Chapter 395： Patients with advanced procrastination

A high-level meeting is going on in the Warner Bros. headquarters building.

"You have already read the relevant information."

Edward Davis sat very forward on the left side of the conference table and said, "Any ideas?"

An Asian executive said with some doubts: "We all know Ronan Anderson, judging from his achievements in the past three years, he is also trustworthy, but Christopher Nolan is just a small director..."

Opposite David Bird answered: "Kevin, haven't you noticed? The directors who work with Ronan Anderson are all new directors, but without exception they have achieved success. In contrast, Christopher- Nolan has directed two films, "Shards of Memory" and "White Night Chasing the Murder", and has more qualifications and experience."

The Asian named Kevin thought for a while, it was indeed such a thing, and simply stopped talking.

"The Batman movie can't stand another failure." Someone reminded.

Edward Davis added: "This is a movie that fits the "Dark Knight Returns". In the past three years, Hollywood has not found a more successful producer than Ronan Anderson, and the dark style of "Night Night" "Legend" was also initiated by him, and he has enough experience in this area."

When he finished speaking, David Byrd knocked on the table and emphasized: "Our neighbor next door has achieved unprecedented success in superhero movies. Everyone, don't forget, DC was the king of superhero movies before! We must Take back our market position!"

Kevin nodded and said, "What about the funds? There are ways to cooperate. We must retain the copyright!"

"Of course the copyright belongs to us. Ronan Anderson's Shahai Entertainment can solve two-thirds of the production budget for us." Edward Davis explained in detail Ronan's way of cooperation.

These people on the audit committee have basically no objection to this. This is the most conventional method of co-production in the industry, and how to cooperate will be discussed in detail later.

As long as the copyright and distribution rights are in your hands, this project will not exceed the control of Warner Bros.

Edward Davis said at this time: "The board's intention is to get this project into review. We can't keep Batman on hold. This is a waste of resources. And the board thinks Ronan Anderson's company is good..."

Kevin said directly: "Just buy it."

"It's not that simple." Edward Davis smiled and shook his head: "The equity structure of Relativity Entertainment is very simple. If Ronan Anderson disagrees, the acquisition will be impossible. This cooperation is actually an opportunity to increase Warner Bros. and Relativity Entertainment. The understanding between them also allowed Ronan Anderson to see the strength of Warner Bros. and let him understand that with Warner Bros. as a platform, his ability can be maximized..."

Only by knowing enough can we find weaknesses and opportunities. Otherwise, even if Warner opens his mouth, he will not be able to talk about the entertainment situation with the theory of relativity.

Another said: "In fact, there is no such need. DreamWorks is much better than Relativity Entertainment. The company's first goal should be on DreamWorks."

Edward Davis laughed: "If we can win DreamWorks first, Relativity Entertainment will naturally step aside, but we are not the only ones who are eyeing DreamWorks."

Relativity Entertainment's film library resources are too few, and its production capacity is not as good as DreamWorks. DreamWorks has set foot in the first-line large-scale production a few years ago. Currently, Relativity Entertainment has only one film with an investment of over 100 million.

He also knows that the board of directors prefers DreamWorks. After all, the composition of DreamWorks shares is complicated, and the difficulty of obtaining it is actually much lower.

Besides, DreamWorks has Spielberg.

Ronan Anderson can match Spielberg? Edward Davis couldn't help but shook his head secretly. No one in the circle would have this opinion.

The meeting went smoothly. The market prospects for superheroes are here. Warner Bros., who owns DC comics, can't leave such a big piece of fat.

Edward Davis finally said: "Now, we are pushing the "Batman" project into the review stage and prioritizing the completion of the project review."

The others have no objections.

As soon as the Warner Bros. review meeting was over, Ronan was notified by Edward Davis. The entry of the project into the Warner Bros. review committee undoubtedly took a big step forward. As long as there are no major surprises, it must be Can get the green light from Warner Bros.

Afterwards, Ronan personally communicated with George Clint, and Shahai Entertainment will form a negotiating team of more than a dozen people, preparing to start negotiations with Warner Bros. on the cooperation of "Batman".

There will be plenty of preparation time next.

Warner Bros. needs to inspect the plan, do the preliminary market evaluation, etc. It will not be possible to complete the relevant review within two or three months.

After setting up the negotiation team, Ronan cared about the cooperation between Grey Intern and ABC TV.

The two parties have reached a formal agreement to broadcast "Grey the Intern" on ABC TV.

However, the method of playing license authorization is adopted.

Nowadays, the mainstream model of Hollywood TV series production is similar to film production. Producers provide projects. If the TV station receives the green light, the TV station will raise production funds. The copyright of the series and subsequent production copyrights will naturally belong to the TV station.

The other is that the producer raises its own funds, and then signs a broadcast authorization agreement with the TV station, and the TV station broadcasts it at a designated time.

Since Shahai Entertainment was involved in the production of TV series for the first time, it used the method of authorization for the first broadcast or a brand-new series. The first season of "Grey's Anatomy" has a total of nine episodes of the first season of only 2 million US dollars, and does not enjoy the series. The power of advertising dividends.

The production cost of the first season ended up close to 3.5 million US dollars.

The series and teams that have not been tested by the TV drama market do not have much negotiation cost.

But as long as the first quarter has ratings, subsequent playback authorization and DVD rental and sales, etc., it is enough to make Shahai Entertainment profitable.

Although in this era, TV dramas are much worse than movies, the profitability of popular dramas is not much worse than that of big-selling movies.

This can also bring huge rewards for the starring.

Jennifer Aniston’s one-season pay for starring in "Friends" is now as high as $25 million.

It is conceivable how terrifying the profitability of drama series can be.

Of course, Ronan did not expect "Grey Intern" to be comparable to "Friends", this is only the first step for Shahai Entertainment to enter the production of TV series.

Shahai Entertainment has obtained the film and television adaptation rights of "A Song of Ice and Fire". After confirming that there is no copyright conflict in "Prison Break", the creation of related scripts is also in progress, and more TV series production projects will be promoted in the future.

And will gradually realize the integration of production and distribution of TV series.

Ronan still has a question whether he wants to find a way to promote George Martin to complete "A Song of Ice and Fire" in the next ten years, so as to avoid the embarrassing scene of the TV series in the previous life coming to the front of the original.

Is it really necessary for George Martin to tell the screenwriters about the ending first in order to prevent him from hanging up before completion?

Perhaps in the previous life, after the continuous popularity of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, George Martin was old, with a strong heart and lack of energy, coupled with fame and fortune, severe lack of motivation, and became a veritable late patient with procrastination.

I didn't care about George Martin for the time being. Ronan went to the "Dungeon Siege" that was being prepared and looked at the relevant situation.

"The protagonist Jason Statham has come to the crew." Uvi Bauer accompanied Ronan in the studio and introduced the relevant situation: "Currently receiving training in swordsmanship."

He pointed not far away: "It's over there."

Ronan glanced at the training ground and said, "Let's go and take a look."

When the two came to the training court, Ronan saw the prosperous beauty. Today's Jason Statham's hair is not too small, and he has not become the bald head in the future, but he is already bald.

After completing part of the training, Jason Statham came over to say hello to Ronan.

"Hello, Mr. Anderson." Jason Statham is not tall, but looks a little sturdy: "It's nice to meet you."

Ronan shook hands with him: "Hello, Jason." He smiled and said, "It is very important that you can agree to the invitation to be the leading actor in this project."

Jason Statham made a few words of humility in time: "I'm overwhelmed."

Ronan added: "You starred in "Two Big Smokers" and "Snatching and Kidnapping", both of which are very good movies."

Both of these films are excellent films, but unfortunately they are not very popular in the North American film market. If the former is not for Tom Cruise, even the North American market would not be able to enter.

These two films are undoubtedly typical niche films, so Ronan did not consider taking the North American copyright of "Snatching and Kidnapping" in the past, because he couldn't get back the original in a short time.

Even for good movies, market differences cannot be ignored.

After chatting with Jason Statham for a few more words, Ronan then went to other places to check the scenery and props. The strong copycat style made him very speechless.

But Ronan didn't say anything, and the reason was directly related to him.

After all, the entire film’s budget is limited It is unrealistic to use the money to make Uvi-Bauer shoot the epic like "Lord of the Rings".

Besides, Uvi Bauer is not Peter Johnson.

Although Ronan believes that Uvi Bauer is a unique director, the magical epic is really not his specialty.

What is Uvi-Bauer's specialty? It should be that no matter what the subject matter, no matter how much investment, the movie can be made into a super bad movie.

From the very beginning, what Ronan wanted was Uvi Bauer to give full play to his directing expertise.

Since "Dungeon Siege" can't be made into a magical epic, it's a bad one.

Super bad movies are convenient for later propaganda operations.

Afterwards, Ronan went to the gym again and met the heroine of the film.

Due to limited budgets and funds, this time no well-known women like Paris Hilton were invited.