Chapter 498 The Most Ridiculous Thing (110)

Los Angeles, Hollywood, USA.

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

Countless film companies are stationed here, and it has become the world's largest film production center.

As long as the movie is named Hollywood, it will inevitably attract the attention of many audiences and be willing to spend money.

This is the reputation cultivated by people in the film industry with countless excellent works for many years.

Alfonso Jeffries is a filmmaker with a certain status in the Hollywood film industry.

He used to be just an ordinary screenwriter, and then he quickly grew into an independent director and made a lot of good works.

Now he has established 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 company to see how the recent production of the film is going.

Recently, he just has two movies that will be released in half a year.

One of them is a special effects movie that he invested more than half of the company's funds to produce, using the most advanced special effects production tools at present, and spent a lot of money.

The other movie is a big movie produced in cooperation with Detroit Film.

He has probably seen the current production effects of these two movies. If nothing unexpected happens, these two movies should be big sellers.

In addition to these two movies, he has another job recently.

That is the boycott initiated by the boss of Detroit Film Group and other filmmakers under Detroit Film Group.

The target of the boycott is a movie produced by a little-known company in the film industry.

This movie uses full CG special effects production, which can be called an animated movie, but it is much better than ordinary animated movies.

As a filmmaker, he naturally has no second words about the requirements of Detroit Film Group.

Moreover, there are some things that make him uncomfortable about the company that produces full special effects CG movies. That is, the creative leadership of the production is actually given to people other than the director and screenwriter. The director and screenwriter have become tools.

He and several other filmmakers have become pioneers and have worked hard to criticize this behavior in multiple interview programs. In fact, it is essentially an order from the top, and the criticism is just an excuse. The purpose is to prevent this movie from being released in traditional theaters.

Although it is hard to say what the future holds, as of now, if a movie cannot be released in traditional theaters, it is almost doomed to fail, no matter how well it is made. This is the way it is in this era, and it is not easy to change this concept in a short period of time.

The movie that was boycotted was naturally Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children.

Alfonso happened to have a full-effects movie similar to this one released, and it was very beneficial for him to exclude such an opponent.

This also made him more attentive than other people who boycotted the movie.

Through the influence of the Detroit Film Group itself in the industry, mainstream cinemas decisively rejected the release of this movie. These cinemas also hoped that the big movie companies would tilt more resources towards them. It was not a big problem to provoke a small company with little reputation in the film industry.

After a month of fermentation, this collective boycott seemed to have achieved good results. Youxing Electronic Entertainment did not resist much and seemed very easy to talk to. Once rejected, it gave up the theater release obediently.

This also made the senior management of Suri Electronics think that this movie was probably just a casual effort of Youxing Electronics Entertainment. Since it couldn't be shown in mainstream theaters, it was destined to not make any waves.

Under such circumstances, Alfonso was about to forget about it.

At this moment, he was supervising the production of the movie on one of the studios.

Of the two recent movies, he must be more concerned about the big-budget movie in which he invested more than half of the company's funds.

This movie has very exciting action special effects, and he thinks it has a gripping story.

But now there is a problem.

That is, the special effects production is too expensive.

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

This gave him a headache.

If he continued to invest funds, he might not be able to make ends meet.

Perhaps, the production standards of special effects can be slightly relaxed?

"Boss, how are the results of special effects today."

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

Alfonso still felt it was not good 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, this is the limit of what we can do. If we want to do better, it will cost more money."

Alfonso was very entangled: "It's still a little bit worse."

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

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

You told me now that I spent all the money.

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

"Veto? When did I veto it?" Alfonso was a little confused.

How could I veto such a good thing that can save money and get things done?

"Yes... you said last time that you would boycott that company and publicly refused to cooperate with that company in any way. You said so, and we can't use it even if we want to."

"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.

"Yes, this company has produced special effects for the Star Ocean Infinite movie. The final effect of the film is very good, and the cost is said to be very low, at least 30% lower than other counterparts, and possibly even more."

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

"Their special effects production engine is very powerful. It is a production method that I have never seen before. Now many film and television companies are beginning to consider using this engine to produce movies, even Detroit Pictures itself is using it."

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

"Yes, but boss, you must resist..."

Alfonso instantly felt that he had been deceived.

Detroit Pictures asked several of their companies to boycott Youxing Electronic Entertainment. How come you turned around and still quietly used your opponent's products? Isn’t this nonsense?