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 a movie has a Hollywood name, it will definitely attract the attention of many viewers and be willing to spend money.
This is a reputation cultivated by people in the film industry through countless excellent works over many years.
Alfonso Jeffries is a filmmaker with a certain status in the Hollywood film industry.
Once he was just an ordinary screenwriter, but later he quickly grew into an independent director and produced many pretty 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 in high spirits, and then goes to his company to see how the recently scheduled films are being produced.
Recently, he happens to have two movies that will be released in half a year.
One of them is a special effects movie that he poured more than half of the company's funds into, using the most advanced special effects production tools available and spending a lot of money.
The other movie is a big movie produced in cooperation with Detroit Pictures.
He has probably seen the current production effects of these two movies. If there are no surprises, these two movies should be very popular.
In addition to these two movies, he has another job recently.
That was the boycott that was personally commissioned by the boss of Detroit Pictures and other filmmakers under the Detroit Pictures Group.
The target of the boycott is a film produced by a company that is little-known in the film industry.
This movie is made using full CG special effects. It can be called an animated movie, but it is far better than ordinary animated movies.
As a filmmaker, he naturally had no objections to the requirements of the Detroit Film Group.
Moreover, the company that produces full special effects CG movies has something that makes him unhappy, that is, the creative control of the production is handed over to people other than the director and screenwriter, and the director and screenwriter have completely become tool men.
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He and several other filmmakers became the vanguard and worked very hard to criticize this kind of behavior in many interview programs. In fact, it was essentially an order from above, and the criticism was just an excuse. The purpose was to prevent the film from being released in the public eye.
Released in traditional theaters.
Although it’s hard to say about the future, looking at it now, if a movie cannot be released in traditional theaters, it is almost destined to fail, no matter how excellent your production is. This is the situation in this era. If you want to make a movie in a short time
Changing this mindset is not easy.
The movie being boycotted is, of course, Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children.
Alfonso just happened to have a movie with full special effects similar to this movie released, and it would be very beneficial for him to exclude such an opponent.
This also makes him more conscientious than other people who boycott movies.
Through the influence of the Detroit Film Group itself in the industry, mainstream movie theaters decisively rejected the release of this movie. These movie theaters also hope that major movie companies can tilt more resources towards them. It is nothing to provoke the movie industry.
Well-known small companies actually don’t have big problems.
After a month of fermentation, this collective boycott seemed to have achieved very good results. Youxing Electronic Entertainment did not resist it much. It seemed to be very talkative and obediently gave up the theatrical release as soon as it was rejected.
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This also made the executives of Suri Electronics think that this movie is really just a casual project of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. Since it cannot be released in mainstream theaters, it is destined to not make any waves.
Under such circumstances, Alfonso almost forgot about it.
At this moment he is supervising the production of the movie on one of the studios.
In the last two movies, he is definitely more concerned about big-budget movies in which he has invested more than half of the company's funds.
This movie has very exciting action special effects and a plot that he thinks is gripping.
But now there is a problem.
That’s because special effects production is too expensive.
He had originally invested more than half of the company's funds, but now he has only completed 70 to 80% of the special effects.
This gave him a little headache.
If you continue to invest money, you may be unable to make ends meet.
Perhaps the production standards for special effects can be relaxed a little?
"Boss, what do you think of the results of today's special effects?"
The person in charge of special effects production showed the special effects produced today to Alfonso for review.
After taking a look, Alfonso still felt that it was not good, and then he tentatively asked: "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, we will spend more money."
Alfonso was very confused: "It's still close."
"Actually, boss, what I said now is a little bit hindsight, 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 pretty good."
"Huh? Why didn't you tell me before?" Alfonso immediately stared, very dissatisfied.
You just told me now that all my money has been spent.
"Boss, it's not that I didn't say it, but you directly vetoed it at that time."
"Veto? When did I veto it?" Alfonso was a little confused.
How could I veto such a good thing as saving money and getting things done?
"Yes... you said last time that you would boycott that company and publicly said that you 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 it is said that the cost is 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 Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, so how come you are still quietly using your rival's products? Isn't this nonsense?