At the end of May, the filming of "The Love of Man and Ghost" in Manhattan, New York was officially closed. Eric brought the crew's main creator back to Los Angeles to start post-production.

At the same time, as North American universities, middle schools and primary schools began to have their holidays one after another, the 1990 summer vacation has officially arrived.

On May 25, Universal Pictures' "Back to the Future 3" and "Firebird Attack" released by Disney were released in more than 2,000 theaters respectively.

The film "Back to the Future 3" is quite hasty. After all, "Back to the Future 2" was released at the end of last year. As for the reason, it is almost exactly the same as Colombia restarted the "Ghostbusters" series after five years last year. The acquisition negotiations between the parent company of Universal MCA and Japan's Panasonic Consortium have entered the final stage. In order to sell MCA at a good price, Universal Pictures needs better performance support.

Because of the tight time, although Spielberg was produced by Robert Zemikis, the film was criticized by many film critics after its release. Even though a large number of hard-core fans of the series supported it, it still only won $19 million in the first three days of the first weekend.

However, compared with another movie released at the same time, the results of "Back to the Future 3" can only be described as eye-catching.

That is Disney's "Firebird Attack", a story about pilots of the US Apache helicopter unit. Compared with the controversy caused in the quality of the film "Back to the Future 3", after some heated publicity, "Firebird Attack" immediately became a dud after its release, without much splash.

This movie is very similar to Tom Cruise's famous work that won $350 million worldwide, so it was occasionally mentioned by film critics in the newspaper, and only the comments were like "a poor imitation of Top Gun".

With 2,000 painting theaters, "Firebird Attack" only won a poor box office of $6 million. This box office result has complained to theater managers who signed a two- to three-week release contract with Disney. Three weeks later, the film, which invested $30 million, will face the fate of a downscaling, including the release cost. The film will bring Disney a loss of at least $30 million.

Disney's first summer shot turned into a dud, and Eric should have been very gloating. Because of the hero of this movie, Eric couldn't be happy.

Because the male lead of this $3,000 movie is Nicholas Cage and Eric's version of "The Love of Man and Ghost"

On the morning of May 29, when Eric and several main creators of "The Love of Man and Ghosts" just walked out of the Los Angeles airport, they were blocked by a large group of paparazzi, and they asked Eric what he thought about "Firebird Attack". Eric got up early in the morning and rushed back to Los Angeles, and knew nothing about "Firebird Attack". How could he have any opinions? In addition, the problem of the surrounding paparazzi is full of verbal traps, so Eric is even more unlikely to deal with it rashly, and could only leave silently under the protection of the bodyguard.

But his silence was obviously not a good idea. The next day, the tabloids appeared in the news that Williams was asked about "Firebird Attack" and the article talked about Nicholas Cage, and soon turned its target to the late stage "The Love of Man and Ghost".

There just happened to be an example of the hasty production of "Back to the Future 3" that led to unsatisfactory box office. Many media began to question the quality of the film "The Love of Man and Ghost".

When the matter started to stir up trouble, Eric had already left Los Angeles and flew to San Francisco.

After all, this kind of thing can only be left to Fireflies and Disney's publicity department. Eric only needs to ask the agent to make some statements. I believe Disney has just experienced a box office failure and will definitely not take it lightly in "The Love of Man and Ghost".

Although it is not too far from Los Angeles to San Francisco, it only takes more than an hour to fly, but because I have been busy, Eric hasn't been here for more than a year. The last time I came here was to acquire Pixar.

Over the past year, Eric has given all rights to John Lasseter on Pixar's affairs. Most of the time they communicate by phone, even if it is necessary to discuss in person, John Lasseter went to Los Angeles.

Because Eric did not hesitate to inject funds, Pixar no longer had the shabby animation studio that shrank in a small building in Richmond, San Francisco Bay more than a year ago.

At this time, Pixar's headquarters had been moved to a small town called Emeryville near Berkeley. The number of employees has also increased to more than 300, and the team of engineers specializing in providing technical support for 3D animation production has exceeded 100. Compared with the Pixar scale when it was just acquired, it is not an exaggeration to describe the current team as luxury.

"John. Compared to Jobs, my boss is like an angel, right?" Eric hugged John Lasseter, who walked out of the Pixar office building and said the first sentence.

"Of course, Eric, let's go in." John Lasseter knew that Eric was joking with him, and shook hands with Alan and Joanna who were following Eric, John Lasseter said: "Of course, Eric, let's go in."

Eric followed John Lasseter into the office building and said with displeasure: "But, I originally promised to invest 30 million in Toy Story, but now, the money you spent is close to 30 million, but I don't even see the shadow of the cartoon."

Even though John Lasseter knew that Eric was not blaming him, he was still a little embarrassed. The first part of "Toy Story" in his previous life was completed under extremely difficult circumstances, so the cost was only $30 million, and many details were made quite roughly.

After receiving sufficient financial support from Eric, John Lasseter, as an artist's perfectionist tendency, was almost certain to overspending budgets.

Therefore, the animation has only been completed by only two-thirds now, but the cost is close to 30 million US dollars. Fortunately, John Lasseter does not squander everything like Cameron. After all, he does not have 100% confidence in 3D animation. In order to minimize the impact and losses that may be caused by failure in the future, John Lasseter is very restrained when he consumes funds.
Chapter completed!