Chapter 916: Lincoln

"The six major Hollywood companies have basically been divided up," Robert Iger continued with Ronan's words: "The only one that has truly developed from a studio to an entertainment media group is Disney, but no matter which one, we want to swallow it. difficult."
Ronan said: "Yes, if we are strong enough, the ultimate goal of Disney's plan will not be what it is now."
After all, the strength of Relativity Entertainment is still not strong enough, otherwise it will directly acquire Disney.
Robert Iger said a very simple and simple sentence: "At this stage, if we swallow Disney, not only will we die, we may lose more than we gain."
Ronan nodded slightly: "The snake swallowing elephant is not for us."
If Relativity Entertainment is willing to sell shares of Netflix in large quantities and make a deal with Wall Street, it is not impossible to raise funds for the acquisition of Walt Disney.
The problem is that not long after Netflix went public, its stock price has been rising rapidly. Relativity Entertainment gave up its controlling stake and lost significantly more.
"We need half a year to a year to digest the income from the previous plan." As the chief operating officer of Relativity Entertainment, Robert Iger has a sufficiently clear understanding of the entire group of companies: "We will develop quickly for about three years to accumulate strength. Then Wait for the right opportunity to see if one of the six companies will have problems."
Ronan said: "Opportunities require both patience and proactive creation."
Hearing this, combined with Ronan’s previous actions, Robert Iger inevitably thought: "Do you have specific goals and targeted actions?"
Ronan tapped his fingers lightly, calculated for a while, and said, "Bob, you should know that in the first half of last year and the end of last year, 20th Century Fox snatched several movie projects from us."
Robert Iger said: "I know, Roland Emmerich’s "Ten Thousand Years Before History"... Well, you released the news at the time that you wanted to make a movie about "Exodus" and Robin Hood. Century Fox was the first to establish the project. Also, in the blacklist plan you proposed at the end of last year, a disaster film project about storms was also intercepted by 20th Century Fox..."
He looked at Ronan: "There are problems with these projects?"
"I'm not sure." Ronan said roughly: "As far as I am concerned, I am not very optimistic about their future."
When most people say this, no one pays much attention to it. But when Ronan said it, it is completely different. Robert Iger said seriously: "As far as I know, the production of each of these four projects The budgets are all over 100 million U.S. dollars, and the 20th century Fox accounted for the vast majority of investment. If you count the publicity and distribution costs that cannot be shared by anyone, the total investment will be close to or even more than 200 million U.S. dollars. If collectively loses in a short period of time, it will definitely It will affect the capital chain of Fox Pictures in the 20th Century, and may even cause a shortage of liquidity for the entire company."
Ronan said, "These are still not enough."
"Yes." Robert Iger was very sensible: "They are twentieth century Fox after all. Unless we encounter other major crises at the same time, we may have a chance."
It was impossible for Ronan to tell the things that had not been ascertained, and simply asked: "You stare at Twentieth Century Fox to see if there will be opportunities in the future."
Robert Iger responded, "Okay."
Ronan's advantage lies in the general direction and decision-making planning, but the specific operation and execution requires a professional manager with outstanding ability such as Robert Iger.
Robert Iger has fully proven his ability and professional ethics. Ronan's trust in him is no different from the old teams such as Robert Lee and George Clint.
At this stage, or even for a long time to come, Relativity Entertainment may not find a better CEO than Robert Iger.
Soon, Ronan will discuss the renewal of the contract with Robert Iger, and extend the term of Robert Iger as much as possible to 2015 and beyond.
If you want to retain outstanding talents, you must pay the price of real money.
In addition to salary increases, Ronan also prepared a new option award.
In a business society like the United States, it is never new for CEOs to be poached with higher treatment.
Not only Robert Iger, but also many senior executives of Relativity Entertainment's subsidiary will discuss contract renewal in the next stage.
The management maintains a relatively stable posture, which is very important to the development of the entire group company.
Back at the office, Connie sent this month's bestseller list.
Ronan first made a cup of tea, and then quickly browsed, but the books that really impressed him on this issue of the ranking list have long been famous for their copyrights.
For example, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" ranked first, such as David Mitchell's science fiction "Cloud Atlas."
Connie made a mark on some parts based on what she knew, like the back of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Cloud Atlas", it marked that the copyright has belonged to Warner Bros.
Needless to say the former, Ronan also has the impression of the latter, because these are the Wachowski brothers and sisters? The directed work is also one of the continuous hits on the street in their director career.
The careers of these two directors fully interpret what is called a debut is the peak and the decline.
It seems that after "Cloud Atlas," they never directed a movie anymore, and switched to filming a TV series.
Frankly speaking, that TV series inherited the usual advantages of the Wachowski sisters. It was very big and it looked very attractive.
Perhaps it was because they could no longer turn back on the road of philosophical speculation, or perhaps the audience was completely tired of their works for the past few years, and the TV series were finally cut off.
After reading the bestseller list, Ronan received a call from Spielberg. The old man asked again whether he had any specific plans for directing the film that he had agreed upon before.
For the time being, Ronan has not found a suitable project for Spielberg.
Once, after 2010, Ronan was very impressed with Spielberg's films.
Many of the films directed by Spielberg are actually not too successful. It seems that the films in Spielberg format are outdated.
Ronan remembers the two most clearly, "Lincoln" and "Player 1."
The reason why the former is remembered is that, on the one hand, this is what many media call Spielberg’s work, which is recognized as a rare commercial masterpiece on political themes. On the other hand, it allows the famous Hollywood acting school Daniel Day Lewis to take advantage of it. To the third Oscar for best actor.
The latter was due to many video games. At that time, it was known as a big carnival for game fans. There were so many game stalks in it. Ronan could not understand the stalks or what the pictures represented. He deliberately checked detailed information on the Internet.
Therefore, Ronan also knows that this is a film adapted like "Lincoln", vaguely remembering that the production budget is as high as nearly 200 million US dollars, and the North American box office seems to be less than 150 million US dollars.
This film should perform well overseas, but the overseas box office share is much lower than that of North America. Coupled with huge publicity and distribution costs, "Player No. 1" is estimated to be difficult to return to the box office. If you want to make money, you can only rely on the surrounding area.
But there are so many copyrights involved, and the surroundings are also very troublesome.
Ronan is cautious about "Player No. 1", but he has also found the original work, which has probably not been published yet, and there is no similar VR game theme.
It's really hard to say whether it is cost-effective to spend the director contract with Spielberg on such a film whose future is uncertain and the surrounding copyright is complicated and the profit is suspicious.
The most important thing is that it is impossible to reduce expenses for this type of subject matter. To achieve the desired effect, it is necessary to invest sufficient funds for special effects production.
Ronan did not make the final decision, everything depends on the original work.
Besides, Ronan has great doubts about spending more than 200 million US dollars to invest in a game movie project.
Ronan can decide on a movie adaptation of a game like Brother Bao, because the production budget is only a few million dollars, and the total investment in the announcement is only a few ten million dollars. With the current momentum of Brother Bao, it is completely worth it. Investment, because the iron powder attracted by Baoge on the Internet is enough to guarantee the return of the cost.
If you ask Brother Bao to shoot a game project invested in tens of millions of dollars, you will lose 100%.
Of course, Brother Bao and Spielberg are incomparable.
After all, Brother Bao and Paul Anderson are known as the two best film directors of Hollywood game adaptations.
Brother Bao's true love for game-adapted movies is only a little bit less than for Blizzard.
Perhaps in the future, Brother Bao can direct "Players No. 1". Various copycat versions of the game may be interesting, and in the production model of Hollywood movies, the specious copycat does not require copyright authorization.
Special effects that cost millions of dollars will definitely make gamers burst into tears.
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Ronan asked Connie and said, "How much do you know about Lincoln's literature?"
"I've seen some." Connie replied quickly: "This is the most deified president of the United States. There are too many works about him, ranging from political documents, and various magical versions."
Ronan said directly: "You collect as much literature as possible about Lincoln, make a content outline and give it to me."
There are too many works about Lincoln, Ronan can't read them one by one. The best way is to browse the relevant content through the outline produced by the assistant team.
"Okay." Connie replied ~EbookFREE.me~ and then asked: "When do you want it?"
Ronan said, "The sooner the better."
Connie replied, "I will mobilize people to prepare."
Lincoln has too many literary works, probably more than speculations about the truth of Kennedy's assassination.
Ronan stayed at the company all morning. In the afternoon, the Relativity Building suddenly became lively. Shahai Entertainment had a crew entering Century City and wanted to shoot in the Relativity Building.
Among them, the most conspicuous is Michael Bay with a long face!
Bombshell is about to wreak havoc on the Relativity Building in the movie.
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