"The six major Hollywood companies have basically been divided up," Robert Iger continued Ronan's words: "The only one that really developed from a studio to an entertainment media group is Disney, but no matter which one it is, it will be difficult for us to swallow it."

Ronan said: "Yes, if we were strong enough, the ultimate goal of Disney's plan would not be like this."

After all, Relativity Entertainment is still not strong enough, otherwise it would directly acquire Disney.

Robert Iger said a very simple and simple sentence: "At this stage, we will not only endure it, but we may lose more than we get."

Luo Nan nodded slightly: "The snake swallows elephant not suitable for us."

If Relativity Entertainment is willing to sell its shares in Netflix in large quantities and make deals with Wall Street, it is not impossible to raise funds for the acquisition of Walt Disney.

The problem is that Netflix Network has just been listed and its stock price has been rising rapidly. Relativity Entertainment has given up its controlling stake and lost significantly more.

"We need half a year to a year to digest the previous plan." Robert Eiger, as the chief operating officer of Relativity Entertainment, has a clear understanding of the entire group company: "After another three years of rapid development, we will accumulate strength. Then wait for the right opportunity to see if one of the six major companies will have problems."

Ronan said: "Opportunities require patience and we also need to be proactive in creating them."

Hearing this, combined with Ronan's previous actions, Robert Iger inevitably had some association: "Do you have specific goals and targeted actions?"

Ronan tapped his fingers lightly, thought for a while, and said, "Bob, you should know that in the first half of last year and the end of the year, Twentieth Century Fox snatched several movie projects from us."

Robert Eiger said: "I know, Roland Emmeric's "Ten Thousand Years of Prehistoric"... Well, you released news at the time that you wanted to shoot and produce a movie about "Exodus" and Robin Hood, but Twentieth Century Fox was the first to launch a project. Also, in the blacklist plan you proposed at the end of last year, a disaster film about the storm was also intercepted by Twentieth Century Fox..."

He looked at Ronan: "There are any problems with these projects?"

"I can't be sure, either." Ronan said roughly: "In my personal opinion, I'm not very optimistic about their future."

Of course, no one pays attention to this kind of thing when most people say it, but it is completely different from Ronan's mouth. Robert Iger said seriously: "According to my understanding, the production budget for each of these four projects is more than 100 million US dollars, and 20th Century Fox accounts for the vast majority of investment. Including the promotional and distribution costs that cannot be shared by people, the total investment will be close to or even exceed 200 million US dollars. If a collective failure is made in a short period of time, it will inevitably affect the capital chain of 20th Century Fox Pictures, and may even cause the entire company to be tight in liquidity."

"Those are still not enough," Ronan said.

"Yes." Robert Iger was very sensible: "They are Twentieth Century Fox after all, and we can only have a chance unless we encounter other major crises at the same time."

Ronan could not tell what had not been found out, and briefly told: "You stare at Twentieth Century Fox to see if there will be a chance in the future."

Robert Eiger replied: "Okay."

Ronan's advantages lie in general direction and decision-making planning, but specific operation and execution require professional managers like Robert Eiger with outstanding abilities.

Robert Eiger has fully proved his ability and professional ethics. Ronan's trust in him is actually no different from old teams such as Robert Lee and George Clint.

At this stage, and even in the future, Relativity Entertainment may not find a better CEO than Robert Iger.

Soon, Ronan will discuss a contract renewal with Robert Iger, extending Robert Iger's term to 2015 or even longer as much as possible.

If you want to retain outstanding talents, you must pay a real money.

In addition to the salary increase, Ronan also prepared new option rewards.

In a business society like the United States, it is never new to CEOs being poached with higher treatment.

Not only Robert Iger, but many senior executives of the Relativity Entertainment subsidiary will discuss contract renewal at the next stage.

The management maintains a relatively stable situation, which is very important for the development of the entire group company.

Back at the office, Connie sent the bestseller rankings for this month.

Luo Nan made a cup of tea first and then quickly browsed it. However, on the rankings of this issue, the copyright of the books that really impressed him has long been famous.

For example, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" ranked first, such as David Mitchell's science fiction "Cloud Map".

Connie marked the information she had in part, such as the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the Cloud Map, which marked the copyright belongs to Warner Bros.

Needless to say, the former is also an impression of Ronan, the latter, because this is a work directed by the Wachowski brothers/siblings/sisters, and one of the works that have failed continuously in their directorial career.

The careers of these two directors fully demonstrate what it means to do is to achieve the peak and to decline step by step.

It seems that after "Cloud Map", they never directed movies again and instead went to shoot TV series.

To be honest, that TV series inherited the usual advantages of the Wachowski sisters, with a very big brainstorm and looks very attractive.

Perhaps they can never look back on the road of philosophical thinking, or perhaps the audience has been completely tired of their works for the years, and the TV series was finally cut off.

After reading the bestseller rankings, Ronan received a call from Spielberg. The old man asked again whether there was any specific plan for directing the movie that he had agreed to before.

For the time being, Ronan has not found a project suitable for Spielberg to direct.

Once upon a time, after 2010, Ronan was really impressed by Spielberg's films.

Many of the films directed by Spielberg are actually not very successful. It seems that the Spielberg-style movies are outdated.

Ronan remembers the two movies that are most clearly known, "Lincoln" and "Player 1".

The reason why I remember the former is that on the one hand, this is what many media call Spielberg's return to life, and it is recognized as a rare commercial masterpiece on political subjects. On the other hand, it has allowed Daniel Day Lewis, a famous Hollywood actor, to win the third Oscar for Best Actor.

Because of the relationship between many electronic games, the latter was known as a carnival for game fans at that time. There were countless game memes in it. Ronan couldn't understand the memes or what the picture represented, so he specially checked detailed information on the Internet.

Therefore, Ronan also knew that this was an adaptation film like "Lincoln". He vaguely remembered that the production budget was as high as nearly US$200 million, and the box office in North America seemed to be less than US$150 million.

This film should perform well overseas, but the overseas box office share is much lower than that of North America. In addition, with the huge promotional and distribution costs, it is estimated that it is difficult to recover the box office of "Player 1" and you can only rely on the surrounding areas to make a profit.

But there are so many copyrights involved, and it is also a very troublesome thing to do around it.

Ronan is cautious about "Player 1", but he has also found the original work, probably not published yet, and there is no such thing as VR game theme.

It is really hard to say whether it is cost-effective to spend the director contract with Spielberg on such a film with uncertain future and complex copyrights in the surrounding area, which has a lot of doubts about profit.

Most importantly, this type of subject matter cannot compress expenses. To achieve the ideal effect, it is necessary to invest enough funds to produce special effects.

Ronan did not make the final decision, everything depends on the situation of the original work.

Besides, Ronan has great doubts about spending more than $200 million to invest in a game movie project.

Like Brother Bao’s game adaptation movies, Ronan can be determined casually, because the production budget is only a few million US dollars. Including the total investment in publicity and distribution, it is only a few million US dollars. With Brother Bao’s current momentum, it is completely worthy of such investment, because the loyal fans that Brother Bao has attracted on the Internet are enough to ensure that he can make a profit.

If Brother Bao is asked to shoot a game project worth tens of millions of dollars, he will lose 100%.

Of course, Brother Bao and Spielberg cannot compare.

After all, Brother Bao and Paul Anderson are known as the two best-achieving movie directors in Hollywood.

Brother Bao’s true love for movies adapted from the game, and it’s just a little less love than Blizzard.

Perhaps in the future, Bao Ge can direct "Player 1". Various copycat game memes may be very interesting, and in the production model of Hollywood movies, there is no need to copyright authorization for specious copycats.

The special effects made by spending millions of dollars will definitely make gamers cry.

Super eye-catching!

Ronan asked Connie and ordered: "How much do you know about Lincoln's literary works?"

"I've seen some." Connie quickly replied: "This is the most deified president in the United States. There are so many works about him, from political documentaries, and various magical versions."

Ronan said directly: "You should collect literary works about Lincoln as much as possible, and make an outline of content and give it to me."

There are too many works about Lincoln, so Ronan cannot read them one by one. The best way is to roughly browse the relevant content through the outline produced by the assistant team.

"Okay." Connie responded, then asked, "When should I do it?"

Ronan said: "The faster the better."

Connie replied: "I'll start someone to prepare now."

Lincoln has too many literary works, probably more than the guesswork about the truth about Kennedy's assassination.

Ronan stayed in the company all morning. In the afternoon, the Relativity Building suddenly became lively. A crew member of Shahai Entertainment entered Century City and wanted to shoot on the spot in the Relativity Building.

Among them, the most conspicuous one is Michael Bay who is holding a long face!
Chapter completed!