Chapter 253

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After completing the guarantee for the film, Murphy returned to her job, making a shooting schedule, drawing sub shot drawings and scene Sketchpad, communicating with the director of photography, Felipe Raschel and art director, Helena espora, analyzing the roles with the four actors, including Robert Downey Jr., Jessica Alba, dawn Johnson and Gina carrano, and pointing out The scene design of Chen Hu's coordinated action to guide their training. All these tasks make Murphy extremely busy. The importance of preliminary preparation is self-evident, and the director and producer are the core of it.

So far, the crew has received $5 million from Murphy's Stanton work and $10 million from 20th century fox. Although the money is only a quarter of the total production cost, it is enough to ensure the smooth progress of the crew's preparatory work.

In addition, after AIA was taken as the completion guarantee of the project, the stagnant financing work of fox in the 20th century made a breakthrough immediately. Two private equity funds and one bank have agreed to inject 20 million US dollars into the cast, and three other funds are under negotiation.

Since 20th century fox has a wide distribution channel both in North America and overseas, most of the overseas distribution work of the film will be in the charge of the overseas branches of 20th century fox. The overseas copyright pre-sale of the film can only be said to be better than nothing, and the production funds of the crew are more from various financing sources.

Large film companies, especially those with distribution capabilities, are undoubtedly safer for investors.

The so-called channel is king. The production companies with this element undoubtedly have the biggest competitive advantage. Under the condition of controllable market, the risk of film investment is also greatly reduced.

Companies with strong distribution capabilities like 20th Century Fox have inherent advantages in penetrating the upper end of the industrial chain. They have cultivated their keen judgment ability in a large number of actual battles facing the market and facing away from the production companies. For large film companies, whether private or institutional, distribution is the backbone of the whole industrial chain and the middle of dumbbells part.

With this as a guarantee, the film market-oriented access is undoubtedly the most open.

There are many ways of film financing, the most common is undoubtedly to bank loans, which is not much different from ordinary commercial loans, and does not involve the copyright of the film.

The most complicated ways of financing a film are private equity and tax financing.

Just like Murphy's Stanton studio, private equity funds do not invest in a film for the sake of interest. The raising of film private equity funds is usually completed by private equity funds attracting investors with different risk tolerance with different kinds of financial products, such as high-yield bonds, low-yield bonds and preferred stocks. They are burdened with huge interest pressure and must be pursued More revenue.

The purpose of their investment is not only to share the profits of the film, but also to enjoy the copyright income of the film.

However, the copyright of a film is forbidden by big Hollywood companies. Generally, they will not share the long-term income of a film with private equity investors. Generally, they will agree with the investors to buy back the shares of the financing party within a specific period of time, which will not only preserve the integrity of the film copyright, but also ensure a good exit channel for the investors.

With sufficient financing channels, the follow-up investment of "the dead man" will be guaranteed. After Paul Wilson passed on many location information suitable for shooting from Australia, Murphy took Philip Raschel, Helena espora, David Robbie and several producers to go directly to Australia to investigate and determine the location that is really suitable for shooting.

Originally, he wanted to leave the affairs of the crew in Los Angeles to Carla Firth. Carla Firth also wanted to go to Australia to handle business and chose to pass with him. Murphy had to temporarily hand over the auditions of some less important roles to Seth Logan, who was his assistant director this time.

"I'm going to Australia to deal with tax incentives."

Inside the first-class cabin, Carla Firth unbuckled her seat belt and said to Murphy sitting next to her, "it's part of the investment."

"Tax incentives are investment?" Murphy wondered, "is that what you bring so much information for?"

When he went to the airport together before, he saw that Carla Firth was carrying a lot of information and contract texts.

"Before filing for tax benefits, I must prepare a sufficiently attractive business plan and project description, director's autobiography, main creative team list, as well as candidate list, script, plot overview and star or star candidate list."

Carla Firth replied, "only with these materials can we really get preferential funds from the Australian government."

Murphy nodded. In fact, from the beginning of the film project, Carla Firth didn't take charge of the crew, directly involved in the preparation of the film, and basically left it to him to deal with. Instead, he was doing more supporting work for the crew, such as raising funds.

There are many kinds of financing methods for movies, and each crew needs to find several financing methods that are most suitable for their own projects.Now the situation is good. North America is gradually recovering from the trauma of 9 / 11. The federal government vigorously promotes the real estate industry and adopts the strategy of stimulating the economy with real estate. House prices are rising steadily in all parts of the United States, and bank related loan business is also booming. The economy of the United States is booming.

With the guarantee of the big environment, the financing of Hollywood is also relatively easy.

However, Murphy knows that this situation will change in a few years. When the economy is in recession, financing is a daunting thing. Investors will certainly talk about risk aversion in the industry, which means less and less money is willing to invest in film shooting.

"Kara, if there's an economic crisis," Murphy asked, "do you think it's as easy as it is now to finance movies?"

"The economic downturn will definitely affect the decision-making of investors."

Compared with Murphy, who is basically ignorant of the economy, Kara Firth seems to have studied, "I think that Hollywood can still attract funds even in the economic crisis. The most important thing is to do two things well."

Seeing that Carla Firth is holding up her water glass with a gesture of concern, Murphy hastens to make a gesture of please.

"First, whether it's an economic crisis or not, a great project and marketing strategy will always make your project stand out." Carla Firth took a sip of water and put down her glass. "The second point is up to you. You are the object that investors deal with. You are the executor who helps them make profits. As long as you can move them, investment is not a problem."

After arriving in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, Murphy and Kara Firth split into two groups. He led his team to inspect the shooting site. Kara Firth took lawyers and accountants to negotiate with the relevant departments of the Australian government.

After staying in the hotel for one night and simply reversing the time difference, Murphy went to Fox Studios with his photography director, Philip Raschel, and art director, Helena espora, to inspect the studio. In the following period of time, the set, props and art director team of the crew will take the lead in Sydney to arrange the shooting scenes in the studio according to Murphy's needs.

As we all know, Australia is one of the most important overseas shooting bases for Hollywood. In order to attract investment from Hollywood drama groups and boost local employment, the Australian government has also formulated many policies, such as tax rebate.

Fox Studios in Sydney is an important project for the Australian government to attract Hollywood investment.

Rather, it should be called fox studio in Australia. It is a major film studio in Sydney, Australia. It is located at Moore Manor in the former Sydney exhibition hall.

The studio, of course owned by News Corporation, opened in May 1998 and is one of the three largest film studios in Australia.

Murphy chose to shoot here, not only because he is one of the investors and can get the corresponding tax rebate, but also because he can provide a lot of advanced equipment here.

It can't be denied that most of the studios and studios in Hollywood and Burbank are dilapidated due to their construction years, and the equipment is very old. Fox studio in Sydney has not been built for a few years, and it can provide the ideal advanced production facilities for screen, TV, advertising, music and other related works, and this studio has been responsible for many years It is responsible for providing the main TV program recording studio for fox in the 20th century, which is also conducive to the publicity of the film.

Fox studio has a special office area. In the 20th century, fox has reserved more than ten offices for Murphy. Among the numerous studios, Murphy also chose a large studio and a small studio as the indoor setting shooting site.

Of course, similar to Hollywood studios, there is also a tourist area, where you can see many huge posters of films shot in Fox Studios, including many famous works, such as "the matrix", "Moulin Rouge", "prequel to Star Wars: the attack of the clone", and "prequel to star Wars: Revenge of the Sith", etc.

At Fox Studios, after joining Paul Wilson, Murphy also met with the head of an entertainment agency. In the future, a lot of Australian extras and staff will be used for the production of "dead man".

This is mainly based on two considerations. First of all, we need to use people to upgrade our budget. We also need to know that the labor cost of the film industry in Los Angeles is much higher than that in Sydney. Moreover, it is expensive to transport a large number of extras and staff from North America to Australia just for air tickets and accommodation.

On the other hand, the Australian government's preferential tax rebate policy stipulates that since they give large amount of tax rebates to films, they certainly do not want to please Hollywood, but must also benefit Australians.

In the office area, he reached an agreement with the head of the entertainment agency. When Murphy went out, he met a person he saw when he went to Warner Bros. last time in front of the office building. [to be continued. ]