The Best Entertainment Era

Compared with Iron Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy are really unknown. In the huge Marvel Comics system, they can only be regarded as relatively marginal characters.

But to expand the world view of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the Milky Way and even the entire universe, and to further introduce purple sweet potato essence, a movie with a cosmic background is needed.

And the fact that the audience is earthlings determines that the first protagonist of this film must be earthlings.

That space dog is not suitable. Although it is also from the earth, but people bring it into the dog. Except for some special people, most people will be very uncomfortable.

Swordfighting, Sentinel, and Nova Corps were also on the consideration list of Marvel Entertainment. In the end, Ronan waved his hand and chose Guardians of the Galaxy.

Thanos is too powerful, and there is no dance to lower IQ, how to fight?

Well, there is actually another important reason. If the movie is finished and the peripheral toys are sold, crispy noodles and recovery virtues will be very interesting.

Meng is just one word, traveling across the world.

In addition, after discussing with Kevin Fitch, Ronan decided to add a key role in the next stage to the easter eggs of Guardians of the Galaxy, in addition to Thanos and the Celestials.

That's the square face... no, it's Captain Marvel.

With Ronan here, it is of course impossible for Marvel to choose another actor with a square-faced aunt.

Like superhero movies, acting skills and so on are actually not important at all.

The most typical, once Wonder Woman, is Gal Gadot good at acting? Why do movies sell so much? In fact, the most important reason is well known to everyone.

That is relying on the power of women (faces) to stand (legs) to conquer the world.

Movies like Captain Marvel may not be released until a few years later. They must conform to the general trend of social development and must establish a strong and independent female character image.

Having said that, there is no necessary connection between being strong and independent and the square-faced aunt who runs up and down.

In the past Captain Marvel, if there was no Marvel **, it is estimated that the chances of hitting the street are far greater than success.

Therefore, Ronan considered it a long time ago and chose a potential first actor candidate for Captain Marvel-Charlize Theron, nicknamed South African Diamond.

Since it is necessary to bring an exceptionally strong female superhero, it is natural to use an actress with a strong aura.

Sandsea Entertainment will then contact Charlize Theron and invite her to play the role of Captain Marvel, which will be announced to the outside world as the future leader of Marvel superheroes on the big screen.

Relativity Entertainment will not do something as flamboyant as Warner Bros. inviting Charlize Theron to play Wonder Woman's mother.

However, Gal Gadot also signed a long-term contract with Relativity Entertainment, and it will be impossible to play Wonder Woman for at least the next ten years.

This is a good thing for Warner Bros., let's find an actor who fits the body characteristics of the comic book character...

Ronan got the news that due to the extremely disastrous failure of Green Lantern, Warner Bros. and DC Comics changed their plans and embarked on the old path.

Seeing that there is no hope of catching up with the Marvel Avengers series of films according to the mode of relativity entertainment, Warner Bros. and DC Comics decided to do the opposite. The new Justice League movie universe started with Man of Steel, and then followed up with Batman v Superman, and introduces the founding members of the Justice League.

Green Lantern failed miserably, perhaps to show that Green Lantern has nothing to do with the Justice League. In the new Justice League, Cyborg replaced Green Lantern and became the founding elder.

Love is a ray of light, and green is eventually replaced by black.

The most critical point, whether Man of Steel or Batman v Superman later, are all directed by Zack Snyder, and supplemented by a bunch of high-level Warner Bros. personnel as producers or executive producers.

In this regard, Warner Bros. is also very clear that the Justice League movie universe cannot afford another big failure.

Therefore, more people are needed to control the movie.

One more thing. Recently, Warner Bros. has had trouble with 20th Century Fox again, and the reason is Watchmen.

Twentieth Century Fox was a little tight on funds due to successive film failures. Warner Bros. gave full play to the true meaning of the procrastination formula in implementing the Watchmen box office sharing agreement reached between the two parties, and various reasons for defaulting emerged endlessly.

That's right, in this summer, 20th Century Fox experienced its second disastrous failure, and the disaster production Superstorm, which invested heavily and had high expectations, hit the street.

This top-level commercial film, with a total investment of more than 250 million US dollars, was released in late July, with a North American box office of only 17.34 million US dollars in the first weekend.

According to various predictions, the final North American box office of this film will be between US$30 million and US$40 million, and it will be difficult for the global box office to exceed US$100 million.

The failure of this film triggered various chain effects. Due to the further aggravation of the brokerage crisis, banks and financial institutions that cooperated with 20th Century Fox began to demand debt from 20th Century Fox, and some of them decided to initiate a loan.

Twentieth Century Fox was in a bit of a mess for a while, and there were some problems with its liquidity.

However, as a well-established and established company with the support of News Corporation behind it, Twentieth Century Fox will not really get into trouble because of these troubles.

But it is undeniable that after 20th Century Fox received the fourth Dragon Ball, its strength will be weakened to a certain extent in the coming period.

As for the other two Dragon Balls, relevant news has reached Ronan.

Dragon Ball and Terminator 4 are both 20th Century Fox's first-line major production projects. The former has completed all productions and is choosing a suitable release date.

The latter has already started post-production. During the filming, there was also an incident of Christian Bale blaspheming the director of photography, which attracted quite a lot of attention.

The production cost of this sci-fi blockbuster is as high as $200 million!

Moreover, unlike the previous films, the Terminator series is a well-known IP, and the first trilogy has all been successful. As a sequel film that has always been guaranteed in the industry, 20th Century Fox wanted to prevent other companies and investment institutions from sharing the profits of the film. , all investments come from Fox itself.

Twentieth Century Fox has not been operating well in recent years.

In the Theory of Relativity Building, Robert Iger sat on the single sofa and said to Ronan: Big production films that are crucial to large production companies have failed one after another. Not only the huge investment cannot be recovered, but also a large debt owed.

Ronan nodded slightly and asked, What about the streaming platform established by Twentieth Century Fox?

Robert Iger said with a smile: The performance is very poor, and the streaming media platform needs huge investment. Lehman Brothers originally provided part of the loan, but since last year, 20th Century Fox has not been able to get a loan and can only make internal investment. It took a sizable chunk of 20th Century Fox's cash flow without generating a commensurate return.

Regarding these situations, Ronan was not surprised because of the far-sighted view of the Netflix network.

Regardless of the fact that the market value of Netflix is ​​rising step by step, last year's operating income was close to tens of billions of dollars. If you simply count the streaming media business, it actually incurred a huge loss.

The streaming media platform has been established from scratch, and the most critical point is to burn money!

At present, Netflix streaming media accounts for the vast majority of the market share. Without billions or tens of billions of dollars burned out, latecomers have no hope of development at all.

Moreover, whether it was in the past or now, if Netflix can become a star company, burning money is also the key.

Ronan tapped the armrest of the sofa lightly and said, The coming year is very important to us.

Robert Iger said: As things stand right now, it's in our favor.

Ronan turned to ask, How is Lucasfilm going?

George Lucas is not a problem, he is willing to sell Lucasfilm to us. Robert Iger said: In terms of other shareholders, we have also reached an agreement with many people. Can confirm the deal.

Ronan also knew that it would not be difficult for Relativity Entertainment to acquire Lucasfilm if George Lucas was willing. It might be easier than acquiring Artisan Entertainment back then, excluding the financial issues.

It can be said that George Lucas' personal wishes directly determine the future ownership of Lucasfilm.

Ronan said: The most valuable thing in Lucasfilm is Star Wars. Unfortunately, too many rights and interests in the Star Wars series have fallen into the hands of 20th Century Fox.

Robert Iger understood the meaning of these words and did not speak again. As long as the plan is carried out smoothly, all the copyrights and rights of Star Wars in the future may be concentrated in the hands of Relativity Entertainment.

Ronan asked again: What's the situation on Wall Street now?

It's bad, it's very bad. Robert Iger said quickly and concisely: Wall Street is in great trouble, even Goldman Sachs is no exception. This brokerage crisis is spreading from the United States to the world. Lehman Brothers, Century Fox's partner, is about to fail.

He thought for a while and said, The news from Heitan is that the people of Lehman Brothers have been lobbying the Washington authorities and other large Wall Street investment banks, but the Ministry of Finance refused to support them. Just like Wall Street, they hope that Lehman Brothers will be finished.

Ronan nodded and asked, How's the situation at Heitan?

The winning rate should be very high. Robert Iger is extremely optimistic: As far as the current general trend is concerned, Heitan may become the owner of the White Room next year.

Heitan can be elected, not to mention anything else, at least Washington will become an obstacle to Relativity's entertainment plan, and the possibility will be many times smaller.

To be successful, the support of the authorities is actually very important.

After the meeting with Robert Iger, Connie came in to remind Ronan that the time had almost changed.

Afterwards, Ronan left the Relativity Building by car, came to the Pacific Investment Fund not far away, and met Lin Jian who came to Los Angeles again.

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