After Xia Tian met Xia Xue, he then went to meet Robert Eiger.

"How is it, how is the company's recent development?" he asked with a smile.

"Very good, Mr. Xia." Robert Eiger nodded, "Last year, the company launched the two movies "Princess Diary" and "Fast and Furious", both of which achieved very good box office and reputation.

"Beautiful Mind" has been filmed, and because it has hopes of hitting the Oscars, we decided to release this winter.

"Charlie's Angels" and "Tomb Raider" are still being filmed. Because there are many action scenes in the film, the actors conducted three months of action training before filming, which slowed down the time."

After hearing this, Xia Tian nodded.

The American Academy Awards are usually held in March every year. The rules for Oscars are to select films released from January 1 to December 31 last year. More than 5,000 members of the jury committee vote to select various awards.

There are more than 300 movies released in the United States every year, and the judges have limited energy and cannot watch them all. So when they vote, they usually choose the best movies, but the movies they are most familiar with.

This is like people shopping, usually choosing more famous brands instead of the best quality goods.

In addition, people's memory is limited. The earlier the events that happened, the harder it is to remember clearly. The later the events that happened, the more impressive they are. Therefore, many movies that have hit Oscars will choose to be released in the winter schedule.

This will further deepen the impression of the judges and have more hope of winning the award. Moreover, if you are lucky enough to win the award, it will also stimulate the box office.

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Hollywood filming is very serious, like shooting action scenes. Usually, at the beginning of the filming, the actors will be arranged to receive training to better complete the shooting.

It seems that before the filming of "Brothers Company", the main actors were arranged to undergo three months of military training, and were trained by professional military instructors. The intensity was very high, almost like training professional soldiers.

At the beginning of the filming of "The Matrix", the directors Wachowski brothers also arranged several starring actors to receive martial arts training; at the beginning of the filming of "Mission: Impossible", Tom Cruise even went to learn skydiving...

It is this serious attitude towards movies that makes Hollywood movies full of texture and every move is decent.

In comparison, the mainland film industry in the past life had a very unserious attitude towards work. Actors should not be trained in advance and be fully prepared for their roles. If they can not play the role, they will not be late or leave early, or abuse their substitutes, they will be Amitabha.

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"By the way, Mr. Xia, after our "Princess Diary" was released, it made Disney very dissatisfied." Robert Eiger smiled.

"What's wrong with it? I haven't copied its works." Xia Tian asked in surprise.

"Because Disney's Princess series is the most famous, they have always liked to shoot teenage movies, and "The Princess Diary" is the story of the 'Princess' and the teenage comedy theme, so it thinks we have snatched its business." Robert Eiger smiled.

When Xia Tian heard this, he laughed.

I know that Disney's Princess series is its golden sign, such as "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "Little Mermaid", "Tanghai", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", etc., but classic masterpieces that have been passed down continuously.

Over the years, Disney can earn more than 600 million US dollars in net profit every year by launching the Princess series animated feature video tapes, mmcd. It can be said that it is a more profitable deal than Kingsoft.

Therefore, Disney is very concerned about the "Princess" series. Through various publicity and reinforcement, it makes "Disney Princess" a resounding brand. In Hollywood, people usually choose Disney whenever they mention "Princess" movies.

But now, Colombia has also launched the "Princess" movie, which not only has a box office of over 100 million yuan, but also has a good reputation and is very popular among teenagers. This has brought great crisis to Disney.

In addition, the rise of 3D animation in recent years has made Disney, which has been committed to the 2D animation business, feel a great sense of crisis, making it more sensitive to external threats.

Robert Iger came from Disney again, so Disney is naturally dissatisfied with Colombia's launch of the "Princess" movie.

Michael Eisner not only complained in private, but even expressed dissatisfaction in public, which can be said to be quite upset.

"Don't worry about it." Xia Tian waved his hand and smiled, "The 'Princess Movie' is not exclusive to Disney. Why can it be filmed? We can't film it? Besides, "The Princess Diary" is an original story, not a copy of its works, and there is no reason to express dissatisfaction."

"Yes, I responded so too." Robert Eiger nodded.

If he was the president of Disney before, he would be afraid that Michael Eisner would be no longer doing things under him now, so he naturally would not have to give him any face. He would not feel good about himself and think he could conquer himself.

"Well, don't worry, Disney can't compete with us." Xia Tian smiled.

In his previous life, the reason why Disney became the leader of the six major Hollywood giants and even finally acquired another giant Fox was because Pixar 3D animation made its first pot of gold.

Several animated feature films such as "Toy Story" series, "Beast Crisis", "Monster Electric Factory", "Finding Nemo", and "Superman" have made Disney a huge profit. The sales of peripheral products of "Toy Story" alone are as high as 2.4 billion US dollars.

Later, Disney acquired Pixar, Marvel Comics, and made a big profit with the Marvel Universe movies. Later, it acquired Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks, and had enough of Lucas' Lucas Pictures, and bought the "Star Wars" IP...

It can be said that it is the continuous acquisition and the continuous launch of fine movies that have enabled Disney to grow and grow step by step.

However, it is very difficult for Disney to grow and grow now.

Pixar animation is now called Tianxia Animation, which is the summer industry. It has its own distribution company, so naturally it does not need to use Disney channels, so Disney has lost a lot of revenue.

Although the second Marvel Comics are now sold to US Online, they enjoy the right to acquire them first in the summer. So Disney wants to buy Marvel Comics and expand its teenage movie market, it is naturally no longer possible.

Since Summer knows the fate of DreamWorks and Lucasfilm, it will naturally not be cheap for Disney, and will definitely intercept the fool in the middle.

Losing Pixar, losing Marvel, losing DreamWorks, losing Lucas, relying solely on Disney's existing IPs, it is absolutely impossible to compete in summer.

So summer is not afraid of it at all. .
Chapter completed!