Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 498 The most nonsense thing (110)

  Los Angeles, USA, Hollywood.

  It is located in the northwest suburbs of Los Angeles, with the best scenery and climate by the mountains and rivers.

   Numerous film companies are stationed here, and it has become the largest film production center in the world.

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

   This is the fame 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.

   Once he was just an ordinary screenwriter, but later he quickly grew into an independent director and produced a lot of good works.

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

   Every day he walks out of the house with a high-spirited look, and then goes to his own company to see how the production of the recent filming works.

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

   One of them is a special effect movie that he poured more than half of the company's funds into. It used the most advanced special effect production tools and spent a lot of money.

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

   He has probably seen the current production of these two films. If there are no surprises, these two films should both sell well.

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

   That is, the owner of Detroit Pictures personally commissioned him, and other filmmakers under the Detroit Pictures Group jointly launched a boycott.

The target of the    boycott is a film made by a company that is little known in the film industry.

  This movie is made with full CG special effects and can be called an animated movie, but it is far better than the average animated movie.

   As a filmmaker, he has nothing to say about the demands of the Detroit Film Group.

And the company that makes full special effects CG movies has something that makes him uncomfortable. That is, the creative leadership of the production is actually handed over to people other than the director and the screenwriter. The director and the screenwriter have become the same tool people. exist.

He and several other filmmakers became the vanguard together, and worked very hard to criticize this kind of behavior in multiple interview programs. In fact, it was essentially an order from above, and the attack was just an excuse. Traditional theater release.

Although the future is still hard to say, but looking at it now, if a movie can’t land in traditional theaters, it’s almost doomed to hit the streets, no matter how good your production is. This is how this era is. Changing this perception is not easy.

The film that was boycotted because of    was 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 for him to exclude such opponents.

   This also makes him more attentive than other film boycotters.

Through the influence of the Detroit Film Group itself in the industry, mainstream movie theaters have decisively rejected the release of this movie. These movie theaters also count on the big movie companies to give them more resources, and it is nothing to provoke a movie industry. Well-known small companies are actually not that big of a problem.

After a month of fermenting, this collective boycott seems to have achieved good results. Youxing Electronic Entertainment did not resist this very much. .

   This also made the executives of Suri Electronics think that perhaps this movie was really made by Yuxing Electronics Entertainment. Since the mainstream theaters can't make it, it is destined to not be able to make any waves.

   In such a situation, Alfonso was about to forget about it.

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

   Of the last two films, he must have paid more attention to the big-budget films he invested more than half of the company's funds.

  This movie has very good action special effects, as well as a plot story that he thinks is gripping.

   But now there is a problem.

   That is, special effects production is too expensive.

   He has already invested more than half of the company's funds, and now he has only done 70% to 80% of the special effects.

   This gave him some headaches.

   If you continue to invest money, I am afraid that you will be a little bit beyond your means.

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

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

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

  Alfonso still felt bad after taking a look, and then he asked tentatively, "Can we do better with the current resources?"

   The person in charge shook his head: "No way, this is 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 a little bit."

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

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

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

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

   "Rejected? When did I reject it?" Alfonso was a little confused.

  How can you refute the good deeds of saving money and doing things well?

   "Yes... Last time you said you wanted to boycott that company, and you openly said that you refused to cooperate with that company. You said so, even if we wanted to use it."

   "That company?"

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

  Youxing Electronic Entertainment?

  Alfonso raised his eyebrows.

   "That's right, this company has produced special effects for Xinghai Infinite Films, 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 possibly more."

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

   "It's because their special effects production engine is very powerful. It's a production method I've never seen before. Now many film and television companies are starting to consider using this engine to make movies. Even Detroit Pictures is using it."

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

   "Yes, but boss, you have to resist..."

  Alfonso instantly felt that he was being fooled.

   This guy from Detroit Pictures himself asked several of their companies to boycott Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. How come you are still quietly using your opponent's products? Isn't this nonsense?

   (end of this chapter)