Relativity Building, on Monday morning, Ronan attended the project promotion meeting of Shahai Entertainment. George Clint, who chaired the meeting, mentioned the preparation or production progress of many future film projects.

For example, "Zombie Paradise" directed by Edgar Wright will soon start filming, and the Embassy Pictures will also be released and released in 2007.

For example, "The Millionaire in the Slums" directed by Danny Boyle has also begun project preparations, preparing to start a series of film festival award-winning operations in 2007.

There is also the crew of "The Ninth District" who has gone to South Africa and is preparing to shoot on the spot near Johannesburg.

"The Vampire Lincoln" directed by Uvi Ball was also officially launched, with a production budget of up to 8 million US dollars.

This is the highest production budget among all the movies directed by Brother Bao.

However, the focus of the project discussed at this promotion meeting is "Fast and Furious 4".

The third part has been filmed and produced long ago and will be released in this summer. During several internal trials, the film responded very well, and the sequel was also on the discussion agenda.

The fourth part is still produced by Jessica Felton, and Justin Lin is the director. The specific production budget depends on the box office after the release of "Fast and Furious 3".

If the third part can meet expectations, the production budget of the fourth part will definitely be improved and further move towards first-line production projects.

After the meeting, Ronan chatted with Jessica Felton alone about the status of the project, and then returned to his office.

Connie has prepared the box office news last weekend.

"How is it?" Ronan didn't look at it, but just asked, "Who was the box office champion last weekend?"

Connie's answer was quick and concise: "Iron Man has overtaken and won the box office list with a weekend box office of $68.91 million. The newly released "Ice Age 2" ranked second, with North America's opening weekend box office of $62.14 million."

Ronan asked again: "How much has the North American box office of "Iron Man" accumulated?"

Connie said: "North America has released for ten days and has a total box office of $215.27 million."

Ronan nodded slowly: "According to the current trend, it is not difficult to exceed US$350 million."

Connie smiled and said: "The Las Vegas casino has opened its hands before and has announced the closing of the final $350 million bet for "Iron Man" in North America."

Ronan also laughed: "It seems that the outside world is optimistic about us too."

"Yes." Connie said: "It's not just Iron Man, but Thor, Hulk, Captain America and others who have announced their follow-up plans have also attracted much attention."

Ronan nodded slowly: "It's a good deal to drive the subsequent series with a movie."

"Iron Man" invested as much as US$270 million in the production and promotional investment. Under normal circumstances, the global box office must reach this number of three movies in order to achieve profitability through box office.

The goal of Relativity Entertainment is very clear. Cinema screening is a huge publicity. The best result is to recover costs through box office. The real profit depends on the operation of various offline channels.

In ten days, the sales of "Iron Man"'s peripheral products in the North American market have exceeded US$50 million.

As time goes by, this number will continue to increase, and the film has been released in overseas markets last weekend, and offline channels overseas will also bring high returns.

With the help of "Iron Man"'s big sale, the surrounding authorizations are also being launched one after another.

Ronan then asked about the situation after the film was released overseas last weekend, and Connie also gave corresponding answers one by one.

While North America was booming, "Iron Man" landed in major overseas markets such as Europe, Latin America, Australia, East Asia and Southeast Asia, but compared with the film's rapid progress in North America, the response to the overseas market is somewhat worse.

After all, this is Tony Stark's influence is not enough.

Compared to Superman, Bat and Spider-Man, Iron Man is much less well-known.

However, popular movies in North America can also attract attention overseas, and Hollywood blockbusters have always had the advantage of rapid spread.

"Iron Man" was released at the same time in more than 40 countries and regions, and was released overseas for US$90.54 million in the first week.

Looking around the world, Tony Stark's popularity is currently relatively limited, which will also affect the overseas box office of the film to a certain extent.

Embassy Pictures predicts that the overseas box office of "Iron Man" will be much lower than that of North America.

Tony Stark is a relatively unfamiliar character to most audiences outside North America. This is another newly started production and it is impossible to have a large audience base like the sequel.

In fact, except for the UK and Australia, "Iron Man" did not have more than $10 million in its first weekend box office in other overseas regions where it was released.

Anyway, Iron Man has already made a great enough start for the Avengers Project.

Before leaving the office, Connie said to Ronan again: "By the way, this morning, Warner Bros. Charles Rowan called and invited you to the premiere of "The Return of Superman" this week."

Ronan then remembered that Warner Bros.'s super blockbuster will be released.

"Reply to them." Ronan said directly: "I will be there."

Kevin Tessulhara and Charles Rowan both attended the premiere of "Iron Man" before. Even out of politeness, Ronan is going to go to the premiere of "Return of Superman".

Besides, this is Hollywood's most invested film.

"Return of Superman" started operating as early as the mid-to-late 1990s, and the number of directors, screenwriters and scripts changed successively, perhaps only Warner Bros. and DC Comics knew about it.

By the time Brian Singer, who actually completed the work, took over the directorship, Warner Bros. and DC Comics had already spent $50 million on the ever-changing lineup of "Return of Superman".

It was originally finalized that Nicholas Cage plays Superman, but Nicholas Cage has had enough of the repeated delays in the whole process and opted out of the crew.

As for other actors who have been replaced, they can form a reinforced row.

Jude Law, Ashton Kutcher, Paul Walker, Josh Hartnett and many other popular actors once joined the crew and left because of the project.

Henry Cavill, who has signed a long contract with Shahai Entertainment, has also participated in the audition, but lost to Brandon Ross.

The final public production cost of Warner Bros. for this project was $270 million, but there are rumors that with the previous wasted expenses, the production cost far exceeds this number, and may exceed $300 million.

Whether it is $270 million or $300 million, this is the highest record in Hollywood.

It also shows the ambitions of Warner Bros. and DC Comics, who really intend to get Superman back on the big screen!

Huge investment also represents huge pressure to recover money. According to external estimates, "Return of Superman" will not win a box office of $1 billion, and it is difficult to recover costs through various channels.

Warner Bros. and DC Comics also have great expectations for this super blockbuster. It is said that they had a sequel plan early, but recently they canceled the sequel.

According to Ronan's guess, this should be related to "Iron Man". The emergence of "Iron Man" should also give Warner Bros. a plan to create the Justice League movie universe. Then shooting a separate Superman movie will become meaningless.

Re-planning is inevitable.

Ronan was also very curious. If Warner Bros. had plans to create the Justice League movie universe, how should we plan specifically?

Zach Schneider has started working with Warner Bros. Watchmen, and many jobs Ronan has already sat in front of him. He can't decide how to choose the Warner Bros. in the future.

On Wednesday, Warner Bros. held a huge premiere for "Return of Superman" on Los Angeles' Avenue of Stars, and invited many guests to attend, which was even better than "Iron Man".

Entering the Kodak Theater, Ronan saw Kevin Teshura, shook hands with him, and said with a smile: "Kevin, I didn't expect we will meet again so soon."

Kevin Tesuhara also had a smile on her face: "How could Warner Brothers forget you, a heavyweight partner?"

Ronan said: "Superman movies have been waiting for for many years, and now they are finally here."

Kevin Tesuhara said intentionally or unintentionally: "You will often see Superman on the big screen in the future."

Ronan said politely: "I wish you success."

"Thank you." Kevin Tesuhara seemed very confident.

Ronan said nothing, went straight into the VIP room, and then saw Zach Snyder, who also saw him and hurried over to say hello.

"I heard you have started preparing for "Watchmen"?" Ronan asked, "Is it going well?"

Zach Schneider said: "Warner Brothers have a lot of support for me, and Charles Rowan is the producer and respects me very much."

Ronan nodded: "That's good, I can rest assured."

Zach Schneider said: "When the video is finished, you must come and check it out as soon as possible."

Ronan smiled and said, "It must be." He reminded him instead: "Zach, don't forget that you are the director of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" and you must cooperate with the Embassy Films to participate in the publicity notice."

Zach Schneider quickly said: "I haven't forgotten that as long as the Embassy Films and Shahai Entertainment have notices, I go on time every time."

Zach Schneider actually made two movies in Hollywood in a row. Don’t be able to cooperate with Relativity Entertainment, the success or failure of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" is still crucial to him.

The film succeeded, and the power and support he gained at Warner Bros. will definitely be greater.

If it fails, let alone the power now, maybe Warner Bros. and DC Comics will call for a stop to the project and replace the director.

Ronan did not say hello to Zach Schneidor, and then, at the invitation of Kevin Tessulhara, entered the main theater hall together, waiting for the screening to begin.
Chapter completed!