The next day.
Disney group Burbank headquarters building.
Yes, it's Burbank headquarters. Because Disney group has two headquarters in the United States, one is located in the Burbank area of Los Angeles, and the other is located in New York.
California, Idaho, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania... The owners and representatives of movie peripheral chain stores from major states and major cities attended the peripheral licensing bidding conference of "bug crisis".
Well, Zucker didn't attend in person. Instead, he asked Kevin Fitch, the vice president, to attend.
"Kevin, your boss, Zhuke, is not optimistic about the surrounding market of" bug crisis " Old Billy asked again.
"I can't say I'm not optimistic, but the boss said" bug crisis "is a chicken rib." Said Kevin Fitch.
chicken ribs?
Well, as one of the representatives of the roughneck and the illiterate, old Billy couldn't understand at all!
"It's tasteless to eat, but it's a pity to abandon. That's chicken ribsã The movie "bug crisis" is excellent, and the response of the surrounding market is not bad. There is no doubt that the dealers of the major surrounding chain stores want to make a profit, but this premise is the benchmarking of "Toy Story". Do you think "bug crisis" can match or surpass "Toy Story" Kevin Fitch said in a low voice.
"This... This should be OK." Old Billy's not sure.
Hearing the speech, Kevin Fitch shook his head and said: "at the beginning, I held the same judgment as you, that" bug crisis "will inherit the glory of" Toy Story ", or even surpass it. But my boss, Mr. Wald, says it can't surpass. The global box office is at most $200 million. "
In fact, there is another sentence that Zucker did not say to Kevin Fitch.
ââ"Bug crisis" animation is the protagonist of a few insects!
Pixar Animation is to design their image is very lovely, the fate of the characters also let many people moved, this is right. However... They are still worms!
How many children like toys like caterpillars and ants?
There is no denying that there will be, but compared with toy story, the number is definitely much lower!
For a moment, old Billy was lost in thought.
He looked at the crazy crowd who wanted to participate in the auction at all costs, and thought about the miracle of the past two years, which made him very confused.
"Forget it, I won't fight this time."
"Anyway, I have obtained the authorization of piggy page in the surrounding area of Utah, and how much more money can I earn from a" worm crisis "?
"But once" bug crisis "is true, it's not worth killing people, there will definitely be a large group of people who are half angry."
Old Billy thought a lot in his mind in a short time.
It wasn't long before
The peripheral authorization of "bug crisis" was officially launched under the leadership of a senior executive of the copyright department of Disney group.
Utah area, the surrounding authorized price is $950000.
"I'll pay 950000!" A merchant with a big stomach spoke first.
His name is Francis, and he runs a chain store in Utah. His scale is as good as old Billy's, even better than old Billy's.
"Francis, you're so mean. You're running 10 chain stores around here. Look at my offer. I'm going to pay $1.5 million for the chain stores around Monroe! " A young man said in a loud voice.
WOW!
In an instant, not only Francis was shocked, but also the owners of many nearby chain stores were shocked.
There's nothing wrong.
Push the price to such a high price at the beginning, how can we play?
"Mon el, you asshole!" Francis said at once.
As a young man, where can he bear this anger? He scolded him for the first time: "old man, if you don't have money, you can go away."
Between peers, that's it!
What's more, they are still competing with each other in Utah. The sea of hatred is gone!
The next moment, several other chain store owners in Utah, except old Billy, joined the fight.
1.6 million!
1.75 million!
1.9 million!
.......
In the end, it was the young man who had the courage to bid $3 million for the authorization of bug crisis in Utah.
"The price is really not low!"
Kevin Fitch took a breath on the spot. He finally knew why his boss was so obsessed with animated cinema movies.
Old Billy gritted his teeth and said, "two years ago, I took the authorization of toy story in Utah from Zucker, and it was only $1.5 million. I didn't expect that the price of" bug crisis ", which has not yet been released and has no clear prospect, will double."
After the film is released, it is the same as before, but the price of the two concepts can never be the same.
In the next few days, filming began in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Nevada and other neighboring states.
Pennsylvania, sell 2.7 million dollars!
Missouri, sold $1.6 million;
Nevada, sold $2.4 million;
.......
The auction, which lasted for two hours, finally came to an end.
Finally, Disney group sold $117.5 million in 50 States alone at an average price of $2.35 million per state.
Remember, this is just the benefit of licensing around the United States!
If we calculate the income of overseas countries, we can imagine the income of Disney and Pixar's authorization around the "bug crisis".
Before it was released, the production cost of the film came back and made a lot of money.
At this moment, that is, Zhuke is not here, otherwise he will scold... Oh no, he is envious!
In the original history of time and space, after the release of "bug crisis", the box office performance in North America was not as expected, and the overseas box office performance was even worse, which really made those dealers who won the authorization around the States regret.
One by one, we've lost a lot!
"A few months later, a few of the surrounding chain stores will go bankrupt."
After receiving the news, Zhuke not only said it in a quiet way.
.......
meanwhile.
Zucker is now on the set of the movie "300 warriors of Sparta". Today's characters are guest stars of Hollywood celebrities.
Matt Damon, who plays the Persian ambassador to Sparta at the beginning of the movie.
"Humble mortals, pray for the Spartans to submit to his majesty Xerxes, the king of kings."
However, before matte Damon became arrogant, he was kicked over by Leonidas!
"No!"
"You can't kill me!"
"I am a messenger, a servant of his majesty Xerxes, the great king of kings. If you kill me, your Majesty's hundreds of thousands of Persian troops will kill your entire Sparta, burn your country to ashes
Well, Matt Damon's got the lunch box.
.......
Next, it's the villain of John NIDEP!
Yes, he also plays villain!
John niederp plays a rotten religious figure in Sparta, who strongly opposes the confrontation between Leonidas and Persians.
As a matter of fact, in Hollywood movies, when all kinds of celebrities perform as guest stars, almost none of them play normal people, either villains who receive lunch boxes in a few seconds or funny characters who will die soon.
For example, in the movie "dead man 2", Brad Pitt plays a funny mutant who, in the process of jumping off the plane, touches the high-voltage electricity to death in a very simple and funny way.
Next, Keanu Reeves, Jacqueline Phoenix and others all appeared as villains.
He died of decapitation, knelt down to beg for mercy and was killed.
It has to be said that the various ways of death of the guest stars really made the scene joyful, which made people laugh and cry.
After the shooting, Matt Damon looked at Zucker quietly: "didn't he say that I would play a decent hero? How can you turn into a villain in the blink of an eye? "
John niederp is very satisfied, "villain how good, how happy, I like such a character."
The second watch is on.