Hollywood Starts with Animation
Chapter 71
"Who is ready? I''m ready ~! "
"When it comes to money, no one is right or wrong, SpongeBob. But the point is whether there is affection and morality. "
"Knowledge can''t replace friendship. I''d rather be an idiot than lose you."
"They all gave up on you, but I didn''t, because I''m not very smart."
"I want two ice cream, one for me and one for my good friend SpongeBob."
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Since "SpongeBob" was broadcast on UPN TV network, it has won many people''s praise in just one day.
Now, ten days after the broadcast, its influence has swept the entire California area.
The lines in his animation series have become popular lines, attracting many children to follow suit.
Humor, positive energy and other factors make many parents and adults very happy. They are happy to see their children grow up healthily and happily. These factors make SpongeBob more and more popular.
Even these days, Zhuke sits at home polishing new scripts, and good news often comes.
The first to get the good news was James, the old leader of Zhuke!
"Old man, you''re going to send it!"
"I can''t believe our peripheral products are so popular ~!"
"Ten days!"
"In just ten days, the total turnover of our seven stores exceeded US $2.4 million. Excluding all kinds of costs and personnel expenses, the gross profit absolutely exceeded US $1 million."
"The profits in this period are totally equal to the profits in the last three months."
"I can''t believe our little sponge attracts so many customers. Well, it''s more popular than the peripheral products of toy story!"
There is no doubt that the good news from James made Jack very happy.
In just ten days, the profit of peripheral products exceeds one million US dollars. With the continuous explosion of SpongeBob, can the profit of a month not exceed three million US dollars?
It''s going to take off!
"Besides, it''s just the beginning."
Zhuke''s heart moved.
Constrained by the weakness of UPN, SpongeBob can achieve such brilliant results. Once UPN takes advantage of the expansion, it can absolutely detonate the whole America like the original time and space!
SpongeBob has made 13 billion US dollars of peripheral profits before 2020. Now it''s not going to make any profits!
Jinshan!
There is no doubt that this is a huge golden mountain!
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The second news came from Ms. Donna, CEO of UPN.
"Boss, the audience rating of our UPN children''s channel has now exceeded 1.05%. I believe that before the end of the first season of SpongeBob, our ratings will exceed 4%. "
4%?
Although this figure is insignificant, when we look at dozens of television networks and 320 million people in the United States, the audience rating of these 4% is at least 12 million families and the number of viewers is at least 25 million.
Pro, a potential peripheral buying group of 25 million people.
There is no doubt that this is a huge market!
Even if only one percent of the people buy the peripheral products of SpongeBob, the annual peripheral market will reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
Besides, this is the first season 40 blockbuster of SpongeBob.
In the original time and space, SpongeBob''s film is nearly 180 episodes. But as long as you can make money, Zhuke doesn''t mind making it all the time, making it 300 episodes!
On the phone, Zhuke also told Donna.
"After SpongeBob was broadcasted, UPN TV network generated relevant profits, and I won''t take out a cent. All of them will be used for the expansion of UPN TV network, but what I want is not only a children''s channel, but the overall ratings of the whole TV network, do you know?"
"Also, before the end of February, I want to see the official launch of" America''s got talent show. "
"Yes, I''ve already contacted ITV broadcasting company in the UK, trying to set off the upsurge of talent show during the summer vacation!"
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Victor, CEO of Wald pictures, has also received good news one after another.
The movie Juno was officially released offline from major North American Theaters, with a total box office of US $165 million in North America, ranking fourth in the annual North American box office list in 1996.
In other words, the box office of the same theater line alone is more than 80 million US dollars.
Of course, this is because both the distribution company and the production company of the film are a company of Wald pictures, otherwise it is impossible to achieve such terrible profits.
Well, although excluding the cost of publicity, copying, transportation, manpower and so on, the final profit is certainly less than 80 million US dollars, but with the authorization of DVD, video tape, television media and so on, the final profit is also very considerable.
As for SpongeBob?
ha-ha!
Since the launch of SpongeBob on UPN nearly a day ago, there are more than 20 surrounding chain stores in North America, and they want to obtain the surrounding authorization.
To this point, Zhuke also gave instructions.
"Sell it!"
"Why not sell it!"
"Of course, you can''t sell in a hurry! We have to wait for "SpongeBob" to become more popular, and then sell the peripheral authorization of the States, so that our interests can be maximized
After hanging up Victor''s phone, Zucker looks at the sheets of paper in front of him.
The sixth sense of the supernatural;
Spartan 300 warriors;
Death is coming;
Human clearance plan;
Fatal bend 2;
Piggy page.
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There are six scripts in total.
Among them, the script of "the sixth sense of the supernatural" was written more than half a year ago and successfully registered. However, it has been modified and supplemented by several screenwriters of the company, and Zhuke is doing the final review action.
M. Knight shamaland had a very pleasant cooperation in the film fatal bend 1.
This time, in the sixth sense, Zhuke plans to cooperate with him again.
After all, in the original time and space, Shamalan is the director and screenwriter of the film, and he is very good at supernatural horror movies. It can be said that it is the most suitable person to let him be the director of the film.
"Man, it''s the second highest grossing film in North America in 1999!"
"The box office in North America is 293 million US dollars, and the total box office in the world is 670 million US dollars!"
There is no doubt that the box office performance of sixth sense is more crazy than Juno!
Of course, its shooting cost is also very high, which needs 40 million US dollars; If the expenses of publicity and copying are included, Zhuke needs to reserve at least 50 million US dollars.
It will be the most expensive film since Wald pictures was founded.
"The shooting cycle and post production cycle of the film will take at least half a year. Moreover, the film must be released before December. "
"After all, in December next year, there will be a big ship of terror coming out!"
Zucker doesn''t have a head like that!
If you want to touch Titanic, you can touch it. Anyway, Zucker won''t touch it.
"The first watch" is presented.