"That's pretty much it. ”

In the huge hotel conference room, in front of Eric Peron and Mary Claire, as well as a group of colleagues, Chris Renard elaborated on the meeting with Ronan, and once again emphasized: "I repeat the two main points, one is that Shahai Entertainment will set up a separate animation production department for us, and give a relatively high degree of freedom, and only be responsible to the top management of Shahai Entertainment and Ronan Anderson himself. ”

Eric Perón and Mary Claire glanced at each other, and such conditions can be said to be quite good.

Chris Renard continued: "Second, after switching to Shahai Entertainment, our salary will increase to varying degrees, about 10% to 15%, and the details will be discussed in detail later. ”

"Not bad. Marie Claire, as a woman, is a little more emotional: "If we had spread out to other companies, we wouldn't have been treated like this. ”

Eric Peron nodded lightly: "Better conditions than Lionsgate." ”

Someone below asked, "What are the conditions at Lionsgate?"

"It's okay to say anything else, but the most critical points are not very satisfying. Eric Peron said directly: "Lionsgate wants three of us to join, but it doesn't need so many people, Lionsgate's overall situation is much worse than Relativity Entertainment, it is estimated that so many of us will join, which will bring huge salary and office pressure to Lionsgate." ”

He coughed and cleared his throat: "In terms of salary, they guarantee that it will not be lower than our treatment at Fox." ”

The employees below have already discussed that Lionsgate does not need so many people, and if Lionsgate really chooses Lionsgate, it means that some people can only leave the team and then find a way out individually, then the treatment is ......

Mary Claire immediately said: "I'm leaning towards the relativistic sand sea entertainment. ”

"Me too!"

"Me ...... too"

A voice of approval rang out.

After a brief discussion, everyone quickly agreed, and Chris Renard, as the leader, announced the tentative decision: "Our current first choice is Sand Sea Entertainment under Relativity. Mary, Eric, and the reps you just finalized, you ......"

The mobile phone rang suddenly, Chris Renard answered the phone, his face was very serious, put away the phone, and said: "The boss called, this Wednesday, Fox will officially announce the dissolution of Fox Animation, and then negotiate with us about dismissal." ”

It was not surprising to everyone, after all, they had known for a long time that this day would come.

Chris Renard continued what he just said: "You and I will discuss with Shahai Entertainment, and at the same time, we will go through the relevant procedures as soon as possible, Fox has nothing to be nostalgic about." ”

No one can guarantee that the movie will be successful, they have paid so much for Fox that they were sentenced to death just because one movie failed, and the Murdoch family is so chilling.

I'd rather buy outside companies with a lot of money than give my own people another chance......

Chris Renard sighed, no longer thinking about these troubles, someone came to me at this time.

"Director Renard. The man whispered, "Bane's group asked me to ask, can you come with us?" You know, Bane and his deputy went to Blue Sky Studio, and the rest of the colleagues had to find a way out on their own. ”

Chris Renard immediately said: "It should be no problem, you say hello to them first, let them calm down for a while, and I will talk to Shahai Entertainment about this." ”

According to his contact with Ronan Anderson, Ronan Anderson will not refuse, because in this way, the team of Fox Animation can almost completely transfer to Shahai Entertainment.

At the café near the Fox Building in Century City, Navas calmly walked out of the glass door, a flash of disappointment on his face.

"Boss?" his assistant walked over.

Navas shook his head lightly and said, "Let's go." ”

The assistant didn't dare to ask more, and quickly called the driver to drive over.

Getting into the car, Navas recalled Ronan's polite and resolute demeanor, and felt a little uncomfortable.

Three years ago, Lionsgate needed to consider Ronan Anderson?

But in just three years, Ronan Anderson and his Relativity Entertainment, both in terms of performance and scale, have long surpassed Lionsgate and pulled a long distance.

Navas didn't complain that Ronan didn't know how to be grateful, when Lionsgate released a film for Ronan, it was the simplest business cooperation, both sides pursued profits, and Shahai Entertainment also paid tens of millions of dollars in distribution fees for this.

No one owes anyone favors in this kind of business.

But Navas couldn't help but wonder if Lionsgate hadn't released "Human Eradication" back then, would it not have been in trouble today?

When he thought about it carefully, he always felt that Lionsgate personally held up an unusually tough opponent, or the kind of tiger wolf who wanted to snatch resources from Lionsgate.

Will such a company affect the future development of Lionsgate?

Navas wasn't sure, but he knew that the matter was out of his control, and that Ronan Anderson and the relativistic entertainment behind him were not something he could handle, and needed to be reported urgently.

Back at Lionsgate, Navas immediately went into Frank Gusta's office and went through the situation.

"You follow the latest developments. Frank Gusta immediately decided: "When I finish the financing in the next few days, I will find time to talk to them in person, since they are useful talents for Lionsgate, Lionsgate also needs to show sincerity." ”

He is the founder and chairman of Lionsgate, and he went to talk to each other in person, which has given a lot of face.

In the days that followed, news of Navas came one after another, and several representatives of Fox Animation had several more rounds of contact with Ronan Anderson and the people of Shahai Entertainment.

During this period, Twentieth Century Fox officially announced the dissolution of Fox Animation, and the computer animation engineers had begun to go through the formalities of leaving.

Finally, Frank Gusta took care of the work at hand and took the time to prepare for the personal solicitation, and asked Navas to contact the three representatives of Fox Animation.

In the reception room of Century City Century Hotel.

Navas introduced the two sides, and after a brief exchange of pleasantries between the two sides, he got straight to the point.

Frank Gusta looked at the two men and one woman in front of him, and easily distinguished that Chris Renard was the leader, and said with a smile: "Presumably, the three already know that Lionsgate is preparing to set up an animation production department, and Navas has also sent invitations to the three of them. ”

Navas, who was accompanying him, immediately smiled at the three of them.

Chris Renard said: "Yes, we are very honored for that. Thank you very much to Lionsgate for extending an invitation at such a time. ”

With the success of one animated film after another, Frank Gusta already saw a huge business opportunity in it, so after the financing was completed, he planned the company to prepare to enter the field of animation production.

If it weren't for the busy work in hand, he would have gone out in person a long time ago.

Frank Gusta said sincerely, "I would like to invite three of them to Lionsgate. ”

"I'm sorry. Chris Renard politely declined: "We have reached a franchise agreement with Shahai Entertainment. ”

"The three of them still think about it carefully, Lionsgate has just completed hundreds of millions of dollars in financing. Frank Gusta decided to make a little bit of a show to make Lionsgate's future more attractive: "We're about to enter a phase of rapid growth, and now that I'm joining Lionsgate, I'm going to be able to grow with the company, and the future is limitless." ”

As a veteran billionaire, Frank Gusta is quite confident and has long been accustomed to standing in a high position to handle things: "The three of you should think about it again, the decision to join Shahai Entertainment may not be the right one. ”

Chris Renard didn't speak, Eric Peron and Mary Blair looked at him and didn't speak for a while.

Frank Gusta laughed: "Three, don't regret your mistakes in the future. ”

"Mr. Gusta. Marie-Claire couldn't help it and said, "We made our own choices, and there is nothing to regret." ”

Frank Gusta frowned: "If you choose the wrong one, your life may go downhill." ”

Mary Claire is a computer technician, and she is not very good at interpersonal communication, and after hearing this, she was dissatisfied with this kind of tone of big people recruiting small roles.

Originally, I came here today to see the conditions offered by Lionsgate, and I hoped in case that there was no real agreement with Shahai Entertainment.

I didn't expect this to be the case.

"Did we make the wrong choice? What did we do wrong?" Mary Claire said directly: "In terms of company size, Lionsgate is not as good as Ronan Anderson's Relativistic Entertainment, right? You just raised hundreds of millions of dollars? As far as I know, Ronan Anderson successfully raised $500 million last December! And Relativity Entertainment's Embassy Pictures has overseas distribution capabilities!"

These are all obtained from the first-hand information provided by the other party in the recent contact with Shahai Entertainment and Ronan Anderson.

Among them are Relativity Entertainment and its major companies, as well as Lionsgate.

In the spirit of being responsible for the future, she not only looked carefully, but also asked someone to inquire about it, and then she knew that relativistic entertainment is far more powerful than it looks from the outside.

Marie-Claire continued: "We make animated films or animated short films, and of course we want the work to be seen by the whole world, but when it comes to distribution capabilities, Lionsgate is so bad!"

One thing she didn't say is that distribution means the monetization ability of the work, and the income of the work is directly linked to the rewards of the production staff, and the stronger the distribution ability, the more secure the future of these production personnel.

Lionsgate has not had a film with a box office of more than 100 million in North America so far, what to compare with Relatalistic Entertainment, which has been collected?

Mary Claire wanted to say it, but was stopped by Chris Renard.

Chris Renard said quite politely: "Mr. Gusta, thank you for your kindness, we have decided to choose Sand Sea Entertainment. ”

。 m.