The Best Entertainment Era

After the opening ceremony, the film festival organizing committee held a small reception. Will Smith went to chat with Sophie Marceau, who caused a sensation on the red carpet. Ronan showed his face at the reception and returned to the hotel.

I vaguely remember that Sophie Marceau was born around 1965, and she is really an aunt-level existence.

Ronan returned to the hotel, called Connie who was accompanying him, and said, You go to contact the viewing staff of the embassy film industry and ask them to contact the Korean director Park Chan-wook and ask if the North American copyright of Old Boy is still there? ...Well, if possible, buy the remake copyright together.

These names were very unfamiliar, so Connie quickly wrote them down in her notebook and asked, Are there any other movies?

There are only a few movies that Ronan has an impression of. The Coen Brothers' Old Woman Killer was talked about by Tom Hanks. It is the work of Disney's Touchstone Pictures, and Ghost in the Shell 2 is a pure Japanese manga. Limited in the North American market.

As for Sunglass King’s film, forget it, the market is too narrow.

But what about Fahrenheit 9/11?

The content of this film is even more sensitive than The Passion of the Christ, and it was because of this that it caused a huge sensation later on. Ronan didn't know the specific data, but he remembered that it seemed to be the first documentary in North American film history to gross over 100 million yuan.

Ronan hesitated for a moment and said, Let them contact Park Chan-wook and his Old Boy first.

To be honest, Ronan didn't think about it either.

Fahrenheit 9/11 has such a big piece of cake in front of it, it must be false to say that it is not exciting, but Fahrenheit 9/11 directly points out that it is not a family, and it involves too much politics and its dark side.

The cake was huge, but not that tasty.

Although Ronan planned to be a leftist from the beginning, and has become more and more leftist these years, he is naturally not on the same side as the non-family, but there is no need to provoke these traditional political families.

The rednecks in Texas are not easy to mess with.

After thinking about it, Ronan decided to just pretend that Fahrenheit 9/11 didn't exist.

There are many projects that can be sold in the future, and there are many projects in hand in advance, so there is no need to take this kind of political risk.

Compared with The Passion of the Christ, no matter how you look at it, Fahrenheit 9/11 is much more risky.

After Connie left, Ronan thought of the political situation in the United States from political films. With the development of Relativity entertainment, it is necessary to invest in politics.

Not to mention anything else, when Relativity Entertainment develops to a certain scale and wants to annex other companies, the antitrust investigation is enough to drink a pot.

I vaguely remember that Time Warner tried to merge with News Corporation several times, but was forcibly stopped.

Ronan thought of a name, turned on the computer and searched for public information on the Internet. The black senator from Illinois was running for the federal senator.

If nothing else, this man will not only be elected successfully, but will also reach the pinnacle of his political career in the next few years.

Ronan called Robert Lee, first confessed a few words, and then sent the public information downloaded from the website to Robert Lee through an encrypted email, and Robert Lee was responsible for making initial contact with the other party.

For some well-known reasons, political stuff can't go too deep,

The efficiency of the embassy film industry is very high. The next morning, when Ronan had just had breakfast, the relevant personnel passed the news to Connie.

They had contact with Park Chan-wook last night. Connie said quickly: The North American copyright of Old Boy has not been sold yet, and it is currently in the hands of the production company. The Embassy Films will discuss the North American distribution and remake rights today. Matters, start formal negotiations with them.

Ronan ate a fried egg and nodded in satisfaction: The action is very fast.

Connie asked: Apart from Ten Faces of Haze, do you have any other schedules?

Ronan thought for a while and said, Go to the premiere of The Haze of Ten Faces first, and then go to the film fair.

Connie said, Okay, I'll contact the vehicle.

Perhaps it is the great success of Hero in the world, which has given the producers and overseas distributor Sony Entertainment outside North America enough confidence. They put the world premiere of Ten Faces of Haze at the Cannes Film Festival , and rented the Lumiere Hall for the premiere.

In addition to Erzhang and Navas from Lionsgate and others who met at the opening ceremony of the film festival, Ronan met Chris, an old friend from Sony Entertainment, at the premiere.

How much did you earn from the previous Hero? Chris asked directly.

Ronan smiled: It's just that I didn't lose money.

Chris shook his head and said, That's weird. Those two Mr. Zhang only have the copyright of the Eastern Market, and the copyrights of other places are all sold to your Embassy Pictures. Even if the Eastern Market is eliminated, Heroes The box office in North America is still close to 200 million US dollars, you said that the embassy pictures didn't make any money?

He deliberately lowered his voice: The producer of Hero just got the name, and the real benefits have been taken away by you and the Embassy Pictures, aren't they?

Ronan just laughed and didn't answer Chris's words at all.

Chris asked, Is there a net profit of $100 million?

Ronan coughed in a low voice, and said vaguely, Tens of millions of dollars.

Seventy to eighty million dollars is also tens of millions of dollars, there is nothing wrong with this statement.

Due to the ownership structure of Relativity Entertainment, it is difficult for outsiders to understand the company's very specific operating data information. Chris originally wanted to borrow a good relationship with Ronan for many years to find out a little bit.

But seeing that Ronan was leaking, he could only say: Ronan, what do you think of this Ten Faces of Haze? It is said that you also participated in the North American copyright auction organized by New Picture Company.

Ronan shrugged: Please, Chris, I haven't even seen the movie yet, how can I judge?

Chris said in a low voice: I feel that no one in Hollywood understands oriental films and oriental filmmakers better than you, otherwise there would be no such success as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.

Ronan didn't take his compliments at all, instead he said, I'll have to wait until I've seen the movie.

Seeing that there was nothing to ask from Ronan, Chris simply changed the subject: Relativity Entertainment acquired Marvel Comics and reorganized it into Marvel Entertainment. There will be more opportunities for cooperation between the two parties in the future.

Ronan nodded: Yes. He went on to say: Chris, we are old friends, I will not hide some things from you, I have a lot of ideas about Spider-Man, you can tell Sony Columbia Pictures for me Based on the feedback, Marvel Entertainment hopes to cooperate more with Sony Columbia Pictures on the Spider-Man project.

What Chris said just now was just a test, and he wanted to see the attitude of Relativity Entertainment towards Spider-Man and Sony Columbia Pictures after the acquisition of Marvel.

There are rumors in the circle that the copyright department of the newly formed Marvel Entertainment has already engaged with 20th Century Fox. The two parties have a major conflict of interest in the X-Men series and the Fantastic Four series, and there is a high possibility of trouble. Court.

If it is said that Marvel Entertainment does not have the support of Relativity Entertainment Group and Ronan Anderson, he will not believe it.

Sony Columbia Pictures is not afraid of trouble from Marvel Entertainment. After all, when Sony Entertainment bought Spider-Man from Cannon Pictures, it inherited all the rights and interests of Cannon Pictures in this series.

But there are some things that are not a matter of being afraid or not.

For example, he heard that Marvel Entertainment was planning to smear the Fantastic Four in the comics, and even let the Fantastic Four die aggrieved as villains.

This is really invincible and disgusting!

Ronan is also trying to explore Columbia Pictures and Sony Entertainment through Chris: After the Marvel Entertainment film plan starts, it is better to let Peter Parker return to Marvel temporarily, and then...

Return to Marvel? Chris interrupted Ronan directly: I'm not in charge of this, Ronan, it's useless for you to tell me.

Ronan nodded: I hope you can convey Marvel Entertainment's request to cooperate with Sony Columbia Pictures to develop the Spider-Man series more deeply.

Chris said seriously, I will.

Ronan also stopped talking about this topic. To a certain extent, this can be regarded as courtesy first.

If Sony Columbia Pictures can respond and develop the Spider-Man series together with Marvel Entertainment in advance, Ronan doesn't mind letting Iron Man take Spider-Man to pretend and fly.

In this way, the Avengers plan can also borrow the heat caused by the Spider-Man series at the beginning.

But the difficulty is really great, after all, Sony Columbia Pictures has not yet experienced the stage where the spider is no more than three.

If Sony Columbia Pictures refuses, of course Ronan will not give up, and everything will be done according to the previous plan.

Ronan then greeted Navas, found two more cards, and chatted with them for a while.

These two are high-spirited and want the new film to create the glory of Hero.

Frankly speaking, this film will definitely be commercially successful. Among other things, the US$20 million North American copyright fee paid by Lionsgate alone is enough for New Picture to recover all its investment.

The rest of Sony Entertainment's international distribution and gains in the Eastern market can basically be classified as profits.

The second piece did a very good business on the film Ten Faces of Haze.

After Ronan left, the two looked at his back with some emotion.

The high profit of the previous film was almost taken away by him.

Don't think too much, Lao Zhang. We have no choice. We don't have the ability to distribute internationally, and we haven't developed commercial reputation. We can only sell international copyrights. The bulk of the profits are for foreigners. We exchange profits for market popularity. Facts have proved that this strategy It was successful, and we ushered in a market explosion on Ten Faces of Haze.

Director Zhang said: I'm still somewhat unwilling. He changed the subject: The news and the media are almost ready, right?

It's ready. The producer wearing a white hat said: This time I came to Cannes for the premiere, and I have greeted all the domestic media. The reporters are all our own, and the manuscripts written are all aimed at us. advantageous……