"Good news! good news!"

Dense footsteps sounded, and George Clint strode into Ronan's office, waving the papers in his hand and saying excitedly, "Good news worth celebrating." ”

Ronan put down the pen in his hand, looked at him, and asked with concern, "Is the weekend box office count out?"

George Clint was in a very good mood: "yes. He deliberately sold off: "Ronan, guess how many." ”

Ronan stood up and strode over, in the same good mood: "$140 million is definitely there." ”

Two days before the opening of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", the North American box office reached $110 million, even if the sequel movie is often the most explosive at the beginning, it will definitely decline gradually, but why should there be $30 million on Sunday?

"I'm sorry to tell you that I guessed wrong. George Clint excitedly said, "$151.28 million!" Ronan, Relativity Entertainment has set a new weekend box office record in the North American film market!"

Ronan took the statistics in George Clint's hand, looked at it, and was a little excited: "Our investment was not in vain!"

George Clint nodded vigorously: "A few years ago, who would have thought that we would have this day?"

Ronan patted his desk: "yes, who would have thought that one day we would be standing at the peak of the North American box office record!"

There was a knock on the door, and Jessica Felton, dressed in a women's professional suit and looking unusually capable, walked in.

George Clint walked over and shook hands vigorously with Jessica Felton: "Jesse, you're doing a great job. ”

Jessica Felton apparently got the news as well, saying: "It's so acclaimed, I took over a sequel to a hugely successful film. ”

She said with a smile: "It's just that I didn't expect the second part to be so successful." ”

The premiere box office of the second installment more than doubled compared to the critically acclaimed first.

Ronan went to one of the cupboards in his office, took out a bottle of red wine, took three glasses by the way, and said, "We're going to have a drink for that." ”

Jessica Felton laughed and said, "Celebrate?"

George Clint said: "It's certainly something to celebrate. ”

As he spoke, he took the bottle from Ronan's hand, and poured wine into each of his three glasses.

"For Pirates of the Caribbean 2 to be a big hit!"

"For our success. ”

"For relativity entertainment!"

"Cheers!"

The three clinked glasses, took a sip each, and laughed at the same time.

Robert Lee and Mary walked in one after another, and Mary looked at the three of them and said with a smile, "Why don't you call us for celebration?"

Ronan went to get the cup: "You're here just in time, let's have a drink together." ”

Robert Lee asked, "I'm going to call Bob." ”

Ronan took out the glass and handed it to Jessica Felton for George Clint to pour the two of them a drink, saying, "Bob has been in San Francisco lately. ”

"How did I forget about this. Robert Iger paused: "Bob is busy with the Netflix network listing. ”

Ronan took the wine glasses handed by Jessica Felton and waited for everyone to pick them up and clinked glasses with them one by one: "I wish us better and better." ”

Mary smiled and said, "I wish us success." ”

Everyone else laughed and clinked glasses, and the joy spread to every corner of the office.

Mary, Robert Lee and George Clint are the only three employees who followed Ronan to start a business, not only have options for Relativity Entertainment, but also have corresponding equity awards when Netflix goes public.

Although the equity is small, it can further motivate people.

Other Ronan dare not guarantee that when Netflix is listed, Mary, Robert Lee and George Clint's net worth of tens of millions is absolutely guaranteed.

The listing of Netflix also requires a certain number of shareholder shares, which is a necessary condition for listing.

It is also the norm for listed companies to have a small ownership of the shares.

Just like Pixar Studios back then, even if Netflix was listed, Ronan still had an absolute controlling stake in Netflix through Relativity Entertainment.

Jessica Felton is treated much worse than Mary, Robert Lee and George Clint.

If you want to become a shareholder of Netflix Network, you can only wait until it is listed to get money for it.

At this point, Ronan has always been very clear, Jessica Felton does have a good relationship with him and has shown enough ability, but this makes Relativity Entertainment give away equity, which is too child's play.

Speaking of which, isn't Netflix's equity the same as Chinese cabbage.

After a brief drink to celebrate, everyone had work to attend to, and they all said goodbye and left, leaving Jessica Felton behind.

"You also need to participate in the peripheral sales of "Gathering Soul Coffin" in the future. Ronan reminded: "Shahai Entertainment can't allocate manpower for the time being, and you need to participate on behalf of the production company." ”

The finances of Shahai Entertainment's subsidiaries are all accounted for separately, which was determined from the beginning.

Jessica Felton said: "Yes, I have time now, post-production for Fast & Furious 3 is going well, I just need to be in control and can pull out. ”

Ronan asked, "How's Juno's preparation?"

"I've negotiated an actor deal with Alan Peggy, and she'll play the lead role. Jessica Felton said in general: "This actor does have a distinctive character, and he is born with the advantage of age minus five, which is very suitable for playing a female high school student." ”

She thought for a while and said: "I'm looking for a suitable director, and it's not easy to find a director for a movie with this theme." ”

Ronan suddenly remembered Sofia Coppola, who had seen at the premiere of "Revenge of the Sith", a very freelance female director who was still on vacation and might have been an option.

"What do you think of Sofia Coppola?" Ronan didn't know who the former director was, and Jessica Felton knew the project better than he did, so he just made a suggestion: "The director of 'Lost in Translation'." ”

Jessica Felton said: "Sofia Coppola? female directors have a natural advantage in directing women's themes. Oh, by the way, her directorial debut is "The Death of a Virgin", which is also a film about teenage girls' feelings and family ethics. ”

Ronan nodded slightly: "Sofia Coppola's film is handled very well, she should be better at this kind of theme about women." ”

Jessica Felton said: "Do you have contact information for Sofia Coppola? You should know that a director like Sofia Coppola, not only do we choose her, she also has the right to choose her partners. ”

Ronan opened the phone log, found out Sophia Coppola's contact information, handed it to Jessica Felton, and said, "You contact Sophia first, and then notify me when you need me to come forward." ”

"Okay. Jessica Filton put away her contact information: "I'll send the script over first and let her read it." ”

Instead, she said, "Gore Verbinski asked, when is the preview of 'The End of the World' going to take place?"

Ronan waved his hand: "The trial will not be necessary, you tell Director Verbinski that if he wants to start a new project, he does not have to scruples." ”

Jessica Felton said: "He is indeed preparing a new project, and he asked me some time ago and asked me to read the script, and probably the script and project plan will come to you soon. ”

The project review of Relativity Entertainment must pass Ronan's level.

Even the projects of directors who have worked successfully with Relativity Entertainment are no exception.

Hollywood has had too many directors who have succeeded in this film, and the next film will hit the street miserably.

Ronan was curious and asked, "What project?"

Jessica Felton said simply: "A film about the family ethics of the weather forecaster, the script is called "The Weather Forecaster", Gore Wibinski has personally funded the purchase of the script, is looking for investment, his first consideration is to continue to work with us. ”

Directing the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, Gore Verbinski also made a lot of money, and it was easy to buy the rights to a movie script.

Ronan's knowledge of Gore Verbinski is limited to the "American version of the Grudge" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and he can't remember which films he has also directed.

In this respect, "The Grudge" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" are also probably Gore Verbinski's most successful commercial films.

Jessica Felton continued: "Gore Verbinski has confirmed the male lead, the cousin of Sofia Coppola that we just talked about. ”

Ronan knew who she was talking about: "Nicolas Cage?"

"That's him. Jessica Felton said: "Gore Verbinski has initialed an agreement with Nicolas Cage, and he believes that having Nicolas Cage on board will help attract investment from the production company. ”

Normally, this is indeed the case.

The last film "National Treasure" starring Nicolas Cage was a great success, making this somewhat outdated movie star instantly return to the first-line ranks.

The combination of famous directors and stars has always been one of the studio's favorite models.

But when Ronan heard the name Nicolas Cage, he instantly lost interest in Gore Wibinski's new project.

Nicolas Cage was once famous, on the one hand, because of his success in the nineties, and on the other hand, he was the king of bad movies after the new century.

For this old friend of oriental fans, Ronan used to be relatively familiar, and I remember that after "National Treasure", it seems that except for "Ghost Rider", which is quite successful, the other films are basically the fate of hitting the street and hitting the street.

even, in the end, it fell to the point of running to the Oriental Film Production Company to make money.

It can be said that after "National Treasure", Nicolas Cage officially started the super vicious circle mode.

Ronan pondered for a moment and said, "That's it, wait for Shahai Entertainment to submit the project to me, and I'll talk about it after reading the script and plan." ”

Jessica Felton didn't say much, she knew that Ronan had always been more cautious in this regard.