Maple Leaf Pictures is well-funded, presumably in the case of Ronan and Relativity Entertainment, and Ryan Kavanaugh plans to follow the route of Relativity Entertainment's early independent productions, rather than spending money on film projects everywhere.

These are the intangible effects of relativistic entertainment.

After all, the scale and development momentum of Relativity Entertainment is here, and latecomers can see it when they look up, and it is undoubtedly a very successful imitation object.

To a certain extent, Ryan Cavanno is also cautious, and Kevin Spacey, as the co-chairman of Maple Leaf Pictures, probably reminded him that as an outsider who has newly joined the fame and fortune game of Hollywood, he is likely to be pitted and unable to recover his investment if he wantonly spends money investing in projects of other large companies.

There are just too many famous movies that Hollywood has legitimately losing money on its books.

Independent producers, with Stallone as a partner, seem to be the best choice.

Maple Leaf Pictures is willing to buy horse bones, and Relativity Entertainment does not insist on the sequel copyright, and the negotiations between the two sides are progressing very quickly.

After Robert Lee joined in person, Maple Leaf Pictures and Relativity Entertainment quickly reached an agreement.

"It's really rich. ”

In the office, Robert Lee was quite emotional: "In the two negotiations I had with Maple Leaf Pictures, they only left one impression on me. ”

Ronan smiled and asked, "What's your impression?"

Robert Lee gave a thumbs up, as if he was genuinely praising Maple Leaf Pictures: "Extraordinary! ”

He shook his head: "This is the easiest copyright negotiation I've ever experienced." ”

Ronan is not surprised: "They have money, but no projects. ”

"It's not just money. Robert Lee said: "The money is still from investors, Maple Leaf Pictures finances from Wall Street, and Wall Street finances from small and medium-sized investors with a huge base, spending all the money of customers, don't feel distressed." ”

"For us, studios are a career, but for them, it can be a financial game," Ronan said. ”

Robert Lee nodded: "If I had known this, I would have temporarily doubled the conditions." ”

"It's good to be able to meet the current conditions. Ronan carefully weighed Ryan Kavanaugh's psychological bottom line and reminded: "Maple Leaf Pictures previously negotiated with Sony Columbia Pictures about the sequel copyright to "Rocky", but gave up because Sony Columbia Pictures offered too much. ”

"They also have to measure the return on investment," Lee said. ”

Ronan agreed: "The fame of the First Blood trilogy attracted them, as well as Stallone ......"

Robert Lee asked, "You're not too optimistic about the sequel?"

If you are optimistic, Shahai Entertainment has already put the sequel on the filming and production schedule, how can it be possible to authorize Maple Leaf Pictures.

"This kind of pure tough-guy action movie is outdated at the moment. Ronan said simply: "It may be profitable, but it will not be very high." ”

Robert Lee said: "Under the contract, regardless of the success or failure of the film, our revenue is guaranteed. ”

In the agreement reached between Relativity Entertainment and Maple Leaf Pictures, the former authorized the latter the filming rights of a sequel to "First Blood", with a basic licensing fee of up to $25 million, plus 10% of the total revenue of the film within three years of its release as a dividend.

In addition, "First Blood 4" will be distributed by Embassy Pictures, and the distribution commission has nothing to do with the licensing fee, and will be settled separately by Embassy Pictures and Maple Leaf Pictures.

According to what Ronan learned, Stallone was indeed prepared, and the relevant preparations were done very quickly, David Ellison had previously called Ronan and mentioned some of the content of the fourth part.

Sylvester Stallone intends to set the story of the fourth part in Myanmar.

Ronan couldn't help but think of the old Rambo who could only use a machine gun to attack the enemy, and the limbs of the person hit by the heavy machine gun were broken, and the visual impact was really strong.

But it also makes people really feel that Stallone is indeed old.

In contrast, the power of the guns in the footage is closer to the real effect than in traditional Hollywood movies.

Heavy machine gun bullets can easily tear human bodies apart.

The bullet of the assault rifle is also a big hole in the person's body.

Flesh and blood are vulnerable to the metal storm.

The power of guns and even artillery in the movie has been artistically reprocessed after all.

For example, artillery, there are too many such shots in the movie, shells of 105 or more calibers fall more than ten meters or even a few meters away from the protagonist, and the protagonist successfully avoids danger because he lies down in time.

I'm afraid that people who know a little bit about modern weapons are very clear.

But if you don't shoot like this, how can you highlight the heroism of the protagonist? When a cannonball comes, even if it is far away, the protagonist has to be hung, and the movie cannot be filmed.

The most typical, the ending scene of "First Blood 3", does not weaken the power of the gun for the protagonist, how can Rambo survive in that battlefield environment.

The power of modern firearms, not to mention guns, firecrackers are amazingly lethal.

Ronan still remembers a junior high school classmate, who learned to smoke at a young age, and when the Chinese New Year was approaching, he got some cigarettes and firecrackers to come to school to pretend to be forced, and lit a cigarette in the toilet to blow up shit with a firecracker, but after lighting it, he threw the cigarette into the dung pit, and the firecracker exploded directly in his hand, and the half of his index finger was gone......

This classmate has an extraordinary experience, and he can make a movie called "A Million Ways to Die at School".

I made an appointment with someone from another school, and was slapped on the head with a brick; I moved from the bungalow to the teaching building in the third year of junior high school, and it became a habit to jump out of the back window of the bungalow, and on the first day of school in the summer vacation, I jumped out of the back window, fortunately it was only the third floor; I finally recovered from my injuries and came back, I was beaten by my parents and then reprimanded by the teacher, and I was depressed and asked two classmates to go to the Shaolin Temple to become monks, and almost starved to death on the way......

When he was about to graduate, he provoked a gray deaf man on the tofu brain stall, and was smashed on the head by someone, and the deaf man didn't have anything to do, but he was lying in bed and missed the high school entrance examination.

At the time, many people speculated that it might be because of one of the biggest disputes in history: whether tofu brain was salty or sweet......

After Maple Leaf Pictures signed a licensing agreement with Relativity Entertainment, it soon held a joint press conference with Stallone to announce the official establishment of "First Blood 4".

Excluding the related licensing fees, Maple Leaf Pictures has prepared a production budget of $80 million for "First Blood 4".

According to Hollywood's rules, if you include the copyright fee, this is a first-line project with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

In addition, Maple Leaf Pictures has other actions, such as being in talks with Lionsgate, and seems to have the intention of acquiring some of Lionsgate's shares.

It's also a way to open up the Hollywood scene.

Due to the emergence and influence of Relativistic Entertainment, Lionsgate's development is far less than it once was, and looking at the whole of Hollywood, it can only be barely regarded as a medium-sized film company, after the latest financing failure, Lionsgate owner Frank Gusta is said to have retreated, ready to leave the under-situation Hollywood and film and television industry, to concentrate on his old business in finance.

However, after Lionsgate raised funds and expanded its shares several times, its shares were quite dispersed, and even if Frank Gusta sold all of his shares to Maple Leaf Pictures, Maple Leaf Pictures would not be able to gain control of Lionsgate.

Ronan and Relativity Entertainment showed the responsibility of an ally, and specially passed on Lionsgate related materials to Ryan Kavanaugh and David Ellison.

It's also a reminder that there's no need to waste time and resources on Lionsgate.

Then again, if Maple Leaf does buy Lionsgate, it may no longer be interested in other companies.

Because of Ronan, Lionsgate has not developed, especially "Saw Horror", a major opportunity for development and growth.

This series is now owned by Relativity Entertainment, and Wen Ziren has also signed a long-term director contract with Shahai Entertainment, and will cooperate with Relativity Entertainment for a long time in the future.

Of course, Ronan and Relativity Entertainment will also guarantee Wen Ziren's income, and the long-term contract is to allow Wen Ziren to continue to cooperate with Shahai Entertainment and limit the asking price that does not meet the market conditions.

The first two installments of "Saw Horror" were all huge successes, with the first part grossing $161.52 million worldwide and the second part grossing $222.17 million worldwide.

In stark contrast, Relativity Entertainment's total investment in the two films is only $26 million.

Including online and offline publicity and distribution.

In the offline market, the results of the two "Chainsaws" are equally amazing.

On Netflix's rental business list and North American rental market statistics, "Saw Horror" and "Saw 2" have all entered the top three horror film rental performance lists in the first two years.

The low investment and dozens of times the box office have also created the biggest series of horror film myths in the history of Hollywood horror films.

Correspondingly, Wen Ziren, as a director and screenwriter, also has the title of "Father of Jigsaw".

This young Asian director can be said to be full of talent in the horror film genre, and he is better than James Wong.

"Saw 3" is about to be released, although this series will definitely continue to be filmed, but according to the agreement between Ronan and Wen Ziren, after the filming of the trilogy, Wen Ziren will leave the position of director of the "Saw Horror" series and only serve as the producer of the project.

Ronan will not continue to limit Wen Ziren to the "Saw Horror" series, the value of this young horror film director, but it has just been shown.

He believed that Wen Ziren would achieve greater success in the future, and would also give him more freedom to create within the framework of restrictions.

The new director of the "Saw Horror" series, Wen Ziren, after the production of "Saw 3", recommended Ronan and Shahai Entertainment to Darren Bowsman, who served as an assistant director in the crew and was also his assistant.

Ronan knew the man, met with him twice, and agreed that Darren Bausman would be in charge of the rest of the series.

Although Wen Ziren has left the director's position, he will continue to serve as a producer, and the "Chainsaw" series will basically not deviate from the right track.