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Zombie movies have always been the favorite of heavy-taste movie fans. The unique setting of zombies can not only satisfy heavy-duty sensory stimulation, but also the feelings of doomsday despair and dark human conflicts are also very attractive.

In the 1980s, George Romero gradually went downhill. The 1985 Zombie Uncaged was not only ridiculed by the critics, but also a dismal box office. Several other films were still unsatisfactory.

George Romero had to die.

The box office hit of Land of the Dead has officially announced to the world that the father of zombie films is back!

This will inspire the feelings of many zombie film lovers. In film marketing and promotion, feelings are an effect that can never be ignored.

Therefore, although Land of the Living Dead has a bad reputation, the box office trend is not bad.

In just ten days after its release in North America, the box office of this film easily exceeded 30 million US dollars.

Moreover, in overseas releases, markets such as the United Kingdom, France, Australia, and Germany all performed well.

Compared with the film's production cost of US$8 million, the overseas box office of US$10.12 million in the first week is also quite impressive.

The success of Land of the Living Dead has made Shahai Entertainment pay more attention to The Walking Dead. Related preparations are speeding up, and Netflix streaming media is also urging, hoping to launch the first season of the series next winter .

Netflix streaming has developed rapidly since it was launched more than half a year ago. Without any strong competitors, it has attracted a large audience with extremely rich content.

The second season of Prison Break and Survival in the Wild will also be launched in the last quarter of this year.

By next year, there will be new dramas landing on the Netflix streaming platform.

Although after successive hypes and rapid growth, the rise of Netflix's stock price has gradually slowed down, but it has also climbed steadily.

This is also the normal development mode of a healthy enterprise.

Just like the real estate market on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, after the explosive growth, there must be a short period of adjustment, and then to accumulate energy for the next stage of skyrocketing prices.

In recent months, Netflix has also been steadily advancing its overseas expansion plan. Except for some special markets, such as the central region of Africa, most of them have set up branches to promote Netflix-related businesses.

Even the Arab world,

Netflix has also successfully entered relatively open countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.

For example, in an extremely conservative country like Saudi Arabia, although services such as Netflix video are blocked, Netflix sharing has opened up the market.

In addition, there are new trends in Android.

After the establishment of the Open Handheld Device Alliance, already powerful individuals joined together in a general direction, attracting more companies to join, and Android also ushered in a period of rapid development.

Netflix also convened an alliance meeting with major manufacturers in September, at which it was officially announced that Samsung, Blackberry and Motorola's mobile phones equipped with the Android system will be officially launched next year.

This is undoubtedly good news for Android and Netflix.

But there is also unfavorable news. Nokia officially announced the acquisition of Symbian, and Symbian became Nokia's exclusive system.

The two major alliances of mobile terminals have also officially come to the stage. With the world's number one sales, Nokia wants to completely establish its position as the global hegemon.

The relatively closed Saipan and the open Android are about to usher in their own different fates.

Ronan is not too worried about Nokia and Symbian, even though he has always been a loyal user of Nokia.

Netflix has used Android to coerce too many mobile terminal manufacturers, forming a broader alliance.

In contrast, Nokia's circle is much smaller.

The only pity is that Ronan has never talked to Steve Jobs, and Apple still insists on its own system. Fortunately, Netflix's APP has fully entered Apple's system.

Both Dawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead were successful, and besides The Walking Dead, Ronan also paid more attention to this genre.

First of all, Ronan went through Shahai Entertainment's script library and the scripts received. There are quite a few zombie-themed scripts, but almost none of them are worth filming.

This has nothing to do with his memory, but judging by the typical Hollywood-style review principles, most of the scripts do not even conform to the basic three-paragraph structure, and the content settings are chaotic.

Having said that, most of the scripts that take the delivery route are new works by newcomers, and it is not easy to discover valuable works.

Similarly, it is not generally difficult for those valuable newcomers to make their debut.

Don't look at Ronan, who will personally review the scripts or projects received by Shahai Entertainment every once in a while, but it is still a lucky few who can appear in front of him in the end.

Excluding the Netflix network, the main business of Relativity Entertainment is based on content production.

Although the proportion of the box office in the company's revenue continues to decline, the content of all offline and peripheral operations is actually the foundation.

This is no different from Warner Bros., which has the best performance in Hollywood today, and Walt Disney, which once Hollywood was about to become a dominant presence.

Content production requires a script, and Ronan also needs a wider screening range.

For this reason, he specifically brought George Clint and Jessica Felton over to discuss related matters.

Expanding the screening area does not simply refer to these delivery scripts. Ronan pointed to the copy of the script on the table and said: There are many scripts that may not be delivered to Relativity Entertainment, and may also be scripts from other companies. There is ashes in the warehouse.

George Clint said: Other studios would rather have their scripts rot than allow us to look at their script library, even if they don't have the rights.

Jessica Felton agrees: Well, that's true. For example, I will never let producers from other companies read the script in my hand.

Of course Ronan understood this point. Many scripts were delivered to film companies just for luck, and the copyright was still in the hands of the authors. Film companies might dismiss the scripts, but they would not let outsiders read them.

It's not just new works by newcomers. Ronan added: Including projects in the circle looking for investment or production companies.

There are many projects in Hollywood. Even if the project has been approved by the producer, sometimes it takes many years to shoot and produce it, because it is not easy to find investors.

George Clint said: There may be thousands, tens of thousands, or even more scripts created by Hollywood every year. Only a small part of them can actually appear in front of us. But we want to expand our horizons, It is not easy, and it will be constrained by various practical factors, and it is impossible for us to concentrate too many resources on finding the script.

Ronan said: This is also the reason why I discussed with you today, how can we expand our horizons and let more potentially valuable scripts and projects come into our sight.

What do you think? Jessica Felton asked.

Hollywood brings together the strongest film talents in the world and has a huge talent pool.

These talents come from all over the world, with dreams in mind, and hope that Virgo can win with one blow.

The script provides the initial story model, characters, conflicts, and event transitions, and determines the theme and genre of the film, and to a considerable extent, determines the basis of the film.

Jessica Felton is not a rookie when she first cooperated with Ronan, she has a very good understanding of the entire Hollywood industry model, and said: Actually, this is not a problem of ours, but all production companies are facing this. How can we expand our horizons with the minimum investment, and find valuable projects as much as possible from so many scripts every year?

George Clint asked with a smile: Aside from manual screening, is there any other way?

As the CEO of Sandsea Entertainment, he deeply feels that it is not difficult for a production company to have a script material library, but it is not easy to make this material library dynamic and frequently updated.

For new screenwriters who want to make their debut, how to sell their scripts is also a difficult problem.

Ronan said: Finding scripts and selling scripts has never been an easy task.

Compared to George Clint, Jessica Felton spoke more directly: Hollywood is conservative, and most executives say 'no, no, no' all day and then go to dinner because they say yes may result in dismissal.

Ronan knew she was telling the truth. How many executives in Hollywood have been kicked out because a movie project failed?

I have an idea, if more people are mobilized, will more scripts appear on my desk? Ronan said.

George Clint doesn't quite get it: Mobilize more people? Are we going to put more resources into this?

Ronan waved his hand: That's not what I mean. George, Jesse, Sandsea Entertainment makes more than ten films every year, and we have cooperated with a huge number of directors, actors, screenwriters and producers. They are all in the industry. The front-line practitioners in the industry are directly exposed to a large number of scripts and projects every year...

Jessica Felton understood what Ronan meant, maybe this is a good way?

Ronan continued: We can establish a smooth communication channel with good people among them, let them use email or other methods, and every once in a while, recommend to us scripts that we like and have not filmed. If we can adopt it, we can give them a certain referral reward.”

This... seems extremely feasible. George Clint thought for a while, and said, With the company's current development momentum, there should be quite a few practitioners in the industry who have a good cooperative relationship with them.

He went on to add: We can also mobilize people inside the company, after all, they will also have a lot of access to the script.

Jessica Felton said: I think it's possible, too.

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