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Your hired actors will also have their very own unique personality, and the way they behave will show through. For instance, if you have your leading comedic actor wearing formal clothing while shooting a scene, he or she won’t be the happiest person in the world. However if you put that person in a wacky chicken outfit, they will gleefully strut around while clucking and such. Your actors’ personalities will actually be well suited for multiple types of movies. But if you so choose to do so, pitting them in a lot of horror roles will eventually have them become more familiar with that line of work. However, you do need to be careful that you don’t have your actors in roles they aren’t suited for. This could possibly cause your actor to do an unintentionally poor job and less money for you. However, the more they do something like that, the better they will become. But of course your actor isn’t always going to just give in to all your orders. They won’t always be easy to handle, as they will generally know they are needed to make your movies what they are. This can give them a huge ego and force you to give them the “star treatment” at all times. If you don’t keep their happiness bar full at all times with such lines like the best wardrobe, a great trailer and a great entourage, you’re asking for conflict.

It is also a must that you keep tabs on what your actors or doing because of the possibility of their quitting or dying at a young age. Many bad habits can be a cause of this. This can be exceptionally tough if your replacement actors don’t have the confidence needed to perform, and end up causing a poorly produced movie as a result. However, if you do pay attention to your actors and take care of them, your money will indeed begin pouring in. Your hired talent can also mingle with each other, which can in turn be a good and/or bad thing. They can actually fall in love with each other or cause a nasty onscreen rivalry. But you can actually take advantage of this quite a bit. If you have two actors falling in love, they will be absolutely perfect for roles in a romance movie. But, if you pull the stupid of casting bitter rivals with each other in a movie like that, bad things are bound to happen. Even more interesting, is that relationships can develop between anyone, including yourself and your talent. The best way to get this to happen is to have them alone together in a secluded area. They may eventually strike up a conversation and things will take off by themselves. These feelings can be that of love, hatred or mutual friendship, and these feelings will grow as time goes along.

Unfortunately, having a consistently successful actor with a lot of confidence will cause loftier demands. Whether this may be a luxury trailer, insane pay or an expanded entourage, they will desire it. But if you do wish to have this actor be known from your studio, meeting these demands is almost inevitable. Unfortunately a new actor can be so nervous and unconfident you won’t make any money, but an overconfident actor won’t rake in the cash either. If you allow your talent’s ego to reach an unnecessary level, you are looking at all kinds of nasty behavior arising. This can be anything from drinking too much, being too sexually active or simply having their storm off the set right in the middle of shooting a scene.

These nasty habits can also adversely affect how they perform in their roles. For instance, if an actor of yours becomes too fat form overeating, you will have to either send them to plastic surgery or sign them up at the local gym. Plastic surgery will produce immediate results, but it will more than likely not have the positive long-term effects the gym can offer them. It also doesn’t help that sending them under the knife is a bit more pricy than the gym, but you may make that money right back with the movie. However, having them undergo liposuction may not teach them a lesson in a proper diet. You can also send alcoholic actors to AA meetings or have them attend anger management and addiction therapy if necessary.

While liposuction may be your best bet for immediate results, the gym is probably the best investment for you and your studio anyway. The more healthy exercise your actors get, the better their physiques will turn out gradually and appear more toned. While this can also be achieved through plastic surgery, you won’t want to overuse the tool just because it’s a quick one. It actually is possible to cause your actors to become unrecognizable if their bodies are manipulated too much from surgery.

You also won’t want to forget the public’s view of your talent. The press can easily give your actors a bad rap. However, sometimes all the public needs is some yummy gossip to have their interest in a star rekindled. A secret sexual affair can easily cause something like that. On-set scandals can also create huge media frenzies if the cameras manage to snag the proper evidence. Whatever it may be, these events can either give your actors the recognition they’ve always wanted, or have the public hate them with a passion.

To make things more rewarding on your end, the better your studio’s reputation, the more choice of talent you’ll have. As your popularity increases, more people will actually want to work for you and you’ll more than likely not have to deal with their normal whining and moaning. Simply drop by the scriptwriting office, research facility or crew facility and you’ll see a nice number of people anxious as ever to land a contract with you.

But it also goes without saying that because of how difficult actors can be, you’ll probably want to maintain a staff of six to twelve of them. Obviously if you don’t have enough people, you won’t be able to fill all your movie’s roles. But you’ll also run into a laundry list of problems if you attempt to handle too many at once. Actors can obviously be very problematic and throw their normal temper tantrums, so you’ll have to be careful with that. But not only will you have your actors, but your extras will require guidance as well. However, these people are far more cooperative and easier to make happy since they normally aren’t commonplace actors. They will much less likely give you grief and will normally do as you please.

So as you can see, The Movies is definitely a new type of videogame come next year. It does borrow the same basic concept from games such as The Sims and all the PC Tycoon games, but nothing like this ever before. You will indeed be your own director and hopefully develop some box office hits. But that will obviously require you to maintain not only your studio, but the people you star in the creations you make. The choices will be yours and yours alone. So like stated at the beginning, will you be the next Spielberg or Lucas? Or will you be the next industry flop? Begin making your own movies March of next year.