141. Chapter 141 Leave it to the professionals
"Okay, I get it, Todd, thank you for your work during this period. I will read it carefully and reply to you." Sean finished the call, then opened a can of beer, walked to the floor-to-ceiling glass, and looked at the street outside and started drinking.
The weather outside was pretty good. Although there was no sunshine, it was very sunny. It was suitable for people to go out for a trip. Even Sanders ran out. But Sean didn't have this time and stayed in the room all the time, processing the information coming from the United States.
There are many big scenes in the Battle of Helmet Valley, which are not limited to the fight between one or a few people. And even if you want to give a close shot, Hardir will be behind Aragon, Leglas, and Jinli - wrong, and is on par with Jinli. After all, more beautiful elves characters are more pleasing to the audience, not to mention that Sean's elves makeup is indeed handsome.
God knows how those makeup artists do it. He doesn't look handsome usually, but he can be dressed up like that by their wonderful hands.
In short, the result is that it is easy to have two or three days of shooting, one day off, another day, and then the weekend. After saving someone that day, Sean should have had a day off, another day of shooting, but because of this, Jackson deliberately took a day off, and for about four days off on the weekend.
Sean happened to sort out his thoughts in the past few days and devote most of his energy to his own affairs, such as talking to Garen to learn about the current situation at home, listening to the voices of Pock and Lucy, and flirting with Naomi and Jordanna on the phone respectively. In about a week, Naomi will also come to New Zealand. Jackson has already started preparing for most of the scenes in the Rohanate Kingdom, as the queen and also appearing in the Helmet Valley. She will not only go to the crew after Sean leaves.
As for Jordanna, she started to rest after filming "The Invisible Trick" and went back to New York from time to time, occasionally making guest appearances as models, but still had no specific arrangements for her future. However, because of this movie and the last incident, she became good friends with Camilla. The little girl often went to her house to play, so when she met her on the phone with him, she always had to interject a sentence or two.
"Hey, you agreed last time that as long as your parents agree, I can go to your place to play. If you don't invite me over, I will prosecute you for fraud!" Camilla laughed and shouted on the phone, which was really a headache.
In addition, Frederick said on the phone that there were two good script recommendations and sent some of the contents by email. Unfortunately, Sean was not interested for the time being and had no intuition to react.
Then, Neil was still working for 8% of Google shares, and was looking for suitable investment in the stock market. Now IT stocks have plummeted across the board. As Cisco, which had the highest market value at the time, it only lasted for a month and then leaked again. The bubble burst has been confirmed, and many IT companies have gone bankrupt, and investors have avoided it.
But Neil's view is the opposite. He believes that this disaster will highlight those who have real potential and can withstand risks. It can be absorbed at a low price and then sold after the disaster is over. Of course, this is just the lowest-level method, and it also requires him to have the vision to select the high-quality stocks and buy them when the value of these stocks is seriously undervalued due to market reasons. At the same time, he will think so, and there must be someone who thinks so.
Actually, there is no need to worry about this. Neil has really selected several suitable stocks from it, such as Omnicell's smart medicine cabinet system. As long as major hospitals are still using this system, they will not worry about no income. Or Amazon, their corporate development strategy is very cautious. While other IT companies are expanding through the bubble, they are moving forward steadily step by step, not confused by the dazzling data at all, so this disaster has almost no impact on them.
But Sean just looked at the matter. He had limited funds and had more income before he had more income, unless it was a company like Google that deserved a try. Although Neil did not intend to hold it for a long time, the capital rate still exceeded the warning line, so he still did not participate and let him attract customers by himself.
It's okay for Neil to have a production company led by Vladimir to make people feel worried. This middle-aged man with Russian descent still has some ability. In just half a month, the basic framework has been built, with supervisors from the three departments of personnel, finance and production, and only needs to be further filled with manpower. At the same time, he also began to look for scripts to prepare for the company's first work, and according to Sean's request, he sent all these scripts to him by email.
But the problem is that the three main departments, the others recruit experienced but moderately capable people, but the only accountant who serves as the financial director was dug up from KPMG's Los Angeles accounting firm at an annual salary of 200,000! That's a hell. You know, although Sean gave Vladimir 10% of his shareholding, his annual salary was only 200,000. It's really too...
"A production company wants to have a foothold in Hollywood and even maintain vitality and surplus. In addition to production, finance is also very important. Now we cannot make much achievements in production. After all, it requires accumulation, so we cannot neglect financially." Vladimir said so.
Well, an excellent accountant can even become a partner of an accounting firm even if he has an annual salary of 500,000 yuan. But the problem is, do they now need an accountant with an annual salary of 200,000 yuan to serve as the financial director? In this way, he will have to continue investing in less than a year.
However, Sean didn't say anything more. Since he had already said that he had given him full responsibility for the production company before hiring Vladimir, it was impossible for him to regret it in less than a month.
"I hope we can find a good script and make a profit." Sean mumbled, opening his notebook and calling out the email.
Unfortunately, after spending an hour to roughly browse the three scripts sent, Sean was very disappointed. Two campus comedies, one bloody and horrible, and the plot is very old-fashioned, and they are not interesting. Although these two scripts can make money even after being filmed, it is impossible to attract audiences without enough novelty, and there are too many low-cost movies of these two themes, so it is difficult to break through them.
More importantly, his intuition did not respond. It was not that Sean relied too much on his intuition, but when the production company just took root, it was still necessary to be cautious.
"Maybe...we can remake the classic horror movies of the past into new?" Sean suddenly came up with this idea while pinching his chin.
This is indeed feasible. First of all, these classic horror films are famous works, and they can always attract curious audiences who have never seen them but heard of their names; then the shooting skills of horror films more than ten years ago are definitely not as good as those of the present, and this can attract a group of audiences; next, nostalgic middle-aged people and young people who specially chose horror films with their girlfriends are potential audiences, and it should be fine to make a small profit.
So... Sean gave up this idea and was really dreaming. He didn't even have enough money to buy remake copyrights, let alone production. At this moment, he suddenly understood why most celebrity production companies are just empty shells. If you want to run a good company, how can you do it without spending energy?
"Forget it, let's leave it to Todd to consider it." He sighed.
Although Sean knew very well that Vladimirken, who had such experience, agreed to be the general manager of his small company, in addition to feeling interesting, it was more important to use this as a springboard to announce his return to Hollywood, so he probably wouldn't stay in this position for too long.
However, he must make a movie that can be watched at least, otherwise how could he express himself and tell everyone that he is still capable?
Turn off the laptop and put it back in the box, look at my messy bed, and look at Sanders' equally bad bed - because of the limited budget and only a supporting role, I don't have a suite this time and I live in the same room with my assistant.
Sean decided to go out for a walk, thinking that Los Angeles has entered summer, but he is enjoying autumn. This contrast is also interesting, right?
Leave a tip at the head of the bed, and hang a sign for cleaning. He walked towards the elevator. As soon as he turned a corner, he couldn't help but be stunned. Because a tall woman in a windbreaker was walking inside, her face with sunglasses turned around, then she took a step back as if she was surprised, and then quickly reached out to press the button in the elevator, and the two doors closed in the middle.
At that moment, Sean rushed up with a quick step, slammed the door that was about to close with the elevator, and then stared at the woman and walked in a few steps.
The woman retreated, her chest slightly undulating. Even if she was blocking her sunglasses, she could still feel the anger and panic in the eyes behind her.
"Kate..." Sean called out, but didn't know what to say.
These days he tried his best to talk to Kate alone, but she took her assistant with her wherever she went. Even if the assistant left, there would be people from other crews around her, which were completely inaccessible. Now he finally encountered an opportunity by chance, and she was the only one in the elevator, but he forgot how to start.
Cate Blanchett finally reacted and was about to run out of the elevator, but unfortunately he was slowing down. The door closed in front of him, then sank down and started running. She then leaned into the corner and took a defensive gesture, as if as long as Sean passed, she would make intense moves.
Chapter completed!