Chapter 1040 Studio

On May 25th, Feng Yumin Film and Television Culture Studio of Minghu Culture Communication Co., Ltd. was officially established - check ahead, check back, this is definitely the highest-standard studio listing celebration in China, Minghu Culture here A group of celebrities headed by Li Qian came to join in. Fortunately, the key is that there are seventeen general managers and deputy general managers from provincial satellite TV stations across the country, and the general manager and deputy general manager of China TV Station also came. There were three in total, and there were countless others, big fish and small fish inside and outside the circle.

The scene was too big, many people came to see the scene, and they were stunned at first, and many people even came to sign, gave congratulatory gifts and left. There are too many people, and all of them are of very high rank. If your rank is not high enough and you are not accompanied by a big boss, on such an occasion, even if you wait until the end, you will not have a chance to talk to the Feng family.

Mr. Feng Yumin has been a leader in the film and television industry for many years, especially the connections he has accumulated during the years in charge of the TV drama production center of China TV Station. It is indeed difficult for ordinary people to come close.

Of course, so many great leaders showed up to support Feng Yumin, not all because of his face.

No matter how powerful Feng Yumin is, how famous he is, and how old he is, he is still just a better director of TV dramas. He can only produce one or two TV dramas a year.

Therefore, his face, at best, accounts for half of it.

The remaining half is for Li Qian, for Minghu Culture, and for "Swordsman".

Of course, there are still some for Feng Bicheng.

Because it is obvious that Feng Yumin resigned from Huaxia TV and co-founded his own film and television culture studio with Jinghua Films. At that time, it was also listed and there were celebrations, but not so many people joined in, and the specifications were at least one or two down. levels.

But this time, the listing of his studio shocked half of the entertainment circle.

When he delivered his thank you speech, he did not hide his ambitions in the future. He said on the spot that in the next six years of cooperation with Minghu Culture, he plans to personally direct and supervise the production of TV series, which will reach eight to ten. , and the opening work of the studio is "Swordsman"!

There is no doubt that with Feng Yumin's status in the arena and the super strength he has shown in these years, and relying on the big tree of Minghu Culture, he directly won the title of "Swordsman" which is impossible for other companies to obtain. It can be said that Feng Yumin's studio has established the right to adapt TV dramas at once.

At the same time, with the official listing of the first personal studio under Minghu Culture, the news that Minghu Culture is preparing to build multiple personal studios has gradually spread.

In fact, in today's domestic film and television circles, music circles, studios are no longer a rarity.

In the film and television industry, Zheng Zhongyuan was the first to establish a personal studio, and Guo Yulong was not too late. Their studios have been established for at least five or six years, and as many as seven or eight years.

Even pushing forward, the predecessor of Minghu Culture was originally Li Qian's studio.

Today, with the establishment of many celebrities' personal studios, this has become a trend.

To put it simply, the market is getting bigger and bigger, and the market influence of famous actors and directors is getting bigger and bigger. Therefore, they are no longer satisfied with just getting a small salary, and they are eager to participate in the film industry as a studio In the operation of the entire market, exchange your fame, ability, and some capital accumulated over the years in exchange for more right to speak and more benefits.

But Minghu Culture has never had a personal studio.

Strictly speaking, the development route and company framework implemented by the previous Minghu Culture have always been similar to the "big studio" approach.

This "big studio" development model was once prevalent in Hollywood and Hong Kong in the time and space that Li Qian experienced from the 1960s to the 1980s.

In this model, a large company establishes a one-stop industrial chain that can be completely self-sufficient from film production to broadcasting or screening with its strong output and production capabilities, thus forming a A closed-loop ecology of film and television.

Under this big studio model, all the people, from screenwriters, directors, to actors, to behind-the-scenes staff, are all ordinary staff of the studio, and everyone is paid, at best, there are bonuses. , There is no way to talk about it at all-in Hong Kong in another time and space, Shaw Brothers' big studio is like this.

But Minghu Culture's "big studio" is very different from this.

Minghu Culture has its own production and output chain of film and television works from screenwriter, producer, director, actor, behind-the-scenes, post-production, music production, to distribution and screening. Professionals - from directors, screenwriters to actors, to lighting, to editors, etc., and so on, each link can be solved by yourself.

However, Minghu Culture implements the signing model of basic salary plus remuneration.

Moreover, Minghu culture is not "closed loop".

Taking actors as an example, Minghu Culture itself has signed dozens of actors, but these actors cannot always appear together in various TV dramas or movies, so Minghu Culture's development idea in terms of actors is that any film For film and television works, I only focus on the main and give up the secondary.

For each play, male and female protagonists and important supporting roles, as long as possible, try to use contracted actors from their own company, but do not completely exclude actors from other companies. As for the contracted actors under its own banner, instead of being closed, the company actively encourages everyone to go out and accept plays.

This is a highly fluid semi-closed-loop model.

Strictly speaking, this development model is very unstable and deformed.

In any market, especially a huge film and television market like China with more than one billion viewers, it is logically impossible for such a company to emerge—your company is high above you, producing the most successful works and cultivating the most popular The actor, all our companies can only follow you to drink soup?

How can it be!

However, when Minghu Culture was rising in film and television, at the same time that domestic films were undergoing a painful transformation, the film market of the entire country was being impacted by foreign films, and the entire film industry lost its direction for a while.

At this time, since the first film, Minghu Culture has held high the banner of commercial films, with the first orientation of making excellent commercial films, and the existence of a special BUG character like Li Qian has made Minghu Culture This series of development ideas has been implemented without any compromise, and soon achieved great success with almost no ups and downs.

Therefore, such a deformed development model succeeded under such a special background of the times.

Today's Minghu culture has the strength to crush its peers in various entertainment industries such as TV dramas, movies, and music, and also has a large number of superstars who crush their peers.

Among the so-called four major actresses in China in recent years, Minghu Culture and Family accounted for three. As for the so-called four small female roles, Minghu culture has another three!

Speaking of the most popular male stars in China in recent years, Zhou Baoshan, Zhou Zhiyu, Huang Ge, etc., are almost the number one.

what to do? This is the reality!

When no one was able to make good commercial films, only Minghu Culture produced one successful commercial masterpiece after another steadily.

And when these movies were welcomed by the audience and won a strong box office, the actors naturally became popular following the play and became the most popular stars among the audience.

Therefore, such a deformed development model was completely finalized.

Minghu Culture has become the brightest star in the domestic entertainment industry.

Time has developed to the present, so that as long as major companies want to make big investment movies, they need to hire superstars with box office appeal, and they immediately think of the superstars from Minghu Culture. , Even if the price is high, I can bear it, but in this way, the stars of Minghu Culture will become more and more popular, and other companies will have to reluctantly lose the opportunity to promote their own people.

When it comes to the next time, the next play, you still have to bear the pain and pay a high price to hire it.

Li Qian is basically the only director who dares not to hire any big names, but relies solely on ordinary actors or even newcomers to make a big-budget film.

Even directors like Qin Wei, Du Weiyun, Zhao Meicheng, Liu Chengzhang, and Wu Han, who have been famous for a long time and even have their own fans, dare not make movies like Li Qian.

The strong get stronger.

And in such a situation where the company is extremely strong, regardless of whether it is a director or an actor, even if they are popular, they can only continue to be honest.

Want to open a studio?

No, impossible!

That's a typical fight for profit with the company, do you still want to mess around?

Therefore, Liu Yan jumped first.

And with this jump, she left Minghu Culture, and immediately rose from being one of the Four Little Stars, a female star of a TV series, to a film investor, producer, and the heroine of Qin Wei's big-budget movie!

It's a leap forward!

As long as you think about it a little bit, you will know that as long as you are a human being, how can you not want more benefits?

Liu Yan's jump is tantamount to opening a big hole in the originally stable ecosystem of Minghu Culture - the joining and affiliation of Feng Yumin's studio, to a certain extent, can be regarded as making this hole even bigger up.

Of course, for the time being, no one dared to come out and jump around at this time.

Although there are definitely many people in the company who have the idea of ​​opening a studio, Feng Yumin is a special case. He became famous outside the Minghu culture system, even before the so-called "Minghu culture system". The character of the predator is then poached, this kind of treatment, of course, cannot be imitated.

Secondly, although Liu Yan jumped, she seemed to be flying high. But what will happen? Did you really make a lot of money by opening a personal studio? By the side of the great director Qin Wei, is it really soaring to the nine heavens?

It is not yet known.

Therefore, no one is willing to act rashly at present.

Even those with a little bit of IQ and EQ know that they have to wait and see if Liu Yanfei can succeed in this wave of going out, and whether they are really better than before before they can determine their next direction.

After all, everyone knows that it is good to be able to participate in investment and become one of the bosses, but the risks in film and television investment have always been extremely high. It's not that once you open your studio and start participating in film and television investment, you will really jump into the dragon's gate immediately-whether you can jump on it, it's hard to say!

But at this time, Minghu Culture actually proposed the studio system on its own initiative.

When talking about this matter, Li Qian said to Qi Jie: "Benefits, give what should be given, and give up the benefits to retain people's hearts. Don't wait for people to speak up. When people take the initiative to speak up, it is often too late."

Therefore, after Feng Yumin's studio settled in Minghu Culture, it was put on the agenda to prepare a personal studio for some people who "had made great contributions to the company's development" within Minghu Culture.

It is conceivable that although the surface is still calm, secretly, these people in the company have long gone crazy-discussions about who can drive and who can't, who has the best qualifications and who has the best achievements, etc. , there are people chirping almost all the time in private.

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One day at the end of May.

Zhejiang, Jinhua Film and Television City.

Following director Liu Changqing's "Crack!", the production crew paused temporarily, and then he shouted again, "This one is over! Prepare for the next one!", and then the entire production crew became fully active.

This is the shooting scene of the movie "Legend of the Bandits" produced by Donghua Film and Television.

The investment of the film is 60 million, and it has been invited for the past two years. The previous two films have accumulated more than 150 million at the box office. In the domestic film circle, Liu Changqing, a cutting-edge director who has already emerged, directed it.

As the top Chinese superstar at the moment, this is Zhou Baoshan who has finally taken over after filming four consecutive films produced by Minghu Culture, including "Once Upon a Time", "Once Upon a Time in Huang", "A Man Should Be Self-Reliant", "The Matrix" and "Shaolin Temple". The first film not produced by Minghu Culture.

His salary, for Chinese actors, has already broken through the sky.

Up to 15 million Chinese yuan!

In other words, his own salary accounted for a quarter of the total investment of the entire film!

But even so, the brokerage department of Minghu Culture selected this work after careful selection. In other words, this one is not the only crew that is willing to pay 15 million yuan, but it has already been pushed by Zhou Baoshan's agent.

Moreover, in addition to the basic salary of 15 million yuan, Minghu Culture's agency department also negotiated for Zhou Baoshan a 3% share of the global box office after the film's release in the future!

Among the actors in China today, Guo Yulong and Zheng Zhongyuan were the only ones who could get a share of the box office before that, but generally around 2% is enough. Li Qian filmed "Autumn Fairy Tale", even though he was filming for his own company, he still demanded as much as 10% of the global box office share in addition to the basic film salary of 10 million.

In the past year, especially since "The Matrix" became popular all over the world, Zhou Baoshan and He Yingyu had to share in the box office as long as they were invited to film.

Otherwise, there is no discussion at all, just push it down.

Zhou Baoshan walked back, greeted director Liu Changqing, and asked politely, "Director Liu, are you okay?"

Liu Changqing made an "OK" gesture and said with a smile, "No problem!"

He also warned: "You pay attention to take a break and take a picture immediately."

Zhou Baoshan nodded and said, "Good director."

Until this time, his assistant came over with a glass of water, first handed it to him, and after he took a sip to moisten his throat, he took the glass and reported in a low voice, "Brother Hu called just now, Said that he arrived before evening. From what he said, I should have something to discuss with you. "

The so-called "Brother Hu" is Zhou Baoshan's agent, Hu Yuan. With Zhou Baoshan's popularity in recent years, he quickly rose to the top and became one of the most famous and powerful brokers in the Minghu Cultural Brokerage Department.

In addition, the most famous actor under his banner is Zhou Baoshan's senior brother, Zhong Yuanfu.

Zhou Baoshan nodded at first when he heard the words, and then couldn't help but turned to look at his assistant, still with a smile on his face, and asked, "Did he say anything?"

The assistant shook his head and said, "No."

Zhou Baoshan didn't ask any more questions, but couldn't help but think in his heart, it's not that Hu Yuan doesn't know that the movie can be finished in five or six days at most, and he has to fly over to see how important he is. trip?

Zhou Baoshan understood this question after the filming ended that day.

Jinhua Film and Television City is a place that Zhou Baoshan is very familiar with, but this time when he comes back to film, he no longer has to go to sleep in a cheap rented house like he did when he was a secondary performer.

The contract clearly stated: No matter where the film crew goes to film, Zhou Baoshan's living conditions must be a presidential suite in a four-star hotel or above. Moreover, the production team should prepare an extra luxury business room for him at any time to arrange for his agent, friend or assistant to stay.

Of course, the crew pays the bill.

Therefore, the crew arranged for him the presidential suite of the only five-star hotel next to the film and television city.

Of the entire crew, he was the only one who received this treatment. Even Liu Changqing, the director of the crew, lived in ordinary suites, and most of the others lived in ordinary business rooms or double rooms—from this point of view, Zhou Baoshan, who returned to Jinhua Mansion this time, It can be regarded as having some meaning of returning home.

After finishing the day's shooting, when Zhou Baoshan took off his makeup and came out, he saw his manager Hu Yuan was already waiting outside. Seeing his expression, Zhou Baoshan greeted director Liu Changqing politely, saying that he was a little tired and wanted to take a rest first, so he would not participate in the evening dinner. Then he gathered Hu Yuan and his assistant, took a battery car out of the film and television city, and returned to the hotel.

After returning to the hotel room and the assistant went out, Hu Yuan said, "Yesterday, I represented you at the inauguration ceremony of Mr. Feng Yumin's studio. I heard a news. I asked a lot of people last night. It can be confirmed on the Internet, and the company will start to prepare for the establishment of several personal studios in the next step.”

Zhou Baoshan looked at him calmly, "And then?"

Hu Yuan said: "Then... it is said that there is no you."

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