Chatty Hollywood

Of course, even if the performance of the movie "Pearl Harbor" is not ideal, it may affect Spectre Studio, but in the end the impact will be limited.

The focus of Charlotte's meeting this time was still on the studio's own projects——

"Although the box office of "The Island" is not particularly impressive, considering the low cost, the return ratio is actually very high!"

As Charlotte's secretary, Alexis read the report directly,

"Currently, the film's North American box office has exceeded US$100 million and has been released. The cost of the project, including publicity and distribution expenses, has been fully recovered through the box office - we have already made profits through the box office."

"So, the next step is to continue to explore overseas markets and try to increase revenue from the DVD and video tape markets?"

As the most senior producer at Spectre Studios, Mr. Westwood nodded,

"I will pay attention to this aspect. However, Charlotte, don't you think our studio needs some more professional business producers?"

"You mean?"

"I feel like we haven't maximized the value of the studio's movies yet!"

Mr. Westwood said eloquently,

"Although, because of your vision and ability, each of our films will be successful, so the studio's profitability is not low. But I feel that currently our focus is more on production and ordinary distribution-these are Using more conventional methods and using some more sophisticated operations, you can actually make money during the film production process."

"for example?"

“Like a tax refund!”

Mr. Westwood gave an example,

"Whether Australia, the UK, or Germany, many countries will enact some preferential tax rebate policies in order to encourage the development of their own film industries. As long as we operate it, we can take advantage of these policies and get the tax directly before filming. This tax rebate – this is money that you can see all at once.”

"In addition, there are product placements and maximizing revenue from overseas copyrights - as the studio becomes bigger and stronger, especially Charlotte's position in the Hollywood director circle becomes increasingly stable, these can become our source of income. A channel to make profits. But studios have never paid much attention to this aspect."

Mr Westwood concluded,

"I think we should strengthen some talents in these areas in the future in order to extract more profits from the movie."

"This is indeed a good idea!"

Charlotte nodded,

"In the past, because the studio usually only started shooting one or two projects at the same time, and there were not many movies with full copyrights, I didn't pay much attention to this aspect. However, now that the development has taken place, we should really strengthen our operations in this aspect. .”

"As long as you agree!"

Mr. Westwood was also happy to see Charlotte willing to accept his opinion,

"Also, do you think we should also expand distribution channels?"

"Well..."

Charlotte frowned.

At present, the movies produced by Spectre Studio either cooperate with a large film company and use the other party's channels for distribution, or they find a distribution channel with good relationships among the seven major film companies, and do not specifically establish their own distribution channels.

On the one hand, this is because compared to film production, film distribution is a capital game and requires more manpower and material resources.

——Before 1999, Charlotte did not have enough capital to enter this field.

On the other hand, it is because film companies with distribution channels and film companies without distribution channels are two completely different types in the eyes of the Seven Big Hollywood Companies——

The former is a partner that can be cooperated with, and no matter how high the level is, it is also a good content provider;

The latter is a thorn in the side, a competitor that needs to be vigilant, and it is best to find an opportunity to kill him with a stick.

——You know, in Charlotte’s original time and space, the reason why DreamWorks, which was once prominent in Hollywood, was finally acquired, except for some of its own problems, because it tried to establish a strong distribution channel to challenge the seven major Hollywood companies——No, It was already the sixth major university at that time - that was the main reason.

Being targeted by the Big Six in Hollywood is naturally very troublesome.

In fact, since the 1980s, the monopoly of Hollywood's first-tier producers and distributors has become increasingly serious, and there is no sign of reversal.

From the previous nine and eight majors, it was reduced to the later seven majors, and then MGM collapsed and became the sixth major.

Later, Disney even acquired Fox, and Hollywood was about to become one of the top five...

Although, in today's time and space, Hollywood's monopoly has not yet reached that level.

But even so, Charlotte doesn't feel that the current Seven Conferences are willing to let other companies squeeze in to get a piece of the pie.

In particular, Spectre Studio in Charlotte has already attracted the attention of Hollywood because of its excellent content production capabilities.

Without establishing strong distribution channels, they are the targets of the Hollywood Seven's competition to woo them.

But once they have strong distribution capabilities, they will be the same as DreamWorks in another time and space, and will be called a target of joint attack...

Of course, this does not mean that Charlotte has completely given up on the goal of making the studio bigger and stronger because of this concern.

He was actually waiting for the opportunity——

On the one hand, he is looking to see if he can find an opportunity to directly acquire one of the seven major Hollywood companies while they are competing against each other.

This method of backdoor listing is much easier than establishing channels from scratch. And there will be no joint attack;

——However, although he is currently rich, it is still a bit difficult to acquire one of the seven major companies.

——This is also an important reason why he started thinking about how to make money in the front end.

At the same time, Charlotte is also waiting for the development of Internet technology.

After all, according to the Matthew Effect of the strong always getting stronger, it is difficult to wait for the Big Seven in Hollywood to give up their monopoly.

However, technological changes may turn the invincible giants of the past into paper figures that can be knocked down with a finger in the blink of an eye.

In fact, Charlotte's original time and space, and later the rise of Netflix, a film and television company relying on the Internet, had a bit of this flavor.

But now, Charlotte has taken advantage of the bursting of the Internet bubble at the end of the 20th century to control a large amount of equity in Netflix, which is still relatively weak.

What's more, he has completely taken over the ia company that will dominate the 3D movie market in the future.

In fact, because of Charlotte's application of ia technology in "Sherlock Holmes" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 1", ia company has already begun its invasion of the Hollywood film industry earlier than in the original time and space.

——Charlotte’s various arrangements are slowly exerting their power...