"What is the production situation of several movies that the company has put into production recently?" Xia Tian asked with concern again.

"It's not bad. The movies we are currently producing include "Ten Days of Danger", "Edward Scissor Hand", "My Heart is Wild", "The Stealing and the Kindergarten SWAT", "Kindergarten SWAT" and "American Pie". "Long Mayer reported, "The Kindergarten SWAT" and "American Pie" are about to be filmed and are expected to be released in the summer season.

"The Story" has been filmed for more than half, while "Ten Days of Danger", "Edward Scissor Hand" and "I'm Wild" are still under intense production."

Xia Tian nodded, "You should keep a close eye on it and don't miss the schedule. In addition, you should also pay attention to collecting good scripts and good ideas. You should not always rely on me. Although I am a genius screenwriter, don't ignore others. There is a Chinese saying that wise people will make mistakes, and fools will make mistakes."

Long Mayer nodded, "Boss, we are actually very careful about collecting good scripts and good ideas. To be honest, we bought more than 200 scripts last year alone, and the scripts are preferred. If we count the scripts purchased over the years, there are probably more than 10,000 ideas."

When Xia Tian heard this, he couldn't help but admire him. After all, it is an old Hollywood company. In terms of foundation, it is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.

However, he also knew that most of the tens of thousands of scripts and creativity accumulated by Columbia Pictures should be garbage and have various flaws. For example, the subject matter is old and outdated, the story is shoddy, the inability to make money, etc. Otherwise, he would not sleep in the script library for many years.

As far as he knows, when Shaw Brothers was about to close, more than 3,000 scripts were not filmed in the script library. After the great director Zhang Cheung was out of date in the 1980s, he also stayed at home to write scripts, hoping to make a comeback and make a comeback. But after asking Di Long to read it, he found that no script could be used in more than 100 scripts, so the two almost had a conflict.

The reason why I don’t shoot and buy scripts is to invest in movies, which often relies on fortunes. Perhaps a certain subject or a story will become popular all of a sudden when I unexpectedly expect it. This is common in film history.

For example, the well-known cult film "Loki Horror Show" was extremely bleak when it was released and even the cost was not recovered. But a year later, when it was re-screened at midnight, it gained unimaginable miracle effects.

At the beginning of the film screening, fans learned to speak, dance, sing in the play, and the atmosphere was warm, and gradually formed a tradition of watching movies, even becoming a ritual.

Whenever the movie is played in midnight, the entire theater will become a carnival ocean. Audiences will dress up and dress up as their favorite characters to participate in the carnival. Los Angeles even set October 30th every year as the "Loki Horror Show Day", which shows the influence of this movie.

The cult film "Loki Horror Show" finally exceeded 100 million US dollars in the box office, not to mention other movies. Therefore, in order to avoid missing opportunities, the film company adopted the practice of casting a wide net and focusing on cultivating it.

Buying so many scripts seems to cost a lot of copyright fees, causing backlogs and waste of funds, but in fact they don’t spend much money. Because they only need to pay a small amount of money to make a deposit, get the script, and then they can be left alone. When will they give the author all copyright fees when they want to shoot?

Many authors even waited for a lifetime without waiting for their works to be adapted into a film and television drama. This is normal. Just like a publisher will buy the author's manuscript, but when it will be officially published and distributed, it cannot be guaranteed.

"Look back and see what scripts are worth investing in," Xia Tian reminded Long Mayer.

Among the tens of thousands of scripts, even if one thousand is worth investing, there are ten. If each script can earn 20 million US dollars, then the combined income will be 200 million US dollars. Wouldn't it be a pity to put so much money in the script library?

"Boss, your vision is so accurate, please help me take a look." Lang Meyer immediately suggested when he heard this.

When Xia Tian heard this, he waved his hand immediately.

What a joke? When he has to see tens of thousands of scripts, he will probably not finish it for a year or two. With that time, let alone 200 million US dollars, he will make a profit of 200 billion US dollars.

"This way, you can filter it first and show me the script that is most promising to adapt." Xia Tian thought for a while, "This will save me time, and at the same time ensure that you won't lose money."

"Okay, then." Long Mayer nodded.

...

After staying at Columbia Pictures for a long time, Xia Tian returned to his mansion and prepared to accumulate energy and go to Zion Presbyterian Church tomorrow.

He has received news that the Fusang stock market has fallen by 20%, and his bet with the Zion Presbyterian Church has basically been completed and he can officially start cooperation.

The Fusang stock market has been falling since the beginning of the year, and has fallen by 7,900 points, with a drop of more than 20%. In the summer, when the Fusang stock market fell at the beginning of the year, it began to short Nikkei stock index futures.

Every ten points of the stock index falls, it means it falls by 10,000 yen. Now it falls by 7,900 points, which is equivalent to falling by 7,900 yen.

In the summer, he invested nearly 10 billion US dollars in Nikkei stock index futures, and financial leverage has leveraged nearly 100 billion US dollars in the market. Now with the plunge of Nikkei stock index, his income has exceeded 60 billion US dollars.

However, compared with the last loss of $6 trillion caused by the Fuso economic bubble, his income is just a drop in the bucket.

Of course, most of these six trillion US dollars are virtual assets, which belong to digital games in the financial world, and are full of moisture. The real losses are not that great. Just like the subprime mortgage crisis, it is said that the total market value of CDS (financial derivatives) is as high as 62 trillion US dollars, which is more than the sum of GDP in all countries around the world.

The 60 billion US dollars I earned in summer is just a book number, and he has not yet delivered it. His idea is to wait until the Fusang stock market falls slowly. Now it has fallen by 20%, and as far as he knows, it will fall by half in the end. That is to say, there is still a lot of room for whereabouts.

He also wants to use this fund as a killer weapon. Anyway, futures can be bought and sold at any time, and he can leave at any time. Tens of billions of dollars of assets can absolutely ensure the safety of his funds. Because even those Wall Street giants may not have so much money.
Chapter completed!