In mid-May, Warner Bros. and DC Comics convened a grand press conference at the Warner Building in Burbank to officially announce the future DC superhero movie plans.

The two companies will use the Justice League in the comics as a model to adapt and create a Justice League superhero universe.

The media reporters present were not surprised. After all, Marvel Entertainment's "Avengers" universe plan is obvious enough, and DC Comics, as a direct competitor, cannot remain indifferent.

Strictly speaking, DC Comics is already behind.

At the end of the press conference, Warner Bros. and DC Comics also announced that the first film will be "Green Lantern", and the two companies will invest $200 million in production budget to expand the background and worldview of Justice League to the entire universe.

This news is undoubtedly amazing and quite eye-catching. After all, to put it bluntly, the Justice League in the comics has a greater influence than the Avengers.

At the same time, DC Comics also announced that the new Justice League comics will be launched soon and will fully cooperate with the movie universe plan to create a comic main universe.

This comic plan is named "New 52" by DC.

With the announcement of these plans, Warner Bros. and DC Comics have swept the decline of "Return of Superman" and attracted countless attention.

It seems like a brand new and successful movie universe is right in front of you.

The relevant news spread quickly, and there were some concerns about Relative Theory Entertainment.

The popularity of Justice League is here, and it is normal to worry.

"We don't talk about overseas market development, North America is still Hollywood's largest source of income and profit."

In the small conference room of Relativity Entertainment, George Clint quickly said: "We have not interrupted targeted market research over the years. It is not difficult to draw a conclusion that the overall number of North American movie consumers has not increased. There is a limit to their overall consumption capacity in a certain period of time. If they spend too much on some movies in a certain category, it will definitely affect the consumption level in another part."

Ronan sat at the top of the conference table and never spoke.

Kevin Feige responded at this time, and he said very directly: "Warner Bros. and DC Comics' Justice League Cinema Universe Project will form a direct competitive relationship with our Avengers Project!"

After hearing this, Ronan suddenly thought of something. When "Batman vs. Superman" was first released, Warner Bros. specially chose to release on the same weekend as "Captain America 3: Civil War". The purpose of direct competition and suppression is very obvious.

But later, Warner Bros. changed the schedule for "Batman vs. Superman".

If we infer the motivation based on the results, it is very likely that Warner Bros. had a little lack of confidence after holding an internal preview for "Batman vs. Superman".

Robert Eiger said: "Competition is inevitable, we must do our best."

Ronan then continued: "We are one step ahead, so there is no need to pay too much attention to our competitors. George, Kevin, all your work and energy are focused on film production and planning execution. It is up to Bob and I to deal with the matters of competition."

George Clint nodded slightly: "Okay, I understand."

Ronan said: "I have a lot of contact with Warner Bros. I know a lot about Kevin Teshura. He is not good at film business, but he likes to intervene directly, which may cause some trouble to the project itself."

Robert Iger said: "I looked at the movies that Warner Bros. have sold well in recent years. The performance in movies is actually supported by the Harry Potter series, and the Batman we worked with. There are very few other big-time films that have succeeded, and even projects such as the two sequels of "The Matrix", "Troy", "Catwoman" and "Return of Superman", which are far from the expected results."

Ronan didn't say much. What he had done before was not suitable to say it. The best way was to wait for fermentation.

In the past two years, he has actually done a lot of moves in Warner Bros.

Participating in the "Batman" series dilutes Warner Bros.'s profits; win over Christopher Nolan, so that Warner Bros.'s future lacks a big help; inviting Wan Ziren to join the relativity entertainment system, Warner Bros. will inevitably lose a large number of horror movies that make small profits; push Zach Schneider to Warner Bros.'s eyes to avoid Warner Bros. from not paying attention to the director, etc.

Ronan vaguely remembers that the first candidate for Warner Bros. to take charge of the DC superhero series and Justice League was not Zach Schneider, but George Miller.

It was the director who filmed the "Mad Max" series.

But Zach Schneider's emergence changed all this.

Now, under Ronan's push, Zach Schneider has completely entered the vision of Warner Bros. George Miller's alternative is impossible to appear again.

The effects of these are not obvious now and will not be highlighted until later.

In fact, if Warner Bros. and DC Comics can stabilize and choose the right director and producer, Justice League may not have a bright future.

But Ronan won't let them stabilize.

Shortly after the press conference between Warner Bros. and DC Comics, at Ronan's instruction, Marvel Entertainment and Embassy Pictures also jointly convened a press conference to announce plans and schedules related to "Hulk", "Iron Man 2", "Thor" and "Captain America".

And in an unexpected way, it was announced that "Avengers" will be officially released in 2009!

After this press conference, according to the news received by Ronan, Warner Bros. and the senior executives of DC Comics were in a mess and decided to speed up the "Justice League" movie universe plan.

After all, they didn't even plan the first part, but their competitors prepared the entire first phase.

This also makes it inevitable that the senior executives of DC Comics, which have maintained their advantages over Marvel for many years in movie adaptation, have some psychological imbalances.

Warner Bros. and DC Comics are inevitably led by relativity entertainment.

Of course, Ronan is also very clear that Warner Bros. and DC Comics are in their hands a king bomb. Even if they are played in the worst way, they will still have considerable influence.

No one can deny this.

The summer season in North America is in full swing. While "Iron Man" is selling well in the North American box office, its popularity overseas has gradually increased. As the North American box office is approaching $300 million, the global box office has exceeded $400 million in one fell swoop.

Not to mention that the screening is far from over, this number alone is enough to allow Marvel Studios to launch its subsequent plans.

As we all know, the box office only accounts for a part of Hollywood movie revenue, and in superhero movies, the box office accounts for a smaller income ratio. The profit points of "Iron Man" are really too many. It is just a comic. Because of the popularity and attention brought by the movie, the Iron Man comics sold millions of copies and sold nearly 18 million US dollars.

As for traditional peripheral products such as dolls, dolls, stationery, etc., the sales volume is also amazing. According to the statistics, the sales of various peripheral products in North America have exceeded US$100 million. Movie fans and comic fans wearing Iron Man masks can basically be seen everywhere in the United States.

In the new weekend, Universal Pictures’s “Miami Storm” launched in North American theaters.

Ronan did not pay any attention and left Los Angeles to Cannes, France to go to the ongoing Cannes Film Festival to attend the premiere of "The Walker" at the film festival.

The film's premiere lineup is extremely luxurious, led by director Martin Scorsese, and the three superstars in the film Tom Cruise, Will Smith and Jack Nicholson are all here.

Among the supporting roles are also well-known actors such as Martin Sin, Alec Baldwin and Jessica Chastain.

Although Ronan also played a guest role as a small supporting role, he never regarded himself as an actor and never stopped on the red carpet. He walked through the media area and went straight into the theater.

Tom Cruise, the first to walk on the red carpet to pull the atmosphere, is already in the theater.

"I haven't been to Cannes for a long time," said Tom Cruise. "It should be said that I haven't attended a European film festival for a long time."

Ronan casually said: "This means you don't need the film festival to increase your fame."

Tom Cruise smiled and said, "No, I don't want to recall some things. The last time I attended the three major European film festivals, I haven't divorced yet."

Ronan remembered: ""Eye-opening Ring."

Tom Cruise nodded slightly: "In 1999, the opening film of the Venice Film Festival."

Ronan vaguely had some impression and remembered to read related news. In order to match the atmosphere of the film "The Eye Opening Ring", Nicole Kidman lifted up his skirt openly on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival and showed the media and fans sexy underwear.

Compared to her scale in the film, this is of course nothing.

Tom Cruise suddenly asked, "Do we have hope of getting the Palme d'Or?"

Ronan shook his head: "The winner may be very low."

This has nothing to do with the film. It is purely the conclusion he came to based on the jury that the chairman of the jury of the three major film festivals has too much power in the selection of awards.

Ronan also recently learned that the film festival organizing committee decided to finalize the chairman of the jury, the King of Sunglasses from Hong Kong City, a month and a half ago.

With the style of King of Sunglasses, the commercial "Walker" in the art film festival is probably not in line with his aesthetics.

Of course, there are not people in the jury who support relativity entertainment, such as Miss Lizao and Director Lue Orange, who are all members of this jury.

But the power gap between ordinary judges and judges chairman is too big.

Jessica Chastain came over and greeted him. When he saw Ronan and Tom Cruise chatting, he left quickly.

When Martin Scorsese came in, Ronan chatted with him for a few more words, then walked into the cinema.

Somewhat surprisingly, before entering the cinema, Ronan met a very familiar person.

"Hi, Ronan." The tall woman with blond hair greeted him: "It's been a long time since we met."
Chapter completed!