This summer, Relativity Entertainment is undoubtedly one of the winners, and many of its films have all achieved good results.

Although the hope of "The Hulk" in May has slimly recovered its total investment through the box office, its offline results ensure that the film can be profitable and has taken the entire Avengers plan a big step forward.

"Car Mobilization" in June had a good online box office and was even more popular offline, and the sales revenue of peripheral derivatives was as high as the "Harry Potter" series.

"Teddy Bear" used small profits to make a big difference, destroying countless people's childhoods, while bringing nearly $200 million in North America and more than $400 million in global box office to Relativity Entertainment.

Moreover, this film is released in North America and overseas, and it is easy to have a global box office of over $500 million.

Needless to say, "Transformers" in July was a huge hit from online to offline. Optimus Prime and Megatron's love and fight have affected the whole world, and the global box office has reached nearly 700 million US dollars.

"Kung Fu Panda" was released at the latest, but the box office in North America is also moving forward steadily, and it will exceed $200 million in the next few days.

This film takes an international route and has a stronger overseas response. Currently, the overseas box office has surpassed the North American box office.

Although these five films have not yet been lowered from cinemas around the world, they have generated more than $2 billion in box office revenue around the world.

Relativity Entertainment is like a money-absorbing device, with huge amounts of funds constantly entering. On the basis of ensuring that the capital chain is healthy enough, most of them have become the company's reserves to deal with the upcoming big plans and various troubles.

"At present, the company's working capital is operating normally and has abundant cash reserves."

In the finance department's office, Mary told Ronan: "As of the end of July, we have a total reserve of $14.5 billion in addition to liquidity, which is expected to increase to $20 billion by the end of the year."

Luo Nan nodded slightly and asked, "What about credit?"

Mary immediately replied: "The last loan left for Bank of America is currently. If we want to mobilize funds, Bank of America can provide us with $5 billion in a short period of time, and the mortgage loans mobilized over a long period of time can be doubled."

Today's relativity entertainment is no longer a small company of the past.

Ronan said again: "Mary, start preparing early. I require that in the second half of 2008 or 2009, when the group company needs it, without affecting normal operations, you can mobilize at least $35 billion in the shortest time. You must make plans and plans."

Mary knew Ronan and Robert Eiger's plan and said, "I understand, I will give you a satisfactory answer."

Ronan is not worried about funding issues, because there is a last guarantee. Relativity Entertainment is still the absolute controlling shareholder of Netflix. Netflix Network's stock price has maintained a relatively stable and rapid upward trend under strong performance guarantees. It is inevitable that the overall market value will exceed 100 billion yuan this year.

Although it will be 2008 soon, Ronan has also done a lot of work in advance. The economic crisis has some impact, but it will not affect Netflix Network too much.

And I remember that the Internet industry has not suffered much impact this economic crisis.

In contrast, industries such as real estate, finance and insurance are the hardest hit areas.

Ronan basically has little investment in these industries.

With the economic crisis, Hollywood's money shortage was also affected. Many major productions now require financing to shoot Hollywood, and there will inevitably be problems raising funds.

Even the working capital itself will encounter difficulties.

Another one is the famous Hollywood strike.

In the Hollywood industry, the industry agreements and share agreements between the Producers Alliance and major trade unions are basically a cycle of twenty years.

In the last cycle, in 1988, a famous general strike broke out in Hollywood. Major unions, including the Directors’ Union, the Actors’ Union and the Screenwriters’ Union, were preparing to go out and close, asking the producers to share the dividends of TV broadcasting and videotape rental and sales.

The Producers Alliance settled the director's union and the Actors union as fast as possible. Before the strike began, the two unions left the ranks of strikes and participants.

Then, the Producers Alliance rejected the conditions of the screenwriters union, which led to the screenwriters union strike.

To be honest, the importance of scripts as the basis of a movie is self-evident, but Hollywood's neglect of scripts and screenwriters is also an objective fact. In the inherent concept of the producer alliance composed of major and medium-sized companies in Hollywood, screenwriters are all worthless goods.

Want to get the same treatment as the director's union and the actor's union? That's daydreaming!

Now 2008 is coming, and the agreement between the Producers Alliance and major Hollywood unions is about to expire, so contact negotiations have begun.

The Producers Alliance wants to settle major Hollywood unions as soon as possible at the lowest cost and in the best way to its own interests.

To be honest, from Ronan's standpoint, I couldn't stop being fucked by seeing organizations such as the Directors' Union, the Actors' Union and the Screenwriters' Union. These unions are safe and stable, and how good is it to be a mascot honestly? What's the matter if you have to jump out from time to time?

It’s okay if you jump up and down from time to time, but you even ask for increased employee salaries and dividends. It’s really hard for uncles to tolerate them, uncles can’t tolerate them, and grandpa can’t tolerate them!

Ronan's idea is actually the idea of ​​a member of the producers' league.

Therefore, even though the producers' alliance and major trade unions have begun to contact, the results are very unsatisfactory, and even the results are zero.

Times are changing, Hollywood is changing, the film market is changing, and the requirements of both labor and capital are also changing.

Today, emerging DVDs and Internet broadcast channels led by Netflix have become the focus of film and television peripheral revenue, but according to the agreement signed in 1988, these have generally had nothing to do with crew members such as directors, actors and screenwriters.

Those who sign the later share agreement are special cases and not common situations.

The profits in this area are really jealous and naturally become a conflict of interests between labor and capital.

Labor requires universal enjoyment of the dividends of emerging businesses such as DVD and the Internet. How can investors easily let go of their own interests?

The first few contacts between the two sides basically broke up.

The Producers Alliance has formed a negotiating team based on six major Hollywood companies, Relativity Entertainment and DreamWorks.

In this regard, the interests of major companies are completely consistent.

In the next six months, this negotiating team will need to handle many unions in Hollywood.

In fact, the key point is the director's union, the actors' union and the screenwriters' union. Other organizations have not high interest demands, and they are more in line with the crowd.

The major and medium-sized companies in Hollywood also have a certain understanding. The director union and the actor union are easy to talk about. Although they will not agree to the conditions they have proposed, it is not difficult to reach an agreement after each party makes a concession.

But, the screenwriter union...

In the general view of the producers’ league, the screenwriters union thinks too much.

Ronan is a very important member of the producers' league, so he can see clearly that there is a high probability that the old drama of 1988 will be staged between the directors' union, the actors' union and the producers' league, and the so-called strike will eventually die.

With Hollywood companies' attitude of generally despising screenwriters and scripts, screenwriters' strikes are inevitable.

As a member of the capital, Ronan will not foolishly jump out and take the initiative to act as a bad person. The requests made by the screenwriter's union also harm the interests of relativity entertainment.

Only by lowering the conditions of major trade unions as much as possible is in line with the interests of relativity entertainment.

This inevitable strike involves major differences of interests and cannot be adjusted casually.

So, Ronan did a lot of preparations in advance.

After leaving the group company's finance department, he went directly to Shahai Entertainment, talked with George Clint for a while, and went to the screenwriter department to urge multiple screenwriter teams to complete the script work at hand as planned before October this year.

At present, the screenwriter department has completed multiple scripts, and nearly ten scripts are busy creating. Even if the upcoming strike lasts for several months, it will not have much impact on Shahai Entertainment's 2008 shooting and production plan.

Many projects such as "The Joker", "The Hunger Games", "Beauty and the Beast", have been finalized, and even without a screenwriter, the crew can prepare for filming normally.

However, some unexpected situations will still affect the shooting and production plan of Shahai Entertainment.

For example, in the "Resident Evil" series, after "Resident Evil 3", Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich of the couple took a break for a while and were preparing to film the fourth part. Then suddenly found that the heroine Milla Jovovich was pregnant, so she had to postpone the fourth part.

The filming and production of "Resident Evil 4" can only be done after Mira Jovovich gave birth to a child and recovered from her figure next year.

This can also be regarded as an irresistible factor for human power.

Another zombie movie series, the script of "Dawn of the Dead 3" was also pushed into the fast lane by Ronan, because "Dawn of the Dead 2" achieved a box office for North American paintings that was slightly higher than the first one, and scored 38.65 million US dollars, winning the North American box office championship for Relativity Entertainment in August.

This film, whose main story and background is concentrated on the island, is actually an old routine inherent in zombie films, but is talked about by many fans of this type.

Especially several videos are widely circulated through social media such as Netflix.

The heroine of "Dawn of the Living Dead 2" is called Alexandra Dadario. She was chased by zombies several times in the film and ran away desperately.

Starting from the publicity period, Alexandra Dadario, wearing a white tight short T-shirt, fully showed movie fans what the Mount Everest earthquake is!

On Netflix, some movie fans said that the scene of Alexandra Dadario escaping from the zombies alone brought millions of male viewers to the film.
Chapter completed!