Both sides are interested in cooperation, and the subsequent negotiations will undoubtedly go much smoother. From the second day after the meeting, Ronan, on behalf of Shahai Film, officially began cooperation negotiations with Paul Anderson and Samuel Hadida, and quickly reached a series of preliminary agreements.

Shahai Entertainment invested $25 million to produce the film adapted from the game "Resident Evil", Samuel Hadida served as the second producer, and Paul Anderson served as the screenwriter, producer and director.

Ronan serves as the first producer and has the final editing rights for the film.

As the most important investor, Tony Koch will also put the co-producer name on the crew.

According to the rules in the Hollywood industry, the copyright of the movie "Resident Evil" belongs to Shahai Entertainment. Since Ronan has a series of plans next, it is impossible to spend a large amount of funds from Relativity Entertainment on this project. Koch Pictures' $20 million direct investment is undoubtedly the best choice.

Another $5 million was raised by Shahai Entertainment.

The project will also be handed over to Tony Koch to operate the tax refund matter. Although it may not be successful, as long as it is possible to bring millions of dollars in income, it must be fought for.

Before signing the formal investment agreement, Ronan talked specifically with Tony Koch.

After all, the two sides are not a simple business partnership. Some things in Hollywood, Tony Koch don’t understand at all, and some things must be said before.

"Tony, I must first tell you about the future operation of this film." Ronan did not expect to have a conflict in the end: "The friendship between us is friendship, but business cooperation must follow Hollywood industry rules."

As the owner of a film company, Tony Koch also said seriously: "You just say it."

Ronan bluntly said: "This film Shahai Entertainment is the producer, and your Koch Pictures is only an investor. There is no objection to this, right?"

This has been agreed upon by both sides, Tony Koch said: "No."

Ronan continued: "In the future, the film will definitely be produced by Embassy Pictures. Embassy Pictures will take the distribution commission from the total revenue of the film, which is about 30% of the box office in North America and 40% of the overseas box office. There are other peripheral copyright revenues, ranging from 15% to 40%."

"I've heard of these." Tony Koch also learned about Hollywood: "We'll let the people below talk about the specific commission ratio?"

Ronan agrees: "You have you go to Los Angeles to negotiate with Shahai Entertainment and Embassy Films."

If the people below talk about it, it won’t affect his relationship with Tony Koch too much.

Tony Koch sighed: "No wonder the issuer occupies the upper reaches of the Hollywood industry chain."

Ronan smiled: "I spent so much effort to establish distribution channels belonging to North America and overseas for these purposes. Without distribution channels, Shahai Entertainment will always be exploited by the issuer."

"This is too high a commission," Tony Koch said.

"The issuance and publicity expenses are the responsibility of the issuer, which is also investment." Luo Nan said directly: "That is, if you cooperate with you, if you change to another company, the commission will not include the promotion and publicity expenses, and I will calculate it separately."

Tony Koch was convinced: "You guys are so dark! Fortunately, I didn't think about investing in movies from other Hollywood film companies."

"I haven't finished it yet." Ronan said calmly: "Shahai Entertainment is the producer. After the film is paid by the publisher, the producer will give priority to 15% of the post-box office share as operating management expenses. The post-box share of the crew members and Capcom will be eliminated, and the remaining part will be distributed according to the investment ratio."

"I understand." Tony Koch was almost speechless: "Hollywood is just a group of vampires, and Wall Street is not as dark as you."

Ronan shook his head: "We have much more conscience than Wall Street."

Tony Koch asked: "Can the investor make a profit?"

"There is definitely." Ronan said directly: "Foreign funds invest in Hollywood, the average profit margin is about 15%.

If there is no profit at all and it is just a pit, how can Hollywood continue to absorb foreign funds?

But the biggest profit of a movie is undoubtedly intercepted by film companies through legal means. Smart companies will give investors certain returns as Ronan did in the "Human Purge Plan" to attract subsequent investment.

Of course, if the investor doesn't want to cooperate anymore, it's another way of calculation.

"How much profit margin will be for this investment?" Tony Koch asked again.

Ronan shook his head: "I can't guarantee success. Movies are high-risk investments. No one can guarantee a 100% success in a movie. Let me give you the most ideal estimate, the profit margin is about 20%.

Tony Koch laughed: "This is not a lot."

Ronan said: "There are very few people who can make 20% profits a year in normal business investment." He reminded: "Tony, don't forget that you also borrow other people's chickens and lay your own eggs. You think of a way to withdraw the handling fee from it."

Tony Koch has been led by Ronan: "I'll ask a professional for consultation."

After all, Koch Pictures’ investment is not its own capital, but it comes from financing.

Ronan talked to Tony Koch for a while about other aspects of operations, and the two reached an agreement on investment and distribution plans.

Then, Ronan called George Clint and asked him to handle matters with the Indian Mountain Foundation and then ask someone to travel to Japan to see if he could take down the copyright of the subsequent film of "Resident Evil".

Once this "Resident Evil" is successful, the collaboration with Paul Anderson and Samuel Hadida will not be so simple. If Samuel Hadida gets the subsequent copyright first, Shahai Entertainment will be passive later.

In addition to "Resident Evil", Paul Anderson also thought of another madman who showed off his wife, and it seems that the "Legend of the Night" series is also promising.

These two series may not be particularly popular in the box office, but they are the big winners in the family entertainment market, with offline disc rental and sales results.

Thinking of "Legend of the Night", the crew is also messy, the madman with the wife, the heroine's wife, and the heroine's ex-husband...

Hollywood, this emotional relationship is really messy.

Perhaps thinking about the relationship between this series, Ronan remembered some related memories. It seemed that this series had an infringement lawsuit, and the crew as the defendant finally had to reach an out-of-court settlement with the plaintiff.

According to the Hollywood film company's handling method of being a shameless Hollywood film company, it is estimated that it is very likely that plagiarism or copyright infringement is really involved.

Looking back, let people look for related works, the copyright of such unpopular works should not be much expensive.

After nearly a week of negotiations, Ronan and Samuel Hadida officially signed an investment copyright agreement, and the copyright of the film "Resident Evil" belongs to Shahai Entertainment.

Of course, this is after the production is completed.

Ronan also talked with Paul Anderson's agent who arrived in Berlin, and the two sides reached an agreement on the pay.

Paul Anderson is not a new director, and has considerable qualifications. He has become a formal director since 1994, and has directed films such as "Crazy Hunt", "King of Fighting", "Black Hole Surface", "King of Soldiers", and "The Magic House Phantom", which was produced at the end of last year, will be released this year.

Of course, such a director cannot be paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Paul Anderson, the three positions of screenwriter and director, plus producer, has a total salary of 3 million US dollars.

A consensus was reached on the most critical pay and production concept. Ronan signed a contract with Paul Anderson. The specific director contract will be signed after returning to Los Angeles. The Shahai Entertainment people negotiated with Paul Anderson before they could sign it.

Samuel Hadida's film pay is $1.5 million, but similarly, when producers cooperate with production companies with projects, the production companies need to pay project start-up bonuses and post-production sharing, which is a Hollywood industry practice.

Ronan will not break the convention formed in the industry for decades, otherwise, producers will lead projects to cooperate with Shahai Entertainment in the future, which will definitely be affected.

This is different from the one-time deal in "Blair the Witch" and will have a long-term impact.

Shahai Entertainment will give Samuel Hadida a $1 million project bonus, and a 2.5% net profit share as a later reward.

In addition, Samuel Hadida and Capcom have a post-share share clause in the film copyright agreement. If Shahai Entertainment wants to obtain the copyright of this movie, it must abide by this agreement. Capcom has a net profit share of 5% of the net profit.

Such a film, the profits left to the producers are not high, but Hollywood has an advantage. The peripheral copyright sharing accumulated by time in the later stage can be independent without being included in the net profit sharing.

On the one hand, Ronan can obtain the copyright of "Resident Evil", and on the other hand, the film will be distributed by the Embassy Pictures.

The profit margin of distribution is much higher than that of production.

At the same time, Ronan signed another agreement with Koch Pictures, and Shahai Entertainment bought back the copyrights of "The God of Death" and "Ace Agents" for $1.

After completing the preliminary negotiations for "Resident Evil", the tax refund application for "Spy Shadows" was also approved. The total tax refund of $7 million will be paid soon, and 10% of it belongs to Koch Pictures' handling fees.

The remaining 6.3 million US dollars has become the legal tax refund income of Shahai Entertainment, which does not need to be included in the revenue of "Spy Shadow".

Ronan is also contacting Luc Besson's ex-wife, the actor who is the role of Alice, and of course she is the first choice.

The act of depriving the madman who shows off his wife is so cruel.

If you remember correctly, these two people became friends because of filming "Resident Evil".

If these two people get married together, there are actually benefits. Ronan has thought of a way to promote the publication that will attract attention.

At that time, I will customize a T-shirt for Paul Anderson. The image of Alice on the left is written with "fe", and the image of a general woman, such as bathroom and ladies, is printed with "fe".
Chapter completed!