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? In the past two days, Ronan received a call from Hassan and others. They will once again cooperate with Shahai Entertainment to invest in the project Fatal Turning. The total investment of the three is as high as 20 million US dollars.

On the day when the investment income from Reaper Is Coming was settled, the three of Hassan also signed a formal investment agreement with Shahai Entertainment.

Pleasant cooperation.

Pleasant cooperation.

Accompanied by applause, the two parties formally signed the contract.

Ronan shook hands with Hassan, Hussain and Aziz one by one, saying: This will be as successful a collaboration as the previous two.

Hassan smiled and said, It must be.

In the past two days, he learned through various channels that Shahai Entertainment has not been affected by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and the scale has expanded rapidly in the past two years. Ronan Anderson also acquired another film company, and its development is very fast. smoothly.

The Indians are also cooperating with Shahai Entertainment, which is also confirmed.

Then, he specifically found an Arab lawyer in Los Angeles, consulted some legal issues, and asked the other party to help review the contract and settlement statements to make sure that they were in compliance with laws and regulations.

The income of Reaper is much lower than that of Human Purge Project, but considering the average profit rate of Hollywood movies, plus years of experience in business, the profit rate of 30% is not low.

The average profit margin of the three of them's import and export trade and processing industry is less than ten percent.

With the signing of a formal investment contract between the two parties, Hassan and others invested $15 million in Death Comes, plus 30% of the profit of $4.5 million, a total of $19.5 million, all invested in the Fatal Turn project among.

The three signed the agreement, completed a series of formalities, and returned to Abu Dhabi contentedly.

Not only did they not take away the $19.5 million, they also left $500,000. In the office, George Clint said with a smile: Ronan, it's better to think of it this way.

Mary was very calm: This is not our funds after all.

Ronan said calmly: If Fatal Turn can succeed, and they have successfully cooperated with us three times in a row, will they continue to cooperate in the future?

George Clint thought for a moment,

Said: If it were me, I would definitely continue to cooperate.

Mary understood Ronan's meaning: Can this fund stay in our account for a long time?

Yes. Ronan said slowly: For investors, this is just a number, but for us it is a real financial support. If one day they don't want to cooperate with us anymore, there will be a movie with serious losses.

George Clint laughed: Like Kingsman?

Ronan didn't speak, but the meaning was very clear.

Mary is the financial director of Relativity Entertainment, and she knows very well what is going on with Kingsman. The funds invested by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in this project are actually all in the process of film preparation, shooting, production, publicity and distribution. Legal means have been transferred into the legitimate income of Relativity Entertainment and its affiliated companies.

This is not money laundering, but normal business operations.

Didn't the original budget of Fatal Turns be 10 million dollars? George Clint asked: Now we have got 20 million dollars in investment...

Ronan thought for a while and said: The production budget of this project has been increased to 25 million US dollars. We actually invested 10 million US dollars in production, and the other 10 million US dollars... When this film is released in the future, the publicity budget will be provided by Shahai Films. Bear, and publicity expenses are included in the cost.

Both Mary and George Clint also endorsed this approach.

This is one of the cost calculation methods often used by Hollywood. The public cost of some films includes not only production costs, but also promotion and distribution costs.

For example, there are some films with a huge amount of foreign investment, and the film has a promising prospect. Film companies like the six major companies that integrate production, publicity and distribution can incorporate publicity and distribution expenses into costs, thereby increasing their total investment. proportion, enjoy more revenue share.

The six major companies are very slippery, and all of them are legal means.

Ronan added: Once the project is established, the operation and daily expenses of Sand Sea Entertainment will all be accounted for by Fatal Twist.

This project has no third-party guarantees and no financial supervisors.

This is why Ronan tried his best to continue to cooperate with Hassan and others. Compared with Indians who understand the film industry, these Arabs hovering in front of the film industry can be called the best Hollywood film investors.

After Mary and George Clint left, Ronan couldn't help but think of the indescribable country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. It seems that the coal bosses have embarked on the road to wealth. These people know less about Hollywood, right?

Then he forced himself to stop and stop thinking about it.

The risks involved are too great.

Maybe we can set up an office of Embassy Pictures there first? After all, the film market over there has unlimited potential in the future.

Polygram Films previously had a branch office in Hong Kong City. After the Embassy Films accepted their distribution department, they also set up a branch office in Hong Kong City. They can recruit people who really know that place, and go north to that indescribable city. Set up a branch first.

Maybe the film released by the embassy film industry can appear in the theater over there.

There is no need to think about these series of horror films, and there should be some hope for The Bourne.

Although there is only 13% of the box office share, no matter how little it is, it is meat.

Besides, you can prepare more for the future.

Ronan was not prepared to handle this matter personally, so he called Robert Lee. When he and Danny Donald arrived in Hong Kong City, they would select or recruit suitable candidates on the spot, and then rely on PolyGram's relationship that had been rooted in Hong Kong City for many years. , go north to that indescribable city, establish a branch office of the embassy film industry, and then try to build a good relationship with that indescribable pair of scissors.

And China Film Group.

In this era, most of the power to import foreign films is in the hands of this company, and Hollywood has a limited amount each year.

With the funds in place, the preparations for Fatal Turns are also speeding up. Ronan used George Clint's deputy, Sandro, as the production manager of the crew. Sting was an associate producer and met with a CAA agent Tom Cruise had connected with.

Afterwards, Ronan met Guillermo del Toro. After several talks, both parties were satisfied with each other and signed a formal director contract.

CAA also actively promoted this cooperation.

Anyone can see that the current Sand Sea Entertainment is developing rapidly and belongs to the new territory of Hollywood. Naturally, the brokerage company will not let go of such newly emerged resources.

Ronan will not refuse to cooperate with any brokerage company, the one with the best conditions is the most suitable business partner.

Guillermo del Toro is very good at horror films, and his salary is not expensive, only 800,000 US dollars. In addition to the rigid standards stipulated by the directors' union, there is no post-production share involved.

Today's spinning top director is far from being a future Oscar winner.

Since the film needs some outstanding young actors and actresses, CAA recommended a group of actors to Shahai Entertainment, and Ronan did not refuse. These are all potential actors newly signed by CAA. If appropriate, it can be used directly.

This can also reduce the heavy workload of Sha Hai Entertainment and his producer.

The Bourne Shadow project is cooperating with William Morris, and Fatal Turns is mainly cooperating with CAA, and future projects may also cooperate with other brokerage companies.

Ronan's career map is expanding step by step.

Relativity Entertainment and its two affiliated companies also settled their 1999 fiscal year revenue at this time.

During the year, Shahai Entertainment produced two films, Reaper and Kingsman; Embassy Pictures released three films: The Blair Witch, Ace Agent and Reaper; Relativity Entertainment As a holding company, it mainly provides loan support for two subsidiaries.

As the films cannot be released overseas for the time being, the overseas copyrights of these three films are all sold out in one lump sum, The Blair Witch is 50 million US dollars, Death Comes and the other two videotape films are 50 million US dollars, and Kingsman is 10 million US dollars. .

In North America, the distribution of Embassy Pictures has brought diversified income to the film, including theater screening income, videotape and DVD rental income, pay TV income, free TV income, Internet copyright income and a small amount of film derivative copyright income.

In addition, some companies are discussing with Shahai Entertainment about the possibility of gamifying Reaper is Coming, and in the future this film can also generate income from game copyrights.

There is also the sequel copyright of The Blair Witch, which was sold by Ronan to DreamWorks for $12 million.

Then there is the income from the offline market. Regardless of the TV copyright, or the rental and sales of video tapes and DVDs, there is a steady stream of funds coming into the account.

Although it cannot be compared with the six major Hollywood companies, or even DreamWorks, after two years of Ronan's hard work, the film company in his hands has developed from a video tape film company that was in debt and facing bankruptcy to a A small group company with a simple industrial chain.

Among them, the most important thing is to win the embassy film industry and establish its own distribution channel.

Distributors can participate in movie box office sharing, home entertainment sharing represented by video tapes and DVDs, TV broadcast sharing and other various royalties.

Compared with the producer, the distributor is always the first to recover the cost of the investment, and before the box office and other income flow into the hands of the producer or other agents, it is the first to get a considerable distribution fee.

More importantly, the distribution company provided another possibility for Ronan, allowing him to have sufficient room for film operations. Even a commercially unsuccessful film like Kingsman Agent can actually bring benefits.