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Of course Ronan understood the meaning of this, and said, Jesse thinks you are the most suitable director for this project.

Sofia Coppola said: I like the script of Juno very much. So, after Jesse found me, I immediately ended my vacation.

Ronan smiled: I hope you can bring a masterpiece like Lost in Translation.

Sofia Coppola also laughed: I have confidence in myself and in the script of Juno.

Female directors have a natural advantage in directing female themes, and Sofia Coppola has also filmed a somewhat similar Virgin's Death.

Ronan said directly: The goal of this film is still the awards season and the Oscars.

It's a pity that I'm a woman. Sofia Coppola sighed: It's hard for those stubborn old men to give me the Oscar statuette I want most.

Ronan nodded: It is indeed very difficult, but there is always hope. He said deliberately: Don't forget, you are Sofia Coppola.

Sofia Coppola laughed at herself: Yeah, if I wasn't Sofia Coppola, there would be no hope at all.

Ronan couldn't help thinking of James Cameron's ex-wife who was stronger than most men. It seemed that she won the Oscar for Best Director, which was the same as Avatar.

Even if there is such a case, it is still very, very difficult for a female director to win the best director where men are absolutely dominant.

To put it bluntly, Catherine Bigelow is just an example, not universal.

Sofia Coppola has hope, but the possibility of winning the best director through a subject like Juno is very low.

Before the screening of Madagascar, Ronan chatted with Sofia Coppola about Juno.

Jessica Felton has already negotiated the relevant director contract with Sofia Coppola, and the two parties formally signed the director agreement a week ago.

The production budget of this project is only 7 million US dollars, which is also a relatively low investment among the current production projects of Shahai Entertainment.

Lost in Translation North American box office as high as 72.15 million US dollars,

Sofia Coppola only asked for a basic remuneration of US$500,000 during the negotiation, and the focus of the remuneration was on the post-production share.

Cooperating with a famous director must pay a higher salary. According to the final agreement, Sofia Coppola will enjoy 10% of the film's North American box office profits in addition to the basic film salary of 500,000 US dollars.

Ronan and Jessica Felton agreed on the invitation of Sofia Coppola, both of whom believed that Sofia Coppola was conducive to the success of the film.

The topic of the two also turned to Jessica Felton, and Sofia Coppola said: The female producer you found is very good, and successful female producers are rarer than successful female directors.

Ronan smiled and said, Jessie worked hard with his skills and abilities.

Sofia Coppola glanced at Ronan, and refrained from saying something.

At this moment, the lights on the ceiling went out, the big screen was turned on, the auditorium fell silent, and the premiere of Madagascar began.

This movie about African animals, because of the needs of the North American market, of course had to start in the United States, so the protagonists became animal stars in New York's Central Park.

Lions, zebras, hippos, and giraffes used to live very comfortably in Central Park. Later, no matter passive or active, they ran out of the park yearning for freedom and experienced more colorful experiences.

Of course, DreamWorks Animation Studio has also learned a lot of successful experience from the success of Shrek.

For example, the whole process is nonsensical and funny.

The style of DreamWorks Animation Studio has always been the truth, kindness and beauty in funny.

Madagascar is very funny, and like the anti-fairy tale classic of Shrek, it spoofs many classic elements.

For example, the signature appearance of the lion simply turned the Peugeot logo in a different direction. The soundtrack of the hungry green-eyed lion chasing the zebra is the classic music of Marlboro Cowboys. The ball the lion played was Tom Hanks’ partner Will. Mori, the roses flying all over the sky in are steaks here...

When the evil penguins returned to the Antarctic, their hometown where they had been thinking about day and night, and cursed what the hell is this place, the spoof atmosphere reached its peak.

This group of penguins who tried to follow the laws of nature to return to the Antarctic, they really arrived in the Antarctic but couldn't stand the harsh environment of the Antarctic, so they turned around and came to Madagascar with sunscreen.

There was joy in the entire auditorium.

After Shrek, DreamWorks Animation Studio's successful animated feature films, almost all the prerequisites for success are based on making the audience laugh crazily.

Madagascar is no exception.

This is a movie that makes people laugh and feel comfortable after watching it.

As for any profound theme or whether there is irony or not, it doesn't matter in front of the market.

Make people laugh, make people feel good, and the movie guarantees a commercial success and a reward for every dollar that Embassy Pictures and DreamWorks Animation put into it.

With the complete decline of traditional hand-drawn animation, computer animation can be said to usher in the best era.

With the rapid development of computer technology in recent years, computer animation has become a unique show in the field of animation. Madagascar can be regarded as another ambitious work of DreamWorks Animation Studio.

In the early publicity, DreamWorks Animation Studio also repeatedly publicized that Madagascar used a lot of new brain animation techniques and made a major breakthrough.

Like the hair of Alex the lion.

Compared with the relatively rough picture of Shrek, Madagascar, with a production budget of only 75 million US dollars, has indeed made great progress in technology and picture.

However, Alex's hair is still very different from that of Sullivan, the fur monster in Pixar Studios a few years ago.

But there is no denying the progress of DreamWorks Animation Studios. After Jeff Katzenberg led DreamWorks Animation Studios out of the woods, it is catching up with Pixar Studios.

No one wants to be the second child in a millennium, and everyone wants to be the leader in the industry.

Therefore, DreamWorks Animation Studio changed its previous thrifty producer style, and began to invest more than 150 million U.S. dollars in a single animated feature film project like Pixar's gangsters.

This is also a manifestation of the ambitions of Jeff Katzenberg and DreamWorks Animation Studios.

It is difficult to say the next three big-investment animated feature films, but Madagascar is at least commercially successful.

A movie that makes you laugh out loud.

Savvy family entertainment.

The media's evaluation of Madagascar is also biased towards positive.

The Hollywood Reporter comment is perhaps the most representative.

Madagascar doesn't do much but make you laugh, pure family fun with such minimalism!

In the eyes of film critics, a movie like Madagascar is a typical example of boredom and clumsiness.

The audience doesn't care about these, and they don't care about continuous thinking. When most audiences watch this movie, they are immersed in endless jokes and cannot extricate themselves.

The most popular movie is not the protagonists, but the evil penguins.

As in the Ice Age series, supporting characters steal the limelight from the protagonists.

Many viewers have been fans of Penguin Circle.

After watching the film, Ronan can also guess that DreamWorks Animation Studio will definitely develop an independent animation film for the penguins in the future.

Hollywood makes the most of every resource a successful movie has.

Not to mention a very popular movie like Madagascar, which suffered a serious loss that year and almost ended Ridley Scott's directorial career, Blade Runner, after more than 20 years of offline operation and word-of-mouth fermentation After that, it also attracted the attention of Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. is said to be discussing whether to make a sequel to Blade Runner.

With the passage of time, Blade Runner has turned from a loss-making movie to a classic movie. The discussions and enthusiasm brought about by the offline market have brought a steady stream of income. It seems that Warner Bros. has forgotten that the cost of time is also a cost.

After Madagascar was released, the audience responded well. The publicity and distribution capabilities of Embassy Pictures were guaranteed, and it also achieved the expected box office results.

In the three-day opening in North America, Madagascar earned a box office of 57.22 million US dollars in 4,288 theaters.

This result is enough to ensure that the film sits at the top of the North American box office charts.

Due to the good reputation of the film audience, it is predicted that the North American box office of Madagascar will reach more than 200 million US dollars.

There is no doubt that the animated feature film has been a success.

Madagascar also made DreamWorks Animation's already bursting self-confidence stronger.

Although there were less successful animated feature films such as Little Pony King and Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas in the past two years, after the release of Shrek 2, including Shark Gang and Madagascar, DreamWorks Animation has achieved a dazzling three-game winning streak.

Jeff Katzenberg and DreamWorks Animation do have the capital to be confident.

As the weekend passed and the working day approached, Spielberg gave Ronan a clear answer. The team jointly formed by DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation Studio also came to the Relativity Building as agreed to discuss the termination of the contract with Embassy Pictures.

At the same time, Spielberg's agent is also talking with Shahai Entertainment about directing cooperation.

Spielberg's director cooperation is a future plan and will not be implemented in the short term.

Negotiations between DreamWorks and Embassy Pictures went relatively smoothly, after all, Ronan and Spielberg had already agreed on the main terms.

The two parties also agreed that after the release of Shrek 3 next year, the two parties will terminate the distribution contract, but all films released by Embassy Pictures for DreamWorks Animation Studio must be released online and offline after the original contract expires in 2008. Distribution rights will be returned to DreamWorks.