Simon is accompanying Janet on maternity leave, but the year-end schedule will not stop due to this.
The day before the little one is born, the second week of Thanksgiving officially ends.
Three new films will be released on November 29, including Columbia Pictures' "My Little Love," MGM's "GoldenEye," and the Robert De Niro-starring crime thriller "Fear," which Daenerys Entertainment acquired from Universal. Corner", neither posed much of a threat to "Toy Story".
November 29th to December 5th.
In seven days, after "Toy Story" had a box office of US$46.73 million in its first week, the box office drop remained at 23% the next week, and it collected another US$35.93 million, continuing to maintain its first place in the weekly box office list.
Within two weeks of its opening, the cumulative box office of this first 3D animated film in Hollywood history has reached US$82.66 million.
According to the tiered sharing rules signed between Daenerys Entertainment and theaters, the company can share more than 70% of the box office in the two weeks before the film opens.
This means that the biweekly North American box office total of US$82.66 million is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recover the entire US$55 million total production and promotion budget.
Taking into account the long-term nature of animated films, as well as the expected rebound in viewing during the following Christmas period, the total North American box office of "Toy Story" is likely to reach 200 million U.S. dollars, becoming the 1991 "Batman: The Dark". After "Knight" and "Terminator 2", it is the third movie to have a total box office of more than 200 million US dollars in North America.
Not only the box office, but the peripheral products of "Toy Story" also continue to sell well.
With the current peripheral sales momentum, the industry generally predicts that the North American box office of "Toy Story" may only be 200 million US dollars, but the overall revenue this project brings to Daenerys Entertainment may be greater than that of "The Dark Knight" high.
After all, Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner are going to split the profits from The Dark Knight equally. The "Toy Story" project is entirely owned by Daenerys Entertainment.
With the success of the film, the project of "Toy Story 2" was directly announced.
"The Lion King 2", which has already been put into production, has suddenly received more attention from Hollywood.
The success of the DC movie universe has just triggered a wave of exploration of comic IP in recent years. Suddenly, Hollywood's attention has to be attracted to 3D animated movies again.
However, after a little investigation, many people regretfully discovered that it is even more difficult to follow Daenerys Entertainment to produce 3D animated films than to follow Disney to produce 2D animated films.
Over the years in Hollywood, only Disney has established a firm foothold in 2D animated films.
It's just that, when Michael Eisner first took over Disney a few years ago, he planned to abolish the declining 2D animated film department, because the Disney classic animations that have been re-released in recent years have achieved good box office, as well as Disney animation Disney abandoned the idea only after the division began to recover under the leadership of Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Before Daenerys Entertainment, when it came to animated movies, the only thing that came to mind was Disney, and only Disney has produced a series of very successful 2D animated movies.
Animated movies, including peripherals, are such a big piece of cake that other studios have certainly been trying.
MCA, which also operates the theme park business, has been making similar attempts in the past many years in order to make up for its shortcomings in animation IP. In the 1980s, it produced 2D animated films such as "Little Feet" and "American Rats" , but there has never been a project comparable to Disney's classic 2D animation.
For 2D animated films, the long production cycle can be said to be the most critical factor influencing other studios to participate in this field.
Because the 2D animated movies of this era were all drawn one by one by animators.
Calculated based on the duration of an animated film of 90 minutes, 90 minutes, 5400 seconds, 24 frames per second, which means 24 manuscripts, which totals 129,600 manuscripts. This is only a theoretical number. Taking into account errors and scrapped manuscripts, Factors such as this, the actual drawings required for each animated film far exceed the theoretical figures.
However, mature animators can only draw 10 to 20 manuscripts every day. In addition, in order to maintain the unity of the animated film style, the number of people in the team of an animated film should not be too large.
Therefore, before the 1980s, the minimum production cycle for a traditional Disney hand-drawn 2D animated film was four years.
However, even so, the threshold for 2D animated films is not too high if you are willing to spend money and invest patiently. There are still many animation film talents in the world.
In comparison, the threshold for 3D animated movies is obviously much higher.
It is just a software and hardware system for producing 3D animated movies. In this era, Daenerys Entertainment is definitely the only one with no other branches.
Daenerys Entertainment has led the industry for at least five years in software and hardware facilities such as 3D animation software, image rendering software, and even the world's first rendering farm.
Even if it takes five years to make up for this gap, it will take at least two years to launch a 3D animated film, which is seven years.
Moreover, after seven years of continuous investment and tens of millions of dollars spent, the result is that no one can guarantee whether a movie will be successful.
In the original time and space, "Toy Story" was born in 1995, when similar 3D animation software had already appeared in the industry.
Even so, after "Toy Story", the successful blockbuster 3D animated films released by other companies, such as DreamWorks' "Shrek" or Fox's "Ice Age", were all released after 2000.
The interval between periods generally exceeds 5 years.
Later, Illumination Entertainment only came to prominence more than ten years after the birth of "Toy Story".
Now in 1991, due to limited market capacity, graphics software companies such as Autodesk still have no plans to develop 3D animation software.
Not only that, even if other studios poach talents from Daenerys Entertainment through high salaries to form their own teams, in addition to risks in time, money, etc., they also need to consider technology patent issues.
Daenerys Entertainment has applied for a series of patent barriers that are enough to build a 'moat' in terms of 3D animation software, rendering software and even various hardware facilities. Some core technical talents have also signed non-competition agreements with Daenerys Entertainment. Once they resign, they will not be allowed to engage in related occupations for at least three years.
All in all, unless Daenerys Entertainment is willing to take the initiative to let go of technology and talent restrictions, it will be impossible for a second studio in Hollywood to produce 3D animated movies in a short period of time except Daenerys Entertainment.
Of course, Simon will not let go of the technology in his hands easily.
Therefore, as long as it is managed properly, the 3D animated film market will be monopolized by Daenerys Entertainment throughout the 1990s.
After "Toy Story", the runner-up at the box office in the second week of the Thanksgiving period was taken away by "007: GoldenEye".
Although the protagonist is still Timothy Dalton, the quality of "007: GoldenEye" is significantly higher than the previous films under the stable MGM management team and Simon's personal appearance. The production cost reached $50 million.
In its first week, "007: GoldenEye" earned a box office of US$32.79 million. Although this result is not as good as this year's "The Dark Knight", "Terminator 2" and other blockbusters such as "Toy Story" in nearby schedules, it is still It also met MGM’s expectations.
You know, the previous "007: License to Kill" only had a total box office of US$34.66 million in North America.
"GoldenEye" has only been released for one week, and its box office accumulation is already comparable to that of "License to Kill".
However, the media reputation of "007: GoldenEye" only reached about 7 points, which is not very good. According to the film's various data feedback, although it started well in the first week, it is still quite difficult for the total box office in North America to exceed 100 million. .
Considering the film's production budget of US$50 million and publicity expenditure of US$20 million, if you want to recover the cost, you can only rely on the performance of overseas markets.
Third on the list is "The Addams Family" produced by Paramount Pictures.
In its second week, the box office of "The Addams Family" dropped 33%, taking in another US$20.88 million, bringing the cumulative box office to US$52.05 million.
According to this box office curve, whether the North American box office can exceed 100 million is still in the middle.
Columbia Pictures invited Macaulay Culkin to star in "My Little Love," which ranked fourth with a box office of US$14.27 million in its first week.
The production cost was US$30 million, and the first week was US$14.27 million, which obviously fell short of Columbia Pictures' expectations. The film's reputation was also unsatisfactory, with an overall score of only about 5.6.
For a 'fast-moving' holiday comedy, Macaulay Culkin's popularity did not attract enough viewers in the film's first week, and it will be difficult for too many people to pay attention to the film in the future. The prospects can only be said to be average.
"Cape Fear," which Daenerys Entertainment took over from Universal Pictures, had a box office of US$14.21 million in its first week, trailing "Little Lover" by a very narrow margin in fifth place on the weekly box office list.
Martin Scorsese's remake of the crime thriller starring Robert De Niro has a budget of $35 million.
The opening box office of US$14.21 million was also lower than expected. However, the film's reputation is very good, and it is expected to have a pretty good box office curve.
While the schedule continues, outside of Hollywood, Eaglet officially announced the list of World Wide Web patents it plans to open for free on Monday, December 2.
Although the news had been flying all over the place beforehand, when Yigrit Company actually started to implement it, it still caused a strong wave of waves in the industry.
Media outlets from all sides have mixed reviews of the whole thing.
Generally speaking, many media outlets have greatly appreciated Ygritte's decision, but some media have raised objections, believing that Daenerys Entertainment's move is tantamount to completely eliminating the possibility of the birth of widespread Internet technology standards in the second week.
Moreover, although Igret has opened up core patents related to technologies such as HTTP and HTML, it still controls technologies such as browser software, email, and online payment. Therefore, latecomers in the industry are destined to be unable to compete with them in many aspects. Daenerys Entertainment Competition.
Simon does not intend to hinder the emergence of similar companies to compete with Yigrit. It is planned that in the next few years, Yigrit will gradually license out even patents such as email technology.
However, after the announcement of the patent list this time, Yigret Company did not rush to announce the second phase of the plan because of the media's praise or doubts.
As long as you carefully study the list of patents that have been published, you will be able to find that after these patents are released, most of the businesses that Yigrit Portal is involved in at this time, including online forums, personal blogs, online games, etc., are not available to other companies. Follow up with too many restrictions.
This degree of openness has exceeded most people's expectations, and the industry will not be able to have more extravagant expectations for a while.
Janet was discharged from the hospital three days after giving birth to her little one.
The Johnston family also stayed in Los Angeles for about a week before leaving one after another. Janet hoped that the family could spend Christmas together in Los Angeles, but this was obviously unrealistic. The Johnston family also has a lot to deal with.
Veronica Johnston remained in Los Angeles until the end, just as she had been in the hospital room the day she arrived.
Janet originally wanted Veronica to help take care of the children, originally hoping to stimulate Veronica's desire for a family through the little guy. However, during this time, Janet obviously found that things seemed to be a little off.
My aunt is really very fond of the newly born little Melbourne.
It's just that something feels wrong.
These days when she lives in Los Angeles, Veronica comes over to see her children every day. She likes to hold the little one and stare at her for a long time.
At some point, Janet felt as if her aunt was going to snatch the little guy away and raise her as her own.
This is so weird.
I also joke in private, if you like children, then find someone to have one yourself.
Veronica looked like she didn't listen to such words at all.
Therefore, it is inevitable that some doubts will arise in my heart.
However, no matter how smart Janet is, it is difficult to think of certain aspects of things. This is almost a blind spot in thinking. Unless you are personally involved in it, it is difficult to understand. Otherwise, Janet would not have had some misunderstanding between Simon and her aunt before.
Janet has never been one to get into trouble.
If you can’t figure it out, then don’t think about it.
Anyway.
who cares.
A certain little guy has already been born. After this, he no longer wants to have a second child.
What a disaster.
Moreover, for Janet, the happiest thing after the birth of the little one is that he can sleep in any position.
Janet loved nothing more than cuddling with Simon in bed.
However, for the past six months, she has felt that there was a 'third party' between herself and Simon.
Of course, getting back in shape is also on the agenda.
I also started to pick up the work I did before I got pregnant again.
Westerners do not have the habit of confinement. One week after the birth of the child, several heads of Cersei Capital came to Los Angeles to personally report to Janet on the company's operations over the past six months, and also brought a lot of information. .
The restlessness and anxiety I felt in the late stages of pregnancy have also disappeared.
Simon discovered from this point that Janet's psychological quality was much stronger than him.
All in all, after the birth of the little one, Janet was like an elf whose seal had been lifted, almost immediately regaining her pre-pregnancy vitality.
As for a certain little guy, he is regarded as a treasure by everyone. The phrase "hold it in your hand for fear of falling and hold it in your mouth for fear of melting" is not an exaggeration at all. As a mother, Janet does not need to be too much. worry.