Arrears of sharing can be said to be a conventional habit for Hollywood film and television companies.

Among them, it is not simply a matter of good money, but to a large extent, it is because of a very classic saying in finance - money can make money.

Not to mention the misappropriation for investment or anything else, as long as the money can lie in the company's account, the bank will have to pay interest. Millions of dollars in revenue, a month in arrears of it, is enough to pay the salaries of several employees.

You see, it's that simple. There is no love without a reason in the world, and there is no hate without a reason.

In fact, most companies in the world will play this hand whenever they have the opportunity, and the reason why Hollywood film and television companies are notorious in this regard is only because they have more opportunities -

Before the advent of the Internet cloud data era, the statistics of the movie box office and subsequent peripheral income were simply a black box, which involved a large number of operations, except for the production and distribution companies that handled it, sometimes even the theater chain was not clear.

In this case, it's okay to say that the salary with a clear price is okay, as for the box office share?

You see that our accounting staff work overtime every day to count so hard, are you embarrassed to ask?

In short, because the box office is involved, as long as the statistics are not good or the arrival is delayed, it can easily drag on for several months. Let the money lie on your own account and continue to make money, why not?

As for the accounting personnel who have carried the black pot because of this, it is a big deal to use the money born to give them some bonuses later.

Therefore, whether you can get your hands on this kind of thing depends not only on the agreement, but also on the strength and status of the two sides. If you don't have enough means to ensure that the other party doesn't cheat you in this regard, then you can only hope for the conscience of the other company.

And to count on a conscience for companies that are essentially capital?

Classmates, you must not have read "Capital, Capital, and Theory"!

- Well, in the land of the United States, it is true that it will not take the initiative to teach such an anti-book as "Capital, Capital, and Theory".

In fact, even Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, two later A-list superstars, were once cheated by the Weinstein brothers' Miramax Company in the screenwriting of "Soul Catcher", and that was after they had already won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay 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 filmmaker, although they can't do some dark box operations of film and television companies, but at least the money on the books can still be retrieved for you.

However, there is a premise in this -

You have to make sure that the revenue you get is at least enough to cover the commissions paid to the senior accountants – and sometimes even the lawyers' fees – otherwise it's very likely that you'll get a lot of money on your books and end up having to pay for them.

At least, Charlotte estimates that according to the share ratio mentioned by Mr. Producer before, the money he can get is enough to afford to hire those accounting staff and lawyers who drink blood. In this case, it is better to simply throw this hot potato to the rest of the crew as a carrot.

Of course, this kind of thing is not always going to happen.

After all, it's easy for a person to do a bad thing. But it is quite difficult to think that you will only do bad things and not do good things for the rest of your life. Hitler also revived the German economy!

The rest of the crew may not have understood the twists and turns, but they were still attracted by the bait thrown by Charlotte, to a large extent, because of this fluke mentality - even if it may be in arrears, it is money after all!!

However, reality has once again justified Murphy's Law – if something bad is going to happen, it's going to happen.

"How is the new line going to pit us, Tony, that guy didn't say it, did he?"

The old gun frowned and thought of a way to ask Charlotte about it.

The latter shrugged his shoulders,

"You and he are actually more familiar than I am, you can ask for yourself. ”

“...... He couldn't have said. ”

The old gun sighed.

Indeed, he and producer Anthony Westwood are old acquaintances. But because of this, he understands that Westwood is not a mouthy guy. Even, the other party will reveal some rumors to Charlotte, and the old gun wonders if there are other tricks in this-

Although people are dying, their words are also good, and now that he is about to retire or resign, it is not impossible for Mr. Producer to find out about his conscience, but Lao Gun feels that it is more likely that this guy has some plan and wants to win over Charlotte.

After all, with "Fatal Bend", Charlotte has already initially proven her directing ability. In this way, he has the value of being co-opted by the producers.

However, a producer is also a producer after all.

The ass decides the head, even if he has more reasons, as long as he doesn't want to completely stink his reputation in this industry, it is impossible to completely skew his position to his own group of workers, and it is already the limit to be able to reveal a little rumor.

"But if you don't know what the other side might do, you will be passive when the time comes. ”

In fact, it is also in arrears, and there are also high and low -

Some companies will have people who specialize in this kind of thing, every day is to chat and eat with the people who are in arrears, and complain pitifully - it's not that we are in arrears, but it's really the recent difficulty in the turnover of the capital chain, or you wait a few more days?

This is playing the emotional card, and some companies will play more technical - as soon as you ask about sharing, people will directly throw you box office statistics and financial statements like a mountain, and you want to understand them all?

You must know that it takes four years to graduate from a finance major, and it takes an unknown amount of time to become a qualified accountant.

Of course, you may really be a genius in accounting, or you really hire a senior accountant regardless of the cost, but even so, one trick doesn't work, and people have another trick -

Our company recently has a new project that is raising funds, do you want to invest your CDs in it?

If you don't agree, people will continue to grind with you in all kinds of martial arts; if you agree, then congratulations, you have become a shareholder in stock speculation!

If you lose money on a new project, you will definitely lose it first. Earned, you'll soon be faced with the cycle of the above lap again.

Regardless of profit or loss, the money that nominally belongs to you, but it is always lying on the account of other people's companies, providing people with the opportunity to make a small amount of money.

As for you?

Even if you are always watched by God and his old man, making money every time a new project is made, and the family money on the books is as long as snowballing, but in ten years and eight years, you don't want to see real money......

And these, in fact, are quite disciplined.

After all, people didn't say they wouldn't give you money, and they didn't significantly conceal their income. And the reason why the new line company has an outstanding reputation in this area is that it can do the first two.

I don't know if there is a lack of excellent public relations and accounting personnel, when the new line company wants to default on the share, one does not play the emotional card, the other does not play the technical flow, it is hard to come up, and often a posture that you wait first, ask for money, and do not give your life.

Of course, the new line does this, and it is also divided. Otherwise, every day pit people, this company would not be able to survive until now-

In the face of investors who have the strength and can monitor them, the new line will be very honest;

They can also try to endure their greed if they encounter someone who has a high status or a promising future and has the opportunity to cooperate in the future. After all, money is money now, and money will be money in the future!

Mind you, this is already a "try", and if you can't help it, count yourself lucky......

But if you don't have the first two, just a trash fish that has been shared for various reasons, then congratulations, at least half of you may have been on the whitelist of the new line arrears.

"That's what we're in right now!"

In Charlotte's share of the shares, the old gun also has a penny. Like Charlotte, he didn't care much about the money - he has some family assets now, and he is divorced, so he has a lot less expenses......

But as his relationship with makeup artist Annika changed, the situation changed again. The two of them will definitely spend more money if they live together, not to mention that Annika also has a son......

"Do you want to hire a lawyer?"

Recourse to the law is a method that Americans are very accustomed to, but Lao Gun thought about it and gave up this method.

The reason is very simple, just like Charlotte, the old gun can be calculated, and even if he gets those shares, the money may not be enough to pay the lawyer's fees.

This is even a threat tactic for some companies when they default on their shares. They are not afraid of the delinquent party hiring a lawyer, because they have calculated very well that as long as they delay the trial time of the lawsuit, the delinquent party's share of the income will soon be insufficient for the cost of hiring a lawyer.

Naturally, this method is limited to those who are delinquent and do not share much of their income. But the old guns belong to this list. But—

"Speaking of which, Charlotte, do you have any other thoughts when you tell me about this now?"

The old gun reacted.