The Best Entertainment Era

In the Warner Bros. headquarters building, a high-level meeting is in progress.

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Edward Davis, sitting very far to the left of the conference table, said, Any thoughts?

An Asian executive said with some doubts: We all know Ronan Anderson, and judging from his achievements in the past three years, he is also trustworthy, but Christopher Nolan is just a small director...

David Bird on the opposite side answered, Kevin, haven't you noticed? The directors who worked with Ronan Anderson were all new directors, but they all succeeded without exception. In contrast, Christopher- Nolan has already directed two films, Memento and White Night, and has richer qualifications and experience.

The Asian named Kevin thought about it for a while, and it was indeed the case, so he stopped talking.

A Batman movie can't stand another failure, someone reminded.

Edward Davis added: This is a movie that fits The Return of the Dark Knight. In the past three years, Hollywood has not been able to find a more successful producer than Ronan Anderson, and the dark style of Dark Night Legend was also initiated by him, and he has enough experience in this regard.

After he finished speaking, David Bird knocked on the table and emphasized: Our neighbor next door has achieved unprecedented success in superhero movies. Everyone, don't forget, DC was the king of superhero movies before! We must Take back our market position!

Kevin nodded and said, What about the funds? There is also a way of cooperation. We must retain the copyright!

Of course the copyright belongs to us. Ronan Anderson's Sandsea Entertainment can solve two-thirds of the production budget for us. Edward Davis explained in detail the cooperation method Ronan mentioned.

These members of the review committee basically have no objection to this. This is the most common way of co-production in the industry, and how to cooperate will be discussed in detail later.

As long as the copyright and distribution rights are in hand, this project will not be beyond the control of Warner Bros.

Edward Davis said at this time: The meaning of the board of directors is also to let this project enter the review. It is impossible for us to shelve Batman all the time. This is a waste of resources. And the board of directors thinks that Ronan Anderson's company is good...

Kevin said directly: Just buy it.

It's not that simple.

Edward Davis shook his head with a smile: The shareholding structure of Relativity Entertainment is very simple. If Ronan Anderson disagrees, the acquisition is out of the question. This cooperation is actually an opportunity to increase the understanding between Warner Bros. and Relativity Entertainment. It also allows Ronan Anderson to see the strength of Warner Bros. and let him understand that with Warner Bros. as a platform, his ability can be maximized. ...

Only by knowing enough, can we find weaknesses and opportunities, otherwise, even if Warner opened his mouth wide, he would not be able to open his mouth.

Another person said: Actually, there is no such need. DreamWorks is much better than Relativity Entertainment. The company's first goal should be on DreamWorks.

Edward Davis laughed: If DreamWorks can be won first, Relativity Entertainment will naturally step aside, but we are not the only ones eyeing DreamWorks.

Relativity Entertainment's film library resources are too small, and its production capacity is not as good as DreamWorks. DreamWorks has set foot in the first-line big productions a few years ago. Relativity Entertainment currently only has one film with an investment of over 100 million yuan.

He also knew that the board of directors preferred DreamWorks. After all, the composition of DreamWorks shares was complicated, and the difficulty of winning it was actually much lower.

Besides, DreamWorks and Spielberg.

Can Ronan Anderson match Spielberg? Edward Davis couldn't help shaking his head secretly, no one in the circle should have such a view.

The meeting went smoothly, and the market prospect of superheroes lies here. It is impossible for Warner Bros., which owns DC Comics, to leave such a big piece of fat alone.

Edward Davis finally said: Now, we push the project of Batman into the review stage, and give priority to completing the project review.

Others have no objection.

As soon as the Warner Bros. review meeting ended, Ronan was notified by Edward Davis. The entry of the project into the review committee of Warner Bros. is undoubtedly a big step forward. Get the green light from Warner Bros.

Afterwards, Ronan personally communicated with George Clint, and Shahai Entertainment will form a negotiating team of more than a dozen people, preparing to start relevant negotiations with Warner Bros. on the cooperation of Batman.

There will be plenty of time to prepare.

Warner Bros. has to inspect plans, do pre-market assessments, etc., and it doesn't take two or three months to complete the relevant reviews.

After forming the negotiating team, Ronan was concerned about the cooperation between Grey's Anatomy and ABC TV station.

The two parties have reached a formal agreement to broadcast Grey's Anatomy on ABC.

However, the way of playing license authorization is adopted.

The mainstream mode of Hollywood TV drama production today is similar to film production. The producer provides the project. If the TV station gets the green light, the TV station will raise production funds. The copyright of the series and the subsequent production copyright, etc., will naturally belong to the TV station.

The other is that the producer raises funds by itself, and then signs a broadcast authorization agreement with the TV station, and the TV station broadcasts it at a specified time.

Since Shahai Entertainment is involved in the production of TV series for the first time, and it adopts the method of first-broadcast authorization, and it is still a brand-new series, the first season of Grey's Anatomy has a total of nine episodes in the first season. The power of advertising dividends.

Production costs for the first season ended up being close to $3.5 million,

Drama series and teams that have not been tested in the TV drama market do not have much bargaining power.

But as long as the first season has ratings, the subsequent broadcast authorization and DVD rental and sales are enough to make Shahai Entertainment profitable.

Although in this era, the quality of TV dramas is much worse than that of movies, the profitability of popular dramas is not much worse than that of blockbuster movies.

It can also pay off handsomely for the lead actor.

Jennifer Aniston's one-season salary for starring in Friends has now reached as high as $25 million.

It is conceivable how terrifying the profitability of the series can be.

Of course, Ronan did not expect Grey's Anatomy to be comparable to Friends. This is just the first step for Shahai Entertainment to enter the production of TV series.

Shahai Entertainment has obtained the film and television adaptation rights of A Song of Ice and Fire. After confirming that Prison Break has no copyright conflicts, related script creation is also in progress, and more TV drama production projects will be promoted in the future.

And it will gradually realize the integration of production and distribution of TV series.

Ronan is still a question, whether to find a way to push George Martin to complete A Song of Ice and Fire in the next ten years, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation in the previous life that the TV series went ahead of the original version.

Is it really necessary for George Martin to tell the writers what happened to the ending first, so as not to die before finishing?

Perhaps in his previous life, after the success of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, George Martin was old and lacked strength, coupled with fame and fortune, severe lack of motivation, and became a veritable terminal patient of procrastination.

Not caring about George Martin for the time being, Ronan went to the Dungeon Siege that was being prepared to check the relevant situation.

The leading actor Jason Statham has come to the crew. Uwe Ball accompanied Ronan in the studio and introduced the relevant situation: Currently receiving sword training.

He pointed not far away: It's over there.

Ronan glanced at the training ground and said, Let's go and have a look.

When the two came to the sidelines of the training ground, Ronan saw the beauty of the prosperous age. Jason Statham's hair is not too short now, and he has not become bald in the future, but he has begun to bald.

After completing part of the training, Jason Statham came over to say hello to Ronan.

Hello, Mr. Anderson. Jason Statham was not tall, but he looked a bit sturdy: Nice to meet you.

Ronan shook hands with him: Hello, Jason. He smiled and said, It is very important that you agree to the invitation to be the male lead of this project.

Jason Statham said a few words of modesty at the right time: Thank you.

Ronan added: You starred in Two Smoking Barrels and Stealing and Kidnapping, both of which are very good movies.

Both of these films are excellent films, but unfortunately they are not very popular in the North American film market. The former would not even be able to enter the North American market without the help of Tom Cruise.

These two are undoubtedly typical niche films, so Ronan didn't consider taking the North American copyright of Stealing and Kidnapping later, because he couldn't pay back the cost in a short time.

Even if it is a good movie, market differences cannot be ignored.

After chatting with Jason Statham for a few more words, Ronan then went to other places to check the sets and props, the strong cottage style made him very speechless.

But Ronan didn't say anything, and the reason was directly related to him.

After all, the budget of the entire film is limited, and it is unrealistic to use the money to allow Uwe Ball to make a magical epic like Lord of the Rings.

Besides, Uwe Ball is not Peter Johnson.

Although Ronan thinks that Uwe Ball is a distinctive director, the sense of magical epic is really not his specialty.

What is Uwe Ball's specialty? It should be that no matter what the subject matter is, no matter how much the investment is, the movie can be made into a super bad movie.

From the very beginning, all Ronan wanted was for Uwe Ball to really use his directing skills.

Since Dungeon Siege can't be made into a magical epic, it should be a rotten one.

Super bad movies are convenient for subsequent publicity operations.

Later, Ronan went to the gym again and met the heroine of the film.

Due to limited budget and funds, this time did not invite such well-known women as Paris Hilton.