Maple Leaf Pictures has abundant funds, probably because of Ronan and Relativity Entertainment. Ryan Kavanaugh also planned to take the route of independent production in the early stages of Relativity Entertainment, rather than spending money to invest in film projects everywhere.

These are all the invisible influences of relativity entertainment.

After all, the scale and development momentum of relativity entertainment are here, and later generations can see it when they look up, which is undoubtedly a very successful object of imitation.

To a certain extent, Ryan Cavano is also cautious. Kevin Spacey serves as co-chair of Maple Leaf Pictures, and probably reminds him that as an outsider who has just joined the Hollywood fame game, he will spend money to invest in projects in other large companies and will probably be cheated and cannot even recover the investment.

There are so many famous movies that have legally lost money on Hollywood books.

Independent production and Stallone as a partner, it seems to be the best choice.

Maple Leaf Pictures is willing to buy horse bones for a fortune, and Relativity Entertainment does not mean to hold on to the copyright of the sequel. The negotiations between the two sides are progressing very quickly.

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

"It's so rich."

In the office, Robert Lee sighed quite emotionally: "They only left an impression on me during the two negotiations with Maple Leaf Pictures."

Ronan asked with a smile, "What's the impression?"

Robert Lee gave a thumbs up, as if he was sincerely praising Maple Leaf Pictures: "Good! They just bargained for a little bit of the terms we made, and they accepted it easily."

He shook his head: "This is the easiest and easiest copyright negotiation I have ever experienced."

Ronan is not surprising: "They have money, but they don't have projects."

"It's not just money," said Robert Lee. "These money is still the investors. Maple Leaf Pictures raises funds from Wall Street, and Wall Street raises funds from small and medium-sized investors with a large base. It costs customers' money, so I don't feel sorry."

"For us, film companies are careers, but for them, it could be a financial game."

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

"It's great to meet the current conditions." Ronan carefully measured Ryan Kavanaugh's psychological bottom line and reminded: "Maple Leaf Pictures talked to Sony Columbia Pictures about the copyright of "Rocky" before, but gave up because Sony Columbia Pictures offered too high."

"They also need to measure the investment income ratio," Robert Lee said.

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

Robert Lee asked: "Are you not optimistic about the sequel?"

If it is optimistic, Shahai Entertainment has already put the sequel on the shooting and production schedule. How could it be licensed to Maple Leaf Pictures?

"This kind of pure tough guy action movie is outdated at present," Ronan said simply: "It may be profitable, but it won't be very high."

Robert Lee said: "According to the contract, no matter how successful or the film is, our returns are guaranteed."

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

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

According to the news that Ronan learned, Stallone was indeed prepared and the relevant preparations were done very quickly. David Ellison had called Ronan before and mentioned some contents of the fourth part.

Stallone intends to place the fourth story in Myanmar.

Ronan couldn't help but think of the old Rambo who could only use a machine gun to rush the enemy. The heavy machine gun made the person's limbs broken and the visual impact was indeed very strong.

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

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

The bullets of heavy machine guns can easily tear the human body apart.

The bullets of the assault rifle are also a big hole when hitting people.

The flesh and blood body was vulnerable in the face of the metal storm.

The power of guns and even cannons in the movie was ultimately artistically reprocessed.

For example, artillery, there are too many such scenes in the movie. The shells with a caliber of 105 or above landed more than ten meters away from the protagonist, and the protagonist successfully avoided the danger because he fell down in time.

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

But if you don’t shoot like this, how can you highlight the heroic spirit of the protagonist? A cannonball comes over, even if it’s far away, the protagonist will have to hang up and the movie will not be filmed.

The most typical example is that the ending scene of "The First Blood 3" is that the protagonist does not weaken the power of guns and cannons. How can Rambo survive in that battlefield environment?

The power of modern firearms, let alone guns and firecrackers, are astonishingly lethal.

Luo Nan still remembers a junior high school classmate who learned to smoke at a young age. When the Chinese New Year was approaching, he made some cigarettes and firecrackers to show off. He lit cigarettes in the toilet and wanted to use firecrackers to blow shit. After lighting it, he threw the cigarette into the cesspool. The firecrackers exploded directly in his hand, and half of the index finger of the firecracker was gone...

This classmate has an extraordinary experience and can definitely make a movie called "A Million Ways to Death in School".

I made an appointment with someone from another school and was slapped on my head by someone. I moved from the bungalow to the teaching building in the third year of junior high school. I usually jumped out of the back window of the bungalow. On the first day of summer vacation, I jumped out of the back window. Fortunately, it was only on the third floor. After finally recovering from the injury, I was beaten by my parents and scolded by my teacher. In depressed, I invited two classmates to become monks at Shaolin Temple, and almost starved to death on the way...

When he was about to graduate, he got a deaf man on the tofu brain stall and was slapped on his head. The deaf man had nothing to do, but he lay in bed and missed the high school entrance examination.

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

After Maple Leaf Pictures and Relativity Entertainment signed an authorization agreement, they soon held a press conference with Stallone to announce the official launch of "First Blood 4".

Not counting the relevant licensing fees, Maple Leaf Pictures has prepared a production budget of US$80 million for "The First Blood 4".

According to Hollywood rules, if copyright fees are included, this is a first-tier project with an investment of over 100 million US dollars.

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

This is also a way to open up the Hollywood situation.

Due to the emergence and influence of relativity entertainment, Lionsgate's development is far inferior to that of the past. Looking at the entire Hollywood, it can only be considered a medium-sized film company. After the latest financing failure, it is said that Frank Gusta, the owner of Lionsgate, has already developed the desire to retreat and is ready to leave the poor Hollywood and film and television industry, and focus on his old financial industry.

However, after several financing and expansion of Lionsgate Pictures, its shares were quite dispersed. Even if Frank Gusta sells all the shares in his hands, Maple Leaf Pictures will not be able to gain control of Lionsgate Pictures.

Ronan and Relativity Entertainment showed the responsibility that an ally should have, and specially sent a copy of Lionsgate's related materials to Ryan Kavanaugh and David Ellison.

This is also a reminder that there is no need to waste time and resources on Lionsgate Pictures.

Having said that, if Maple Leaf Pictures really acquires Lionsgate Pictures, it may no longer be interested in other companies.

Due to Ronan, Lionsgate Pictures has not developed, especially the opportunity for its growth and growth has been lost.

This series is now owned by Relativity Entertainment. Wen Ziren 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 Wan Ziren's profits. The long-term contract allows Wan Ziren to continue to cooperate with Shahai Entertainment and limit asking prices that do not meet the market conditions.

The first two movies of "Saw" have achieved great success, with the first movie having a global box office of $161.52 million, and the second movie having a global box office of $222.17 million.

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

Including online and offline promotional distribution.

In the offline market, the results of the two "Saw" are also amazing.

In terms of Netflix's leasing business list and North American leasing market statistics, "Saw" and "Saw 2" both entered the top three of the horror film rental performance list in the previous two years respectively.

Low investment and dozens of times the box office output have also created the largest series of horror films in Hollywood horror film history.

Correspondingly, as the director and screenwriter, Wan Ziren also received the title of "Father of Jigsaw".

This young Asian director is very talented in horror film genre, even better than James Huang Lai.

"Saw 3" will be released soon. Although this series will definitely continue to be filmed, according to the agreement between Ronan and Wan Ziren, after filming the trilogy, Wan Ziren will leave the position of director of the "Saw" series and only serve as the producer of the project.

Ronan will not continue to limit Wan Ziren to the "Saw" series. The value of this young horror director is just showing it.

He believes that Wan Ziren will achieve greater success in the future and will give him more power to create freely within the restricted framework.

After completing the production of "Saw 3", Wan Ziren recommended Darren Bowsman, who is also his assistant to Ronan and Shahai Entertainment to serve as deputy director on the crew.

Ronan knew about this person and met him twice in person, and agreed to the follow-up guide of the series led by Darren Bowsman.
Chapter completed!