Although he won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film and did a lot of preparatory work, Ronan is far from fully trusting Marianne Del Rio's ability.

The female director is not in his memory, and the past lacks enough convincing works.

Even if Marianne Del Rio's request for a modest investment, Ronan remains cautious enough.

Of course, this caution is not to give up, but to sit in this position, a must work attitude.

The kind of thing that shocks people when they see the script, doesn't even consider the most basic market research and investment prospects, and doesn't care what the other party's resume is, or what the reaction to the previous works is, and immediately slaps the brain and decides to do it, it should happen in a madhouse, not a normal person.

In this industry, people with a little basic cognition know that once the investment in film and television projects is successful, the returns are really good, especially the long-term returns, but the risks are extremely high.

Risk control is a procedure that Hollywood can never bypass.

"The script is excellent, and I admire your professionalism. Ronan said directly: "I will transfer your project to Shahai Entertainment." ”

Marianne Del Rio was overjoyed that Shahai Entertainment has always been responsible for investing in production in the Relativity Entertainment Group.

How could Ronan easily relax in the face of such a seriously underqualified director and an unfamiliar project? He said: "I will notify Shahai Entertainment to sign a contract with you, allocate 300,000 US dollars, and you will be responsible for shooting a 15-minute or so trial clip, how the project is, we will talk about it after you finish filming the preview clip." ”

Hearing these words, Marianne Del Rio breathed a sigh of relief, although she did not directly set up the project, she believed in her own ability, and this had actually given her chance.

"I would venture to ask, when will the signing be completed?" Marianne Del Río was still a little anxious: "When will the funds be available?"

Ronan smiled and said, "If the negotiation goes well, you can sign the contract in a week, and the funds will not be given to you directly, but will be supervised by a third party." ”

Marianne Del Rio is a Hollywood director and hurriedly said, "I understand. ”

Ronan pressed the intercom, waited for Connie to come in, handed the file bag to Connie, and said, "Find someone, take Ms. Delrio to Shahai Entertainment, and you send a D-class project notice to Shahai Entertainment." ”

Relativity Entertainment has its own internal division of film and television projects, and the division mechanism is somewhat similar to the cinema audience score of Cinema Score, which is divided by A/B/C/D/E, and Category E is the kind of projects that are directly purchased from overseas and have average commercial value in North America, such as the Hong Kong version of "Infernal Affairs" and Stephen Zhou's "Shaolin Football".

Category D is a low- and medium-investment project with a certain value, which is relatively risky, and requires the project person to provide information such as trial clips.

Low- to medium-cost projects with less risk fall under category C.

Like "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Iron Man", they are classified as B, and they invest heavily in first-line projects that have not been tested by the market.

As for the criteria for category A, it is very simple and clear, the two sequels to "Pirates of the Caribbean", the sequel to "Spy", etc., all belong to category A.

To put it simply, it's a sequel to a hit movie.

This type of film has the least risk, has a large fan base, and has a super high return on investment.

Connie first found an assistant and led Marianne Del Rio with the bag to the production department of Sandsea Entertainment, then returned to her workstation and sent three copies of internal work emails to Sandsea Entertainment Production, George Clint and Ronan.

The preliminary process of this work on her side is over.

When Ronan saw the email, he remembered another thing and asked Connie to forward another copy of the email to Mark Randolph.

Netflix's streaming business will be launched in a few months, and the TV series produced by Shahai Entertainment will no longer cooperate with other broadcast platforms for the time being, just like "Prison Break" and "Survival in the Wild", which have completed all productions, Netflix is the most important broadcast platform.

The same is true of this TV series about Chernobyl.

Marianne Del Rio's script, in fact, has a lot of controversy, which may not be subjectively and deliberately added, but from factors such as perennial cognition and the formation of personal worldview.

People who grew up in the context of the Cold War and received an education in the so-called "liberal democracy" of the United States, are it unexpectedly to discredit Lao Maozi?

Ronan was not surprised at all, and he did not have the idea of correcting it, and the vast majority of the thoughts and opinions of the audience that this series faced after filming would not be much different from Marianne Del Leo.

This is not a documentary, nor is it a video material that reflects social reality, but a TV series.

Is it important to choose whether the authenticity of the events it reflects is important, and even more important is the business prospects?

Hollywood has chosen the latter for decades, and Ronan will be no exception.

Shahai Entertainment is definitely going to prepare more series and movies for Netflix, and Jared Abrams, who is preparing "Hurricane Rescue 2", talked to Ronan about a TV series project some time ago, which seems to be a little interesting.

Ronan simply went downstairs to the temporary office floor of the crew, and met Jared Abrams in the preparation office of "Hurricane Rescue 2".

"How's it going?" Ronan asked, "Jerryfer, are the preparations going well?"

Seeing Ronan and hearing this question, Jared Abrams couldn't help but complain: "Ronan, you dragged my male protagonist to shoot "Batman", and took my female lead away to shoot a youth idol movie, can I go well? If it weren't for this, "Hurricane Rescue 2" would have already started filming. ”

Ronan could only comfort: "They will return to the crew soon, and I guarantee that the film will be able to start filming in two months and be released on time next year." ”

The heroine really blames him, Amanda Seyfried first went to film "Mean Girls" after the release of "Hurricane Rescue", and now she is filming "Mamma Mia", which is a film project initiated by him personally.

Thinking of Amanda Seyfried, Ronan suddenly realized that it seemed that Amanda had called several times, and the mobile phone was on Connie's side, so he didn't receive it, and he was probably going to be complained about again.

As for Liam Neeson's schedule, it has little to do with Ronan, "Batman: Time to Go to War" was filmed last year and will be released this month, and Liam Neeson has also recently made two films, namely "Kinsey Professor of Sexology" and Twentieth Century Fox's epic masterpiece "Heavenly Dynasty".

The schedule is so tight, several aspects must be coordinated.

"Hurricane Rescue 2" can only be postponed for the time being, but fortunately, there is enough time for the next day, and it will definitely be released on time in 2005.

Ronan also told the production department of Shahai Entertainment to tailor the "rescue" type film for Liam Neeson according to the model of "Hurricane Rescue", he did not directly give the script and story outline, but asked the screenwriters to use planes, trains and ships and other means of transportation as the background to create rescue stories.

In short, we must let Uncle Neeson save the sky and the air.

Ronan chatted with Jared Abrams about the tension of preparation for Hurricane Rescue 2 and instead asked, "The last time I heard you mention, you had an idea for a TV series?"

Jared Abrams nodded and said: "I had it before the filming of "Hurricane Rescue", but during the filming of "Hurricane Rescue", this idea was clearer, before the preparation of the sequel, I specially sorted out the ideas, the story background and main plot have been written, and even the characters have been designed. ”

He looked at Ronan, "Are you interested?"

"I heard you mention it last time, but I didn't have time to listen to it. Ronan said directly: "Can you tell me more about it?"

Jareif Abrams's life path, because of Ronan's relationship, has changed dramatically from the past, he became a film director earlier, and enjoyed the dividends of success, but some ideas can only be postponed.

As far as cooperation is concerned, he belongs to the genre where relativity entertainment is very pleasant to work with.

As long as the director and the film company cooperate successfully, there will always be inertia, just like the development of Hollywood movies in a pattern, and will continue to develop along the successful model.

Therefore, Jareif Abrams has no objection to continuing to cooperate with Relativity Entertainment, and Ronan's good reputation makes him basically have no worries.

"You've probably seen 'Desert Island Aftermath' starring Tom Hanks, right?" asked Jared Abrams.

Ronan nodded slightly: "I've seen it more than once, it's a very impressive movie." ”

Jared Abrams bluntly said: "My idea for the TV series originally came from "Desert Island", and then I was inspired by the reality show "Survivor", and then I met Bell Grylls who came back from filming "Wilderness Survival" from overseas at Sand Sea Entertainment, and talked to him for a long time, and really determined that my idea was feasible. ”

He smiled, "Actually, without meeting Bell Grylls, this idea might still only exist in my head." ”

Ronan didn't expect that the collaboration between Shahai Entertainment and Bell Grylls would actually inspire Jared Abrams' new project.

Jared Abrams added: "I've basically decided on the background of the story, and I'll give it to you." ”

Ronan said, "Let's talk about it first. ”

"That's good. Jared Abrams organized the language a little and said as simply as possible: "The main story line is basically like this, mainly about a passenger plane crashing on an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, and dozens of passengers survived. How can they survive on such a deserted island?"

He further said: "There are all kinds of survivors, of different nationalities, races, cultural backgrounds, personalities, fathers, sons, friends and enemies. They have to overcome the bad weather, find food and water in the wild tropical jungle, and have a mysterious creature that screams at night that makes everyone tremble, and even more difficult is that they must overcome their personal desires, overcome their estrangement, and work together to survive ......."