The Best Entertainment Era

Before Thanksgiving, Ronan saw the film that won the Oscar for Best Actor and knew who Tom Cruise's biggest potential rival was.

Forest Whitaker, a black actor with a very rich resume.

The Last Dictatorship, released by Fox Searchlight, chose to start screenings in North America the week before Thanksgiving, in order to qualify for admission to all outpost awards during the awards season.

In some ways, this is also a manifestation of lack of confidence.

Those movies that are strong for awards often enter December, or even start to be released in mid-December. They don't care about the outpost awards in December, including the major film critic awards. Union awards.

Ronan deliberately looked at some clips of The Last Dictatorship obtained by the PR team. In terms of acting skills alone, Forest Whitaker is no better than Tom Cruise in The Departed, and even better than Tom Cruise in The Departed. Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond wasn't much better.

Acting has reached a certain level, which is a very subjective thing.

The Last Dictatorship is about Amin, the former ruling general in Uganda, and it is another standard African black theme.

Compared with North American black-themed films, Relativity Entertainment has rich experience in dealing with African-themed films during the awards season. It once won Will Smith the Oscar for Best Actor in the competition for African-themed films.

In fact, no matter what the measure is, it is always enough to grasp it well-black Americans never think that African blacks are the same group as them.

This seemingly subtle psychology can affect the choices of many people.

Since The Departed is going to hit the Oscars, Ronan doesn't mind winning a few more awards, one more Oscar for Best Actor, maybe tens of millions of dollars more in revenue.

He specifically looked at other potential competitors of Tom Cruise, the most likely to be nominated, as well as Brad Pitt who starred in Babel and Leonardo who starred in Blood Diamond- DiCaprio.

Needless to say, the former is less popular with the academy judges than Tom Cruise and Leonardo, and the latter's Oscar-accompanying road has just begun.

The biggest competitor is actually Forest Whitaker.

Now if you want to win an Oscar, you must find ways to hold back your competitors while praising yourself.

The role of the latter point is also becoming more and more prominent.

Besides, The Last Warlord is a work of Twentieth Century Fox, so why not entertain Theory of Relativity?

The weekend before Thanksgiving, Embassy Pictures held a huge premiere for Night at the Museum 2 at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

It's a real Thanksgiving-friendly family flick, and following the success of the first film, it's a big fan following, with returning stars including Ben Stiller and Robin Williams.

A sequel to a blockbuster movie, as long as it works well, will never lack an audience.

And the audience will increase significantly compared to the first one.

Of course, it is not only the audience that has increased, but also the production cost. Compared with the first production budget of only 75 million US dollars, the second film has skyrocketed to 120 million US dollars.

This is because Ben Stiller has signed a long-term contract with Robin Williams and other main creative personnel, otherwise the production cost of the second film may go straight to 150 million US dollars.

Ronan also came to Washington, D.C., but did not attend the premiere. Instead, he accepted the invitation of classmate Heitan and participated in several gatherings one after another, further broadening his network of contacts in Washington.

Heitan has already begun to prepare for the next general election. His biggest competitor in the Democratic Party may be Zipperton's wife.

Is the next black or a woman?

Someone once said that the U.S. general election after entering the new century has become one of the worst events.

Comparing who is worse than who is worse, get out of the worse one...

In addition, Ronan also met the New York real estate agent surnamed Tang, let alone his behavior.

Relativity Entertainment also has contacts with him, and it is the usual practice of large companies to seek benefits from multiple parties.

On the contrary, the daughter who followed Tang was very distinctive.

This is also a well-known socialite in New York, but Ronan has no interest in her, and those who are interested in her basically died at the hands of the beast.

For safety's sake, Ronan didn't even speak to her.

Night at the Museum 2 has also successfully landed in North American theaters. This kind of comedy-adventure film full of family fun can be enjoyed by children as young as 5 years old and the whole family. It is very suitable for the family fun on Thanksgiving.

This type of film is often the most popular in the market around Thanksgiving.

In the first weekend of its release in North America, Night at the Museum 2 earned a box office of 70.5 million US dollars, replacing The Incredibles as the top box office chart in North America, and it can also declare the success of the sequel.

In just five days, the North American box office of this film exceeded 100 million US dollars.

Due to the approaching Thanksgiving and the audience base laid by the first film, Night at the Museum 2 was also released in many overseas markets at the same time, and nearly 100 million US dollars was earned in the first weekend overseas.

According to the analysis and estimation of first-line market data by Embassy Pictures, the final North American box office of Night at the Museum 2 will reach 250 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office will reach 500 million U.S. dollars. It is not very difficult.

The Incredibles also started its second week of screening overseas, with a cumulative overseas box office of 212.68 million US dollars, and the global box office easily exceeded 400 million US dollars.

Pixar's animated feature films are still sweeping the global film market.

Of course, except for the market on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

After Night at the Museum 2, there are only two films left under Relativity Entertainment this year. One is The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese for the awards season, and the other is in the United States. Comedy movie The Hangover, released just before Christmas.

The latter has already completed filming and production, and due to schedule reasons, it has been delayed until the holiday file, and it is finally determined to be released before Christmas.

As a typical shit comedy, it is impossible to expect this kind of film to achieve blockbuster fame, and Relativity Entertainment's only goal is to make a profit.

After Ronan returned to Los Angeles, Bradley Cooper came to see him once.

Bradley Cooper has signed a long-term contract with Sandsea Entertainment. Except for the sequel of The Hangover, he does not want to appear in other shit comedy movies. I hope Ronan can understand and hope to get other types of movies from Sandsea Entertainment. roles and opportunities.

Ronan said he would consider it.

This is not surprising. For stars and directors, the style of feces and fart comedy is undoubtedly very low. Stars or directors born in this rank hope to transform, and stars or directors who have already become famous will not easily step in...

There aren't many people like James Franco.

Originally, Ronan had an idea about Bradley Cooper, but unfortunately Warner Bros. has not responded, and Bradley Cooper himself needs to continue to hone.

The current Bradley Cooper is just a pure shit comedy star.

The day before Thanksgiving, Charles Rowan of Warner Bros. made an unannounced visit.

Why do you have time to come here? Ronan received Charles Rowan in the reception room: I heard that you have been very busy recently.

Charles Rowan said with a smile: About The Dark Knight, there are some things I want to talk to you about.

Ronan's heart moved, did something unexpected happen? But he asked calmly: We are all old friends, just talk about things.

Charles Rowan said: Remember what I said about the Batman movie series proposal?

Of course, I remember very clearly. Ronan specifically reminded: I put forward conditions at the time, but Warner Bros. has never responded.

Charles Rowan didn't show any embarrassment on his face. Instead, he said: Which film copyrights do you want Warner Bros. to exchange? There must be an explanation, right? Otherwise, Warner Bros. will not be easy to measure.

Ronan didn't answer his question, but instead asked: Charles, we are not outsiders, and there is no need to go around in circles. I just want to ask if Warner Bros. held an internal trial meeting for The Dark Knight, and then... ...

He didn't say the latter words, but the other party would definitely understand.

Charles Rowan's complexion changed slightly, and he soon returned to normal. The director of the crew was completely biased towards relativity entertainment. Warner Bros. made a move, and it was impossible to deceive Ronan.

Indeed, Warner Bros. has held internal previews for The Dark Knight, on more than one occasion, and the results have been sensational.

So, Kevin Tsujihara picks up that trade that was thrown aside.

That's the case. Charles Rowan could only respond.

Ronan said, I don't think there is any need to talk about it at this stage.

Charles Rowan hurriedly said, Ronan...

Ronan raised his hand and interrupted his words: Charles, the bargaining chips are different between a year ago and now. Now and next year, the bargaining chips are also different.

Charles Rowan understood Ronan's meaning, his face was expressionless, and he didn't know what to say.

Ronan said directly: After The Dark Knight is released next year, it will not be too late for us to talk about the investment and copyright of The Dark Knight Rises. Relatively speaking, entertainment is not in a hurry, and we have enough patience to wait for another half a year.

I will feed your words back to Kevin. Charles Rowan is very clear that with the strength of Relativity Entertainment, Warner Bros. cannot force Ronan to give up the Batman series: I hope this will not affect Relativity Entertainment and Warner Bros. Brotherly collaboration.

Ronan smiled and said, I hope not.

There is still half a year before The Dark Knight will be released. It is impossible for Ronan to give up investing in The Dark Knight Rises at this time. It is not impossible to maximize, just increase the trading weight.

In half a year, Relativity Entertainment can wait. I wonder if Warner Bros. will continue to wait.