Sony has gone too far?

Could it be that they invited the two fools from before back to respond to the diaphragm again?

As soon as such a thought popped into Roland's mind, Spielberg on the other end of the phone had already said goodbye.

The busy sound made him raise his eyebrows, dropped his phone and glanced at the wall clock, and seeing that it was still early, he pushed the door out, went to the next door, and asked David for the financial statements of Sony and Amperin and Warcraft Joint Distribution.

“Wow~Wow~Wow~”

"Roland, why did you suddenly remember to ask me about this?"

David took Roland into the study, opened the safe, and fished out all the stacks of reports belonging to this year.

"According to the past practice, every year I take the statement to you before Christmas, how can I ...... this year"

"You came on your own initiative?"

"Do you want to see how much money the company still has on its books and is going to hold a big celebration banquet for Titanic? Or are you going to be eighteen in a few days, and you're ready to take care of the company yourself? ”

"If it's the latter, I'm so happy!"

"Don't you know, in order to help you take care of the company, I'm a real estate person, and I'm about to become a property management person~"

When David complained in a joking tone, the first safe had been emptied by him, and then he opened the second safe, and continued to take out the sealed documents.

The action of crouching and taking it, coupled with the chattering words, made Roland, who wanted to laugh a few words, shut his mouth.

Whatthefuck？

He only has five shell companies, why do he have so many statements every year?

If he is allowed to manage it himself, then isn't it his life?

As soon as he thought that if he agreed, the sky of information would be overwhelmed like snowflakes, and the joy that rose from the imminent Oscar shrank back instantly.

Roland snorted, looked at David who crossed his waist with one hand and pressed the mountain of information with the other, and said directly shamelessly: "David, the company will be handed over to you to take care of, I can rest assured...... And you can't bear to watch me, a guy who hasn't even read a book, lose all the hard-earned property, right? ”

"Besides, you're not helping me take care of the company for nothing, are you?"

"Didn't I help you take care of the children......

"If I let Garnetty know, you guy who talks about 'family first' every day, and you throw Lizzie to bring me ......"

"Okay, okay, okay......"

"Sit down, sit down, sit down, ......"

David, who wanted to take advantage of Roland's abnormal excuse to casually tease him for a few words, directly raised his hand and pressed Roland into the seat after hearing Roland's dealings, "It seems that you are in a good mood......

"Is it because of the big sale of "Titanic"?"

"It's a pity, I also know that the big sale of "Titanic" can make you, a record-breaking guy, happy, so I thought about moving this year's year-end settlement back, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to talk to me about this......"

Hearing this, Roland, who had raised Erlang's legs, clasped his hands around his chest.

If it weren't for Spielberg's half-talking, how could he have found himself bored to talk about this?

Just as Roland was secretly complaining about Spielberg's actions in his heart, David, who was also seated, slowly touched his index finger along the side of the document binding, and with his movements, Roland's gaze also slid down, and when he saw the book marked with Warcraft Film and Television, David took it out and opened it and spread it between the two.

"See for yourself."

In the past nine or seven years, Roland has not released any new films, so the entire company only has the copyright income of the film library.

Together, there are 47 million.

In addition, the disc division of "Spider-Man" has also come down.

Unlike the 18 percent box office commission, the disc commission is 6 percent of the copyright owner, and 5 percent of Roland's personal rate, Sony sold 1.5 billion last year, and distributed it to Roland, that is, 16.5 million.

In other words, although Warcraft Film and Television had zero output last year, its income was 63.5 million.

Seeing this number, Roland was quite satisfied.

Although the number of movies in the Warcraft film and television library is small, it is better than the high quality.

If it weren't for "The Shawshank Redemption" being given away by Roland as a bargaining chip, then this movie alone could provide him with 100 million income a year, which belongs to the type that can collect money while lying down.

It's a pity that the satisfaction of picking up the money for nothing didn't last long, and Roland was stunned by the numbers on the second page.

Sony and Amperin and Warcraft joint publishing company, the entire ninety-seven years turned out to be a loss!

A company that only does overseas distribution, in the case of film distribution, can it still lose money?

Isn't this just a three-year-old!

Roland, who felt that something was wrong, picked up the report and flipped to the side of the attachment, the series of detailed explanations, and he pouted, "Tut-tut, Sony is playing us for fools!" ”

"Hollywood movies, there are overseas distribution standards, not every movie can be distributed globally!"

"If the North American box office doesn't break 50 million, then basically it won't enter the overseas distribution link, and what about Sony, they released a movie called 'Prosecution Larry Frank' this year?"

"As a film with an investment of 36 million and a box office of 20 million in North America, how did it pass the overseas distribution review? Is it because the starring role is Woody Harrelson and the producer is Oliver Stone? ”

"The point is, if you don't follow the rules, you can do overseas distribution!"

"A film with an investment of 36 million has a global publicity cost of 12 million?"

"But the box office recovered is zero?"

"This project alone has a net loss of 12 million?"

"If this project is okay, then I'm going to eat!"

"And then, Sony also released Mr. Sweetheart?"

"As a film with a box office of more than 150 million in North America, it naturally has the right to distribute overseas, but ......"

"The cost of overseas publicity and distribution is 31 million?"

"The point is that the total overseas box office is only 120 million, and after deducting the theater commission, only 47 million cash ...... have been recovered"

"This figure is quite normal, right, but after deducting the cost of publicity and distribution and the share to the production company, the total profit of this project is only 2.2 million? Offset with the previous "Public Prosecution of Larry Frank", the company still lost 9.8 million? ”

"Is this a joke on us?"

Roland flipped through the notes, and the more he looked at it, the more he wanted to laugh.

If "Prosecution Larry Frank" was simply released in violation of regulations, and the distribution income of "Mr. Sweetheart" was cheated by the former, then the investment of 85 million, and the box office of 172 billion in North America, "Air Force One", after overseas distribution, took 14.3 billion at the box office, and the project income was only 4.5 million, which is even more outrageous!

In addition, what makes Roland laugh the most is that "Men in Black", which has an investment of 90 million, a North American box office of 250 million, and an overseas box office of 339 million, only brought the company 28.65 million in distribution revenue.

Of course, if this is all there is to it, then the whole company will still be profitable for the whole ninety-seven years.

But! Soon after the release of "Men in Black", the money earned by the company was lost by the investment of 93 million, 63.8 million in North America, and 200 million overseas in "The Fifth Element......

To put it bluntly, in 97, Sony, Amperin and Warcraft United Publishing Company released 589 million "Men in Black", 315 million "Air Force One", and 273 million "Mr. Sweetheart", but it actually lost more than 1 million!

This kind of thing is unimaginable in the industry!

An overseas distribution company that only earns commissions has lost money after releasing three films that are on the box office charts for the whole year?

The big ones don't need to make movies, go home and wash and sleep!

Isn't this the kind of benefactor?

After a brief look at the reports of the seven movies, Roland threw away the information in his hand.

Ah no, it's all the information that lifts it, and the content on these papers is just like garbage.

"Angry?" Looking at the angry and smiling guy in front of him, David sighed and asked, "Do you want to ask for an audit?" ”

"Audit, please? What audit please? KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young...... Who of these guys can clear Hollywood's accounts? ”

Roland leaned back, put his hands in front of him, and said in a babbling voice: "Which company in Hollywood has no problem with its accounts?" ”

"But no one can audit clearly."

"Disneyland has been losing money for decades, and the SEC has come forward to check it, but is it useful?"

"What's more, Sony's account, I know how it does it."

"In the case that the production company is their own, when distributing, they can first use the name of Columbia Pictures to distribute those films that have the probability of making money, and if the local box office is good, then when signing a distribution contract with an overseas distribution company, they can sign a distribution contract with a fixed commission, and then deduct the fixed fee, and the money can be all returned to their own production company, which is a reasonable and legal means, and no one can find out the problem!"

"However, even if a fixed-commission issuance contract is signed, the overseas issuing company will make a profit."

"So, they select some projects that they know cannot be distributed overseas just by looking at the investment, and before the release, they directly sign a linkage distribution contract with the local distribution company and the overseas distribution company, and then, the local box office loses, triggering the linkage clause, and the overseas distribution company must carry out overseas promotion according to the distribution cost agreed in the contract, and then ......"

"They can legally take away the money in the form of commissions and other overseas companies."

"The movie "Prosecution of Larry Frank" is what they used to wash away the income of "Mr. Sweetheart", and the movie "The Fifth Element" is to wash away the income of "Men in Black" ......"

"So ......"

"No amount of auditing is useless."

"They can see the problem, but these operations are legal."

"As for going overseas to track down the kind, don't even think about it......"

"I dare to guarantee that most of the publicity expenses for "Prosecution Larry Franter" go into the pockets of Japanese companies, even if those people are asked to check, the final result will be because of the national conditions, and a huge amount of publicity money has been sprinkled in Japan, but the movie cannot be released as scheduled, so it has caused a lot of losses......"

In fact, after seeing the negative returns of the overseas distribution company, Roland knew what Spielberg was referring to when he said excess, because Hollywood's overseas distribution company would only lose money in two cases!

One is that when there were no films suitable for overseas distribution, the entire distribution company was there to eat empty salaries.

The other is that the films that I invested in and produced faced huge losses in China and had to be distributed overseas.

In addition, as long as overseas distribution companies skip the establishment and laying period of offices in various countries, start normal operation, and continue to issue, then they will not be able to lose money! Because overseas distribution companies don't have to invest in making films themselves, the cost of publicity and distribution is also passed on to the recovery of the box office, and then they have the right to take a commission first! In this case, the tethered pig is there, and it will not lose!

If it is a loss, it will be impossible for the Big Six to have any overseas offices!

No capitalist would do anything unprofitable!

What now?

In the case of the release of three big-money films, the company also incurred losses?

Then there is no other possibility than Sony stealing money!

Of course, after finding out that Sony was doing the accounting, Roland was not too angry.

Because in his eyes, Sony doesn't do accounts, that's not normal.

In his previous life, Roland knew that Sony may not be the biggest fist among the six, but they are the most chicken thieves.

Chicken thieves to every year, they are losing!

No matter what movies are released, they are all losing!

After the launch of "The Da Vinci Code", which has a global box office of 758 million, eh, the company is at a loss!

After the launch of "Superman Hancock" with a global box office of 624 million, eh, the company is also a loss!

After launching "007: Skyfall" with a global box office of 1.1 billion and "The Amazing Spider-Man" with a global box office of 757 million in one year, the company's profit is only about 1 million......

Seeing this kind of financial statement, a bunch of people are shouting, Sony is going to die! Sony is selling the building! Sony is going bankrupt!

Hehe......

If these movies are released one after another, the company is still losing money......

Then Sony would have cut his flesh and left the scene a long time ago!

The Lion Gate, the pinnacle, has long been dead!

Sony that doesn't do accounts is the abnormal Sony.

And Sony, who does the accounting......

Well, if it had been changed before, Roland would have been uncomfortable because of it, but now......

He just watched Sonny make a fuss.

The more fun Sony makes, the more greedy it shows, and the more people want to kill it.

"Okay, so you mean, don't check?"

"What to look for? As long as Sony doesn't let us pay to make up for the loss, Steven won't look into it. ”

"Okay, that's over." David got up and threw the file into the shredder.

When the confetti fell into the transparent chassis like goose feathers, David sat down again and said: "I can't intervene in this kind of Hollywood matter, you can solve it yourself, but I will handle the other things for you......"

"Next, let's say something happy."

"The investment of Thai baht, they have already settled with us."