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Including "Interstellar" submitted by Christopher Nolan, Relativity Entertainment currently has three films that tend to be hard science fiction. In order to avoid aesthetic fatigue in the future, Ronan specifically instructed the Embassy Films that the schedule of the three films must be large.
Fortunately, the preparation time for the three films is also different.
The fastest "Mars Rescue" is about to be filmed. Mark Damon has planted potatoes on Mars. If nothing unexpected happens, the film will be released in the second half of next year.
Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" has just begun preparations. At present, the male and female protagonists have signed contracts one after another. Sandra Brock will play the female protagonist, and James Franko agrees to play the male protagonist.
Originally, George Clooney was very interested in this movie, but he offered a $15 million salary, but Ronan refused without hesitation.
This Hollywood star is a typical example of being famous for his political career, and his reputation is far greater than his appeal in movies.
Although the box office of the three Arhat movies is good, we need to see how many stars gathered in them. Moreover, the survey statistics clearly show that the most popular of all Arhats is Mark Damon.
Since the film has just begun preparations and the filming and production are cumbersome, it will not be released until 2011 at the earliest.
"Interstellar" has only a script and plan. Christopher Nolan is preparing to film "The Dark Knight Rises". If this film wants to be released, it will be until 2012 or 2013 at the earliest.
In this way, three realistic space science fiction films are released every other year, which can effectively avoid aesthetic fatigue.
Relativity Entertainment will make some achievements in original movies in the future.
Like other Hollywood companies, original movies have always been a relatively weaker one in the entertainment industry.
However, excellent original projects are difficult to find and scripts are difficult to find. Even if you find a script, you must think twice before doing it.
From now on, among the top ten movies in North America and the world's box office, there is no way to even see an original non-sequel movie.
The hopes of all original movies in 2008 are placed on "Inception".
Fortunately, Christopher Nolan did not disappoint.
Although "Inception" did not have a big box office hit on a weekend, the box office trend was very stable. Even if it was far inferior to the mid-to-late stage of "Avatar", it is quite rare for commercial productions.
Before November, the box office decline of Inception remained within 40% of every weekend of screening in North America.
Before Halloween, the cumulative box office of "Inception" in North America reached US$233.25 million, and the global box office easily exceeded US$500 million.
This movie is the only market fig leaf for Hollywood original movies in 2008.
Even though it mainly operates adaptations and series of movies, Relativity Entertainment has gradually gained the nickname "the only conscience of original movies" in the industry with its successful original movies in the past two years.
Compared with other companies and producers in the circle, Ronan seems to be more likely to give original movies and less famous new directors opportunities.
Before Halloween, the routine project of relativity entertainment in recent years has been released in theaters again.
The fifth part of "Saw" is coming, and Jigsaw, the soul tutor of the US imperialist, still appeared on the big screen on time, pointing out the future development direction for hundreds of millions of US imperialists.
Although Ronan is paying more attention to the horror movie universe, the "Saw" series is completely thrown to James Win, the series sells four consecutive films, which has formed a huge market inertia.
Moreover, without the bonds of Jigsaw as the so-called soul tutor, the content of the video is smoother, and the new torture feast is also purer.
The ultimate goal of the game of death is no longer entirely to alert the world.
Hoffman, the Jigsaw successor who began to worry that his identity would be exposed, began to be crazy and used all kinds of "protecting himself".
This means that he will make more people the dead souls under the deadly mechanism.
Of course, the horror and horror will not stop there. The bloody killing game and a new round of nightmare have just begun.
Although reputation has declined step by step with the increase of sequels, the fans that "Saw" has cultivated over the years are still very enjoying the excitement brought by the film.
The fifth part of "Saw" has been filmed in just a few years. Although it is always in new bottles of old wine, most people know that it is just for excitement to watch this movie.
Could it be that we still have to find the meaning of life and the true meaning of philosophy in this blood-type horror film?
Isn't that a brain problem?
Jigsaw and his disciples will continue to rage the big screen, and Relativity Entertainment also allows them to perform curtain call performances.
This is the best proof of the box office of "Saw 5".
North America opened paintings for a weekend of $33.35 million, which also created the best start-up results in the series.
But since the "Saw" series has become a veritable fan movie. Most of the enthusiasm of fans on the weekend is consumed, and they will inevitably face a situation of high and low closing. Embassy Pictures predicts that the box office drop in the next weekend may even reach more than 65%.
In order for the series to open up a new situation, James Winter found Ronan and prepared to shoot and produce "Saw 6" in a new way.
"Before filming "Saw 5", there was the idea of 3D this series, but the period was not mature enough and there were not enough 3D theaters. The most important thing is that I'm not sure if the audience is willing to wear glasses to watch such a horror movie."
In the office, James Winn told Ronan his thoughts: "This year, the company's two films, "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland", have sold a lot in succession, which has promoted the development of film 3D technology, and the market's desire for 3D continues to increase."
This 3D craze was driven by Relativity Entertainment, and Luo Nan naturally understood that some of this was.
James Win continued: "I carefully studied the 3D movie projects that Hollywood has announced and found a feature. These projects are large-scale production projects or animated feature films with an investment of more than $100 million, and there is no horror movie."
Luo Nan nodded slightly and said, "Not yet."
James Wen said again: "3D horror movies will be a gap in the film market in the short term. As long as you seize this opportunity, I think it will take the Saw series a step forward commercially."
Ronan thought for a while and said, "Yes. James, you will be responsible for this project."
"Okay." James Win replied.
After finalizing the 3D shooting and production of "Saw 6", James Winn said goodbye and left.
The Chinese director is currently very busy and can't help but personally prepare for the filming of "Luxing 2" and "Conjuring 2", and also serves as the director of the "Annabelle" and "Saw" series.
As a horror film, "Summoning" comes quickly and goes quickly. After eight weeks of screening, it was launched in North American theaters, and the North American box office finally stayed at $156.68 million.
For a movie with a total investment of $30 million, such results can be regarded as a super big deal.
Even "Annabelle", which will be released next year, has attracted much attention.
Ronan is looking at the scripts and projects submitted by Shahai Entertainment and the "Blacklist Plan" implemented by the Group.
Especially the latter, since its establishment a few years ago, it has brought two to three movies or drama projects with certain market value to relativity entertainment every year.
Some of the scripts that appear on the blacklist have already been spent on their homes, some of them seem full of artistic value but no one cares about them, and some of them are well written but they will definitely lose money when filmed.
It is already good to use this plan to find two or three commercially valuable film projects every year.
Ronan carefully looked at the latest projects that were reported to him, and two of them attracted his interest.
The first is a script that was directly submitted to Shahai Entertainment. The scriptwriter Red Carolin had a collaboration with Relativity Entertainment once and served as the writer of "Dragon and Tiger Team" jointly invested by Shahai Entertainment and Sony Columbia Pictures.
Red Carolin met Channing Tatum, the male lead of the song and dance film "Dance My Life" released in 2006. He had heard his previous experience as a dancer, and he collaborated with Channing Tatum to adapt a script called "Magic Mike".
Because he had a collaboration with Shahai Entertainment, Red Carolin directly threw the script to Shahai Entertainment.
Ronan remembers Channing Tatum, an actor who once played the Duke, and his experience was very exciting. Before becoming an actor, he worked as a stripper.
So, he gave the green light to this project and asked Shahai Entertainment to talk to the other party, but the investment should not be too high, it would be better to be within 10 million US dollars.
Another project comes from the "Blacklist Project", recommended by an executive from Relativity Entertainment. It is not a script or film project, but a documentary literature.
This book is now placed on Ronan's desk, and its name is "Argo". According to the explanation in the book, this is the name of a spacecraft.
Ronan has browsed the content introduction and has specially browsed some of the contents in the book.
Because books are documentary literature, they are adapted from real events.
The book tells a special period. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Iran launched an anti-Western movement. America, the most mastermind behind the world, was despised. The Iranians surrounded the US Embassy in Iran under the agitation of faith.
This is the famous Iranian hostage crisis.
During this period, Tony Mendez, a CIA agent who was proficient in disguise, planned a rescue plan to take six American diplomats trapped in the Canadian Embassy in Iran away from Iran with the disguise of the Canadian film crew.
"Argo" is the title of the science fiction movie the crew claims to be filming.
Chapter completed!