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Including Interstellar submitted by Christopher Nolan, Relativity Entertainment currently has three films that are biased toward hard science fiction. In order to avoid aesthetic fatigue in the future, Ronan specifically told the embassy film industry that the schedule of the three films must be relatively close. Big time difference.

Fortunately, there are also differences in the preparation and shooting times of the three films.

The fastest The Martian is about to finish filming. Mark Damon has planted potatoes on Mars. If there is no accident, the film will be released in the second half of next year.

Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity has just started preparations. At present, the male and female protagonists have signed contracts successively. Sandra Bullock will play the female lead, and James Franco agrees to play the male lead.

Originally George Clooney was very interested in this film, but he proposed a salary of 15 million US dollars, which was rejected by Ronan without hesitation.

This Hollywood star is a typical example of relying on politics to force his style, and his fame in movies is far greater than his own appeal.

Although the box office of the three Luohan movies is good, it also depends on how many stars are assembled in them, and the survey statistics clearly show that the most popular among all Luohan movies is Mark Damon.

Since the preparation of the film has just started, and the shooting and production are cumbersome, it will not be released until 2011 at the earliest.

Interstellar only has a script and plan, and Christopher Nolan is preparing to shoot The Dark Knight Rises. This film will be released in 2012 or 2013 at the earliest.

In this way, three more realistic space sci-fi films are released every other year, which can effectively avoid aesthetic fatigue.

Relativity Entertainment can make some achievements in original movies in the future.

Like other Hollywood companies, original movies have always been a relatively weak area for Relativity Entertainment.

But excellent original projects are hard to find, and scripts are also hard to find. Even if you find a script, you have to think twice before acting.

So far this year, among the top ten movies at the North American and global box office, not even an original non-sequel movie has been seen.

All hopes for original movies in 2008 are placed on Inception.

Fortunately, Christopher Nolan did not disappoint.

Although Inception did not have a weekend box office hit, the box office trend is very stable. Even if it is far inferior to Avatar in the middle and early stages of its release, it is quite rare for a large commercial production.

Before the arrival of November, the box office decline of Inception was maintained within 40% every screening weekend in North America.

Before Halloween, the North American box office of Inception reached 233.25 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office easily exceeded 500 million U.S. dollars.

This film can be regarded as the only fig leaf for the market of Hollywood original films in 2008.

Even if it is mainly based on business adaptations and series of movies, Relativity Entertainment has gradually gained the nickname the only conscience of original movies in the industry with its many successful original movies in the past two years.

Compared with other companies and producers in the circle, Ronan seems to be more likely to give original films and lesser-known new directors a chance.

Before Halloween, Relativity Entertainment's routine project in recent years, once again entered the theater.

The fifth part of Chain Saw is coming, and the soul mentor of the US emperor, Jigsaw, still appears on the big screen on time, pointing out the future development direction for hundreds of millions of American people.

Although Ronan is paying more attention to the horror movie universe, the Chain Saw series is completely thrown to James Wen, but the series has sold four consecutive films and has formed a huge market inertia.

Moreover, without the fetters of Jigsaw's so-called soul teacher,

On the contrary, the content of the film is smoother, and the new torture feast is more pure.

The ultimate goal of the death game is no longer entirely to alert the world.

Hoffman, the successor of Jigsaw, who began to worry that his identity would be exposed, began to protect himself in a frenzied manner.

This also means that he will make more people become dead souls under the deadly mechanism.

Of course, the horror and horror will not stop here. The bloody killing game and a new round of nightmares have just begun.

Although word of mouth is declining step by step with the increase of sequels, the fans cultivated by Chain Saw over the years still enjoy the excitement brought by the film very much.

The fifth part of Saw has been filmed in just a few years. Although it is always old wine in new bottles, most people know that they come to see this film for excitement.

Is it possible to look for the meaning of life and the true meaning of philosophy in this kind of blood type horror film?

Isn't that something wrong with the head?

Jigsaw and his protégés will continue to wreak havoc on the big screen, and Relativity Entertainment has allowed them to do a curtain call.

The box office of Chain Saw 5 is the best proof of this.

The opening weekend in North America was 33.35 million US dollars, which also created the best opening result of the series.

But the Chain Saw series has become a veritable fan-oriented movie. Most of the fans' enthusiasm was consumed during the opening weekend, and it will inevitably face a situation of driving high and low. Embassy Pictures predicts the box office for the next weekend The decline may even reach more than 65 percent.

In order to open up a new situation for the series, James Winter found Ronan and prepared to shoot and produce Chain Saw 6 in a new way.

Before shooting Saw 5, I had the idea of ​​making this series 3D, but at that time the period was not mature enough, and there were not enough 3D theaters. The most important thing is, I am not sure whether the audience is willing to wear glasses Watch a horror movie like this.

In the office, James Wen told Ronan his thoughts: This year, the company's two films Avatar and Alice in Wonderland have sold well in succession, which has promoted the development of film 3D technology, and the market's desire for 3D continues to increase. .”

This 3D craze was driven by Relativity Entertainment, and Ronan naturally understood this.

James Wen continued: I carefully studied the 3D movie projects announced by Hollywood, and found a characteristic. These projects are all large-scale production projects or animated feature films with an investment of more than 100 million US dollars, and there is no horror movie.

Ronan nodded slightly, and said, There really isn't one at the moment.

James Wen also said: In the short term, 3D horror movies will be a blank in the movie market. As long as we seize this opportunity, I think the Saw series can take a big step forward in business.

Ronan thought for a while and said, Yes. James, you are still in charge of this project.

Okay. James Wen replied.

After finalizing the shooting and production of Chain Saw 6 in 3D, James Wen left.

The Chinese-American director is currently very busy, and he can't help but personally prepare and direct the filming of Insidious 2 and The Conjuring 2, and also served as the director of the Annabelle and Saw series.

As a horror film, The Conjuring came and went quickly. After eight weeks of screening, it was released in North American theaters, and the North American box office finally stayed at 156.68 million US dollars.

For a movie with a total investment of 30 million US dollars, such a result can be called a super hit.

Even Annabelle, which will be released next year, is also attracting attention.

On Ronan's side, he was looking through the scripts and projects submitted by Sandsea Entertainment and the Blacklist Project implemented by the group.

The latter in particular, since its establishment a few years ago, has been able to bring two to three film or series projects with certain market value to Relativity Entertainment every year.

For the scripts on the blacklist, some of the copyrights have already been lost to his family, some of the scripts seem to be full of artistic value but no one cares about them, and some of the scripts are well written but they must lose money when they are shot.

It's not bad to use this program to find two or three commercially valuable film projects every year.

Ronan took a closer look at the latest projects that were fed back to him, and two of them aroused his interest.

The first one is a script directly delivered to Shahai Entertainment. The author of the script, Reid Caroline, once cooperated with Relativity Entertainment, and served as the writer of Dragon Tiger Boys jointly invested by Shahai Entertainment and Sony Columbia Pictures screenwriter.

Reid Caroline met Channing Tatum, the leading actor in the musical film Dancing Out of My Life released in 2006. After hearing his story about his previous experience as a gigolo, he joined forces with Channing Tatum Adapted a script called Magic Mike.

Because of the previous cooperation with Sand Sea Entertainment, Reid Caroline directly submitted the script to Sand Sea Entertainment.

Ronan remembers Channing Tatum, the actor who once played the Duke, who had a wonderful experience. Before becoming an actor, he was a stripper.

Therefore, he gave the green light for this project and asked Shahai Entertainment to negotiate with the other party, but the investment should not be too high, preferably within 10 million US dollars.

Another project came from the Blacklist Project and was recommended by an executive of Relativity Entertainment. It was not a script and movie project, but a documentary literature.

This book is now on Ronan's desk, and its name is Argo. According to the explanation in the book, this is the name of a spaceship.

Ronan browsed through the introduction, and deliberately browsed through some of the content in the book.

Because the book is documentary literature, it is adapted from real events.

The book tells about a special period. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Iran broke out a movement against the West. The United States, the most behind-the-scenes hand in the world, was cast aside. U.S. Embassy in Iran.

This is the famous Iran hostage crisis.

During the period, Tony Mendez, a CIA agent who was proficient in camouflage skills, planned a rescue plan. Using the camouflage of a Canadian film crew to investigate the location, he successfully took the six American diplomats trapped in the Canadian Embassy in Iran out of Iran.

Argo is the title of the sci-fi movie that the crew claims to be filming.

Ronan remembered very clearly that this film was shot by Daben, and it was translated into Escape from Tehran after arriving on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Because of the obvious political implications, it also won the Oscar for best film statuette.