"WALL-E" was released during the seven-day Chinese New Year holiday and won the box office championship without any surprises.
The total box office has exceeded 1.8 billion!
An animated film takes the top spot at the Spring Festival box office, which is big news in itself.
The film also performed quite well in North America. Under the pressure of popular sequels such as "The Adventures of Pets 3", it actually took in more than 60 million US dollars at the box office in its first weekend.
It's only a few million lower than "Pet Adventures 3".
The key is that starting the next week, the box office decline of "WALL-E" was significantly smaller than that of "Pet Adventures 3".
A week after its release, the box office surpassed "The Adventures of Pets 3" at the box office.
This also caused the North American media to bring up the old story again.
In particular, film critics and the public relations media of Dean Films have made all-round criticisms of the current situation in Hollywood that there are more sequels and less originality.
By the next weekend, the box office drop of "Wall-E" was only about 30%, while the drop of "Pet Adventures 3" was close to 50%.
The gap between the two has widened again, causing countless media to revel in various criticisms of Shengguang Animation Studio.
Said that they have lost the original intention of Holy Light Animation Studio, innovation, innovation, innovation!
This time, Holy Light Animation is speechless!
Although some media claim that the success of "Wall-E" is just an example, it cannot be denied that neither Holy Light Animation nor other Hollywood animation companies have released any original animated films for many years.
Basically there are sequels, sequels, sequels every year!
In fact, these media reports can't change anything at all.
Because the risks of sequels are indeed much more controllable than those of originals.
But this does not prevent the media from continuing to criticize Hollywood for having lost the courage to innovate, etc.
Dean Pictures is clamoring for "WALL-E" so hard not only because they are the North American distributor of this movie, but more importantly, they hope to use this to deepen their relationship with Li Yi and Xing Xing.
Comic collaboration.
Because Star Comics has always been a Chinese company, in North America, for example, "WALL-E", regardless of the box office, but in fact, the most profitable one is Dean Films.
From the beginning, "Wall-E" is a work produced by a Chinese company.
In North America, Hollywood giants like Dean Pictures control the Hollywood film industry chain, such as peripheral sales channels, etc. Although Li Yi also has a company in North America managed by Xu Nannan, it is only doing accounting at most.
company used.
More still, we need to rely on local Hollywood giants like Dean Pictures.
The North American copyrights for "WALL-E" peripherals and so on will eventually be handed over to Dean Pictures for distribution.
Therefore, for Dean Pictures, they are not helping Li Yi, but helping themselves make money.
There is nothing we can do about this. In fact, Li Yi's movies have been treated very well in Hollywood.
At least Dean Pictures has been relatively restrained in splitting accounts in order to win over Li Yi. Otherwise, you can look at the earlier cooperation between Midan Pictures and Gao Le Pictures.
Li Yi had nothing to say about this. It would be good if he could make money on his territory.
In fact, the opposite is also true. For example, in China, Hollywood film companies, even giants, must abide by the rules here!
The popularity of "WALL-E" both at home and abroad has established the status of this animated film.
It also boosts domestic movie box office.
However, the decline of "WALL-E" was also very obvious after the Spring Festival. On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the box office dropped sharply.
The drop was more than 50%. Of course, other movies dropped even more.
"Wall-E" became a huge hit, and even its peripheral products sold like crazy.
The best-selling ones are naturally the robot models of WALL-E and Eva, followed closely by the unexpected robot boxer who rarely appears in the movie! And then there is the cleaning robot Maomao!
At the same time, there are more movie peripherals, such as WALL-E collectibles that appeared in "WALL-E". After the movie became popular, related brand manufacturers also came to seek cooperation.
Such as lighters, Rubik's Cube, tableware, etc.
Not only that, there are also authorized items such as school bags, stationery, washbasins, clothing, umbrellas, etc.
It can be said that although the box office of "WALL-E" may not reach 3 billion in the end, the economic scale of the entire industry chain it brings will definitely exceed 10 billion! This is because the domestic development of film peripheral industries is still limited.
Immature, otherwise, this number will definitely be higher!
In fact, in the animation industry, if you do well, you can really make money.
Don't look at the domestic companies that produce animations for young children, such as cartoons and the like. Even many of them cannot be sold at high prices, and they are all loss-making businesses. But in fact, as long as you survive, when the animation becomes an IP, then the surrounding income will be
Enough that the animation company is doing well
It can be seen that once an animated film is completed, its ability to attract money is really not comparable to that of a live-action film!
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Yi Mingming has been very proud of himself recently.
Mainly because of the popularity of "Wall-E", the peripheral products have also become extremely popular. Yi Mingming is close to the public. As Li Yi's cousin and assistant, Yi Mingming can always get the latest peripherals from Star Comic Animation, and crucially
Yes, many of them are not available outside.
This makes Yi Mingming highly sought after in the circle of friends.
After all, girls are sometimes no different from children in certain preferences.
Therefore, during this period of time, even if Li Yi pinched someone's face which felt very good, someone would be happy with it.
After being pinched, he still giggled.
Li Yi almost didn't think she was sick because of him.
Suddenly, Yi Mingming screamed.
"Ahhhh! I'm so angry. This kind of person should be sentenced to death!"
Li Yi was immediately startled.
"What's the ghost's name? It's so startling!" Li Yi said angrily.
"No, brother, come here and see, it's really too much!" Yi Mingming said, still looking angry.
This actually made Li Yi quite curious.
Just now, it was obvious that my cheap cousin was so happy that she was being pinched by him, but now she suddenly became angry.
Li Yi came back and sat next to Yi Mingming and said, "What? Did your boyfriend cheat on you?"
"Brother... I don't even have a boyfriend, how could I cheat?" Yi Ming understood and asked Li Yi.
"This is such a sad story!" Li Yi joked with a smile.
"Brother...don't you want to watch it yet?" Yi Mingming said a little frantically.
"Look! Why don't you look at it!" Li Yi stopped teasing her and turned his attention to the tablet in Yi Mingming's hand.
Just looking at it, Li Yi couldn't help but frown.
