Chapter 364: Big Forest

In the early morning, Shakira was sitting on the rattan chair on the balcony, looking at the golden sea, as if she saw a pirate captain walking on catwalks, she quickly picked up the pen on the table, and wrote the pen that just popped out. A few lines of lyrics were written in a notebook.

Ronan put on his pajamas and came to the balcony with breakfast.

"Any inspiration?" He glanced at his notebook.

Shakira smiled and said, "I think of a few words, and I feel pretty good."

"Continue?" Seeing Shakira shaking his head, Ronan pointed to the dinner plate and said, "Let's have breakfast first."

Shakira glanced at the plate, looked down suddenly, and said, "I want to have something special as an appetizer, maybe this will inspire me."

Ronan put down the plate and sat on the rattan chair: "Really? How can I cooperate?"

Shakira raised her eyebrows: "Just sit down."

Ronan was very cooperative, sitting on the wicker chair without moving, only saw Shakira slipped from the chair to the ground, and then leaned over.

The sun leaped out of the sea, and the water surface was dyed red by thousands of rays of light. Ronan let out a long breath and said, "Shakira, I just discovered one thing now."

Shakira looked up, and because it was inconvenient to speak, she looked at Ronan curiously.

"You don't just have an electric motor on your waist." Ronan said honestly, "You also have an electric motor on your neck."

Shakira pursed her lips tightly, with a smile all over her face.

After a while, she returned to her seat, ate her breakfast, took out a tissue and wiped her mouth, and said, "I'm inspired."

Ronan was curious: "It works?"

If it works, those singer-songwriters...no, beautiful female singer-songwriters.

He's not interested in anything else.

Shakira smiled and said, "Just now I had a burst of inspiration and thought up a song." She looked at Ronan: "Want me to sing it to you?"

Ronan picked up the water glass and took a sip: "Sing."

Shakira cleared her throat, and sang with unique Xia style emphatically: "On the right side of the left leg and the left side of the right leg, there is a big forest. The little friends there are lively and smart, it is naughty and clever, and it is looking for it hungrily. A new forest that cares and tolerates each other. Oh... lovely big forest..."

Ronan could only give applause for such a beautiful singing voice: Shakira really deserves to be a creative Latin queen!

"Are you okay?" Shakira asked.

Ronan nodded heavily: "Very good! Shakira, choosing you to sing the ending song is the wisest decision I have made on this project."

Shakira added: "We still have a few days here, and I will make you feel more and more that choosing me is the most correct."

Ronan tilted his head: "I'll wait and see."

Leaving Baja California and returning to Los Angeles, Ronan was sure of one thing, Shakira's technique was the best of all he'd experienced since coming to Los Angeles.

It's so hot.

Everyone else has noticeable gaps.

Moreover, Shakira was very open-minded, and directly told Ronan that as long as she was in Los Angeles, Ronan could go to her at any time, even if she got married in the future.

With Ronan returning to Los Angeles, this special relationship was temporarily suspended.

The time is approaching the end of April, and various promotions about "Underworld" are in full swing. Compared with some methods used in previous movies, the promotion plan of this movie is quite satisfactory, basically following the usual pattern of mid-level Hollywood movies .

Like zombies, werewolves and vampires are not popular culture in North America, but they also have a considerable audience.

And at the beginning of the publicity, the gimmick of solving the mystery of the origin of werewolves and vampires was shouted out early.

Generally speaking, the investment in the film is limited, and the total investment in production plus publicity is only 30 million US dollars.

This kind of Gothic film, which is biased towards the minority, must control the budget as much as possible on the basis of ensuring the completion of production and publicity goals in order to achieve profitability.

According to the most optimistic estimate of the Marketing Department of the Embassy Pictures, the box office of "Underworld" is also at the level of "Resident Evil".

Given that werewolves and vampires have far less of an impact outside of the Western world, it's even possible that its global box office will be lower than that of Resident Evil.

However, the success of "Resident Evil" made the theaters willing to continue to invest resources in the new films of the Embassy Pictures, and provided 2,950 opening theaters for "Underworld".

After all, theaters are enterprises, and their primary pursuit is profit.

Although theaters have long passed the era of relying on showing movies for profit, and even relying solely on box office revenue will suffer serious losses, the number of customers brought by movies directly determines the sales of popcorn and other products.

In Ronan's previous life, there was a large-scale popular multiplex theater, which could lose tens of millions of dollars in screenings, and make nearly 100 million in profits relying solely on popcorn.

This is not an exception, but more and more common.

At the beginning of the new century, April did not form the concept of a spring file. It is still the traditional off-season for Hollywood movies. Movies with real superpowers are rarely released in April, which is also conducive to "Underworld" getting more. Cinema resources.

Before the release of "Underworld", another film "Resident Evil" released by Embassy Pictures officially withdrew from the theater market after being shown in North America for ten weeks.

The market performance of this film was amazing at the beginning of its screening, but it did not jump out of the general trend of game-adapted movies and zombie movies. .

Although the performance of the later screenings was somewhat dismal, it did not prevent "Resident Evil" from being a great success. In just ten weeks of screenings, the film earned a cumulative box office of 78.65 million US dollars in North America.

This is Hollywood's highest box office record for a game-adapted film after "Tomb Raider", and it is also the highest box office record achieved by a zombie film in recent years.

Relying solely on the North American box office, Ronan can almost recover all the investments in the "Resident Evil" project.

Overseas, the total box office revenue of "Resident Evil" has exceeded 70 million U.S. dollars. When the film hits the island market, it will be very easy for the global box office to exceed 150 million U.S. dollars.

In addition to other income, the budget for the filming of "Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse" already has sufficient sources.

This is also the film production and distribution model that Ronan has been perfecting. The first film is shot with external financing. Once the first film is successful, the film can be developed in series, and the profit of the first film can be used to support the budget of the sequel, so that the sequel can get rid of outsiders. Funds share revenue to ensure that Relativity Entertainment can maximize profits.

Ronan can't guarantee that every movie will be a success, but this production and distribution model can transfer the risk of the first movie with the highest probability of failure to foreign investors, and the profits of the more profitable sequel movies should be returned to the company as much as possible. Company owned.

There is also good news from Scott Swift. The Pacific Film Foundation's trip to Mumbai, India was very successful, and it has reached financing agreements with four investment institutions including the Mountain Foundation.

In the next five years, the four investment institutions will provide a total investment of 280 million US dollars to the Pacific Film Foundation, and the specific conditions are similar to the financing that the Pacific Film Foundation has reached with the island countries and South Korea.

This also allows Shahai Entertainment to have a more abundant production budget in the future. While ensuring the profitability of the sequel, it will launch more new film projects.

Even the Pacific Film Foundation has spare capacity to invest in other companies' film projects.

After all, many popular movies in Ronan's memory had already been firmly held by the six major companies long before he came to Los Angeles.

It is impossible to obtain the copyright from the six major companies, but there is still some hope for participating in the investment and sharing part of the profits.

After Ronan came back from Baja California, when he went to Warner Studios to check the filming of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Taken", he also spared time to go to the post-production department of the studio's office building to find out who was busy with "White Night". " post-production Christopher Nolan chatted.

"Director Nolan." Ronan said directly: "After hearing what you said, I always feel that bigger projects can match your talent."

Christopher Nolan is not even a second-rate director nowadays. Hearing the words of Ronan, a well-known producer, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Although I am very confident, I also know that I am just a new director in Hollywood. I want to win Good projects are not easy."

Ronan nodded slightly, without being too proactive, he just said casually: "If you have a suitable project and want to find a partner, you can come to me. If we can reach a cooperation intention, investment is not my problem."

He deliberately said: "My film foundation has just successfully raised funds, and there is no shortage of funds."

Christopher Nolan said immediately: "If I have a project, I will definitely contact you."

Ronan added: "With the concept and style you have stated, only big-budget commercial films are suitable for you.

Although Christopher Nolan is still working hard in the independent film industry, he is a commercial director at heart. He quite agrees with Ronan's words. Only with a sufficient budget and funds can he build a stage to display his talents.

But such an opportunity is too rare.

Thinking of this, his eyes unconsciously fell on Ronan.

A producer who agrees with his philosophy may be a good partner.

Ronan did not continue this topic, but opened his office bag, took out an invitation letter, handed it to Christopher Nolan, and said, "My company has a movie premiere in a few days, if Director Nolan If you have time, you can go and see."

Christopher Nolan accepted the invitation, saw the name and time of the film above, thought about his work arrangements, and said, "Mr. Anderson, it is a great honor to participate in this premiere."

Although he didn't know the actual content of the film, but the invitation was printed with a scaled-down poster of the film. Seeing the protagonist's black costume and the dark night background, he had an inexplicable liking for it.

Is this a dark wind movie?

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