At the end of May, the filming of "Ghost Love" in Manhattan, New York was officially closed, and Eric returned to Los Angeles with the main creator of the crew to start post-production.

At the same time, as North American universities, primary and secondary schools began to take holidays one after another, the summer season of 1990 officially arrived.

On May 25, Universal Pictures' "Back to the Future 3" and Disney's "Firebird Attack" distributed by Bowell International were released in more than 2,000 theaters.

The film "Back to the Future 3" was made quite hastily, after all, "Back to the Future 2" was only released at the end of last year, and the reason is almost exactly the same as last year's Colombian reboot of the "Ghostbusters" series after five years. Universal's parent company, MCA, has entered the final stage of acquisition negotiations with Japan's Panasonic consortium, and in order to be able to sell MCA at a good price, Universal Pictures needs better performance support.

Because of the tight schedule, although this "Back to the Future 3" is produced by Spielberg, Robert . Zemeckis directed the film, but the film was criticized by a large number of critics after its release, and even though a large part of the series' die-hard fans supported it, it still only got $19 million at the box office in the first three days of the weekend.

However, if compared with another movie released at the same time, the results of "Back to the Future 3" can only be described as eye-catching.

That is Disney's "Firebird Attack", which is a story about the pilots of the Apache helicopter unit of the US Army, compared to the controversy caused by the quality of the film "Back to the Future 3", after some hot publicity, "Firebird Attack" immediately became a dud after its release, and did not make much splash.

The film is made with Tom. Cruise's $350 million global box office hit is so similar that it's occasionally mentioned by critics in newspapers. also only ended up with a comment of 'a poor imitation of "Top Gun".

There are also 2,000 open cinemas. "Firebird Attack" only made a measly $6 million at the box office. The box office results have made theater managers who signed two- to three-week dealings with Disney complain, and after three weeks, the $30 million film will face the fate of being downgraded, and the film will bring Disney a loss of at least $30 million when the distribution costs are included.

Disney's first shot in the summer turned into a dud, and Eric should have gloated very much, but because of the actor in this movie, Eric couldn't be happy.

Because of the actor in this film that cost $3,000. Exactly Nicholas . Cage, the male protagonist of Eric's version of "Ghost Love".

On the morning of May 29, when Eric and the creators of "Ghost Love" just walked out of the Los Angeles airport, they were blocked by a large group of paparazzi, asking Eric what he thought of "Firebird Attack". Eric got up early in the morning to catch a plane back to Los Angeles, and he didn't know anything about "Firebird Attack", how could he have any opinions, and the besieged paparazzi problem was full of verbal traps, so Eric couldn't even deal with it rashly, so he could only leave in silence under the escort of the bodyguards.

But his silence is clearly not a good idea. The next day, there was a tabloid news that 'Williams was asked about the cold face of 'Firebird Attack'. Articles from Eric to Nicholas. Cage quickly shifted his focus to "The Ghost Is Not Over", which was in the late stage.

It just so happened that there was another example of "Back to the Future 3" hastily making the director zhì unsatisfactory at the box office, and many media began to question the quality of the film of "Human Ghost Love".

By the time things were in full swing, Eric had already left Los Angeles for San Francisco.

After all, this kind of thing can only be left to Firefly and Disney's propaganda department, and Eric only needs to get the agent to make some statements. I believe that Disney has just experienced a box office failure, and it will definitely not take it lightly on "Ghost Love".

Although Los Angeles to San Francisco is not too far, it only takes more than an hour by plane, but because he has been busy, Eric has not been here for more than a year, and the last time he came here was to buy Pixar.

For more than a year, the affairs of Pixar's side have been handed over to John. Lasseter, the two of them communicate on the phone most of the time, even if it is necessary to discuss matters in person, it is John . Lasseter goes to Los Angeles.

Thanks to Eric's unhesitating infusion, Pixar is no longer the shabby animation studio it was in a small building in Richmond on San Francisco Bay more than a year ago.

At this time, Pixar's headquarters had moved to a small town called Emeryville near Berkeley, and the number of employees had increased to more than 300, and the team of engineers who specialized in providing technical support for 3D animation Zuò exceeded 100 people.

"John, compared to Jobs, my boss is like an angel, right?" With John who walked out of the Pixar office building to greet him. Lasseter hugged him, and Eric said the first thing he said.

"Of course, Eric, let's go inside." John. Lasseter knew that Eric was joking with herself, and after shaking hands with Alan and Joanna, who were following Eric, John . Lasseter said, "Of course, Eric, let's go inside." ”

Eric follows John. Lasseter walked into the office building, pretending to be unhappy and said: "However, I only promised to invest 30 million in "Toy Story", but now, the money you spent is close to 30 million, and I haven't even seen the shadow of the cartoon." ”

John. Even though Lasseter knew that Eric wasn't blaming him, she was still a little confused, the first part of "Toy Story" in her previous life was completed under extremely difficult circumstances, so the cost was only $30 million, and many details were quite crudely done.

And with Eric's ample financial backing, John. Lasseter's perfectionist tendencies as an artist made budget overruns almost a certainty.

As a result, the animation is now two-thirds complete, but the cost is already close to $30 million. Lasseter is not as profligate as Cameron, after all, he is not 100% confident in 3D animation, and in order to minimize the impact and losses that may be caused by failure in the future, John . Lasseter was very restrained when he spent his money.

In the previous life, because of the success of the first part of "Toy Story", the cost of the second part soared directly to 100 million US dollars, and the cost of the third part was as high as 200 million. Lasseter has James in his bones. Cameron is a type of person, he's just not as crazy as Cameron. (To be continued......)