After the song, Emma (Watson) did not follow and recite other people's lines in the subsequent rehearsals and official filming. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

I don't know if it's the effect of the performance, or Sid's magic, but after that, the official filming of "Harry Potter" finally started smoothly.

When the filming in the British Isles went smoothly, Hollywood, thousands of miles away, finally happened.

The first 2D animated feature film of the animation studio within the Fox Group - "Frozen Planet" was "forced away" by Blue Sky Animation Studio.

This Fox Group ambition has an investment of a staggering $75 million!

You must know that the production cost of the 2D classic "The Lion King" was only $45 million, and Pixar's pioneering work "Toy Story" only cost $30 million.

Such an investment can already be regarded as a quasi-A-level production in Hollywood.

As for the voice actors, Fox even spared no cost to invite the popular young movie stars Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore to play the voice of the animated protagonists.

"Of course, of course, we have absolute confidence in Frozen Planet. At the premiere, the director of this animation confidently said to the media reporters who came.

And this grand premiere, the main characters with a kind of voice acting of Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore, and also brought celebrity friends from their respective circles, such as Ben Affleck, Cameron Diaz and other popular fried chickens, making Fox's premiere look starry.

But！

However, there are no eggs.

As soon as the box office of "Frozen Planet" came out, Fox immediately cooled down - the box office of the first weekend was just $9.37 million!

Yes, it was $9.37 million in the first weekend, not the first-day box office.

Although "Frozen Planet" was able to rank fifth in the North American box office list because there were no strong movies in the schedule, it was immediately criticized by a number of media, whether it was the professional "Variety" weekly or the comprehensive "Los Angeles Times" and "New York Times".

In the second week, although the weekday box office from Monday to Friday made the total box office of the film reach $16 million, the results of the second weekend fell directly to $3.73 million, a drop of more than 75%.

Of course, the box office has fallen to this level, and there is no point in discussing the decline.

Thomas Romans and Jim Guianopoulus, the two co-chairmen of the Fox Group, vomited blood in anger, and even Rupert Murdoch, an old guy who is no longer in charge of specific affairs, was blown up to inquire about it.

The end result was that Chris Meledandli, the project lead for Frozen Planet, was fired by his angry boss, and the entire Fox animation department was eliminated.

The Wall Street Journal also wrote an editorial for this reason: "The collapse of the Fox Group in the field of animation once again proves that the decline of the 2D animation market is inevitable." Although Disney is still working hard with 2D animation, this year's "Fantasia 2000" is indeed a good masterpiece.

But the lukewarm attitude of the general audience has caused the field to shrink, and even DreamWorks Animation has begun to try to transform, buying the British clay puppet animation company and releasing its stop-motion animation "Chicken Run" in June this year. While this wasn't Pixar-like 3D computer animation, DreamWorks' transformation was immediate.

"Chicken Run" cost only $45 million, but it earned more than $100 million at the box office in North America, and overseas results are even more difficult for Fox and "Frozen Planet" to match.

All this shows that the changes in the animation market are just around the corner, and anyone who is stubborn and stubborn will face the tragic end of all the packages and leaving, just like the production team of "Frozen Planet" this time.

And I'm also looking forward to seeing who is going to surprise us in animation next, whether it's John Lazart's Pixar, or is it going to be Katzenberg's DreamWorks?"

"Of course this will be our Blue Sky Studios!" Chris Welch said to the excited members of Group A as he put down his Wall Street Journal and swore to the crowd in front of him.

"Yes!" "It's going to be us!"

At present, in addition to dubbing and some music and sound effects of "Ice Age", the entire project has completed more than 8 floors. The Fire Lion got an all-age rating from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) with the first cut of the dailies, and set a Thanksgiving schedule with AMC on November 25.

In the season of family reunion, this 3D animation suitable for the whole family to watch is released, and there are no new films released at all this year, whether it is Pixar or DreamWorks. The closest to "Ice Age" in terms of schedule is Disney's 2D animated film "Transform into a King" released on December 15.

But neither Sid nor Blue Sky Studios paid attention to the Disney animation that is still lingering.

At this time, Chris Wetch's mobile phone rang, and he picked it up to see that it was Shirley Sandberg, COO of the Fire Lion Group. He immediately picked it up: "Hey, hello, Shirley (Sandberg)." ”

Shirley (Sandberg) on the other side said very relaxedly: "Chris (Wage), what we said last time is ready, I need you to come to Los Angeles." ”

"Oh, yes. Chris Wetch smiled knowingly, "Okay, I'll leave tomorrow." ”

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Chris Meledandley looked at the mobile phone with the address in his hand with some hesitation, and then looked up at the seemingly simple five-story building in front of him, which is the headquarters of the Fire Lion Group?

He was a little incredulous, as the newly-minted and fastest-rising integrated media group in Hollywood, the name of Fire Lion, even the top executives of the top six media groups like him, were familiar to him.

But now looking at the only silver lion head LOGO in front of me, it looks very glamorous, and in this ordinary-looking office building of the whole building, it is where the fire lion of the six major media groups is located?

Chris Meledandley hesitated for a moment, but then plucked up the courage to walk into the building, and since he was fired from the Fox Group, he has once again experienced the cruelty and indifference of Hollywood's vanity fair.

A dud that failed to the extreme, not only became a stain on his career, but also made the entire Hollywood look different about him for a while.

Whether it is a large studio, or a small and medium-sized film company, or even those independent directors and television departments, they all avoid his name.

Chris Meledandli, who was going to rest for a while and make plans again, unexpectedly received a call from the Fire Lion Group, although he didn't know the other party's plans, but Chris Meledandley did not intend to avoid it.

So today, he came to the headquarters of the Fire Lion Group according to the address.