Hollywood legendary director

October 25, nine o'clock in the morning.

In the CAA headquarters building, people come and go in a hurry.

In the internal review of pending projects, every possible film and television production deeply stimulates every aspiring and dreaming agent.

If they can reach a conclusion, or push their customers to the top, they are working hard every day.

Already standing on a tall building and enjoying the coolness of overlooking the world, who doesn't want to climb a step higher, stand taller, and have a broader view.

Under the appearance of suits and shoes, no one concealed their desires.

Profit, fame, flowers and applause are the most fascinating poison in the world.

Fortunately, he is on the right path.

Johnson was sitting in his own independent office, drinking coffee, looking out the clean, translucent French window, thinking inexplicably.

The success of several films such as "Three Fools in Bollywood", "Rage", "Bad Guy", etc., not only made Lyman's career as a director flourish, but Johnson, as the agent in charge of business processing, is also increasingly seen in CAA's position. rise.

An independent office, more complete internal information resources, as well as a wealth and high-end network relationship, Johnson is undoubtedly the top broker at this time compared to before.

After drinking coffee, looking at his watch, and seeing that the time was almost up, Johnson quickly took his briefcase, went to the underground parking lot, and drove in the car to Lehman's mansion.

Even if his status rose, he attached great importance to Lehman.

He is a sensible person, knowing whom he needs to rely on for his career development.

About 20 minutes later, I entered Beverly Hills smoothly. After parking the car, I informed the housekeeper and went to the living room on the second floor.

As you can see, Lyman and Wen Ziren are sitting on the sofa chatting.

As for Lehmann's purpose of approaching him, it was naturally to start a formal film company.

In Hollywood, it is not difficult to register a film company. Many directors or producers have their own film companies, but the problem is that everyone has a look at Lehman before, and they choose to be affiliated. Just pay a little attention to finances. , Do not need too much management.

But now Lehman is thinking about establishing a company with independent production capabilities. To be formal, it needs a little professional guidance.

Anyway, Lyman didn't know what to do best, or his eyes were blackened.

"Johnson, come, sit here."

Seeing people coming, Lyman greeted enthusiastically.

"How's it going?"

"If you want to invest in filming, you need a company to be right." Johnson sat down and analyzed to Lehman: "First of all, to make a film, you definitely need to build a crew, these co-ordination work, and subsequent salary expenditures. , Shooting costs, if there is no company responsible, it is easy to mess up financially. Before choosing to affiliate with Paramount Pictures, you are not responsible for these, but now, you want more autonomy. It must be done well."

Lehman nodded silently. It was with this in mind that he desperately wanted a more complete production company.

After all, "working" and "being the boss" are completely different things.

"So what should I do?"

Johnson continued to respond: “I’m not very professional on financial matters, so I can’t give too much advice, but I think that establishing a cooperative relationship with those established accounting companies can also be solved initially, and then on the production side. I propose to directly acquire an existing production company."

"Don't register yourself?"

"That's too much trouble. If you register yourself, even if you set up, it will be just a shell company. You have to find an office location, hire people, and hire the corresponding film-making personnel... Instead of that, you It's better to buy one directly, all of which are directly ready."

Johnson opened the briefcase, took out a report from it, handed it to Lehman, and said: "Hollywood has a large number of film companies established every year, and a large number of production companies every year because of poor management or other problems. Facing bankruptcy. But in any case, they can exist, which means that the initial internal operation is no problem. As long as they take over and arrange again, it will definitely be much more convenient and easy than establishing a new company."

Indeed, such an acquisition is indeed very easy.

Lehman thought, looked at the report, and asked, "What is the data on this?"

"Some good production companies, you can refer to the information I have collected."

As an in-depth partner in the industry, CAA has a clear idea of ​​the establishment and closure of film companies, and even which companies have plans to shoot new films and release new films.

What's more, these are not industry secrets, and it can be clear after a little bit of thought.Some basic information in the industry is nothing.

Lehman flipped through the documents and looked at the information carefully.

The above roughly lists the past operation information of some production companies.

For example, what kind of movie productions have been involved in, what works have been released; and the market value of these companies and the analysis of the probability of acquisition.

After watching it for a while, a production company named "Rodrian Entertainment" caught Lehman's attention.

This company was founded in 1998 and has no external debts. It has produced several low-cost offline movies (that is, movies that only sell discs or video tapes and don’t go to theaters). It has some production experience, but maybe because Because the profit method was too single, the boss of this company wanted to sell the company.

This phenomenon is also normal. Companies that issue offline are actually trading time in exchange for meagre profits to maintain expenses.

For example, if a film with a price of 100,000 US dollars is distributed through video tape and DVD, if the results are average, it will take more than half a year to pay back, and the rest will be pure profit.

Basically, in the end, you will earn hundreds of thousands a year. If you don't pay attention to it, or if the market is not good, you can only earn less or lose money.

I'm afraid the same is true. This investment talent who wants to make a lot of money in a film company will be discouraged and want to sell the company.

Lehman didn't pay much attention to it, he just saw that the company has experience in production, and the company's finances are also very healthy...

Originally these points were enough to make his heart move, not to mention that people originally had the intention to sell, and it would not be so troublesome to take over.

"I think this one is better, Johnson, you can contact me first these days and negotiate the price."

"Is this one, yes, I will follow up immediately."

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