The Best Entertainment Era

Regarding the pre-planning of Transformers, Shahai Entertainment is advancing steadily. A production team made a production estimate according to Ronan's request. The production budget needs to be around 160 million US dollars.

This kind of film with special effects as its biggest selling point requires a large investment and large production.

In addition, when Ronan met George Lucas at a banquet in Los Angeles, he also specifically talked to him about special effects cooperation.

This is not the first time we have cooperated. George Lucas and Ronan are also old acquaintances: Relativity Entertainment has more and more big production projects.

Ronan said with a smile: So, Relativity Entertainment will cooperate with the most outstanding special effects company in the world.

George Lucas asked: You said Transformers, will you use 3D technology?

No. Ronan does not intend to use 3D for the films under Relativity Entertainment: I plan to invest more funds in the production of special effects, and use 2D to create a beautiful, shocking and dynamic infinite approach. The 3D image makes the audience feel as if they are in the movie screen.”

George Lucas said: There is difficulty, but it is not a problem. Industrial Light and Magic has always been committed to creating the impossible.

Ronan believes in the strength of Industrial Light \u0026 Magic: I hope we can continue to cooperate for a long time.

George Lucas laughed: ILM would love to work with Relativity Entertainment.

Ronan is very clear that Industrial Light \u0026 Magic has profoundly changed the film industry all over the world, proposing to promote and realize the concept of technology in film.

Some people say that Industrial Light and Magic is a company that you need smoke that can be controlled, and it will give you a complete set of smoke system special effects; others say that this company is full of smart and bald people.

In fact, Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith was all shot in the studio, and all the backgrounds were generated by special effects.

After talking about the movie, George Lucas said another thing: Have you been back to USC recently?

Despite the huge age difference between the two, the relationship between the two is relatively harmonious, and the alumni of the USC Film School are an important reason.

Ronan was very aware of this, and said, I went back once in the first half of the year and chatted with my mentor for a while.

George Lucas said: After a while,

I have an event at USC, the date has not been confirmed yet, do you have time to attend?

Ronan had a huge picture, and USC alumni status is very important, so he just thought about it and said, Inform me of the time in advance, and I will try my best to adjust the schedule.

George Lucas said, I'll call you then.

Ronan turned to ask: Has the release date of Revenge of the Sith been confirmed? I don't want Relativity Entertainment's film to meet head-on.

George Lucas replied: I don't want to meet your movie on the third weekend of next year's summer vacation.

Relativity Entertainment's big productions are also extremely powerful, and no one wants to run into them head-on. As far as he knows, Relativity Entertainment's big productions to be released next year include box office bombs such as Bourne Shadow 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

Ronan smiled: Don't worry, we won't meet head-on.

George Lucas was not polite to Ronan, and directly invited: Remember to attend the premiere.

This is the last Star Wars movie. Ronan looked very interested: I will definitely not miss it.

George Lucas said more than once that Revenge of the Sith is the end of the Star Wars movie series, and he will not make any more Star Wars movies in the future.

Of course, George - Lucas did not gaffe.

When he retired, he chose to package and sell Lucasfilm, and the subsequent Star Wars movies had no direct relationship with him.

Ronan recalled that George Lucas seemed to have retired after 2010, but I can’t remember the exact time.

After Revenge of the Sith is released, if you encounter the right opportunity, you can use indirect methods to see when George Lucas will retire.

The Star Wars series, this is the world's well-deserved number one IP.

Industrial Light and Magic is also the world's most outstanding TV and film special effects production company.

It is impossible to start from scratch in many aspects of Relativity Entertainment, and the giants in this industry will not give Relativity Entertainment the time and opportunity to develop from scratch. Acquisition is almost the best choice.

The former Walt Disney, which later firmly occupied the largest territory in the North American entertainment industry, never relied on self-development.

Of course, today's Walt Disney is still living on its laurels.

Ronan hopes that Walt Disney will continue to live on his laurels in the future, so Robert Iger is quietly contacting Roy Disney, and he himself takes time to ask Cotty Horn's father, the new co-chairman of Disney Pictures Alan Horn Play golf together.

Since Relativity Entertainment has been cooperating with Warner Bros., and Alan Horn previously worked in Warner Bros. Pictures, the two can also be regarded as old acquaintances.

Speaking of playing, Ronan and Aaron Horn mostly stayed in the rest area chatting.

Kodi is a little headstrong, and she ran to you again. Alan Horn took off his sunglasses and said, Thank you for your tolerance.

Ronan shook his head slightly: Alan, you don't understand now, do you? Cody is one of the most sensible girls I've ever met.

Alan Horn laughed and said, I'm sorry to trouble you.

Ronan waved his hand: It's not a troublesome thing in itself, those roles can be played by anyone.

Alan Horn sighed: I encountered some troubles at Warner Brothers some time ago, and now I just arrived at Disney, and some facts are not good for Cody.

Ronan said: Warner Brothers did not consider this matter, and Kevin Tsuhara did too much.

Actually, I don't blame others. Irene Horn took the water glass, took a sip, and said, After all, I didn't do well enough, and people got caught.

There is no right or wrong and excessiveness in this kind of internal power struggle in the company. If you fail, you will lose.

If it was him, if he caught Kevin Tsuhara's sore foot, he would not let it go.

Ronan asked at this time: Is it going well to transfer to Disney?

It's a mess, worse than I imagined. Alan Horn shook his head straight: Disney's live-action movie production, I don't know how to describe it.

He didn't say much, just mentioned it vaguely.

Ronan smiled and said, You can always get back on track.

Alan Horn smiled wryly: I also hope to return to normal this morning, but I need an excellent film project. He deliberately said: Ronan, your vision for choosing film projects is top-notch in the industry, if you have the opportunity , help me introduce a few projects.”

Ronan knew he was joking, so he answered in a joking tone: No problem.

The sun is gradually shifting to the west, and the breeze is blowing. The weather is much cooler and it is a good time to play.

Ronan asked the caddy to fetch the club bag and greeted, Alan, let's go play a hole.

Allen Horn nodded: Okay, let's play another hole.

In the following time, Ronan didn't talk about Disney and work anymore, but just talked about anecdotes that happened in Los Angeles recently.

For example, another wildfire burning in Malibu.

The forests near Los Angeles, especially near Malibu, basically burn several times a year.

Fortunately this year, there were no wildfires until August. The residents were naturally more happy, but some were very depressed.

Because there are no wildfires, some firefighters are facing the crisis of layoffs and salary cuts. In order to keep their jobs and get high bonuses, a firefighter in Malibu saw that the wildfires were not burning, so he set them off himself. .

This fire saved a large number of firefighters who were about to be laid off in the Los Angeles area.

It can only be said that there are wonderful flowers every year, especially this year.

This isn't the first firefighter to set fires in Los Angeles, and it won't be the last.

Alan Horn also chatted with Ronan about the topic of gun ban. This is a very staunch supporter of gun ban.

The reason for talking about this topic is that there has been another vicious shooting incident in the United States recently that caused heavy casualties.

Why do you say again?

Ronan thinks it is a good thing that Alan Horn stays in the position of co-chairman of Disney Pictures. Maybe sometime, he will be able to have some kind of chemical reaction with Relativity Entertainment.

Entering September, Shahai Entertainment's multiple film and TV projects are steadily advancing in preparation or shooting. After the North American box office of Dawn of the Dead exceeded 60 million US dollars, the speed of making money has slowed down. However, zombie movies have shown their strength in the market. Enough vitality, coupled with overseas box office gains, the global box office of this film has already exceeded the 100 million US dollar mark.

Batman: Beginning, which was released in mid-July, has a cumulative North American box office of 242.1 million U.S. dollars and a global box office of 422.74 million U.S. dollars.

Christopher Nolan has temporarily left the Batman project to officially begin preparations for The Prestige.

Unlike the previous Time to War, The Prestige is completely operated by Relativity Entertainment from investment to production to announcement.

Another crew, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, the male and female protagonists of Mr. and Mrs. Smith finished their special training and officially entered the crew. The film will soon be transferred to the shooting stage.

Some time ago, Brad Pitt also bought handcuffs with Jennifer Aniston at the confession store, and nothing special seemed to happen.

This film has been confirmed to be released in summer next year, and in terms of the timeliness of publicity, there is no need to rush it.

Maybe Brad Pitt will be loyal to his words, maybe marriage.

After receiving financial support from Sandsea Entertainment, George Romero is forming a crew. He claims that the script of Land of the Living Dead, which has been planned for ten years, will definitely start filming before Christmas this year.

The film will also be released next year.

According to the latest distribution plan passed on to Ronan by the Embassy Films, the number of films confirmed to be released in 2005 has reached twelve.

Most of them, of course, are small and mid-sized productions and sequel films.