Chapter 115: The Studio

On May 25th, Minghu Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Feng Yumin Film and Television Culture Studio was officially established - check forward, check back, this is definitely the highest standard studio listing celebration in China, Minghu Culture here with Li Qian led by a group of stars have come to the scene, the key is that the general manager and deputy general manager of the provincial satellite TV station alone have come to seventeen, the general manager and deputy general manager of Huaxia TV have also come a total of three, and the rest of the big fish and small fish inside and outside the circle have come to countless people.

The scene was too big, many people came to see this scene, and they were stunned at first, and many people even came to sign, send congratulatory gifts and leave. There are too many people, and they are all of a very high level, if their level is not enough, and there is no big guy with them, on such an occasion, even if it is over, there is no chance to say a word to the Feng family.

Mr. Feng Yumin has been in charge of the film and television industry for many years, especially the contacts he has accumulated over the years of being in charge of the Huaxia TV drama production center, which is indeed difficult for ordinary people to match.

Of course, so many big leaders showed up to cheer, not all of them gave Feng Yumin face alone.

No matter how powerful Feng Yumin is, no matter how famous he is, no matter how old he is, he is just a powerful TV series director now, and if he goes to heaven, he is very powerful when he produces one or two TV series a year.

So, his face, at best, is half of it.

The remaining half is for Li Qian, Minghu Culture, and the face of "Smiling Proud Jianghu".

Of course, there are some for Feng Bicheng.

Because it is obvious that Feng Yumin resigned from Huaxia TV and co-founded his own film and television culture studio with Jinghua Film, which was also listed at that time and there were celebrations, but there were not so many people to cheer, and the specifications were at least one or two levels lower.

But this time, his studio was listed, which shook half of the entertainment industry.

When he gave a speech of thanks, he did not hide his next ambition at all, and said on the spot that in the next six years of cooperation with Minghu Culture, he plans to personally direct and supervise the production of eight to ten TV series, and the opening work of the studio is "Smiling Proud Jianghu"!

There is no doubt that with Feng Yumin's status in the rivers and lakes and the super strength he has shown over the years, backed by the big tree of Minghu culture, and directly obtained the TV series adaptation rights of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", which is impossible for other companies to get, Feng Yumin's studio can be said to have stood all at once.

At the same time, with the official listing of the first personal studio under Minghu Culture, the news of Minghu Culture's next step to build a number of personal studios has also begun to spread gradually.

Its realization in today's domestic film and television circles and music circles, studios have long been no longer uncommon.

In the film and television industry, Zheng Zhongyuan is the first to establish a personal studio, and Guo Yulong is not too late, their studios have been established for at least five or six years, and at most seven or eight years.

Even going further, the predecessor of Minghu Culture was originally Li Qian's studio.

Today, with the creation of personal studios by many celebrities, this has become a trend.

To put it simply, the market is getting bigger and bigger, and the market influence of famous actors and directors is getting bigger and bigger, so they are no longer satisfied with just getting paid, they are eager to participate in the operation of the entire market in the form of a studio, and exchange their fame, ability, and some of the capital accumulated over the years in exchange for more right to speak and more benefits.

But Minghu Culture has never had a personal studio.

Strictly speaking, the development route and corporate framework implemented by Minghu Culture have always been similar to the way of "big studio".

This kind of "big studio" development model was once prevalent in Hollywood, in the time and space that Li Qian once experienced, from the 60s to Hong Kong in the 80s.

This model is that a large company has established a one-stop industrial chain that can be completely self-sufficient from production to broadcast or projection with strong output capacity and strong production capacity, thus forming a closed-loop ecology of film and television.

Under this large-scale studio model, all people, from screenwriters, directors, actors, to behind-the-scenes staff, are all ordinary staff of the studio, everyone is paid, at best there are bonuses, and there is no way to talk about the remuneration - in Hong Kong, in another time and space, the Shaw Brothers big studio, is like this.

But the "big set" of Minghu culture is very different from this.

Minghu Culture has its own production and output chain of film and television works from screenwriters, producers, directors, actors, behind-the-scenes, post-production, music production, to distribution and release, and has raised a large number of professionals needed in the entire production chain - from directors, screenwriters to actors, to lighting, to editors, etc., and each link can be solved by itself.

However, Minghu Culture implements a contract model of basic salary and salary.

And Minghu culture is not a "closed loop".

Take the actor as an example, Minghu Culture itself has signed dozens of actors, but these actors can't always appear in various TV series or movies, so Minghu Culture's development idea in terms of actors is that for any film and television work, I only focus on the main and give up the secondary.

In each play, the male and female protagonists and important supporting roles, whenever possible, try to choose the contracted actors of their own company, but they do not completely exclude actors from other companies. As for its own contracted actors, the company will not only not close, but actively encourages everyone to go out to take on the show.

This is a semi-closed-loop model with strong liquidity.

Strictly speaking, this development model is very unstable and deformed.

In any market, especially a huge film and television market like China with a billion viewers, it is logically impossible for such a company to emerge - your company is high, outputs the most successful works, and cultivates the most popular actors, and all our companies can only follow you to drink soup?

How can it be!

However, when Minghu culture was on the rise of film and television, just as domestic films were in a painful transformation, the entire country's film market was suffering from the impact of foreign films, and the entire film industry lost its direction for a while.

At this time, from the first film, Minghu Culture has held high the banner of commercial films, taking making excellent commercial films as the first orientation, and with the existence of such a special BUG-level character as Li Qian, this series of development ideas of Minghu Culture has been implemented without any discount, and soon achieved great success with almost no ups and downs.

As a result, such a very deformed development model has succeeded in such a special era background.

Today's Minghu culture, in TV dramas, movies, music and other entertainment industries, has the strength to crush peers, and also has a large number of superstars who crush peers.

Among the so-called four major flowers in China in recent years, Minghu Culture alone accounts for three. And the so-called four little flowers, Minghu culture accounts for three!

Speaking of the most popular male stars in China in recent years, Zhou Baoshan, Zhou Zhiyu, Huang Ge, etc., are almost the first.

What to do? That's the reality!

At a time when everyone can't make good commercial movies, only Minghu Culture produces them, and they have been steadily exporting one successful commercial masterpiece after another.

And when these movies were welcomed by the audience and won a strong box office, the actors naturally became popular with the play and became the most popular big stars among the audience.

As a result, it is such a deformed development model, which is completely finalized.

Minghu Culture has become the brightest star in the domestic entertainment industry.

Time has developed to the present, so that as long as major companies want to make a big investment drama, they need to invite superstars with box office appeal, and they immediately think of the superstars on the side of Minghu Culture, for the sake of insurance, in order to invest without waste, even if the price is high, they can endure it, but in this way, it will in turn cause the stars of Minghu Culture to become more and more popular, and other companies have to endure the pain of losing the opportunity to praise their own people.

To the next time, the next play, you still have to bear to spend a high price to invite.

The director who dares to make a big-budget movie without inviting any big names, purely relying on ordinary actors or even newcomers, in the current country, there is basically only one Li Qian.

Even Qin Wei, Du Weiyun, Zhao Meicheng, Liu Chengzhang, Wu Han, and other big directors who have been famous for a long time, and even bring their own fans, dare not film like Li Qian.

The stronger the stronger.

And in such a situation where the company is extremely strong, regardless of whether it is a director or an actor, even if it is popular, it can only continue to be honest.

Want to start a studio?

No, it can't be!

That's a typical competition with the company, do you still want to get involved?

Therefore, Liu Yan was the first to jump.

And she jumped and left Minghu Culture, and immediately upgraded from one of the original Four Little Flowers, a female star of a TV series, to a film investor, producer, and the heroine of Qin Wei's big-budget movies!

It's a leap forward!

As long as you think about it a little, you will know that as long as you are human, how can you not want more benefits?

Liu Yan's jump is equivalent to opening up a big hole for the originally stable ecosystem of Minghu culture - the joining and affiliation of Feng Yumin's studio, to a certain extent, it can be regarded as pulling this hole even bigger.

Of course, no one dares to come out at this time for the time being.

Although there must be many people in the company who will have the idea of opening a studio, Feng Yumin is a special case, people are famous outside the Minghu cultural system, and even before the so-called "Minghu cultural system" was already a predator, and then was dug up, this treatment is naturally not to be imitated.

Second, although Liu Yan jumped, it seemed that she was flying high. But what will be the result? After opening a personal studio, will you really make a lot of money? Will you really soar for nine days when you are a great director Qin Wei?

It is not known for the time being.

So, at the moment, no one wants to act rashly.

Even if you have a little IQ and EQ, you know that you have to wait to see if Liu Yanfei's wave can be successful, whether it is really better than before, and then you can determine your next direction.

After all, everyone knows that it is good to be able to participate in investment and become one of the bosses, but the risks in film and television investment have always been great. It's not that as soon as your studio opens and you start to participate in film and television investment, you will really immediately carp jump over the dragon gate - whether you can jump on it or not, it's hard to say!

But at this time, Minghu Culture actually took the initiative to propose the studio system.

When talking about this matter, Li Qian said to Qi Jie: "Benefits, give what should be given, give up the benefits, and keep people's hearts." Don't wait for someone to take the initiative to speak, and wait for someone to take the initiative to speak, often it will be too late. ”

Therefore, after Feng Yumin's studio settled in Minghu Culture, Minghu Culture was about to prepare for the establishment of personal studios for individual people who "made great contributions to the development of the company", which was put on the agenda.

It is conceivable that although on the surface it is still calm, but secretly, these people in the company have long gone crazy - about who can and can't open, who has good qualifications, who has good grades, and so on, and there are people chattering almost all the time in private.

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One day at the end of May.

Zhejiang, Jinhua Film and Television City.

With director Liu Changqing's "click!", the crew temporarily stopped, and then he shouted again, "This one is over! Prepare for the next one!", and the whole crew was completely active then.

This is the filming site of the film "The Legend of the Swinger" produced by Donghua Film and Television.

The film has invested 60 million yuan, and has been invited to take the lead in the past two years, and the previous two consecutive films have won a total of more than 150 million box office, and it is directed by Liu Changqing, a cutting-edge director who has already emerged in the domestic film industry.

As the top Chinese superstar at the moment, this is Zhou Baoshan's first film not produced by Minghu Culture after the filming of four consecutive films produced by Minghu Culture, such as "Huang Feihong", "Huang Feihong's Boy Should Be Self-Improvement", "The Matrix" and "Shaolin Temple".

His salary, for Chinese actors, has broken through the sky.

That's as much as 15 million Chinese dollars!

That is to say, his own salary alone accounts for a quarter of the total investment of the entire film!

But even so, it was the brokerage department of Minghu Culture that selected this work after careful selection. In other words, there is more than one crew that is also willing to pay 15 million in salary, but it has been pushed by Zhou Baoshan's agent.

Moreover, in addition to the basic salary of 15 million, the brokerage department of Minghu Culture also negotiated for Zhou Baoshan 3% of the global box office share after the future release of this film!

Among today's domestic actors, there are only two people who can get a share of the box office, Guo Yulong and Zheng Zhongyuan, but generally about 2% is the sky. Li Qian filmed "Autumn Fairy Tale", although he filmed for his own company, but he still asked for up to 10% of the global box office share in addition to the basic salary of 10 million.

And in the past year, especially after "The Matrix" swept the world, as long as there is an invitation to an outside film contract, Zhou Baoshan and He Yingyu must share the box office.

Otherwise, there is no discussion at all, just push it away.

Zhou Baoshan walked back, said hello to director Liu Changqing, and asked politely: "Director Liu, are you okay?"

Liu Changqing made an "OK" gesture and said with a smile: "No problem!"

He also advised: "You pay attention to take a break, and then shoot the next one immediately." ”

Zhou Baoshan nodded and said, "Good director." ”

It was only at this time that his assistant came over with a water cup, first handed him the cup, and when he took a sip to moisten his throat, he took the cup and reported in a low voice, "Brother Hu called just now and said that he arrived before the evening." I listened to what he meant, I should have something to discuss with you. ”

The so-called "Brother Hu" is Zhou Baoshan's agent, Hu Yuan. With the popularity of Zhou Baoshan in recent years, he quickly rose to the top and became one of the most famous powerful agents in the Minghu Cultural Brokerage Department.

In addition, his most famous actor is Zhou Baoshan's senior brother, Zhong Yuanfu.

Zhou Baoshan nodded first when he heard this, but then he couldn't help but turn his head to look at his assistant, still with a smile on his face, and asked, "He said he didn't say anything?"

The assistant shook his head and said, "I didn't say it." ”

Zhou Baoshan didn't ask any more, but couldn't help but think in his heart, Hu Yuan didn't know that the movie would be completed in five or six days at most, how important could he be, and he had to fly over?

This question, after the filming ended on the day, Zhou Baoshan understood.

Jinhua Film and Television City is a place that Zhou Baoshan is very familiar with, but this time when he comes back to film, he no longer has to sleep in that cheap rental house like when he was doing group performances.

The contract clearly wrote: No matter where the crew goes to film, Zhou Baoshan's living conditions must be the presidential suite of a four-star hotel or above. Moreover, the crew has to prepare an extra luxury business room for him at any time to arrange for his agent, friend or assistant to move in.

Of course, the crew pays.

So, the crew arranged for him to be the presidential suite of the only five-star hotel next to the film and television city.

In the entire crew, he is the only one who has this treatment. Even Liu Changqing, the director of the crew, lives in an ordinary suite, and as for the others, most of them are ordinary business rooms or double rooms - from this point of view, Zhou Baoshan, who returned to Jinhua Mansion this time, can be regarded as having some meaning of returning to his hometown.

After finishing the day's shooting, when Zhou Baoshan took off his makeup, he saw that his agent Hu Yuan was already waiting outside. Looking at his face, Zhou Baoshan politely greeted director Liu Changqing, saying that he was a little tired and wanted to rest first, so he wouldn't participate in the dinner party at night. Then he met Hu Yuan and his assistant, took a battery car out of the film and television city, and returned to the hotel.

When I returned to the hotel room, the assistant went out, and Hu Yuan said: "Yesterday I went to attend the inauguration ceremony of Mr. Feng Yumin's studio on behalf of you, I heard a news, and I specially inquired with a lot of people last night, and it has been basically determined that the company will start to build several personal studios in the next step." ”

Zhou Baoshan looked at him and remained silent, "And then?"

Hu Yuan said: "Then ...... It is said that there is no you. ”

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