Chapter 487 (1/2)

A movie theater in downtown Beverly, Los Angeles.

At about 10 o'clock in the night, Michael Eisner and Michael owitz left a VIP Hall with their families.

The car has been waiting on the street at the back door of the cinema.

Two Hollywood tycoons listen to the excited comments of their wives and children. They get into a car together. When the car starts, they look at each other with a look.

What the two families have just watched is ”Wonder Woman”, which is being painted on a large scale today.

Unlike his wife and children, who only had the pleasure of watching an excellent movie, both of them were worried.

Three years ago, Batman: the moment of war, relying on the hot action design and advanced CG special effects, opened up the situation of DC movie universe at one stroke. This time, wonder woman, compared with the previous two big films Batman and flash, is obviously a step further.

Ordinary audiences often can't understand the technical details of a film. Michael Eisner and Michael owitz are naturally different.

In this movie, the action design is still wonderful, and it seems to be full of a large number of real scenes. However, the proportion of CG special effects is obviously higher than that of previous DC superhero movies, such as the truth Lasso, one of the important weapons of wonder woman. Many scenes are completely generated by CG.

At the end of the film, the decisive battle between wonder woman and Ares, the God of war, and the use of large-scale CG images are even more amazing.

There have been a lot of big production in Hollywood. However, in the past few times, the ending has basically returned to rationality.

Jeffrey carsenberg, head of Disney's film business, published a memo two years ago, calling for Hollywood to return to low budget movies. Michael Eisner originally agreed with this view.

Even the DC movie universe blockbuster series, which has sprung up in recent years, is just a special case.

The high budget action movies represented by Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have failed repeatedly in recent years.

On the contrary, even the series of blockbusters in the past few years, such as ghost, sixth sense, pretty girl, bodyguard and kid in charge, are all low-cost films, and few of them have a budget of more than $30 million.

However, after watching wonder woman in person tonight, Michael Eisner found his faith wavered again.

Blockbuster movies with big production and big budget may really be the future of Hollywood.

Michael Eisner was worried at this time because of Disney's weak foundation in the production of blockbuster movies, or, more accurately, the huge gap between Disney and Denise in the production of blockbuster movies.

Through the accumulation of several DC films, daenerys entertainment has formed a very strong film technology team, which includes the film action design to CG scene production and other aspects.

Especially CG technology. Just after watching wonder woman, Michael Eisner thinks that the accumulation of Denise special effects in CG technology may have exceeded that of other special effects teams in the same period for three to five years. Lucas industrial light and magic studio, which created the Star Wars series, has been far away from Denise special effects.

Although Denise special effects has always maintained an attitude of cooperation with foreign countries, Denise special effects is responsible for most of the special effects in Disney's summer season sci-fi family comedy ”honey, I've made my child big”.

However, it can be imagined that if Disney wants to compete with Denise entertainment on a larger scale of special effects movies, and then wants to rely on each other's technical resources, it is impossible.

In addition to danielis special effects, it takes at least three years for industrial light magic and other special effects companies to catch up with danielis special effects because of the lack of professional software and technical background.

Three years from now, Denise's special effects won't stay the same.

Therefore, the most convenient way for Hollywood studios to produce the top CG special effects scenes is to cooperate with danielis entertainment.

However. Any studio executive with a little foresight can realize that this kind of cooperation is full of the threat of being stuck by danielis entertainment at any time.

If you want to get rid of this threat, you either don't set foot in the field of special effects movies, or you can only start a new business.

Luxury cars shuttle through the streets of Los Angeles late at night. Michael Eisner is thinking about the breakthrough of the studio in the field of special effects movies. Michael owitz's inner worry is deeper than him.

The budget for the production of ”Wonder Woman” this time is as high as 80 million US dollars. However, the salaries of several core creators of the film, including the director, screenwriter, leading actor and heroine, and several core supporting roles, that is, the ”online expenses” of a film, add up to less than 10 million US dollars.It can be said that nearly 90% of the film's production budget has been invested in the shooting and post production of wonder woman.

After CAA creatively proposed the project packaging mechanism, the ”online cost” of Hollywood movies in the 1980s often reached 50% or even higher than that of a movie.

Now, DC movie universe projects such as wonder woman may have their own superhero IP blessing, so they don't need to invite top stars. However, once other blockbuster projects also show this trend, it is likely to form a subversive impact on the traditional salary system of Hollywood stars.

If a blockbuster with special effects as its selling point can sell well without big stars, probably no studio will be willing to invite stars to bear the demands of big stars and even the high profit share in addition to the basic salary.

When this trend is formed, the current first-line stars, if they want not to be gradually marginalized, can only take the initiative to lower their prices.

Michael owitz can't help but think of the movie Forrest Gump, which danielis entertainment has just finalized with two CAA filmmakers, Robert zemigis and Tom Hanks.

Because it needs to use a lot of special effects, the budget of Forrest Gump will reach about $50 million, which is undoubtedly a blockbuster. At the same time, due to the high budget of film production, neither zemigs nor Hanks can ask for too much salary.

Danielis entertainment also offered a plan to reduce the salary and commission. However, with a production budget of US $50 million and even half of the production cost, Forrest Gump needs us $150 million to recover the cost through the local box office.

Such a feature film about a fool's rampage in the modern history of the United States, let alone 150 million, even 50 million US dollars at the box office, makes people worry about whether they can get it.

Give up?