The Best Entertainment Era

Burbank, Warner Studios.

In the office, Kevin Tsuhara put down the documents, looked at Charles Rowan opposite, and asked, This weekend's box office champion or Night at the Museum?

It's this family carnival. Charles Rowan's face was a little weird: This movie is very unusual.

Kevin Tsuhara was puzzled: Because of poor word of mouth, the box office can sell well? He thought it was normal: The projects under Relativity Entertainment, especially the projects initiated and produced by Ronan Anderson, have poor word of mouth and high box office. universal.

How many film projects has Ronan Anderson initiated over the years? Except for a few, do other majors have a good reputation?

Charles Rowan said slowly: No matter how the Rotten Tomatoes index rots all the way, it can't stop the enthusiasm of family audiences. The box office of Night at the Museum not only did not plummet due to word-of-mouth, but grew against the trend. The second weekend was higher than the first weekend. Over the weekend, it rose 15% to close at US$45.78 million. Ten days after its release, the North American box office of Night at the Museum easily exceeded 100 million, reaching US$122.78 million.

Kevin Tsuhara's face changed: Reverse growth next weekend?

Charles Rowan is very sure: Yes, reverse growth!

Why isn't such a film owned by Warner Brothers? Kevin Tsuhara shook his head and sighed: If Ronan Anderson is our chief creative officer...

Charles Rowan didn't answer because it was impossible.

If Ronan Anderson is just a gold medal producer, Warner Bros. may still hire him to enter the top management, but Ronan Anderson is not only a producer, but also the owner of a film company. What will Warner Bros. use to impress Ronan Anderson?

Kevin Tsuhara is also aware of this point. Now that the situation of Relativity Entertainment is here, Warner Bros. chooses to acquire Relativity Entertainment. Without the support of Time Warner Group, they can only adopt the method of mergers and acquisitions.

Even if Ronan Anderson agrees, he may also become the largest individual shareholder of Warner Bros. By then, not only the chief creative officer, but also the positions of chairman and CEO may be changed.

Besides, Ronan Anderson won't agree.

Kevin Tsuhara must first ensure that he can sit on the highest position of Warner Bros., and then talk about others.

Where's our Alexander the Great? Kevin Tsuhara asked.

Even though he was not in charge of the business, in the face of the inquiry from his immediate boss, Charles Rowan still replied: The second weekend in North America was 4.12 million U.S. dollars. After ten days of release, the cumulative box office in North America was 21.83 million U.S. dollars.

Kevin Tsujihara went on to ask: Future prospects?

Charles Rowan said frankly: The box office in North America is about 30 million US dollars, and it is difficult for the overseas box office to reach 100 million US dollars.

Kevin Tsuhara couldn't help saying softly: Huge loss...

Hearing this, Charles Rowan thought of Alan Horn, and immediately raised his vigilance. Kevin Tsuhara, an islander, may not have a good professional level, but his ability to throw blame and cheat others is absolutely First class.

Charles Rowan didn't want to take the blame for the failure of Alexander the Great.

Kate Tsuhara is more of a bureaucrat than a technical school like Charles Rowan. She showed her teeth a little and then changed the subject: None of the three big-budget epic films in Hollywood this year have met expectations. Strictly speaking, It all failed, and we should not consider epic projects with large investment and production in the next step.

Currently, epic projects are indeed more risky. Charles Rowan remembered something and asked, What about the project that Roland Emmerich asked us to cooperate with?

Kevin Tsuhara has also seen related project proposals: The prehistoric film project?

Charles Rowan said: Roland Emmerich's new project, strictly speaking, is also an epic type of costume.

When it comes to business ability, Kevin Tsuhara is not very good, but he is good at calculating. After a little thinking, he has a countermeasure: Find someone to recommend this prehistoric project to Relativity Entertainment, and see Ronan Anderson's reaction , and if he refuses, neither will we.

In his eyes, this is the safest way to deal with it.

Charles Rowan has doubts: Our verbal agreement with Roland Emmerich...

Kevin Tsuhara quickly thought of a countermeasure and said: If we don't want it, we don't have to refuse it directly, and disclose the news of Roland Emmerich's new project to 20th Century Fox. We have been cooperating with Twentieth Century Fox. Twentieth Century Fox will not let Roland Emmerich go easily, so we are not in breach of contract. If Ronan Anderson is interested, we have an agreement with Roland Emmerich !

Charles Rowan found out that he was really only suitable for technology.

The super stable box office trend of Night at the Museum has exceeded everyone's expectations. In ten days, the North American box office has exceeded 120 million US dollars, which means that this film with a production cost of only 70 million US dollars is bound to be a huge success.

Once the family carnival movie hits the market, its power is boundless.

But the box office success also brought some happy troubles.

For example, a sequel has already been put on the agenda, and the actor Ben Stiller has asked for a salary of 15 million US dollars.

The two sides have already started negotiations for a sequel.

The box office of the film is a big hit, and it is inevitable that the actor's salary will rise.

Ronan passed the production budget for the sequel, and the production cost will rise to $100 million, and the increased part is mainly used for special effects production and personnel compensation.

The preparation, production and release cycle of the sequel is planned to be two years.

At the end of November, good news came from Robert Lee's legal affairs and copyright department. The film adaptation copyright of Life and Death has been successfully acquired. It is the same as the adaptation copyright of previous island works. The price is not high, and the authorization fee is only 1.5 million. Dollar.

After Uwe Ball got the news, he made a special trip to Shahai Entertainment to discuss the script adaptation with the screenwriting department.

Ronan has already agreed with Uwe Ball that the production budget will not exceed 5 million US dollars. After the adaptation copyright is obtained, just like Vampire Lane, let Uwe Ball prepare for the filming.

After the success of Death Haunted House and Dungeon Siege, Brother Bao also has a group of fans.

If you shoot a film with a production budget of tens of millions of dollars, you must think carefully, but under five million dollars, you can let Brother Bao shoot casually. For now, Brother Bao has such a market appeal.

Brother Bao has already joined Netflix, and as the audience continues to expand, Brother Bao has a large number of fans on Netflix, and the number of likes for related news can easily reach five figures.

To some extent, Brother Bao can be said to be a star director.

Star directors like Christopher Nolan rely on excellent films with outstanding reputation to attract a large number of fans, while Brother Bao does the opposite.

Ronan also had a plan to launch another wave of publicity when Bao Ge's new film is about to be released, trying to make Bao Ge a super Internet celebrity director on Netflix.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, there was a very long stage, when quite a few viewers watched movies regardless of the quality, and went for someone else.

The same is true of Hollywood.

Brother Bao has a unique appearance, outstanding features, and is willing to cooperate. He is a very suitable candidate.

Netflix's mobile client business will go public after the new year. With the development of the smartphone market, Bao Ge has a bright future.

There are many movies suitable for adapting games, and the copyright fee itself is not high. As long as Brother Bao can attract enough audiences, Ronan can let him keep filming.

After several years of cooperation, Ronan also discovered that Brother Bao is indeed very capable, except for the director.

The awards season is about to kick off, and the next two months will directly affect the success or failure of many films.

Ronan is temporarily staying in Los Angeles to concentrate on film business.

Shahai Entertainment forwarded the latest batch of delivered scripts and movie project lists. The former are basically new screenwriters trying their luck everywhere, while the latter belong to producers or directors seeking investment.

Like most of the time in the past, in the script submitted by the new screenwriter, Ronan did not see a familiar name, but a project that a producer wanted to attract investment caught his attention.

First of all, this is the work of the famous German director Roland Emmerich, that is, the director who filmed Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow.

Secondly, the name of this project is called Ten Thousand Years Before History!

Ronan had watched the film, and his first impression was that the scientific name made people preconceived that the film would strictly reproduce the state of 10,000 years before history.

It's a pity that this film is more like a magical movie with a chaotic era.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call Ten Thousand Years Before History something like Prehistoric Mythology.

Ronan also saw some news about Roland Emmerich because of the subsequent earthquake movie that could incite the doomsday atmosphere. At that time, many people on the Internet said that Ten Thousand Years Before History was Roland Emmerich. Not one of Rich's most failed works.

Some people even cursed that the movie should be called Ten Thousand Years Stinky.

Ronan still remembered that at that time, he was a little interested in watching a group of primitive people fight against the sky and the earth against animals. The scene suddenly changed to show the Egyptian pyramids.

The long-haired and blue-eyed whites united with the blacks defeated the highly civilized Egyptians, and they were nothing but stupid.

Because the director is Roland Emmerich, Ronan simply read the project and script, which are basically similar to what he remembered.

He is also a little strange, Roland Emmerich has been cooperating with 20th Century Fox since Independence Day, how did he go to Shahai Entertainment to attract investment?

Such a good project, of course, must be left to 20th Century Fox.

Ronan gave this project a red light in his heart. After a little consideration, he did not directly impose the death penalty. He specifically called George Clint and asked him to find a way to reveal to 20th Century Fox that Ten Thousand Years Before History was everywhere. At the same time, don't publicize Shahai Entertainment's attitude to the outside world for the time being.