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Gold/Mining/Energy : Mainframe Entertainment (ReBoot/Beasties)
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To: D.E. Shetland who wrote (213)12/8/1997 12:48:00 PM
From: Sleeperz  Read Replies (1) of 459
 
>>>One - I do think it's a good way to show the studios what your technical capabilities are and to possibly put yourself in line for long-form animation jobs. However, ILM has never done any and neither has Digital Domain or the hundreds of other shops that do special effects.<<<

Possibly because they only want to do special effects.

>>> Two - It seems to me it's even more bumpy as far as earnings. It's real hit-or-miss. Also, why haven't any of the few successful special effects guys ever gone public or made money for their owners. All one hears about is the cash required to keep them going (ILM, Digital Domain, Pacific Data) Blue Sky (the Joe's Apt guys) had to sell
to VIFX recently. They don't seem to lend themselves to building a sustainable value-creating company, do they?<<<

Well the only Sfx firm I know of is ILM which did the original
Star Wars. Being private companies their Financials are not public.
They may pay themselves huge salaries or get a cut of movie Revenues depending on how well the movie does. I don't think private investors
will continually pump money into a Black Hole if their was no return in one way or another. ILM's name is well know as a leader in Special
Effects. The only difference between a movie and a TV show is
a movie is shown in a few months then it goes to Video then on TV.
As with a TV show if you set you payments schedule properly you can
enjoy the fruits as long as they get a cut of the action too, so for every video sold and TV air play you get residual royalties.
Thats what the actor who play OBI Wan did, he gets Royalty payments
for Star Wars and raked in the Bucks, Harrison Ford just took the regular Actors pay, but now has gone the roaylty route for his movies too.

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