The former "Resident Evil" series can be filmed one after another, not only have so many films been filmed, but after "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter", the producer Konstantin Pictures is also preparing to restart the series, changing the plot and the protagonist to shoot again, which shows the profitability of the series.

Ronan certainly knew that the most important profit point of the "Resident Evil" series was offline, and the disc rental and sales market brought a lot of profits.

So, after the film was released, he asked Embassy Pictures to pay more attention to the DVD release that would begin soon.

Embassy Pictures has reached out to three DVD suppression companies in the far east, where the industry is booming, ensuring the quality and scale of the suppression while reducing the cost to an incredible degree.

The cost of $1.5 with various expenses is simply unthinkable in North America.

There are also some peripherals of the film, which are also outsourced to manufacturers there, and it is not the first time that Embassy Pictures has cooperated with manufacturers in the two regions of Yiwen.

Whether it's DVDs or other peripheral products, there's no need to worry too much about the quality at all.

In this era, the quality requirements for goods that can be exported to earn foreign exchange are very high, far exceeding the standards of domestic marketing.

Many people at Embassy Pictures were amazed at the low cost of ordering DVDs, but Ronan knew best that even after excluding shipping costs and other expenses, the production cost of a single disc was less than $1, and the profits were still high for the manufacturers there.

Ronan was also a beneficiary of piracy, and in 2001, when he was in college, the street disc vendors sold for only 5 yuan each.

"Dude, do you want a film? Futaba and Lao Xu's films are available, and it's fun to keep ......."

Many people who buy discs have experienced that after the mysterious tone of the vendors, they will take out some films with beautiful young ladies on the cover from the woven bags in the back.

The price of this kind of film is naturally more expensive, 5 yuan or even 10 yuan a piece is not bargaining.

Like an ordinary movie, it's not a problem to buy five or six copies for 20 yuan.

Ronan's highest record was that after bargaining, he bought 25 discs full of Hollywood movies for 100 yuan.

Of course, at such a cheap price, it is inevitable that the quality will be uneven, and there are also types of dog meat sold on the head of a sheep.

These are all beautiful memories of youth.

In the years of the video hall, how many people were excited to watch Shu Qi vs. Li Lizhen.

How many people saw that the pervert was about to strengthen Zhu Yin and scolded the director for being perverted.

"The Ten Tortures of the Manchu Dynasty" let how many people know that torture instruments can still be played like this......

By the way, Comrade Xu's trapeze battle is definitely better than what Tokyo is a little hot and the artists of the San Fernando Valley.

At that time, how many male classmates envied Lao Xu and Lao Ren, and they took exciting and unforgettable scenes with many beautiful female stars in Hong Kong City.

Especially Lao Xu, who is absolutely a wonder in the actor industry, later transformed and became the spokesperson of Santa Claus.

After Embassy Pictures placed an order for 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 manpower and other things on the other side of the Pacific is extremely low, and cooperation is a win-win thing, Ronan of course will not refuse, so García Rodriguez personally talked to the person over there on the phone and officially invited the other party to come to Los Angeles for a business interview.

At the same time, Embassy Pictures is also planning the overseas release of "Resident Evil", Alan Albert and Danny Donald have already worked out a complete overseas release opportunity, and the film will be released in many countries and regions one after another.

Of course, there is no need to think about it on the other side of the Pacific, maybe more than ten years later, a film of the scale of "Resident Evil" can pass the review, but in this era, don't even think about it.

The first regions to be released are, of course, Latin America, Western Europe, Australia, plus Port City and South Korea.

These have always been the most important overseas markets for Hollywood films, and even because of the freedom of the market, it can be said that they are the backyard of Hollywood movies.

Most of the markets that were released in the end were island countries.

Even if Capcom did some work, the island release of "Resident Evil" was still scheduled for June, a full four months later than North America.

On the one hand, this is due to the island country's policy of protecting films, and it is common for Hollywood films to be released for a long time in the island country, and on the other hand, the distributors of the island country believe that "Resident Evil" is profitable and must avoid those two-dimensional films in the island country as much as possible.

Frankly speaking, the island country is a market that cannot be speculated under normal circumstances, and even the only one in the world, and two-dimensional movies are rampant here.

The two-dimensional movies in the island country are very scary, and 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 films in the island country, there is often no live-action movie in the top 10.

This is simply unimaginable in the film market of other countries and regions.

Fortunately, the island country belongs to a market with relatively good copyright protection, and the survival space of piracy is limited, otherwise Hollywood movies would have to cry like the Korean market.

The island country is a strange market, and South Korea is a strange copyright protection......

Ronan remembers very clearly that in his previous life, the real high-definition pirated resources of the Internet were the first to come out of the Korean version.

The North American screening of "Resident Evil" has only just begun, but after the President's Day holiday, the popularity of "Resident Evil" has declined significantly faster than the average blockbuster, thanks to publicity and marketing, and the support of zombie culture lovers and game fans.

The following following weekend, Warner Bros.'s "Vampire Queen" opened in more than 2,600 theaters and stole the North American box office top from "Resident Evil" with a first-week box office of $14.75 million.

The box office of "Resident Evil" plummeted 62 percent the following weekend from the previous weekend, to $10.83 million.

This decline also indicates that the theatrical life of "Resident Evil" will not be too long, and the North American theater may end within ten weeks.

However, the film's North American box office is still impressive, and the next weekend, plus the harvest of the previous week, the North American box office of "Resident Evil" has accumulated as high as $49.8 million.

This weekend, "Resident Evil" also opened in other major overseas markets outside of North America, and the overseas results are not explosive, but they are not bad, and they are generally within expectations.

Nearly 20 countries and regions, close to $20 million in overseas box office revenue, indicating that the global box office of "Resident Evil" will easily exceed the $100 million mark.

It has become a foregone conclusion that relying solely on the box office will recoup costs and even generate profits.

Immediately, the script of "Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse" was put on the agenda, and Shahai Entertainment set up a screenwriting team to assist Paul Anderson in completing the sequel script.

A process of professionally destroying zombies for more than ten years has really kicked off.

Ronan is well aware that if he continues to let Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich continue to film, the rating reputation of the series will be like being eaten by zombies.

But he didn't have the idea of substitution, he was a film businessman after all, and he pursued the safest profits.

As for whether the film will become a classic, that is not a question for him to consider.

Frankly speaking, the first part has made a good start, and the safest profit model for the sequel is to continue.

If Alice hadn't focused on fighting zombies for more than a decade, the series would have been finished long ago.

In Ronan's memory, the success of game adaptations is extremely limited, strictly speaking, it is nothing more than "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider", in fact, it is not difficult to conclude from careful analysis - both have very successful and impressive heroines.

These two game adaptations can be said to be typical examples of success in casting and failure in plot.

Just as movie fans will remember Alice, but they don't remember exactly what Alice did in the movie, who remembers the storyline of "Tomb Raider"? The audience only remembers Laura Crawford played by Angelina Jolie.

The game adaptation of the movie has never found the right way, at least until Ronan's last memory, the game adaptation movie is still hitting the street one after another.

No matter how big the IP is, how many fans it has, it seems that when it comes to a movie adaptation, it will be miserable......

Ronan is also thinking about it sometimes, the same emotional effect, the same bad stroke, why in the North American market, the sequel to "Star Wars" is a mess, and "World of Warcraft" is making people vomit blood?

Perhaps in North America and the West, World of Warcraft is much less influential than Star Wars.

Another weekend passed, and the North American box office trend of "Resident Evil" continued to decline rapidly, and the box office in the third weekend had dropped to $5.12 million.

The North American box office is about to exceed $60 million, and the final landing point is very likely to exceed $70 million.

Overseas, the screening market has increased to more than 30 countries and regions, and the overseas box office has reached a total of 36.57 million US dollars.

The global box office will soon exceed 100 million.

Ronan also took the time to chat with Paul Anderson and Samuel Hadida about the sequel.

"The production cost of the sequel will increase a bit. Ronan said directly: "But there won't be too many." Paul, Samuel, I need you to keep the production fee under $30 million. ”

Samuel Hadida exchanged views with Paul Anderson and said, "Actors starring in sequels, there will be a huge increase in salaries. In this case, all the actors except Mira need to be replaced. ”

Ronan said without hesitation: "Only Mira is the actor, and all the others are renewed." ”

Retention - Anderson said at this time: "I have no problem on my side, I will make a shooting plan according to the budget. ”

Ronan nodded and said, "I hope you can complete the script and shooting plan in the first half of the year." ”

"No problem. Samuel Hadida said.

After dealing with the sequel, Ronan specially found Uwe Bauer, and the project "Dungeon Siege" will also be officially put on the agenda.