Chapter 101

The book of the Duke's studio is more than 20 million US dollars. Not to mention the tax that anyone will hate, this part of the money does not belong to Duke.

According to the agreement, five percent of the revenue shared by the Duke's Studio on the "Break in the Dead Island" project belongs to Nancy Josephson, and another five percent is the expenses of the lawyers and accountants; and 1,000 Ten thousand U.S. dollars Duke will be used to repay the mother's loan. According to the oral agreement, the mother enjoys 10% of the investment income as interest.

A total of 14 million US dollars may be spent later.

This is a highly commercialized and professional society, the kind of exclusive benefits and one person can solve all problems without having to think about it. If you don't give enough commissions to the people who do things, you must wait for losses that far exceed the commission. , And even the complete failure of investment.

Calculated, the Duke's studio will have a balance of 6 million US dollars, plus the 1 million US dollars left in Duke's "Break into the Dead Island" salary, and the 2 million US dollars that the producer has already paid for "Du ● ∞, He also has a sum of money in his hands for the basic remuneration of Li Ri.

How to use this fund is something he has been considering.

Even if the financial aspect is poor, Duke also knows that the U.S. dollar is a rapidly depreciating currency, like all paper currencies. Holding a large amount of cash is the most stupid way of managing money. According to the investment habits of Hollywood circles, stocks and real estate are the most popular for star directors Investment projects.

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

In the next few days, in addition to the preparations for "Independence Day", Duke met with agent Nancy Josephson one after another, and discussed a lot of future film affairs. Among them, she was a former entertainment lawyer and senior agent. A good negotiator must become his temporary agent.

However, Duke will not blindly trust these cunning agents.

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

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

"Let's talk." Sophia knew very well that Duke's words must be very important.

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

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

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

"Yes, my plan."

Duke was too lazy to care about this, took a sip of coffee, took a thick material from his side, and handed it to Sophia, "You go to New York first, go to Broadway to buy a film adaptation right! Then go to London , I went to see the person in charge of a copyright escrow agency. They should not have the film adaptation rights for the novels they hosted. They should find ways to impress them and let them cooperate with us to obtain the film adaptation rights...

Listening to Duke's words, Sophia looked at the information in her hand, her expression gradually became serious, and she stopped talking teasingly. What does this guy want to do? Is this ready to transform?

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

Sophia did not expect that Duke had prepared a more long-term plan before reaching the peak of the explosion.

But can he succeed? The themes of these two adaptations are not only far from his style, but they are even completely different!

Sophia was still thinking about this when leaving North Hollywood.

Although he was a little too indulgent last weekend, when he returned to work, Duke quickly threw Charlize Theron and Cameron Diaz behind his head, and according to the plan that he had already thought of, he governed in place. The funds will prepare in advance for the inevitable transformation of the direction of directorship in the future.

The lawyer, Sofia Coppola and Nancy Josephson, these are candidates Duke has considered for a long time. Among them, even if it is Sofia as a good friend, he will not blindly trust infinitely. The three parties just constitute mutual restraint and supervision. system.

Buying the two works of film rights, the former is fortunate to say, although it is a traditional Broadway show, it has been uninterested and has been suspended for many years, while the latter is a bit troublesome. The limited memory tells him that the last two years are to solve the scattered films The best time period for copyright, otherwise it will be delayed until 1995, and several film companies will join it, and it is bound to spend a lot of money.

As an avid fan, Duke still remembers that it used to be just a copyright issue, and it took nearly two years for the project to almost die.

This part of the funds is likely to be insufficient, so Duke intends to temporarily suppress the mother's loan, depending on the situation, before deciding whether to pay it off within this year. If there is a shortage of funds by that time, he will first pay with this part of the money. If there is a surplus, then he will invest in the stock market. .

No one knows everything. Once and now, Duke was a complete layman in financial markets such as stocks, but people who have experienced the information explosion 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 always been a hot stock, Apple is in a quagmire and waiting for rescue... This is a point confirmed by Duke.

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

In his teenage years, Duke also thought about investing in finance, then making money from the stock market, and then marching into Hollywood to kill the Quartet and achieve a great cause. However, before it was implemented, he found that this was just a fantasy.

First of all, the family is rich and he is rich are two different things. Before the age of sixteen, when he was at most, he only had $40 per month in pocket expenses. If you want to have more pocket expenses, being a newsboy is the fastest and most time-saving way. , But can't make a lot of money, what else do you want to do? Sorry, few companies will hire child labor, let alone pay high salaries.

After the age of sixteen, according to the tradition of the Rosenberg family, in addition to the expensive tuition fees that his mother is responsible for, Duke must be responsible for his daily life and director's learning expenses, as a crew laborer and extra, in fact, Not much money.

As for humming a piece of tune, copying songs and delivering scripts can make money, that's just thinking too much.

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 can't afford it? Yes, the Screenwriters Association can record the works of songwriters, but you must first become a member. To become a member, you have to pay thousands of dollars in membership fees, and the filing fee is also thousands of dollars!

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

The first encounter with Duke himself is the best portrayal of the newly debuted screenwriter, Hollywood studios, large and small studios, with a thick pile of scripts waiting for moldy on their desks!

And relying on the advertising company at home to get a few futuristic advertisements is even less reliable.

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

This principle is too simple. In each era, there is always an aesthetic unique to this era. Advertising is a product aimed at the masses and must conform to the aesthetics of the times. However, the mainstream society always has a strange mentality, often with strong nostalgia. Feeling, but extremely repulsive to things that are too advanced!

The advertisements that Duke clearly remembers all have distinct characteristics of the Internet age. Appropriating the advertisements of the Internet era to the 1980s can successfully cause a sensation. There are more unreliable ways than this. Is it a ridiculous joke?

His family is indeed very rich, but the owner of the property is not him. If you don't say too much, even if you spend a few hundred dollars, your mother must agree.

To persuade mother to invest? What did he use to convince his mother? What he is good at is the knowledge of film production, not financial investment. Apart from the concept, I basically don't understand the latter. As a minor, use reasons that you can't even fool yourself to convince the mother who is a mature businessman?

Can professionals collect information for analysis? There is no shortage of professionals in this area in North America. Profession often means value. In this commercial country, the most basic measure of value is money. Hiring professionals to write a very convincing and detailed data reference support, at least How much does Duke need to pay for an investment analysis plan that can impress a businessman with a net worth of ten million?

If he had such a sum of money, he might as well buy Microsoft stock directly.

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

Apart from having no money, Duke doesn't have much memory of North American non-movies in the 1980s. Don't forget that this is the United States! Not across the Pacific Ocean!

Let's just talk about the Plaza Accord, which has been discussed by countless people. He does know that there is such a thing, but in which year and month, how many people remember? How many people remember the turbulent date of oil futures? How many people remember the date when a certain stock went up and down in the 1980s?

Everyone's energy is limited. Wanting to be a good director in the future means not only a high degree of concentration, but also a lot of time consumption of learning and practice. Duke knows what he wants and what he is good at. , He is not a genius like Li Li and Uncle Joe!

Let's just talk about the Microsoft and Apple that he remembers. The former has been rising steadily in the 1980s, and it is impossible to obtain several or even dozens of times of huge investment profits in a short period of time, while the latter experienced the glory of the early 1980s. After Uncle Qiao was kicked out, he was caught in a quagmire, and his performance and stock price were falling all the way, and he was even in danger of bankruptcy.

Even if he had some money, Duke couldn't profit quickly from them, and he didn't know the exact year in which Uncle Joe returned to Apple, only that Apple was very good later.

What's more, at the beginning, he had no money, and the director could not be successful after reactivating it. Behind every successful director, all of them represent a lot of time and energy consumption!

Sophia and others went to New York and London. Duke still led the crew to busy with the preliminary preparations. 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.