The Best Entertainment Era

In the year that is about to pass, the single highest-grossing movie for Relativity Entertainment is Pixar's Cars. Together with the global box office share, various offline channels, peripheral derivatives and licensing revenue, it has brought in a total of nearly $1.4 billion in revenue.

The single highest-grossing film does not include The Dark Knight, which was co-operated with Warner Bros., and that honor goes to Transformers, with a global box office of $882.47 million.

Transformers has achieved great success, and the sales of its peripherals are actually not much worse than that of Autobots, but unlike Autobots, multiple incomes from the film have to be shared with Hasbro.

Therefore, Relativity Entertainment's income on this project is not as good as that of Autobots.

In order to sell peripherals and toys, in the second part of the preparation, there will be many new Transformers characters, such as, Hercules, Robot Dog, Horizontal Cannon and Over the Mountain, etc.

Optimus Prime will also appear in a brand new image in the final battle of the film.

Relativity Entertainment can proudly announce that we are really working hard to sell merchandise and toys!

In terms of TV series, except for Grey's Anatomy, which continues to cooperate with ABC TV station, all TV series produced by Relativity Entertainment have been handed over to Netflix streaming media. game.

Netflix streaming media can't wait to place an order for the second and third seasons of Shahai Entertainment.

Other sequels such as The Big Bang Theory and Breaking Bad can only be described as super popular, and the data such as word-of-mouth and on-demand are not inferior to Game of Thrones.

The success of these dramas also proves that if online dramas want to win the hearts of the audience, scaling up is one of the elements of success.

Relativity Entertainment is also constantly developing new solo dramas for Netflix streaming. Compared with movies, dramas have more room to operate in terms of original types.

As we all know, even if the original movie is well shot, the probability of hitting the market is quite high. Adapted movies or sequel movies often have bad movies that can sell well.

Audiences tend to have a greater tolerance for dramas, and the proportion of originality in dramas far exceeds that of movies.

This actually provides a new model for Hollywood, which has also been reflected in recent years.

Hollywood companies frequently adapt past successful series into movies, such as Mission: Impossible and Thunderbolt Angel.

In this regard, Relativity Entertainment is also preparing to cooperate with Sony Columbia on Dragon Tiger Boys.

Similarly, popular movies can also be adapted to TV series. Based on movies, TV series naturally have a certain audience.

Compared with other Hollywood counterparts, Relativity Entertainment is relatively fast in this genre.

The Stumbling Block Project, which has already begun preparations, is a typical example in this regard, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is being prepared for copywriting, can also be included in this category.

In addition, with the release of Taken 3, the rescue trilogy of Agent Brian has temporarily come to an end, and Sandsea Entertainment and Netflix streaming media are also preparing to adapt this popular movie series into a series.

Like Project Stumbling Block to the Bourne Bourne trilogy, the episodes of Taken are not a continuation of the film trilogy, but tell the story of Agent Brian Mills when he was young.

At that time, Brian Mills hadn't retired yet.

Of course, the story of the series will continue the model of Taken, with rescue as the theme, and each season tells a big rescue event.

As the most annoying father in Hollywood,

Bryan Mills will continue to contribute heavily to Relativity Entertainment for a long time to come.

There is another person who can't afford to mess with, the famous John Wick.

Ronan has already started planning for the movie project of the super killer. The scripts of the first two films have been written and registered for copyright, and they can be pushed into the formal preparation stage only when the time is right.

The actor's first choice is still Keanu Reeves.

Although he was a member of the Hollywood 20 million club a few years ago, as a Hollywood star with a weird personality, Keanu Reeves has basically lived a life of self-exile in recent years, occasionally starring in movies, such as Warner Bros. The Hell Detective and Untouchable Lovers are far from meeting expectations.

Hollywood is a star factory that can produce the most dazzling stars in the world.

Similarly, Hollywood is as forgetful as the audience. A star who chooses a work attitude that is close to self-exile cannot continue to stay on the front-line coffee.

Stars such as Charlize Theron, when the film is not going well, can still use endorsements and fashion to gain a sense of presence and try to maintain their status.

What about Keanu Reeves? Hippies aren't in fashion these days.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is difficult for Keanu Kieves to get a salary of 10 million US dollars.

Perhaps, John Wick will become Keanu Reeves' most successful movie after the Matrix trilogy.

Relativity Entertainment has basically maintained a stable situation, and is promoting film and television project plans in an orderly manner. In this awards season, it will continue to promote public relations for Slumdog Millionaire.

While the film has garnered critical acclaim, it's hard to predict what will happen in this tumultuous awards season.

Because the screenwriters' strike intensified.

After many Hollywood film and television projects were suspended due to the screenwriter strike, on December 18, the screenwriters union announced that it would refuse to write lines for the Golden Globe Awards and boycott the Golden Globe Awards.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association had to cancel the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in January next year when the coordination failed, and instead directly announced the results in the form of a press conference.

This has brought extremely huge shocks to both inside and outside the Hollywood circle.

Many people are beginning to worry about next year's Oscars ceremony. If the Oscars are also cancelled, it will not only lose money, but also Hollywood's face.

The major Hollywood companies are fully prepared. Originally, the Producers Union rejected the conditions of the screenwriters union, which reflected the will and interests of large and medium-sized Hollywood companies.

If the strike lasts for three months, major Hollywood companies may lose about 300 million U.S. dollars, but if they agree to the conditions of the screenwriters union, they may lose 3 billion U.S. dollars in the next few years.

The executives of the major Hollywood companies held another meeting, and they basically agreed with each other. Even if the strike continues, they will not easily make concessions to the screenwriters union.

The Producers Union and the Screenwriters Union not only failed to make any progress at the negotiating table, but broke down again.

This strike harms the interests of the entire industry. Compared with the producers' union backed by major companies, the screenwriters' union will be under greater pressure.

Correspondingly, if the strike continues, the income of more than 10,000 screenwriters will be lost.

After the news that the negotiations broke down again, it attracted the attention of the whole United States.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally couldn't sit still, and met with representatives of the Producers Union and the Screenwriters Union respectively, hoping to bring the two parties back to the negotiating table in order to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

Unlike the unhurried negotiations of major Hollywood production companies, where every inch of land is at stake, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is most worried about the suspension of the Oscars. Situation happens.

With the Golden Globes ahead, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences simply announced the cancellation of the luncheon for nominees, and changed it directly to a press conference to announce the list of nominees.

Worried that the Oscars will be suspended due to the screenwriters' strike, they are prepared for this. If the strike continues by then, the academy will launch an emergency party.

The rotating chairman of the academy also visited the top 15 companies with the highest performance in Hollywood, hoping that the management can take the lead in making concessions and reach a new agreement before the new year.

But without exception, they were rejected.

The Washington authorities also made efforts. The relatively sensitive economic situation in the United States will definitely not be able to withstand the torture of a long strike. There will be problems in the industry, and it will even directly cause turmoil on Wall Street.

The Producers Alliance has always been tough, which is a necessary attitude towards the outside world, even though companies and people including Ronan and Relativity Entertainment are ready to make concessions.

The only way to break the screenwriters' strike is for the Producers Union to make certain concessions, and there is no other way out.

Similarly, the conditions of the screenwriters' union cannot exceed the bottom line of the employer.

For any industry to operate normally, both labor and capital must abide by the mutually recognized and fair rules of the game. It seems natural that the entire entertainment industry's annual profits of tens of billions of dollars should be shared with screenwriters.

But capital is inherently profit-seeking, and moving the cake of commercial groups is undoubtedly poaching meat from capitalists.

Major companies are not charities either, and capital has a ruthless side when it comes to interests.

All the larger companies in Hollywood have turned their attention to overseas and non-union screenwriters, and even hired screenwriters from places such as the United Kingdom and Australia.

In addition, the support from the actors' union and the directors' union in the industry is more verbal.

Labor and management, led by Washington authorities and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, sat at the negotiating table again, but the negotiations have made little progress.

In some respects, this is also a super big rebound for the long-term neglect of screenwriters in the Hollywood film and television industry.

In fact, the producer union is also under pressure, and listed companies are facing pressure from shareholders.

The turmoil in Hollywood, coupled with the seemingly stable economic situation in the United States that has actually become sensitive, is directly reflected in the stock market.

Listed companies such as the Hollywood Six, although their stock prices did not plummet, they have also suffered setbacks.

In contrast, a company with a simple shareholding structure like Relativity Entertainment is standing still, and there is good news coming.

December 20, 2008, is a time that can be engraved in the company's history for Netflix.

After successful operation and listing, after several years of rapid development, the overall market value of Netflix Network exceeded 100 billion US dollars for the first time, and firmly stood above the 100 billion market value!