Chapter 292： The quirks of flame movies (1/2)
In September 1999, Blue Sky Studio became a member of Flame Film and produced ”Ice Age” at a bowl cost. This cgL animation appeared on the 6 theater big screen in May 2nd, becoming the seventh North American box office with a billion dollars. cgL animation, and eventually received 47.6 billion worldwide box office. : This proud achievement made Blue Sky leap into Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, the fourth largest netbsp; with the crazy boss of Magic Yang, the newly rising blue sky is ambitious, and soon after announced two netbsp; The first item is to invest in Kou Kou Wan to produce ”The Glacier Does Not Melt in the Glacier”, directed by set director Carlos Erdanha, and the other director Chris Wake is fully responsible for the production work.
Compared to the first part, ”Glacier Melt” not only has a more mature behind-the-scenes production team and experienced animators; it also has a leap-style advanced and meticulous cg technology, and a new voice actor for a new role, a naive and persistent mammoth. Allie is interpreted by the growing popularity of Benedict, and the naughty possum brothers around Allie invite Sean William Newcott of the ”hard strip” of the ”American School” series.
The sequel has been completed and the final stage of the dubbing and soundtrack has been completed. It will be released in North America on May 7 this year after less than three months, and it will attack the box office share of the four-year summer holiday period. And it will log in to some overseas theaters earlier on April 23, April, Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina. ”
This is one of the very few overseas releases that predates North America. No matter from the data of the box office and the peripheral sales, it is obvious that the overseas market is more interested in ”Ice Age”, and the huge success of the first part has given overseas investors confidence in agreeing to publicize and cooperate on schedule. Century 2 with overseas enthusiastic response and praise for the North American market, will have the effect of pulling the box office.
Overseas is greater than North America, and overseas is earlier than North America. This is also the market positioning of Flame Blue Sky for the ”Ice Age” series, ”Kung Fu Panda” series, and even the future new series and the exhibition strategy of the entire animation company. one strike!
”These pandas are so good ...” Oh! Look at that one, it is looking at us! ”
Under the light blue sky, the trees are overgrown, and a giant black and white panda lazily crawls on the muddy ground, or sleeps on a wooden shed, and there is a sleeping hidden in a three-pronged tree Between the branches and forks, rolled like a big round hair ball. An adult giant panda walking on a wooden shed looked at the stone railing in the distance, and saw some sporadic tourists watching there.
A coffin woman in blue clothes pointed to this side in surprise. The black man in gray clothes next to him was taking a photo of something. The panda only felt a flash of light. It yawned and bored the boring woman with joy. : ”Haha, it's yawning! Open your mouth wide!”
After climbing Mount Everest and setting foot on the world, Wang Yang and Jessica left Tibet, and continued the two-person world alone, enjoying a wedding honeymoon with ten days to go, and the journey station is Chengdu, Sichuan, Panda Breeding research base.
The pandas who are so good are another key project of Blue Sky Studio. They have been busy preparing for the ”Kung Fu Panda” project with a budget of 100 million in the summer of the beginning of the year. It took more than a year to start in the beginning of January. The film production is scheduled to be released in May of 5 years. For a cg animated film from scratch, the efficiency of the 3-year production cycle is already very high.
This is undoubtedly benefited from the many suggestions provided by one of the team's screenwriters, planners and producers, which directly solved many difficult problems that took a long time, and made the Panda team take a lot of wrong roads.
Producer Chris Wake, Producer & Screenwriter Jonathan Abel, Producer & Screenwriter Glenn Berger ... ”Abel and Berger are the same positions in the o8 version of DreamWorks” Kung Fu Panda ” The person in charge, they are famous for the 1997 Canadian television animation comedy ”The Head of the Family”. With the production team and screenwriter team, who will hand the main microphone of the director team of ”Kung Fu Panda” to?
This is a problem that has plagued Flame Blue Sky and Wang Yang for a long time. Let ’s not talk about the ability to direct. First, this person needs to know how to be funny and have a style that is suitable for all ages; 3. Oriental culture has passion and understanding, the more the better.
Flame Blue Sky hopes to invite Xu Chengyi (Raman Xu) to direct.
Born in Hong Kong in 1963, Xu Chengyi was born in Hong Kong. He was born in the Department of Graphic Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He initially worked as a cartoon producer at Quantum Studio in Hong Kong. The animator of ”Bat Porridge” in 1995, the character design and animation guidance of ”The Little Ant” in 1998, the animation supervisor of ”Shrek” for 1 year, the animation cup for ”Shrek 2” for 4 years, and the first assistant director ”” Wang Yang also knew that Xu Chengyi was the co-director of Shrek's Seven Years. Xu Chengyi is the treasure of the DreamWorks animation department, one of the most important members of the ”Shrek” team. Maybe the original DreamWorks made ”Kung Fu Panda” has his credit, maybe one day he will go to Blue Sky Studio, but now, He couldn't come anyway.
Could you please come to Xu Chengyi, then directly invite the two directors of the o8 version of ”Kung Fu Panda” John One Stephenson and Mark One Osborne? The problem is that the two are also DreamWorks, core members of the Paramount system. Now Stephenson and Xu Chengyi directed the production of the animated TV comedy ”Proud Daddy”. This autumn's file will be broadcast on the channel; Mark I Osborne is Paramount directed the cg animated movie ”Sponge Baby Adventures”, which will be released in November this year.
Without Stephenson and Osbourne, even if they can come, judging from the current situation that the two film and television director lists are blank, it is not necessarily a good thing to let them take Abao for kung fu.
Looking for a long time to negotiate, Flame Blue Sky finally determined the director candidate last summer, Steve Odkok.