Hollywood is like a high-speed train, with big and small changes every year, and it never seems to stop, and 2006 was no different. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning of the year, Paramount completed the acquisition of DreamWorks, and in 1994 DreamWorks officially came to an end as a comet, and DreamWorks was divided into three, with the music division sold to Universal Music, the film division sold to Paramount, and the animation division spun off - but the distribution rights for the next seven years were handed to Paramount.

Then New Line Pictures fell into trouble, and after the "Lord of the Rings" series won a big victory, it was sent to the dock of court three times in just two years because of the animation copyright of the series, Peter Jackson's income distribution, and the arrears of box office dividends from the estate trusteeship of the original author of the work. The latest news, Warner Bros. intends to take back the independence of New Line Pictures and merge it into the head office.

In the blink of an eye, the eight major Hollywood studios have returned to the Big Six again.

Immediately after completing the alternation of power, Disney showed a big deal and completed the acquisition of Pixar in one go, ending the ten-year partnership between the two sides, and Pixar officially became a division of Disney. This move not only alleviates the dilemma of Disney's original animation's lack of competitiveness, but also the accompanying intellectual property rights will be able to become a new development object for Disneyland, Disney suddenly transformed and regained its competitiveness, especially the entry of Steve Jobs (Steve-Jobs), which can help Disney integrate new and old media resources, and promote TV series, movies, games and other content to computers, game consoles and even mobile platforms.

Of course, at the same time, the change of ownership and changes of Miramax will have a huge impact on Disney. The departure of the Weinstein brothers caused a big stir among the independent labels of major film companies, and the personnel changes were very obvious, and finally the two brothers founded Weinstein Pictures and the curtain came to a temporary end.

In the midsummer summer file, the strong rise of "Furious Road" led Chaos Pictures to appear in front of everyone again, changing the shape of the entire film market with the attitude of R-rated cult movies. After three consecutive years of delivering perfect results in independent films and artworks, Chaos Pictures has shown its ability to play in the commercial field for the first time, and the distribution department that is on the right track is the icing on the cake.

The emergence of the seventh player has once again brought subtle changes to the Hollywood landscape.

Surprisingly, after entering the autumn, Chaos Pictures once again took the lead, and the shooting plans of the two works "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" showed their ambition and planning blueprint. This is also another wave of comic book adaptation movie craze since "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" have achieved excellent results.

In October, Chaos Pictures quietly announced plans for five separate films, including the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men," "Juno" and "Frozen River," as well as two European films, "Hunger" by British director Steve-McQueen and "The Wave" by German director Dennis-Gansel.

These five films will be filmed in succession within the next year, among which "Wave" is a strategic cooperation project with the Berlin Film Festival, Chaos Pictures selects one work from the waiting list of the Berlin Film Festival Foundation, funded by Chaos Pictures, and the quality of the finished product will be screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 2008, the difference is only in the competition unit or the screening link. This is just the first step in the partnership, and if all goes well, Chaos Pictures will be able to collaborate more and be responsible for the North American distribution of more German films.

In addition, Chaos Pictures also appeared at the New York Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival and Rome Film Festival, and began to show its appeal in the distribution market, obtaining the North American distribution rights for "Dead Girl", "Salvador" and "History Boy".

Chaos Pictures, which started as an independent film, has the potential of a large film company, and takes advantage of the opportunity of Miramax's leaderless and Weinstein Pictures has just been established, and has expanded aggressively. Although it still can't compete with independent film giants like Focus Pictures, in terms of word-of-mouth and prestige, Chaos Pictures is more popular than Focus Pictures.

At the same time, there is also a lot of action among the six major Hollywood studios, Paramount announced the reboot of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are confirmed to be returning; Twentieth Century Fox has also shown a big move, and the "Avatar" project, which has been brewing for many years, will be officially filmed in April next year, and James Cameron believes that the film has finally reached the stage of actual operation; Disney is relatively cautious, but they also announced Pixar's plans for the next three years, with "Ratatouille", "WALL-E the Robot" and "Flying House" on the list, which will appear once a year.

Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures seem to be a little quiet, the former is bound to be more cautious in its next plans due to the fiasco of this summer's schedule, and the latter is waiting for the "007" reboot to debut next month, and then look at market feedback to formulate corresponding strategies.

Universal Pictures was quietly forgotten, but this is only temporary, at the end of October, the "Incredible Hulk" start-up press conference instantly brought Universal Pictures back into the public eye, people were relieved, before the "Iron Man" related news occupied everyone's field of vision, but Universal Pictures has been secretly Chencang, quietly reached a cooperation with Chaos Pictures, finalized Lance's next work, this big deal, is indeed eye-catching.

The press conference was limited to 200 journalists, which really made the major newspapers and media outlets squeeze their heads, but the rich harvest of the press conference deeply made the reporters feel that it was worth the money.

The iron triangle of Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, and William Hurt is eye-catching, and the addition of newcomers such as JK Simmons and Andrew Garfield has sparked a lot of discussion, and Lance has also confirmed that Leonardo DiCaprio will make a cameo appearance in a small role and bring surprises.

The most important thing is that Lance responded positively for the first time, and it is no coincidence that the two works of "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" have been put into filming one after another, and the two works will have easter eggs to form an interaction. Previously, people were just guessing, after all, Lance can be seen behind the two works - both are screenwriters, both producers, although the directors of the two works are different, but there are bound to be a lot of commonalities, and now, finally got Lance's personal certification. However, Lance also emphasized that the two works are independent, the story is not involved, and the easter eggs have no impact on the plot.

Such a bold approach, at the moment in 2006, can be called unusual, because these are two independent works that cannot be beaten, not sequels, not the same characters, but they will be linked to each other, whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, no one knows, whether the impact on the box office is positive or negative, and no one can predict.

After the press conference, the Hollywood industry can clearly feel the agitation of the dark tide, just the visible part, Chaos Pictures has frequently shot, although the production of independent films, the distribution of art films, in terms of cost, does not cost much at all, but hidden behind these actions is a signal of the acceleration of the development of Chaos Pictures; Correspondingly, the six major Hollywood studios have also begun to become busy, although their responses are not visible for the time being, but it can be felt that the film industry has more or less caused ripples because of the actions of Chaos Pictures. In a short period of time, no one knows what the consequences of this undercurrent will be, and we can only wait for time to answer, but it is really exciting.

Throughout 2006, it seems that a big event is quietly brewing - of course, the "Fury Road" is already a major event that has caused a global sensation.

After "Iron Man" was filmed, "The Incredible Hulk" was also officially filmed in the first week of November, according to Chaos Pictures' official plan, the filming cycle of this film will be three to four months, which also means ...... Could it be that Lance will miss awards season again this year?

If that's the case, how overshadowed this year's awards season would be.

When it comes to the ups and downs of 2006, the awards season is bound to be the focus of not to be missed, and it seems that after last year's downturn, this year's awards season will not find its direction - obviously, all the film critics, all the media reporters, all the pundits are starting to become cautious, they don't want another tragedy like "Brokeback Mountain", nor do they want another humiliation like "good night, good luck", of course, it is better not to have a spike like "fruit hard candy", as for "crash" That kind of political correctness...... It seems inevitable, but people hope that they will be more cautious in their words and deeds, not to assert prematurely, quietly look into the eyes of others, and wait for the trend of public opinion to gradually reveal before making statements.

Such a situation is indeed rare, and it can also be seen from this side that the huge influence brought by the results of last year's Oscars has welcomed the development of the entire film industry in all aspects.

After the New York Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Awards, as well as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the awards season is still tepid, and the whole November is coming to an end, but the "top seed" still hasn't been able to emerge. By this time in previous years, the top seed may have gone through two rounds of substitutions, and whether or not it can make it to the end, there is definitely a work that will lead everyone's eyes and open the awards season in a grand way. But this year, the start of the entire awards season has been extremely tepid, and the atmosphere of the awards season has been unprecedentedly sluggish, even giving people the illusion: Won't the Oscars be held this year?

In this silence, the devastating "Fury Road" in the summer file seems to be the only thing people talk about after dinner, but now Lance is once again engaged in the filming of "The Incredible Hulk", and the college PR who is absent from the awards season seems to have no suspense, which is really worse and depressing.