Chapter 864: The Father of Jigsaw

Maple Leaf Pictures has plenty of funds, probably due to the case of Ronan and Relativity Entertainment. Ryan Cavano plans to follow the route of Relativity Entertainment’s early independent production, instead of spending money investing in film projects everywhere.

These are the intangible effects of relativity entertainment.

After all, the scale and development momentum of Theory of Relativity Entertainment lies here, and latecomers can see it when they look up. It is undoubtedly a very successful imitation object.

To a certain extent, Ryan Kavano can be regarded as cautious. Kevin Spacey, as the co-chairman of Maple Leaf Pictures, probably reminded him that as a new outsider who joined Hollywood's fame and fortune game, he should sway If money is invested in projects of other big companies, it is very likely that it will be cheated and even the investment will not be recovered.

There are too many famous movies that have legally lost money on Hollywood's books.

An independent film, with Stallone as a partner, looks like the best option.

Maple Leaf Pictures is willing to buy horse bones with a lot of money, and Relativity Entertainment has no intention of clinging to the copyright of the sequel. The progress of the negotiation between the two parties is very fast.

After Robert Lee personally joined, Maple Leaf Pictures and Relativity Entertainment quickly reached an agreement.

"It's really rich."

In the office, Robert Lee was quite emotional: "I had two negotiations with Maple Leaf Pictures, and they only left me with one impression."

Ronan smiled and asked, "What impression?"

Robert Lee gave a thumbs up, and seemed to be sincerely praising Maple Leaf Pictures: "Bold! The terms we proposed, they just bargained a little, and they accepted it easily."

He shook his head: "This is the simplest and easiest copyright negotiation I have ever experienced."

Ronan was not surprised: "They have money, but no projects."

"It's not just about the money." Robert Lee said, "The money still belongs to the investors. Maple Leaf Pictures is róng zī from Wall Street, and Wall Street is róng zī from small and medium-sized investors with a large base. All the money is spent by customers. I don't feel bad."

Ronan said: "For us, the studio is a business, but for them, it may be a financial game."

Robert Lee nodded: "If I had known this, I would have temporarily doubled the conditions."

“It’s great to be able to achieve the current conditions.

"Ronan carefully weighed Ryan Cavanaugh's psychological bottom line, and reminded: "Maple Leaf Films had previously discussed with Sony Columbia Pictures about the sequel copyright of "Rocky", but because Sony Columbia Pictures offered too high a price, they gave up. . "

"They also have to measure the return on investment," says Robert Lee.

Ronan agrees: "The fame of the 'First Blood' trilogy attracted them, as well as Stallone..."

Robert Lee asked: "You don't think much about the sequel?"

If it is optimistic, Shahai Entertainment has already put the sequel on the production schedule, how could it be possible to authorize Maple Leaf Pictures.

"This kind of pure tough guy action movie is now outdated." Ronan said simply: "It may be profitable, but it won't be very high."

Robert Lee said: "According to the contract, regardless of the success or failure of the film, our income is guaranteed."

According to the agreement reached between Relativity Entertainment and Maple Leaf Pictures, the former authorized the filming rights of a sequel of "First Blood" to the latter. dividends.

In addition, "First Blood 4" will be distributed by Embassy Pictures, and the distribution commission has nothing to do with the licensing fees, and the settlement will be made between Embassy Pictures and Maple Leaf Pictures.

According to the news that Ronan learned, Stallone was indeed prepared, and the relevant preparations were done very quickly. David Ellison had called Ronan before and mentioned some of the content of the fourth part.

Stallone intends to place the fourth part of the story in Burma.

Ronan couldn't help but think of the old Rambo who could only use a machine gun to dash the enemy. The limbs of the person hit by the heavy machine gun were broken, and the visual impact was really strong.

But it also makes people really feel that Stallone is indeed old.

In contrast, the power of the guns in the lens is closer to the real effect than traditional Hollywood movies.

A bullet from a heavy machine gun can easily tear a human body apart.

A bullet from an assault rifle would also leave a big hole in a person's body.

Flesh and blood are vulnerable to a metal storm.

The power of guns and even artillery in the movie has been artistically reprocessed after all.

For example, artillery, there are too many shots like this in the movie. The shells with a caliber of 105 or more fall more than ten meters or even a few meters away from the protagonist. The protagonist successfully avoided the danger by lying down in time.

I am afraid that anyone who has a little knowledge of modern weapons will know how it actually works.

But if you don't shoot like this, how can you highlight the heroic heroism of the protagonist? A cannonball comes over, even if it is far away, the protagonist has to hang up, and the movie cannot be filmed.

The most typical, the ending scene of "First Blood 3", does not weaken the power of guns to open up for the protagonist, how Rambo can survive in that kind of battlefield environment.

The power of modern firearms, not to mention guns, firecrackers are amazingly lethal.

Ronan still remembers a junior high school classmate who learned to smoke at a young age. When the Chinese New Year was approaching, he brought some cigarettes and firecrackers to school to pretend to be a bully. into the cesspit, the firecracker exploded directly in his hand, and half of the index finger holding the firecracker disappeared...

This classmate has so much experience that he can make a movie called "A Million Ways to Die in School".

I had an appointment with people from other schools, and was slapped on the head with a brick; I moved from a bungalow to a teaching building in the third year of junior high school, and it became a habit to jump from the back window of the bungalow. On the first day of summer vacation, I jumped from the back window I jumped out, but luckily it was only on the third floor; I finally recovered from my injuries, I was first beaten by my parents and then scolded by the teacher, depressed, I invited two classmates to go to Shaolin Temple to become a monk, and I almost starved to death on the way...

When he was about to graduate, he provoked a gray-gray deaf man at the tofu stall, and was hit on the head with a horse. The deaf man had nothing to do, but he missed the high school entrance examination while lying on the bed.

At that time, many people speculated that it might be because one of the biggest disputes in history is whether tofu nao is salty or sweet...

After Maple Leaf Pictures and Relativity Entertainment signed the licensing agreement, they soon held a press conference with Stallone to announce that "First Blood 4" was officially established.

Not counting related licensing fees, Maple Leaf Pictures has prepared a production budget of US$80 million for "First Blood 4".

According to Hollywood's rules, if the copyright fee is included, this is a first-line project with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

In addition, Maple Leaf Pictures has other actions. For example, it is negotiating with Lionsgate Pictures and seems to have the intention to acquire some shares of Lionsgate Pictures.

It's also a way to open things up in Hollywood.

Due to the emergence and influence of Relativity Entertainment, the development of Lionsgate Films is far from what it used to be. Looking at Hollywood as a whole, it can barely be regarded as a medium-sized film company. After the latest róng zī failure, it is said that Lionsgate Films Frank Gusta, the boss of the company, has already started to retire, and is preparing to leave the ailing Hollywood and film and television industries, and concentrate on his old business, the financial industry.

However, after Lionsgate Pictures expanded its shares several times, the shares are quite scattered. Even if Frank Gusta sold all his shares to Maple Leaf Pictures, it is impossible for Maple Leaf Pictures to obtain control of Lionsgate Pictures.

Ronan and Relativity Entertainment showed the responsibility that an ally should have, and specially passed a copy of Lionsgate related materials to Ryan Kavanaugh and David Ellison.

This is also to remind them that there is no need to waste time and resources on Lionsgate.

Having said that, if Maple Leaf Pictures does acquire Lionsgate, it may not be interested in other companies.

Because of Ronan, Lionsgate Pictures has not developed, especially lost a great opportunity for development and growth "Chain Saw".

This series is now owned by Relativity Entertainment, Wan Ziren has also signed a long-term director contract with Shahai Entertainment, and will cooperate with Relativity Entertainment for a long time in the future.

Of course, Ronan and Relativity Entertainment will also guarantee Wen Ziren's income. The long-term contract is to allow Wen Ziren to continue to cooperate with Shahai Entertainment and limit the asking price that does not meet the market conditions.

The first two films of "Chain Saw" have achieved great success. The first film has a global box office of 161.52 million US dollars, and the second film has a global box office of 222.17 million US dollars.

In stark contrast, Relativity Entertainment spent a combined $26 million on the two films.

Including online and offline publicity and distribution.

In the offline market, the results of the two "Chain Saw" movies are equally astonishing.

According to Netflix's rental business list and North American rental market statistics, "Saw" and "Saw 2" both entered the top three in the list of horror film rental performance in the past two years.

With a relatively low investment and dozens of times the box office output, it also created the biggest myth of a series of horror films in the history of Hollywood horror films.

Correspondingly, Wen Ziren, as the director and screenwriter, also has the title of "Father of Jigsaw".

This young Asian director can be said to be full of talent in the genre of horror films, even more so than James Huang.

"Chain Saw 3" is about to be released. Although this series will definitely continue to be filmed, according to the agreement between Ronan and Wen Ziren, Wen Ziren will leave the director of the "Chain Saw" series after filming the trilogy position, only as the producer of the project.

Ronan will not continue to limit Wen Ziren to the "Chain Saw" series. The value of this young horror film director has just been demonstrated.

He believes that Wen Ziren will achieve greater success in the future, and he will be given more freedom to create within the restricted framework.

The new "Chain Saw" series director, Wen Ziren, after completing the production of "Chain Saw 3", recommended to Ronan and Shahai Entertainment Darren Boseman, who served as the assistant director and assistant in the crew.

Ronan knew this guy, met him twice in person, and agreed to have Darren Boseman helm the follow-up guide in the series.

Although Wen Ziren left the directorship, he will continue to serve as the producer, and the "Chain Saw" series will basically not deviate from the track. 5