Chapter 333: Retention Criteria
Jiang Shuyan had already done a good job of not seeing Kong Yuanshan for at least a week or even ten days and half a month, or at least he couldn't be distracted and scruples to the studio, but he didn't expect Kong Yuanshan to return to the company the next day, first methodically handled Jiang Shuyan and Chen Yizi's schedule for the last week, and then continued to be busy with WS's merger and acquisition process of Orange Sky Entertainment.
Ms. Lee has not been released, but no new findings have been given either.
And for some things, no result is often better than having a result.
Including the Linyu consortium, the outside world speculates on the outside world, and it has not had much practical impact at present, maybe it is really as Li Ximin said, as long as the one above is fine, Li Yingzhu will not have much trouble, and so is Linyu.
As for the entertainment industry, the biggest topic of the month is the upcoming Berlin Film Festival this month.
As one of the three most famous, influential and authoritative international A-category film festivals in the world, although due to its own characteristics, the Berlin Film Festival's evaluation criteria are relatively more political and social, so it is slightly inferior to the Cannes Film Festival, which focuses more on the combination of business and art, in terms of popularity and gimmicks.
But it is also because of this that many people feel that the Golden Bear Award of the Berlin Film Festival has a higher gold content than the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival, and in recent years, the commercial nature has become more and more obvious, and the ticket threshold is getting lower and lowerγ
After all, there is already a great suspicion of "rubbing" if there is no work, and the popularity and media recognition of the Eastern face on the red carpet in the Western home stadium are not high, it is easy to appear embarrassed to pose but no one shoots you, and then get together with the topic of "pheasant" stars, it is really not necessarily who is ridiculed more.
But how can celebrities reflect their value if they don't walk the red carpet, especially female stars, why do they use so many beautiful dresses if they don't walk the red carpet, and how can they compete for beauty and beauty if they don't walk on the red carpet?
As a result, films like the Berlin Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, and the Montreal Film Festival have become new popular choices.
In addition, there are also two works shortlisted this year, one of which is even more famous celebrities, it is said that there is a great chance of winning the award, and the entire crew has already flown over a week in advance, so the relevant topics and attention will naturally be there.
Another one that has attracted a lot of attention and discussion is Xu Dongyin's latest masterpiece "The Age of Heroes".
Xu Dongyin's last film "Fantasy Light" has already won the Palme d'Or for Best Picture, and earlier his "Shadow Man" was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, so many people speculated that the Berlin Film Festival would be Xu Dongyin's next goal, plus "The Age of Heroes" will be released early this summer, out of the need for publicity and momentum before the release, many people naturally speculated that Seo Dongyin and "The Age of Heroes" will definitely appear at the Berlin Film Festival.
spread to the inner fan circle, and even Jiang Shuyan's fans quietly discussed in their own circle whether it was possible for their goddess to come back with a blockbuster and win the Silver Bear Award directly, of course, this dream is a bit exaggerated.
First of all, if Seo Dong-in has plans to take this work to international awards, the leading actors must have known about it when filming started or even just got the script, and since they don't know, it means that there is no more at all. Moreover, the heroine of "The Age of Heroes" is undoubtedly Kim Yunxi, and Jiang Shuyan has won a brilliant role, but she is already the fourth female lead, and the Silver Bear Award is only set for the best male and female lead, and there is no best male and female supporting actress and best newcomer.
Fortunately, the fans are more rational, and the big fans manage and guide them well, this kind of self-praise is to talk about it in their own circles, and they have not spread this kind of unfounded and easy to recruit black words outside the circle.
The merger of Orange Sky Entertainment and WS is about to be completed, Kong Yuanshan arranged a meeting with the original Orange Sky Entertainment's agent and all the artists, and specially called to ask Jiang Shuyan if he wanted to go over and take a look together, Jiang Shuyan was originally not interested, but how could he say that it would not be long before she would be a member of the company, and she, the "founding father", should go and meet everyone in advance.
And she hasn't even seen the new WS office until now, although she hasn't even moved the place except for a few more elevators.
When Lin Kun came to pick up someone, he looked Jiang Shuyan up and down, very daily light makeup, a white stand-up collar sweater with a long white Nizi jacket, black pencil pants underneath, and casual sneakers...... Lin Kun twisted his eyebrows and looked at Jiang Shuyan's shoes for a while, and asked quite hesitantly, "Sister Shuyan, are you ......sure?" Let's just get over here?"
"Is there any problem?" Jiang Shuyan asked with a smile.
"We're going to meet with the agents and artists who came over there, and we don't think about dressing a little more formal?!" Lin Kun said.
Jiang Shuyan raised his eyebrows, "Isn't this pretty?"
Lin Kun hurriedly said, "It's good-looking, Sister Shu Yan's beautiful face in the prosperous world is good-looking wrapped in a torn burlap bag!"
"It's good-looking, it's to meet and not to go to a beauty pageant, even if it's a beauty pageant, just look at the face and figure, do you still look at the dress?" Jiang Shuyan said with a smile, and directly opened the door and sat in the car.
"......" Lin Kun touched his nose and silently followed into the car.
Went out not too early and got out of the car, Jiang Shuyan arrived a little late, and he was afraid that he would be the last to make others wait for a long time, but it turned out that it was not.
"There are still two people left over there in Orange Sky, and their faces are bigger than ours!" Percy, who picked up people at the elevator on the floor, complained dissatisfied.
"Which two?" Lin Kun asked curiously.
"Their artist director and 'first sister' Zhang Baona!" Percy pouted.
"Where's Sister Yuanshan?"
"Sister Yuan Shan is in the conference room, and now all the others are here except for those two. β
Jiang Shuyan looked around briefly while walking inside, the decoration is still modern and streamlined, slightly integrated into the Mediterranean style, there is nothing very amazing, but as a daily office, it is enough to be spacious, bright and simple.
"This floor is mainly the management office, the lower floor is the office of the general staff, the artist dressing room, the studio and the like, yes, there is a small kitchen, although it may not be used, and the lower floor is the rest and entertainment room, of course, there is a large gym and practice room, anyway, there should be no lack of facilities. Percy said as she walked.
Jiang Shuyan smiled lightly and nodded, and the conference room was also there.
The door of the conference room is open, and you can see from a distance that there are three or four missing in the front position, and all the people in the back are already full.
I can't say whether I'm happy or not, anyway, I didn't have any expression on my face, and I didn't smile until I turned over and saw Jiang Shuyan.
When Jiang Shuyan saw the people inside, the people inside naturally also saw her, and in an instant, everyone was silent, and their eyes were all cast in unison.
Jiang Shuyan was about to go in, but Kong Yuanshan got up and walked towards her first, pulled her arm and walked out while smiling and said, "Don't come in, there are no people yet, let's go, I'll take you to see my new office," and at the same time didn't forget to turn back and shout to Chen Yizi, "Yizi, you come too." β
"Oh, good. Chen Yizi also got up and walked out.
Percy, who was standing at the door, couldn't keep up with the reaction, glanced at the others in the conference room, and said to Kong Yuanshan in a daze, "That's ......"
"Those two will come back and let us know when they arrive. Kong Yuanshan replied to her, and then there was no other command.
Jiang Shuyan was already taken out and walked away before he could react to anything, crying and laughing, "Sister Yuanshan, you don't seem to be very happy to look at it, who made you angry?"
"What am I angry about!" Kong Yuanshan snorted coldly, "I was still late for the first meeting, and the time I said was more than half an hour late, I don't know if I thought it was Orange Sky who acquired our WS?
Jiang Shuyan cleared his throat, "That, I'm also late......"
"Is this nature the same?, can you come or not, if you don't come, it will be the same, so what's the matter if the artist director doesn't come?!"
"Maybe it's a traffic jam or something that has been delayed?" Chen Yizi said with a smile.
"Then they don't know to make a phone call to explain why?!"
As he was talking, Percy trotted after him, "Sister Yuanshan, they've arrived." β
Kong Yuanshan stopped and turned around, "It's here...... When you get to the conference room, let's wait for the room, and we'll come after we see the office. β
"Huh?"
Kong Yuanshan patted Percy on the shoulder, turned around and continued to walk towards the office.
Jiang Shuyan smiled, "Sister Yuanshan, is it a little unfair to other artists who arrive on time like this?"
"They are not my artists, why should I be fair to them? Even if it is in the future, I will talk about it later, they have basically seen everyone, if there is any difference between them and the two of you, it is probably that the two of you are released out of the first-class brokerage company and rush to ask for it, and they are second-rate companies and no one wants them. Forty or fifty artists, ten of which I am satisfied with, I can't pick them out, and a few who have excessive plastic surgery, the nose is not a nose, and the mouth is not a mouth, just like the aliens, I really think that living creatures can be big stars if they can breathe. β
"It's still not so exaggerated!" Jiang Shuyan said with a smile.
"Don't believe you, ask Iko?"
Chen Yizi pursed her lips and smiled, "I didn't pay much attention to them......"
It took just half an hour in the middle, and when I returned to the conference room, some noisy voices were quiet again the moment a few people arrived at the door, and they continued to look at Jiang Shuyan curiously, because they were obviously hung out and faintly dissatisfied, and those who had nothing to do with themselves had different expressions.
Jiang Shuyan saw at a glance a young woman sitting lazily and casually in the opposite position of the door with a delicate makeup, wearing a red bandeau dress, a CHANEL classic gray plaid short coat draped on the back of the chair, a DIOR mini cherry red velvet pouch on her knees, and matching haute couture jewelry, and there was no lack of decorations on her hands, neck, ears, and ears.
Not to mention, this outfit is quite well matched, it looks extravagant, the queen is full of fan, not to mention that this outfit is a meeting, and it is no problem to directly switch the event dinner scene.
Jiang Shuyan finally understood why Lin Kun questioned her dress in the morning, but people came in full costume! Not only this, Orange Sky came over, but the more than 20 artists who were sitting here were basically prepared, and if they were famous or not, they should first take out the appearance of stars in terms of dress.
As for the artist director who was late together, it should be the middle-aged man who was sitting next to Zhang Baona, who was not good-looking, and began to play with his mobile phone with his head down, and put down his mobile phone when he saw them come in.
Kong Yuanshan walked inside with a smile on his face, but did not sit directly in his position, but first walked to the position of Jiang Shuyan and Chen Yizi and pulled out the chair with his own hands for the two of them to sit down, and then returned to the front position that belonged to him and sat down, smiling lightly and saying to everyone, "I'm sorry, I've kept you waiting." First of all, I would like to introduce myself, I am Kong Yuanshan, the president and interim president of WS Entertainment. β
Zhang Baona was the first to stand up and said with a smile, "President Kong, this is the first time we meet, please give me more advice in the future." β
The people behind also hurriedly stood up one after another and waited to introduce themselves in turn, there were four who sat without moving, Kong Yuanshan himself, Jiang Shuyan and Chen Yizi, and the other was the one next to Zhang Baona.
Kong Yuanshan turned his head to look at her, "Can you introduce yourself first?"
Zhang Baona's smile suddenly froze, and her expression became a little unnatural, "Zhang Baona, the former artist of Orange Sky Entertainment." β
Jiang Shuyan smiled slightly, raised his hand and motioned for her to sit down, "What about the one next to her?"
"Artist director Hong Xiaorong. The man next to Zhang Baona replied casually.
"Orange Sky?" Kong Yuanshan asked.
Hong Xiaorong looked stunned, raised his eyes to look at Kong Yuanshan, pulled the corners of his mouth that was barely a smile, and nodded, "Yes." β
After everyone on both sides finished introducing themselves, Kong Yuanshan stood up, "We, WS, admit all the artists and agency contracts under the original Orange Sky, but it doesn't mean that all the artists of Orange Sky will be accepted by my side." β
Everyone below was stunned for a moment, and then their faces changed.
Hong Xiaorong lightly buckled the table one by one, and looked at Kong Yuanshan in confusion, "President Zhang, I don't really understand what you mean. β
Kong Yuanshan smiled, "That's what you understand." Didn't your president tell you that we would lay off people after the acquisition was completed? Even if you don't think about it, you can imagine it, I don't know what the signing criteria of your Orange Sky are in the past, but since it belongs to WS now, of course, it must be according to my WS standard, and I am the boss, WS's standard is my standard, and according to my standard, you Orange Sky is not present and not present, so the artists who are not present, can leave no more than ten people. β
The crowd below was in an uproar, especially the artists, whose faces were almost full of panic and disbelief.
"But their brokerage contract ......"
Kong Yuanshan interrupted Hong Xiaorong, "I didn't say that I didn't recognize your brokerage contract, so we will naturally pay the liquidated damages, and we won't lose a cent." β
Hong Xiaorong sneered, "President Zhang, isn't it a bit too much for you to do this?!"
"Is it too much? I still have three requirements that I haven't said!" Kong Yuanshan looked at him with a smile, "First, I don't want any artist who has signed a contract by unspoken rules; second, I don't want to go through plastic surgery more than three times or more than three parts of the face; third, if the annual income is still less than 20 million won for more than five years after the official debut, I don't want it." Of course, if the annual income exceeds 500 million, the first three requirements can be invalidated. β
Hong Xiaorong let out a contemptuous sneer, "I really don't understand, in that case, what are you doing to buy our Orange Sky?!"
"What we acquired is the frame shell of your company, and the artist is just incidental, if this part can be separated, then we may not want it directly. β
Hong Xiaorong's smile gradually rose, and his face became more and more ugly.
Kong Yuanshan smiled and continued, "I think you actually know in your own hearts who can stay and who will leave, I will draw up the specific list within three days, especially the three points just mentioned, honestly I may be able to keep people depending on the situation, but if anyone deliberately conceals the facts and waits for our side to investigate, then let you go, how much liquidated damages you can get, and even whether you can take it, it's hard to say." β
Hong Xiaorong was about to stand up, but was soon sat back by Zhang Baona, who had never said a word beside him, and then slowly stood up by himself.
He glanced at Jiang Shuyan, who was sitting across from him, and turned to face Kong Yuanshan and said, "There is no unspoken rule relationship, I have opened the corner of my eyes once, I have debuted for six and a half years, and I currently have an annual income of 10 to 1.5 billion won, am I qualified to stay, President?"
Kong Yuanshan clasped his hands and smiled lightly, "Of course, welcome to WS Entertainment." β
Zhang Baona smiled slightly, raised her hand and pointed forward, "What about the two of them? Should they also report their personal situation?Or are these three requests just for our Orange Sky artists?!"
From the moment Zhang Baona's gaze swept over, Jiang Shuyan knew that there would definitely be such a play, and the result really hit himself.
Jiang Shuyan was about to speak, but was stopped by a gesture from Kong Yuanshan, "Jiang Shuyan, one year after his official debut, we have reached a cooperation since May last year, and in nine months as of now, all the remuneration endorsement fees and performance fees have accumulated more than 5 billion;
Not only Zhang Baona, but the eyes of the entire conference room widened in shock.
What is the concept of 5 billion? It is probably equivalent to the total income of more than 40 artists under Orange Sky Entertainment.
Seeing that Zhang Baona didn't react for a long time, Kong Yuanshan smiled and asked again, "Is there any more problem?"
Zhang Baona came back to her senses and smiled dryly, "No." β