Today has been more interesting than previous, partly because I've been upgraded from copy bitch to phone bitch. Even if all I am doing is making reservations at the Ivy, I can still feel the glamour dripping out of the maitre d's voice.
I went out to lunch today with two other interns, and it was nice to talk to other people about other positions at Mandate. I also got the answer to, "Where does the money come from?" It's generated through the selling the rights of the movie to other (mostly foreign?) markets. The process usually goes as following: script gets greenlight, people get drunk and schmooze with rich foreign businessmen/women, drunkards make drunken agreements to invest money, and as soon as the hangover have diminished, a film can be made. I guess the profits mostly come from sales of the distribution rights and the distributors are the primary benefactors of box office sales and the foreign businessmen will hopefully get their money back with the possibility of a slight profit.
Why did I ever think the stock market was not a good way to make money? The headache the stock market used to induce from thinking too much pales in comparison to that money-making hangover.
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