Chatty Hollywood

However, although there have been a lot of commercial operations on the "Lord of the Rings" movie for a period of time, in fact, it has little effect on Charlotte's time.

Most of these things are done by Mr. Westwood and Alexis.

Charlotte was hiding behind the scenes to give orders, and talked to a few investors by the way to strengthen their investment confidence.

——After all, he is now the owner of a company, so there is no need to do everything by himself.

At present, his main energy is still on the shooting of "Detective Sherlock Holmes".

——No way, as the "Lord of the Rings" movie project unfolds, the working capital of the Ghost Party Studio is not so abundant.

You know, liquidity is often more important than the scale of assets-this thing is like blood in the human body, once the blood circulation has problems, no matter how large the body is, it is still useless.

Just like the former Fox company, as one of the seven major Hollywood film companies, James Cameron only squeezed about 200 million US dollars of its liquid funds through "Titanic" and almost forced it into bankruptcy. .

It is conceivable that if "Titanic" fails at the box office, long before MGM is over, the first-tier Hollywood studios will change from the top seven to the top six...

Although the cash flow of the Ghost Party Studio has not yet reached that level of tension, for safety reasons, it is the best way to get the funds back early.

The fastest way to get the studio to return cash is now except for the global "Mummy" share of the final payment, as well as the copyright and peripheral share of the previous movies, which is the investment of "The Detective Sherlock Holmes".

Therefore, Charlotte put her main energy on the shooting and production of this movie.

In fact, from a business perspective, Charlotte can also seek a bank loan, or introduce other investors for the Ghost Party Studio.

But because there are special "things" in the studio that need to be kept secret, such as magic effects, Charlotte finally gave up these plans.

Of course, it is also because there is really no need for that.

In fact, compared to most film and television companies, the ratio of assets to liabilities and capital flow of the Ghost Party Studios is quite healthy.

However, considering the studio's hematopoietic ability, it mainly relies on the income of the movies filmed by Charlotte, so it is not stable.

This is also the biggest difference between a Hollywood star or a film company owned by a director and a real old film company——

Regardless of their size, established film companies generally have their own film libraries and distribution systems.

The former can continuously bring a continuous flow of funds to the company, while the latter, the risk of making money is much smaller than that of production.

——In addition to their own son’s films, the seven major Hollywood film companies often distribute films from other companies as an agent, precisely for this reason.

In short, the decent and established film companies have some other stable sources of income besides movie box office income.

This allows them to have a strong ability to withstand risks. As long as there is a discontinuity of major production failures, resulting in a break in cash flow, generally speaking, the impact will be small.

In contrast, those pure production companies set up by celebrities and directors themselves, without the ability to distribute, have much worse anti-risk capabilities.

Although it cannot reach the point where the failure of a film with a larger investment will make it bankrupt, the failed investment will greatly reduce its cash flow.

In the absence of other stable income, this means that the company's investment ability has also declined, and it cannot respond quickly.

As a result, the scale of investment in new movies will be reduced in the future, and the result is that the company's subsequent income will also be reduced.

-This can be said to be a vicious circle.

Therefore, in order to avoid falling into the vicious circle of scale reduction, the production companies of ordinary Hollywood stars and directors often only act as followers in film investment, rather than as the main force.

In this way, the scale of investment can be reduced, and by the way, the thighs of large production companies can be held tightly to avoid greater risks.

However, this method can only be used for small production companies that do not intend to expand, or leather bag companies under the general celebrity.

Real production companies like Charlotte's Ghost Party Studios, which are rapidly rising and expanding, must have their own key investment films.

And the company's key investment in movies must also be successful, preferably consecutively.

Otherwise, the company's upward momentum will soon be interrupted, and it will become no different from a general leather bag production company.

Fortunately, not only a translator who understands the future, but also an opener with spells, Charlotte's success rate in filming movies is 100%, as long as he goes all out, 90% is still there.

So, Charlotte is actually not particularly worried.

It’s just that this time the filming of "Detective Sherlock Holmes" will apply a lot of new technologies——

Not only will IMAX cameras be used to enhance the shock of some big scenes~www.NovelMTL.com~ high-speed cameras will also be used to shoot action shots.

——In the current film shooting, there is no application experience.

What's more, when shooting on location, there will be a lot of green screen shots.

This is also something that can't be helped--

With the story background of "The Detective Sherlock Holmes", if you want to shoot with a real setting, you must arrange a large number of 19th century London-style exterior scenes. This cost of money and time is quite huge.

In this case, it is more cost-effective to shoot with a green screen, and then use computer special effects to synthesize the background.

In particular, thanks to Charlotte’s ongoing efforts and the training of the two films "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "The Mummy", the Ghost Party Studio's technology in computer special effects has been greatly improved.

Now, they are the first level in the Hollywood industry, not inferior to the old-school special effects company Industrial Light and Magic.

Even, in some places, it goes beyond.

Therefore, Charlotte finally chose the green screen shooting method to shoot some difficult scenes with real scenery.

However, in this way, the new technology applications of "Detective Sherlock Holmes" are really a lot, and Charlotte does need to watch carefully.

After all, the application of new technologies must be accompanied by a large number of unexpected problems.

Just like now, when shooting action scenes, there was a problem that Charlotte did not expect--

"Under high-speed photography, the blow lens does not have the desired muscle fluctuation effect. What should I do?"

Seeing the finished film on the monitor, whether it was Charlotte, Old Gun or photographer Addison Young, all frowned.

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