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Filming sequels "back to back" refers to the practice of filming two or more movies as one production, reducing costs and time. Trilogies are common in the film industry, particularly in the science fiction, fantasy and adventure genres. Production companies may choose, if the first film is a financial success, to greenlight a second and a third film at the same time, and film them "back to back". In the case when a lengthy novel is split into multiple installments for its film adaptation, those installments will usually be filmed back-to-back. ==Rationale== In modern filmmaking, the entire cast and crew for each film is assembled from scratch for each project. Almost all participants in the industry are freelancers who float from one project to the next and don't have much loyalty to any particular studio, as long as they get paid. This differs from the old studio system in which studios carried large numbers of cast and crew on their payroll under long-term contracts. Modern film studios no longer have to bother with either paying people who aren't making movies right now or greenlighting films at an extreme rate to get the most out of sunk costs in their human resources. But it also means that when they want a particular person for a film, that person may be unavailable because they already committed to another film for another studio for that particular time slot. In turn, for every single film, studios (and ultimately their investors or backers) end up bearing massive transaction costs because they not only have to get the right person at the right price, but at the right time, and if they can't get that person, they have to scramble to locate a satisfactory substitute. All successful directors and producers have certain favorites they like to work with for their cast and crew, but that's of no help to the studio if that perfect character actor, costume designer, or music composer is already fully booked. Thus, if a film does well at the box office and appears to have established a winning formula with a particular cast, crew, and storyline, then one way to minimize these transaction costs on sequels is to reassemble as much of the team as soon as possible (before anyone dies, retires, or does something else that allows them to command an even higher fee) and sign them to a single production that will be edited, released, and promoted as multiple films. It also minimizes the problem of stars visibly aging between sequels that do not have significant time gaps written in between them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Back to back film production」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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