Chapter 994: Self-Inflicted Cleverness
At lunchtime, He Qilong asked his company's famous agent Yuan Qian to accompany him, and the two, as the first person in the brokerage industry in the two places, had many topics to exchange.
Yuan Qian brought eight celebrities under her hands, and the influential stars under Meiya were all brought out by her, Wang Mao was a little curious and asked her: "You have brought so many stars, can you be busy?"
Yuan Qian pointed to the headphones on her ears, spoke Mandarin that she was not very proficient in, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "No way, the boss wants to make money, so he can only squeeze me like this, I work at least sixteen hours a day, and my two mobile phones are turned on twenty-four hours a day, and I haven't slept a single sleep in these years, and I have been trembling for so many years, and I have been tormented!"
"I will arrange the boss," He Qilong scolded with a smile: "Do you want to do it, can I force you to do it?" turned his head and explained to Wang Mao: "Our company is a two-way choice system between actors and agents, there is no way, my big names there only trust her and want her to take it, she also has this ability, so she has to work hard!"
However, He Qilong's words changed: "Wang Mao, with your ability, is it a little less to bring only one artist under your command?"
Wang Mao muttered in his heart, not that he didn't have the energy to bring other people, but that he didn't want to make this brokerage job a business, and then let himself completely lose his nature in the endless competition for resources.
However, He Qilong thinks like this, it is also a good idea of resource exchange, and he doesn't need to think too much, Wang Mao thought about it and said: "I'm a little lazy, plus the mainland is different from here, the market is huge and there are many affairs, and now I take Morning Star, most of the time it is also a continuous rotation, and I don't want to let myself have no time to rest at all, so I usually only sign a close brokerage contract with the stars I am optimistic about." ”
He Qilong nodded, and didn't continue, he also knew Wang Mao, and found that he had always come over like this, this person has the ability to be the boss of a big brokerage company, but he doesn't want to do it or has no intention of doing it.
During the banquet, Wang Mao asked about Teacher Nan Shuxiang again, and he called her as soon as he came over, but he didn't expect Teacher Nan's mobile phone to be turned off all the time, He Qilong told him:
"Teacher Nan went to Germany, it is estimated that she used a local mobile phone card, she went to contact this year's Berlin Film Festival to hold a retrospective of Hong Kong films in the past 20 years, on the one hand, to further open up the popularity of Hong Kong films in Europe, on the other hand, it is also to attract more funds to invest in this market, and now we are too short of capital investment here!"
Seeing him so transparent, Wang Mao once again realized that He Qilong is indeed the leading film and television predator in Xiangjiang, and he understands the current market situation very clearly.
In recent years, Hong Kong films have suddenly declined, and outsiders only see that the directors of Xiangjiang can no longer make Hong Kong films with such flavor as in the past, but few people have dug out the real reasons for the decline of Hong Kong films.
Since the film market in the mainland was very hot, many overseas film and television investment funds woke up overnight and realized that the film and television market in the mainland of China was 100 times larger than that in Xiangjiang, and investing money in the film and television market in the mainland was the business that made a lot of money.
So overnight, dozens or tens of billions of film and television investment funds quickly withdrew from Xiangjiang and switched to the mainland market, resulting in directors in Xiangjiang wanting to make films, but simple Hong Kong films could not attract investment at all, and in desperation, in order to survive and achieve a good box office, they had to take the road of co-production, and in order to cater to the mainland audience, the films made lost their Hong Kong flavor.
In fact, the talents of Xiangjiang's directors are still the same, but the lack of funds in the market has led to the low income of newcomers who have entered this industry, resulting in a large number of actors having to flee the industry or enter the mainland in order to live, and finally lead to the current situation of Xiangjiang's film and television industry and shrinking market.
If there is a lot of money willing to come into this market, in a few years, Hong Kong films will definitely be able to recreate brilliance, and Mr. Nan Shuxiang understands this, so he tries every means to attract investment for Hong Kong films, and wants Hong Kong films to occupy an important place in Chinese films again.
Everyone was eating and chatting, and they all felt very speculative, Wang Mao also let go of the amount of alcohol and drank a lot of wine, just when he was half drunk, he suddenly received a call from Zhang Bin.
He got up and went to the window to answer, only to hear Zhang Bin say on the phone: "Boss, in the hot drama express column broadcast on Kyoto TV just now, the host asked about Wu Lina's relationship with this drama, Wu Lina actually said that Morning Star also intended to play the heroine of this play, and it was the producer and director who comprehensively examined her and Morning Star's acting skills and ability to carry the ratings, and finally chose her!"
Wang Mao is angry, Wu Lina is so shameless, she actually stepped on the morning star like this for the sake of popularity! Is this because we have no evidence in our hands, and the drama party will echo her for the sake of ratings, so she is so unscrupulous?
He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked again, "What else did she say that you thought was abnormal?"
"I think she is very sure of the ratings of this show, and the host asked her to make a prediction about the future ratings of this show, and she said with great certainty that the ratings of her show will be a big hit!"
Wang Mao decided to return to Beijing immediately, he told Zhang Bin to stabilize first, if there is a good reporter about her stepping on the morning star, ask the studio about her stepping on the morning star, let Zhang Bin say that he is abroad, he will publicly respond to the matter after he returns.
After returning to his seat, Wang Mao contacted to book a ticket to return to Beijing, and He Qilong saw that his face was unhappy and asked, "Is there something tricky happening over there?"
He Qilong and Wu Lina terminated the contract before the contract expired, and everyone in the business knew that this kind of separation would definitely break up unhappily, and Wang Mao was not afraid that He Qilong would talk, so he told him about Wu Lina deliberately stepping on the morning star, He Qilong sighed:
"Wu Lina is such a person, she is not used to taking the right path, she always likes to be a moth, her time here is really an eye-opener for me, it is no exaggeration to say that she is the thickest skinned female star I have ever seen, the lowest bottom line, and the most terrible point is that she often thinks she is smart, in order not to be hammered to death by real smart people with her, I terminated the contract with her early. ”
Wang Mao nodded, feeling that He Qilong summed it up very incisively, isn't Wu Lina such a person?
Wang Mao booked a flight at half past five in the afternoon, He Qilong personally sent Wang Mao to the airport, and when he saw that the time was still early, he accompanied him to sit in the café for a while, when the two chatted, Wang Mao told He Qilong about the abnormal ratings performance of "The Ancient Gods" and Wu Lina's inexplicable self-confidence, and finally asked He Qilong:
"I've been focusing on brokerage business all these years, and I don't know much about some things, have you ever heard of it, is there any way to fake ratings?"
He Qilong knew what was going on as soon as he heard it, and said with a smile: "You asked me the right person, I know the ins and outs of this matter." ”