The Best Entertainment Era

The latest website: In today's Hollywood, there are very few films with a box office of over 100 million in the first weekend in North America. X-Men 3: The Last Stand has undoubtedly achieved great commercial success.

In the Fox Tower, Jim Prowse looked at the young man in front of him who had rushed back from London, England, and said: Although the X-Men trilogy is over, we will still deeply explore the market value of this series.

James Murdoch crossed his arms and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the Relativity Building not far away, with a look of interest: Tell me.

Jim Prose immediately said: Currently, we are preparing to operate two projects, which are personal films of two extremely popular characters in X-Men, namely Wolverine and Magneto.

I understand Wolverine. This is the most popular character. James Murdoch has doubts: But villains like Magneto also shoot independent films...

Jim Prose said: We intend to portray him as a character who is both good and evil, and he can take care of the overall situation at every critical moment.

James Murdoch said: I know very little about this, you are the expert and you are in charge.

Having said that, Jim Prose still reported one by one: In addition to the X-Men series, we also have a number of first-line film projects that are being filmed or are in preparation.

James Murdoch didn't speak, as if he didn't care too much.

Jim Prowse doesn't think so, saying: In the next three to four years, 20th Century Fox will launch several big-budget film projects one after another. Pharaohs and Gods directed by Ridley Scott and Roland - Emmerich's 10,000 BCE is filming, and Robin Hood is about to start filming. The average production budget of these three projects is $140 million.

James Murdoch said at this time: On the scale of Twentieth Century Fox, only large-scale production projects will have enough room for profit.

This is the basic rule for the survival of major Hollywood companies, otherwise major Hollywood companies will not continue to shoot commercial films with a total investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, let alone push the threshold of front-line production higher and higher.

Jim Prose continued: Not only these three, Terminator 4 with a production budget of up to 200 million US dollars has basically confirmed the main creative team. There is also a disaster-type theme about storms, which is also advancing steadily, and it is expected to invest in Terminator 4. Around $150 million.

James Murdoch nodded slowly,

Then he asked: With so many top-level production projects running at the same time, will the funds be tight?

It's a little nervous. Jim Pross said with a smile: But as long as the film is released, as long as the box office can meet our minimum expectations, 20th Century Fox's financial situation will immediately ease.

James Murdoch said: Follow your plan.

Jim Prose continued: We're still looking for other suitable big-budget projects...

James Murdoch thought of one thing: Is there anything the Fantastic Four can't do?

It's better not to restart it for the time being. Jim Pross is still very wise: The influence of the comics is still there, and the negative influence of the first one has not dissipated.

He sighed, both to shirk responsibility and to shift the target: Relativity Entertainment and Marvel Entertainment have gone too far with Fantastic Four!

James Murdoch: Are they still aggressive?

Jim Prowse said: The lawsuits about the Fantastic Four and X-Men have never stopped. We can't always be passive, Ronan Anderson...

Don't act rashly. James Murdoch interrupted him: As I said, I'm responsible for solving the problem of Ronan Anderson.

Jim Prose stopped talking. James Murdoch has always been a man of great skill. He has won many battles with unconventional means. Maybe he can really teach Ronan Anderson to be a man.

James Murdoch finally asked: How is the development of Fox Online? Can it form a competitive relationship with Netflix?

Jim Prose immediately had a bitter face, but he could only tell the truth: In the short term, it is difficult for Fox Online to pose a threat to Netflix. After all, Netflix has accumulated for many years, and we are just getting started.

These are objective facts that James Murdoch cannot deny

He has done some understanding. After Ronan Anderson acquired Netflix, he has actually been preparing for future development and accumulating strength in the past few years. At that time, Netflix had no competitors and lack of attention. As a result, several years of content, After the accumulation of capital, technology and users, Netflix has soared into the sky, not only opened up a number of new businesses, but also formed an absolute leading advantage.

Jim Prose said: One thing, we have to admit that Netflix's exclusive streaming media has a high quality rate. In this regard, Shahai Entertainment behind them has a huge advantage.

James Murdoch stopped looking at the Relativity Building and said: Don't worry, catch up step by step.

Entering June, Netflix streaming media once again launched new solo series. After more than a year of series, there is a saying from the outside world that has gradually become popular among the people--Netflix production must be a high-quality product!

Therefore, as soon as Lao Bai, who does not wait in the hall, was launched, he attracted countless drama fans.

Although only seven episodes of Breaking Bad were online in the first season, it received unanimous praise, and the score of Netflix streaming media was as high as 9.7 points!

The IMDB score is also as high as 9.5 points!

The super high word-of-mouth has brought continuous growth in traffic and subscribers. After Netflix's global registered users exceeded 100 million, paying users exceeded 75 million in one fell swoop.

Breaking Bad added 2.7 million new paying subscribers to the Netflix network in its first week of launch.

Although it is not as high as 95 million paid subscribers at the peak of American cable TV, this is the sum of all cable TV stations. Now Netflix has grown into a new media that no one can ignore!

In order to further promote the Netflix network, Relativity Entertainment is also negotiating cooperation with Comcast, the largest cable TV service provider in the United States, and AT\u0026T, the largest network telecommunications service provider.

Netflix is ​​completely different from Hollywood companies such as Relativity Entertainment, which are relatively closed. If they want to grow further, they need more partners, a larger platform, and more money to burn.

To some extent, Ronan is also looking for more partners and potential allies.

The purpose of the negotiations between Relativity Entertainment and AT\u0026T and Comcast is to achieve cross-shareholding between Netflix and these two companies in order to obtain more abundant network communication resources and the promotion of cable television channels.

Of course, even after the cross-shareholding, Relativity Entertainment will still hold an absolute controlling stake in Netflix.

In addition, Relativity Entertainment will also become a shareholder of AT\u0026T and Comcast.

In fact, this is also conducive to increasing the anti-risk ability of Relativity Entertainment.

Since Breaking Bad was well received and continued to attract new users, Netflix streaming media sent orders for the new season to Shahai Entertainment a week after the show was launched.

Netflix streaming media will have new dramas or sequels of popular dramas every month from this year, and each drama can arouse continuous hot reviews on the Internet. Solo dramas and Netflix’s binge-watching mode are changing audiences Chasing drama mode.

Also at the beginning of June, A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones officially entered the preparatory stage after more than half a year of early planning.

This will be the drama series with the highest investment by Sand Sea Entertainment since the establishment of Relativity Entertainment, with a production budget of up to 5 million US dollars for a single episode!

The cost of costume fantasy dramas is generally much higher than that of fashion dramas.

Even so, after many preparatory meetings, Ronan still made a decision that this drama will dilute the magical elements to a certain extent while ensuring the plot.

In other words, why did Peter Jackson cut off almost all the magical content of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? When the wizard Gandalf fights, he just clicks on the lighting technique, then rushes up to hit him with a stick, and chops with a sword? Apart from the fact that Maya is good at melee combat, it's not because of the lack of budget.

In the movie, what the wizard releases is not magic, but dollars!

With a production budget of less than 300 million US dollars, what magic is needed to shoot such a Lord of the Rings trilogy.

It would be nice if Peter Jackson could give Gandalf a lighting spell.

A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones seems to have a budget of 5 million US dollars for a single film. In fact, it is too tight to shoot in Hollywood. At that time, it must go to Eastern Europe to mix tax rebates and financial subsidies, and the local labor costs are low. , is really very advantageous.

For what it costs to employ one person in California, you may employ five in Central and Eastern Europe.

What about this person? It is also protected by trade unions and other organizations, and if something goes wrong, there will be a lot of trouble.

On the other hand, for those five people, minor injuries and bumps may not be a big deal at all, and maybe the local government will suppress them without the need for the crew to come forward.

There are really not too many people in Central and Eastern Europe who think about the overall situation of investment.

Ronan will control the overall situation for this series, but George Clint will be the producer. In a production plan he submitted, in order to save money, in addition to the previous items, he also prepared Get a dog like a husky to act as a direwolf.

Are Huskies up to the job? Ronan was a little worried, so many huskies appeared in the crew, will the crew collapse?

Each of the second generation of the wolf family raises a husky, and the husky always reaches a consensus with the enemy after going to the battlefield...

No wonder the wolf family was about to be wiped out.

In any case, A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones is about to hit the media platform, and the Ultimate Bento King will also embark on a super feat of spending ten years crossing the Great Wall of Desperation to give away his head.

Thinking back to the last season, the Night King’s appearance was full of atmosphere, neatly dressed, brightly armored, with all the troops, including all the elites of the staff, walking slowly from the fire in slow motion. , Definitely Brother Ma is resurrected.

However, such a flamboyant guy died just after he saw the dawn of victory in the ghost world.

The Night King and his comrades spent eight seasons with the fans of the show, and before the finale, the Night King bid farewell to everyone and left with the wind.