Chapter 640： Broken place

In the morning of the next day, Ronan went to Marvel Entertainment to meet Avi Allard to discuss matters concerning the "Fantastic Four" comics, and reached a consensus.

Promote the new "Fantastic Four" comics according to the schedule established by Fox in the 20th century.

Twentieth Century Fox has announced the release time of the "Fantastic Four" movie. This superhero movie will be released in the summer of 2005.

Marvel Entertainment has also filed a record to deal with the early or late release of "Fantastic Four" by 20th Century Fox.

Just like Ronan said, the brand-new Marvel Entertainment Company must show its attitude to the outside world. Marvel is no longer the comics company that anyone could handle before.

"The Fantastic Four must die!" There is an inexplicable grief in Avi-Allard's words: "For Marvel, their sacrifice is worthwhile."

Ronan didn't have too many complicated emotions, and said: "If one day, we can withdraw the copyright and bring the Fantastic Four back to life."

Avi-Allard nodded first: "It can only be done like this." Then he shook his head: "It's stinky, it's more difficult to pull it back."

Ronan smiled and said with relief: "It's better than just watching them fall into the hands of other companies."

"That's what I said." Avi-Allard understood what this meant.

Ronan is actually very clear that this is a lose-lose strategy. Marvel Entertainment uses the end of the "Fantastic Four" comics to drag down the commercial prospects of the 20th Century Fox "Fantastic Four" movies.

Ronan didn’t care too much about whether to revive the "Fantastic Four" in case the copyright was recovered in the future. On the one hand, Marvel Entertainment must use "Fantastic Four" to kill chickens and monkeys; on the other hand, the Avengers plan went well. If so, Marvel Dafa will still be available in the future.

Once a Marvel superhero movie has a brand effect, its power is quite amazing. Many movies of average quality can use the Marvel brand and Marvel Dafa to create good commercial results.

The topic of Ronan and Avi-Allard quickly turned to the "Iron Man" project that had already begun its pre-operations.

Avi-Allard talked about the latest developments: "Kevin just reported to me the day before yesterday. He has already managed Samuel Jackson. I admire Kevin very much. I don’t know how he did it. Let Samuel -Jackson signed ten film contracts with Marvel Entertainment for the role of Nick Fury."

Ronan nodded slightly: "Kevin Fitch has worked hard in Hollywood for many years and he has no shortage of experience and ability. There is always a way."

Originally, he thought that if Samuel Jackson disagreed, he would switch to another actor. After all, although the marinated egg is black, it is not necessarily a black actor.

Kevin Fitch managed the future director of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the fastest speed.

This is also considered as a qualified answer sheet submitted by Kevin Fitch as the producer of "Iron Man".

Avi Allard said: "In the previous meeting, Kevin Fitch estimated that the entire project production budget would require 160 million US dollars. Is it a bit high? This is too risky for Marvel Entertainment."

Marvel Entertainment has just received funding from Relativity Entertainment, and the situation has gradually stabilized. Avi Allard is worried about such a large investment, which is also a normal reaction.

Ronan said: "This film requires too many special effects, even with a budget of 160 million US dollars, it must be saved."

"Risk." Avi Allard sighed slightly: "If this film fails, Marvel will be dangerous again."

Ronan glanced at Avi-Allard, and said: "With the theory of relativity entertainment, Marvel Entertainment will not fall."

Ronan did not say anything more. In recent years, Avi Allard is the most suitable helmsman for Marvel Entertainment.

The film project "Iron Man" does not actually occupy any liquidity of Marvel Entertainment, and all budgets are settled by the Pacific Investment Foundation.

With the development of time and the return of past investments, Scott Swift continues to attract investments from all over the world. There is still a certain market for such fixed-income investment products.

After all, most investment institutions and investors are well aware that high-yield investment projects will inevitably have various problems and huge risks. Of course, all funds cannot be put on top. Investments with stable returns will often occupy a considerable amount of their investment. Large proportions.

The Pacific Investment Fund has stable income, excellent reputation and timely return of investment and income. It has opened up its reputation in the past two years.

Even some Wall Street investment institutions began to find Scott Swift, wanting to carry out in-depth cooperation with the Pacific Foundation, such as the famous Lehman Brothers.

Of course, the large investment banks on Wall Street couldn't cope with it. Ronan asked Scott Swift to talk slowly with Lehman Brothers.

The first batch of US$40 million for the "Iron Man" project has been funded, and preparations will begin soon. We will try our best to start shooting in March and April next year, and complete all post-production by March 2006, and then start the summer file. Released.

Then everything proceeds according to plan, and strive to achieve the first assembly of the Avengers around 2010.

The actual copyright situation of Marvel superheroes is here. It is impossible for a short time like Spider-Man and Fantastic Four to return to Marvel Entertainment. The original Avengers will still be the Big Six.

The biggest change is that the copyright of the Hulk has completely returned, and it has nothing to do with Universal Pictures. If Marvel Entertainment shoots the "Hulk" movie, there is no need to worry about it as before and worry that Universal Pictures will share most of the proceeds.

The participation of Relativity Entertainment and Ronan also made the Avengers plan very clear from the very beginning. Marvel Entertainment is responsible for the production and the Embassy Films release. During this period, there will be no more Marvel change of ownership.

Once, "Iron Man" was a gamble for Marvel comics, and it was difficult to find a distributor. In the end, it had to sign a high-proportion distribution and sharing contract with Paramount Pictures, which resulted in an absolute passive position.

After Walt Disney acquired Marvel at that time, in order to make the Marvel series really complete, it had to spend $115 million to recover the distribution rights from Paramount Pictures.

Today, Marvel Entertainment under Relativity Entertainment’s situation is much better than it used to be. It has a clear plan, a mature production team, a sufficient budget, and a complete channel for publicity and distribution, and the copyright of superheroes is even greater. Concentrate in your own hands.

In the past, with the soaring commercial value of Marvel’s IP, under the framework of Hollywood’s “copyright division” system, the major entertainment groups have fiercely engaged in trading games around copyright transfer, authorization, production and distribution.

After leaving Marvel, Ronan drove back to the hotel and looked at the bustling streets of Manhattan, New York. He suddenly thought of one thing, "they" always come to New York again and again, wanting to destroy New York.

I once remembered a colleague who finished watching a Marvel movie and said: This is the first few times New York has been bombed by aliens! I really want to live in this broken place that may be killed at any time!

Having said that, it's not just a place in New York. The Earth in the Marvel universe is too dangerous. Various events are emerging one after another. Living in such a world, you may die anytime, anywhere due to inexplicable events.

Ronan spent the weekend with Anne Hathaway in New York and waited until the box office of Spider-Man 2 before returning to Los Angeles.

The first "Spider-Man" caused a worldwide sensation, but the sequel did not succeed. It won US$115.81 million in the box office in North America in the first week of the painting, which completely ended the market chaos since the first weekend of June. The situation, won the North American box office champion with absolute advantage!

But besides the happy news, there were also negative reactions.

Whether it is the media or the audience, after being appetized by "Spider-Man", expectations for "Spider-Man 2" have become higher, but the film has not made any breakthroughs, resulting in a more serious decline in word-of-mouth compared to the first.

Ronan can see clearly that Sony Columbia Pictures is on the old road of "no spiders but three".

This is a good thing for Relativity Entertainment and Marvel Entertainment.

Back in Los Angeles, Ronan immediately went to the "Iron Man" project department that was preparing to build a crew at the Hughes Aircraft Factory, and exchanged the latest work situation with Kevin Fitch. Kevin Fitch got Samuel Jackson. But he hit a nail in the favored "War Machine" actor Tyrese Howard.

The black actor not only opened his mouth and asked for a high salary of 8 million US dollars, he was also willing to sign a film cooperation with Marvel Entertainment.

Without waiting for Ronan to come, Kevin Fitch directly rejected the candidate and is currently selecting new black actors.

In addition, Kevin Feige has made in-depth contact with Jon Fein, who is an actor, screenwriter, and director. ~www.novelhall.com ~ Jon Feiru has a special relationship with "Iron Man". I am very interested in cooperating with Ronan and Relativity Entertainment.

"It is my honor to cooperate with Relativity Entertainment, and I have great expectations for it."

When facing Ronan, Jon Feiru said: "I think this cooperation will change my career!"

Obviously, Ronan and Relativity Entertainment's past reputations played a huge role in attracting the director Jon Feiru.

Jon Feiru also specifically talked with Ronan about the shooting and production of the "Iron Man" project: "Adaptation is necessary, but at the same time as the adaptation, the basic settings of the original must be considered, because even if it is like "Iron Man" "In this way, people are not very familiar with themes, and the basic setting should be as faithful as possible to the reader's memory, so as to make full use of the existing audience base."

He looks chubby and even a little funny, but what he says is very insightful: "Superhero movies have their inherent commercialization model, because people always like to watch hero battles and explosions and destruction. Shooting. This kind of subject matter will be more secure, because in today's general environment, even if the hero you shoot is not perfect, it will not affect the movie's popularity too much."