As a movie where most of the scenes take place in Iraq, Matthew will never let the crew go to Iraq to shoot on the spot. Today's Iraq is definitely synonymous with chaos. It is said that there are extremist terrorist organizations active again. It was not uncommon to encounter roadside bombs or car bombs during the shooting there.

Moreover, they are still from the American crew.

In a country that has been messed up by the United States, if you don't start with the crew from the United States, it really has no backbone at all.

There are alternative filming locations, so why go to places like Iraq?

Is there any tax refund in Iraq? Are there any beautiful actresses? Is the Iraqi local government willing to pay for the cost of the crew?

There are many places that can make a movie feel like Iraq, such as Catherine Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" crew, which was filmed in Amman, the capital of Jordan.

Going to a place where the political situation in the Middle East is relatively stable is indeed a solution, but Matthew rejected such a plan very early. Instead, the crew stayed in North America as much as possible, preferably in California.

On the one hand, this allows him to focus more on other aspects of work, after all, he is not a pure actor; on the other hand, Clint Eastwood is 81 years old this year, and he should avoid travel and travel as much as possible.

Therefore, the final filming location was located in Southern California. In 2005, the "Hot Cover", which responded to the "Desert Storm" operation, was once filmed in Southern California. Universal Pictures built an Iraqi town in a very large desert valley in Southern California. The location was used for filming, and later films such as "Battle of Elah Valley" were filmed there.

However, in recent years, due to the lack of management and the fact that this type of film is more inclined to go to the Middle East for real shooting, this location has gradually fallen into disrepair.

After a field trip with Matthew and Clint Eastwood, it was decided that this would be the main location for the exterior scenes.

This town, mainly built with wood and sand as building materials, is very small, but dozens of khaki houses are interspersed with four or five short streets. The streets are full of potholes. come garbage.

In addition, about one-fifth of the houses collapsed to varying degrees, and some even fell off the roof.

"It needs to be repaired," Clint Eastwood said to Matthew, standing on a high platform used for filming. "It doesn't need to be repaired too well. The dilapidated look just serves as the background after the war."

Matthew took off his sunglasses, looked into the distance against the harsh sunlight, and said, "I will communicate with Universal Pictures about this."

This is not difficult. The crew has carried out a certain degree of reconstruction, and it can keep this location for a longer time. If they hadn't leased this place from Universal Pictures for filming, maybe in a few years, this place will be here. Totally run down.

Clint Eastwood nodded and said, "Let's go back."

Matthew responded and helped him down. Clint Eastwood looked energetic, but his body in his eighties couldn't escape the laws of nature.

But Clint Eastwood is old and strong, and is said to be in the process of divorcing his second wife, Dina Eastwood.

As for the reason, of course, Clint Eastwood has a new love.

Originally, this wasn't a big deal. How many big Hollywood directors didn't do shit? Someone like Christopher Nolan is definitely offbeat, but Clint Eastwood is said to have been hit by Dina Eastwood on a date with a new love.

However, Clint Eastwood is not stupid. Matthew has heard people say that he has no plans to marry his new love.

Even if the new love has an idea, with Clint Eastwood's body, it is estimated that short-term investment will eventually be stuck.

Clint Eastwood's age is here, Matthew is relatively cautious. If he goes overseas to shoot, if something goes wrong with Clint Eastwood, don't say it will follow. All kinds of troubles that come, just talking about changing the director, the risk factor will increase exponentially.

Another point is also the key reason why Matthew decided to shoot "American Sniper" in Southern California. This project has applied to the California state government for tax rebates and special subsidies, and it is very likely to pass.

Although Hollywood is located in California, today's Hollywood does not refer to a certain area, but to a broad entertainment circle and even the entertainment industry.

Because California did not have any advantages in terms of policies and taxes before, and other states and regions such as Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Morocco had large tax rebates, Hollywood crews left California one after another to film in these areas where preferential policies were introduced.

Around 2,000 years ago, very few first-line film crews started shooting in California, and even the photography studios with major studios disappeared, and they were once reduced to pure tourist spots.

Since around 2004, the California state government has launched a series of preferential policies, formulating a policy of tax rebates as high as $100 million. For some special film projects, the state finance will also provide subsidies to a certain extent.

California wants to keep more crews in order to create more jobs.

Frankly speaking, this policy is somewhat tasteless. The California state government requires that more than 70% of the work from preparation to filming to post-production must be completed in California, and the final amount of policy support is 23 per year. a movie or TV show.

Compared to Hollywood's huge amount of filming, this can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, the $100 million quota is really low, not to mention Louisiana and Maryland and other places, just one city in New York, in order to attract investment and jobs in Hollywood production crews, provides a preferential quota of $450 million per year.

The film projects that get California's preferential policies are undoubtedly lucky.

"American Sniper" will soon become one of the twenty-three lucky winners next year because of its natural advantages in terms of subject matter.

Bella Anderson, the CEO of Studio Thirteen, walked into the state's Hollywood Liaison Office in Burbank.

"Miss Anderson, your movements are a little slow."

In the conference room, a middle-aged man with eyes looked at Bella Anderson and said, "Twenty of the twenty-three places in the preferential policy next year have already belonged, and of the last three places, there are more than two. Fifteen films are competing."

In fact, it's not that easy to get a discount.

Bella Anderson has been here a few times before, has done a lot of work, and got a list of all the competitors.

She looked at the other people in the conference room, except for the middle-aged man with eyes, there were four people she hadn't seen before.

Originally, she had almost talked with the middle-aged man with eyes, but something suddenly happened in the middle. Yesterday, I called her to inform her and asked her to come over and explain the situation.

Bella Anderson glanced at the four people without a trace, knowing that these four people might affect the determination of the final spot.

After following Matthew for many years, she is no longer the little assistant she used to be. She handles the daily work of Studio No. 13 and has certain decision-making power.

In this situation, what is needed?

The middle-aged man with eyes said at this time, "Miss Anderson, why do we give a preferential quota to "American Sniper"?"

Bella Anderson could hear that it seemed like a question, but it was actually a prompt.

In this kind of time, in this kind of situation, what is needed is not those small actions that are not visible, but a high-sounding reason. This reason is not for her to convince these people in front of her, but for these people to be able to openly convince the public and others. .

"Everyone, apart from American Sniper, what are the other projects on the shortlist?" Bella Anderson said seriously, "I don't mean to disrespect these films, but I want to remind you , Of these more than 20 projects, the highest investment is only 25 million US dollars, and it is still a romance film with very few personnel.”

The four of them had been silent for a while, when one of the bald men asked, "Whether a film is good or not is not determined by investment, right?"

Bella Anderson did not answer directly~lightnovelpub.net~, but said calmly, "But the taxes and jobs that a film project can provide is directly related to the scale of investment."

The bald middle-aged man was silent for a moment. Why did the California state government formulate these preferential policies? The purpose is not to help Hollywood make so-called excellent movies, but to create jobs and increase revenue.

"Gentlemen, let me make one point." Bella Anderson said directly, "The production budget of "American Sniper" is as high as 100 million US dollars, and the number of employees exceeds 2,000. The most conservative estimate is that within the next two years, Provide employment opportunities to at least 1,800 California residents."

She reminded again, "Please don't forget, this is a movie starring Matthew Horner. Our expectations are that the North American box office is 300 million US dollars and the global box office is 600 million US dollars. The film will in turn provide a large amount of tax revenue for California. !"

The four of them suddenly whispered.

After their discussion, Bella Anderson continued, "Look at the other projects, Grindel, Mad Woman, Weak Life, etc., and the crews of these projects will not employ more than 100 people at most. people."

Big-budget films are simply not comparable to smaller independent film projects in terms of job creation.

The people needed for a war scene are a dozen or twenty times the total number of these crew members.

The middle-aged man with eyes answered, "Can what you said about employment opportunities be reflected in the written agreement?"

Bella Anderson said without hesitation, "Of course."

Since the film is going to stay in Southern California to shoot, it will definitely give priority to hiring locals.

After speaking, Bella Anderson looked at the four unfamiliar faces again.

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