With the previous cooperation as the basis, the negotiations with the Mountain Foundation went very smoothly. Shahai Entertainment signed a director contract before Ren Wiseman, announcing the official launch of the "Legend of Night" project, and then introduced the Firefighter Fund as a third-party film completion guarantee, thus solving the prerequisites for the Mountain Foundation's investment.

Immediately, the Mountain Foundation and Shahai Entertainment signed an investment agreement, investing US$16 million in the crew of "Legend of the Night". The various conditions of the contract were almost the same as those of investing in "Spy Shadows".

Ronan also solved the most critical funding problem in "Legend of the Night". Shahai Entertainment will solve the remaining 4 million US dollars by borrowing from Relativity Entertainment.

After the two parties signed the agreement, Ronan held a special reception banquet.

At the banquet, after observing, Rakesh Ross Khan asked Ronan: "Why didn't you see Priyaka Chopra?"

"She is preparing for the filming." Ronan replied casually.

Laksh Ross Khan had a guess and should be the same as most people, and he became tired of it after the freshness.

Shahai Entertainment and Ronan are important investment lines that the Mountain Foundation has finally set up in Hollywood. In order to show sincerity, Rakesh Ross Khan whispered: "Ronan When will you go to Mumbai again?"

Ronan didn't know what Rakesh Ross Khan was secretly meaning and said, "I will definitely visit you if I have time."

Rakesh Ross Khan would have misunderstood. He thought Ronan understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "Wait until you go to Mumbai again, I will arrange it to ensure you are satisfied."

Hearing this, Luo Nan instantly knew what he meant and just smiled. He couldn't refuse the sincerity given by his partners, right?

Last time, he did feel the sincerity of Uncle Ross Khan. With the low social status of Indian women, it is estimated that their sincerity will not be bad this time.

Sure enough, Indians are still sincere.

Laksh Ross Khan thought about what young and beautiful female stars are there in India? Since we want to give some sincerity, this sincerity must be sufficient.

Uncle Ross Khan then contacted PwC and hired them to continue as financial supervisors, then left Los Angeles.

The preparations for "Legend of Night" in Shahai Entertainment are also being carried out quickly, and personnel from various professions are being recruited. After several projects, the production company has accumulated enough experience in this area and has also created an effective operating model.

Commercial films operate in a pattern that has achieved several successes, with relatively little risk.

Ronan also brought people to contact Angelina Jolie and Kate Beckinsale, the former is filming "Tomb Raider". There is no schedule for the time being, and the quotation of $8 million is too high.

This offer can only allow Ronan to place Angelina Jolie as a backup candidate.

But the offer from Kate Beckinsale is also not low. "Pearl Harbor" has been filmed. Although it has not been released yet, the qualifications of the leading actress in the first-line production are enough to increase Kate Beckinsale's salary by dozens of times.

Kate Beckinsale's agent asked for $5 million, a full hundred times more than her pay for starring in "Pearl Harbor".

The heroine Kate Beckinsale's pay for this top commercial production directed by Michael Bay is only $50,000.

Of course, this is also in line with Kate Beckinsale's previous value.

Not to mention the pay of $50,000, even if the crew is given $50,000, there are countless actresses rushing to be the heroine.

Ronan asked Kate Beckinsale to continue negotiations. As the producer and production company owner, for Ronan, Kate Beckinsale is not worth $5 million at all. The actress has limited commercial appeal. Most of the commercial movies she starred in in her previous life will eventually fail.

According to Ronan's ideal plan, the heroines in this series should be paid less than $2 million, and they can also sign a trilogy at one time.

"Pearl Harbor" has not been released yet. Kate Beckinsale, the heroine, is in the limelight. If there is no talk, I have to change someone else.

It can also be said that Ronan would rather hire Angelina Jolie as the heroine for $8 million than use Kate Beckinsale, who paid $5 million.

The latter is much worse than Angelina Jolie in terms of commercial value and topicality.

Ronan made three-handed preparations to find other suitable actresses, continue to negotiate with Kate Beckinsale while maintaining contact with Angelina Jolie.

After Ross Khan's uncle and nephew returned to Mumbai, the first $5 million was quickly received. Shahai Entertainment borrowed $4 million from Relativity Entertainment to ensure that the project began preparations immediately.

In fact, Shahai Entertainment's investment cannot cost $4 million. "Legend of the Night" is nominally adapted from Nancy Collins' short story "Monster Love". The copyright fee for buying this movie is naturally calculated to the cost.

Nowadays, Shahai Entertainment's production projects are gradually increasing, and the amount of funds required is also increasing, attracting investment to solve most of the production funding problems.

In fact, there is another way to attract funds. Ronan has not used it, that is, pre-sale of movies.

To put it simply, before a movie is filmed and produced, the corresponding screening rights of the movie are sold to overseas agencies, and the copyright funds they obtain from them are invested in preparation, shooting and production.

This is also a transfer of risks and using other people's money to shoot movies.

The existence of a third-party film completion guarantee is a guarantee of pre-sale.

Pre-sales require overseas distribution channels. The pre-sales of films by some independent film companies are pre-sales through the distribution companies' channels, but general film projects are difficult to attract overseas agents.

If overseas agents want to pay in advance, they must see profitability.

Large companies, big productions, well-known directors, and celebrity actors, these are all necessary conditions for achieving pre-sales.

Embassy Film has just opened up overseas distribution channels, and Shahai Entertainment is also in its infancy. Apart from "The Legend of the Spy", there are no other mainstream commercial film projects, and there are investors to invest, so Ronan has not yet considered using pre-sale financing.

In the future, pre-sale is a necessary financing method.

On the other hand, after Ronan and Katsenberg's long-term contact, DreamWorks Animation Studio finally prepared to cooperate with Embassy Films.

The continuous success of "Human Knows Plan 2" overseas has gradually dispelled the doubts of the management of DreamWorks Animation Studios.

One month after the release of this horror thriller movie, the box office in North America has accumulated $95.5 million, the overseas box office is $61.38 million, and the global box office exceeds $150 million.

Especially the box office of 61.38 million US dollars overseas is enough to prove the ability of Embassy Pictures to publish overseas networks.

In addition, Embassy Film has overseas offices distributed around the world and has also sent offline distribution contracts back to its headquarters in Los Angeles, including offline channels such as DVDs, videotapes, TV networks, new media copyrights and other places distribution copyrights.

In just one month, Embassy Pictures' overseas distribution network won offline issuance contracts worth more than US$25 million.

Ronan sent personnel from the Oriental Office to visit some local manufacturers on the spot, reached a preliminary cooperation intention, and while still earning the same situation as DreamWorks Animation Studio, he took out relevant samples of Shrek, Fiona, Donkey and Flamingo.

This also dispelled the last doubts of Katsenberg and DreamWorks Animation Studios.

In terms of the business of animated feature film distribution, Embassy Pictures is indeed unable to compare with Walt Disney, but it is not necessarily inferior to the other five companies that are also in the early stage of animated feature films.

Moreover, Embassy Films has a smaller commission for distribution, and its cooperation with DreamWorks Animation Studio is more equal.

Not long after Thanksgiving, Embassy Film Group organized a negotiation team to conduct formal distribution negotiations with DreamWorks Animation Studio.

Of course, DreamWorks Animation Studio will not make a rash move, but will only talk to Embassy Pictures about the overseas release of "Monster Shrek" and will not involve other animated feature films for the time being.

Katsenberg's attitude is very clear. He first needs to check the release effect of "Monster Shrek", and then decide whether it is a long-term cooperation.

Last time Ronan went to DreamWorks Animation Studio, he heard Katsenberg mention that the creative team of DreamWorks Animation Studio is planning a story about African animals.

This also attracted Ronan's attention, but time was completely in time.

"The negotiations were going well in general," said Garcia Rodriguez, who was in charge of the negotiations. "But one thing I heard was that Katzenberg and Spielberg had some disputes over working with us."

Ronan nodded: "Don't worry, with Katzenberg here, Spielberg cannot change his decision to go to DreamWorks Animation Studio."

The power structure of the split DreamWorks Group also gave Ronan and Embassy Films opportunities.

Garcia Rodriguez said at this time: "People from DreamWorks live-action film department have contacted me and want to dig me to their side. Ronan, we must be careful that they must have contacted other people and cannot acquire our overseas distribution channels. They want to dig our people."

Ronan said: "You should keep an eye on the fact that people from non-key departments leave, and as long as they pay the liquidated damages, they don't have to stop them."

Embassy Film has signed contracts with employees and managers of key departments and is not allowed to engage in related industries within three years after resigning.

It is inevitable to avoid such poaching. As long as the entire department does not change jobs, Ronan is not worried about some personnel switching to other companies now.

After nearly a year of preparation and adjustment, the overseas issuance network has long been unable to operate without someone.

DreamWorks did not get nothing. When they signed a contract with DreamWorks Animation Studio, four of the Embassy Films switched to DreamWorks' live-action film department when the other party paid the full penalty.

But this manpower is simply not enough to establish an overseas distribution network for DreamWorks.
Chapter completed!