Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

Chapter 498 The Most Nonsense Thing (110)

Los Angeles, USA, Hollywood.

It is located in the northwest suburb of Los Angeles, with the best scenery and climate.

Countless film companies are stationed here, and it has become the world's largest film production center.

As long as a movie has a Hollywood name, it will inevitably attract the attention of many audiences and are willing to spend money.

This is the reputation that people in the film industry have cultivated with countless excellent works for many years.

Alfonso Jeffries is a filmmaker with a certain status in the Hollywood film industry.

He used to be just an ordinary screenwriter, but he quickly grew up to become an independent director, and he has made many good works.

Now he has established a film company, relying on the Detroit Film Group, and his life is very good.

Every day he walks out of the house in high spirits, and then goes to his own company to see how the recent works are being produced.

Recently, he happened to have two films that will be released in half a year.

One of them is the special effects film that he devoted more than half of the company's funds to produce, using the most advanced special effects production tools and spending a lot of money.

The other movie is a big movie co-produced with Detroit Pictures.

He has probably seen the current production effects of these two movies. If nothing unexpected happens, these two movies should be very popular.

In addition to these two films, he has another job recently.

That is the boycott initiated by the boss of Detroit Films personally entrusting him, and other filmmakers under the Detroit Film Group.

The target of the boycott was a movie made by a company that is not well-known in the movie industry.

This movie is made with full CG special effects, which can be called an animated movie, but it is far better than ordinary animated movies.

Naturally, as a filmmaker, he has nothing to say about the requirements of the Detroit Film Group.

Moreover, the company that produces full-featured CG movies has something that makes him uncomfortable, that is, the creative leadership of the production is handed over to people other than the director and screenwriter, and the director and screenwriter have completely become tools. exist.

He and several other filmmakers became the vanguard army, and he tried very hard to criticize this behavior in many interview programs. In fact, it was essentially an order from above, and the criticism was just an excuse. Released in traditional theaters.

Although the future is still hard to say, but looking at it now, if a movie cannot be released in traditional theaters, it is almost doomed to hit the street, no matter how good your production is, it is like this in this era. Changing this perception is not easy.

The boycotted movie is naturally Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children.

It just so happened that Alfonso himself had a full special effects movie similar to this movie released, and it would be very beneficial to him to exclude such an opponent.

This also makes him more attentive than other film boycotters.

Through the influence of the Detroit Film Group itself in the industry, the mainstream movie theaters have decisively rejected the release of this movie. These movie theaters are also counting on the big movie companies to give them more resources. It’s okay to provoke a movie industry. Famous small companies are actually not a big problem.

After a month of fermenting, this kind of collective boycott seems to have achieved good results. Youxing Electronic Entertainment didn't resist it very much. .

This also made the senior executives of Su Rui Electronics think that this movie may really be just a random creation of Youxing Electronics Entertainment. Since the mainstream theaters cannot be shown, it is doomed to make no waves.

Under such circumstances, Alfonso almost forgot about it.

At this moment he is overseeing the production of the film on one of the sets.

Of the last two movies, he's definitely more concerned about the big-budget movie in which he invested more than half of the company's money.

This movie has very exciting action special effects, as well as an exciting story in his opinion.

But now there is a problem.

That is, the production of special effects is too expensive.

He had already invested more than half of the company's funds, but now he only made 70% to 80% of the special effects.

This gave him some headaches.

If I continue to invest money, I am afraid that I will be a little bit unable to make ends meet.

Perhaps, the production standards for special effects can be relaxed a little?

"Boss, look at the results of today's special effects."

The person in charge of special effects production showed Alfonso the special effects produced today for inspection.

After taking a look, Alfonso still felt that it was not very good, and then he tentatively asked: "Can we do better with the current resources?"

The person in charge shook his head: "No, this is already the limit of what we can do. If we want to do better, we will spend more money."

Alfonso was very entangled: "It's still close."

"Actually, boss, it's a bit of an afterthought now, but I still want to say that there is a special effects company that can produce special effects at a very low cost, and the effect is not bad."

"Huh? Why didn't you say it before?" Alfonso immediately stared, very dissatisfied.

You just told me now that I spent all my money.

"Boss, it's not that I didn't say it, but that you directly vetoed it at that time."

"Veto? When did I veto?" Alfonso was a little confused.

How can I veto such a good thing as saving money and getting things done?

"Yes... last time you said that you would boycott that company and openly said that you refused to cooperate with that company. You have said that, even if we want to use it, we can't use it."

"Which company is it?"

"That company has its own special effects software development team called Unreal Studio, and their head office is Youxing Electronic Entertainment."

Youxing Electronic Entertainment?

Alfonso raised an eyebrow.

"That's right, this company has produced special effects for Xinghai Unlimited movie, and the final result is very good, and it is said that the cost is still very low, at least 30% lower than other peers, and it may even be more."

Alfonso was surprised: "What? How did they do it?"

"Their special effects production engine is very powerful. It is a production method that I have never seen. Now many film and television companies are considering using this engine to make movies, even Detroit Films itself is using it."

Alfonso stared: "You said that Detroit Films is also using this special effects software?!"

"That's right, but boss, you insist on resisting..."

Alfonso felt instantly fooled.

This guy from Detroit Films asked their companies to boycott Youxing Electronic Entertainment. Why did you turn around and still quietly use your opponent's products? Isn't this nonsense?