The Best Entertainment Era

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Including Ronan, there are only four remaining employees of Shahai Entertainment. Mary is temporarily in charge of the company's daily affairs and finance. Robert Lee of the Marketing Department and George Clint of the Publicity Department have nothing to do for the time being.

Ronan's next plan needs manpower, at least to stabilize these three people.

Salaries must be paid on time, and work is done to make money.

Bullshit like I created a broad development platform for you can only be used to fool fresh graduates.

In addition to salary, but also let people see some hope.

To be precise, when you are busy, it is easy to think wildly when you are idle.

George, you've worked in the media industry, you're an expert in propaganda, and you're well-connected in the media.

In the office, Roger held a company-wide staff meeting, You take care of your relationship with them, we need to use the media next.

George Clint was in his thirties, but he was naturally old-fashioned, frowning and wrinkled like a sixty-year-old man: Mr. Anderson...

Ronan! Call me Ronan. Ronan seemed very friendly.

We're working on a new movie project? George Clint asked.

Mary and Robert-Lee also looked over with concern.

Ronan nodded: Yes. We instigated a new project to save ourselves.

The three people were all surprised. Seeing someone wanted to ask questions, Ronan said first: I will handle the funding. Starting from February, your salary will be increased by 10%, and I will guarantee it will be paid on time.

These words had an effect, and the three of them felt a little more at ease.

Ronan said to the 40-year-old curly-haired man again, Robert, do you understand Abu Dhabi Investment Authority?

They just set up an office in Los Angeles, mainly responsible for investigating investment projects. The curly-haired man replied.

Is it just a survey? Ronan saw the curly-haired man Robert nodded, thought for a while, and said, Go and get in touch with the people in the office to find out their impression of Hollywood. Then collect some information on Abu Dhabi, such as investment. and the human environment.”

Robert-Lee thought for a while and said, I have a friend who often does business with Arabs. I can ask him to contact him. He seemed to have guessed what Ronan was thinking: Are you going to invest in Arabs?

Ronan nodded: I have a classmate from Abu Dhabi in USC. I have communicated with him in the past two days. The Arab oil rich are very rich and are waving checks all over the world looking for investment.

George Clint chimed in: Can we get Arabs to invest in the company? Movie investment... Ronan, we just screwed up a project.

Ronan shook his head: We may face great pressure to directly allow Arab funds to take shares in the company.

The three immediately understood the meaning of these words. Hollywood has an unusually powerful force that is incompatible with the Arabs.

Ronan continued: We give priority to ensuring the film project, and a single film project is not so sensitive. The plan needs manpower, so he still fools these three people into the thief boat first: Three, you are the elders of Shahai, and there is no such thing as a difficult time. Giving up on Shahai, not giving up on me Ronan Anderson, I'm very grateful.

No need, Ronan, Mary answered. It should be.

Ronan knew the importance of team cohesion. After talking about feelings, then talking about reality, he vowed: If you can get investment this time, each of you can get 1% of the total amount as a reward.

The latter plan requires them to execute, and the three are veterans in the industry.

Robert Lee and George Clint looked at each other and the latter asked, Ronan, how much are you planning to raise?

My target is the Arab rich. Ronan pretended to be relaxed: It's not a problem to raise a few million dollars.

There are Asan and other candidates as substitutes.

These three people can stay in the company until now,

There must be feelings for Shahai Entertainment, and with the stimulation of money, the spirit is somewhat invigorated.

As soon as the impromptu meeting was over, Ronan took Mary to the Blockbuster branch in Los Angeles.

In the office, Robert Lee said to George Clint: It feels like Ronan has changed.

Yeah. George Clint sighed: After a painful failure, it's normal to change.

Hopefully it won't screw up this time. Robert Lee had little confidence in Ronan.

George Clint said: Hollywood has come from failure. Ronan has talent, but lacks experience.

There are some things that I won't say to Robert at all. He is also considering resigning and leaving recently, but now, let's see the situation. What if he can get investment? Those Arabs who made their fortunes off oil are said to never take money seriously.

Ronan took Mary to the Los Angeles branch of Blockbuster in Century City and met Anthony, the copyright buyer, in a reception room.

Blockbuster is the largest video tape chain company in the United States, mainly engaged in the production, sale and rental of video tapes.

Anthony, who received Ronan, was just a very ordinary copyright buyer, but he didn't think much of Shahai Entertainment.

There are so many small production companies like Shahai in Hollywood.

A royalty fee of $200,000 is absolutely impossible! Anthony's voice was calm, but there was a hint of arrogance in his tone: The box office of Farewell to the Jedi was a fiasco, and it wasn't worth the price.

Of course, Ronan knew that his price was too high, but he still tried his best to try: Falling for the Jedi is a unique action film, which combines the bloody elements of B-grade films. This type of film has always been the darling of the video tape market. And there are many precedents for films that failed at the box office that have been very successful in the video tape market, like The Shawshank Redemption, which has responded very well in the video rental market in recent years.”

Anthony said with a little disdain: The film has not recovered its cost yet, and it may be profitable in five years. Isn't time a cost?

Ronan simply asked directly: How much did you bid?

Anthony said coldly, Eighty thousand dollars.

It's impossible! Ronan put on a look of disbelief: The production cost of Life of the Jedi is as high as six million US dollars!

In fact, this is considered a normal bid. In most cases, the basic licensing fee for a film's videotape is 10% to 20% of the North American box office.

The more popular the film at the box office, the higher the copyright transfer fee, and the sales or rental share.

Shahai Entertainment is Anthony's old customer, but it is basically useless in the face of commercial interests.

Especially Shahai Entertainment is about to go bankrupt.

Anthony shrugged, with disdain in his tone again: Remind you, Life of the Jedi only had $800,000 at the North American box office.

Such a crappy film that failed completely at the box office cannot give Ronan any confidence at all.

But $80,000 is really too little.

Luo Nan added: In addition to the standards stipulated by the industry association, Shahai Entertainment should not be divided into later stages.

Anthony frowned and thought, just like B-movies are an important category in the videotape industry, bloody action movies have a certain market for videotape rentals.

One-time sale! He raised his eyebrows and said, Including TV rights.

Ronan gritted his teeth deliberately: I want $300,000!

Anthony laughed, his smile full of sarcasm: Young man, Shahai Entertainment is about to go bankrupt. If you go to any company, it is impossible to offer you a high price.

Shahai Entertainment hasn't gone bankrupt yet. Ronan replied nonchalantly.

Anthony shrugged, as if listening to a joke, and said directly: $150,000! One-time buyout of video and TV rights! Don't waste your time and mine.

Ronan pondered for a while and said slowly: Okay, $150,000. He emphasized: You need to pay in one lump sum when you sign the copyright transfer contract.

Anthony didn't care: Yes.

At the end of the negotiation, the two parties initially signed an agreement, and the signing of the formal contract should wait for the approval of the Blockbuster side.

In Mary's words, this kind of small business of hundreds of thousands of dollars is basically no accident.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars is naturally a small business for a giant like Blockbuster.

After leaving the Blockbuster branch, Ronan looked back at the nameplate. The attitude of the Blockbuster buyer made him angry, but he could not vent, not to mention that Shahai Entertainment was facing bankruptcy, even the most prosperous At times, it was not in the eyes of the people at Best.

The wealth and status of the two sides are not equal at all.

Ronan strengthened his determination to instigate the plan.

Mary asked at this time, Is this money start-up capital?

Ronan said with a smile: Without this event funding, how can we attract investment?

Mary reminded: According to the contract we signed with the distributor, New Line Pictures enjoys 15% of the copyright transfer fee.

After reading the contract, Ronan naturally knew this. After thinking about it, he said, Follow the formal procedure to notify New Line Cinema, and pay the share to delay the time as much as possible.

Mary nodded, It should be fine for two months.

Ronan sighed, the publisher is at the top of the Hollywood food chain.

The distribution company not only takes a cut from the box office, but also generally takes a cut from the surrounding copyright income, generally ranging from 10% to 40%.

Are you ready for the script? Mary asked concerned.

Ronan nodded: Ready.

Now that the start-up funds are available, he needs to come up with a convincing project based on a script.