Chapter 779： accelerate

Mountains of California, Alabama.

The sun shone on the ground, and a group of uninvited guests came to the peaceful wilderness.

"The wind is very noisy today."

Lyman, who was sitting under the awning, took a sip of water and sighed with a broken mouth.

Behind him, the staff is unloading the shooting equipment from the truck. The set team has already started to prepare for the shooting of the scene. On the other side, Thomas and the camera crew are also arranging suitable camera positions according to the scene, and then discuss with the recording team. The placement of noise-cancelling microphones, and having the lighting crew take a few baffles to soften the light that passes through.

The track is paved, and a camera hangs from a boom to capture a bird's-eye view from high above.

Everyone is busy, and so is Lyman.

After a short rest, he and the head of the sub-department confirmed the completion of the work.

In this scene, Tony Stark was taken hostage by a group of thugs, and it was said that he was taken to Afghanistan, but in fact, there are many places in the United States where sand and gravel sites can be filmed.

Alabama is like that.

As the Middle East or desert region appeared in many classic Hollywood movies, the Iron Man crew naturally chose here.

The main reason is that Afghanistan is not very peaceful. For the safety of the crew members, let's not go to death.

Furthermore, the closer the location is, the lower the cost.

The cast, who play the thugs with Middle Eastern faces, are being told how to position themselves to be a suitable backdrop for Mr. Downey, the lead star, during filming.

Thomas, who wears sunglasses and a wide-brimmed sun hat on his head, personally controls the close-up position No. 1. His arms are extremely stable. He walks fast and follows the character. The camera will not shake too much, but can give the picture. Infuse a sense of breath.

Ryan, who was wearing a leather jacket, stood outside the filming scene, constantly communicating with people from the Screen Actors Guild, arranging staffing, or contacting room and board... In short, there was a lot of work.

Outside of filming, there are quite a few trivial matters, which obviously cannot be solved by director Lehmann.

Kevin Feige got the breathing space, and quickly stood behind Lehman. As for Lehman, when he marked the scene on the board, he threw himself into the director's monitor in front of him, and kept his eyes on the image, daring not to spare slack.

When it comes to shooting, he is serious.

Such a busy and orderly scene with a clear division of labor made Kevin Feige inexplicably happy.

It's not that I haven't seen it before. In fact, he has also worked for more teams than this, such as Spider-Man, but that was working for Sony, and now he is working hard for Marvel's works. The meaning is different. Anyway, he is also Marvel. The leader of the film industry, with many expectations.

For the future, for Marvel, and for myself.

He had thought about the day he would host a Marvel movie, but he never thought that Firefly would take over, and he never thought that this day would come so soon.

in the lens.

The somewhat embarrassed Downey looked a little haggard.

Being bombed by a weapon missile developed by himself and being held hostage is not an interesting experience, not to mention that after the thugs took him to visit his camp, Stark found that their weapons and equipment were all printed with "historical industry". logo, indicating that this is indeed a commodity produced by his company group Arms.

inside the cave.

The mummified Downey looked blank.

The fixed and buried second camera is now given a medium shot to let another character into the frame.

Slim suit, with glasses, Dr. Ethan, who pulled Stark from the brink of death, appeared.

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August 9, 2007.

BNP Paribas is a large international bank.

The sudden announcement halted redemptions of its three subprime mortgage funds.

The announcement claimed that this was because liquidity in certain areas of the U.S. capital market completely evaporated, making it impossible to fairly assess the value of certain assets.

As soon as this remark came out, people's belief in real estate and the myth of invincibility in real estate were finally shaken in an uproar. Although house prices have been falling in recent months, a large number of investors believe that it is a short-term market adjustment, and they have not released it at all. In my heart, it will definitely warm up.

With the spread of disbelief, the area of ​​public suspicion has grown, first for real estate-related funds, and then for institutions with higher overall asset risk exposure.

Therefore, investors start from questioning products, and transition to questioning the solvency of institutions with unhealthy asset structures and poor asset quality.

However, the regulators did not understand the omen here. They could not fully judge whether the market trend was reversing, whether a crisis was coming, or whether it was just an ordinary case. After all, losses and fluctuations are the normal operation of the market economy.

On August 10, Fed Chairman Bernanke held an emergency conference call, but after the discussion, everyone still decided to maintain the interest rate level at 5.25.

Obviously, although the Fed realizes that there is a problem, it still believes that the risk is not serious. They focus on inflation and maintain stability.

In addition to the collapsed New Century Finance and the meat-cutting BNP Paribas, risks are emerging in other corners of the world.

Among them, one of the leaders of Bear Stearns subprime mortgages has two hedge funds that collapsed due to asset problems.

Industrie Bank, which also invested heavily in U.S. subprime mortgage securities, was forced to accept government aid.

In September, British savings-banking giant Northern Rock suffered a run on its depositors after it failed to finance new debt, and it was almost doomed.

These risk events may seem sporadic, but from God's perspective, they converge into a financial network that spans the globe, and each event can be traced back to home mortgages.哽噺蹓帽奇奇 Novel 蛧|w~w~

However, having said that, the Fed has not opened the hook again. It must only define these financial risks as liquidity risks, and it seems that the European region is more affected. After all, even if there is no subprime mortgage crisis, there will always be problems in the financial industry.

Later, the five central banks, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Europe and Switzerland, who felt that something was wrong, reached a consensus to maintain the circulation of U.S. dollars through currency swap agreements. At the same time, the Federal Reserve also created a regular auction tool to use the form of auctions. The loans are mainly provided by the branches of European banks in the United States.

But then, the financial risk event that started with the liquidity crisis showed a tendency to contract credit.

And a credit contraction means a slowdown in the economy, and a slowdown in the economy tightens credit again.

It was under such circumstances that Perlman went to China.

Early September.

Blue Butterfly Pictures released her on a small scale, and it received 11 million dollars in the first weekend. The audience who liked this kind of themes continued to praise her, and those who didn't like it only thought that Rory was a bit of a word, and I don't know what it is. The fastest update of Qiqi novel https://

The next week, it dropped by more than 30%, and the single-day box office remained at about 2.4 million US dollars. It will be higher on weekends, but it seems that the box office in North America will not exceed 40 million.

But this movie still brings a lot of benefits to Firefly Pictures.

The first is the financial gain. The production budget of this film is 25 million. After Cannes, by selling the distribution rights in various overseas regions, the cost will be recovered and a small profit will be made. In addition, the North American cinemas will be harvested, deducting the main creator, tax, labor, publicity The net profit is roughly 17 million US dollars;

The second is to enhance the brand image of the company. The more films with good reputation and quality are made, the more the audience will have a sense of expectation for Fireflies;

Third, the Coppola family is very satisfied and the relationship between the two parties can be maintained smoothly.

September 8.

Perlman led the team to successfully set up two contact points in Modu and Kyoto, responsible for contacting China Film and communicating with local powerful media companies such as Huayi, Guangguang, and Bona for possible cooperation matters.

The worst, but also to be familiar with the business.

Originally, according to Perlman's idea, the trip to China can wait, and we will deal with Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia first.

Because the Chinese market at this time has little space for Hollywood, before 2012, imported films could only share 13% of the box office revenue, which is equivalent to 1 million box office. They are all eaten by the Chinese side, which is why they release American blockbusters, and China Film is sometimes very active. For the same movie, they make more money from American blockbusters.

But it seems that his own boss attaches great importance to this underdeveloped market. Perlman thought.

The result was also smooth.

China Film has acted as an agent for many sources of Firefly, and the two sides have cooperated. For China Film, establishing business contacts on distribution is not important, but it does not matter. Is there multiple ways to have multiple friends?

After leaving some funds and stationed personnel, as well as recruiting local film talents to better communicate with the Chinese side, Perlman began to lay out overseas channels to other parts of Asia...