The Best Entertainment Era

Mr. Anderson.

In the coffee shop of the hotel, Gaspar-No looked at Ronan and asked, I wonder if you are still interested in the film Irreversible?

In fact, the purpose of participating in this Cannes Film Festival is to sell the film. The situation was not bad before. Monica Bellucci won a lot of reputation after The Beautiful Legend of Sicily. This larger-scale work, According to common sense, more people should buy it.

But after the premiere of the film, the situation took a turn for the worse. Not only the Cannes Film Festival officials asked them to leave, but the distributors also lost interest one after another.

Gaspar-No wondered, isn't it just an assault scene? Do you need to be so sensitive?

Ronan put down the coffee in his hand, and didn't show contempt because Gaspar-Noo turned around to look for it. As a businessman, that was too low-level.

US$300,000. Ronan still quoted that day: Embassy Pictures bought out all the North American copyrights of Irreversible in one go.

Gaspar Nuo gritted his teeth and said, Is the one-time payment in place?

Ronan nodded: No problem.

Okay! Gaspar Nou made a decision: Hopefully the transaction can be completed before I leave Cannes.

Ronan said: If your time permits, I can have someone assist you to go through the relevant procedures now.

When Gaspar-No left, a staff member of the embassy film industry accompanied him to deal with related matters.

There are too many films in the world that want to squeeze into the world's largest film market. The distribution and copyright prices of many films are unbelievable. Ronan knew some of them in his previous life. There are things that are shown.

Not only Gaspar-No took the initiative to find Ronan, even that Stephen Zhou also found Ronan before the end of the Cannes Film Festival, and sold the North American copyright of Shaolin Soccer to the embassy film for $200,000. Industry.

Frankly speaking, when the costs of copying and other expenses are included, the $200,000 may not be able to be paid back solely by theater screenings.

As a Hollywood film producer and company boss, Ronan has a certain ability to predict this aspect. Even if Irreversible is released in North America with an NC-17 rating, it is very likely that the audience will be larger than Shaolin Soccer.

Cultural differences cannot be ignored.

This trip to Cannes film finally did not come back empty-handed. After all, I bought the copyrights of two films. Although the theater chain’s revenue capacity is not strong, it can follow a long-term offline operation strategy.

Before the Cannes Film Festival was over, Ronan and Jeff Katzenberg rushed back to Los Angeles to attend the North American premiere of Shrek.

At the premiere, Ronan meets Steven Spielberg.

I heard that Band of Brothers has finished filming? Ronan was not without regret.

Wearing round glasses, Spielberg said: All the filming was finished last month, and it has been transferred to post-production.

Although the two have opinions on each other, they are far from the point where they will pinch each other when they meet. Spielberg said again: When I have time to watch the premiere.

Ronan smiled and said, Definitely go.

In the past few months, the employee turnover ratio of Embassy Pictures has been within a controllable range. After DreamWorks' poaching failed to achieve the goal of establishing overseas distribution channels, it seems that it has no longer been staring at Embassy Pictures.

In fact, in any company, it is normal for ordinary employees to come and go. As long as the core team can be stabilized, there will generally be no problems.

Ronan had led a team in his previous life, so he naturally understood this.

By the way. Ronan asked curiously, When is the premiere date?

Spielberg replied: HBO, September 9.

Ronan nodded and didn't say anything more. I don't know who made the premiere date. It is estimated that the ratings after the first episode may be affected.

There is no doubt about the excellence and profitability of Band of Brothers, but the film is shot in a realistic style, will the audience still be in the mood to watch such a cruel TV series?

The premiere ratings may not be too good.

Band of Brothers will become a classic and even a benchmark of World War II film and television dramas. Ronan is sure of this, so it is quite regrettable.

Found this profitable project, but can't invest...

It can only be said that I came to Los Angeles too late, and I didn't know the original author.

In Ronan's previous life, Band of Brothers was often drawn out for comparison with oriental dramas. In fact, there were not many WWII dramas or movies produced by Hollywood.

Strictly speaking, Garrison Expendables is amazing enough.

The ruffian Quentin's Inglourious Basterds not only exploded the testicles of senior government officials, but also directly turned Hitler into a hornet's nest.

It's not Dongguo's original idea to bomb a plane with a grenade.

There is a film in France where soldiers wave their unicorn arms, throw grenades into the sky, and then blow up German fighter jets.

There is a movie called Ukrainian Guerrillas, in which the leading actor's drunken punches against German soldiers after drinking can make Huang Feihong bow down.

There are also all kinds of dramas and movies made by the world's largest South Korea, which are simply too numerous to count.

As for the military discipline of American soldiers, it has been the focus of complaints all over the world since World War II.

In his previous life, Ronan read the battlefield diary of a Chinese-American American soldier on the Internet, telling how they drove armored vehicles to perform missions and passed an Iraqi village with very narrow streets.

The car driven by the soldiers moved around, afraid of hitting the Iraqi house.

Then their mad dog company commander drove straight over and knocked down the courtyard wall of the whole street.

The real reason why the company commander dared to do this was because someone backed him up - Franklin, the founding father.

The next day, the battalion accountant took the checkbook and wrote checks from door to door to lose money. The value of a wall was equivalent to half a year's income of Iraqis.

Then, after a few days, they passed by again and found that all the courtyard walls had been repaired in their original positions, and they waited for the imperial army to pass by again and continue to touch porcelain.

The Chinese-American soldier estimated that the village would last until the US troops withdrew from Iraq.

Why is the U.S. military's reputation so good in Europe? It is probably possible that strong health is a felony, and whoring and prostitution are just detentions without a criminal record.

As expected, Shrek has exploded in popularity in North America. After the premiere, Cinema Corporation sent the survey data to DreamWorks Animation Studio. The audience in the theater scored an average of A+, predicting that the box office in North America will be 250 million. USD or so!

After the North American box office was released in the first week, DreamWorks Animation Studios was even more enthusiastic, with a box office of 42.34 million US dollars in the first week.

This figure is not high, but it has set a record for the first week of box office for an animated feature film since the establishment of DreamWorks Animation Studio. Moreover, the production cost of this film is only 60 million US dollars, and because it is a non-key project, the previous promotion and marketing of DreamWorks It's not that violent.

Ronan was also very happy. The best-selling animated feature film in North America is not far behind at the overseas box office.

Moreover, the first market to be released in overseas regions is also two weeks after its release in North America. This is what he meant. We have to wait for the word-of-mouth and North American box office hits of Shrek!

At that time, with the blessing of both word-of-mouth and box office, the overseas box office and even offline income of Shrek will definitely not be far behind.

What is really surprising is that in the second weekend of its release in North America, the weekend box office of Shrek rose instead of falling. Although the rise was less than a percentage point, the box office of 42.5 million US dollars not only allowed the film to continue to sit firmly on the box office list The throne of the champion also pushed the North American box office to more than 100 million US dollars.

Shrek showed everyone with its overwhelming reputation and box office that DreamWorks Animation Studio is entering the top ranks.

The rise of DreamWorks Animation Studios and Pixar Studios all prove that Disney's traditional prince and princess animation model has been completely outdated, and Disney Animation Studios will soon face a situation of constant or dead.

Only Ronan knows that the key to change in Disney Animation Studios lies in Pixar Studios.

On the third weekend in North America, which is the traditional Memorial Day, under the competition of the war blockbuster Pearl Harbor, Shrek still maintained an extremely stable trend, only higher than the previous weekend. It fell by 34%, and retreated to the second place in the box office list with 28.18 million US dollars.

This week's box office champion is Pearl Harbor.

The box office performance of 55.62 million US dollars seems to be quite good, but the extremely poor reputation will inevitably affect the follow-up trend.

From the media to film critics to ordinary audiences, the overwhelming negative reviews were like bombs dropped by the Japanese, almost drowning Pearl Harbor.

If film critics can ignore the influence of summer blockbusters, the negative word-of-mouth from the media and audiences will be fatal.

And most of the negative comments, except for Michael Bay's explosion as usual, are basically concentrated on the three protagonists Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale.

The stereotyped goofy story between the three protagonists, as well as the poor performance, were criticized from beginning to end.

The performances of the protagonists are quite poor. Ben Affleck can only play a bullish role, which is probably not far from his own temperament; Josh Hartnett is a bit like a young Richard Gere, quite a star Looks good but doesn't show much acting skills; British actress Kate Beckinsale seems to be imitating Nicole Kidman, but there is no charm to speak of.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Kate Beckinsale is a bit too imitative of Nicole Kidman in this film.

Pearl Harbor costs as much as 200 million U.S. dollars or even more for the production and publicity. If it wants to recover it, Disney must find a way.

Perhaps no one thought that Michael Bay, who has always been steady in commercial films, would make so many audiences cry badly for the film he made this time.

You know, before Michael Bay was definitely one of the favorite directors of North American teenagers.

Presumably Michael Bay also wants to make some changes in himself.