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Models can be quite different from country to country (ie: In America studios are much more heavily involved) but in broad strokes the production company finances the development of a movie from a concept to a state where it is ready to shoot, as well as covering any costs involved in raising the financing to create a production - and then they have some amount profit participation on the exploitation of that film, if it gets successfully made.Some examples of development costs could be - paying for the rights to write a script from a novel or play, paying different writers to create drafts of a script, paying lawyers to vette a script for potential liability issues, paying story editors to give notes, hiring a director to provide their input or "attach" themselves to a production, creating a budget and schedule for production, hiring a casting team to put together a list of proposed cast (or to approach certain stars to appear in a film), putting together trips to travel to different countries or locations where a film could be shot, creating marketing material to promote financing a film, traveling to festivals or different cities to talk with studios, financiers, and broadcasts... etc. Development of a feature can take anywhere from a couple to many tens of years during which the production company is footing the bill.Production companies generally do *not* finance production of movies or television shows directly. To limit risk they often try to put together a group of investors, or pre-sell certain rights (for example film distributors or sales agents, television networks, foreign and domestic broadcast windows, major studios, private investors) and put together enough sources of income to finance production. Some of these sources will take an equity position (ongoing profit participation), others will pre-buy certain rights (like the right to show the film on a certain television network) but at a discount. Since the financing of every film is different, recoupment on every film is different. Generally speaking everyone will recoup bona fide expenses and investment amounts and then everyone will split any profits beyond that point in proportion of their particular investment.... but it really depends on a case-by-case basis (there's certain lending entities called "gap financiers" that will only invest money if they can recover it first, *before* any other investor. You normally use them when a film is "almost" financed except for one small bit, or some other investment falls through at the 11th hour). Normally all the investors will agree on a clear recoupment schedule - so that it's clear that, say, the first $100k a film makes is split up a certain way, then the next $100k is split up a certain way... etc - so that everyone is clear what share they get of certain amounts (and what their risk is, if the film doesn't turn a profit).Hope that helps!

I will interpret “advanced” to mean “technologically advanced and efficient at doing it’s intended job”While I can’t argue with the Manhattan Project, most German advances were not particularly efficient at doing their intended job. The V2 was way too costly. The ME-262 was costly and so late to the war that it didn’t change anything. The Fritz-X was easy to defeat with jamming.The Japanese didn’t push the technological envelope at the same rate as Great Britain, Germany, or the US. Russia didn’t push it at all.Great Britain was impressive with the Cavity Magnetron (compact radar), ASDIC (sonar), and Ultra (yes, I know, the Poles first broke Enigma, but the Brits rightly get most of the credit for turning that into a full service data distributor, breaking future models, and getting intercepts to Allied commanders faster than the Germans were reading their own codes).But, I would have to pick the Mk 25 air-dropped sea mine. This 2,000 lb mine had 1250 lbs of explosives, could be dropped from a large number of planes, was magnetically activated, but was programmable so that it would ignore a specific number of ships before exploding on the Nth ship. All of this in a salt water resistant package that would last for months in a shipping lane. It wasn’t sexy, but it had teeth.In terms of efficiency, the US Navy dropped 12,000 mines and sank 650 Japanese vessels with them. The Japanese were effectively unable to clear these mines. Even without exploding, the mere presence of these mines stopped Japanese shipping and use of critical ports. Given their shortage of ships, they could not afford to lose any. The Mk 25 could be dropped at night, with limited risk to the plane, and shut down the port for months at a time. By the end of the war, these mines were strangling the Japanese homeland more than the US submarines were. Disrupting Japanese shipping was a war-winning strategy, as they had effectively cut Japan off from her external food and fuel supplies. She was starving and losing the ability to fight by the end of the war.If they had been implemented, two pie-in-the-sky ideas would have qualified based on their brilliant out-of-the-box thinking and efficiency. The first was the Pigeon Bomb, later Project Orcon, which used 3 specially trained pigeons (through operant conditioning) in the nose to target the bomb or rocket at whatever they learned to peck. With the superior eyesight, ability to be trained to target things like ships, and ability to handle large numbers of Gs, they were the perfect pilot for a smart bomb. If famed behaviorist B.F. Skinner had been given the proper funding, the US Navy would have wiped out the Japanese Navy and merchant ships years earlier. While never attempted, they probably could have been trained to target things like the U-boat pens and hydroelectric dams, attached to the front of a Tallboy 14,000 lb bomb, and destroyed whatever image the pigeons were conditioned to peck. The second, the Bat Bomb (not to be confused with the radar guided smart bomb of the same name and period) attached very small petroleum pyrotechnics and timers to bats, cooled them to get them to hibernate, and packed up to 6000 of them into a parachute retarded canister. By dropping the canisters right before dawn, the bats would wake up, fly to a protected spot to hide out the day, such as the eve of a house, and then get immolated when the pyrotechnics started a fire in a really hard spot to put out. These would have allowed the US to be over an order of magnitude more efficient with firebombing Japanese cities and villages (villages would have been efficient targets as a result). The best US firebombs were exceedingly effective, starting 20 fires per bomber. Mass enough bombers together and you have an inferno that can’t be controlled. The bat bomb raised that number to over 400 per bomber. It was researched, but never used as the atomic bombs took it’s place (at a much higher cost).

I think I m the right person to answer your question as I have worked for a steel distributor as well for a small stint.Primary cause of loss is always bad debts that arise in our daily course of business as well as delayed payments from our end customers or dealers.Secondary cause is due to rampant price fluctuations and excessive cannibalising Levels of competition in the market which deters profit making at all.Thirdly the govt isn't looking into this grave issue seriously despite appeals from the steel coterie.Solution is : market has transformed from a quantity Market to a quality market if you need margins. Otherwise you have to extend credit to your customers which has to be ensured that the money comes back to you without fail. Managing inventory plays a very important role in playing or limiting risks of this business.I have learnt a modest way of keeping the steel biz going which I feel should be shared only with the beneficiary who is going to implement it for his bettermentYou can contact me on [email protected] for a strategic option. I m always ready to help u out