Made in Hollywood

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Duke Studios has $20 million more on its books, and not to mention taxes that anyone would hate, and that money doesn't entirely belong to Duke.

According to the agreement, 5% of the revenue shared by Duke Studio on the "Brave Island" project will go to Nancy Josephson, and 5% will be the expenses of the lawyer and accountant team; and 1,000 The $10,000 Duke will be used to repay the mother's loan. According to the verbal agreement, the mother will enjoy 10% of the investment income as interest.

A total of $14 million is likely to be disbursed later.

This is a highly commercialized and professional society. The kind of exclusive benefits and one person can solve all problems without thinking about it. If you don’t give enough commissions to those who do things, you will inevitably have to wait for losses far beyond the commissions. , or even a complete failure of the investment.

After all, Duke Studio will have a surplus of $6 million, plus the remaining $1 million in Duke's "Brave Island" salary, and the $2 million that the producer has paid for "Independence Day". For the basic remuneration, he also has a sum of money in his hand.

How to use the funds is something he has been considering.

No matter how bad the finances are, Duke knows that the US dollar, like all paper money, is a rapidly depreciating currency, and holding a lot of cash is the most stupid way to manage money. According to the investment habits in Hollywood circles, stocks and real estate are the most popular among star directors. investment project.

This is also an investment Duke has considered, but before that, he has a more important use of funds.

In the next few days, Duke met with his agent Nancy Josephson one after another while preparing for "Independence Day". And a good negotiator, to be his temporary agent.

However, Duke will not blindly trust these sly brokers.

"Sophia, I asked the producer to take leave for you."

In the living room of the apartment, Duke looked at Sophia, who he brought back after get off work. "You will temporarily leave the crew tomorrow to work with Nancy."

"Let's talk." Sophia is very clear, Duke said so, it must be a very important thing.

"You and the lawyer stare at Nancy, I don't particularly trust her."

After explaining the most important thing, seeing Sophia nodding earnestly, Duke said, "This is related to our future movie plans."

"It's your plan." Sophia picked up the silver pot and filled two cups with coffee one after another.

"Yes, my plan."

Duke was too lazy to care about this, took a sip of coffee, took a thick document from his side, and handed it to Sophia, "You guys go to New York first, go to Broadway to buy the film adaptation rights of a play! Then go to London. , to meet the person in charge of a copyright custodian agency, the film adaptation rights of the novels they are hosting should not be in their hands, try to impress them and let them work with us to win the film adaptation rights..."

While listening to Duke's words, Sophia looked at the information in her hand, her expression gradually became solemn, and she stopped saying teasing words, what does this guy want to do? Is this ready to transform?

Yes, he can see the problem with Duke himself, how can he not notice it with his mind? He himself admitted that pure sensory stimulation will always be annoying one day, and it will inevitably transform in the future...

Sophia did not expect that Duke had prepared a longer-term plan before he reached the peak of the explosion.

Just, can he succeed? The subject matter of these two adaptations is not only far from his style, but even the subject matter between them is completely different!

Sophia was still thinking about it when she left North Hollywood.

Although he was a little too indulgent last weekend, back at work, Duke quickly left Charlize Theron and Cameron Diaz behind. The funds have been prepared in advance for the inevitable transformation of the director's road in the future.

Lawyer, Sofia Coppola and Nancy Josephson, these are candidates that Duke has considered for a long time. Even Sofia, who is a good friend, will not blindly trust him blindly. The three parties just constitute a mutual restriction and supervision. system.

The two works that bought the film copyright, the former is okay to say, although it is a traditional Broadway play, it has been ignored and has been suspended for many years, while the latter is a little troublesome, limited memory tells him that the last two years are to solve the scattered film. The copyright is the best time period, otherwise it will be delayed until 1995, and several film companies will join it, which will inevitably cost a lot of money.

As an avid fan, Duke still remembers that it was just a copyright issue, and it took nearly two years to wrangle the project, which almost killed the project.

This part of funds is likely to be insufficient, so Duke intends to temporarily hold down his mother's loan and decide whether to repay it within this year depending on the situation. If there is a shortage of funds, he will pay with this part of the account first. If there is a surplus, then he will invest in the stock market. .

No one is omnipotent and omnipotent. Once and now, Duke is a complete layman in financial markets such as stocks, but those who have experienced the explosion of information in the Internet age, even if they are ignorant, have heard of Apple, Microsoft and Google.

Google still doesn't know where it is, Microsoft has been a hot stock, and Apple is stuck in a quagmire waiting to be rescued... This is a point confirmed by Duke.

His investment does not need to be too complicated, that is, long-term holding and appreciation, and Apple and Microsoft are also among the limited stocks he remembers, which can be seen in the stock market today.

When he was a teenager, Duke also thought about investing in finance, then making money from the stock market, and then entering Hollywood to kill the Quartet and achieve great things. However, before he could implement it, he found that it was just an illusion.

First of all, having money in the family and having money are two different things. Before the age of sixteen, at the peak, he only had pocket money of $40 a month. If he wanted to have more pocket money, being a newsboy was the fastest and most time-saving way. , but can't make a lot of money, what else do you want to do? Sorry, but few companies employ child labor, let alone pay high wages.

After the age of sixteen, according to the tradition of the Rosenberg family, in addition to the expensive tuition that his mother was responsible for, Duke had to be responsible for his daily life and directing learning expenses. Can't make much money.

As for making money by humming tunes, copying songs and delivering scripts, that's just overthinking.

The former does not mention the high degree of professionalism required. Even if it can be hummed, it needs to be rewritten by the composer. Who can guarantee that the other party will not have any thoughts? Yes, the Writers Guild can record the works of songwriters, but first of all, you have to become a member, and you have to pay thousands of dollars in membership fees, and the filing fee is also thousands of dollars!

The scripts are also unreliable. Just the six major companies will receive more than 10,000 scripts every year. How many of them can be turned into movies? How many of these are adaptations? How many are projects brought by producers or agencies and star actors?

Duke's initial experience is the best portrayal of the newly debuted screenwriter. Hollywood film companies, big and small, are piled with thick scripts waiting to be moldy on their desks!

And relying on the advertising company at home, it is even more unreliable to get a few futuristic advertisements.

As we all know, movies are deeply affected by social reality, and advertisements that are also audio-visual works are more limited by the times than movies!

This truth is too simple. Every era always has its own aesthetics. Advertising is a product aimed at the public and must conform to the aesthetics of the era. The mainstream society always has a strange mentality and often has a strong nostalgia. Feeling, but extremely repulsive to things that are too advanced!

The advertisements Duke clearly remembers all have distinct characteristics of the Internet age. If the advertisements of the Internet Big Bang era were appropriated into the 1980s, they could successfully cause a sensation. There is a more unreliable way than this. For funny jokes?

His family is indeed rich, but the owner of the property is not him. Not to mention too much, even if a few hundred dollars are spent, his mother must agree.

To convince mother to invest? What did he use to convince his mother? What he is good at is the knowledge of filmmaking, not financial investment. In addition to the concept of the latter, basically do not understand. As a minor, convince the mother who is a mature businessman with some reasons that even you can't fool yourself?

Can you ask professionals to collect data for analysis? There is no shortage of professionals in this field in North America, and professionalism often means value. In this commercial country, the most basic measure of value is money. Hire professionals to write an extremely convincing report with detailed data for reference. At least How much does Duke have to pay for an investment analysis plan that can impress a wealthy businessman?

If there is such a sum of money, he might as well go directly to buy Microsoft stock.

Duke even imagined that his father, who divorced his mother in the early 1970s, had set up a trust fund for him, and when he was sixteen or eighteen, he could automatically acquire a large amount of property? However, the fact once again proved that he thought too much.

Apart from the lack of money, Duke actually doesn't have much memory of non-films in North America in the 1980s. Don't forget that this is America! Not across the Pacific!

Let’s just talk about the Plaza Accord that has been talked about by countless people. He does know that there is such a thing, but which year and month did it happen, how many people remember it? How many people remember the turbulent date of oil futures? How many people remember the date when a certain stock rose and fell in the 1980s?

Everyone’s energy is limited. To be an excellent director in the future means not only a high degree of concentration, but also a lot of time consumption for learning and practice. Duke knows exactly what he wants and what he is good at , he is not a genius like Li and Joe!

Let’s take Microsoft and Apple he remembers. The former has been steadily rising in the 1980s, and it is impossible to get several times or even dozens of times of huge investment profits in a short period of time. After Uncle Qiao was kicked out of the game, he fell into a quagmire, and his performance and stock price fell all the way, and he even encountered the danger of bankruptcy.

Even with a little money, Duke couldn't make a quick profit from them, and he didn't know what year Uncle Qiao returned to Apple. He only knew that Apple was very good later.

What's more, in the beginning, he had no money, and the director didn't take it for granted that he would succeed after a rework. Behind every successful director, it all represented a lot of time and energy consumption!

Sophia and others went to New York and London. Duke still led the crew to prepare for the preparatory work. After the time shifted to late November, with the completion of the model production, the crew took the lead in opening the filming mode without actors. (A good event to drop pie in the sky, the cool mobile phone is waiting for you! Pay attention to ~ point / Chinese net public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account!)