Chapter 076 Money Never Sleeps
For Hollywood film and television companies, the share of the share can be said to be a conventional habit.
Among them, what is not simple is a problem of being unable to give up on good fortune. To a large extent, it is because of a very classic financial statement - money can make money.
If you don’t mention embezzlement and invest in investment or anything else, as long as the money can lie on the company’s account, the bank will have to pay interest. The income of hundreds of millions of dollars, and arrears of a month, is enough to pay wages to several employees.
Look, things are that simple. There is no love for no reason, and no hatred for no reason in the world.
In fact, most companies in the world will play this trick whenever they have the chance, and the reason why Hollywood film and television companies are notorious in this is just because they have more opportunities-
Before the era of Internet cloud data, the statistics on movie box office and subsequent peripheral revenue were simply a black box, involving a lot of operations. Except for the production and distribution companies that were handled, sometimes even theaters couldn't explain it clearly.
In this case, it’s easy to say that the pay for the clearly marked price is, as for the box office share?
You see, our accounting staff work overtime every day to count so hard, do you have the nerve to ask?
In short, the share of the money involves box office, as long as the statistics are not effective or the arrival delay can be easily delayed for several months. Why not let the money lie on your own account and continue to make money?
As for the accounting personnel who took the blame for this, at worst, they can use the money they have produced to pay them some bonuses.
Therefore, whether you can get it in such a thing depends not only on the agreement, but also on the strength and status comparison of both parties. If you do not have enough means to ensure that the other party does not cheat you in this regard, you can only hope for the other party's company's conscience.
And companies whose essence is capital have a conscience?
Classmate, you must have never read "Zi Ben Lun"!
——Well, in this land of the United States, we will not actively teach anti-books like "Zi Ben Lun".
In fact, even Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, two later superstars, were cheated by the Weinstein brothers' Miramax company in terms of the screenwriter's share of "The Mind Catcher", and that was after they had won the Oscar's best original script and began to become famous.
Of course, you can also choose to hire senior accounting personnel or accounting firms to help you fight wits and courage with the film company. Although they have no choice but to do some secret operations of film and television companies, at least the money on the books can still be repaid for you.
However, there is a prerequisite here-
You have to ensure that the share income you can get is at least equivalent to the commission to those senior accounting personnel - sometimes even the lawyer's fees - otherwise, it is very likely that you will get a lot of share income on the books but still have to pay for others to find money.
At least, Charlotte estimated that according to the share ratio mentioned by the producer before, the money he could get was difficult to afford to hire accountants and lawyers who drank blood. Instead, it would be better to throw this hot potato to the rest of the crew as carrots.
Of course, arrears are not necessarily going to happen.
After all, it is easy to do something bad by one person. But it is quite difficult to do only bad things and not good things for the rest of your life. Hitler once revitalized the German economy!
The rest of the crew may not understand the twists and turns, but they are still attracted by the bait thrown by Charlotte. To a large extent, they are holding on to this lucky mentality - even if they may be owed, it is money after all!!
However, reality proves again that Murphy's law makes sense—if bad things can happen, it will definitely happen.
"How did the new line be ready to cheat us? That guy Tony didn't say that?"
Lao Gun frowned and thought of a solution, while asking Charlotte.
The latter shrugged his shoulders,
"You are actually more familiar with him than me, so you can ask yourself."
“…he couldn’t say it.”
Lao Gun sighed.
Indeed, he and producer Anthony Westwood have always met. But because of this, he realized that Westwood is not a talkative guy. Even the other party would reveal some news to Charlotte, and Lao Gun wondered if there were any other tricks in it.
Although he is about to die, he is good at speaking. Now that he is about to retire or leave, it is not impossible for the producer to find his conscience, but Lao Qian felt that the greater possibility is that this guy has another plan and wants to win over Charlotte.
After all, through "The Deadly Behind", Charlotte has initially proved his directing ability. In this way, he has the value of being attracted by producers.
However, the producer is still the producer.
The butt determines the head. No matter how many reasons he has, as long as he doesn't want to completely ruin his reputation in this industry, he will never completely turn his position to the side of his own group of workers. It is already the limit to being able to reveal some news.
"But if you don't know the methods the other party may use, you will be passive when the time comes."
In fact, it is also arrears, and there are differences between high and lows.
Some companies have people who specialize in doing this kind of thing. They chat and eat with the people who are owed every day, complaining pitifully - it's not that we are owing it, but that the capital chain has been difficult to turn around recently. How many days should you wait?
This is playing the emotional card, and some companies can play more technically. When you ask about the share, they will directly throw it to you with the box office statistics and financial statements like a hill. Want to understand all of this?
You have to know that it takes four years to graduate from finance majors, and it takes even more to become a qualified accountant.
Of course, you may be really a genius in accounting, or you really hired a senior accountant at all costs, but even so, if you fail one move, there is another trick-
Our company recently has a new project that is raising funds. Do you want to invest your CDs in? The money is vast, first come first served!
If you don’t agree, they will be able to continue to work hard with you. If you agree, then congratulations, you will become a shareholder after trading stocks!
If you lose money in a new project, you will definitely lose money first. If you make money, you will soon face the cycle of the above circle again.
Regardless of profit or loss, the money that belongs to you nominally always lie on the account of the company, providing people with the opportunity to make small money.
As for you?
Even if you are always paid attention to by God and the elderly, you make money every time you have a new project, and your family’s foundation is as long as it is snowballed, but within ten or eight years, you will never expect to see real money...
And these are actually quite conscientious.
After all, people have never said they would not give you money, and they have not concealed their income significantly. The reason why Xinyi Company has outstanding reputation in this area is that it can do the first two.
I don’t know if it’s because of the lack of excellent public relations and accounting personnel. When Xinyi companies want to default on sharing their share, they don’t play emotional cards or technical flow. They just fight hard, and often act like you’re waiting for it, asking for money, and not giving it to death.
Of course, doing this in the new line is also a way to distinguish people. Otherwise, if you cheat people every day, this company will not be able to survive until now.
Faced with investors who have the strength and can monitor them, the new line will be very honest;
If they encounter someone with a high status or a great prospect, and still have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, they can also try to endure their greed. After all, money now is money, and money in the future is money too!
Note that this is already a "try" and you can't help but be lucky, and you can't help it...
But if you don’t have two of the first ones, just a miscellaneous fish that got the share for various reasons, then congratulations, at least half of you may have been on the whitelist of the new line for arrears to share.
"That's what we are doing now!"
Among the share that Charlotte gave up, Lao Gun also made a sum. He was like Charlotte, and he didn't care much about the money. He has been through the market so far, and has some family income, and has divorced again, which has been a lot of money...
But as his relationship with makeup artist Annika changed, the situation changed again. The two of them would definitely spend more money on living together, not to mention that Annika has a son...
"Do you want to hire a lawyer?"
Approving to the law is a method that Americans are very accustomed to, but Lao Qian thought about it and gave up this method.
The reason is very simple. Just like Charlotte, Lao Gun can calculate it. Even if he gets the share, the money may not be enough to pay the lawyer's fee.
——This is even a threatening method for some companies to default on sharing. They are not afraid of being hired by the delinquent party because they calculate very clearly that as long as they delay the trial time of the lawsuit, the income from the delinquent party's share will soon be insufficient to hire a lawyer.
Of course, this method is limited to those who are not well-off. But Lao Gun and others belong to this list. However—
"Speaking of this, Charlotte, do you have any other ideas about this matter now?"
The old gun reacted.
Chapter completed!