Early in the morning, Shakira sat on a wicker chair on the balcony, looking at the golden sea as if she had seen a pirate captain with a catwalk treading water, and quickly picked up the pen on the table and wrote down the lyrics that had just popped up in her notebook.

Ronan put on his pajamas and took his breakfast to the balcony.

"Inspiration?" he said, glancing at his notebook.

Shakira smiled and said, "I think of a few words, it feels good." ”

"Do you want to continue?" Ronan saw Shakira shake his head, pointed to the plate, and said, "Let's have breakfast first." ”

Shakira glanced at the plate, her gaze suddenly dropped, and said, "I want to have something special as an appetizer, maybe it will inspire me." ”

Ronan put down his plate and sat down on the wicker chair, "Really, how do you need me to cooperate?"

Shakira raised an eyebrow: "It's good for you to sit." ”

Ronan was very cooperative, sitting on the wicker chair and not moving, only to see Shakira slip from the chair and fall to the ground, and then leaned over.

The sun leaped out of the sea, and the water was stained red with ten thousand rays of light, and Ronan let out a long breath and said, "Shakira, I have only discovered one thing now. ”

Shakira looked up, because it was inconvenient to speak, and looked at Ronan curiously.

"You don't just have an electric motor on your waist. Ronan said honestly, "I also have an electric motor around my neck." ”

Shakira pursed her lips tightly, her face full of smiles.

After a while, she returned to her seat, ate her breakfast, took out a tissue, wiped her mouth, and said, "I'm inspired." ”

Ronan wondered, "Does that work?"

If that trick works, those singer-songwriters ...... No, it's a beautiful female singer-songwriter.

He wasn't interested in the rest.

Shakira smiled and said, "I was inspired and came up with a song. She looked at Ronan, "Do you want me to sing it to you?"

Ronan picked up the glass of water and took a sip: "Sing." ”

Shakira cleared her throat and sang with a unique summer emphasis: "On the right side of the left leg and on the left side of the right leg, there is a big forest, where the little friends are lively and smart, it is mischievous and clever, it is hungry for a new forest, they care for each other and tolerate each other. Oh...... Lovely big forest ......"

With such a beautiful singing, Ronan could only applaud: Shakira really deserves to be a creative Latin diva!

"Okay?" asked Shakira.

Ronan nodded heavily, "Very good! Shakira, choosing you to perform the ending song is the wisest decision I have ever made on this project." ”

Shakira added: "We have a few days left here, and I will make you feel more and more that you have chosen me the most correct. ”

Ronan tilted his head: "I'll wait and see." ”

Leaving Baja California and returning to Los Angeles, Ronan was certain of one thing, Shakira's technique was the best of all the people he had experienced since coming to Los Angeles.

It's hot.

Everyone else has a clear gap.

And Shakira is very open, and directly told Ronan that as long as she is in Los Angeles, Ronan can go to her at any time, even if she gets married in the future.

With Ronan's return to Los Angeles, this particular relationship was temporarily suspended.

The time is approaching late April, and various promotions about "Tales of the Night" are in full swing, compared to some of the methods used in previous films, the publicity plan of this film is decent, and it is basically following the usual pattern of medium Hollywood movies.

Like zombies, werewolves and vampires have a sizable audience in North America, although they are not part of popular culture.

And at the beginning of the publicity, he shouted early to solve the mystery of the origin of werewolves and vampires.

Overall, the investment in the film is limited, and the total investment in production and publicity is only 30 million US dollars.

This kind of gothic film, which is biased towards a niche genre, wants to achieve profitability, it is necessary to control the budget as much as possible on the basis of ensuring the completion of production and publicity goals.

The most optimistic forecast of the marketing department of Embassy Pictures is that the box office of "Tales of the Night" is also the level of "Resident Evil".

Given that werewolves and vampires have a much smaller impact outside of the Western world, they may even have a lower global box office than Resident Evil.

But the success of "Resident Evil" made the theater chain willing to continue to invest resources in the new film of Embassy Pictures, and came up with 2,950 open theaters for "Tales of the Night".

Theaters are enterprises after all, and the primary pursuit is profit.

Although theaters have long passed the era of relying on film screenings to make profits, and even relying solely on box office revenue will cause serious losses, the amount of customer traffic brought by the film directly determines the sales of popcorn and other sales.

In Ronan's previous life, there were extraordinarily large popular multi-theater theaters, which could lose tens of millions of dollars in screening, but made a profit of nearly 100 million yuan simply by relying on popcorn.

This is not an isolated case, but it is becoming more and more common.

April did not form the concept of spring files at the beginning of the new century, and it still belongs to the traditional off-season of Hollywood movies, and films with real super strength are rarely released in April, which is also conducive to "Tales of the Night" to get more theater resources.

Prior to the release of "Tales of the Night", "Resident Evil", another film released by Embassy Pictures, officially withdrew from the theatrical market after ten weeks of screening in North America.

The market performance of this film in the early stage of its screening was amazing, but it did not jump out of the general trend of game adaptation movies and zombie movies, showing a clear high and low start, and the number of attendees in a single show has slipped to less than ten people in the next two or three weeks of theater screening.

Despite the dismal performance in the post-screening period, it did not prevent "Resident Evil" from being a huge success, and in just ten weeks of screening, the film grossed $78.65 million at the North American box office.

This is the box office result of Hollywood's game adaptation after "Tomb Raider", and it is also the highest box office result achieved by zombie movies in recent years.

Relying only on the North American box office, Ronan was able to recoup almost all the investments he made in the "Resident Evil" project.

Overseas, the total box office revenue of "Resident Evil" has exceeded $70 million, and when the film lands in the island market, it is very easy for the global box office to cross $150 million.

Together with other incomes, there is already an ample source of budget funds for the filming of Resident Evil 2: Revelations.

Once the first film is successful, the film can be serialized and developed, and the profits of the first film can support the budget of the sequel, so that the sequel can get rid of external funds to share the benefits, and ensure that Relativity Entertainment can maximize profits.

Ronan can't guarantee the success of every film, but this production and distribution model allows the risk of the first film, which has the greatest chance of failure, to be transferred to foreign investors, and the profits of the more profitable sequel film are owned by his own company as much as possible.

There was also good news from Scott Swift's side, as the Pacific Film Foundation's trip to Mumbai, India, was a very successful one, with funding agreements secured with four investment institutions, including the Mountain Foundation.

Over the next five years, the four investors will provide a total of $280 million to the Pacific Film Foundation, on similar terms to the financing it has with the islands and South Korea.

This also makes Shahai Entertainment's future production budget more abundant, and while ensuring the profitability of the sequel, more new film projects will be launched.

Even the Pacific Film Foundation has the resources to invest in other companies' film projects.

After all, many of the popular movies Ronan remembers were firmly in the hands of the big six companies long before he came to Los Angeles.

It is impossible to get the copyright from the six major companies, but there is still some hope for participating in the investment and sharing part of the profits.

After Ronan returned from Baja California, when he went to Warner Studios to check the filming of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Hurricane Rescue", he also took time out to go to the post-production department of the studio's office building to talk to Christopher Nolan, who was busy with the post-production of "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night".

"Director Nolan. Ronan said directly: "After listening to your words, I always feel that bigger projects can match your talent." ”

Christopher Nolan is not even a second-rate director now, and when he heard the words of Ronan, a well-known producer, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Although I am very confident, I also know that I am just a new director in Hollywood, and it is not easy to win a better project." ”

Ronan nodded lightly, not too active, just said casually: "If you have a suitable project and want to find a partner, you can come to me, if we can reach a cooperation intention, investment is not my problem." ”

He deliberately said: "My film foundation has just been successfully funded, and there is no shortage of funds. ”

Christopher Nolan immediately said, "I will definitely contact you if I have a project." ”

Ronan added: "With the concept and style you have elaborated, only big-budget commercial films are suitable for you.

Although Christopher Nolan is still working hard in the independent film industry, he is a commercial director at heart, and he agrees with Ronan's words, only with a sufficient budget and funds can he build a stage to display his talent.

But such an opportunity is too rare.

Thinking of this, his eyes unconsciously fell on Ronan.

A producer who shares his or her own philosophy may be a good partner.

Ronan didn't continue the topic, but opened his office bag, took out an invitation, handed it to Christopher Nolan, and said: "My company has a movie premiere in a few days, and if director Nolan has time, you can go and see it." ”

Christopher Nolan took the invitation, saw the name and time of the film on it, thought about his work arrangement, and said, "Mr. Anderson, it's a great honor to be here at this premiere. ”

Although he didn't know the actual content of the film, the invitation was printed with a scaled down poster of the film, and he had an inexplicable liking when he saw the protagonist's black costume and pitch-black night background.

Could it be that this is a movie of the dark wind?