Chapter 953: Survive Under Squeeze

| | | -> -> The budget of 20 million US dollars is not low for such a project. If it is higher, the risk of recovering the cost will become huge. After all, kung fu movies have never been mainstream in the North American market.

Ronan reminded Will Smith of several important things: "Let Jaden start preparing in advance. During shooting, many shots require actors to be on camera in person. There is no harm in preparing in advance."

Will Smith responded: "I'll hire a professional teacher for him when I go back."

Ronan said, "You know Tiger-Chen, right?"

"I know." Will Smith smiled: "One of the action directors of the "Matrix" series."

Ronan simply said: "As far as I know, Tiger Chen has been in Hollywood. You may consider hiring professionals from Tiger Chen's team to train Jaden."

Will Smith wrote it down: "I'll call Tiger Chen myself later."

For his son's future, he certainly has to do it himself.

At this time, Ronan said again: "There is another key point. Will, this needs you to solve it."

Will Smith responded hastily: "No problem."

"Since this is an old movie remake project, we must consider possible copyright disputes." Ronan said the key point: "It is best to get the remake authorization of "Longwei Kid" from Sony Columbia Pictures, To avoid copyright disputes."

Will Smith is also very cautious: "This aspect is necessary."

Ronan continued: "At present, I am in a sensitive position with Relativity Entertainment, and it is not suitable for me to come forward. Otherwise, Sony Columbia Pictures may quote a sky-high price, or not authorize it at all."

Will Smith thought of the success of Ronan and Relativity Entertainment, and knew that this possibility not only existed, but the probability of existence was very high.

"Leave the copyright to me." Will Smith took the initiative to take it down: "I have cooperated with Sony Columbia Pictures for many years, and I am currently cooperating with "National Superman Hancock". It should not be difficult to obtain the authorization."

Ronan said: "Okay, Will, you get the copyright as soon as possible."

Will Smith said with a smile: "Don't worry, I have a solution."

Ronan completely trusted Will Smith in this matter. This is a black movie star who dared to put everything on the line for his son's future.

For this kind of thing, Will Smith will definitely go all out.

Ronan discussed with Will Smith for a while, and agreed to have an interview with director Hadro Zwark as soon as possible. Will Smith left the Relativity Building.

He is going to do his son's work, find a professional coach, and get the relevant copyrights. There is a lot of work to do.

In contrast, Ronan was much more relaxed. He just asked Connie to transfer the relevant materials of "Kung Fu Dream" to Shahai Entertainment, and then waited for news from Will Smith.

In addition, he also called the screenwriting department, and the screenwriting department will also prepare to transfer or recruit people to improve the script of the project.

As for whether the screenwriter knows kung fu or does not touch oriental culture, it is actually not important.

You can go to the East for field trips.

Looking back on that movie carefully, it is not difficult to find that the character setting and storyline of the whole movie are very illusory, like an oriental story imagined by an American sitting at home.

Presumably years of deep-rooted cognitive relationships,

In their eyes, everyone in the East knows a little bit of kung fu, even a real estate uncle who repairs sewers is a peerless master.

The writers thought of him as Super Mario, right?

It is estimated that the screenwriters in Hollywood have no idea of ​​the existence of such a real horror as the sweeping monk.

In their eyes, the hidden plumber is the best.

The plumber's English is more professional and speaks clearly.

On the other hand, there are various prejudices in Hollywood.

Everyone in the East knows martial arts, and the main traffic road is the roof!

In order to maintain the wonderful parallel world view of Americans, Hollywood directors have racked their brains.

In addition to "Kung Fu Dream", there is also a "King of Kung Fu".

The plot of that movie is not ordinary, especially about the setting of the foreigner male lead.

These are consistent in Hollywood.

Children in Asia are tall, mighty, and aggressive. Under the guidance of a strict teacher, they show no mercy to any opponent and must be put to death; There will be some monks who have nothing to do but practice martial arts.

There are monks in scenic spots, but they are all professional.

In this modern commercial society, even living in seclusion can be commercialized and played with various tricks, let alone scenic temples?

Moulin Group and its fat chairman and CEO are definitely typical examples of business success in this area.

Ronan also made some preliminary plans. If conditions permit, this film will be shot by Shahai Entertainment in the East.

The advantage is very obvious.

For example, some representative scenic spots, such as exotic styles for North American audiences, such as some shocking large-scale group gymnastics group performances, etc. can be used.

Especially the latter, let hundreds of people perform martial arts group exercises in the movie at the same time, the effect must be quite shocking.

Ronan will also ask the main creative team to go to the East for on-the-spot investigation during the preparation period. After all, this is a realistic theme, and the filming should not be too outrageous.

Then there is the invitation of Jack Chen. He can be said to be the most well-known Chinese actor in Hollywood, and he has a certain box office appeal.

Among Eastern movies, only Kung Fu movies really have a market in North America.

Embassy Pictures once conducted a professional survey on the North American film market. The three cultural symbols that North American audiences are most interested in in Oriental films are Oriental Kungfu, natural landscape and Oriental architecture. The top three movie stars are action superstars such as Jack Chen, Jeter Lee and Little Ma.

For film projects such as "Kung Fu Dream", North America is still the main market for revenue. Production and distribution companies must figure out which oriental elements in films are interested in young people who are the main body of the film market.

Will Smith moved quickly. After Ronan had two interviews with director Harold Zwart, he had already made preliminary contact with Sony Columbia Pictures about the remake authorization of "Dragon Boy".

Since he is cooperating with Sony Columbia Pictures to shoot "National Superman Hancock", and has cooperated many times before, Will Smith did not spend much effort, so he persuaded the senior management of Sony Columbia Pictures to pay 500 yuan. $10,000 to buy the remake authorization of "Longwei Boy".

Like most fathers in this world, Will Smith is truly generous when it comes to his children.

After Will Smith obtained the authorization, he authorized Relativity Entertainment a second time, and Shahai Entertainment no longer had to consider copyright issues.

The project, which was also greenlit by Ronan and Shahai Entertainment, has a production budget of $20 million.

Jack Chen also responded, expressing his great interest in this project.

Sandsea Entertainment submitted an application for on-site filming to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and companies such as China Film Group on the opposite side were also very interested in this project.

Today, the film industry on the other side of the Pacific can really break into the international market, in fact, only films related to "Kung Fu".

Other films, even if they win awards at international film festivals, mostly lose money and make money.

Films on the other side of the Pacific want to seize a certain share in the international market, and there is a long way to go. It cannot be changed by one person or even a generation.

Surviving under the squeeze of Hollywood movies can be said to be the theme of today's global movie market.

Today, corresponding to the gradual demise of the golden age of Hollywood independent films, is the further global expansion of Hollywood high-concept blockbusters.

The popcorn movies produced by the assembly line in Hollywood not only encroach on the share of local movies in the movie market of various countries, but also pose a huge threat to other kinds of movies.

Looking around the world, in today's global film market, except for India, which can stand alone, the rest of the countries are either completely occupied by Hollywood blockbusters, or they can only struggle to maintain like island countries and Europe.

But one thing cannot be denied, only from the perspective of risk control of market behavior, Hollywood movies are obviously more profitable than the movie industries of other countries.

Even in the relatively light market schedule of September, there are still many movies in Hollywood that can achieve good box office results.

For example, Sony Columbia Pictures released "Hunting Season" in early September, and the North American box office was close to 25 million US dollars in the first weekend.

There's also a new release from Relativity Entertainment's Embassy Pictures.

"Reaper 4" was released on the second weekend of September. This super routine horror film has now come to its fourth installment.

This is also the last film that James Wong will collaborate with Relativity Entertainment.

After being frustrated in directing "Universal Pursuit", he returned to the "Reaper" series and directed the third and fourth consecutively. James Huang was tired of "Reaper" that could only develop in a single mode. ", after completely contracting with the director of Relativity Entertainment, he is ready to jump out of the horror genre and continue his pursuit in other fields.

A director with a tireless spirit of pursuit is commendable, and Ronan has no reason to hinder James Huang's choice.

Like directors like Guillermo del Toro and Gore Verbinski before him, Relativity Entertainment will still end the cooperation in a very peaceful way.

James Wong continued to generate enormous commercial success for Relativity Entertainment before he left.

The film is a carnival of dismantling corpses, the gag being the absurd way of dying with limbs flying around.

With a production cost of 22 million US dollars, "Reaper 4" took in 27.88 million US dollars at the box office in 3412 theaters during the three days of its opening weekend in North America.

Although this series has become more and more stereotyped, it has a large number of die-hard supporters. They can always drive the box office of the sequel with great enthusiasm for watching movies.

The "Death is Coming" series has such a good audience, of course it is impossible to stop here, and we must continue to shoot.

Deny, even the audience is sorry.