$48.15 million on Friday; It slipped slightly on Saturday, but it also had $45.55 million; By Sunday, the decline had widened again, but the $36.58 million result was impressive.

In the first three days, Toy Story 3 grossed $130.28 million at the North American box office!

As an animated feature film with a relatively long theatrical shelf life, such a first-week box office almost indicates that "Toy Story 3" is bound to be a super hit.

At the overseas box office, Toy Story 3 has performed well in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and even Latin America, but in the Far East, it has received a certain amount of cold reception due to its characters and the typical Western-style themes it contains.

Especially in the Chinese market where "Avatar" swiped more than 1.598 billion RMB, "Toy Story 3" received a mediocre response, and in the first three days, it only got a box office of less than 50 million RMB.

Of course, this is not only the reason for "Toy Story 3" itself, the Chinese animated film market has not yet been fully formed, and the animated films that can sell well in China are not this kind of all-age animated feature films, but completely juvenile films specially made for children aged ten and even below.

However, even in the Far East, the overseas box office of "Toy Story 3" in the first week was as high as nearly 200 million US dollars, and the global box office combined was as high as 328.99 million US dollars!

This is already a result that can allow Walt Disney and Pixar Studios to hold a celebration party.

At a time when the box office of "The Avengers", which is a theatrical fast-moving consumer goods, turned flat, "Toy Story 3" once again pulled Walt Disney's box office fortune journey.

Although the film's single-day box office inevitably fell below $20 million in the first four working days of the second week, before the second weekend, Toy Story 3 easily exceeded $200 million in North America, reaching more than $229.45 million, and in the three days of the second weekend, it earned another $67.55 million from North America!

It's only ten days. The North American box office of "Toy Story 3" has reached more than 297 million US dollars, and the North American box office is close to exceeding 300 million US dollars.

The global box office of the film has reached a height of 624.71 million US dollars!

At this time, no one doubts that the North American box office of "Toy Story 3" can exceed $400 million, and the global box office can exceed $1 billion!

The finale of the Toy Story series inevitably creates the myth of the Zào animated feature film.

However, the box office is only a relatively small part of the film's revenue, and it is the "Toy Story" merchandise that really makes Disney a hit.

From the large-scale promotion and release of "Toy Story 3" to the current box office super hit, the sales of products related to the film have reached 680 million US dollars!

Wall Street agencies and Walt Disney's own estimation department predict that Disney will generate about $2.5 billion in revenue from Toy Story 3 merchandise sales in mid-2010!

"Ratatouille" and "Wali the Machine" are still relying on the peripheral income in the later period to accumulate profits. Compared to these two commercially unsuccessful works, "Toy Story 3" has completely blown them ten streets, and if there are no accidents, "Ratatouille" and "Wal-E" will not have a sequel for at least a decade or more, or even never.

And "Toy Story 4" will definitely enter the future planning of Disney's top management.

In fact, if you want to identify whether such commercial works are really a huge success, you can see whether they have a sequel or not, and Hollywood producers and distributors who are commercially oriented will not let go of every opportunity to make money.

"Is the Toy Story franchise really over?"

Walk beside Ryan. Natalie looked around and asked, "There's no fourth part?" ”

In winter, Australia is not sluggish, and Queensland is full of greenery. There didn't seem to be any smell of winter, and as they walked down the path through the trees, Ryan and Natalie were looking around, and this was the fifteenth location they had inspected.

"There will definitely be."

Ryan is happy with this pristine forest. "It's a good place to be used as a location for the Kingdom of Lordaeron."

He then answered Natalie's question. "Actually, Toy Story 4 is already on Disney's future schedule, but it's a few more years to wait, after all, the trilogy has just ended."

"I'll ask the assistant to contact the owner here." Natalie stopped and looked into the distance through the sparse woods, "Let's go back." ”

"Okay." Ryan nodded and turned to walk out of the woods, Natalie grabbed his arm and asked, "Ryan, now that I've taken your script, as a director, I think I should have a little say in the cast selection." ”

"What do you have to say?" Ryan asked, turning his head.

"You understand."

The clever girl didn't say it directly, but closed her mouth.

"Okay, okay." Ryan sighed, "Since everyone is against it, then I'll give up, and the job of selecting actors will still be left to you and Julis." ”

The two didn't continue to discuss the issue, returned to the hotel to pack their bags, and set off on a flight around the world, with Ryan and Natalie in China, Russia, Norway, Greenland, Canada, and even Oregon and Montana, almost on a quick trip around the world to find the right location.

When they returned to North America, Ryan and Natalie had reached an agreement on many locations for the film, and the studio scenes would also be set at Warner Cinematic World on the Gold Coast.

As the main players of the film, Ryan, Natalie and Julis? The three Stewarts also met.

"The outdoor scenes of the film will be shot on location as much as possible."

Sitting in the reception room, Ryan sipped coffee and said to the rest of the production team led by Julis, "The special effects production zuò will be completely handled by Industrial Light and Magic, and their special effects production zuò team is already in the pipeline." ”

"Ryan and I have been to a lot of places." Natalie took the initiative to take over, "Most of the filming and production of the film will be carried out in Australia, and the Australian authorities will also provide the necessary support for the crew. ”

Then, I talked about some other matters related to the preparation of the crew, Julis? Stewart is experienced, and Natalie as a director is no longer a rookie, so Ryan doesn't need to do these things himself.

As for the choice of actors, Ryan was completely handed over to Natalie and Julis? Stewart.

Of course, as the head of Kidman Studios, one of the film's investors, Nicole did not attend this preliminary meeting, and she did not have to worry about Ryan or Disney cheating investors like other big Hollywood companies.

This magical epic masterpiece, tentatively codenamed 'Warcraft', has officially entered the preliminary preparation stage.

Subsequently, Ryan flew to South Africa as a guest to accompany Charlize ? Theron watched the World Cup final in South Africa at Soccer City in Johannesburg and witnessed the birth of the Spanish dynasty.

"It was a dirty game."

Looking at the soulless orange team, Charlize Hao mocked mercilessly, "This is the Dutch team that is most unlike the Dutch team, they play too dirty." ”

"De Jong can go and shoot Hollywood action movies."

In the boiling voices, Ryan and Charlize almost leaned into each other's ears to speak, "In the first half, I really doubt Harvey? Alonso would be dead. ”

"This Dutch team doesn't deserve the title either." Charlize leaned in a little closer, muttering, "Brutality and violence are simply synonymous with them." ”

"The victor is not to blame." Ryan said.

Indeed, if the Dutch win the World Cup, the outside world will only think that they have tactics right, and have succeeded in suppressing Spain with fouls and so-called tough confrontations, rather than the accusations that will inevitably come later.

After Casillas lifted the Hercules Cup, Ryan and Charlize were the first to leave Johannesburg Sports City, where they were to prepare for a dinner hosted by the South African government and FIFA later.

Back at the hotel, when changing dresses, Charlize suddenly asked Ryan, "I heard that the crew has started to prepare?" ”

"I just had a preparatory meeting before I came." Ryan was arranging his bow tie in front of the mirror, and Charlize walked over to take over the job, "What about my heroine?" ”

"My dear ......" Ryan couldn't help but have a headache, "You know how difficult this is, I was just trying it out, didn't you just take it as a joke in the first place?" ”

"But I'm serious now." Charlize had an innocent glint in his eyes.

"I gave Julius the responsibility for the casting work."

Since being woken up by Nicole and Taylor, Ryan has been trying his best to avoid the set becoming a battlefield in the future, and simply changed the subject, "Honey, this year or so, in addition to being busy with CT affairs, you also have to take care of the World Cup promotion activities, and you should also have a long vacation." ”

"Then after attending this dinner,"

Taking off the dress jacket, Charlize helped Ryan put it on, "Let's go on vacation together." ”

The dinner was held in the State Dining Room of the South African government, and in addition to many senior South African officials and FIFA officials, Ryan also met with Mandela, the former president of South Africa, who is too old and seems to be ready to leave this world at any time, and although he is a legend, Ryan is just a strange politician in Ryan's eyes.

After attending the dinner, Ryan and Charlize flew straight to Lanai, where they spent a week's vacation. (To be continued......)