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For the six major Hollywood film companies, The Bourne Shadow is an ordinary medium-scale production, but for Relativity Entertainment, this is a top-level super-A project.

The resources for publicity and distribution are naturally close to The Bourne.

In an exclusive interview with Jason Bourne as the cover character of Vanity Fair, a passage from Ronan, the producer, was also published.

Matt Damon and Jason Bourne are integrated. His brilliance, his calmness, his helplessness, his determination, and his determination to never give up until he reaches his goal are all moving.

Ronan also praised Bourne's role and Matt Damon's leading role: Bourne never waits passively, but takes the initiative to attack, and firmly controls the chess game in his own hands; he fights against a huge collective with his own strength. And an unshakable system, even if the power is weak, but can play this system in the palm of the hand, people have to applaud him. This is the charm of The Bourne, this is Matt Damon Charm!

It is impossible for a producer to blow himself up, and few people will pay attention to it if he blows it up. He still has to blow up the stars and movies in front of the screen.

Undoubtedly, as soon as The Bourne Movie was released, it stood out from a series of eerie spy films with grotesque, equipment competition, and extreme spectacle.

There is also a very important point. Pearl Harbor, which had a huge scale of publicity and screening before, was affected by word-of-mouth in various aspects, and the box office declined rapidly. Now, only Tomb can really compete with The Bourne in theaters. Beauty Shadow a film.

After the start of the working day, the box office of Bourne Shadow began to decline normally, but the trend was relatively stable. From Monday to Thursday, it won 19.93 million US dollars in four working days.

Then, the film ushered in its second weekend of release in North America.

This weekend, the film with the largest opening scale is Doctor Dolittle 2 released by 20th Century Fox.

This is a typical black comedy starring black comedy star Eddie Murphy.

Films like Doctor Dolittle 2 have always had a market in North America, and black comedies can be regarded as a relatively large category of commercial films.

Strictly speaking, Jack Chen's Peak Hour should also be included in the ranks of black comedies.

After the film was released, it quickly seized the market, earning US$25.03 million in North American theaters in three days over the weekend, and grabbed the North American box office champion in one fell swoop.

Bourne Shadow only stayed at the top of the North American box office for one weekend.

It slipped to the second place, but the box office of 23.56 million US dollars also made Ronan quite satisfied.

Ten days after its release, The Bourne Movie has accumulated a total of 93.34 million US dollars at the North American box office, breaking 100 million is not easy.

The weekend box office of Tomb Raider, which ranked third, has slipped to $10 million.

The speed at which the popularity of Pearl Harbor decays is not directly proportional to the investment in the film. In just five weekends after its release, the weekend box office in North America plummeted to around US$6 million.

Disney's ambitious war epic masterpiece is certainly not a failure, but it is far from meeting expectations.

In the past two years, Ronan has conducted in-depth analysis and synthesis based on the top 20 North American and global box office films, and compared the actual box office revenue at home and abroad by combining the production cost and publicity and distribution investment of each film. Basically come to a conclusion.

For a film with a good box office and a relatively high investment, the global box office must be at least three times the production cost to ensure that the film company can recover the cost through the box office.

Of course, this is just an average calculation, and there must be different cases.

Not surprisingly, the final box office figure of Pearl Harbor is estimated to be more than 100 million US dollars away from Disney's psychological expectations.

But this did not affect the cooperation between Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer. It is said that Disney is preparing to cooperate with Jerry Bruckheimer in a new film project.

Ronan is very curious, what will the two cooperate with?

Although Jeff Katzenberg left Disney, the relevant news channels have been unblocked, and he quickly told Ronan that Bruckheimer Films is going to cooperate with Disney on a movie about treasure hunting.

Treasure hunt movie? Ronan was a little confused, because strictly speaking, Pirates of the Caribbean is also a treasure hunting theme.

More definite news is not available for the time being, and Ronan is also cautious. Perhaps Pirates of the Caribbean should also be put on the daily routine.

Although the copyrights of relevant stories and characters have been registered with the Copyright Bureau, and they have even been specifically filed with the Screenwriters Union, Di Baobao and Bruckheimer Films will shoot according to the stories of their previous lives, which will infringe the copyright 100% of the time, but Hollywood's specious stories , It is not uncommon to really want to shoot it.

Of course, under normal circumstances, genuine film companies would not intentionally infringe copyrights, not to mention reputation issues, the follow-up troubles alone would be countless, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Ronan, however, based on the idea of ​​being defensive, felt that in the second half of this year, to be precise, after September 11th, Pirates of the Caribbean will be officially put on the agenda.

For such a top-level production, it takes about a year and a half for the preparation and shooting alone.

The only good thing is that Ronan not only knows who the three protagonists are, but also has a vague impression of the director because he is extremely impressed with this series.

In the office, Ronan wrote down three lines of director, starring role and funding in his notebook.

As for the director, people can find it. He is not an unknown person, so it should be easy to find him.

In terms of starring roles, the first film is undoubtedly the structure of the Iron Triangle. Needless to say, Johnny Depp, without Depp, there is no captain.

The current Johnny Depp is still a geek actor, far from being on the front line of Hollywood, let alone the so-called four Hollywood kings in the future. It is estimated that he can get a salary of up to 10 million US dollars.

The other two actors don't need to invite celebrities. It seems that Ms. A was just a little famous actor before she filmed Pirates of the Caribbean, and she is not much better than Kate Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor.

For the little blacksmith, choose the elf prince? It seems that finding a strong man is more suitable for a blacksmith, right? Of course, the elf prince is also good. In the Hollywood style aesthetics, even a handsome guy has a pretty figure, not really like a girl...

These can be carefully considered after the crew is established.

The most critical issue is funding.

Ronan has participated in and produced multiple film projects in succession, and he knows that making movies in Hollywood is actually burning money. For a fantasy blockbuster like Pirates of the Caribbean, if you want to produce the desired effect, the cost of special effects alone may cost more than Around $40 million, maybe even more.

There is basically no opportunism in special effects, and the amount of money invested is most directly displayed on the screen.

According to Ronan's estimation, the production cost of this film cannot be lower than 120 million US dollars.

Although this money does not need to be invested at one time, it can be credited to the account one after another, but only relying on internal financing, the capital chain of Relativity Entertainment may be broken.

Once the company's liquidity is tight, it will definitely affect Ronan's subsequent series of plans.

It often takes more than two years for a movie to go from investment to real income.

External financing is still the best option.

I don't know if Germany's Koch Films and India's Mountain Foundation can raise such a huge amount of funds.

Ronan thought of the foundation he was planning to establish, and it should be able to play a role by then.

With the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean series and the Bourne Shadow series, Relativity Entertainment will be able to gain a firm foothold in the commercial film market, and will then be able to launch more first-line productions.

The premise is that there will be no inexplicable suppression.

Outside of movies, it is still necessary to keep a low profile. Anyway, there is still DreamWorks in front, acting as the best shield.

It was not difficult for Ronan to find that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Relativity Entertainment would probably not be able to find a more suitable development opportunity than it is now for many years to come.

Now DreamWorks seems to be very powerful. It has won the Oscar for Best Picture for two consecutive years. It looks like it may become the seventh largest in Hollywood at any time. It has attracted the attention of the six major companies. Instead, it hides behind DreamWorks. The company provides a rare development space.

In the previous life, Lionsgate Films and Summit Entertainment developed rapidly at the beginning of the century, which is not unrelated to this.

From the very beginning to the present, DreamWorks has put on an attitude that I want to be in charge every day. It is no wonder that the six major companies do not give priority to attacking DreamWorks.

Based on Ronan's memory, DreamWorks can live another two years of good life, and in these two years, he can fully play the role of an mt.

So, Steven Spielberg is actually a good man, even a kind-hearted Jewish old man.

Sacrifice one of me, a lot of people in the circle of happiness...

The old man held on against Dreamworks until it disintegrated completely, so he probably has the heart to be an mt.

My name is mt. I have a body of iron walls. I parry, I dodge, and I use my body to guard you...

Infected by this kind of good man's spirit, Ronan also decided to be a good man and not to encourage Jeff Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation Studio to separate from Spielberg for the time being.

A DreamWorks that looks strong enough from the outside meets the development needs of Relativity Entertainment.

Now Lionsgate is unknown, and Summit Entertainment is insignificant and developed. Once DreamWorks falls, Relativity Entertainment will soon become a very eye-catching existence among Hollywood's second- and third-tier film companies.

At that time, Relativity Entertainment will inevitably usher in an acquisition or some other commercial treatment.

Before one's own strength is not strong enough, this will cause many variables in the future development out of thin air.

Soon, the results of the first round of overseas releases of The Bourne Movie also spread to Los Angeles. The film earned an overseas box office of 45.6 million US dollars in more than 30 countries and regions in the first weekend.

In the next few weeks, the release of this film will rapidly expand to all over the world, including the Dongguk market on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

The excellent box office performance and word-of-mouth of The Bourne Shadow has also attracted the attention of many people, some of whom are focusing on the company behind the film.