Chapter 153 Death Gone

The two films shot with financing from Abu Dhabi were both offline from the North American market, but their fates were completely different.

"Kingsman", which was released first, did not perform well at the opening, but with a clear target audience, it still won a box office of 10.6 million US dollars in North America.

Moreover, the fierce editing and handheld photography style have received a good response in the video tape market. From the beginning of January to the present, the sales of video tapes and discs, including rental tapes, have also generated nearly 3 million US dollars in revenue.

"Death Comes" released later has become a phenomenal horror film, and its value can stretch for many years.

"The subsequent distribution of all peripheral copyrights of these two films will be handed over to the embassy film industry."

In the office, Ronan said to George Clint: "Your task now is to cooperate with Paul Greengrass to complete the preliminary planning of "Bourne's Identity"."

George Clint asked, "Funding?"

Ronan said: "First borrow part of the loan from Relativity Entertainment as the start-up cost, and the rest will be settled according to our plan." Speaking of this, he remembered another thing: "Find two films from the film library that have not sold overseas copyrights. The videotape film was released and authorized to be distributed by the embassy film industry."

George Clint asked again: "Is the embassy picture company going to distribute overseas? Who will do the overseas distribution of "Kingsman" and "Death Comes"?"

He reminded Ronan: "It's been a long time since it was released in North America. Piracy has already appeared in the underground market, and the overseas situation will not be optimistic. Overseas release should be done as soon as possible."

Even North America, a place with strong copyright protection, cannot eliminate piracy, and it is difficult to completely solve such things as cinema piracy alone.

Luo Nan knew this, and said: "The overseas distribution department of the Embassy Pictures has just been established, and the channels are still being sorted out. It is impossible to release films in a short period of time." It is obviously unrealistic for the Embassy Pictures to immediately invest in overseas film distribution: "The overseas copyrights of these two films continue to be authorized for sale."

Whether it is publicity effects or piracy issues, the overseas copyrights of the two films cannot be kept in our hands for too long.

All these will be handed over to the Embassy Pictures. As the agent distributor, the Embassy Pictures can draw a profit from it aboveboard. Ronan plans to divide the overseas release of "Kingsman" and "Reaper" into two parts. The copyright is sold separately to make the accounts clearer, and "Death is Coming" and the two videotape films of Shahai Entertainment form a film package and are packaged and sold.

"Kingsman" was shot with funds from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; "Reaper" was shot with private financing from Abu Dhabi.

Ronan has certain concerns about Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and plans to stop cooperating with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority after "Kingsman".

Without the support of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, it would be much more difficult to obtain private financing from Abu Dhabi, and he does not want to go to Abu Dhabi anymore.

Of course, if the rich people in Abu Dhabi are willing to come to Los Angeles to continue participating in the film investment of Shahai Entertainment, Ronan will welcome them with both hands.

Compared with the investment of industry insiders like Tom Cruise, Ronan still welcomes funds from overseas.

After George Clint left, Ronan made a special phone call to Tony Koch in Germany and asked someone to pass the preliminary information of "Bourne's Identity" to Koch Films, so that Koch Films can go financing operation.

After a year of development, Koch Films is also on the right track. It has already absorbed nearly 10 million US dollars in financing. As long as it has a Hollywood movie project in hand, it will be even more attractive.

In addition, when the tax rebates for the two projects "Kingsman" and "Reaper" were carried out in Germany last year, Shahai Entertainment owed Koch Films the "investment share" of 10 million US dollars and did not give it to Ronan. A notice was given to Mary to pay the tens of millions of dollars within a week.

Last year's investment went around and returned to the hands of German investors. Although the money did not increase, more than 30% of taxes were saved in the middle, which is very cost-effective for anyone.

In this era, most people invest legally, and it is impossible to make such a high profit in a year.

As long as these people have a taste of the sweetness, it will be much easier for Tony Koch to get a second investment from them.

And no worries.

Strictly speaking, this is not tax avoidance, but a policy specially introduced by the German "government" to stimulate investment and financial circulation.

The relevant information of "Bourne's Identity" was faxed to Koch Films, and Tony Koch called again and discussed with Ronan for a long time.

If Tony Koch's financing goes well, not only "Bourne's Identity", but also the sequels of "Human Purge" and "Death Comes" can continue to operate in the same way.

However, films with relatively small investments are less likely to pass the review.

In addition to the existing few films, Ronan is also considering new projects, limited by funding and company size, the first choice is still a series of films that can continue to generate revenue.

During the period, I went to the Copyright Bureau again to make a special inquiry, and rejected many projects. Hollywood has too many movie scripts or adaptation rights, which were in the hands of the six major companies for many years before shooting.

For example, "The Princess Diaries", Ronan always thought it was an original movie, but after checking, he found out that it was adapted from a novel, and the copyright of the novel had long been in the hands of Disney.

There are many things like a script being registered with the Copyright Office for ten years before entering the film adaptation process.

Too many screenwriters directly sold out the copyright of scripts to rich and powerful film companies because of life problems before they became front-line screenwriters.

Hollywood is a typical pyramid structure, and very few can go to the top.

If he hadn't met James Huang, Ronan would not have believed that a senior screenwriter who had worked in the industry for more than ten years would have to forcibly change his career due to income problems.

According to the actual situation, Ronan made timely adjustments and formulated a special coping strategy.

On the one hand, hire a professional screenwriting team to write some of his ideas into a script like the most common assembly line production in the industry. The script does not need to be too detailed, and it is enough to pass the registration and review of the Copyright Office.

Of course, it is impossible to completely block the emergence of certain movies. After all, there are too many movies with similar themes and genres in Hollywood. The most typical "White House Has Fallen" and "Shocking Crisis" can be said to be extremely similar.

Even, some movies can slightly change the form of expression, appearing with very similar themes.

This aspect cannot be avoided, even the six major companies cannot monopolize the film market, let alone the current Relativity Entertainment.

However, this ensures that Relativity Entertainment will have more themes to choose from in the future.

Ronan, on the other hand, insisted on reading every issue of the New York Times bestseller list, looking for books with adaptation value.

Some memories are kept in the deepest part of the mind. Sometimes people try to think about something but they can't remember it. When they are touched a little, relevant memories can appear in their minds.

In his previous life, Ronan had watched too many movies and TV dramas due to his work in related industries. Domestic movies, Hollywood movies, European movies, action movies, art movies, horror movies, and even small romantic movies, there are countless.

And what little Anderson left him was just an ordinary person's brain, at best it was smarter, and it didn't have the retrieval function at all.

Foresight is Ronan's greatest advantage. Being able to find valuable things from many matters can be said to be one of the greatest manifestations of this advantage.

There is another aspect, that is to maximize the use of existing series of movies.

Both "Human Purge" and "Reaper" will develop sequels. As long as "Bourne's Identity" can be successful, it must be a trilogy series.

On this basis, is there still the possibility of mining value?

After thinking about it, Ronan suddenly thought of a comment about "Death is Coming" that he had read on the Internet in his previous life. Could it be possible to make a funny film like "Scary Movie"? I remember that netizen also named "Reaper Gone", some people escaped the black hands of Reaper, and then Reaper couldn't kill them no matter how they hunted them down, and finally made Reaper go away...

The investment is not large, and there are successful films as the basis, and the market audience for bad comedies is wider than horror films, which seems to be feasible.

Worried about forgetting it in the future, Ronan quickly took notes, wrote down the general idea, and then sent it to George Clint.

The scale of the company is expanding, and the number of personnel and projects is increasing. It is impossible for Ronan to be specific about the details of participating in each project. It is more about making decisions and controlling the direction of development.

This project allows Shahai Entertainment to hold an internal meeting to verify, and then do a "targeted" preliminary market research. If it is valuable, it will go to operation and shooting.

Control the investment well, it doesn't matter if you can't enter the theater, and you can directly distribute video tapes and discs.

The home entertainment market is very large, and the annual output value directly created in North America far exceeds the box office of theaters.

Ronan's actions were very fast. In just one week, a five-person screenwriting team was finalized. A good agreement, with the provisions of the copyright law, the copyright of the works during the contract period is clear and clear.

They were in charge of turning several ideas in Ronan's memory into a script, and then handed it over to Dinah Hampton, a lawyer of Sheng Zhi Law Firm, who completed the copyright registration.

Everything must be in compliance with laws and regulations to avoid copyright disputes in the future as much as possible.

Ronan will never underestimate people's greed. Like Hollywood's best-selling movies, many people who have nothing to do with each other jump out and say copyright infringement, wanting to get a piece of the pie, not to mention some people who have personally written scripts.

In addition, Ronan also remembered several popular film adaptations in his previous life, but soon found that the copyright was already in the hands of the six major companies. He tried to get in touch, but there was no possibility of winning it, so he gave up.

For example, the copyright of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" has long been acquired by Paramount Pictures, and later transferred to Disney. Now Disney is planning to adapt the film in the next few years, and has not considered the transfer of copyright at all.

It is too difficult for the six major companies to eat the meat in their mouths and want them to spit it out.

Ronan quickly gave up those unrealistic ideas and cared more about the projects he could get his hands on. best entertainment era