The Best Entertainment Era

I didn't expect to meet you here. David Ellison came from an extraordinary background, but he was quite polite when facing a figure comparable to his father: You are the ultimate goal of many of our classmates.

Harvey Weinstein asked curiously: David, Ronan, do you know each other?

Of course Ronan knew David Ellison, but that was because of his previous relationship, and now he saw him for the first time.

David Ellison said: I met Ronan a few times at the USC Film School event. By the way, I was at the USC Film School before.

He smiled and said to Ronan, We are alumni.

Hearing this, Ronan nodded to David Ellison: Our USC School of Film has added another heavyweight member in Hollywood.

David Ellison quickly said: I'm just a latecomer, I have to learn more from you and George Lucas. He said seriously: Ronan, you are my idol, so I He also dropped out of school to join Hollywood.

I had no choice back then. Ronan coped with it, and then said, I didn't expect that you would invest in Harvey's new company.

David Ellison smiled: At a Jewish party, I met Harvey and reached an investment intention.

Harvey Weinstein chimed in: David is going to make a big splash in the movie business.

David Ellison said: It depends on the support of the two.

Ronan said: David, you are too polite. In Hollywood, USC Film School is a family.

Alumni are a relationship that cannot be ignored, even in the fiercely competitive Hollywood. David Ellison is willing to communicate more with Ronan, an alumnus.

When Harvey Weinstein left due to the reception, David Ellison said to Ronan: Actually, besides Weinstein Pictures, I have also confirmed two important investments.

Ronan said: Funds are an important condition for gaining a foothold in this circle.

David Ellison was deeply touched: Since I dropped out of school and entered Hollywood, I have been ostracized. They are only interested in my money.

No way. Ronan said: Any circle is exclusive.

David Ellison didn't have to hide it in front of Ronan, who was richer than him, and said naturally: Fortunately, I can use money to make a way out.

Ronan asked: Can you tell me about the other two investments?

David Ellison replied: I invested in a movie about airplanes. I am very interested in air combat movies, but there are very few air combat movies in Hollywood.

He went on to say: In addition to Weinstein Films, I also invested in a film company.

Ronan became interested and asked curiously, Which company?

David Ellison said: Some small and medium-sized investment institutions and financiers on Wall Street, under the leadership of Ryan Kavanaugh, established a film production company. It is also an outsider in Hollywood. I also invested part of the funds. .”

Ronan said: I have heard about them. In fact, the people under me have had contact with them before.

This is the former Relativity Entertainment Film Company, but now it can only be renamed, because it involves his plan and the relationship between the former company name, when Ronan first heard it mentioned, he let his people contact Ryan- Kavanaugh.

While not speaking to Ryan Kavanaugh in person, a basic connection has also been established between the two parties.

According to Ronan's understanding, Ryan Kavanaugh is a mathematical genius who was born in a wealthy Jewish businessman family. He established his own hedge fund company at the age of 21 and fought against the tide of the Internet stock market in the past two thousand years. .

However, the development of the story is not the way to success for super geniuses.

Ryan Kavanaugh misjudged the situation, and before the 9/11 incident in 2001, his fund was over.

But a good family made Ryan Kavanaugh make a comeback soon.

Ryan Kavanaugh found that those cash-rich Wall Street finances looking for unconventional investment opportunities just had the willingness to intervene in Hollywood.

This made Ryan Kavanaugh, who is good at socializing, like a fish in water. He raised a large sum of money from many Wall Street institutions, established a company called Maple Leaf Pictures, and acquired Kevin Spacey's established film company with a lot of money. Company Trigg Avenue Productions.

David Ellison said: This company, now has funds, but no channels, no film projects.

Ronan tentatively asked: I heard that Ryan Kavanaugh raised billions of dollars in Wall Street?

With the cloak of alumni, and Ronan's attitude and stance have always been good, David Ellison didn't think too much about it, and it wasn't too much secret information, saying: Ryan Kavanaugh has a ten-year career. Planning, plans to raise a total of 12 billion US dollars from Wall Street.

He smiled: Of course, this is a long-term plan. He doesn't have so much money now, but he still has more than a billion dollars.

Ronan has roughly guessed, and together with David Ellison, it is estimated that Maple Leaf Pictures is likely to mobilize 2 billion US dollars.

It's no wonder that the former Relativity Entertainment started with money, and soon opened up in Hollywood.

Funds of this size can do a lot.

Hollywood also needs foreign capital to maintain high investment.

However, the former Relativity Entertainment ended in bankruptcy, and after all, it did not shake the traditional forces of Hollywood.

Ronan said: Don't worry, David, if you have money, you can open up the situation.

David Ellison said: It can only be done step by step. Before I entered Hollywood, I thought I could invest in the six major companies, but after I came in, I realized that it was too difficult.

Ronan smiled: The six major companies have not always been so strong, they can always find opportunities.

David Ellison said: Hopefully there will be a chance.

He's smart enough not to bring up any topic of investing in relativity entertainment.

He has studied it before, and Relativity Entertainment does not easily accept foreign investment.

David Ellison felt that instead of making such a request that Ronan would not accept, it would be better to use his alumni relationship with Ronan to look for and wait for other opportunities.

The two chatted for a while about the topic of film, and the identity of the USC Film Academy alumni seemed to be able to bring them closer.

Bob Weinstein came to greet Ronan at this time, and Ronan took Connie to another place.

David Ellison watched Ronan leave, with a smile that was somewhat similar to his madman father on his young face.

alumni? This relationship may become a stepping stone for him to break into Hollywood as soon as possible!

Originally, David Ellison didn't want to come to attend the premiere, but after hearing that the boss of Relativity Entertainment might attend, he immediately changed his mind.

The education he received since he was a child told him that in order to succeed, he must use all available conditions around him.

When it was almost time, Ronan went to the movie hall, saw no one around, and said to Connie who was following him: Continue to collect information on Maple Leaf Pictures and Ryan Kavanaugh.

Connie whispered back, Yes.

Ronan continued: Check out Ryan Kavanaugh's itinerary, I'm going to meet him once in public.

Okay. Connie said: After the establishment of Maple Leaf Films, Ryan Kavanaugh has been very high-profile in Los Angeles and has been looking for opportunities for investment and cooperation.

Ronan nodded lightly: I see. He reminded again: Also pay special attention to David Ellison's dynamics.

The appearance of David Ellison is an unexpected factor, but it is not a bad thing.

Connie said in a low voice: David Ellison has also been very high-profile recently.

Ronan added: The relevant materials and information of these two should also be fed back to Robert Iger in a timely manner.

Okay. Connie replied.

The situation in Hollywood has never been static. The direction of the general trend does not make mistakes, and some new changes are inevitable.

How to take advantage of changes in the situation is also an important condition for achieving the goal.

After entering the theater, Ronan didn't have the heart to watch the premiere of Sin City at all, and was almost thinking about things related to David Ellison and Maple Leaf Pictures.

These Hollywood outsiders have money in their pockets.

A dozen or two billion dollars, that is, financing through Wall Street, no Hollywood film company can provide such a huge amount of liquidity in a short period of time.

The relativity film industry used to want to spend money on a future.

The result is basically a failure.

The money stayed in Hollywood, and Relativity ended up in bankruptcy.

However, the theory of relativity film industry persisted for more than ten years before going bankrupt.

Sin City has achieved good results, especially the word-of-mouth, the media and film critics applauded, and the audience's word-of-mouth is also good.

Facts have proved that Frank Miller's comic-style images can be accepted by the film market and bring certain commercial value.

The film's North American opening weekend grossed $28.1 million at the box office. Although it's not that impressive, it's still pretty good.

After all, the film's mid-production cost was only $40 million.

Sin City debuted at the top of the North American box office charts, and the Weinstein brothers, who have officially left Disney, breathed a sigh of relief.

Everything seems to be off to a good start.

However, the trend of Sin City is not very stable, and it lost the box office champion in the second week.

Produced by Shahai Entertainment and released by Embassy Pictures, the spoof comedy film Reaper is Gone has officially landed in North American theaters. A successful imitation of the series, Death Comes performed quite well after its release.

When the god of death couldn't kill the person he wanted to kill, the audience left not only laughter, but also banknotes.

In the three days of the opening weekend, this large-scale comedy with the theme of consuming Death Comes won 32.18 million US dollars.

Like the Scream and Scream series, Death Comes and Death Gone will continue to be filmed and produced as a series.