With the previous collaboration as a basis, the negotiations with the Mountain Foundation went very smoothly, and Shahai Entertainment signed a directing contract with Len Wiseman before announcing the official launch of the "Tales of the Night" project, and then introduced the Firefighter Fund as a third-party guarantee for the completion of the film, thus solving the prerequisites for the Mountain Foundation's investment.

Immediately, the Mountain Foundation signed an investment agreement with Shahai Entertainment to invest $16 million in the crew of "Tales of the Night", and the terms of the contract were almost the same as the investment in "Spy Shadow".

Ronan also solved the most critical funding problem of "Tales of the Night", and the remaining $4 million in funds will be solved by borrowing from Relativity Entertainment.

After the two sides signed the agreement, Ronan held a special reception banquet.

At the banquet, Rakesh Roth Khan asked Ronan, "Why didn't you see Priyanka Chopra?"

"She's preparing for the film. Ronan replied casually.

Rakesh-Roth Khan had a guess, and like most people, he would get tired of it after the novelty passed.

Shahai Entertainment and Ronan are important investment lines that the Mountain Foundation has finally caught up with in Hollywood, and Rakesh-Roth Khan whispered in order to show his sincerity: "Ronan, when are you going to Mumbai again?"

Ronan didn't know what Rakesh-Roth Khan was secretly meant, and said, "I'll definitely visit again when I have time." ”

Rakesh-Roth Khan was mistaken, thinking that Ronan understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "When you go to Mumbai again, I will arrange it and ensure that you are satisfied." ”

Hearing this, Ronan instantly knew what he meant, and just smiled, he couldn't refuse the sincerity given by his partner, right?

Last time, he did feel the sincerity of Roth Khan's uncle and nephew, and with the low social status of Indian women, it is estimated that the sincerity will not be bad this time.

Sure enough, the Indians are still sincere.

Rakesh-Roth Khan thought about it, what are the young and beautiful female stars in India? Since you want to give some sincerity, this sincerity must be sufficient.

Roth Khan's uncle and nephew then contacted PricewaterhouseCoopers to continue their role as financial overseers, and then left Los Angeles.

The preparations for "Tales of the Night" on the side of Shahai Entertainment are also proceeding rapidly, and personnel of various professions are being recruited, and after several projects, the production company has accumulated enough experience in this area and has also created a set of effective operation models.

Commercial films, which operate according to a model that has already been successful several times, are relatively low-risk.

Ronan also brought people into contact with Angelina Jolie and Kate Beckinsale, the former is filming "Tomb Raider," which has no schedule for the time being, and the $8 million offer is too high.

This offer can only allow Ronan to put Angelina Jolie as a standby.

But Kate Beckinsale's offer is also not low, "Pearl Harbor" has been filmed, although it has not yet been released, but the qualifications of the first-line big production heroine are enough to make Kate Beckinsale's salary increase dozens of times.

Kate Beckinsale's agent asked for $5 million, a full hundred times more than her salary for starring in "Pearl Harbor."

In this top commercial blockbuster directed by Michael Bay, Kate Beckinsale is only paid $50,000 for the lead actress.

Of course, this is also in line with Kate Beckinsale's previous value.

Not to mention a salary of $50,000, even if the crew is given $50,000, there are countless actresses rushing to be the heroine.

Ronan asked people to continue negotiations with Kate Beckinsale, as a producer and owner of the production company, for Ronan, Kate Beckinsale is not worth $5 million at all, the actress's commercial appeal is limited, and most of the commercial movies she starred in in her previous life ended up being on the street.

According to Ronan's ideal plan, the heroine of this series should be paid less than $2 million, and she can also sign a trilogy at once.

"Pearl Harbor" has not yet been released, and Kate Beckinsale, as the heroine, is in the limelight, and if she can't talk about it, she has to change to someone else.

It can also be said that Ronania is willing to hire Angelina Jolie as the heroine for $8 million, and does not want to use Kate Beckinsale, who is paid $5 million.

The latter, in terms of commercial value and topicality, is much worse than Angelina Jolie.

Ronan made three preparations, looking for other suitable actresses, continuing to negotiate with Kate Beckinsale while maintaining contact with Angelina Jolie.

After Rohan's uncle and nephew returned to Mumbai, the first $5 million was quickly received, and Shahai Entertainment borrowed $4 million from Relativity Entertainment to ensure that preparations for the project began immediately.

In fact, Shahai Entertainment's investment did not cost $4 million, and "Tales of the Night" was nominally based on Nancy Collins' short story "Monster Love", and the copyright fee for buying this one was naturally calculated into the cost.

Nowadays, the number of projects produced by Shahai Entertainment is gradually increasing, and the amount of funds required is also increasing, attracting investment to solve most of the production funding problems.

In fact, there is another way to attract funds, which Ronan has not used, and that is the pre-sale of the movie.

To put it simply, before a film is filmed and produced, the corresponding screening rights of the film are sold to overseas agencies, and the copyright funds obtained from them are invested in preparation, shooting and production.

It's also about passing on the risk and taking someone else's money to make a movie.

The existence of a third-party completion guarantee is a guarantee for pre-sale.

Pre-sale requires overseas distribution channels, and the pre-sale of some independent film companies' films is pre-sold through the channels of distribution companies, but it is difficult to attract overseas agents for general film projects.

If you want overseas agents to pay in advance, you must make them see that it is profitable.

Large companies, big productions, well-known directors, and star actors are all necessary conditions for pre-sales.

Embassy Pictures has just opened up overseas distribution channels, and Shahai Entertainment is also in its infancy, except for "Spy Shadows", there are no other mainstream commercial film projects, plus there are investors investing, so Ronan has not considered using pre-sale financing for the time being.

and other future investment in large productions, pre-sale is a necessary means of financing.

On the other hand, after Ronan's long contact with Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation Studios is finally ready to work with Embassy Pictures.

The continued success of Project Humanity 2 overseas has dispelled the doubts of the management of DreamWorks Animation Studios.

One month after its release, the horror thriller grossed $95.5 million in North America, $61.38 million overseas, and more than $150 million worldwide.

In particular, the overseas box office of $61.38 million is enough to prove the ability of Embassy Pictures' overseas distribution network.

In addition, Embassy Pictures' overseas offices around the world have also sent offline distribution contracts back to its headquarters in Los Angeles, including offline channels such as DVD, videotape, television network, new media rights and distribution rights in other venues.

In just one month, Embassy Pictures' overseas distribution network won offline distribution contracts worth more than $25 million.

Ronan sent personnel from the Oriental Office to Wenwu to inspect some local producers on the spot, reached a preliminary cooperation intention, and also took out samples of Shrek, Fiona, Donkey and Charizard in the same situation as DreamWorks Animation Studio.

It also dispelled the last doubts of Katzenberg and DreamWorks Animation Studios.

When it comes to feature film distribution alone, Embassy Pictures can't compete with Walt Disney, but it's not much inferior to the other five companies that are also in the infancy of animated feature films.

And Embassy Pictures has less distribution commissions and more equal cooperation with DreamWorks Animation Studios.

Not long after Thanksgiving, Embassy Pictures organized a negotiation team to begin formal distribution negotiations with DreamWorks Animation Studios.

Of course, DreamWorks Animation Studio will not venture into it, but will only discuss the overseas distribution of "Shrek" with Embassy Pictures, and will not involve other animated feature films for the time being.

Katzenberg's attitude is clear, first to see how well "Shrek" is released, and then decide whether to cooperate for a long time.

The last time Ronan went to DreamWorks Animation Studio, I heard Katzenberg mention that the creative team of DreamWorks Animation Studio was planning a story about African animals.

This also caught Ronan's attention, but it was just in time.

"The negotiations were generally smooth. Garcia Rodriguez, who was in charge of the negotiations, said: "But I heard one thing, Katzenberg and Spielberg had some arguments over working with us. ”

Ronan nodded: "Don't worry, with Katzenberg here, Spielberg can't change the decision to DreamWorks Animation Studios." ”

The divided power structure of the DreamWorks Group also gave Ronan and Embassy Pictures a chance.

García Rodriguez then said: "The people in DreamWorks' live-action film department approached me and wanted to poach me to their side. Ronan, we have to pay attention, they must have been in contact with other people, they can't buy our overseas distribution channels, and they want to poach our people. ”

Ronan said: "You keep an eye on the point, the personnel of non-key departments leave, as long as they pay liquidated damages, they don't have to stop them." ”

Embassy Pictures has signed contracts with employees and managers in key departments and is not allowed to engage in related industries for three years after leaving the company.

It's inevitable to poach people like this, and as long as the entire department doesn't change jobs, Ronan is not worried about a few people moving to other companies now.

After nearly a year of preparation and adjustment, the overseas distribution network has long been unable to operate without a certain person.

DreamWorks did not gain nothing, and when Embassy Pictures signed a contract with DreamWorks Animation Studio, four people from Embassy Pictures switched to DreamWorks' live-action film division when the other party paid full liquidated damages.

However, this manpower is simply not enough to build an overseas distribution network for DreamWorks.

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