New Age Artists

Chapter 43: Box office exceeds million

Wang Baoqiang is about to withdraw, but everyone is in high spirits as the supermarket box office has exceeded 100 million yuan.

"Hua Yi did remind me that the company's economic business must be independent. Brother Bo, Tangtang, your economic business will be transferred to Deep Sea Entertainment Company and separated from the Locomotive Film Studio."

Shen Santong said to Tang Yan and Huang Bo, "From now on, Deep Sea Entertainment will be responsible for your acting and business activities. When Locomotive Film Studio hires people, it will also make an appointment with your executive agent first."

When a company is first established, many departments are unclear.

Sometimes, movie studios hire people directly from Deep Sea Entertainment to work.

It was not only to seduce the Chinese barbarians, but also the incident with Wang Baoqiang really reminded him.

Tang Yan and Huang Bo have representative works in the film and television industry. The brokerage business and the film and television business can no longer be confused.

It’s time to separate and get back on track.

"Just stay in the film studio, it's convenient." Tang Yan was fine, drinking orange juice. Huang Bo thought about it more and declined.

"With economic development, the prosperity of a great country, the prosperity of entertainment, the film and television industry will inevitably develop greatly, and the market will gradually be segmented."

Shen Santong drank a lot and talked about his understanding of the industry, saying a lot of practical things: "If film and television production companies and artist economic departments are entangled with each other, the conflicts will become more and more serious. For artists, commercial performances, endorsements, film and television projects, social activities, evening party appearances, public relations... Business activities involve all aspects, and film and television works are only a part of it."

Shen Santong kept it to himself and didn't reveal some industry secrets.

The tying up with people of the same status, smearing people of the same type and generation, suppressing newcomers of the same type, fighting back after being smeared, fighting over endorsements.
From now on, it is better to have the agency contract under a public relations company instead of a film and television company.

However, smearing, suppression, and quarreling are things that can be done but not said, and are still industry secrets at the moment.

Those who are good at it are generally from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The team led by Wang Jinghua may be the best in mainland China, but they are not very skilled in operation.

"Film and television production companies can only provide film and television projects. Nowadays, film and television production companies control the artist management contracts because there are too many people and too little money, but with economic development, this phenomenon will not last long."

After hearing what Shen Santong said, Xu Zheng stopped twirling the wine glass and pricked up his ears.

He is the kind of person who has a lot of ideas. He has his own pursuits and understandings of movies and the industry.

But it is obvious that his insights are not as good as Shen Santong's.

Shen Santong has a deeper understanding of the market, content and industry, far surpassing him.

Shen Santong would only say these things when the box office is booming and it is a happy occasion.

"In addition, there is a natural contradiction between the economic situation of film and television production companies and artists. The producers want to keep the pay low, while the artists want higher pay."

Shen Santong continued, "For the person in charge of the artist's economic department, if they are affiliated with a film and television production company, they would of course hope that the company's projects would use their own artists. If they don't, their leadership prestige will be reduced and they will not be able to convince the public."

Shen Santong laughed when he said this: "These conflicts are not about personal grudges, nor have they anything to do with personal grudges. They are caused by departmental institutions."

This sentence touched Wang Baoqiang.

The internal struggle within Huayi is very fierce, and there are two forces in the artist department alone.

One group belongs to Huayi, and the other group belongs to Wang Jinghua.

In addition, Huayi is mixed with Hong Kong and Taiwan, and there are also Hong Kong and Taiwan artists competing against each other.

very intense competition.

Wang Baoqiang witnessed a lot of quarrels during the "A World Without Thieves" project.

The film producer Chen Guofu brought in Rene Liu, and as a native of Huayi, Li Bingbing could only play a supporting role.

I didn’t quite understand it before, but now after hearing what Shen Santong said, I felt as if everything had suddenly become clear.

There is indeed a natural conflict between film and television production and artist economy.

"Film and television production companies can suppress disadvantaged artists. But for artists who have more options, such as first-tier artists, film and television production companies have become a burden. As time goes by, this situation will shift downwards, and the same will be true for small stars."

Shen Santong gave his own industry judgment: "Liu Ruoying plays the leading female role in A World Without Thieves, which hurts the interests of the economic sector of Chinese and foreign artists. Wang Jinghua must respond."

"When there are more projects and the industry develops in the future, there will be further splitting. My understanding of celebrities is different from those of traditional film and television companies. A small star is a small company, while a big star or a first-tier star is a listed company in my opinion, and it must be operated independently in the future."

As soon as these words were spoken, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, Tang Yan, Jiang Yiyan on the side, and several core creators behind the scenes were all shocked.

"That's impossible." Huang Bo himself didn't believe it and didn't even dare to think about it.

At present, the relationship between artists and film and television companies is subordinate, and their status is very low. Shen Santong's argument that artists and film and television companies are equal is a bit ahead of its time.

The saying that a star is equivalent to a company is something that, when told to the artists, even the artists themselves don’t quite believe it.

The cake is so big that I dare not eat it.

I wake up in shock every time I dream about it. It’s too unreal.

The trend from Hong Kong and Taiwan spread over, and artists' incomes increased as the market developed, but their status decreased.

Tell the current stars, you will earn 208 yuan a day in the future, earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions for a movie, and pay million yuan in taxes. Most of the money used by first-line female stars to marry so-called big bosses will be used to help the poor.
The person involved will feel that the person speaking is ill.

Shen Santong didn't explain much, thinking that when you think back on what I said in the future, you will understand how awesome I am.

These people in front of me have great potential.

Although Tang Yan is the shame of the Chinese Academy of Drama, she is one of the top actresses.

Xu Zheng has produced films of various genres and has made great contributions to the film industry.

Before the rise of Wu Jing and Shen Teng, Huang Bo was the top male actor of the Mesozoic era. Even though he couldn't catch up later, he is still a first-tier actor.

Later, Wang Baoqiang was able to act and direct, and most importantly, he is a really good person.

He has an agent and a wife, one for work and the other for life, and there is nothing wrong with him. It is really rare to have such a person in the entertainment industry.

Coming from a truly grassroots background, every step is not easy.

I really admire Wang Baoqiang, not because of the interests or the filter, but because of who he is as a person.

Otherwise, the character of the tire would not be designed to be so full.

Finally, Shen Santong raised his glass pretentiously and said, "Everyone, let's wait and see in another ten years!"

"The box office has exceeded 100 million yuan. It really has exceeded 100 million yuan."

Tang Yan moved excitedly.

I knew it would definitely exceed 100 million, but when it actually did, I almost fainted.

On the 17th, 738 million, on the 18th, 622 million, and on the 19th, 441 million.

After thirteen days of release, the film grossed 103.25 million.

The box office exceeded 100 million.

In name, Shen Santong became the third mainland director after Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang to have a box office revenue of over 100 million yuan.

In fact, only God knows whether the box office of "A World Without Thieves" has exceeded 100 million.

And she, Tang Yan, will also be the heroine of a billion-dollar box office movie.

Currently the top female stars are the Four Little Flowers, and among the four, only Zhang Ziyi has barely had a movie with a box office of over 100 million yuan, "House of Flying Daggers", where she is the leading actress.

In terms of box office performance, she crushed most of the four actresses and rose to fame overnight.

"Be careful, it's very fragile inside."

Shen Santong was really worried, so he asked her to be gentler and not go too deep.

If anything breaks, it will be a scandal.

Expectations are expectations, and even if you are mentally prepared, when expectations become reality and when the supermarket's box office really exceeds 100 million, watching the box office cross the 100 million line step by step still shocks countless people.

That’s 100 million!
When I was making the outline, I estimated that the adapted Nightclub would make at most 30 or 40 million. It would take until Lost in Journey to make over 100 million.

However, when I actually wrote it, I added three songs: "Dimple", "Thousands of Miles Away" and "My Sky".

With the addition of three songs and the rhythmic promotion and publicity, the original prediction is no longer in line with reality.

I think authenticity is very important in Chinese entertainment. I will not deliberately change the timeline (not including those caused by the influence of the protagonist) and let the protagonist act out a play that causes all kinds of accidents to the people in the original timeline. Similarly, I will not deliberately suppress someone who should have high achievements.

The reason why the box office performance exceeded 100 million yuan, I didn’t tell you the most important reason, you can guess it. Just a reminder, this is something that the media will deliberately ignore.

Please give me some votes.

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(End of this chapter)