Heads Up Hollywood

There are many seniors in the industry in Hollywood, but few of them are truly legends, and Roy Disney is definitely a legend among legends.

Maybe he is not as famous as Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, but his prestige in the industry has not diminished. He is the nephew of Walt Disney, the founder of Disney Group!

So when facing Tang En, a young junior, he naturally felt a little overbearing.

Unexpectedly, Tang En didn't care about seniority and had no respect for Roy Disney.

Roy Disney let Twain go short for a long time, so Twain would definitely not give him face.

Come and not go, indecent!

Tang En rejected Roy Disney's invitation to meet, which naturally aroused Roy Disney's dissatisfaction, but now he has a reputation but no absolute power, so there is really not much to do with Tang En.

Even Disney's number one Michael Eisner couldn't do anything to Twain, so what about his second number?

The only hope is Disney's upcoming animated film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire"!

Although Roy Disney is no longer in power, he is still the chairman of the animation department in name. As long as the box office of this cartoon is strong, he will have more advantages in the next meeting with Tang En.

Especially after 4 weeks of the release of Tang En Pictures' commercial blockbuster "Unsinkable", the box office power has been significantly reduced, and it seems to be surpassed by Paramount's "Tomb Raider".

"Unsinkable" has already surpassed "Pearl Harbor" in the box office market. If "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" is good enough at the box office, it will not only defeat Twain's arrogance, but also defeat Michael A. Sina, re-established his authority.

But... "Tomb Raider" is obviously not as exciting as expected.

The biggest selling point of this movie adapted from a game is Angelina Jolie. In other respects, there are many slots.

The Boston Globe: "While 'Tomb Raider' is as boring as most of its genre, Angelina Jolie adds a lot of color to it."

"Washington/Washington Post": "The film is full of noise, stereotypes, hollowness, frenzy, tastelessness, monotony, violence without blood and sexiness without sexual content."

The Hollywood Reporter: "Angelina Jolie's tight T-shirt is more attractive than the movie's action scenes."

"Movie Review": "The story of the movie is unreliable, not only because the story itself lacks novelty, but because the director did not focus on story arrangement and character creation. Most action movies cannot withstand logic However, if the story is exciting, it can enhance the fighting scenes to a certain extent, or make up for the shortcomings of the fighting scenes. On the contrary, if the story and characters are weak, the focus of the audience must be more concentrated on the action scenes."

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In short, unlike the predictions of many evaluation agencies, the box office of "Tomb Raider" not only failed to beat "Unsinkable" in the second week, but also plummeted.

Monday, $3.01 million, Tuesday, $3.01 million, Wednesday, $2.84 million, Thursday, $2.71 million.

In four working days, only 13.6 million U.S. dollars was received, while the box office of "Unsinkable" still exceeded 15 million U.S. dollars, although the box office of the same period has shrunk severely.

June 22nd, Friday, the weekend stalls are coming!

Disney's animated film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" was released hotly. At the same time, Tang En Pictures' another action blockbuster "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was officially released.

During the promotional stage of "Unsinkable", whether it was Twain Films or Universal Pictures, they allocated all available resources to fight against Disney, and Twain even personally came forward and accepted an exclusive media interview.

In comparison, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is like a wild child, with obvious insufficient conditions in all aspects, so much so that director Luc Besson complained to Tang En many times.

There is no way, as far as Tang En Pictures and Universal Pictures are concerned, their strength...compared with other giants, they are obviously weak.

Regardless of the fact that Universal Pictures is relying on Vivendi, it can't be counted on at all.

Vivendi's ambitions are too great. They don't want to concentrate on operations, coordinate internal resources, and help Universal Pictures, but continue to carry out bloody acquisitions outside!

After acquiring the Seagram Group last year at a sky-high price of US$34 billion, in May this year, Vivendi spent US$2.2 billion to acquire the Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company of the United States; , acquired the world's largest online music site MP3.com.

Now, it is said that he intends to continue to develop the cable TV industry and has launched an acquisition of the American Movie Network.

So much so that the US imperial media, which "have the world in mind", shouted again and again: "Overcome the Japanese/Japanese tiger, and ushered in the French wolf!"

Tang En has been secretly watching Vivendi's every move, because he has long been eyeing some of Vivendi's entertainment sector.

Such a crazy acquisition news is a great thing for Tang En.

The current Vivendi Group has more than 20 billion US dollars in debt. Once the acquisition of the American TV Network is completed, the debt will exceed 30 billion!

When next year, Vivendi suffers from indigestion and the financial statements of huge losses are announced, that is when Vivendi collapses.

At that time, in order to avoid bankruptcy, Vivendi can only be forced to sell assets to pay off debts. This is Tang En's best opportunity to buy a bargain!

Compared with such a major event, he doesn't care much about the small troubles in the box office market right now.

On the contrary, seniors, masters, and elites like Roy Disney pay close attention to the box office market.

Friday, June 22.

"Tomb Raider", a single-day box office of 6.27 million US dollars!

"Unsinkable", a single-day box office of 9.5 million US dollars!

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" has a single-day box office of 20.81 million US dollars!

"Atlantis: The Lost Empire" grossed $4.8 million in a single day!

Saturday, June 23.

"Tomb Raider", a single-day box office of 7.08 million US dollars!

"Unsinkable", a single-day box office of 11.27 million US dollars!

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" has a single-day box office of 28.43 million US dollars!

"Atlantis: The Lost Empire", a single-day box office of 6.75 million US dollars!

Sunday, June 24.

"Tomb Raider", a single-day box office of 5.68 million US dollars!

"Unsinkable", a single-day box office of 8.96 million US dollars!

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" has a single-day box office of 25.84 million US dollars!

"Atlantis: The Lost Empire" has a single-day box office of 5.14 million US dollars!

With such a box office report card, Roy Disney almost vomited blood!

He felt that he was conservative enough. Even if the publicity of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was not enough, but with Mel Gibson's super influence and Don Walker as the producer, the quality of this film would not be too bad.

So he gave up the idea of ​​comparing with "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" early on, as long as the box office can surpass "Unsinkable" is enough.

Unexpectedly, the box office of the first weekend of the Disney animation "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" only got 16.69 million US dollars!

The investment of this cartoon is a full 120 million US dollars, which is 20 million more than "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"!

The box office is not as good as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". Roy Disney can tolerate it.

However, "Unsinkable" is already in its fifth week of release, and it earned $29.73 million this weekend. This week's North American box office exceeded $45 million, completely crushing "Atlantis: The Lost Empire".

What is even more unacceptable to Roy Disney is that the action film "Tomb Raider", which is generally not rated highly by film critics, even got 19.03 million US dollars this weekend!

Even Paramount's movies can crush Disney's most proud cartoons, which makes Roy Disney, an old man, feel physically and mentally exhausted.

Roy Disney didn't even eat breakfast. After receiving the latest box office data early in the morning, he sat alone in the study in a daze, deeply moved.

Although his authority in Disney is completely suppressed by Michael Eisner, his sense of belonging to Disney far exceeds that of the other!

Disney started with cartoons, but now Disney animation is no longer accepted by the market, which is somewhat desolate in old age.

Look at Pixar animation, which is in the limelight, and DreamWorks animation, which has turned around with the hot sales of "Shrek", Disney animation seems to have been eliminated by the times.

"Traditional 2D animation is completely dead!"

Roy Disney sighed.

Pixar promotes computer animation. Last year, DreamWorks acquired Pacific Digital Video Effects Studio. This year, it launched the first computer animation "Shrek", which was a great success.

All examples have shown that the hand-drawn animation belonging to Roy Disney's era is completely dead.

Think about it some time ago, Siliwood Animation, a subsidiary of Tang En Pictures, acquired the "Digital Realm" special effects studio at a high price of 20 million US dollars. At that time, Roy Disney laughed at Tang En's money. What a brilliant move!

At this point, Roy Disney had to admit defeat.

During this period of time, he used Michael Eisner's incompetence in the film market to keep attacking in the board of directors, but now the animation film he is in charge of has received the same cold reception, which is somewhat slapped.

But in his opinion, Michael Eisner is really not suitable to continue to lead Disney.

Disney must have a new leader!

In the case of internal weakness, foreign aid is crucial.

Looking at the entire Hollywood, there are many people who want Michael Eisner to step down, but there is only one person who is most capable of bringing Michael Eisner down, and that is Don Walker!

Even though Twain's behavior seemed a little disrespectful in the past period of time, Roy Disney had to endure it for the long-term interests of the company.

He took a deep breath, and finally couldn't bear it any longer, so he called Tang En.

"Mr. Disney? I didn't expect you to call me!"

Tang En also just saw the latest box office data, and he was in a good mood.

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" earned a box office of 75.08 million U.S. dollars in three days over the weekend. Although it failed to break through 100 million, it broke the monopoly of "Unsinkable" for three consecutive weeks and became the new weekly champion.

Roy Disney said with a smile: "Today... the weather is good, find a place to sit down and talk?"

Tang En raised his head and looked out the window, only to find that there were dark clouds outside. He almost laughed out loud, and became more confident, "How about...go to my office?"

Roy Disney was so angry that he almost cursed out!

He is a senior, an old man!

Tang En actually asked him to visit, without the most basic etiquette!

"My status is inconvenient." Roy Disney took a deep breath, held back the anger in his chest, and said lightly: "Well, there is a Vine Street between Yucca Street and Sunset Boulevard, and there is a nice century-old restaurant there. The shop seems to be run by an old couple, and the hand-roasted coffee tastes very good.”

Tang En smiled and pushed the boat along, "That's fine."