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As of this week, the three Saw movies released have grossed more than $500 million worldwide, and their related DVD products have sold more than 26 million sets.

This series of movies, in addition to Death Comes and Human Purge Project, continues to help Relativity Entertainment take the lead in the field of horror movies. From the promotion of theaters in the early stage to the DVD consumer products in the later stage, they are all well-deserved No.1 .

Not counting rentals, the 26 million DVDs sold alone would bring in more than $200 million in net profit for Relativity Entertainment.

With the continuous release of sequels, this number will continue to increase.

The sequel can effectively pull the offline data of the previous movie, and correspondingly, the production cost of the sequel is also rising.

Today, the production cost of the Chain Saw series has risen from $1.5 million for the first part to $8 million for the fourth part.

But this series of revenue is also worthy of its rising costs.

Some films are well-known and have little income.

Like The Man From Earth.

After Relativity Entertainment bought out the film at a low price, it was pushed to the theater market. After only a short one-week tour, it was forced to withdraw due to lack of audience. The North American box office accumulated 1614 US dollars.

Fortunately, there are offline channels.

Touted by a group of fans with unique tastes, The Man From Earth has become a masterpiece among certain niche groups, and offline DVD sales and rentals have improved.

Of course, it is not difficult for anyone with a little brain to judge that this kind of film cannot have the false data that the touters on the other side of the Pacific used to blow up.

Embassy Pictures has been operating offline for nearly half a year, and the DVD of The Man From Earth has sold a total of more than 30,000 sets, with a rental income of nearly US$400,000.

Compared with the cost, the investment income ratio is also amazing, but it is basically impossible to get rich with this kind of film.

The Chain Saw series is much more reliable, but behind its explosive income is the investment in publicity and distribution that far exceeds the production cost of each film.

By the fourth film, the total investment of Embassy Pictures in global publicity and distribution was as high as 12 million US dollars.

Behind every small-budget and big-selling movie, there is a huge amount of publicity, marketing and distribution promotion expenses that people can't ignore.

Fortunately, the investment in Chain Saw is worth the money.

Chain Saw 4 opened in North America for three days during the weekend, and it earned $35.75 million from 3,456 theaters. Topped the North American box office charts.

Embassy Pictures' previous release, The Prestige, didn't top the box office charts, but Saw 4 didn't disappoint.

On the same weekend, Saw 4 also opened in Latin America, Europe, Australia and other countries and regions where Halloween is popular. Due to the continuous influence brought by the first three films, the overseas response of the fourth part is also quite good.

In its overseas opening weekend, the horror film grossed $42.1 million in more than 30 markets.

In fact, Relativity Entertainment has recouped all of its investment in Saw 4 in its first weekend, and even has a surplus.

A movie that can make a profit quickly, for a movie company,

Always a good movie.

Even if word of mouth is declining.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes of this Chain Saw 4 is only 20%, and even the IMDB score has dropped to a failing 5.9 points for the first time.

For a stereotyped plasma massacre horror film, this is an unavoidable result.

From the masterpiece of the first film to the increasingly bad reputation later on, let alone Wen Ziren left the position of director of this series, even if Wen Ziren continues to serve as the director, this situation cannot be changed.

From the perspective of the film company, it does not want to change the inherent success model of the series. Just like the classic horror characters such as Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers, Hollywood has been filming them for decades, and it is actually impossible to turn them over and over again. Following the pattern of initial success.

Facts have also proved that this is the safest way to make money.

This kind of modular operation can be applied to the Chain Saw series.

In the words of fans of this series: If you've seen the first three, no matter what I say, you will definitely watch the fourth!

Chainsaw 4 mainly explained the past and present of the chainsaw, and the ex-wife also made it up. It can only be said that the plot is reasonable, but it is definitely not thought-provoking. There are also moral factors, but they are not very strong.

The film has two main features.

First, jigsaws are also a disease in some respects.

The power of this virus is that it infects people invisible. As long as it is infected by the ideology of the chainsaw, its life will undergo earth-shaking changes.

Then there's plasma, more plasma.

The props plasma used in the fourth filming is nearly twice that of the third film, and the subsequent sequels will also go the bloody road to the end, so if you do well, you will not be disappointed.

After filming the fourth film, even Wen Ziren can only find a way in terms of jigsaw disciples and cruel and bloody killing games, and the series can only be filmed according to the inherent mode.

As for whether there will be a sequel in the future, how could Relativity Entertainment let it go?

And the film itself is well prepared to continue filming sequels.

With an open ending, and the old jigsaw is dead, countless jigsaw viruses are still multiplying, infecting people's hearts. This kind of story that seems to be doing justice for the sky, but is actually extremely abnormal, will always be liked by a large number of audiences.

Maybe all chainsaw fans will always miss the first one, and will never forget the feeling of cold hands and feet after watching it, and the feeling of waking up from a nightmare in the morning.

Wen Ziren will devote less and less energy to the Chain Saw series in the future, and the center of work will turn to the Horror Movie Universe Project in an all-round way. Latent, The Conjuring and Annabelle have all been included Schedule, the former will start filming in November and will be officially released next year.

Latent is a beginning, and the following The Conjuring and Annabelle will further expand the entire world view, especially the world in the supernatural investigation report of the Warrens.

Looking at the supernatural investigation report of the Warrens, this world is really terrifying.

Don't they know that since the end of the 1940s, demons and ghosts all over the world will be suppressed with an iron fist?

With the success of Chain Saw 4 at the box office in the first week, the arrival of the fifth part is inevitable. Sandsea Entertainment quickly made a plan. The production budget of the fifth part is still maintained at 8 million US dollars, and the director is still directed by Darren Bow. Sman is in charge.

Compared with rashly using newcomers, the continuation of the inherent success model is the primary factor to ensure the success of the next sequel.

After Halloween, Ronan personally went to the airport to see off the crew of Fast and Furious 4 led by Jessica Felton. For the next few days, he stayed in the film studio of Sandsea Entertainment, watching the production department The completed version of each item submitted.

The last two months of 2006 have come, and 2007 is approaching. Many new films of Shahai Entertainment have completed all follow-up productions, making preparations for the publicity and release of Embassy Pictures next year.

David Fincher spent two years on Girl from preparation to filming to post-production, and finally completed all post-production, featuring Ronan, George Clint and Garcia Rodriguez The jury, composed of more than 10000 people, was very satisfied with the cut version submitted by David Fincher.

This is a drama full of David Fincher's noir style and a strange alternative absurd style.

In order to match the content, style and theme of the film, after discussions between Ronan and David Fincher, the film was officially renamed Sunshine Girl and will be officially released in North America in 2007 next year.

In addition, Ronan also made a suggestion to David Fincher, asking him to further refine the film, and strive to make the narrative rhythm more compact.

This film will also go to European film festivals and next year's Hollywood awards season to rush.

After finishing the project of Sunshine Girl, David Fincher has agreed to take over the post of producer and director of the series House of Cards, and Kevin Spacey has already signed a leading actor contract. Just wait until the director is in place to start shooting.

Ronan hopes to complete the filming of House of Cards before the rise of Mitu, so as to push it to the Netflix streaming network broadcasting platform.

Kevin Spacey caused so much trouble that Netflix had to fire him from the show.

But now it's only 2006, Sandsea Entertainment has plenty of time to complete this series.

From Kevin Spacey, Ronan thought of John Lasseter. In fact, inside the Pixar studio, there are many rumors about John Lasseter. It is not even a secret, it can be said to be half Public rumors.

Ronan also found time to chat with John Lasseter. John Lasseter is not an idiot, and he also said that he would pay attention to the way and method of work.

This can effectively avoid some troubles in the future.

Later, Ronan watched the Transformers that Michael Bay had finished editing. There were still some special effects shots in this super commercial production, but the prototype of the whole film was already in place. It was completely a qualified Michael Bay film. Bay-style popcorn movies.

Transformers will be released in summer next year.

Another super-big production released in the summer is Hulk. Joss Whedon is still nervously doing the final fine-cutting and adding special effects. In order to avoid Sony Columbia Pictures' Spider-Man 3 in early May, The release date of The Hulk can only be pushed back.

Thor, which will also be released next year, is about to start filming, and strives to transfer to post-production early next year.

There is also a most important work, Ronan confirmed the final edited version of Twilight, this film only took half a year to complete the shooting and post-production.

Embassy Pictures specially selected the Valentine's Day schedule for Twilight next year.

This is undoubtedly the most suitable schedule for this bloody romance film.

Entering November, the holiday season in North America kicked off, and many major productions were released one after another. DreamWorks also sent Ronan an invitation for the premiere.

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