Start with hooves

Chapter 289 Zombie Ensemble
The major Hollywood giants are aggressive and intimidating, with budgets of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, and each plan sounds better than the last.

In Silicon Valley, a number of similar companies have also emerged.

People including SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Oracle’s Larry Ellison have stepped in to support Internet TV start-ups.

These are Suri's competitors.

They feel that the reason why Netflix Entertainment is successful is simply because it entered the industry early, and it is possible for them to look for digital film and television resources, invest in filming TV series, etc.

Therefore, no one really regards Netflix Entertainment as the industry hegemon. If the global potential market share is 20 billion, Netflix Entertainment currently only occupies more than 600 million paying members. Compared with companies such as Google and Facebook, its influence is The power is completely different.

Internet TV platforms that make money by placing ads, completely free versions, and platforms that give you a one-year membership by downloading software have all popped up recently.

Netflix Entertainment, which has chosen to charge fees from the beginning, seems to have no advantage when competing with free resources. However, the most important thing in the online TV business is to provide good dramas.

Even if other companies invest more money, the old content on the platform is not attractive enough, and the audience will still be unsatisfied. In terms of third-party resources, everyone has a similar starting point. In the end, you still have to watch which company’s self-made drama. Business is stronger.

In the field of self-produced dramas, Suri has great advantages. Now facing a group of powerful enemies, he still maintains an attitude of watching dramas.

My immediate plan is to let the bullets fly for a while, shoot my own movies and TV series behind closed doors, and maintain the current rhythm.

If there is an opportunity to threaten Netflix Entertainment's competitors, then consider spending money on marketing and advertising.

As long as we continue to produce good dramas that can attract people, we are actually advertising, relying on word of mouth to spontaneously gain the attention of netizens.

Therefore, CEO Terenz proposed using a budget of US$5000 million in the second half of the year to advertise the company externally, but Suri rejected it.

I just say that if you have money to donate, you might as well use it to make another good TV series, such as "Game of Thrones", "Breaking Bad", "Brother Broke", "Narcos", "The Big Bang Theory", etc. The script is still in Suri's hands.

As early as the beginning of the year, he quietly bought the exclusive film and television adaptation rights to the original novel of "Game of Thrones".

With a budget of 5000 million US dollars, if we don't find big-name actors as the protagonists, we can almost shoot one season of "Breaking Bad".

It's like everyone fighting the Landlord together. Su Ruitong's hands are full of king bombs, and his mentality is of course very stable...

After appeasing CEO Terenz who was full of crisis.

Suri drove the limited edition Lamborghini given to Hoshino Yuko and went out to find Daddario who was waiting for him.

When he came to the set, he happened to catch up with a group of zombie extras after getting off work.

Facing the oncoming crowd, I can only say that I put on makeup with great care. Even if I knew it was all fake, I still couldn't help but feel my heart beat faster, and I had an instinctive urge to run away.

Meeting these extras in real life is a completely different experience than watching them through a screen on TV.

Jiang Jiaya was timid to begin with, so she immediately hid behind Su Rui and lowered her head, almost crying, fearing that she would have nightmares at night.

It happened that some extras saw Suri and came to greet him enthusiastically.

Looking closely at the creepy and physically uncomfortable faces, Su Rui's hair stood on end. He endured the discomfort and pretended to be calm, chatting with them for a few words.

After looking up, Jiang Jiaya found herself surrounded by a group of zombie extras. Facing the scary smile in front of her, Jiang Jiaya's legs became weak and she almost fell down.

Su Rui just used her as an excuse to help Jiang Jiaya run away and told:
"It's so scary. Now I suddenly feel that it is appropriate to be sued by the parents of the children. These guys are wandering around the town at night. Who can stand it? They can scare people to death." "...They leave. Yet?"

Jiang Jiaya was supported by Su Rui and covered her eyes with her hands. She said in shock:
"I shouldn't have come here with you. It takes a lifetime to heal the psychological shadow. If you have nightmares at night, you should pay for my mental damages. I didn't expect that when I am your life assistant, I have to endure these ghosts."

"Don't worry, if you get scared and wet the bed like you did when you were a kid, I'll give you a new mattress."

"Shut up! I haven't wet the bed since I was four years old! Don't slander me!"

"...Just think of it as four years old. As you know, my memory has always been very good."

"..."

Daddario was still wearing his costume, green overalls, a gray camisole, a ponytail and a peaked cap. He had specially made dirty makeup, which was not as white and tender as usual.

After she found Suri, she smiled and said:
"Sorry, sorry, I just shot another scene, and I'm so busy that I just got off work now. After I get back to the RV to clean up, you can go in and have some snacks... What's wrong with Jia Ya? Why does her face look so pale? "

Su Rui calmly let go of her hand and said jokingly: "She saw those zombie troupes and was too scared to walk. Where are they going?"

Jiang Jiaya was so stubborn that she dragged him into the water and said, "You still have the nerve to accuse me, even if you touch your arm, you'll get goosebumps."

"I was just disgusted. Thinking about it, I suddenly felt that instead of rotting in the ground, it would be good to burn it up after I burped my fart, just in case it turned out to be a fake corpse."

After listening to Suri's words, Daddario smiled and nodded:
"I think so too. Those extras will be filmed for two or three days in a row, and each time they put on makeup for several hours. It's too time-consuming and very expensive. So they can't take off their makeup during the filming. They live in tents at night and no one else is allowed to come near them. , so as not to be frightened.”

Suri then asked: "How much money can these zombie extras make every day? The weather is starting to get hot, and there is still a thick layer of makeup on your face. It's not comfortable to sleep outside."

"There is no way. No hotel is willing to let them stay. It will scare away all the guests. They can earn about three to four hundred dollars a day. I see that every time I choose an extra, everyone rushes to take the job."

"That's pretty good..."

There are relatively few scenes that require dozens or hundreds of zombies. The first season of "The Walking Dead" is coming to an end and the plot begins to enter urban Los Angeles. The shooting cost will inevitably be relatively high.

You can earn three to four hundred dollars a day as an extra, and many unemployed actors, as well as illegal immigrants who can't find jobs, are happy to take the job.

The reason why the Hollywood film and television industry is so popular is that it can make money from the global market, so film and television companies dare to spend money to shoot many commercial blockbusters, entering a virtuous cycle.

If all the countries in the world do not buy it and only rely on the domestic market of the United States, then the income of film and television companies and the income of actors will shrink accordingly.

The cost of filming is too high and it is difficult to make money. Of course, we dare not spend too high a budget for filming.

In order to reduce the cost of Netflix Entertainment, Suri is trying to purchase the broadcast rights of a number of overseas dramas to enrich Netflix Entertainment's film library, which is relatively cost-effective.

For example, a movie starring Yui Aragaki is currently busy filming. The total budget is not enough to shoot an episode of "The Walking Dead", which makes it look particularly cheap.

And "The Vampire Diaries", if the filming location is in Canada, the production cost is estimated to be reduced by one-third.

The labor cost in California is a little high...

(End of this chapter)