Chatty Hollywood

However, although there have been many commercial operations related to the "Lord of the Rings" movie for a period of time, in fact, it did not have a big impact on Charlotte's time.

Most of these things are left to Mr. Westwood and Alexis.

Charlotte just hid behind the scenes and gave orders, and chatted with a few investors to strengthen their investment confidence.

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

At present, his main focus is still on the filming of "Detective Sherlock Holmes".

——No way, with the development of the "Lord of the Rings" movie project, Spectre Studio's liquidity is not so abundant.

You know, liquidity is often more important than asset size - this thing is like blood in the human body. Once there is a problem with blood circulation, no matter how huge the body is, it is still useless.

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

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

Although the cash flow of Spectre Studio is not that tight yet, for the sake of safety, it is the best way to return the funds early.

The fastest way for the studio to return cash is the investment in "Sherlock Holmes" in addition to Universal's share of the balance of "The Mummy", as well as the rights and peripherals of previous movies.

Therefore, Charlotte focused her main energy on the filming and production of this movie.

In fact, from a business perspective, Charlotte can also find a bank for a loan, or introduce other investors to Spectre Studio.

But because there were special "things" such as spell effects in the studio that needed to be kept secret, Charlotte ultimately gave up on these plans.

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

In fact, compared to most film and television companies, Spectre Studio's asset-liability and capital flow ratios are already quite healthy.

However, considering that the studio's blood-generating ability mainly relies on the income from the movies shot by Charlotte, it is not very stable.

This is also the biggest difference between film companies owned by ordinary Hollywood stars or directors and real established film companies——

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 has a much smaller risk of making money than production.

——In addition to their own films, the seven major Hollywood film companies also often distribute films from other companies on their behalf. It is precisely for this reason.

In short, serious old film companies have some other stable sources of income besides movie box office revenue.

This gives them a strong ability to withstand risks. As long as major production failures do not occur continuously, leading to cash flow interruptions, generally speaking, the impact will not be significant.

In contrast, those pure production companies that are set up by stars and directors themselves and have no distribution capabilities are much less able to resist risks.

Although it won't reach the point where a movie with a larger investment will go bankrupt if it fails, a failed investment will significantly reduce its cash flow.

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

As a result, the scale of future investment in new movies will be reduced, and as a result, 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 cycle of downsizing, the production companies of Hollywood stars and directors often only invest in movies as followers.

Rather than being the main force.

In this way, the scale of investment can be reduced, while holding on to the thighs of large production companies can avoid greater risks.

However, this method can only be used for small production companies that do not plan to expand, or companies owned by ordinary stars.

A real production company like Specter Studios in Charlotte, which is rising and expanding rapidly, must have its own focus on films.

The company's key investment movies must also be successful, preferably consecutively.

Otherwise, the company's upward momentum will soon be interrupted, and it will become no different from an ordinary leather-based production company.

Fortunately, as both a time traveler who understands the future and a cheater with magical powers, Charlotte's success rate in filming movies is not even 100%, but as long as she goes all out, it is still 90%.

Therefore, Charlotte is actually not particularly worried.

However, this time the filming of "Detective Sherlock Holmes" will use a lot of new technologies——

Not only will IMAX cameras be used to enhance the shock of some big scenes, but high-speed cameras will also be used to shoot action shots.

——There is no application experience in these current film shootings.

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

There's nothing we can do about it——

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

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

In particular, through Charlotte's ongoing efforts and the training of the two movies "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "The Mummy", Spectre Studio's technology in computer special effects has been greatly improved.

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

Even, in some places, it is even beyond.

Therefore, Charlotte finally chose green screen shooting to shoot some scenes that were difficult to set in real settings.

However, in this way, there are really a lot of new technological applications in "Detective Sherlock Holmes", and Charlotte really needs to keep an eye on them.

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

Just like now, when filming the action scene, a problem appeared that Charlotte had not expected——

"The striking lens does not produce the desired muscle fluctuation effect under high-speed photography. What should I do?"

Looking at the finished film on the monitor, both Charlotte, Lao Qiang and photographer Addison Yang frowned.

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