Chapter 345: Focus on fighting zombies for more than 10 years

The previous "Resident Evil" series can be filmed one by one, not only did so many films, after "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter", the producer Constantine Pictures is also preparing to restart the series and change The plot and the protagonist are shot again, which shows the profitability of the series.
Ronan certainly knows that the most important profit point of the "Resident Evil" series is offline, and the disc rental and sales market has brought huge profits.
Therefore, after the film was released, he asked Embassy Pictures to pay more attention to the DVD release that would begin soon.
Embassy Pictures has contacted three DVD suppression manufacturers in the far east. The related industries there are skyrocketing. It can not only guarantee the quality and scale of suppression, but also reduce the cost to an incredible level.
The cost of 1.5 US dollars with various fees is simply unimaginable in North America.
Some peripherals of the film are also outsourced to manufacturers there. It is not the first time that Embassy Pictures has cooperated with manufacturers in the two regions of Yiwen.
Whether it is DVD discs or other peripheral products, there is no need to worry too much about the quality.
In this era, the quality requirements for products that can be exported to earn foreign exchange are very high, far exceeding the domestic marketing standards.
Many people in Embassy Pictures are amazed at how low the cost of ordering DVD discs is. Only Ronan knows best that even after excluding freight and other costs, a single disc only costs less than $1 to produce. For the manufacturers there , The profit is still high.
Once, Ronan was also a beneficiary of piracy. He had already entered the university in 2001. At that time, the street vendors selling discs only sold 5 yuan each.
"Dude, do you want a film? Both Futaba and Lao Xu have films, so I enjoy keeping them..."
Many people who buy discs have experienced it. After the mysterious tone of the vendors, they will take out some of the films with beautiful ladies on the cover from the woven bag behind.
The price of this kind of film is naturally more expensive, there is no bargaining for 5 yuan or even 10 yuan.
Like ordinary movies, buying five or six copies for 20 yuan is not a problem.
Ronan's highest record is that after bargaining, he bought 25 discs all of Hollywood movies for 100 yuan.
Of course, at such a cheap price, the quality is inevitably uneven, and there are also types of selling dog meat.
These are all beautiful memories of youth.
In the past years of the video room, how many people were excited watching Hsu Chi fight Li Lizhen.
How many people yelled at the director for being perverted when they saw that the demon was about to strengthen Zhu Yin.
"The Ten Great Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" let how many people know that torture instruments can still be played like this...
By the way, the old comrade Xu’s aerial trapeze battle definitely defeated some artists in Tokyo and San Fernando Valley.
At that time, how many male classmates envy Lao Xu and Lao Ren, and have taken exciting and unforgettable shots with so many beautiful female stars in Hong Kong.
Especially Lao Xu, an absolutely wonderful work in the actor world, changed his mind and became the spokesperson of Santa Claus.
After Embassy Pictures placed an order with a manufacturer in the East, there was news that a manufacturer wanted to visit Los Angeles after a while to discuss more in-depth cooperation with Embassy Pictures.
The cost of labor on the other side of the Pacific is extremely low, and cooperation is a win-win thing. Ronan certainly will not refuse, let García Rodriguez personally talk to the people there, and formally invite them to Los Angeles for business interviews.
At the same time, Embassy Pictures is also planning the overseas release of "Resident Evil". Allen Albert and Danny Donald have formulated complete overseas release opportunities, and the film will be released in many countries and regions.
Of course, you don’t need to think about it on the other side of the Pacific. Perhaps more than ten years later, a film of the scale of "Resident Evil" can pass the review, but this era does not even think about it.
The first regions to be released are of course Latin America, Western Europe, Australia, Hong Kong City and South Korea.
These have always been the most important overseas markets for Hollywood movies, and even because of the freedom of the market, they can be said to be the back garden of Hollywood movies. When the world is released simultaneously, it is basically these regions and North America.
Most of the last screened markets are island countries.
Even if Capcom did a certain amount of work, the island nation of "Resident Evil" was still scheduled to be released in June, four months later than North America.
On the one hand, this is due to the island country’s native film protection policy. It is common for Hollywood films to be released for a long time in the island country; Those two-dimensional movies.
Frankly speaking, the island country is a market that cannot be speculated under normal circumstances, and even the only one in the world. Two-dimensional movies are rampant here.
The two-dimensional movies in the island country are very scary. If they break out, they will simply crush the existence of Hollywood movies in the local market.
It is said that in the annual box office rankings of local movies in island countries, the top ten often appear without a live-action movie.
This is simply unimaginable in the film market of other countries and regions.
Fortunately, the island country belongs to a market where copyright protection is relatively in place, and the room for piracy is limited. Otherwise, like the Korean market, Hollywood movies have to cry.
The island country is a market wonder, South Korea is a copyright protection wonder...
Ronan remembers very clearly that the first real high-definition pirated resources on the Internet were the Korean version.
The North American screening of "Resident Evil" has just begun, but after the President's Day holiday, the popularity that relied on marketing and support from zombie culture lovers and game fans has dropped significantly faster than the average hit movies.
The following second weekend, Warner Bros.'s "Vampire Queen" opened in more than 2,600 theaters, and with a box office record of $14.75 million in the first week, it took the North American box office champion from "Resident Evil".
"Resident Evil" the next weekend box office plummeted 62% compared with the previous weekend, reported 10.83 million US dollars.
This drop also indicates that the theater life of "Resident Evil" will not be too long, and the North American screening may end within ten weeks.
However, the North American box office of the film is still eye-catching. The next weekend plus the harvest of the previous working day, "Resident Evil"'s North American box office totaled as high as 49.8 million US dollars.
This weekend, "Resident Evil" was also launched in other major overseas markets outside of North America. The overseas performance is not an explosion, but it is not bad, and it is generally within expectations.
Nearly 20 countries and regions, with nearly 20 million U.S. dollars in overseas box office revenue, it indicates that the global box office of "Resident Evil" will easily exceed the 100 million U.S. dollar mark.
Recovering costs and even generating profits by relying solely on the box office has become a foregone conclusion.
Immediately, the script of "Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse" was put on the agenda, and Shahai Entertainment set up a special screenwriting team to assist Paul Anderson in completing the sequel script.
A journey of professionally eradicating zombies for more than ten years has truly opened the curtain.
Ronan knows very well that if you continue to shoot Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich, the ratings of the series will be like being eaten by zombies.
But he didn't have the idea of ​​replacing people. After all, he was a film businessman, pursuing the safest profit.
As for whether the film will become a classic, that is not a question he considers.
Frankly speaking, the first part has made a good start, and the safest profit model for the sequel is to continue.
Had it not been for Alice to focus on fighting zombies for more than ten years, this series would have been over.
In Ronan’s memory, the number of successful movie adaptations from games is extremely limited. Strictly speaking, they are nothing more than "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider". In fact, careful analysis is not difficult to come to a conclusion-both are very successful and impressive. Impressive heroine.
The adaptation of these two games is a typical example of success in casting roles but failure in plot.
Just like movie fans remember Alice, but don’t remember exactly what Alice did in the movie, who remembers the storyline of "Tomb Raider"? The audience remembers only Laura Crawford played by Angelina Jolie.
Games-adapted movies have never found the right way. At least until Ronan’s last memory, the game-adapted movies have been rushing to the street one after another.
No matter how big the IP is and how many fans you have, it seems that you will be terrible when you encounter a film adaptation...
Ronan sometimes thinks about it. The same sentimental effect is also a bad deal. Why is the sequel to "Star Wars" in the North American market in a mess, while "World of Warcraft" is so vomiting?
Perhaps in North America and the West, the influence of "World of Warcraft" is much worse than that of "Star Wars."
Another weekend passed, and the North American box office trend of "Resident Evil" continued to decline rapidly. The box office of the third weekend had dropped to 5.12 million US dollars.
The total box office in North America is about to exceed 60 million U.S. dollars, and it is extremely hopeful that it will exceed 70 million U.S. dollars.
Overseas, the screening market has increased to more than 30 countries and regions, and the overseas box office has reached 36.57 million US dollars.
The global box office will soon exceed 100 million.
Ronan also took time to chat with Paul Anderson and Samuel Hadida about the sequel ~EbookFREE.me~ The production cost of the sequel will increase. Ronan said directly: "But there won't be too many. Paul, Samuel, I need you to keep the production cost under $30 million. "
Samuel Hadida exchanged opinions with Paul Anderson, and said: "Actors appearing in the sequel will greatly increase the pay. In this case, except for Mira, all other actors need to be replaced."
Ronan said without hesitation: "The actor only keeps Mira, and the others are all new."
Reservation-Anderson said at this time: "I have no problem here, I will make a shooting plan according to the budget."
Ronan nodded and said, "I hope you can complete the script and filming plan in the first half of the year."
"No problem," Samuel Hadida said.
After dealing with the sequel, Ronan specially called Uvi Bauer, and the project "Dungeon Siege" was also officially put on the agenda.