Yang Ming's arrival in the Lion City completely ignited the enthusiasm of all fans in the Lion City, and thousands of fans went to the airport to pick up Yang Ming. ”

"Hollywood broke the bombshell news, American pop music diva Afra Hill refused to renew her contract with CAA, to everyone's surprise that Afra chose to join Oriental DreamWorks, a company that does not focus on record distribution and brokerage business!".

The next day, the entertainment circles at home and abroad were shaken.

More attention from the domestic media has been on Yang Ming, and various media have devoted a lot of space to reporting the news of Yang Ming's arrival in the Lion City yesterday.

In particular, Yang Ming's explanation to the media of Japan and North Korea at the airport yesterday was reprinted and reported by the media of the two countries, which made countless fans of the two countries breathe a sigh of relief.

The reason why Yang Ming chose to shoot in the Lion City instead of the cities in Japan and North Korea was mainly because of the climate.

This is indeed a convincing reason for fans in both countries.

Filming started in November, and the shooting of a movie will definitely not be completed in a short time.

Think about the cold winter in Japan and North Korea, and then think about the fact that the Lion City is still as warm as spring in winter, even other directors will definitely make the same choice as Yang Ming.

Unless the film is set in Japan and North Korea, it cannot be changed at will.

Yang Ming's previous accumulated popularity completely exploded on the movie "Fast and Furious".

Whether it is the media or fans, everyone is very concerned and curious about the progress of Yang Ming's new film, and is very much looking forward to it.

Now that the filming city has been decided, the next suspense that has not yet been revealed is the selection of actors.

Just when the entertainment circles of Huaxia and East Asian countries were paying attention to Yang Ming's every move of his new film, it was suddenly rumored that Afra had terminated his contract with CAA and switched to Oriental DreamWorks, which surprised everyone in the Chinese entertainment industry.

If it was just the news of Afra's termination of the contract with CAA, it might not have much impact in China, at best it would be a relatively sensational entertainment news.

In the final analysis, Afra is a foreign entertainment star after all, even if she has many fans in China, she can't become the focus of the Chinese entertainment industry.

But after Afra and Yang Ming became involved, the meaning of the news of the termination of the contract of this American pop music diva suddenly became different.

Oriental DreamWorks, Yang Ming!

Even if the brains of everyone in the local entertainment industry are imaginative and receptive, they are still taken aback by the news that Afra switched to Oriental DreamWorks.

Even, when many people heard the news, they thought that today was April Fool's Day, and who would joke again.

How can it be?

Afra is a pop music diva in the local entertainment industry in the United States, both in terms of influence and popularity, which is not comparable to ordinary stars.

Although her influence has declined slightly in the past two years, this is also because she has been resting and has not appeared in public.

However, the media in the United States also reported that the reason why Afra disappeared from the public eye was entirely because the diva had completely collapsed with the CAA and was banned by the CAA, which made the popularity of the pop diva decline.

But everyone believes that as long as Afra makes a comeback, with her terrifying popularity, her status in the entertainment industry will soon be restored.

However, why did such a popular diva who has the highest status in the entertainment industry in the United States choose not to cooperate with Hollywood big-name agencies or entertainment companies after terminating her contract with CAA, but instead signed a contract with a film company.

Even if this film company has a certain influence in the entertainment industry with the huge success of several movies in succession, this still does not make people feel that this is the reason for Afra to join Oriental DreamWorks.

Oriental DreamWorks is too small.

Whether it is strength or heritage, Oriental DreamWorks is not worthy of Afra's status in the eyes of entertainment giants at home and abroad.

When Barber and Afra held a press conference to announce the cooperation between the two sides, after the news came out, both the entertainment industry in the United States and the entertainment industry in China felt unbelievable and incredible about the news.

The entertainment circles of the two countries were completely detonated.

Media reporters have inquired about the inside story of Afra's cooperation with Oriental DreamWorks through various relationship channels, and even some reporters from the United States went to CAA's agency to ask each other about Afra's opinion on Afra's joining Oriental DreamWorks, but they did not get any useful information.

How could it be?

No matter how you think about it, no one thinks that Afra will join Oriental DreamWorks.

It's just a fantasy.

It's a pity that after attending the press conference, Afra temporarily disappeared from the public, and the media reporters couldn't find her in person, so they couldn't find any useful inside information.

Afra couldn't find it, and the media reporters in the United States began to block Barber and the top management of Oriental DreamWorks in Hollywood.

However, this time the matter about Afra joining the Oriental DreamWorks was completely operated by Barber, and the others didn't know about it at all, and they knew about it like everyone else.

Therefore, even if media reporters ask the top management of Hollywood's Oriental DreamWorks, they can't find any useful information.

As for Barber, after several efforts by the media reporters, the idea of digging up news from the mouth of this old fox has been completely extinguished.

As long as this bigwig, who was once known as Hollywood's 'gold spotter', doesn't want to speak, no media can get any useful information from him.

In China, many media reporters have flocked to Oriental DreamWorks to inquire about relevant news.

It's just that the Oriental DreamWorks on the Huaxia side is the same as the United States side, and there is no insider knowledge of it.

As a result, many media reporters immediately took the plane and rushed to the Lion City, no one can know, they don't know, they don't know, but they don't believe that Yang Ming will also say that they don't know, they don't know!

It is no wonder that the domestic media is so excited, Afra, as a popular diva in the United States, joined a Hollywood film company with a Chinese background, which brought a shock to the Chinese entertainment industry, which is not ordinarily small.

In particular, the vague sense of pride makes all media reporters feel enthusiastic.

The pop queen of the United States has now joined Huaxia's company.

The impact of this incident is definitely not so simple.

At this time, in a building in Hollywood, a meeting was being held.

Several people sat around a long table, and the atmosphere of the meeting was extremely solemn, and everyone did not dare to speak lightly.

"Now that it's happened, it's useless for us to avoid it, let's talk about Afra's opinion of joining Oriental DreamWorks, right?"

Sitting on the main seat, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, with a gentlemanly demeanor, spoke slowly.

This middle-aged man is the president of CAA, Wayne Marks, a big man in Hollywood.

"Hmph, it's not a big deal, Afra has long passed her prime, and the current entertainment industry belongs to the era of young people!" said a slick man with a hint of contempt, "It's just that I'm very curious, why did Afra choose Oriental DreamWorks, or doesn't Barber of Oriental DreamWorks know the consequences of meddling in this matter?"

This contemptuous man is also one of the big men of CAA, Edgar Black, whose name is well known in Hollywood.

His words were full of disdain.

Neither Afra nor Oriental DreamWorks put it in his eyes.

Even, there is a little hostility towards Oriental DreamWorks in his words.

The rest of the people present also showed curiosity and thoughtfulness when they heard Edgar Black's words, and they, like the outside media, were also puzzled by Afra's choice of Oriental DreamWorks, and they also dared to risk offending CAA by signing a contract with Afra.

Afra may have a high status and influence in the hearts of outside fans because she is a pop diva.

But in the eyes of a giant like CAA, it is at most just a star, a star who can bring them great benefits.

In the past two years, why Afra's influence has declined sharply, everyone here knows very well.

Previously, there were media rumors that Afra was banned by the CAA, although it was confirmed to be a rumor, but everyone here knew very well that this matter was true.

A brokerage company can say that it is blocked to a popular diva, and it will be blocked, so you can imagine the influence of this brokerage company.

Based in Los Angeles. Although it is not the earliest performing arts agency established in the United States, it now occupies half of Hollywood, far exceeding other established brokerage companies.

"There's CAA in Hollywood, and then there's other companies. ”

One entertainment media even commented on CAA's influence in Hollywood.

Time magazine also praised CAA as "the most influential company in the entertainment industry".

CAA has more than 600 agents and employees, with an annual profit of nearly 300 million yuan, and if the annual income of the stars and programs represented is combined, it will at least exceed 10 billion yuan.

At its peak, CAA owned nearly half of Hollywood's entertainers, nearly 2/3 of the top stars, as well as top directors, producers, playwrights, as well as singers and bands.

The outside media says that there are six movie giants in Hollywood, but everyone in Hollywood knows that there is actually another giant.

It's just that this giant, which is generally lurking under the surface of the water and is not well known to the public, is CAA, which is known as a brokerage company that can call the wind and rain in Hollywood.

With the expansion of the company in recent years, CAA has become less and less satisfied with the current status quo, and they have launched bundled services.

In the past, when a TV station wanted to produce a program, it had to find a host, an actor, a producer, a script writer, etc., in short, a large number of different agents.

But CAA can now prepare all the artists of the show, not only the TV station will have peace of mind, but the agency will also change the passive star chasing in the past to actively do projects.

In this way, the relationship between the agent and the star has changed from the agency "serving" the star to the star acting as a pawn of the agency project. The agent suddenly changed from the star's nanny to the star's player, and from the star's maid to the star's emperor.

As a result, the chess pieces of CAA are no longer one or two stars, but a complete project: from program planning, to writers, screenwriters, producers, to directors and actors, all ready.

From TV variety shows, CAA has gradually expanded this bundled service to film production.

When negotiating with the film company, CAA demanded that the actors who use CAA must use a full set of personnel such as directors, producers, and playwrights.

At the same time, CAA also took advantage of the large amount of resources at its disposal, and reached out to the division of box office profits, taking a certain percentage of the revenue from the packaged service project as a commission - most of them are 10 percent, not only box office revenue, but the surrounding area of the film is counted into it.

Hollywood's production companies can be said to respect CAA for two points, fear one point, hate seven points, CAA's packaging continues to push up the production cost of the film, and also stretches its hand directly to their cake!

This is exactly what movie giants hate about CAA, because CAA rarely provides individual artist services, but fights as a whole, and actors have to use CAA's scripts, directors, and producers, and they have to pay a lot of money, in addition to CAA's commission on film revenue.

With CAA's strength, I really didn't pay attention to Afra's departure.

But they couldn't accept that in such a short period of time, Afra made a choice to join Oriental DreamWorks, and they were not curious about why Afra chose to join Oriental DreamWorks, but they had a feeling that Oriental DreamWorks took the opportunity to dig into the corner of CAA.

This makes it a bit difficult for CAA to accept.

Two consecutive days of media interviews made many people in CAA feel a little embarrassed.

So we have today's meeting.

Especially Edgar Black, who had just spoken, had a very bad impression of Oriental DreamWorks.

"Oh, so what's your plan?" asked President Wayne Marks, giving Edgar a faint look, seemingly unconcerned about the matter.

Edgar showed a hint of pride when he heard this, knocked on the table, and said to the others present: "Everyone, maybe you think this matter is not a big deal, but I feel that the dignity of CAA has been provoked, I don't believe that Oriental DreamWorks has not contacted Afra before this!"

When everyone in the audience heard Edgar's words, they all looked approving.

Everyone is mixed in the entertainment industry, Afra just terminated the contract with CAA on the front foot, and within a month, he chose to join Oriental DreamWorks.

Moreover, Afra was banned by CAA, which is something that everyone in Hollywood knows, but Oriental DreamWorks ignored the influence of CAA and signed a contract with Afra directly, obviously not taking CAA seriously.

"I think we at CAA should make some moves to let Oriental DreamWorks know that in Hollywood, what they say doesn't count!"

At the end, Edgar said coldly.