The Best Entertainment Era
Chapter 403 Value for money
This kind of film that reflects the chaos and filth outside the United States has always been one of Oscar's favorite themes for foreign language films. Ronan knows very well that Zhang Guoshi's Hero has no advantage over City of God to speak of.
Even City of God naturally has the advantage of competing for the best foreign language film Oscar.
The bidding will start soon, and after hearing the reserve price quoted by the president of Outu Company, the scene fell into silence for an instant.
A reserve price of five million dollars is quite high for a Brazilian film.
Ronan looked at Navas next to him, and Navas whispered, The producer is very confident.
Yeah. Ronan nodded lightly, I don't remember a single Brazilian movie selling 5 million dollars in North America.
Navas shook his head, Never.
But the huge sensation caused by City of God at the Toronto Film Festival gave the producers enough confidence.
Such a film, which has been well received by the media and critics, does not lack a new home.
Ronan didn't make an offer, and many people were still hesitating. Navas was the first to offer US$6 million.
A one-time increase to the reserve price of $1 million.
Ronan looked at Navas, who just smiled.
The Focus Features buyer followed with $6.5 million.
Miramax's Javier also bid $6.6 million.
Compared with Harvey Weinstein's crazy bid in the East, the current Miramax is quite conservative.
After all, this is Hollywood, the film and the investors in Los Angeles, it is impossible to treat this film in the same way as those ordinary overseas films.
Fox Searchlight's Cheryl quotes $7 million.
Just as Navas was about to raise the price, Ronan was the first to say 8 million dollars!
This is his bottom line.
The meeting room fell silent for a while, and Javier of Miramax relaxed his body and sat back on the chair.
Cheryl from Fox Searchlight picked up her water glass and drank.
They've clearly given up.
Navas glanced at Ronan and offered another 9 million dollars!
Ronan sighed secretly, thinking again in his mind, this film must take the route of winning awards in order to attract the interest of North American audiences, but how much commercial profit can such a brutally realistic Brazilian film bring? ?
The movies are great, there's no question about that, but a good movie doesn't mean a profit.
Losing money for a good film? Most companies that have done this in the past are screwed.
Ronan knew very well from what angle he should consider the value of the film.
Navas looked at Ronan again, the awards season is about to start, and Lionsgate needs excellent films to operate.
Last year's Dance of the Deadman made Lionsgate a big success in the awards season, and the film also brought in a lot of money.
This City of God has great potential for Oscar seeds. If it works properly, it is expected to hit the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Navas remembers very clearly that Ronan's Embassy Pictures won the North American box office of more than 160 million U.S. dollars for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon through the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
It can be described as a double gain of fame and fortune.
The quality of City of God is obviously higher than that of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
Ronan didn't make another offer, and the buyer of Focus Pictures suddenly shouted 9.5 million dollars!
At this point, Navas will not give up easily, and immediately follow up with 10 million US dollars.
Ronan looked at Navas, Navas thought that Ronan was about to bid, and whispered, Do you still want to bid?
No. Ronan replied in a low voice, I just don't think this film is worth so much.
This seems to be very honest, but how could Navas believe it when he said it in this environment?
US$10.5 million. Focus Pictures didn't give up either.
This newly established independent film company also needs an outstanding work to open the situation.
Navas gritted his teeth and said loudly, 12 million dollars!
Ronan couldn't help shaking his head slightly,
This bid is too risky.
Focus Pictures finally calmed down and did not make any new offers.
Is there any new quotation? The president of Outu Company was very satisfied. After asking three times in a row, he looked at Navas and announced, The North American copyright of City of God belongs to Lionsgate Pictures.
Navas finally laughed.
There was a round of polite applause in the meeting room.
Ronan also said to Navas, Congratulations, congratulations Lionsgate.
You are too polite. Although Navas won the copyright at a price that exceeded the budget, he felt that it was worth the money, and said, Ronan, we are small and medium-sized companies in development, and we should cooperate rather than compete.
Ronan nodded in agreement, What you said makes sense. He asked directly, Navas, are you going to use this film to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film?
Competing for awards is the most valuable mode of operation for independent films. All the people here are experts, and Navas has no need to deny it. He immediately said, I have such an idea.
Ronan said directly, I bought a movie similar to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from the East, and I am also planning to compete for the best foreign language film.
It's the Hero during the Toronto Film Festival, right? Navas has already seen the film at the film festival. I know that film. Frankly speaking, there is a gap between this film and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's a little less competitive.
He seemed to have good intentions, Use this film to compete for the best foreign language film. Ronan, you have to control your investment. I think this kind of pure oriental film will cause losses if it is not done well.
Ronan seemed to be very frank, This film is indeed not as competitive as City of God, but you have to try. Navas, City of God also needs to control investment...
Navas smiled, Thank you for reminding me.
What are you kidding, as long as City of God wins the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, as it did with Dance of the Dead, the investment will definitely pay off.
Ronan didn't say any more, he greeted people from other companies, and then left.
On the way back to the company, I still couldn't help but calculate the accounts of the two films Hero and City of God.
The copyright fee of the former is 5 million US dollars, and the latter is 12 million US dollars.
Ronan plans to invest 8 million dollars in the total publicity and distribution of Hero including the Olympics, of which, except for the Oscar promotion and public relations expenses, most of them are necessary distribution expenses such as copying and insurance.
City of God really wants to win the Oscar for the best foreign language film, and if it uses the Oscar effect to gain box office, the investment in publicity and distribution will only be more than that of Hero.
After all, Ronan's goal is only an Oscar nomination.
A film like City of God, even if it is shot very well, can be regarded as one of the best films this year, but the total cost of more than 20 million US dollars is really scary.
It's not that there is no possibility of profit, it's just that the risk taken is a bit high.
Ronan returned to the company and checked the latest work email. Sandsea Entertainment has released a recruitment announcement to openly recruit professionals suitable for the needs of Survival in the Wild. Connie has reached an agreement with the survey and consulting company, which will send personnel to Well-known universities on the east and west coasts collect relevant information on possible circles.
For Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio, after two auditions, it was finalized that Taylor Swift will be the voice actor of Peppa Pig.
At present, the animation short film of Little Pig Peppa has been filmed, and it is only waiting for the awards season to apply for Oscar nominations for the best animated short film.
The animation studio also handed over the Little Pig Page project to a team of old and new employees, while Chris Reynolds led other key team members to start planning the early stages of the Little Yellow Man animated short film.
After the animated short is complete, Ronan will push for the animation studio's first true animated feature business, with Despicable Me being the first choice.
Compared with Pixar's group of animated feature films and projects of Disney Animation Studios, Despicable Me has a relatively low investment and a relatively short shooting and operation cycle, but it can generate a lot of commercial value.
Animated films like Pixar are now basically more than 150 million US dollars, and once Despicable Me seemed to be completed with only 60 to 70 million US dollars.
Ronan can't remember the exact figure, but it should not exceed $80 million.
In addition, Ronan called Lindsay Bill over.
Lindsay, is the script of The Queen Bee and Her Follower finished? Ronan asked directly.
The first draft has been completed a long time ago. Lindsay-Bill replied, It is currently being revised, and it is estimated that it will be finalized by the end of this month.
Ronan said, I have a new job for you, a female theme.
Lindsay Beer was immediately interested in adaptation or original?
Ronan shook his head lightly, Neither. I'm currently doing some preparatory work. In the future, you will be the main member of the screenwriting team. I plan to let you participate in the preparatory stage.
No problem, Lindsay Beale said.
Ronan gave Lindsay Bill the materials that Connie had compiled during her time in London, and said, I plan to use some college students from prestigious universities as the protagonists. You should take a look at these materials first.
Lindsay Bill took it and looked at it carefully, and said after a while, I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen on a large scale in a conservative country like the UK.
Hearing this, Ronan asked curiously, You know this?
I heard about it when I was in school. Lindsay Bill said directly, I have a female classmate who has done this kind of thing. She is very beautiful... well, how should I say it? I am already considered relatively beautiful , she is much prettier than me. But her family conditions are worse than mine, so she embarked on this path, at first it was for tuition and living expenses, but then it changed.”
Ronan was well aware of the power of money, and even though Lindsay Bill didn't say it explicitly, she could still imagine what happened to her female classmate.
Indeed, many people may have various compelling reasons to engage in this industry at first, but after a long time, it is difficult to get rid of the criticism.
They are used to making money by lying down, and if they want to work hard, the chance of change is too low.
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