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Chapter 289 Horror Movie Professionals

After Ronan provided the idea of ​​turning a reality show into a horror murder show, in just three days, the screenwriter department of Shahai Entertainment came up with a story outline.

In the new story, the protagonists will become actors participating in reality shows. When recording survival programs in the wilderness, they are attacked by a deformed ogre.

In addition, the story content will show more about the social life of the deformed people.

Ronan agrees very much with this point. Although some new content should be shown appropriately, it should follow the successful model of the first part.

More bloody, h, and larger in scale.

The plot is simple and doesn't matter. The strong visual impact will be cruel and inhumane from the beginning, making people unable to adapt.

This is the most attractive thing about traditional plasma horror movies.

In the office of Shahai Entertainment Screenwriter Department, Luo Nan also participated in the script creation seminar for this project.

"The mode is very simple." Ronan said generally: "This kind of film is to escape, be killed, and make blood. Then escape, be killed, and make more blood."

The person in charge of the screenwriter team of this project said: "I suggest adding a powerful character. Although it will be killed by ogres in the end, it can achieve a counter-killing of ogres to a certain extent, bringing some fresh stimulation."

Ronan thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes."

Another screenwriter said: "In addition to the escape, self-rescue and counterattack of all the survivors in the competition, the design of the plot can be appropriately interspersed and expressed the life of deformed ogres, such as childbirth, reproduction, father-son love, and husband-wife love." He smiled and said: "Of course, husband and wife are brothers and sisters or siblings, because only their family lives here, and no matter what identity is, they are the same surname."

Luo Nan nodded slightly and agreed with his statement. After all, this is just a communication meeting before the script is written. After the script is written, it will be modified before revision.

"What about the big-scale plot?" Ronan asked, "What do you think."

A middle-aged bald screenwriter was responsible for designing these scenes and continued: "I designed a scene." He opened the slide and a rough design artwork appeared on it: "A beautiful character was split in half by a long axe, and her internal organs fell off, and her undead nerves were still twitching in vain."

Everyone stared at the artwork and nodded frequently, as if they were very satisfied with the design.

Just looking at this scene, it seems that the people in the office are all a group of perverts.

Afterwards, the middle-aged bald screenwriter cooperated with other design artworks to explain in detail other scenes of abuse and killing, beheading with a long axe, sword piercing the brain's eyes, raw fingers, human flesh supper... Every scene was bloody and unambiguous.

The discussion was not long, lasting less than an hour before it ended.

Ronan also made a decision. The budget for the sequel of "The Deadly Behind" is lower than the first one, and all the actors have changed to new actors to reduce the pay expenses. The director also looks for a new director if he said that.

With the successful model of the first part, the success of the sequel is likely to be even greater.

Ronan will not give up on the horror film project, as it contains many opportunities to make a big fortune with small profits.

In the past two years, Shahai Entertainment has gradually formed a brand effect in horror films, and has even become a reputation as a professional horror film owner.

Not only Shahai Entertainment, but also the films produced by Relativity Entertainment are relatively large in scale.

Long Island, New York, in front of an art theater.

"This actress looks familiar."

Looking at the poster of "Irrevocable", Cleot said to his companion: "It seems like a European movie star."

His companion rubbed his beard and said, "This is Italian movie star Monica Bellucci, famous for filming large-scale dramas." He suddenly lowered his voice: "Don't you know this movie? It is said that Monica Bellucci's scale has made another breakthrough. At this year's Cannes Film Festival, this film was expelled from the film festival by the Cannes official because of its large scale."

Cleot was quite curious: "How big can the scale be? Aren't European art films shot with the scales of the San Fernando Valley?"

"You'll know if you go and take a look?" said the bearded companion.

Cleot thought for a while and said, "Go and have a look."

The films that can be expelled from the Cannes Film Festival are of course of extraordinary standards, and Monica Bellucci is so sexy.

The two entered the theater and Cleot went to buy tickets.

Before selling the ticket, the ticket seller said: "The Irrevocable does not have a grading of MPAA, and some of it may cause discomfort."

"It's okay." Cleot heard that there was no rating, but became even more curious: "Give me two tickets."

He is an adult, and whether the movie has MPAA rating will not affect his movie choice. Anyway, watching such movies is for Monica Beluci, it is said that it has broken through to the large scale of the sky.

Cleot was curious. Could it be that Monica Bellucci was really like the artists in the San Fernando Valley, shooting large-scale scenes with real swords and guns?

Having said that, in his mind, European literary goddesses like Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci are actually not much different from female artists in the San Fernando Valley. Why are they all separated?

But "Irevocable" still shocked Cleot and his bearded companion.

What is the psychology of the director and the actors? That's why they film...

Cleot thought for a long time before finding the right adjective: such a disgusting scene.

Not to mention female audiences, even men feel uncomfortable and even feel nauseous when watching it.

Which company has introduced this film? It will be released without ratings. If someone with a low psychological tolerance watches, will there be an unexpected situation?

As September approaches, two more movies of Embassy Films have been released, Ronan purchased "Shaolin Football" and "Irrevocable" from the Cannes Film Festival.

The former screening theaters are concentrated in large cities with a large number of Chinese people, such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with the target audience being the Chinese group.

The latter is released in less than thirty art theaters in North America and does not have the MPAA rating.

"Irrevocable" has never received MPAA's rating review. Even if the ten minutes in the middle are deleted, the MPAA rating committee still has to give an NC-17 evaluation, and the Embassy Film simply withdrew the rating review.

Although there are no legal rigid regulations, most theaters generally refuse to screen movies produced in Hollywood without MPAA ratings.

However, many films introduced from overseas are released in North American theaters as usual without MPAA rating review, and are still relatively common for European art films.

Several films such as Dindu-Balas were also introduced to North American theaters to be released, and are also not classified in MPAA.

Ronan later learned that many distribution companies, such as Lionsgate Pictures and Miramax, will not conduct grading reviews at MPAA at all because there is no need for this.

These overseas films are simply impossible to be released on a large scale, and will only be screened in dozens of theaters at most. MPAA rating is not necessary.

Therefore, Ronan simply asked the Embassy Film Company to withdraw the grading review of "Irrevocable" from mpaa.

The lack of ratings also meant that "Irrevocable" could only be screened on a very small scale. In conservative states such as Utah, Embassy Film Corporation simply did not contact any theaters.

In the end, there were only twenty-six theaters for "Irevocable" released, less than half of "Shaolin Football".

Even so, the attendance and box office of this film are far higher than "Shaolin Football".

Nearly a week after its release, "Irrevocable" won $280,000 in North America, while "Shaolin Football" only had a box office of more than $80,000.

Before "Shaolin Football" was removed from the theater, Embassy Films launched videotapes and DVDs. Anyway, it was only screened in a very small range, and the attendance rate itself was very low. At the same time, offline distribution had almost no negative impact.

"Irrevocable" can stay in the theater for a while, but the Embassy Film Company will also release videotapes and DVDs before it is released.

With the situation of these two films, the cost can be recovered in about 2 months, and if you make a profit, it will take time to accumulate slowly.

From "Irrevocable", Ronan also saw that European art films are somewhat marketable in North America. The feeling of watching pornographic films openly in the theater is also something that many adult audiences specifically pursue.

Just like the Kung Fu and Martial Arts films in Hong Kong City, although they are niche films among niche films in the North American market, they have a certain audience within a narrow range. As long as they control the copyright prices introduced to North America, they can also become profitable projects.

So, when a Spanish film company came to Embassy Films to promote a love film, Ronan bought out the North American copyright of the film for $150,000.

In the eyes of the Spanish, this is an ordinary love movie, but in Ronan's eyes, it is an absolute erotic movie.

The film is called "Lucia's Lover". The heroine is quite famous. Even Ronan, who doesn't pay much attention to European movies, has heard of it. Paz Vijay, a famous Spanish literary goddess.

As for Paz Weiga's filming and performance style, we can refer to Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, and even the standards are even better.

Ronan roughly watched it. This film tells the story of Lucia, who dares to love and hate, meets her favorite writer Lorensu, and devotes her body to him and immerses herself in crazy sex.

The purchase price of a North American copyright of $150,000 is not high.

However, Ronan asked the other party to re-edit and stuff as many large-scale shots into the North American version as possible.

Everything is for commercial benefit.

Embassy Films has successively bought out North American copyrights for European art films, which will also help establish a deeper connection with the European art film circle. Perhaps in the future, many banned films can enter the North American film market to be distributed through Embassy Films channels.
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