hollywood draw

As the weather in New York begins to gradually become colder, the crew's filming progress is also accelerating. Whether it is the actors standing in front of the stage or the staff serving behind the scenes, most of them live in Los Angeles, which are warm all year round. The sudden change of weather seems to have made everyone increase their work concentration and want to leave this uncomfortable place as soon as possible.

As time entered December, the crew kept running smoothly. Wayne watched as he was leading the planned shooting progress every day. After careful calculations, if there was no big accident, he was confident that he would complete all the footage materials in New York before Christmas and then lead the team back to Los Angeles in advance.

In fact, Wayne did not block all information from the outside world. When focusing on filming the video, Nina would receive calls from her agent Jimmy from Los Angeles from time to time, reporting the news to them at any time.

The crew of "The Matrix" has already traveled to Australia for preparations in mid-November. The latest news is that Zach Schneider has just started filming. The film has a sufficient budget and the main cast has not changed much. It seems that there has not been any problem that Zach Schneider cannot cope with.

This film, Wayne's studio accounts for half of the investment. Even if overseas pre-sales have been launched in advance, the tax refund amount in Australia is quite high. Even so, Greenberg Studio will still pay close to 60 million US dollars in real money, so he is very concerned about this film even in his busy work.

In addition to Jimmy and Warner Bros. paying attention to crew dynamics, Actor Henry, who is far away in the Australian crew of "The Matrix", will also call at a fixed time every week to report on specific preparations and shooting progress.

"Boss, I want to remind you that there are less than 40 million dollars left in Greenberg's studio account!"

After one day's work, Wayne had just come out of the pull-out room with exhaustion. Before he could enjoy the hot shower, Nina, who was sitting on the sofa, pushed her glasses, held her work record book in her hand, and said a message that made him frown without expression.

“What?”

Walking to the bathroom paused, Wayne turned around and sat opposite the assistant lady, tilted his head and looked at the other person in confusion. "Are you kidding me? I remember that there are basically no bulk consumption in my living expenses. The income and share of the first part of the Matrix, and the first salary share of my "The Walker", aren't they all included in the studio account this year? No money?"

Since he achieved the so-called financial freedom, he has hardly cared about his asset composition, and almost everything was left to the assistant lady to manage. But he still knew the general figures. He did not have any large investments or large debts, and the cash flow in his hands should be astonishing.

"Of course." Nina shrugged and looked down at the numbers on the notebook. "The studio account just transferred the third and last investment of $30 million to the third party guarantee account of the hacker studio. Blue Sky Studio recently updated its computer animation system, and in the second half of this year, it also transferred about $40 million in succession."

Speaking of this, she paused for a moment, and specifically emphasized the tone of the 40 million US dollars. The animation studio's level of money-burning has just begun. You know, the studio has not had a formal feature film project in its hands and is still in the stage of accumulating technology.

It is basically impossible to make any profit by relying on the studio to take on some Hollywood renderings. It is almost in the stage of slow development. It is also impossible to see what the future will be like.

"Talk about Blue Sky Studio in detail."

Take out a cigarette and light it. Wayne leaned against the sofa, and began to doubt whether his decision had been made.

Computer animation feature films are the major trend in the future, and he is very sure of this. However, Blue Sky Studio, although it is inconspicuous now, wants to enter the venue to share the dividends of computer animation feature films, its last chance.

He is not like Master Qiao, who is a world-leading program expert. As an ordinary person, his understanding of computer animation is limited to watching. It is impossible to lead a group of people by himself to create a second Pixar. Then he can only acquire and develop while Lantian Studio is still in his childhood.

Nina nodded, took out another document from the briefcase beside her, looked at him, and said, "The leader in computer animation is Pixar, a latecomer, including DreamWorks Animation Studio and us, all related software and systems are to be purchased from Pixar, and some need to obtain authorization.

Just like the successful Toy Story, Pixar is based on the independently developed computer-assisted production system CAPS. This system won the Academy Award for Science Engineering in the first two years. There is no way. If we want to use the same computer-assisted system, we have to buy it from Pixar for a lot of money and a series of related authorizations.

Unfortunately, the things we and DreamWorks Animation Studio now cost a lot of money are probably Pixar’s technology in the first two years, but as long as we still want to keep up with the pace of computer animation, these big money must be spent. According to my analysis, this is just the beginning, and the expenses in this area will not be avoided in the future."

Perhaps before 1995, studios of all sizes might have been disdainful of these, but since Toy Story broke the box office record of North American animated feature films for $192 million and $360 million, no ambitious animation studio dared not follow Pixar's footsteps.

"Toy Corps Origin" is like an animation bomb, allowing movie fans and related people to see the power of computer animation for the first time, and also awaken many people in the circle. More and more people are beginning to be optimistic about computer animation and begin to believe that the future of animated feature films is computer animation, and the decline of hand-drawn animation is inevitable.

No one expected that after the decline of Disney's hand-drawn animation, it immediately became a publisher of Pixar, continuing its monopoly in the animation industry. Everyone knows that computer animation is a new big cake, and I don't know how much capital is staring at it in the dark.

The head of Pixar Animation Studio, Gangmaster Qiao, also gained more than one billion dollars in wealth through the brilliant achievements created by Toy Story in 1995. Therefore, he was once again invited by the fruit company that was on the verge of bankruptcy to take charge of the overall situation.

Some people have already eaten the earliest bonus. There is a new round of wealth-making myths in computer animation feature films. Some ambitious animation studios certainly don’t want to miss it. If you want to follow Pixar’s success and copy Pixar’s success, you will inevitably have to pay tuition to the other party.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly. Wayne actually thought of this result from the beginning, but in the face of the big money-burning pit of computer animation studios, he still felt that he was thinking too simple. "The profitable project in Blue Sky Studio..."

"In fact, there has never been anything to do in Blue Sky Studio." Nina seemed to know what he was going to ask, and interrupted his question and said directly: "Since the investment from Greenberg Studio, their living environment has improved a lot. This year, they have produced nine advertising projects and participated in the production of IBM's corporate logo. Unfortunately, these meager incomes are compared with large expenses..."

Although the assistant lady was shaking her head unconsciously when she said these words, the same words came to Wayne's ears, which was exactly the opposite view.

It was obvious that he relaxed his tight upper body and slowly leaned into the sofa. "As long as you have projects in your hands and keep exploring progress, Nina, this is a good thing."

“Boss.”

The assistant lady put the relevant documents about Blue Sky Studio back into her bag, and there was no expression on her face. She spoke seriously and said her thoughtful suggestions.

"Because of the great success of Toy Story, there are many capitals that are willing to enter the market now. I suggest stop loss as soon as possible. It is too difficult to rely on personal funds to support a big pit like a computer animation studio that requires money."

After receiving the financial statements about Blue Sky Studio, Nina carefully investigated the relevant news. The success of Pixar Animation Studio is based on nearly ten years of hard work and tasting gall. This time, Pixar has countless top computer animation talents.

As soon as I think of Blue Sky Studio, I have to lie on them for many years to suck blood, Nina feels that it is not worth it. The same capital investment, whether it is invested in the stock market or in the film projects of her boss, will be significantly more profitable than burned to the animation studio.

Wayne shook his head funny and waved at the assistant lady. "This is done beforehand, will Blue Sky Studio gradually improve and we have other large expenses?"

As long as he is not in a stagnant situation, he will never let go of this animation studio easily. Even if he wants to cash out, it is definitely not at this time, and it is still too early.

"have."

Sighing, Nina was in charge of his life and finances on the surface, but in fact, when she needed to make decisions about funds, she could only give her own careful analysis suggestions. How to implement them depends on her boss's decision.

"Jimmy has successively transferred nearly 20 million US dollars from Greenberg Studio, but the direction of the funds is only marked to acquire the film and television copyright. And..."

"etc."

Wayne extinguished the cigarette in the ashtray. "I know this part of the funds, you don't need to track it. Tell me directly whether the remaining money on the books will affect normal operation?"

“Not for the time being.”

Nina knows how fast her boss makes money. The main purpose of her reporting on this today is Blue Sky Studio. After thinking about it, she added. "There is no place to spend money in the near future, but I want to remind you, boss, the money you plan to spend is not a decimal, whether it is "The Lord of the Rings" or "King of King Kong".

479-I suggest stop loss as soon as possible.