The Best Entertainment Era

Relativity Building, on Monday morning, Ronan participated in the project promotion meeting of Shahai Entertainment. George Clint, who presided over the meeting, mentioned the preparation or production progress of many future film projects.

For example, Zombieland directed by Edgar Wright will soon start filming, and Embassy Pictures will also release it in 2007.

For example, Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle has also started project preparations, and plans to start a series of film festival awards from 2007.

There is also the Ninth District crew, which has gone to South Africa and is preparing to shoot on-site near Johannesburg.

Uwe Bauer's Vampire Lincoln is also officially approved, with a production budget of up to 8 million US dollars.

This is the one with the highest production budget among all the films directed by Brother Bao.

However, the project that will focus on this promotion is Fast and Furious 4.

The third part has already been filmed and produced, and it will also be released this summer. During several internal test screenings, the response to the film has been very good, and a sequel has also been put on the discussion agenda.

The fourth part is still produced by Jessica Felton and directed by Justin Lin. The specific production budget will depend on the box office situation after the release of Fast and Furious 3.

If the third part can meet expectations, the production budget of the fourth part will definitely increase, and it will move closer to the first-line major production projects.

After the meeting, Ronan chatted with Jessica Felton alone about the status of the project, and then returned to his office.

Connie has already prepared last weekend's box office flash.

How is it? Ronan didn't look at it, but asked, Who was the box office champion last weekend?

Connie answered quickly and succinctly: Iron Man achieved a comeback, with a second-weekend box office of 68.91 million US dollars, and won the box office chart for the second time. The newly released Ice Age 2 ranked second, with a North American opening weekend box office of 62.14 million. Dollar.

Ronan asked again: How much is the North American box office of Iron Man?

Connie said: It was released in North America for ten days, and the box office has accumulated a total of 215.27 million US dollars.

Ronan nodded slowly: According to the current trend, it is not difficult to exceed 350 million US dollars.

Connie smiled and said, The casinos in Las Vegas opened the market before, and they have announced that they will close the betting on Iron Man's final North American box office of 350 million U.S. dollars.

Ronan also laughed: It seems that the outside world is also very optimistic about us.

Yes. Connie said: Not only Iron Man, but Thor, Hulk, Captain America, etc. who have announced their follow-up plans have also attracted attention.

Ronan nodded slowly: It's a good deal to use a movie to drive the follow-up series.

Iron Man invested as much as 270 million U.S. dollars in production and publicity. Under normal circumstances, the global box office must reach three of this figure in order to make a profit through the box office.

The goal of Theory of Relativity Entertainment is very clear. Screening in theaters is a huge publicity. The best result is to recover the cost through the box office. The real profit depends on the operation of various offline channels.

In ten days, the sales of peripheral products of Iron Man in the North American market have exceeded 50 million US dollars.

As time goes on, this number will continue to increase.

Moreover, the film has been released in overseas markets one after another last weekend, and overseas offline channels will also bring high profits.

With the help of Iron Man's big sales, peripheral authorizations are also being launched one after another.

Ronan then asked about the situation after the movie opened overseas last weekend, and Connie answered accordingly.

While North America was hot, Iron Man landed in major overseas markets such as Europe, Latin America, Australia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. However, compared with the film's rapid development in North America, the response in overseas markets was somewhat weaker.

In the final analysis, this is still Tony Stark's influence is not enough.

Compared with Superman, Bat and Spiderman, Iron Man's popularity is much worse.

However, the most popular movies in North America can also attract attention overseas, and Hollywood blockbusters have always had the advantage of spreading rapidly.

Iron Man was released in more than 40 countries and regions at the same time, and the first week of overseas sales was 90.54 million US dollars.

Looking at the world, Tony Stark's popularity is relatively limited for the time being, which will also affect the film's overseas box office to a certain extent.

Embassy Pictures predicts that the overseas box office of Iron Man will be much lower than that in North America.

Tony Stark is a relatively unfamiliar character to most audiences outside of North America. This is another production that has just started, and it is impossible to have a large audience base like the sequel.

In fact, except for the United Kingdom and Australia, the box office of Iron Man in other overseas regions where it was released did not exceed US$10 million in the first weekend.

In any case, Iron Man has created a good enough start for The Avengers Project.

Before Connie left the office, she said to Ronan again: By the way, early this morning, Charles Rowan from Warner Bros. called and invited you to attend the premiere of Superman Returns this week.

It was only then that Ronan remembered that Warner Bros.' super blockbuster was about to be released.

Reply to them. Ronan said directly: I will be there.

Kevin Tsuhara and Charles Rowan both attended the Iron Man premiere before, and even if it was just out of courtesy, Ronan had to go to the Superman Returns premiere for a spin.

Moreover, this is the film with the highest investment in Hollywood.

The Return of Superman started operation as early as the mid-to-late 1990s. Perhaps only Warner Bros. and DC Comics know how many directors, screenwriters, and scripts have been changed.

By the time Bryan Singer, who actually finished the work, took over as director, Warner Bros. and DC Comics had spent $50 million on Superman Returns' ever-changing lineup.

Nicolas Cage was originally set to play Superman, but Nicolas Cage was fed up with the repeated procrastination of the whole process and chose to quit the crew.

As for the other actors who have been replaced, they can almost form a reinforced platoon.

Jude Law, Ashton Kutcher, Paul Walker, Josh Hartnett and many other popular youngsters once joined the crew, and then left due to project delays.

Henry Cavill, who has signed a long-term contract with Sandsea Entertainment, also participated in the audition, but lost to Brandon Rose.

For this project, Warner Bros. finally disclosed that the production cost was 270 million US dollars, but there are rumors that the production cost far exceeds this figure, and may exceed 300 million US dollars.

Whether it's $270 million or $300 million, this is the highest record Hollywood has ever made.

It also shows how ambitious Warner Bros. and DC Comics really are to bring Superman back on the big screen!

The huge investment also represents a huge pressure to pay back. According to outside estimates, Superman Returns will not get a box office of 1 billion US dollars. It is not generally difficult to recover the cost through various channels.

Warner Bros. and DC Comics also have great expectations for this super giant. It is said that there was a sequel plan early, but the sequel was canceled recently.

According to Ronan's guess, this should be related to Iron Man. The early release of Iron Man should also give Warner Bros. a plan to create a Justice League movie universe, and then shoot a separate Superman movie. significance.

Re-planning is inevitable.

Ronan is also very curious. Warner Bros. seems to have a plan to create a Justice League movie universe. How to plan it?

Zach Schneider has already started cooperating with Warner Bros. on The Watcher, and Ronan has already sat in front of many jobs. It is not up to him to decide what Warner Bros. will choose in the future.

On Wednesday, Warner Bros. held a grand premiere of Superman Returns on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, and invited many guests to attend. Its momentum is more than that of Iron Man.

Entering the Kodak Theater, Ronan saw Kevin Tsuhara, shook hands with him, and said with a smile: Kevin, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon.

Kevin Tsuhara also had a smile on his face: How could Warner Bros. forget your heavyweight partner?

Ronan said: The Superman movie has been looking forward to for many years, and now it is finally here.

Kevin Tsuhara said intentionally or unintentionally: In the future, you will often see Superman on the big screen.

Ronan said politely, I wish you success.

Thank you. Kevin Tsuhara seemed confident.

Ronan didn't say anything else, and went directly into the VIP room, and then saw Zack Schneider, who also saw him, and hurried over to say hello.

I heard that you have started preparations for The Watcher? Ronan asked, Is it going well?

Zack Snyder said: Warner Bros. has a lot of support for me, and Charles Rowan is a producer and respects me very much.

Ronan nodded: That's good, I can rest assured.

Zach Snyder said: When the film is finished, you must come and see it as soon as possible.

Ronan smiled and said, Definitely. He then reminded: Zach, don't forget that you are still the director of Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta, and you have to cooperate with the embassy film industry to participate in the promotional announcement.

Zach Schneider quickly said: I haven't forgotten, as long as the embassy film industry and Shahai Entertainment are notified, I will go there on time every time.

Having filmed two films in Hollywood in a row, Zach Schneider is actually very clear, don't look at not cooperating with Relativity Entertainment, the success or failure of Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta is still very important to him.

If the film is a success, his power and support at Warner Bros. will certainly be even greater.

If it fails, let alone the current power, maybe Warner Bros. and DC Comics will stop the project and replace the director.

Ronan didn't tell Zach Schneider much, and greeted many acquaintances, and then at the invitation of Kevin Tsuhara, they entered the main hall of the theater together and waited for the screening to start.

Almost 20 years have passed since the last Superman movie was released in 1987. Even the older generation of Superman actor Christopher Reeve has died of illness, and countless people are waiting for the return of Superman.

Recommend the new book of the urban master Lao Shi: