"Hey, dear."

Sitting at the head of the table, Ryan fiddled with the fruit salad on his plate and said to Taylor, "Who exactly do you recommend?" ”

On the way back, for some reason, Taylor suddenly became silent, and seemed to be in a bad mood, until he came to Jenkins Manor and saw Charlize again.

"Scarlett ......" Taylor put down his knife and fork after eating only a small amount of vegetable salad and guinea fowl, "She's seen part of the script with Ms. Sloane, and when she heard that I was going to voice Elsa, she wanted to voice Anna. ”

"There's a lot of singing for this role, and Scarlett's singing voice ......," Ryan shook his head, "she's not a good fit for the role." ”

"That's what I said." Taylor wrinkled his nose, "But she doesn't think so." ”

"Honey." Charlize suddenly interjected, "You guys shouldn't be arguing again, are you?" ”

"Philosophies don't match." Taylor muttered, "She's always unreasonable, doesn't take into account the reality, and always naively brings up an unrealistic ......."

She looked at Ryan, opened her mouth, and eventually closed it again.

"How many years have you been arguing?"

Sighing, Ryan put down the spoon, picked up a tissue and wiped the salad dressing stuck to his hands, "Don't talk about Scarlett, you have a lot of problems yourself." ”

"I know, but ......" her eyes flashed, and she closed her mouth again.

"I should have thrown you two on a desert island with no one." Ryan stood up and walked towards the living room, "I guess then you two won't be arguing anymore." ”

"That would be easy."

Not hearing Taylor's mosquito-like humming, Ryan turned his head, "What did you just say, Alison?" ”

"I'm done."

Taylor walked around the table and grabbed Charlize as he stood up, "Do you think so, Charlie?" ”

"I'm used to it."

Shook his head. Charlize followed Ryan out of the villa and into the garden.

It's already a little hot in Los Angeles in April, but Jenkins Manor is in a great location, occupying a hilly hillside on its own, and the occasional night breeze blows away the only heat and brings a little coolness.

Charlize took Taylor by his arm and caught up with Ryan as he weaved along the cobblestone path through flowerbeds. Discussing their trip to Africa, which ended some time ago.

"We went to South Africa first, you know what, Ryan."

Recalling his trip to Africa, Taylor's interest was noticeably high, "Do you know how popular Charlie is there? She is simply a national hero of South Africa, and many media outlets have compared her to Nelson Mandela. ”

"It's not as exaggerated as you say." Charlize was rarely modest.

"Charlie is the best." Ryan duly complimented, "I've always been sure of that. ”

The three of them laughed, turned the corner of the garden, and entered the palm grove.

"Do you know what impressed me the most about South Africa?" Taylor cocked his feet. Picking a flower from a magnolia tree passing by, "May give you a hint, Ryan, not human." ”

"Baboon." Ryan had already gotten the answer from Scarlett.

"Bingo." Taylor snapped his fingers. "On the streets of Cape Town, I have encountered several guerrilla wars between humans and baboons, with herds of baboons climbing up the sides of the apartment. Pry open windows and rob houses. ”

"Baboons are protected animals in South Africa." Charlize added.

Seeing Ryan nod, Taylor continued. "The inhabitants of Cape Town were only able to use paintball guns and pepper sprayers to evict them, but the human tolerance has emboldened the baboons, and I have seen many people suffer property damage and even physical injury as a result of the baboon attacks."

"Isn't the government in place to put measures in place?" Ryan vaguely remembers seeing the news of South African baboons in his previous life.

"Baboons don't harm humans, they just want to find food in a short time, and going to a resident's house to steal will save them energy and time, and they don't have to worry about being killed by leopards or lions."

Taylor leaned over mischievously and inserted the magnolia flower in his hand between Ryan's collar, "That's the words of the animal expert I read in the Cape Town newspaper. ”

"This world ......" Ryan glared at Taylor, and after the guy giggled away, he threw the magnolia flower into the trash can next to him, "There are always people who love animals more than humans themselves. ”

There's nothing wrong with loving animals, but those extremists are extremely annoying, especially for Hollywood, which often uses a lot of animals for filming, animal protection organizations are definitely an undesirable group, and if a crew that uses animals is targeted by these people, it means that the filming time is infinitely longer and the cost is greatly increased.

Several of Disney's films have been influenced by them when they were produced.

For example, "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", which began production last year, was expected to use a large number of animal actors, but due to the presence of several animal protection organizations, the original plan had to be abandoned and all CG production was used, and the crew had to increase the budget by millions of dollars.

As long as the animal actors exceed the allotted working time for one minute, these people will jump up and down, and those extras who work overtime just to be fed, they don't even look at them.

Either side goes to extremes and will only bring a situation that is unreasonably crazy.

The three of them walked around the huge manor, Taylor and Charlize cooperated to tell about what they had seen and heard in Africa, although many of them were extremely heavy topics such as poverty and hunger, but Ryan would not be bored, he was not the kind of person who was born rich, and knew how difficult and terrible the bottom of the world was.

"That's right, Ryan." Taylor suddenly asked, "I heard you won't be starring in the third part of "Transformers"?" ”

"yes." Ryan nodded, and turned to walk in the direction of the villa, "I've told the Autobot Studio to change the settings. ”

"It's a shame."

Having said that, Taylor didn't mean pity, "The "Transformers 2" released in the summer will be the last Transformers live-action movie you starred in." ”

As the summer season is getting closer and closer, the commercial films launched by major companies have also entered a relatively busy publicity period, and Disney will have many major productions such as "Iron Man 2", "Machine Qì Man Vali", "Madagascar 2" and "Transformers 2" this summer.

In addition, Disney's films also try to avoid September and October, the months when the financial crisis is very likely, so as not to make its films a martyr for Wall Street.

Now April is not Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox's animated feature film "Houghton and Anonymous" has swept the animated film market. Sony Columbia's "Murder Night" and "Winning Las Vegas" dominated the North American box office charts for three consecutive weeks, nearly allowing Sony to dominate the North American film market in April.

Lionsgate's "The King of Kung Fu" was also released this month, and the film swept away the decline of kung fu movies in Hollywood, and achieved relatively good results, which is also related to the film's strategy.

As for the boos of the duel between the two 'kings of kung fu', there is not much traction here. After all, this is North America, not across the Pacific Ocean.

After entering May, "Iron Man 2" was the first to land in North American theaters, and the film continued the fine tradition of Disney's commercial masterpieces in recent years - super bad professional reputation and super good audience market.

Amid criticism from film critics, "Iron Man 2" earned $131.54 million from North America in the first three days, and in just ten days, the film's North American box office easily exceeded $210 million.

Film critics don't like it, but they can't stop the audience from paying out of pocket, not to mention the decline of film critics now. Many of them have been terminated by the print media they originally contributed to, and they can only comment through guò blogs or Facebook.

And "Machine Qì Man Walli", which has been unanimously praised by film critics, has an extremely obvious trend of opening high and going low, after landing in North America with 3,992 theaters at the end of May. In the first three days, he received $63.08 million, and the next week he dived nearly 50 percent, and only $32.5 million was credited.

Maybe this is not bad, but for Pixar Studio, which has repeatedly broken 300 million at the North American box office of animated feature films. This is well below estimates.

According to the box office trend in the later period, the North American box office of "Machine Qì Man Wali" is about 220 million US dollars at most, as the protagonist in the film. Although it does not win the word-of-mouth, it loses the market, but Disney cannot expect the box office to get back a total of $300 million in investment, and the return can only be relied on by the slow accumulation of subsequent peripherals.

Telling a good story but ignoring the market, there have been countless such films in the past, but fortunately, Pixar Studios, under Ryan's reminder, has realized that it is beginning to show its cold side.

As a typical Hollywood commercial company, neither Ryan nor Disney needs "The Shawshank Redemption" to lose money for several years, and can only wait for the film to be named later.

When the time entered July, the North American box office of "Iron Man 2", which has been badly criticized by countless film critics, has reached nearly $300 million, and the global box office has easily exceeded $600 million; The North American box office of "WALL-E" is still struggling to reach more than $120 million, and the global box office is slowly passing the $350 million mark.

No one can deny that "Wal-E" has a good story, but they have to admit that it will be the second-worst global box office work of Pixar Action Studios after "Cars" in the new century.

The difference is that the latter's peripherals are very popular, bringing Disney two billion dollars in derivative revenue, while the former's peripherals are really unpleasant, and you can only hope for the DVD tape and online on-demand market.

The Independence Day holiday in July is the hot time for the North American super production Zuò, and "Transformers 2" was released on the day before Independence Day.

Film critics are gearing up to repay the insults they received after "Transformers." (To be continued......)