"I didn't expect to meet you here. David Ellison came from an extraordinary background, but was quite polite in the face of a figure comparable to his father: "You are the ultimate goal of many of our classmates. ”

Harvey Weinstein asked curiously, "David, Ronan, do you know each other?"

Ronan certainly knew David Ellison, but it was because of the relationship he had made, and now it was the first time he had met him.

David Ellison said, "I met Ronan a few times at USC Film School events. By the way, I was a student at the USC Film School. ”

He smiled and said to Ronan, "We are alumni. ”

Hearing this, Ronan nodded to David Ellison: "We at USC Film School have one more heavyweight in Hollywood. ”

David Ellison hurriedly said: "I'm just a latecomer, everything has to be learned more from you and George Lucas." He said very seriously: "Ronan, you are my idol, so I also dropped out of school and joined Hollywood." ”

"I was forced to do so. Ronan coped with it and said, "I didn't expect you to invest in Harvey's new company." ”

David Ellison smiled: "At a Jewish party, I met Harvey and came to an investment. ”

Harvey Weinstein chimed in: "David is ready to make a splash in the film industry. ”

David Ellison said: "It's up to two Duoduo to carry you. ”

Ronan said: "David, you are so polite, in Hollywood, the USC Film School is a family. ”

Alumni are a relationship that cannot be ignored, even in the highly competitive Hollywood, and David Ellison is willing to communicate more with Ronan as an alumnus.

When Harvey Weinstein left because of the reception, David Ellison said to Ronan: "Actually, in addition to Weinstein Pictures, I have identified two important investments. ”

"Funding is an important condition to gain a foothold in this circle," Ronan said. ”

David Ellison was deeply touched: "Ever since I dropped out of school and entered Hollywood, I've been ostracized and they're only interested in my money. ”

"No way. Ronan said: "There is xenophobia in any circle. ”

David Ellison didn't have to hide in front of Ronan, a richer person than him, and said naturally: "Fortunately, I can use money to smash a way out." ”

Ronan asked, "Why don't you talk about the other two investments?"

David Ellison replied, "I invested in a movie, about airplanes. I'm very interested in air combat movies, but there are very few air combat movies in Hollywood. ”

He went on to say, "In addition to Weinstein Pictures, I also invested in a film company. ”

Ronan became interested and asked curiously, "Which company?"

David Ellison said: "Some of Wall Street's small and medium-sized investment institutions and financiers, led by Ryan Kavanaugh, set up a film production company, which is also an outsider to Hollywood, and I also invested some of the money. ”

Ronan said, "I've heard about them. Actually, my men have been in contact with them before. ”

This was once Relativity Entertainment Pictures, but now it has to be renamed, because when it comes to the relationship between his plan and the former company's name, Ronan first heard people mention it, and let his subordinates contact Ryan Kavanaugh.

Although Ryan Kavanaugh was not spoken to in person, a fundamental connection was established between the two sides.

According to Ronan, Ryan Kavanaugh is a mathematical genius who comes from a wealthy Jewish merchant family and founded his own hedge fund at the age of 21 to fight his way through the 2,000-year-old Internet stock market.

However, the development of the story is not the path to success for the supergenius.

Ryan Kavanaugh misjudged the situation and didn't survive the 911 attacks of 2001 when his fund was finished.

But the good family made Ryan Kavanaugh quickly make a comeback.

Ryan Kavanaugh found that cash-rich Wall Street finance that was looking for non-traditional investment opportunities was just the right one to step in Hollywood.

This made the socially savvy Ryan Kavanaugh a fish in water, and he raised a lot of money from Wall Street institutions to form a company called Maple Leaf Pictures, and bought Kevin Spacey's film company, Trigg Street Productions, with a lot of money.

David Ellison said: "This company, now has the funding, but no channels, no film projects. ”

Ronan asked tentatively, "I've heard that Ryan Kavanaugh has billions of dollars in funding on Wall Street?"

With the coat of alumni, coupled with Ronan's attitude and position, David Ellison didn't think too much about it, and it wasn't much secretive news, saying: "Ryan Kavanaugh has a ten-year plan to raise a total of $12 billion to Wall Street. ”

He smiled: "Of course, this is a long-term plan. Now he doesn't have that much money, but he still has more than a billion dollars of money. ”

Ronan has a rough guess, and with David Ellison, it is estimated that Maple Leaf Pictures is likely to mobilize two billion dollars.

It's no wonder that the once relativistic entertainment opened the way with money and soon opened up the situation in Hollywood.

There's so much you can do with money of this magnitude.

Hollywood also needs external money to maintain a high level of investment.

However, the former relativistic entertainment ended in bankruptcy, and after all, it did not shake the traditional power of Hollywood.

Ronan said: "Don't worry, David, having money can open up the situation. ”

David Ellison said: "It can only be taken one step at a time. Before I entered Hollywood, I thought that I would be able to invest in the big six companies, but when I came in, I realized that it was too difficult. ”

Ronan smiled: "The six major companies have not always been so strong, and they can always find opportunities. ”

David Ellison said: "Hopefully there will be a chance. ”

He was smart and didn't bring up any topic of investing in relativistic entertainment.

He had studied before that Relativity Entertainment easily did not accept foreign investment.

David Ellison felt that instead of making such a request that Ronan would not accept, it would be better to use his relationship with Ronan as an alumnus to look for and wait for other opportunities.

The two chatted for a while about the topic of film, and the identity of an alumnus of USC Film School seems to be able to close the distance.

Bob Weinstein came over to greet Ronan, who took Connie with him somewhere else.

David Ellison watched Ronan leave, a smile on his young face that resembled that of his mad father.

This relationship may be a stepping stone for him to break into Hollywood as soon as possible!

Originally, David Ellison didn't want to come over for the premiere, but after hearing that the owner of Relativity Entertainment might be attending, he immediately changed his mind.

His childhood education taught him that in order to succeed, he had to take advantage of whatever was available to him.

When the time was about right, Ronan walked to the theater, saw that there was no one around, and said to Connie, who was following him, "Continue to collect information on Maple Leaf Pictures and Ryan Kavanaugh." ”

Connie whispered back, "Yes." ”

Ronan continued: "Chacharian Kavanaugh's itinerary, I'm going to meet him once in public. ”

"Okay. Connie said: "After the formation of Maple Leaf Pictures, Ryan Kavanaugh was very high-profile in Los Angeles and was always looking for investment opportunities. ”

Ronan nodded slightly, "I see." He also reminded: "There is also the dynamic of David Ellison, which should be paid special attention to. ”

The appearance of David Ellison is a surprise, but it is not a bad thing.

Connie whispered, "David Ellison has also been on a high profile lately. ”

Ronan added: "The relevant materials and information of these two should also be fed back to Robert Iger in a timely manner. ”

"Okay. Connie answered.

The situation in Hollywood is never static, the direction of the general trend is not wrong, and some new changes are inevitable.

How to take advantage of changes in the situation is also an important condition for achieving the goal.

After entering the theater, Ronan didn't have the heart to watch the premiere of "Sin City" at all, and almost all of them were thinking about David Ellison and Maple Leaf Pictures.

These Hollywood outsiders have money in their pockets.

More than ten or two billion dollars, that is, through Wall Street financing, no film company in Hollywood can come up with such a huge amount of liquidity in a short period of time.

The former Relativity Pictures just wanted to use money to smash a future.

The result is basically a failure.

The money stayed in Hollywood, and Relativity Pictures went bankrupt.

However, it took more than ten years for Relativity Pictures to go bankrupt.

"Sin City" has achieved good results, especially the word-of-mouth, the media and film critics applauded, and the audience has a good reputation.

Facts have proved that Frank Miller's comic-style images can be accepted by the film market and bring certain commercial value.

The film's $28.1 million box office in its opening weekend in North America is not very impressive, but it is also a good one.

After all, the film's mid-production cost is only $40 million.

"Sin City" landed at the top of the North American box office charts at the beginning of the painting, and it also relieved the Weinstein brothers, who officially broke away from Disney.

Everything seems to be off to a good start.

However, the trend of "Sin City" was not very stable, and it lost the box office top spot in the second week.

The spoof comedy film "Death is Gone", produced by Shahai Entertainment and distributed by Embassy Pictures, officially landed in North American theaters, with the huge influence brought by the "Death is Coming" trilogy, coupled with the successful imitation of the "Screaming" series, "Death is Coming" performed quite well after its release.

When the Grim Reaper can't kill the people he wants to kill, the audience is left with not only laughter, but also banknotes.

Three days after the opening weekend, this large-scale comedy with the theme of consuming "The Grim Reaper" won $32.18 million.

Like the "Scream" and "Scream" series, "The Grim Reaper is Coming" and "The Grim Reaper is Gone" will continue to be filmed and produced as series.