Chapter 904： Princess plan

As Disney’s plan is getting closer to completion, whether it is the negotiation between Robert Iger and Maple Leaf Pictures, or the negotiation on the acquisition of Relativity Entertainment and Pixar Studios in India, the progress is going very smoothly. Ronan also feels relieved and can temporarily. Take it easy.

Thanksgiving Day came, Ronan invited Jaina-Juan to the Future World Manor with her friends.

How do you say 　　, in short, it is to spend the festive season and share food.

After Jaina Quan got the chance to play with Will Smith, she became more enthusiastic and caring. The previous few times Ronan refused to invite because of her busy schedule. She thought Ronan was not satisfied, and went back to the largest country in the universe. Called another "friend" over.

Since the ready-made example of Jaina-Quan is here, Jaina-Quan’s two friends are extremely enthusiastic and actively participate in the holiday enjoyment.

Ronan also confirmed that what Jaina-all said is basically true. The Korean actress and Son Yizhen, whose English name is Claudia Kim, are not only outstanding in appearance, but also more recognizable. They are not printed in a mold. The type, it is estimated that even if you have used a knife, it is just fine-tuned like Scarlett Johansson and other Hollywood female stars.

In two days, Ronan became Teacher Chen and filmed a series of tragic events in the Korean entertainment industry...

In addition, the meeting place is completely controlled in the manor, so there is no need to worry about the future.

After Thanksgiving, Ronan directly asked Jaina-Chuan to take the two Korean actresses to find Andrew, the deputy director of the production department of Shahai Entertainment, and he would arrange suitable roles for the two.

will certainly not be an important role, just a supporting actress in some scenes.

But it is enough for them to go back and start a wave of international movie stars.

There is no need for Ronan to bother with this trivial matter. There are many film and television projects under Relativity Entertainment's investment. There are too many supporting roles like this that will not affect the overall.

Thanks to Thanksgiving, "Hurricane Rescue 2" continued to be screened in North America, and another $31.87 million was collected the following weekend.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday bonus during the period, the film’s North American box office easily surpassed 100 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office totaled 232.08 million U.S. dollars.

At the same time, the "Human Elimination Project 4", which was released before Halloween, went down in just five weeks after its release. The North American box office totaled 85.11 million US dollars.

Although the overseas response is mediocre, more than 30 million U.S. dollars has been recorded, and the global box office of the film has exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars.

Since the production cost is only 8 million US dollars, the profit is very easy, and the fifth part is naturally put on the production schedule.

These low-cost horror films, although the income of each is not particularly high, but each filming and production of the trilogy series has contributed to the Relativity Entertainment with a net profit of 100 million yuan.

More importantly, Relativity Entertainment now has multiple such series.

"Humanity Elimination Project", "Resident Evil", "Fatal Turn", "Reaper is Coming", "Saw Fright"...

The first film has been successful, and the series of "Reaper is gone", "Human Skin Inn" and "Dawn of the Living Dead" are also being serialized.

There are also some who are ready to start being included in the plan, such as the horror universe plan that Ronan and Wen Ziren talked about.

Just after going to work after the Thanksgiving holiday, Wen Ziren submitted a plan to Ronan. The plan was only a brief outline of the story, involving the adaptation of multiple supernatural investigation stories by the Warrens, and Wen Ziren set temporarily according to the imaginary theme of the story. The names of the three series of films are called "Living", "Calling the Soul" and "Annabel".

He plans to use these three films as the main line, and then carry out derivative divisions to create more related horror films.

Ronan passed this plan and will let Wen Ziren serve as the producer of this series.

In addition, Ronan also officially invited Wen Ziren to join Shahai Entertainment and become a Shahai Entertainment producer like Jessica Felton.

This is a well-paid position. It not only enjoys the normal treatment of producer and director, but also a small amount of option rewards from Shahai Entertainment.

Wen Ziren is totally worth this reward.

After a brief consideration, Wen Ziren accepted Ronan's invitation.

For a Chinese director like Wen Ziren, this is not only an increase in income, but also a rapid rise in status.

This is Hollywood after all. Chinese directors often have to put in more effort if they want to gain the same reputation as other directors.

But Ronan and Relativity Entertainment provide a shortcut for Wen Ziren.

Moreover, Relativity Entertainment has always provided a fairer platform for all directors or producers, rather than making decisions based on skin color or other circumstances.

For Wen Ziren at this stage, there is no more suitable choice than relativity entertainment.

This Chinese director with infinite future value has officially become a member of the Relativity System, and will be tied to Relativity Entertainment for many years to come.

Ronan also believes that the commercial value that Wen Ziren can bring is more than ten ordinary Oscar nominees.

Perhaps many people disdain purely commercial film directors such as Wen Ziren, but looking at the difficult situation of literary and artistic masters, it often takes years to invest in a low-cost film, and then look at how commercial directors can always get big The amount of investment is not difficult to see the universal choice of Hollywood production companies.

Let Ronan choose between Wen Ziren and David Lynch a thousand times, and Ronan will choose Wen Ziren every time.

This is not determined by personal preference, but by the position of the hip.

Wen Ziren was very motivated to devote himself to the creation of the "Horror Universe" script. He first chose "Living".

According to Wen Ziren's plot, although the Warrens will not be the absolute protagonists of "Latent", they will also have heavyweight scenes in it, and then lead to the following "Call of Souls".

Even, Wen Ziren is still considering how to link the supernatural investigation of the Warrens with "Chain Saw".

In this way, the influence of "Chain Saw" can be used to warm up and promote new horror films.

In addition, Wen Ziren will also take time next year to direct several episodes of "American Horror Story".

This kind of newly launched series is very important for Wen Ziren to be the director in the first season.

On the subject of horror, Wen Ziren is indeed unique.

From after Thanksgiving to mid-December, in addition to Wen Ziren’s "Horror Universe" plan, Ronan also approved a number of film and television projects.

As for the TV series, preparations for "Shameless", which has already obtained the copyright, have officially started.

In terms of the movie project, Ronan approved the project after the large-scale script on the teddy bear was completed, and the name was also confirmed as "Teddy Bear".

This will be a comedy on a very large scale.

At the same time, the "Slumdog Millionaire", which has already completed the script creation, was officially established. Shahai Entertainment and Danny Boyle, who has directed "Train Guessing", started contacting. Please come to this second-line director. difficult.

Neil Blomkamp, ​​the special effects director of James Cameron’s "Avatar" crew, after completing a stage of work, formally handed over the work with the crew and came to Los Angeles from Wellington to prepare for the first in his career. A feature film, adapted from his short film "Aliens in Johannesburg" into the screenplay of "District Nine"!

Ronan had a long talk with Neil Blomkamp and approved the project. Compared with the large investment and production of traditional science fiction films, the budget of "The Ninth District" is only 30 million US dollars.

This also determines that director Neil Blomkamp must save money and shoot in the form of a pseudo documentary.

Marvel Entertainment’s film plans are also progressing. As the filming of "The Hulk" directed by Joss Weiden is about to start, preparations for "Thor" have also begun, and work on "Captain America" ​​is also in progress.

The production of animated feature films is advancing steadily. Ronan approved the new eye-catching animation film of the same name by Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio, adapted from "How to Tame My Dragon".

At the same time, Chris Leonard also submitted another brand new project to Ronan, an animated feature film project adapted from the famous children's story book "The Story of Old Leis".

Ronan remembered that he had seen such an animated film, coupled with the popularity of the original and the maturity of the Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio team, he also approved this project.

Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio also pursues a low-input original work on this project. In the production plan submitted by Chris Reynard, the production budget is only $60 million.

And the target audience of the film is very clear, that is, children under the age of twelve.

If it can arouse the interest of these people, each child audience will bring a family group.

Originally, Ronan also found a children's comic called "Six Heroes" from Marvel comics, but the style of Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio is obviously not compatible with Da Bai, and can only be temporarily suppressed.

Relativity Entertainment is digging into the corner of Disney Animation Studio is preparing to set up a new animation department that shoots traditional truth, goodness and beauty. Dabai is more suitable for their style.

There are also those new types of princess movies.

is the princess plan.

The princess in the new era can no longer wait for the prince to save, let alone become the prince's attachment, and should have a stronger personality.

There is no doubt that it is difficult for Relativity Entertainment to make a breakthrough in this area. After all, it lacks enough accumulation, and digging the wall is undoubtedly the fastest way.

Regarding Disney’s plan, every step is closely related. After adding a new force, Disney will be more turbulent. In addition, Disney Animation Studios lacks the assistance of Pixar Studios. It is more difficult to revitalize, which will make the theory of relativity more difficult. There are many opportunities for digging in entertainment.

can even dig an entire animation production team.

Those classic animation feature films have created Disney's glory, and Disney will stick to it, but if it cuts the blood of Disney's animation studio, how many more years will it take for Disney to restore the glory of animation production?

One fell behind, and it might fall behind step by step, and then just sink.

This situation has been staged many times in Hollywood, and Hollywood was not just the six major companies at first!

A few days before the upcoming Disney shareholders meeting, there was finally good news that Relativity Entertainment and Maple Leaf Pictures reached a final agreement.