Seeing the copywriting of "Dragon Ball" written by James Huang himself in front of him, Ronan was speechless for a while, and the reasons given by James Huang in the copywriting were also very powerful.

For example, the North American market for comic book adaptations is prevalent, and the future prospects of this genre will be better and better.

For example, Dragon Ball has sold 180 million copies worldwide, making it the world's best-selling manga.

For example, as long as the first part is successful, this manga can be easily serialized, bringing unimaginable huge benefits.

And compared with the past, because of the success of the "Death Comes" series in the hands of Relativity Entertainment, James Huang is more confident and ready to build "Dragon Ball" into a quasi-first-line or even first-line commercial production in Hollywood.

James Wong proposed a production budget of $130 million to Ronan!

Of course, Ronan can't agree.,The main market of Riman is in East Asia.,Strictly speaking,It's nothing more than two.。

Although North America also has a certain audience, it is undoubtedly a niche type, and it is impossible to support such a huge investment with just two markets.

In the past, there were many Japanese comics that were adapted into movies by Hollywood, and there were many famous works.

But these adaptations, as long as the investment is slightly higher, all end up hitting the streets.

Even James Cameron himself rolled up his sleeves and came on the pitch wouldn't change that.

Ronan has a special experience, and because of this experience, he has formed a very stubborn cognition: any adaptation that ignores cultural differences will end up with a pounce that doesn't even know his mother.

To do this, Ronan rejected Mechs and Monsters from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro.

It is also impossible for him to invest in such a Japanese comic-themed movie that is destined to cheat his father.

Riman is very popular, but it is relative to its narrow market and circle.

In order to make enough profits for Hollywood's first-line commercial productions, the North American market must explode, and the global market cannot be ignored.

Japanese comics, which can only be popular in a corner, are not suitable for global film adaptations.

Twenty years later, Ronan is not very clear, but in the next ten years, the Japanese comic theme is only worth two or three million dollars of adaptation investment.

No matter how high it is, the money invested in it may be wasted.

Compared with adapting Japanese comics into movies, on the contrary, those filmmaking that borrows from Japanese comics' ideas and settings, and then completely becomes a Hollywood model, are more likely to succeed.

There are many successful examples of this, such as "The Matrix", such as "Inception".

But no one thinks that these movies have anything to do with Japanese comics.

Perhaps, these are the correct ways for Hollywood to open up the theme of Japanese comics.

Cultural differences cannot be ignored in the film market.

Just like Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Americans watch it well, but when it comes to the East, the audience is drowsy and feel that it is far less enjoyable than Xu Laowei's martial arts films.

But Xu Laowei's martial arts films have no room for survival in North American theaters.

Ronan couldn't have given James Wong the green light for the project, but thinking of what Wen Ziren had said, Connie contacted James Wong to ask for an update on the Dragon Ball project.

After Connie gets in touch with James Wong, Ronan chats with James Wong for a few words, revealing his doubts about the project.

In any case, James Huang has played a certain role in the development of relativity entertainment, and Ronan doesn't want to watch him go down the street.

But people are always changing with their status, and not everyone will follow the advice of their former business partners.

It is no exaggeration to say that most of these people who have mixed up in Hollywood and achieved success are paranoid and will become more and more confident as they continue to succeed.

This trend is very obvious, and basically more than 95% of directors, actors and various behind-the-scenes jobs are reflected.

For example, Ronan has vaguely reminded Heath Ledger and Paul Walker.

But the former doesn't take his words seriously at all, and the latter is obsessed with the speed of drag racing.

The power of words is sometimes infinite, and sometimes it is extremely weak.

James Wong thanked Ronan for his reminder and kindness, and said that he would work hard to approach the project and avoid making all kinds of mistakes......

Ronan didn't say anything more, just asked Connie to focus on gathering detailed information about James Wong and the Dragon Ball project.

Since James Huang has already negotiated a partnership with his new partner, Twentieth Century Fox, a lot of things are on the surface, and it's not hard to find out.

Soon, the specific information was transferred to Ronan's side.

Twentieth Century Fox has given the green light to "Dragon Ball", signed a cooperation agreement with James Yellow, and bought the film and television adaptation rights of "Dragon Ball" as quickly as possible for $5 million from the island nation.

Although it is the world's No. 1 selling comic, the copyright of Japanese comics has always been difficult to sell at sky-high prices in Hollywood.

With the current popularity of comic book adaptations, if an American comic book has such sales, there is no bid of tens of millions of dollars, and the copyright of film and television adaptation should not be considered.

Twentieth Century Fox has high hopes for the Dragon Ball project, and hopes to create a successful manga film adaptation in addition to the X-Men series.

So, after they got the comic rights and James Wong's directing contract, they moved extremely quickly in all aspects, such as determining the production budget of the project.

According to information obtained by Relativity Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox has set a production budget of up to $140 million for "Dragon Ball".

At the same time, he is also preparing to invite star actors to star.

For the sake of the market, it is inevitable that the actor will definitely become an American.

It is said that at the suggestion of James Wong, Twentieth Century Fox has sent an invitation to the famous oriental superstar Xiao Ma Ge to play the key teacher of the male lead, the Turtle Immortal.

This project, Ronan reminded to no avail, and when it comes to Twentieth Century Fox, he wisely chooses to shut up.

Since it is useless to say more, it is better not to say it.

Ronan was not surprised that Twentieth Century Fox was able to win this project, because he had also seen James Wong's "Dragon Ball" at that time, and the opening credits were Twentieth Century Fox.

Ronan asked people to inquire about the behind-the-scenes situation of this project, and he also learned a little about it.

For example, Twentieth Century Fox took the initiative and approached James Huang to ask for a collaboration on Dragon Ball.

Now, Ronan is completely sure that Twentieth Century Fox is staring at relativistic entertainment, going the path of relativistic entertainment, leaving relativistic entertainment with no way out.

"It doesn't matter. ”

In the office, Ronan said to Robert Lee, "Twentieth Century Fox likes it, so let them dig it up." ”

Robert Lee said: "In terms of personnel, they can only target people whose contracts with us have expired, and those who have long-term contracts cannot break because of an invitation from Twentieth Century Fox, and that is not something that actors and directors are willing to bear." ”

Ronan still advised: "Personnel don't worry, the most important thing in Hollywood is people." But our projects, especially those that I would like to inform you about the purchase of copyrights, must be kept confidential. ”

Robert Lee said: "In this regard, you can rest assured that the key projects are all under the responsibility of a professional team under my direct control. ”

Ronan nodded slightly: "Don't be careless." ”

"I understand. Robert Lee said, "What about us? Do you want to do something?"

Ronan waved his hand: "Don't do it for the time being, we have a big plan for Twentieth Century Fox, don't make too many moves in the early stage, so as not to attract their attention." ”

Robert Lee said, "It's just that we always feel like we've been robbed of something. ”

Ronan said calmly: "What is snatched may not be the best, and it may not be successful. ”

How many items did Fox snatch from Relativity Entertainment in the twentieth century? Are they planning to collect all seven dragon balls and summon dragons?

Hopefully, Twentieth Century Fox won't vomit blood.

Ronan briefly calculated that in the past year, there seemed to be a lot of projects that were directly related to relativity entertainment identified by Twentieth Century Fox.

There are "Pharaohs and the Gods" directed by Ridley Scott, "10,000 Years Before History" directed by Roland Emmerich, "Robin Hood" starring Russell Crowe, the storm disaster blockbuster "Super Storm", and "Terminator 4" that will never stop if you don't shoot the Terminator to make the audience sick.

Now, there is one more Dragon Ball.

For these commercial projects, the production budget is as low as $120 million, and the highest may even be $200 million.

Twentieth Century Fox will surely be able to collect all seven Dragon Balls to summon the Dragon!

In order to attract James Cameron and get the independent investment rights of "Avatar", Ronan specially asked Robert Lee to go to the island country and bought the film and television adaptation rights of the comic "Gun Dream".

This is the comic that James Cameron has on his heart.

However, things went more smoothly than Ronan expected, "Gun Dream" was not used, and the copyright has always been in the hands of Relativity Entertainment.

Ronan has no plans to adapt "Gun Dream" in the short term.

It's still that problem, if the investment is too high, this kind of Japanese comic movie adaptation is a flutter.

If the investment is not enough, the final effect of the film can only be a cheat.

As for James Cameron, Ronan feels that the trucker is destined to fill the big hole of "Avatar" for the rest of his life.

In late September, Twentieth Century Fox and James Wong jointly held a press conference to officially announce the project "Dragon Ball".

At the same time, Jessica Filton came with good news, at the just-concluded Toronto International Film Festival, "Juno", which participated in the competition part of the film festival, won the highest award of this year's Toronto International Film Festival - the Audience Choice Award.

This made "Juno" instantly famous and became one of Hollywood's most talked-about small-budget films.

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