The Best Entertainment Era

For a TV series, the production and filming cost of three million dollars is not high, and the average cost of each episode is more than three hundred thousand dollars. This determines that Grey's Anatomy will not have any particularly large Scene, will not hire well-known actors or directors.

In addition, this type of TV series basically does not need special effects.

According to Shonda Rhimes' plan, some bodies or lesions that appear during surgery can be replaced with animal bodies and internal organs.

This can effectively save costs.

CAA moved very quickly. After signing a formal packaging service agreement with Shahai Entertainment, not only did a large number of relevant cast and crew information be passed on to Ronan and Shahai Entertainment, but also the script and project of Grey's Anatomy The plan was sent to the four major TV networks.

For this type of TV series, the preferred broadcast platform must be the public television network.

I have to say that CAA does have considerable energy, and has provided packaging services for many excellent TV series in the past. The projects they recommend attract more attention from TV stations.

Good news came back soon, and ABC TV station expressed the hope that Shahai Entertainment could shoot and produce a pilot episode of Grey's Anatomy first, and conduct a trial broadcast on ABC TV station.

The Fox network duly expressed concern.

CAA played an important role in the fact that a small-produced original series was able to get the attention of the two major TV stations before the official preparations.

Ronan also believes that the cooperation with CAA this time is very worthwhile, and it will help Shahai Entertainment to accumulate relevant experience in filming and producing TV series.

Sandsea Entertainment has officially established a TV series production department, and will be involved in the filming and production of more TV series in the future.

Ronan also has plans in this regard, so Robert Lee needs to take on an important task again.

In the study room of the future world, Robert Lee looked at Ronan and asked, What is the goal this time?

A book with fantasy and magic. Ronan took three books from the shelf and handed them to Robert Lee: You go to contact the publisher and the creator, don't worry, this belongs to our future plan , you have plenty of time to negotiate.

Robert Lee looked at the three thick books in his hands. The name of A Song of Ice and Fire on the cover of the books was particularly eye-catching.

After A Song of Ice and Fire,

Each book also has subtitles, namely Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords.

Apparently this is a series, the author is called George Raymond Martin, published in 1996, 1998 and 2000.

The series was unfamiliar, and Robert Lee was sure he had never seen it, or even heard of it.

In the past year, he has been dealing with various copyright parties almost all the time, and he basically knows all the well-known works in North America.

Since I haven't heard of it, I can only say that the market response of this series is average.

Robert Lee didn't say much, just asked: Is there going to be a movie in the future?

Ronan shook his head: The plan to shoot a TV series is estimated to be five years away at the earliest. He warned: This series has not been completed yet. When negotiating, pay attention to obtaining the copyright of the follow-up works. At least there must be priority.

I understand. Robert Lee said.

He couldn't help being curious, opened it and quickly flipped through it. After reading a few pages, he said, It feels a bit like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series.

Ronan replied casually: As far as I know, George Martin is a Tolkien fan.

This series, especially in terms of magic, George Martin once again followed the practice of his idol Tolkien, never using magic in it lightly, making it just an element needed to exaggerate the atmosphere, and rarely used in people. itself.

Therefore, some people think that instead of saying A Song of Ice and Fire is an extremely low magic fantasy, it is more like a parallel history of a fictional world.

Robert Lee didn't stay long, and quickly left with his farewell.

Ronan is very confident in obtaining the film and television copyright of this series. The first three books that have been published don’t even need to cost much. It’s only 2001, and not many people have noticed the series of “A Song of Ice and Fire”. The influence itself is not too great.

The A Song of Ice and Fire series still needs time to ferment.

In the previous life, the TV series adapted by HBO had a great influence. The sales of CDs alone made HBO a lot of money.

Ronan has not read George Martin's original work, but he has watched almost every episode of the TV series from the first season to the seventh season. The final impression of this series is still stuck in Jon Snow and Long Ma because of the producer. Speed ​​up the progress of the plot, and the fast-paced aunt and nephew are on the bed.

Strong flavors have never been a problem for cable TV dramas.

This series also has a nickname called Song of Killing and Fucking.

Except for Jiongxue and Long Ma who opened up cheating, the other main characters died really neatly.

I believe that anyone who has watched the series will still remember the bloody wedding. Robb Stark, who looks very possessive of the protagonist's temperament, was killed like a pig...

Ronan is of course very clear that the success of Game of Thrones does not depend on pornography.

The magnificent world view, the touching plot, the full characters, the excellent production... have created this magical drama.

If you want to be successful, you can't just get the copyright. With the current production strength of Shahai Entertainment, it is far behind HBO in the previous life.

At that time, HBO was also known as Huang (H), Violence (B) and Dirty (O) in Tianchao. It made good use of taboo stimuli, and treated morals as nothing.

Sandsea Entertainment is just a beginner in this field.

Therefore, even if the Song of Ice and Fire series successfully obtains the copyright, Ronan will wait a few years or even longer before putting it on the production schedule.

This requires accumulation, not only production capacity, but also funds.

The HBO drama in the previous life had the same trump card, that is, not short of money.

After millions of years of evolution, human beings have thought hard and concluded two eternal truths: the more expensive the better, if the expensive things are not good, either the money is not spent enough or the money is not spent right place.

Ronan vaguely remembers that in the first season of Game of Thrones, the average production cost per episode reached 6 million U.S. dollars. By the sixth season, this figure reached an astonishing 10 million, and it was called the most money-burning episode.

If movies and TVs want to be well-produced, they must burn money.

The kind of movie where a bunch of people get together to brag and boast that they are gods may be able to become a god movie within a small audience, but it will not become a popular classic.

As long as Shahai Entertainment has the hard power in TV series production, Ronan believes that Game of Thrones will become his profitable weapon.

Perhaps the oath of the Night's Watch will spread more widely than in previous lives.

The long night is coming, I will watch from now on until I die. I will not take a wife, hold a land, or bear children. I will not wear a crown, and will not compete for honor. I will do my duty and live and die here. I am the darkness The sword in the sky, the guards on the Wall, the flames against the cold, the light at dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the kingdom. I give my life and honor to the Night's Watch, this night and every night.

Grey's Anatomy officially opened the prelude to Shahai Entertainment's entry into the production of TV series.

While Sanda Rhimes is perfecting the script, she is also forming a crew, and related work is being carried out one after another.

News soon came from Robert Lee that he made preliminary contact with George Martin, who was very interested in adapting the series of A Song of Ice and Fire into a film and television drama, and was also willing to have a relationship with Shahai Entertainment negotiations.

But different from what Ronan expected, the negotiation did not go very smoothly. Before George Martin became a writer, he worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood for many years and was no stranger to Hollywood, so he put forward many conditions.

Negotiation is to find common ground in differences, and no other company will notice the A Song of Ice and Fire series in a short time. Ronan asked Robert Lee and George Martin to talk patiently.

Today, just like movies, behind the explosion is often a large investment in publicity and marketing.

For example, the Harry Potter series is a typical case of successful marketing.

There's also The Twilight Saga: Twilight, already on the market.

This book has been in the North American book market for one year, and the Western book market for more than half a year. The total sales volume has not exceeded 200,000 copies, and its influence among young people is not that great.

The reason is that the investment in publicity is very limited, and Ronan didn't even take the initiative to invest a large amount of money in promotion.

The Hunger Games was published before September, and it didn't cause any waves, but some media mentioned Lindsay Beal's name.

Ronan only signed three ghostwriter contracts with Lindsay Beal, and Lindsay Beal has expressed more than once that she hopes to transfer to the screenwriting department of Sandsea Entertainment after completing Fifty Shades of Grey, so the follow-up For the sequel, Ronan will have to find other gunmen to ghostwrite.

Sand Sea Entertainment has sent out recruitment on behalf of Ronan, and Ronan hopes to determine the gunner candidate before the year.

As for Lindsay Beal, since she wants to be a screenwriter, let her adapt Summer of Jeans.

This typical theme of young women is also suitable for female screenwriters.

The time gradually came to the end of August. After six weeks of screenings, Fatal Turns, like most traditional American horror films, has exhausted its market potential and was officially released from North American theaters. The North American box office finally stopped at 53.69 million on the dollar.

In addition, the overseas box office of the film exceeded 15 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office totaled as high as 69.24 million U.S. dollars.

Overseas screenings are still going on, and according to the estimates of Embassy Pictures, the global box office of this horror film is expected to reach 80 million US dollars.

As a matter of course, the sequel of Fatal Turn was also put on the agenda, and the script creation was also included in the schedule of the screenwriting department of Shahai Entertainment.