Chapter 1049： Uncle can't stand

In this summer, Relativity Entertainment is undoubtedly one of the winners. Many of the films released under its banner have all achieved good results.

Although the hope of "Hulk" in May to recover the total investment through the box office is slim, offline results ensure that the film can be profitable, and the entire Avengers plan is a big step forward.

June's "Cars" online box office is not bad, the offline is super popular, the sales revenue of peripheral derivatives directly catches up with the "Harry Potter" series.

"Teddy Bear" has been a small boast, ruining the childhood of countless people, and at the same time brought nearly 200 million US dollars in North America and more than 400 million US dollars in the global box office for Relativity Entertainment.

And this film is still being shown in North America and overseas, and it's easy for the global box office to exceed 500 million US dollars.

"Transformers" in July needless to say, from online to offline, the hot mess, Optimus Prime and Megatron's love and killing has affected the world, and the global box office has reached nearly 700 million US dollars.

"Kung Fu Panda" was released the latest, but the North American box office is also steadily advancing, and it will exceed 200 million US dollars in the next few days.

This film takes an international route, and the overseas response is even stronger. At present, the overseas box office has exceeded the North American box office.

Although these five films have not been downgraded from global cinemas, they have generated more than 2 billion US dollars in box office revenue worldwide.

Relativistic entertainment is like a gold sucker. Huge amounts of funds are constantly entering. On the basis of ensuring that the capital chain is sufficiently healthy, most of them have become the company's reserves to deal with the upcoming big plans and various troubles.

"Currently, the company's liquidity is operating normally, and cash reserves are abundant."

In the office of the Finance Department, Mary said to Ronan: "As of the end of July, we had a total reserve of US$14.5 billion in addition to working capital. This figure is expected to increase to US$20 billion by the end of the year."

Ronan nodded slightly and asked, "What about credit?"

Mary immediately replied: "The Bank of America loan has the last remaining amount. If we want to mobilize funds, the Bank of America can provide us with a loan of 5 billion US dollars in a short period of time, and the mortgage loan mobilized for a long time can be reversed. Doubled."

Today's Relativity Entertainment is not the small company it used to be.

Ronan added: "Mary, start preparing early. I request that in the second half of 2008 or 2009, when the group company needs it, it can mobilize at least 35 billion US dollars in the shortest time without affecting normal operations. You have to make plans and pre-plans."

Mary knew Ronan and Robert Iger’s plans and said: "I understand, I will give you a satisfactory answer."

Ronan is not worried about funding issues, because there is one last guarantee. Relativity Entertainment is still the absolute controlling party of Netflix. Netflix’s stock price has maintained a relatively stable and rapid upward trend under the strong performance guarantee. It is inevitable that the overall market value will exceed 100 billion this year.

Although it will be 2008 soon, Ronan has also done a lot of work ahead of time. The economic crisis will have some impact, but it will not affect Netflix too much.

And in my impression, the impact of the economic crisis on the Internet industry is not great.

In contrast, industries such as real estate, finance, and insurance are the hardest hit areas.

Ronan basically does not have much investment in these industries.

Along with the economic crisis, there is also the money shortage in Hollywood, and the financial industry has been affected. Nowadays, many major productions need financing and shooting in Hollywood, so there will be problems in raising funds.

Even, its own liquidity will encounter difficulties.

Another one is the famous strike in Hollywood.

In the Hollywood industry, the industry agreements and sharing agreements between the Producers League and the major trade unions are basically a 20-year cycle.

In the last cycle, in 1988, a famous general strike broke out in Hollywood. Major unions, including the directors’ union, actors’ union, and screenwriter’s union, were preparing to go on strike and shutting down, demanding to share the producer’s information on TV broadcasting and video rental and sale And other bonuses.

The Producers’ Union settled the directors’ union and the actors’ union as quickly as possible. The two unions have withdrawn from the ranks of strike initiators and participants before they even started the strike.

Then, the Producers Union rejected the conditions of the screenwriters union, which led to a strike of the screenwriters union.

Frankly speaking, the importance of script as the foundation of a movie is self-evident, but Hollywood’s neglect of scripts and screenwriters is also an objective fact. In the concept inherent in the producer alliance composed of major and medium-sized Hollywood companies, Screenwriters are a bunch of worthless goods.

Want to get the same treatment as the directors’ union and the actors’ union? That is daydreaming!

Now 2008 is coming, the agreement between the Producers League and the major unions in Hollywood is about to expire, and now contact negotiations have begun.

Producers League wants to get the major unions in Hollywood as quickly as possible with the least cost and in the way that best suits their own interests.

Frankly speaking, from Ronan’s standpoint, seeing the directors’ union, the actors’ union, and the screenwriter’s union, I can’t help but feel tired and crooked. How good is these union organizations to be mascots in a stable and honest manner? I have to jump out of disgusting people from time to time, what's the matter?

It doesn’t matter if you jump up and down from time to time, and there are special demands for increasing employee salaries and dividends. Uncle can’t bear it, uncle can’t bear it, and grandpa can’t bear it either!

Ronan’s thoughts are actually the thoughts of members of the Producers League.

Therefore, even if the producer league and major trade unions have begun contact, the effect is very unsatisfactory, and even the results achieved are zero.

Times are changing, Hollywood is changing, the film market is changing, and the requirements of both employers and employees are also changing.

Nowadays, the emerging DVD and Internet broadcast channels led by Netflix have become the main source of revenue for film and television, but according to the agreement signed in 1988, these have generally nothing to do with directors, actors, screenwriters and other crew members.

Those who signed the post-sharing agreement are special cases, not general conditions.

This piece of profit is really eye-catching, and it has naturally become a point of conflict between the interests of labor and management.

Labors demand that the dividends of emerging businesses such as DVD and the Internet are generally enjoyed. How can the management easily let go of their own interests?

The first few contacts between the two sides were basically the same.

The Producers Alliance has formed a negotiation team based on the six major Hollywood companies plus Relativity Entertainment and DreamWorks.

In this regard, the interests of major companies are completely consistent.

In the next six months, this negotiating team will need to deal with many unions in Hollywood.

In fact, the focus is on the directors’ union, the actors’ union, and the screenwriter’s union. The interests of other organizations are not high, and more of them follow the trend.

Hollywood’s major and medium-sized companies also have a certain tacit agreement. The directors’ union and the actors’ union say that although they will not agree to the terms they put forward, it is not difficult to reach an agreement after each side makes a concession.

But, the screenwriters’ union...

In the common opinion of the Producers Union, the screenwriters union thinks too much.

Ronan belongs to a very important member of the Producers Union, so it is clear that between the Directors’ Guild and the Actors’ Guild and the Producers’ Union, there is a high probability that the old drama of 1988 will be staged. The so-called strike will eventually die. in.

With the attitude of Hollywood companies generally despising screenwriters and scripts, screenwriters' strike is inevitable.

As a member of the management, Ronan will not jump out stupidly and take the initiative to act as a bad guy. The demands put forward by the screenwriters’ union will also damage the interests of Relativity Entertainment.

As much as possible to reduce the conditions of the major trade unions, this is in line with the interests of Relativity Entertainment.

This inevitable strike involves major differences of interest and cannot be adjusted casually.

Therefore, Ronan did a lot of preparations in advance.

After leaving the financial department of the group company, he went directly to Shahai Entertainment, talked with George Clint for a while, and went to the screenwriting department to supervise multiple screenwriters to complete the script work as planned before October this year. .

At present, many scripts in the screenwriting department have been completed, and nearly ten scripts are currently being created. Even if the upcoming strike lasts for a few months, it will not have much impact on Shahai Entertainment's 2008 production plan.

Many projects like "The Clown", "The Hunger Games", "Beauty and the Beast" and many other projects, the script has been finalized, even if there is no screenwriter, the crew can normally prepare for shooting.

However, some unexpected circumstances will still affect the production plan of Shahai Entertainment.

For example, in the "Resident Evil" series After "Resident Evil 3", Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich of husband and wife took a break for a while, preparing to shoot the fourth part, and then suddenly found out The heroine Milla Jovovich was pregnant and had to postpone the fourth part.

The shooting and production of "Resident Evil 4" can only be carried out next year after Milla Jovovich has given birth and recovered her body.

This can also be regarded as an irresistible factor.

Another zombie movie series, the script of "Dawn of the Living Dead 3" was also pushed into the fast lane by Ronan, because "Dawn of the Living Dead 2" got a slightly higher box office in North America than the first one, with $38.65 million. The results of Relativity Entertainment won a North American box office champion in August.

This film with the main story and background focused on the island is actually an old routine inherent in zombie films, but it is talked about by many fans of this type.

Especially a few videos were widely spread through social media such as Netflix.

The heroine of "Dawn of the Living Dead 2" is called Alexandra Daddario. In the film, she was chased by zombies several times, trying to escape.

From the start of the promotion period, Alexandra Daddario, wearing a white tight-fitting short t-shirt, fully showed fans what the Everest earthquake is!

On the Netflix network, some fans said that the shot of Alexandra Daddario escaping from zombies brought millions of male viewers to the film.

Those who have followed Hollywood movies can easily find that there are some very cliché plots, but Hollywood movies have been repeatedly used and continue to achieve success.