Global Movie Emperor

   “Huh?”

    “The company is short of money.”

    He spoke frankly about the company’s dilemma at the moment, holding the steering wheel in both hands, looking straight ahead, waiting for the next change in the red light, and then slammed on the accelerator. Like an arrow from the string, roaring far away, he seems to want to experience the happiness it can bring to the driver before losing his car.

    “You gambled again?”

    “Do you think I’m the kind of person who uses company funds to gamble?”

    Mickey gave Lu Ze a white look and threw a piece of gum in his mouth. Although he is addicted to gambling, he has some spare money. He likes to go to the casino to play two games, but unlike those dementias who lose his brains, he always has the idea that he will lose all when he enters the casino. He never seeks to win money back, even if he plays the cards really. It’s very good.

    In contrast, he is more like indulging in the pleasure of throwing money, rather than greedy for poker games, he will play when he makes money, he is almost lost, he will leave his food and leave, he has never thought about playing cards. In return, he will not use the company’s funds to squander, because he knows this is the capital he can continue to squander.

    This is the difference between Mickey and ordinary people. If you say that you have self-control, then people who really have self-control will not be at the gambling table, but you have to say that he has no self-control, but he can hold himself firmly at the gambling table for a long time. The consumption mentality of China, not to give up a fight, is terrible at some levels and strong in self-control.

    Perhaps because he felt that he had said something stupid, Lu Ze did not continue the topic for the first time, but carefully thought about the company’s expenditure during this period.

    Starting from the founding of a brokerage company, the apparent expenses such as leasing office space and decoration did not actually account for the bulk of the company’s total expenses. So at first Lu Ze did not feel that the expenses were high, but the problem was that those invisible expenses were a little bit Huge, this account was calculated and began to make Lu Ze sweat on his forehead.

    Counting from the beginning of the establishment of the brokerage company, the biggest expense is not the labor cost, but the cost of cooperating with other economic companies. To put it bluntly, the amount of money used to pave the way is a bit too large.

    The new actors recruited by regular economic companies need to exchange resources with other companies or directly connect downstream industries, that is, the crew to help their actors quickly enter the market. The problem is that Mickey has some advantages in the European market. Are there so many friends? Or does he have friends?

    No, even if it is a shareholder and brother company, Gambiano Pictures, except for the president of Fatini, who has a better relationship with Mickey and Lu Ze in private, he still maintains an attitude of business affairs in terms of cooperation, and he will receive you as much as possible. A little bonus, that’s not bad. If you want someone to help you out, it’s purely a dream. After all, people invest in your Universal Brothers Pictures, not Universal Bros. Brokerage. Your own training of actors has nothing to do with them. .

    In such a European market that recognizes money but does not recognize people, the only way to quickly launch your own artists is to open the way for money, to establish friendly cooperation with other economic companies, to establish a network of contacts, and to exchange resources. The white point is the role of fleeing each other.

    This is not a compensation price offered by a character after it has been negotiated. It is just a price for bridging with other economic companies. In the future, if you want a character, you still need to give the other company a certain amount of financial compensation, so that the other party will take your actor and push it. To the downstream crew.

    This is the up-front price that a small company needs to pay if it wants to get a share of this oligarch’s already formed market. This expenditure alone has consumed the company’s nearly 30 million euros of startup capital in just six months. This year, I was ready to open a brokerage company. Mickey decided to pay no dividends for the film industry. It is estimated that Laodie is really going to be empty.

    Don’t think this amount is too exaggerated. If the global economic downturn after 2020 has not led to the shrinking of the entertainment industry, the funds spent will be even more exaggerated. After all, there is a bubble, one price at a time, as an upstream industry, film and television drama production The root of this, if you don’t have a family background, you can’t play this at all.

    Calculating the company’s existing funds and planning to plan for the production costs of Mickey’s next movie, Lu Ze almost understood the company’s situation, no wonder Mickey wanted to sell a car, even if the car was sold at most one hundred and five One hundred thousand euros is nothing more than a drop in the money for the company’s needs. If it’s dead, it will cost a medium-level shot, but… it can be a little more.

    Suddenly, Lu Ze envied Fatini’s financial conditions. He never experienced any shortage of funds when he made a movie, and even continued to invest in additional investment. The scene was not big enough, the money was too cheap, the props were too cheap, and the money was spent. , It’s like holding a money printing machine in your pocket, and money spit out.

    Let’s take a look at the prawns, soldiers, and crabs of the Universal Brothers. Just as soon as I had some money, I was back to the days when I had to plug in two straws to drink a cup of milk tea. Lu Ze leaned against the glass and sighed melanly. , In a tired tone, announced the only solution to the company’s current shortage of funds.

    “Then it can only be financing.”

    “Well, I have already let my voice go. It is estimated that someone will come to the door in

    a short time .” Personal capital injection is not compliant for an established company, after all, today” “Global Brothers” already has three shareholders. The individual capital injection of any party will affect the fluctuation of the shares. You cannot invest money in vain, and the shares will not change at all? But how many changes should be divided?

    Even if there is a valuation measurement, for the “Global Brothers” whose valuation is still rising and the total price is not stable, everyone wants to hold the shares in their hands, and everyone will not easily let go, Lu Zehe Mickey’s relationship is okay, but once the shares change, Gambiano is still profitable, and the two don’t want Gambiano Pictures to take advantage of it in vain.

    So Lu Ze never thought about using his personal assets of more than 10 million euros, unless the three parties jointly injected capital, but the question is, can Mickey still come up with the same amount of cash flow? It’s very blue.

    Now there is only the last way to go, and that is to raise funds and enlarge the crocodile to enter the market, but there is a problem that is that less than two years have passed since the “Global Brothers” Series A financing.

    For a company in the high-tech industry, or a company in the IT industry, the financing speed is very fast. After all, they need a large amount of cash flow into the market for marketing. It is said that the promotion cost of most apps nowadays is about 200 per person. In the US and European markets, more is needed, so it is imperative for high-tech companies to dilute their equity quickly.

    But the entertainment industry is slightly different. Although you can think of a movie as an app product of an Internet company, the profits and traffic that the movie can create are relatively limited, so the value-added of entertainment companies can only rely on a large number of works. Measured with the value of public figures, the risk of investing in the entertainment industry is extremely high, and naturally it will not be particularly favored by investment banks. This is also the root cause of the slow rise in the value of entertainment companies.

    This is the disadvantage of “Universal Brothers Pictures”. First of all, the company currently has very few works. Although it has a good reputation, its profitability is not as good as commercial films, so the revenue is not considerable. If there is a big IP, the situation is completely different, but unfortunate The thing is that “Universal Brothers Pictures” has been making original script movies for a long time, and the subject matter itself is difficult to form an IP, so… in the eyes of most investment banks, their small temple is really worthless.

    Lu Ze believes that there will definitely be investment banks interested in his own company. After all, mosquito meat is also meat. For capitalists, earning an extra piece is something to be happy about, but he also needs to admit that the shares of “Universal Brothers Pictures” are really Is not worth much.

    Spending money will always bring unpleasant emotions to people. When those beautiful items that can make you omnipotent are slowly peeled off from your body, they will definitely cause pain from the heart. Therefore, both of them are not very interested in this way. , Because it is a very dangerous thing to let in capital. At the very least, you need to give up some aspects of freedom.

    Both of them have certain speculations about the future situation, but they are not too daunting. Their most important question now is how to get more chips and exchange for more before the B round of financing White floral silver.

    “We should now launch some more Niubi movies, the introduction of some of the more well-known actors, including” no listen, “is the key, but not enough, too little, I think we should make some …… IP.”

    To the downtown area , A large number of homeless people wandered here, the old man in shabby clothes sprayed some foamy water on the car glass, and quickly cleaned the car window before the green light, and then stood at the door of the driver’s seat, hunched over his waist, his eyes flickered slightly , I dared not speak out.

    Mickey put the car window down, lowered his sunglasses slightly, chewing gum constantly in his mouth, and stared at the old man for five or six seconds. This is not a 100% successful business, so the old man is not sure what it looks like. Will the bad guy give him some money, but in the end, he did succeed.

    After digging in his pocket for a long time, he took out a few coins, about one hundred and fifty pence. Mickey beckoned to the old man. The old man was a little excited. He stretched out his muddy palms in his nails and took a look at the money. Disappointed.

    “Sir, this may be…too little, it’s not even enough to buy a bottle of beer, your car is so good…”

    “Your glass cleaning skills are not good, you see, there are stains on it. The second’s work is only worth so much money. Go ahead, I’m going to be a fucking laborer soon.”

    “Then, sir…”

    Mickey has a tough attitude, and he doesn’t say anything about it. It’s derived from external value. Awe, he didn’t dare to refute, he could only make a pitiful look at Lu Ze, the co-pilot.

    “What does it have to do with him? Did you work for him? Are you a car cleaner or a beggar? You also want dignity, right? Leave, right away, I’m leaving… Damn, damn economy.”

    Green light Before starting, he flicked the soot out of the window, occasionally glanced at the rearview mirror, and looked at the dejected old man who was still standing in the middle of the road. In the end, he slapped the steering wheel with some irritation and spit out a mouthful of frustration on his chest. Every day, the British people who are not going well will curse like him. If the economic situation is better, maybe…the immediate problem will no longer be a problem.

    Lu Ze didn’t want to discuss the severe economic cold with him. After all, this is a global problem. In China, we can indeed feel the increasing pressure on employment, but it is not like Western countries where people go bankrupt and liquidate every day and live on the streets. Especially in the UK, where the economic situation has been weak after Brexit, the V-shaped economic trend that was originally expected has not been up until now, so after the episode, the discourse returned to the subject, which led to the matter of Mickey who just said to build IP. Come on.

    “IP…what do you want to do?”

    “I haven’t thought about it yet. The script of “Nothing to Listen” keeps me busy, so I haven’t had any clues, but anyway, it will definitely not be a superhero movie. We can’t compete with Marvel and the investment is too big. It’s not something we can afford to play. The most important problem is that neither Zhuang Yu nor I have the creative ability to create this kind of IP series.”

    Mickey has always been honest about his own abilities. If he can’t get it, he can’t get it. It is not that Zhuang Yu from Huaxia can help him create a character, and Lu Ze is not surprised.

    “What about the new screenwriters?”

    “The same clueless, they don’t know how to get a big IP with a small cost, it’s too difficult, we can only do it slowly, not in a hurry, now we can only do To increase the company’s film heritage, I have been collecting films since last month. “

    Closing films, as the name suggests, is to find some personally invested films in the market, cooperate in the form of buyout or share, and distribute them to the video tape market. Even the theater.

    Generally speaking, most of the films invested by individuals are shot by amateur directors or newcomer directors. Due to the relatively immature techniques, most actors have no performance experience and low production costs. Both the picture effects and the auditory effects are very rough. Fans who are accustomed to watching big productions have no way to accept it. For example, “Siping Youth”.

    But this does not mean that there are no movies with high gold content. For example, Mickey and Lu Ze’s first film “Effect” is a typical example of great success in the DVD market. It is only compared to the mass of bad movies. In other words, the probability of finding a good movie is minimal.

    But in any case, when the “Global Brothers” have insufficient background and no extra funds to shoot movies, there is only one way they can go.

    “Have you found a good film?”

    “Where is it so easy? Most people come to the door and talk about it, but in fact they are all rotten and can’t be rotten anymore. I have basically dispelled this idea now. The only expectation I can report now is to deliver it next weekend. I have a hunch that if you are lucky enough to encounter a good quality film, it will be it.”

    “What kind of

    film ?” “Horror film, I received some scripts, and it looks pretty good. Quite innovative, the director still graduated from college, has professional skills, the title of the film…what seems to be called…”

    “What is the spirit…Ghost Record”.”

    “…”