Chapter 25 1980 Partner
Fang Wanshan was actually very happy that Zheng Zeshi persuaded him, just regarded himself as a real friend, but still comforted him and said don't worry too much, he will definitely make a lot of money.
Next, Fang Wanshan announced:
"The theater needs to be built next year, and Vanke DreamWorks also needs to increase production next year, at least next year, we need to shoot more than 6 films, mainly in the second half of the year. β
"Vanke DreamWorks also needs to be expanded next year, Zheng Zeshi and Zheng Ge will also join the company from today as a producer, and the company needs to have at least one or two sets of its own shooting team next year. β
"The company will set up a partnership system next year, and each review of the script will be reviewed by the partners by raising their hands together. Let's talk about it when we meet tomorrow. β
"And you helped pull down Huang Baiming over there, we have cooperated a few times, we should have a certain foundation, and the position that came to him is also the treatment of a partner. β
After talking about the company's reform and personnel arrangement, Fang Wanshan said to Wang Jian:
"Brother Wang, next year, you need to start recruiting some administrative staff to serve the staff, and the finance department will also start to standardize and expand to prepare for the theater line in the future. β
Wang Jian was still the same, but he agreed with a muffled voice.
Fang Wanshan watched everyone, and still a little doubtful that his entry into the movie was a bit hasty, and he didn't even have an artist department, but the time is now 1979, time waits for no one, and if you don't seize it, you won't have a chance, so you can only rely on money to smash it out.
Next, they reported on the preparations for the release of "Zombie Turnover", and everyone began to slowly discuss some specific details of the partnership system. After chatting for a while, the second brother gave Fang Wanshan a look, and Fang Wanshan also understood and went to the corner with him.
When Fang Wanshan walked over, Fang Qiang smoked violently, and didn't say anything at first, but Fang Wanshan could see that the second brother looked like he wanted to speak, so Fang Wanshan reached out to take off the cigarette, and said with a smile:
"What's wrong with you, if you have anything to say directly, I'm not your brother. β
Fang Qiang blocked Fang Wanshan's outstretched hand, and said with a look of embarrassment and some expectation:
"Can your film company arrange someone for me?"
Fang Wanshan didn't want to say:
"Yes, what position do you want, you tell Wang Jian, and I will arrange it for you. β
After finishing speaking, Fang Wanshan asked with a gossip on his face:
"Who's it, a woman? β
Fang Qiang twisted for a long time before replying:
"I want to go and have a name as the vice president, okay. β
Fang Wanshan was very surprised, Fang Qiang actually knew that Vanke DreamWorks was basically Fang Wanshan's, except for promising Wang Jian 10% of them. Fang Qiang is his second brother, if he wants to come in, just say it directly, and it is not a big problem to give him some shares.
Fang Wanshan knew Fang Qiang, he was actually very interested in this piece, why was he still constipated with an embarrassed face. But Fang Wanshan didn't continue to ask, but replied:
"That's it, I'll hang it up for you tomorrow and give you 10% of the shares. β
Fang Qiang ignored what Fang Wanshan said, and just continued:
"I'm going to invest 20 million in your company, and I can give me as much as I want, but my brother begs you for something, help take care of Mi Xue. β
Fang Wanshan suddenly realized, it turned out to be this, so he replied:
"No problem, second brother, you will also come over for a meeting tomorrow, as a partner. β
Fang Qiang agreed, and the two brothers went back together and continued to drink with others.
At 10 o'clock the next day, Fang Wanshan came to Vanke DreamWorks, and everyone else began to wait there. After Fang Wanshan finished greeting the others, he pulled Wang Jian, Wu Ma, Wang Jing and others into the conference room, and after everyone else sat down, Fang Wanshan asked Zhong Chuhong to help send everyone a partnership agreement that he had drafted at the beginning.
This is the rule, in fact, Fang Wanshan drafted it a long time ago, but it was only Fang Wanshan's previous imagination, and the actual situation may need to be changed, but Fang Wanshan's general framework is not ready to be modified.
The partnership agreement divides the partners into four levels, permanent partners, senior partners, general partners and temporary partners.
At present, the permanent partner is Fang Wanshan, who has the right of veto, management and personnel.
Senior partners refer to the shareholders of the company and the managers who are later promoted by employees, and also include some personnel who have made significant contributions to the company, such as the second brother Fang Qiang, Wu Ma, Zheng Zeshi and others. The senior partner has the right to propose and vote on the company's projects, and has the right to supervise the management personnel, and the senior partner needs to be appointed as a permanent partner.
The general partner is the group of people who have contributed to the company and obtained options, and have certain supervision rights and dividend rights.
Temporary partners refer to non-company personnel who cooperate with the company and have the right to dividends.
Each project of Vanke DreamWorks needs to be initiated by the senior partner or above, and the senior partner decides whether to participate after the initiation, and the participants need to vote, and the participation of each project shall not be less than 5 people, and the vote in favor can be passed;
After the project is approved, the company must first invest 50%, the project sponsor can not exceed 30%, and the other 20% is voluntarily invested by other senior partners.
Each project dividend is divided into 3 parts, one part is the investment dividend, accounting for 65%, and the other part is the project staff dividend, accounting for 15%, and the last part is the crew member's dividend, accounting for 20%.
The last point is that the dividends of each project are not directly sent to the company's employees, but are allocated to the company's shares, which are calculated according to 1 yuan per share, and the company will distribute dividends at the end of each year, and the dividend ratio will be discussed and decided by permanent partners and senior partners.
After they watched it, Wang Jing raised a question:
"If someone withdraws halfway, what happens to his equity?"
Fang Wanshan looked at Wang Jing with a smile and said: "The company will recycle and compensate according to the original price, that is, now it will be one yuan per share." β
Wu Ma and Zheng Zeshi looked at each other, and Zheng Zeshi asked:
"Is the dividend ratio of this project a bit high, and whether the project staff is talking about the behind-the-scenes personnel or the company's employees. β
Fang Wanshan replied directly: "It's the people behind the scenes, you think the dividend of the project is a bit high, we can discuss it again." β
In the end, the discussion was reduced to about 10%, and the specific allocation was assigned by the crew and the team themselves.
Zheng Zeshi asked again: "Do people who are not employees of the company also enjoy dividends?" β
Fang Wanshan said very definitely this time: "No." β
Wang Jian also asked at this time: "How can the company's executives enjoy dividends." β
Fang Wanshan said, "Part of the company's year-end profits is distributed to them. β
Wang Jing interjected at this time and asked, "Does the company's dividend include the theater chain?" β
Fang Wanshan looked at Wang Jing seriously and said, "These are two companies, although they are both mine, but they are a cooperative relationship." β
Wu Ma was the actual person in charge of the company's operations during this time, and he thought about it and asked Fang Wanshan:
"How can the company's contracted actors go to work outside, and there are directors and staff. β
Fang Wanshan didn't answer immediately this time, but just threw the question directly to others for discussion.
The commission is certain, this is everyone's consensus, but the difference of opinion on the percentage of the commission is relatively large, Wang Jing and Zheng Zeshi hope to have a low commission, Wu Ma and Wang Jian hope to increase the percentage of the commission, and finally Fang Wanshan thought about it, the high achievement needs to give some protection to the staff, and the low achievement has a relatively small constraint on the signatory, so he made a brokerage company with reference to the model of the artist in the future.
The brokerage company is affiliated with the following subsidiaries, and the brokerage company's commission ratio is determined according to the contract signed by the person, which is divided into 4 levels of contracts. The higher the level of protection, the better, but the higher the percentage of commission.
Fang Wanshan and the others spent more than two days to figure out this basic framework, and after finishing it, Fang Wanshan specially found a lawyer to help revise some clauses to make them more detailed and feasible.
About a week later, Mr. Zhang called Mr. Fang and said that it was basically done, and Mr. Fang drove with a few of his initial partners to listen to him help interpret the provision.
There is basically no problem with the provisions, everyone quickly signed the contract, and the partners who came over this time also added Huang Baiming, a genius screenwriter, and this time the clause also limited the number of senior partners, and also stipulated the obligations and conditions of some senior partners.
Although Huang Baiming set up his own company at this time, he has been tepid, and after receiving the invitation from Wu Ma, he was very moved, especially the partner system made him feel a high degree of freedom.
It didn't take long for Fang Wanshan to negotiate with him on the terms of joining, Huang Baiming was in charge of the screenwriting team this time, and on the eve of the company's preparations, Fang Wanshan began a major reform of the company.
The company is divided into five departments, the first is the administrative department, responsible for the daily operation and financial management of the company, the person in charge is currently in charge of Wang Jian; the second is the operation department, responsible for the distribution and overseas expansion of the film, and now Wang Jian is also concurrently; the third is the engineering department, responsible for providing staff to the crew, the current person in charge is Wu Ma; the fourth is the project department, responsible for the production of film films, the person in charge now has two people, one is Zheng Zeshi, the other is Wang Jing, no one is responsible for a separate team, because of the fear that the engineering department personnel do not cooperate, each person in charge of the project department can freely select the personnel of the engineering department, there is a KPI mechanismThe fifth department is the investment and publicity department, there is no staff at present, and Fang Wanshan is concurrently in charge, and the propaganda work should be given to the operation department, but Fang Wanshan does not have a suitable candidate, and he does not want to let people who do not understand their intentions to do it, so they will first put it under their own name, and then become independent.
In addition to the five major departments, there is also an artist subsidiary, which is directly called DreamWorks, and there is no person in charge at present. There are also some independent groups above the company, such as the screenwriting team brought by Huang Baiming now, as well as the special effects team and martial arts team that Fang Wanshan plans to set up in the future.
Fang Wanshan himself served as the general manager of the company this time, Fang Qiang was appointed as the deputy general manager, and the other responsible persons all led the position of deputy manager.
In September 1979, Vanke DreamWorks' "Zombie Turnover" began to be officially launched, and at this time, Fang Wanshan and they happened to be discussing the formulation of partners, but they didn't pay much attention to it, and the final box office of "Zombie Turnover" was more than 3 million, making a small profit.
In "Zombie Rollover" At the beginning of 1980, the company was able to run the ability to shoot two movies at the same time, and Huang Baiming also helped dig up the bald Mai Jia of the struggle studio, Humpty Zeng Zhiwei, Shi Nansheng, etc., Xu Laowei's joining and Humpty Zeng Zhiwei In fact, Fang Wanshan was not very willing, but they were all packaged operations, and Fang Wanshan did not say anything, anyway, the seven monsters of the new art city in the future were basically dug up, what is not satisfiedγ
Although Fang Wanshan doesn't care much about the entertainment industry, especially the mainland entertainment industry in the new century, the famous Seven Monsters of the New Art City still know, although the specific personnel are not fully recognized, but the overall name is known.
Shi Nansheng joined, Fang Wanshan was very happy, after talking, Fang Wanshan directly asked her to help take charge of the operation of the Xiangjiang side of the operation department, and the bald Mai Jia asked him to be in charge of the production of the crew. Tsui Hark's old monster Fang Wanshan sent him to Wang Jing, and they got the director team, and if there was any drama that needed to arrest him again.
Humpty Zeng Zhiwei is a person, Fang Wanshan began to prepare to directly put it in the subsidiary as a signed artist, but later Huang Baiming said that he had a little screenwriter talent, so Fang Wanshan gave him the title of deputy manager, and the others were thrown over if they wanted it.
Shi Tian, Teddy Robin, Fang Wanshan just felt familiar, he didn't know who they were without listening to the name, he didn't care about his preferences, so he directly asked them to discuss with Huang Baiming to see what they did, Shi Tian finally chose to sign a contract and be the vice president of the subsidiary, and Teddy Robin helped set up a sound effect group, and the name was transferred to the record company by Wanda Electronics Factory on the artist's side, which was the record company established by Fang Wanshan in order to promote tapes, but now it is a little more famous.
In addition to them, they also dug up some people to come over, there are screenwriters, directors, and more staff, Fang Wanshan attaches great importance to this aspect, and directly asks each classification to set up small groups to rate their skills.
At the same time, it also operates its own alumni association, selects graduates who are interested in each small group, and enters the company as an apprentice.