The choice at this moment is very important to Ye Ming, is it okay to agree to Howard's conditions? Ye Ming fell into a period of contemplation, inner struggle, and the ideological confrontation was as fierce as Mars hitting the earth.

In the end, Ye Ming hesitated for a moment and finally made up his mind and said: "Actually, William Morris is not the only choice, in Hollywood, there are other agent companies, if I want to enter Hollywood, then with my popularity, if I want to sign with other companies, it is very easy." ”

William Morris is naturally not the only agent company in Hollywood, this company also has a rival innovative artist company, the five tigers of innovative artist company will all defect from William Morris, but it will take less than 30 years for the innovative five tigers to become a giant economic company that competes with William Morris.

This is something that all the people in William Morris are very hateful, and very few people in William Morris will mention Innovative Artist Company.

Ye Ming's words were also a very big touch to Howard, yes, now it's not Hollywood where the William Morris family is dominant.

Innovative artist companies now account for almost half of Hollywood's agency companies.

However, Howard was still very proud and said: "What is the specific situation of this matter, Mr. Ye is very clear, innovative artist companies are basically European and American countries, and artists from other countries outside Europe and the United States, innovative artist companies are impossible to care about."

They don't have any kind of business in the Asia-Pacific region, so we at William Morris are the best choice for such a thing. For example, Cheng Long and Zhou Yanfa in the Asia-Pacific region are all signed artists of our William Morris Company. Britney is also a contracted artist of our company, which is not comparable to innovation, we have a very good grasp of the popularity of Europe and the United States, and we are also quite experienced in the packaging of Asia-Pacific stars, and innovation does not have the advantage of us. ”

That's right, although William Morris's agent company only gave the fourth-tier contract, Ye Ming was still very hesitant to give his contract to William Morris, why is it because this is a professional brokerage company, and he understands the needs of the Asia-Pacific market in Europe and the United States better.

In the end, Ye Ming hesitated for a moment and said: "If it is said that it is a contract, then there is no problem, but what I signed is only an actor contract, and I want to exercise additional rights." Without this, I will contact Innovation tomorrow, and Innovation does not have artists in the Asia-Pacific region, but it does not mean that they will not have it in the future. ”

Additional rights, which is a Hollywood term, is rarely used in other countries. This right is the biggest difference between a superstar and an ordinary contracted artist. Additional rights, full name film and television box office dividends additional terms.

This is a right that only an emperor superstar can exercise, like the current Cheng Long has such a right. That is to say, when he asks for his own salary, he can ask for a box office share. Hong Kong City has such a system, in fact, it is also when Cheng Long went to Hollywood. After knowing this right, he moved this habit to Hong Kong City, and the superstars of Hong Kong City also began to slowly learn Cheng Long to exercise such a right.

In the mainland, Feng Xiaogang was the first to use additional rights in Party A and Party B. Of course, the people who can exercise the additional rights are the emperor's superstars, who have a lot of confidence in themselves, and believe that their works will be a big hit at the box office, otherwise. You still honestly go to get paid, and forget about drought and flood to ensure a bumper harvest.

In fact, even in Hollywood, there are only a handful of superstars who dare to exercise additional rights.

This made Howard very surprised, he looked at Ye Ming with wide eyes and said, "Mr. Ye." If you are sure to exercise the additional rights yourself, this is a double-edged sword, if you don't use it well, your income will be greatly reduced. ”

At this time, Cheng Long also stood up and said: "Ye Ming, I think it's better for you to think about this matter, when you first come to Hollywood, if you say that you exercise such a right, it is a bit risky." ”

Cheng Long doesn't support Ye Ming's use of additional rights, in fact, in Hollywood, that is, Cheng Long, a Chinese star, has the courage to have additional rights, Zhou Yunfa and Li Lianjie do not have the courage to exercise additional rights, not that the two of them do not have this qualification, in fact, they also have this qualification, but they don't have the courage, if they get paid honestly, that is the safest way, in fact, it proves that this choice is the luckiest for Zhou Yunfa.

If it weren't for the popularity of [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] later, Zhou Yunfa would have a chance to turn over in Hollywood, and Zhou Yunfa would have returned to Hong Kong City and the mainland early at this time.

Because if you exercise additional rights, then you will naturally have to make appropriate concessions in terms of remuneration at such a time. In Hollywood, if it is said that when a superstar exercises additional rights, the salary will generally be discounted by about eighty or nine percent.

On such a point, Howard and Cheng Long both expressed doubts about Ye Ming's choice.

Howard shook his head and said, "I don't think this thing is possible. The above will not agree to your exercise of additional rights, you must know that this is at least a second-level artist, such as Cheng Long and Zhou Runfa They are only eligible to exercise additional rights, with your fourth-level D-level contract, it is impossible to succeed in such a situation. William Morris has no precedent for such an artist. ”

This is almost impossible, without the support of huge popularity, who dares to guarantee that their film department will be a big hit, only that kind of top superstar, even if he is not a member of the 20 million salary club, then at least the superstar at the level of Oscar winner and actress has this proud capital.

As a result, add-on rights are known in Hollywood as superstar privileges. It's not that superstars don't have the courage to exercise this right at all, but they are also not qualified to exercise this right. And Ye Ming proposed that he should have this additional right at this time, how could this not surprise Howard.

Ye Ming shook his head with a smile and said: "No doesn't mean that there can't be, Hollywood didn't have William Morris agent before, and then there was." Besides, William Morris Company does not stipulate that only superstars can have additional powers, but it is just that many stars do not have the courage to do so, but I have you to report it, if the above does not agree, even if you can't sign the contract, it is not your responsibility, if you don't report it, then once we don't sign a contract at this time, your manager I think will not let you go. ”

These words made Howard feel suddenly enlightened, yes, his main task this time is actually to sign a contract with Ye Ming, no matter what requirements he wants, anyway, Ye Ming said that he wants to exercise additional rights, which is beyond the scope of what he can decide, and reporting is also the best choice.

Hollywood, in a luxury villa in Beverly Hills, a middle-aged man with fiery red hair is swinging a golf club to practice golf for his own amusement, and the assistant comes over with a mobile phone.

Howard told Ye Ming's words on the other end of the phone, and at this time, the middle-aged man laughed and said, "Dear Howard, I think, at this time, I finally know why even that muscular man Arnold said that Ye Ming is a very interesting person."

Additional rights, he really dares to think about it, such a right in Hollywood does not mean that the star dares to put forward it, he is an artist who has not entered Hollywood actually dares to make such a request.

Okay, no problem, since he put forward the conditions, I think, I have no intention of refusing, promise him, immediately modify the contract, and add this article. ”

A manager is a manager, in a word, everything is done.

On the Korean side, Howard is also a little dumbfounded, and the stars who put forward conditions for William Morris are generally ruthlessly blocked by their own managers.

If it is said that in such a situation, there is no special circumstance, such as the intervention of the sworn enemy of innovation, then generally speaking, the actors who were banned by William Morris do not need to have the intention of entering Hollywood.

At such a time, the manager actually agreed to Ye Ming's request for the first time. With an incredulous gaze, Howard glanced at Ye Ming, could it be said that this person is the illegitimate son of the manager and is not famous?

Ye Ming is an authentic oriental face, and it is impossible for him to have a dime to do with his manager.

At this time, Howard said very happily: "Mr. Ye, congratulations, our manager has already agreed to your conditions, and after I modify the contract, we will be able to officially sign the contract." ”

It was only at this moment that Howard breathed a long sigh of relief, no matter what it was, although it had gone through some twists and turns, Ye Ming finally nodded and agreed to sign a contract with him. This time I finally completed the company's tasks, is it other important?

Of course it doesn't matter. To revise the contract and sign the contract, Howard came with a special lawyer, so it is natural that there are professionals to handle this qiē.

Since then, Ye Ming has been a fourth-grade contracted artist of William Morris, starting from the lowest grade and climbing up step by step, Ye Ming is still a long way from the 20 million box office club at the top. (To be continued......)