has received more people's attention through reporters.

As soon as Lester and Michael Eisner signed their contracts, Disney also released a promotional message for "Beauty and the Beast" for the remainder of the show, which was reprinted by some reporters.

On November 15th, under the operation of Bird Pictures and Disney, "Beauty and the Beast" was released in movie theaters across the United States.

Animated films are still a little different from live-action films, with box office reaching $162146 in just three days and $300,000 in a week, in a slow rise.

The box office results at the beginning made Chris Whitch a little disappointed, and he expected the box office in the first week to be 8 million.

"Relax, this is just the box office results at the beginning, it depends on the later. Lester comforted Christwich.

The box office of the first weekend of "Beauty and the Beast" did not meet Chris Weiqi's budget, also because the theater scheduling rate was a bit small, and even Disney was a little bit more theaters at the beginning.

However, the first-week box office of "Beauty and the Beast" reached $300,000, which surprised Lester a little, which was a little higher than he had in mind.

As the release of "Beauty and the Beast" continued, although the box office in the first week was not very ideal, in the second week, the film gradually spread.

The second week's box office results were passed back to Disney and Asuka Films, to the delight of those on both sides, and Beauty and the Beast grossed $15.6 million, exceeding their expectations.

Disney and movie theaters have ramped up movie theaters for Beauty and the Beast.

At the beginning of December, under the attack of some literary films, although the number of movie theaters has declined somewhat, the box office is like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, and it has continued to rise.

In the Bird Movie, Chris Weige sat on the sofa in Leicester's office, drinking coffee from time to time, showing his impatience.

Lester also sat at his desk, looking out of the door where there was no movement.

"The latest box office data has arrived. ”

The assistant walked into the office with a statistical data, which drew Lester and Chris Wech to look at it immediately.

"I'll take a look. Chris Vic couldn't wait to take over the box office data in the assistant's hand, and Lester also walked over to look at the latest data.

Around the week, the box office of "Beauty and the Beast" reached $36.75 million, which was much higher than expected, and some reporters who were on the sidelines got the news and reported on the box office results of "Beauty and the Beast".

If this trend continues, "Beauty and the Beast" will be a big hit at the box office in North America.

"It's done. "Blue Sky Animation Studio's first animated film was a huge success, and Chris Wech was excited.

"Beauty and the Beast" did well at the box office, and Disney and Asuka Films also negotiated with distributors overseas, and began to officially launch overseas movie theaters in early December.

Lester took the newspaper and read the reports of the reporters of "Beauty and the Beast", and then focused on "Chaplin" and "Field Platoon" on the literary theater line.