Hollywood, Los Angeles, Paramount Pictures Headquarters.

Shirley Lansing looked at a document in her hand and asked the assistant: "What's going on with this relativity entertainment? From Halloween last year to now, four videos have been sold one after another?"

She flipped through the documents and frowned slightly: "The global box office of "Human Purge 2" was $135.89 million, and there are still regions overseas to be released. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" North America's box office of $161.2 million. "House of Death"'s global box office of $46.87 million. "Spy Shadow" is about to exceed $150 million..."

Among these films, except for the North American copyright of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a subsidiary of Relativity Entertainment, the other three films were produced and distributed by Relativity Entertainment itself, and the overseas screenings have not yet ended.

The assistant said at this time: "Relativity Entertainment was founded in 1999 and its founder is Ronan Anderson. It currently has two subsidiaries, namely Shahai Entertainment, which is a production company and Embassy Film, which is a distribution company."

Shirley Lansing nodded slightly: "Ronan Anderson?"

This name seems a bit familiar.

The assistant reminded: "You once met Ronan Anderson at a party, and the introduction from Tom Cruise. Ronan Anderson is now very close to Tom Cruise, and it is said that the two have a good personal relationship."

"I remembered it." A young face flashed in front of Shirley Lansing's eyes: "Blair the Witch was also released by Ronan Anderson's company?"

"Yes." The assistant replied.

Shirley Lansing frowned slightly: "This company is growing very fast?"

The assistant said: "The development speed is very fast. Since its establishment in 1999, according to incomplete statistics, the total revenue of movies has reached 445.2 million US dollars. Of course, this figure is not accurate. The other party is not a listed company, and external evaluation agencies can only make general estimates."

Shirley Lansing's wrinkled face was full of thoughts: "This is also top-notch performance among second-tier film companies."

The assistant echoed: "In 2000, among Hollywood second-tier film companies, Relativity Entertainment's revenue was second only to DreamWorks and Pinnacle Entertainment, but the latter's revenue came more from relying on a huge film library to re-issue DVDs."

Shirley Lansing made a quick judgment: Relativity Entertainment is a very promising young company. Compared with Dingfeng Entertainment and DreamWorks, it is relatively not very strong in its strength, but its advantage lies in its multiple series of movies.

The records on the data are very clear. Two movies have been filmed in "The Purge Plan", "The Death is Coming" is preparing for a sequel, "The Spy" is a trilogy, and it has also reached a long-term movie adaptation cooperation with Capcom in Japan for the game "Resident Evil".

Movies that can be serialized are all powerful tools for revenue.

Shirley Lansing ordered his assistant: "Let the people in the market research department pay more attention to this relativity entertainment, every quarter... no, every six months, submit a related report to me."

The assistant recorded it quickly.

Shirley Lansing's energy quickly shifted away. A film company that was not even as good as DreamWorks. It was not worth her wasting too much time. Paramount Pictures would not invest too much energy in it. If the development of Relativity Entertainment was smooth, just like the small and medium-sized companies that had developed, just find a suitable opportunity to buy it and become a subsidiary.

Not every film company is as ambitious as DreamWorks.

Although DreamWorks is not in good condition and his good friend Spielberg is in trouble, no one can ignore the influence of DreamWorks giants and the international consortiums behind them. If you are not careful, you will really make a counterattack.

The North American film market capacity has almost reached its limit, and the six companies are already very crowded when they are standing on the first floor.

This layer really can't accommodate new companies coming to grab cakes.

When we were having a party with Ron Mayer some time ago, the Universal Pictures giant was right. No matter how good their relationship with Spielberg is, we must not show mercy in places where DreamWorks should be suppressed, otherwise our current position will not be solid.

In early July, the box office of "Spy Shadows" officially exceeded the $100 million mark in North America, and the global box office reached $168.9 million.

Since there is still a long screening time in the future, it can be said that this film has been successful.

Various negotiations for the sequel also made critical progress, especially Matt Damon, who was the male lead. After changing the agency, Ronan held three rounds of negotiations with Caa, reached an agreement on Matt Damon's pay, and handed over the subsequent details to the crew's deputy producer.

Matt Damon's sequel pays up to $10 million, excluding the post-production share.

This is also the result of Ronan's efforts to negotiate. There is a third part later, and the later sharing can become an important bargaining chip in the negotiation of the next part.

Matt Damon is also quite satisfied with the fact that he has crossed the ten million dollar line in one step.

Both parties are very sincere in continuing to cooperate and can feel each other's sincerity.

In addition, director Paul Greengras's pay rose to $5 million, which is also in line with the value of the director at the box office of 100 million yuan.

Ronan is still very tight in pay negotiations, and commercial negotiations are basically the case, especially in the face of stars with almost explosive self-confidence. If the price is not properly reduced, these guys will definitely dare to rebound to a jaw-dropping level.

For example, a crew of Warner Bros. wanted to invite a star to play a role with few roles. Because the director admired him very much, he felt relieved about the pay. As a result, the actor directly asked for a $13 million salary of nearly twice the actual net worth.

Moreover, this is not the protagonist or supporting role, but a guest role. In Hollywood, it is more classified as a friendly price.

The cooperation naturally fails, and the crew is probably regretting the invitation strategy adopted.

Most importantly, this kind of thing has a very terrifying continuity, especially for production companies.

Today, you can hire the male lead without caring about the pay, so what about the female lead and the director? Are the company's subsequent film projects? None of the agents of those celebrities are simple products.

This is not a matter of money, but a matter of huge amount of money.

"Spy Shadows 2", also known as "Borne's Hegemony", will begin preparations in August, filming will begin around the beginning of next year, and will be released in the summer season in 2003.

A year later, it can leave more room for offline market development for "Spy Shadows".

According to Ronan's judgment, the offline market revenue of this film may be much higher than the box office of the theater.

The videotape and DVD of "Spy Shadows" are being produced and will be released one after another since August, and are expected to be officially launched in November or December.

During this period of time, the changes brought about by social politics will definitely be reduced a lot.

Moreover, offline markets are different from those in the public places like cinemas that fear terrorist attacks. When people are traumatized, they can hide at home and sit in front of the TV to watch interesting DVDs and videotapes to heal their wounds.

Having said that, will the sales of art blockbusters produced in the San Fernando Valley be particularly good during this special period? This kind of film consumes anger, consumes energy, exercises the body, is beneficial to physical and mental health, and can also make the anger that the people of the United States have nowhere to vent, and have a suitable venting channel...

Unfortunately, Ronan only studied the film itself in his previous life, but did not study the manufacturers behind the film carefully.

Like woodpecker, art, avn, o, dp, black factory, etc., he really doesn't know what he does.

It seems that this industry is very profitable. It is said that the overall market value even exceeds that of Hollywood. If the opportunity is right in the future, will it also be a related manufacturer? Will this reduce the size too much?

But I heard that the shareholders behind the art factories in the San Fernando Valley are all star companies or group companies similar to General Electric.

If it is true, it is nothing strange.

As long as you can make money, capital will not let every industry go.

It was also at the end of July that Ronan met Uvey Ball who rushed back to Los Angeles from Irvine.

"They look down on people too much!"

For some reason, Wu Wei Ball's face was covered in a vague feeling: "No matter how I am, I am also the director of a movie that was successfully adapted from a game!"

Ronan knew that Uvi Ball was talking about his contact with Blizzard and asked, "What's going on?"

Uvi Ball even had a hoarse voice: "If they don't sell me the copyrights of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo, they also said they would rather never adapt the movie than sell the copyrights of these games to directors like me."

"What's wrong with me?" Uvi Ball unconsciously raised his voice: "No matter what, my first movie was sold for nearly $50 million in the world!"

Ronan has no special feelings for Blizzard and asked, "No hope at all?"

Uvi Ball shook his head: "There is no normal way, unless we find a way to trap Blizzard."

"Forget it." Ronan believes that it is not worth investing so much energy in Blizzard's game adaptation movies. It's better to leave it to Blizzard's future operations to pounce on the streets. He said to Uvi Ball: "The game industry is developing very fast, with countless electronic movies, and there are many suitable movies for movie adaptation. You can continue to look for other projects, especially those newly launched game projects."

Some game projects are eager to recover capital after they are launched, so it should be easy to change the copyright of the movie to exchange for money.

Uvi Ball nodded and said, "I have a friend who played an inside version of a single-player role-playing game. It is said that it is very interesting. This game will be released soon. I will contact the game company first."

Ronan encouraged: "Wuwei, I believe in your ability."
Chapter completed!