Disney's affairs were too anxious. Although I didn't know what Michael Eisner was waiting for, Ryan was also waiting for the most suitable mobile phone.

Now with the common interests of Pixar Studio, the Disney board of directors has shown a rare unity. Even Roy Disney and Michael Eisner have begun to cooperate. A powerful and without internal problems, Walt Disney is definitely not something Ryan can shake himself.

But Ryan knew the crux of it. Because of the president incident in the mid-1990s, Michael Eisner actually left a huge hidden danger. The key figure was the former Caa giant and his friend Michael Orwitz. The sky-high contract and resignation fee and appointments that did not meet the statutory procedures were the ones that broke out, this tyrant who was good at playing with power would face a lot of trouble.

You should know that this huge sum of nearly 200 million US dollars has not been paid off until now, any Disney shareholder has the right to file a relevant lawsuit in the court, thereby holding the person appointed by Michael Orwitz against the company's system and pushing the responsibility of the person appointed by Michael Orwitz with his personal will.

In this highly developed business society, managers squander shareholders’ money at will, which cannot be offset by just a few words of excuses.

Ryan has secretly contacted some retail shareholders and small investors at Disney, just waiting for the right time.

Perhaps he once wanted to live his life carefree, but whether his greatest interest was movies or his career to suppress emotional rebound, since he chose the most difficult path a few years ago, he would unswervingly move on until the day he realized it.

What belongs to me is mine in the end, and no one can rob it or escape it.

Like self-hypnosis, Ryan muttered this sentence and dissipated his thoughts and put them back on the document in front of him.

In late July, "Mummy 2" collaborated with Jenkins Film and 20th Century Fox also landed in North America. This comedy adventure series that was rejected by Disney management showed great charm. It achieved nearly $69 million in North America's box office in the first week. It has only been more than three weeks since it was released, which has surpassed the previous box office of $170 million in the United States.

The film has achieved great commercial success and has become one of the few live-action films with a sequel that can surpass the previous one. The director of the film Stephen Somos has become the first-class commercial director in Hollywood with the help of these two movies "Mummy".

Perhaps it was the success of this magical series. Stephen Somos signed a new directorial contract with Universal Pictures. Universal Pictures is ambitious and plans to create an unprecedented monster movie for $150 million in production costs.

The project has not been officially named. Ryan speculates that it should be the "Van Helsing", which has ruined the world.

He vaguely remembered that the production cost of this movie in his previous life should have exceeded 150 million US dollars, and it seemed that he only exchanged for a global box office of more than 300 million US dollars. The final result was even more miserable than "Pearl Harbor"...

Although his relationship with Global is pretty good, Ryan won't say much. It is undoubtedly a very disgusting behavior to interfere with the normal operation of other companies.

In addition to Stephen Somos, the male and female protagonists are also the focus of Hollywood attention. Rachel Vizi became the British rose blooming in Hollywood as early as the end of the first part.

This description is not an exaggeration, but there are more British roses in Fleet Street. After "Pearl Harbor" is released next year, Hollywood will definitely have another British rose.

Rachel Weiss is lucky. Among all the actors in "Mummy", she even surpassed the male lead and became the most popular one.

The success of this series also brought her great benefits. Just after the sequel was filmed, this talented woman from Cambridge took on a war masterpiece invested by a German studio for a salary of up to 13 million US dollars.

The production budget for this big production was originally 68 million US dollars, which brought together three Hollywood popular movie stars, Jude Law, Russell Fiennes and Rachel Vizi. During the post-production, the producer even invested an additional $95 million.

Because Paramount Pictures served as the distributor of the film, Ryan heard some news that the French director Jean Jacques Arnold was about to make this movie called "The War At the City" into an epic of the war that took place in the former Soviet Union, and even claimed to completely overturn "Save the Private Ryan" at the box office.

How many people have succeeded in filming commercial masterpieces in the French, except Luc Besson?

As for choosing "The Battle at the City", unless the movie is remodeled, it will definitely be one of the most failed big-produced movies at the turn of the century.

But this possibility obviously does not exist. Ryan learned from the sporadic propaganda that the movie was a showdown between two snipers of the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

This proposition alone is a cause of the big defeat of the movie. In the movie, except for the Soviets and Germans, even the three leading actors are British, and no one American can see them. Although North American audiences are becoming more and more open, this kind of "foreign" film full of French romanticism will definitely not arouse the interest of too many people.

Even today, liberalism and isolationism in the United States are still prevalent. In the eyes of these people, the Soviets and Germans have nothing to do with them.

The movie is deeply influenced by the social environment in which it is located. Ryan knows this very well. Movies like "The War to the City" fail not only the content of the movie.

"Mummy 2" was a great success. Stephen Somos went from being a young director to a first-line commercial film director. Because of his investment decision, Ryan became the target of lobbying by many screenwriters and directors. After all, those who chose to enter this world of fame and fortune all wanted to win both fame and fortune.

Whenever you encounter such a person, as long as there is no particularly urgent matter, Ryan will choose to listen to the other party and say a few words. He has always been very enthusiastic about things that may bring benefits.

This has nothing to do with the outside world supporting new directors and discovering screenwriters. What determines all this is only interests.

What Ryan didn't expect was that Ridley Scott became one of the lobbyists.

In the afternoon, he went to the editing room to check the progress of "Gladiator" and the dubbing of some of the clips made for the movie. When he finished these rests, Ridley Scott started chatting with him alone.

"you mean……"

In the lounge, Ryan put down his coffee cup and looked at Ridley Scott opposite him, "Want to adapt the documentary report of Mr. Mark Baoden's Black Hawk Project into a movie?"

"That's right, it's the Somalia incident." Ridley Scoe nodded and said seriously. "Before filming "Gladiator", I had a preliminary plan. I had reached a relevant agreement with Jerry Brookheimer. He was asking people to adapt the script. Brookheimer Pictures could not afford such a huge investment, so we need to find a suitable partner."

"Ridley, how much do you expect to invest?" Ryan asked after thinking for a while.

"It's estimated to be around 80 million US dollars." For most directors, this is an unattainable number, but compared with the production cost of "Gladiator" of nearly $100 million, Ridley Scott obviously doesn't think it's a big number. "Ryan, I believe you must have heard of this incident. I think it has a good market..."

During the filming of "Gladiator", Ridley Scott obviously grasped Ryan's view of the movie. He did not mention any artistic or realistic significance, but directly mentioned the market value of the movie.

Ryan naturally saw this masterpiece by Ridley Scott in his previous life, and was very impressed. This movie does not have the sensational memories of "Save Private Ryan" or the painful reflections of "Apocalypse Modern". It only has war, real and cruel war.

Ridley Scott himself won the Oscar nomination for Best Director for this movie.

Even now, Ryan still vaguely remembers the classic line - only soldiers who are sorry to the country, and no soldiers who are sorry to the country, we swear allegiance to the country we love deeply, not damn politicians.

To some extent, this movie has the potential to sell well, but it was born at the wrong time.

The film is deeply influenced by the social environment and has been interpreted very appropriately in "Black Hawk Down".

If this movie was released in the first two years, this year, or even before next summer, as long as you don’t make a war movie into an art film, it will not be a problem to recover the cost.

But the problem is that the movie will definitely not be released by next summer.

"Black Hawk Down" is still in the planning stage. War movies often require very long preliminary preparations. It would be nice to be able to start the film before the end of the year. Moreover, Ridley Scott could not throw away the post-production before the release of "Gladiator" and go to shoot another movie.

In this case, the filming and post-production, even at the fastest speed, working overtime like "Gladiator" will be released until next year's Thanksgiving Christmas.

At that time, how many North American audiences were willing to see the movies of their country failing and their compatriots being massacred?

Of course, the movie can be postponed. The problem is that the impact of the incident next year will be huge, and there will not be any obvious changes in two to three years. The result of the release of this movie can be imagined...

This is an investment of up to 80 million US dollars, even if Brookheimer Pictures can share a part of it, it also has later promotional and marketing.

Do we have to rely on the long disc market and TV broadcasting rights to recover investment?
Chapter completed!