Chapter 650： Stage set

On the top of Relativity Entertainment, in Ronan's office, Connie knocked on the door and walked in.

"About the zombie comics, I found something." Connie put the comics that people had just bought from the bookstore on the desk in front of Ronan: "There is only this one at the moment. The relevant situation is being sorted out, and there will be written soon report."

Ronan picked up the comic and looked at the cover carefully. There was a line of eye-catching letters on it-"The.Walking.Dead".

The Eastern name once translated is called "The Walking Dead".

"That's right." Ronan opened it and saw the introduction of the actor, he was roughly certain: "This is it."

Connie knew why Ronan was looking for this comic, and hurriedly said: "The Walking Dead is a comic work released by the Image Comics Company. It was a zombie-themed comic serialized in the form of a monthly volume in October 2003, screenwriter. It’s Robert Kirkman, the author is Tony Moore, and the copyright belongs to Image Comics."

She paused for a moment, recalled carefully, and said: "There is a piece of news that is not very sure at the moment, and inquiries shows that if the image comic company transfers the copyright of the adaptation of The Walking Dead, it needs Robert Kirkman's permission."

Ronan asked, "The copyright of the comics is still in the hands of the Image Comics Company."

"Still." Connie is very sure of this: "The comics have not received much response for the time being, and there is no copyright purchase company."

Ronan nodded slightly: "Need permission from Robert Kirkman, who is Robert Kirkman? He can get a treatment similar to Frank Miller in the comics company."

Connie thought for a while, and said as concisely as possible: "Robert Kirkman is only 26 years old this year, but he is known as one of the top five comic screenwriters in the comic industry today. Before he collaborated with Image Comics, he and Marvel The comics have worked together for a period of time and served as the screenwriter of the "Ultimate X-Men" comic series. I specifically called Mr. Avi-Allard. Mr. Avi-Allard spoke highly of Robert Kirkman. It is the comic screenwriter that Marvel Entertainment currently focuses on poaching."

This is interesting! Ronan did not expect to have a relationship with Marvel Entertainment.

Connie added: "The Walking Dead participated in the Eisner Award at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, and there was no gain."

Ronan considered it a little and said: "Since Marvel Entertainment is contacting Robert Kirkman, it forwards the "The Walking Dead" to Marvel, and let them be responsible for negotiating with Robert Kirkman and Image Comics. The film and television adaptation rights of this series of comics, etc..."

Connie raised her head and looked at her boss with a little doubt.

Ronan has a new idea. The hot film and television works can often greatly drive the sales of original works and peripheral products, and increase related commercial value: "You personally contact Avi-Allard, let Marvel Entertainment as much as possible Buy out all copyrights of "The Walking Dead."

Connie asked: "Turn "The Walking Dead" into a work of Marvel Entertainment."

"Yes, that's it." Ronan said: "This comic is temporarily popular, and there is a possibility of copyright trading."

Connie answered: "Now the entire comics industry is very difficult to survive. As long as the price is right, the image comics company should not stop selling."

Even the two big brothers in the comics industry have to rely on the parent company, let alone other companies.

Because of the acquisition of Marvel, Ronan has a clearer understanding of the North American cartoon industry and the cartoon winter.

If you can get the copyright of "The Walking Dead", plus the "Game of Thrones" that already holds the copyright, the two popular American TV series once on cable TV are all in the hands of Relativity Entertainment.

The copyright library of Relativity Entertainment is sufficient to support the company's development for many years in the future.

This week, Relativity Entertainment has finished shooting two films, Paul Greengrass' "The Bourneman 3" and Gilmour Del Toro's "Hellboy" all returned to the Theory of Relativity Building and moved to the studio. Post-production stage.

Neither "The Bourne Shadow 3" and "Hellboy" can not keep up with this year's schedule. The former will be released in the summer of 2005, while the latter's schedule is temporarily undecided. Embassy Pictures has given two choices in August or October.

Embassy Pictures has added three more films scheduled for release next year this week, including DreamWorks Animation Studio’s "Madagascar", Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio’s first animated feature film "Despicable Me", and " The Devil Wearing Prada.

In addition, three movies will also start shooting this month.

Jeff Abrams finally waited for the two protagonists of Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried, and the crew of "Hurricane Rescue 2" went to Istanbul to film.

The other movie cannot be described as the start of filming, it is indeed entering the production stage.

After watching most of the samples of "Despicable Me", Ronan pushed Minion’s independent film into actual production. Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio has a team of nearly 50 people. In the "Minion" animated short film On the basis of this, the pre-production of the animated feature film began.

Also, Ang Lee led the "Brokeback Mountain" crew to Wyoming, preparing for the two handsome actors, Heath Ledger and Jack Gyllenhill, to have a foundation in the poetry of the green mountains and the blue sky and white clouds. War.

In the words of the great director to Ronan before leaving, the emptiness and loneliness made two 19-year-old young people love each other, one cooking, the other herding sheep, talking by the campfire, love in the tent, and homosexuality. Love accompanied the two to spend the best summer time in their lives.

No matter how strong the love is, it is only the magnificent and lush Brokeback Mountain that will ultimately witness it.

Most Hollywood movies always leave beautiful memories about love. I believe that even in the past ten years, many people still clearly remember the entanglement of love and betrayal surrounding the "Smiths".

Once, this entanglement created a super selling movie.

Now, because of Relativity Entertainment's acquisition of the film library and script library of Artisan Pictures, the copyright of the script of "Smiths" falls into Ronan's hands.

This project, after Ronan forwarded the script to George Clint, Shahai Entertainment was pushing hard.

In order to proceed according to the plan, Shahai Entertainment has already sent out invitations to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

During the Cannes Film Festival this year, Nicole Kidman once wanted to ease relations with Ronan, and then competed for the heroine of the project.

But how could Ronan give the heroine to Nicole Kidman?

This week, George Clint, on behalf of Shahai Entertainment and the "Smiths" crew, officially signed an actor contract with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

For a long time in the future, these two actors will work on the same crew, and no one knows if something **** will happen.

Ronan's attitude is very clear, just let it go.

As for helping people who have never dealt with before to defend marriage and love, whoever is interested will do it.

Ronan is a businessman, not a holy father.

Of the $100 million production budget of "Smiths", $30 million was paid for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

The former is paid 20 million US dollars, and the latter is as high as 10 million US dollars.

This project, because the producer is Ronan, there is no shortage of well-known actors who are interested.

For example, Will Smith asked Ronan, Mark Walkerberg's agent also contacted the crew, and Johnny Depp's agent also expressed the intention of continuing to cooperate with Relativity Entertainment.

These people are actually better than Brad Pitt for business appeal, but the leading actor still falls on Brad Pitt.

As for the heroine, there are more well-known actresses who are interested.

Nicole Kidman personally performed a good reconciliation show for Ronan in Cannes. Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas spoke with George Clint, Cate Blanchett and Gwen. Stephanie also expressed a strong interest in Mrs. Smith.

But these people all lost to Angelina Jolie in the audition.

After signing the actor contract, Shahai Entertainment communicated with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie separately. In order to create realistic action effects in the film, the two top killers must be proficient in various weapons Fighting, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie must go to Los Angeles’s famous action stunt training venue, which is also the famous "Secret Service School" in Hollywood for learning and training.

It takes about a month and a half.

In short, Ronan and Shahai Entertainment have set up the stage. Whether a good show will be staged depends on the actors' freedom.

As for the paparazzi who turned eighteen turns, they were chasing away and shooting Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston's team in secret all-weather and Shahai Entertainment There is absolutely nothing to do with relativity entertainment.

No matter how to investigate, Shahai Entertainment and Relativity Entertainment are both innocent.

After all, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are all first-line Hollywood stars, and it's normal for paparazzi to follow them all the year round.

Of course, the cycle of "Smiths" cannot be too long. When the director Doug Liman signs the contract, he has written terms guaranteeing that the film will be completed before May next year, in time for 2005. The annual summer file was released on time.

The number of films released by Relativity Entertainment is basically stable at more than ten each year. In addition to films whose copyrights are entirely owned by themselves, there will also be some types of investment.

For example, Tom Hanks is shooting and producing "The Da Vinci Code", such as the upcoming "Batman: Hour of War".

"Batman: Hour of War" was released by Warner Bros. and entered the North American theater market one week after "Reaper Coming 3" scored $14.54 million in North America this weekend and the North American box office totaled more than $50 million.