Hollywood New Century

In fact, for these famous directors, Simon's desire to cooperate is not very high. After all, directors of this level have their own unique ideas for their works and their own artistic pursuits.

The difficulty is that the balance between art and commerce is indeed very difficult. Francis Coppola's "The Godfather" series and Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" series both bring art and commerce to the extreme.

However, many of their other films are a bit self-indulgent, and there are quite a few commercial failures.

The best person who really played the art and business of the movie must be Steven Spielberg, and the double victory of box office and word of mouth is the most powerful.

Among these people, Simon is familiar with Peter Jackson. After all, the success of "District 9" has deepened the friendship.

This summer, the biggest winner is of course Xinghai, but Disney is also not bad, and a "Toy Story 3" and an animated live-action film "Alice in Wonderland" are also big harvests.

However, Disney can only rely on its own animation heritage, costing 200 million US dollars, and the action fantasy masterpiece "Prince of Persia: The Blade of Time" adapted from the game can be described as a fiasco.

The first weekend of "Prince of Persia: The Blade of Time" in North America was only 30 million US dollars. It was released at the end of May, and it is almost finished now. The North American box office is only 88 million US dollars. If it is not for the overseas box office of 240 million US dollars, Disney estimates that Cried.

However, for a big production with a production budget of 200 million US dollars, plus the announced release of 50 million US dollars, the final global box office is only 330 million US dollars, and Disney is also losing money to grandma’s house.

Unlike Simon's grand reception in Los Angeles after he joined Universal, Ryan Kavallaug, chairman of Relativity Media, who is far away in New York, has a hard time.

Originally, Ryan Kavallaug just got another Starz this year! The 45% market distribution rights of Overture Pictures, a subsidiary of the TV network, is also a supplement to Relativistic Entertainment's independent film distribution capabilities.

Now, Universal Pictures, one of its biggest partners, has put nearly all of its projects on hold after changing owners.

Relativity Media has only been preparing to make its own movies since this year. Although it also cooperates with other large labels, the dominant position is Relativity Media itself. The major labels are involved in investment and global distribution. After all, Relativity Media’s current strength is not enough.

"Simon, this is to hope that our Relativity Media will simply become a film fund. He has no shortage of financial support. Our Relativity Media's confidence is Wall Street's fund support." Originally, Relativity Media entered Hollywood with a large amount of money. It was a happy welcome, and Universal and Sony established a direct partnership, allowing Relativity Media to invest in 75% of their film projects.

Now that Simon has entered Universal, he has almost stopped all medium and large-scale productions. Should Relativity Media invest exclusively in Universal Pictures' small and medium-sized film projects of comedy, romance, and horror?

As for the project of investing in Xinghai Pictures, just kidding, Xinghai Pictures' projects are all directly funded by themselves, and if the funds are not enough, it is better to go directly to the bank for loan. After all, the copyright of Xinghai Pictures' project even the bank knows that it is a sweet pastry.

"Boss, Universal-led projects like "Super Battleship", "Snow White and the Huntsman", and "Les Miserables" have all been stopped now, and Disney's project "Forgotten War" plans to stop, we The plan to join Universal Pictures to take over together, and now Universal Pictures has withdrawn directly, and at the same time, the script of "Underworld Police Station" that Universal is preparing to adapt to the dark horse comics has also been put on hold," the assistant said with a worried look, very star, now Universal Pictures The strategy is to focus on the projects of Xinghai Pictures, with the Marvel series and the sequel series in hand as the main projects in the future.

Marvel series, others will take copyright interests to let you share with you? At most, it is to share the box office and DVD benefits after investing. Of course, after they received 10% of the distribution commission and deducted the announcement.

But does that still make sense? If you don't participate in the production, as a pure investor, how meaningful is Relativity Media?

As for the cooperation agreement between Relativity Media and Universal Pictures, there is a saying that this is produced by Xinghai Pictures, and Universal is the distributor.

Ryan Kavallaug sighed. Fortunately, Theory of Relativity's own movie has also started. The adaptation of "God of War" based on Greek mythology has invested 75 million US dollars. This is done by Theory of Relativity Media itself. The schedule is scheduled for next year. released in November.

"Didn't Paramount want to cooperate with us? All the time, I will talk to Brad Gray about the investment plan." Of course, Ryan Kavallaug is not worried about not having a partner. After all, capital is king. The collaboration between Sony and Paramount is the main one.

Investing in commercial films has always been Ryan Kavallaug's motto, as for art? There is no comparison between high-box-office movies with bad reputation and low-box-office movies with good reputation.

The reduction in the number of future film projects at Universal is a sure thing. With Marvel and several franchises, the investment of a major commercial film is higher than that of multiple independent films.

In this way, platter investment is meaningless. Platter investment is because the film company has enough projects to reduce the risk of loss by quantity, and popular series are carried out together with those unknown projects.

A film company that mainly focuses on popular series, want to go to a platter? Unless Simon's brain gets kicked dumb by the Texas Cowboys.

Not only Ryan Kavallaug, but also some filmmakers are also apprehensive, such as Oscar winner Russell Crowe, even if the "Robin Hood" released this year fails, such as the projects "Iron Fist" and "Iron Fist" to be involved in. "Les Miserables" and so on, I don't know if other companies will take over.

Another example is Keanu Reeves. Since "The Matrix", the movies he has received are one after another. This time, he finally received an A-level production "47 Ronin". Universal Pictures Originally, I started looking for someone to adapt the script, but now I just gave up, and even the screenwriter who adapted the script was fired.

As for "Man of Tai Chi", because it is preparing to seek the support of Chinese capital, Universal Pictures is only a distributor in North America. As long as Chinese capital is willing to support it, it is still very simple to find a distributor in the United States.

Of course, the most hurt is the main controlling producer or director of those projects. After all, it is hard to find companies and funds that are willing to support the projects. Now all the effort of the project has gone to waste with a single word from Simon Pike, much better than those actors.

After all, many projects are still in the preparatory stage, and the producers and directors have not yet thought about choosing actors!