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The previous Resident Evil series can be filmed one after another. Not only have so many films been filmed, after Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, the producer Constantine Films is also planning to restart this series, changing The plot and the main characters are filmed again, which shows the profitability of the series.

Ronan certainly knows that the most important profit point of the Resident Evil series is offline, and the disc rental and sales market has brought a lot of profits.

So, after the film's release, he asked Embassy Pictures to focus more on the DVD release, which will begin soon.

Embassy Pictures contacted three DVD compression manufacturers in the far east. The related industries there are skyrocketing, which can not only guarantee the quality and scale of compression, but also reduce the cost to an incredible level.

The cost of US$1.5 for various fees is simply unimaginable in North America.

There are also some peripherals of the film, which are also outsourced to the manufacturers there. It is not the first time that the Embassy Pictures has cooperated with the manufacturers in Yiwen and Wenzhou.

Whether it is DVD discs or other peripheral products, there is no need to worry too much about the quality.

In this era, the quality requirements for commodities that can be exported to earn foreign exchange are very high, far exceeding the standards for domestic marketing.

Many people in the embassy film industry are amazed at the low cost of ordering DVD discs. Only Ronan knows best. Even after deducting shipping costs and other expenses, the production cost of a single disc is less than 1 US dollar. For the manufacturers over there , profits are still high.

In the past, Ronan was also a beneficiary of piracy. He had already entered university in 2001. At that time, vendors selling discs on the street only sold each disc for 5 yuan.

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Many people who buy discs have experienced that after the vendors gave a mysterious tone, they would take out some discs with beautiful ladies on the cover from the woven bag at the back.

The price of this kind of film is naturally more expensive, 5 yuan or even 10 yuan a piece is not negotiable.

Like ordinary movies, it is not a problem to buy five or six movies for 20 yuan.

Ronan's highest record was buying 25 discs of Hollywood movies for 100 yuan after bargaining.

Of course, with such a cheap price, it is inevitable that the quality is uneven, and there are also types of trickery.

These are all beautiful memories of youth.

In the past years of the video hall, how many people watched Shu Qi fight Li Lizhen and were very excited.

And how many people scolded the director for being perverted when they saw that the pervert was about to strengthen Athena Chu.

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By the way, Comrade Xu's trapeze battle definitely won over what is hot in Tokyo and artists in the San Fernando Valley.

At that time, how many male classmates envied Lao Xu and Lao Ren, and took exciting and unforgettable shots with many beautiful female stars in Hong Kong City.

Especially Lao Xu, who is absolutely a wonder in the actor world, and later transformed into the spokesperson of Santa Claus.

After the embassy film industry placed an order with a manufacturer in the east, there was news from there that a manufacturer wanted to visit Los Angeles after a while to discuss more in-depth cooperation with the embassy film industry.

The manpower costs on the other side of the Pacific Ocean are extremely low, and cooperation is a win-win situation. Of course, Ronan would not refuse, so he asked García Rodriguez to call the person there and formally invite him to come to Los Angeles for a business interview.

At the same time, Embassy Pictures is also planning the overseas release of Resident Evil. Alan Albert and Danny Donald have already formulated a complete overseas release opportunity, and the film will be released in many countries and regions one after another.

Of course, there is no need to think about it on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Maybe more than ten years later, a film of the scale of Resident Evil will be able to pass the review, but this era does not even think about it.

The regions where it will be shown first are of course Latin America, Western Europe, Australia, plus Hong Kong City and South Korea.

These have always been the most important overseas markets for Hollywood movies. Even because of the degree of freedom in the market, it can be said that they are the backyard of Hollywood movies. When they are released globally simultaneously, these regions are basically released together with North America.

Most of the markets that were released last were island nations.

Even though Capcom has done some work, the island country release of Resident Evil is still scheduled for June, a full four months behind North America.

On the one hand, this is due to the local film protection policy of the island country. It is common for Hollywood movies to be released for a long time in the island country; Those two-dimensional movies.

Frankly speaking, the island country is a market that cannot be speculated under normal conditions, and it is even the only one in the world, where two-dimensional movies are rampant.

The two-dimensional movies in the island country are very scary. If they explode, they will simply crush Hollywood movies in the local market.

It is said that in the annual box office rankings of local films in the island country, there is often no live-action film in the top ten.

This is simply unimaginable in the film market of other countries and regions.

Fortunately, the island country is a market with relatively good copyright protection, and there is limited room for piracy. Otherwise, like the Korean market, Hollywood movies would have to cry.

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Ronan remembered very clearly that the real high-definition pirated resources on the Internet in his previous life were all Korean versions first.

The North American screening of Resident Evil has just begun, but after the President's Day holiday, the popularity supported by promotional marketing, zombie culture lovers and game fans has dropped significantly faster than ordinary blockbuster films.

In the following second weekend, Warner Bros.' The Vampire Queen opened in more than 2,600 theaters, and with a first-week box office of 14.75 million US dollars, it snatched the North American box office champion from Resident Evil.

The box office of Resident Evil dropped 62% from the previous weekend to close at US$10.83 million.

This decline also indicates that the theater life of Resident Evil will not be too long, and the North American screening may end within ten weeks.

However, the North American box office of the film is still impressive. The next weekend plus the harvest of the previous working day, the cumulative North American box office of Resident Evil reached 49.8 million US dollars.

This weekend, Resident Evil also opened in other major overseas markets outside of North America. The overseas results are not considered explosive, but they are not bad. Overall, they are within expectations.

Overseas box office revenue of nearly 20 million US dollars in nearly 20 countries and regions indicates that the global box office of Resident Evil will easily break through the 100 million US dollar mark.

It has become a foregone conclusion to recover costs and even generate profits just by relying on the box office.

Immediately, the script of Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse was put on the agenda, and Sandsea Entertainment specially set up a screenwriting team to assist Paul Anderson in completing the sequel script.

A period of more than ten years of professional zombie elimination has really kicked off the curtain.

Ronan is very clear that if Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich continue to be filmed, the ratings and reputation of the series will be eaten by zombies.

But he has no intention of changing people. He is a film businessman after all, and what he pursues is the safest profit.

As for whether the film will become a classic, that's not what he considers.

Frankly speaking, the first film has already made a good start, and the most secure profit model for the sequel is to continue.

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In Ronan’s memory, the number of successful film adaptations of games is extremely limited. Strictly speaking, they are nothing more than “Resident Evil” and “Tomb Raider”. Impressive heroine.

These two masterpieces of game adaptation can be said to be typical of success in casting but failure in plot.

Just like movie fans will remember Alice, but don't remember what Alice did in the movie at all, who remembers the storyline of Tomb Raider? Audiences remember Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft.

Game-adapted movies have not found the right path, at least until Ronan's last memory, game-adapted movies have hit the street one after another.

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Ronan sometimes also thinks about it, it is also a sentimental effect, and it is also a bad deal. Why in the North American market, the sequel of Star Wars is a mess, but World of Warcraft makes people vomit blood?

Perhaps in North America and the West, the influence of World of Warcraft is much worse than that of Star Wars.

Another weekend passed, and the North American box office trend of Resident Evil continued to decline rapidly. The box office of the third weekend has dropped to 5.12 million US dollars.

The total North American box office is about to exceed 60 million U.S. dollars, and the final landing point is very likely to exceed 70 million U.S. dollars.

Overseas, the screening market has expanded to more than 30 countries and regions, and the cumulative overseas box office has reached 36.57 million US dollars.

The global box office will soon exceed 100 million.

Ronan also found time to chat with Paul Anderson and Samuel Hadidah about the sequel.

The production cost of the sequel will increase. Ronan said directly: But not too much. Paul, Samuel, I need you to control the production cost within 30 million US dollars.

Samuel Hadida exchanged opinions with Paul Anderson and said: The actors who star in the sequel will have a substantial increase in salary. In this case, except for Mira, all other actors need to be replaced.

Ronan said without hesitation: Only Mira will be kept as an actor, and all the others will be replaced with new actors.

Reservation-Anderson said at this time: There is no problem on my side, I will make a shooting plan according to the budget.

Ronan nodded and said, I hope you can complete the script and shooting plan in the first half of the year.

No problem, Samuel Hadidah said.

After dealing with the sequel, Ronan specially invited Uwe Bauer, and the project Dungeon Siege was officially put on the agenda.