Chapter 57: Boom and Fall
Shao Tycoon's management system is modeled after the "big studio system" of Hollywood's eight major companies, and the tycoon's dream is to build Shaw Brothers into the "Hollywood of the East".
His management style is an oriental-style family management, where the family operates alone and is responsible for its own profits and losses. At this time, Hollywood's "Big Eight" has gradually transitioned to an independent production system, with large companies choosing the right producers to provide financial and distribution support, and finally profit sharing. Before leaving Shaw Brothers, Zou Wenhuai had suggested that Shao Daheng follow the trend and implement a "dividend system", but the tycoon has become accustomed to controlling everything himself and is not suitable for the decentralization of power under the independent production system.
It was in this way that he missed Li Xiaolong, Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie's brothers. The brothers Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie once found Shao Daheng with the script of "Ghost Horse Double Star" and asked for a fifty-fifty share, but after being refused, they switched to Zou Wenhuai's Golden Harvest, and Golden Harvest also used a more humane dividend system to win Li Xiaolong from the Shaw Brothers.
Wireless Building Office.
"I have a few suggestions for the company's artists to sign a contract, Uncle Sixth can listen to them!"
Seeing Shao Daheng's brows furrowed and hesitant, Wang Zheng made a suggestion.
"Tell me about it!"
Shao Tycoon has also wavered in his contract, especially Li Xiaolong and Xu Guanwen, who were missed by him, who have broken the box office record in Xiangjiang, and also have regrets in their hearts for the tycoon who let them go.
Wang Zheng sorted out his thoughts before he spoke: "We can divide the company's artist contracts into three types, from low to high, namely agent contracts, manager contracts, and department contracts, each contract has a corresponding task, and the treatment is relatively different. ”
"The agency contract can be used for artists who have just graduated from the training course, or newcomers who have just joined the company, the company can provide basic salary to the agent contract artists, so that they have no worries, and at the same time provide them with opportunities to perform, whether they can sign a higher contract depends on their own efforts. Manager contract, the company set up a manager department, and the company signed a manager contract with the artist to distribute, for example, a manager is responsible for five artists who sign a manager contract, for them to coordinate all the work, in addition to the salary, the company also provides them with a generous monthly salary and housing, manager contract artists are our backbone, in addition to monthly salary and salary, if the ratings of the starring movie or TV series can exceed expectations, there are corresponding rewards and commissions for the artists. The above two types of contracts are five-year system, after the expiration of the term, you can sign the highest level of the head contract with the company, there will be certain requirements for signing the "head contract", the signed artist must have a certain popularity and box office appeal, after signing a certain number of movies and TV series for the company every year, the company allows artists to become shareholders, and can be divided when the box office is expected, and after completing the company's tasks, the company does not restrict artists from developing externally. ”
Wang Zheng picked up the teacup and moistened his throat, and continued: "Finally, set up a separate artist department to centralize the directors, screenwriters and TVB artists of Shaw Brothers Pictures, and the artist's contract is also suitable for the director! With the existence of these contracts, the artist also has the hope of getting ahead, and will continue to improve himself to sign the final "head contract", and will not be easily poached by companies such as Golden Harvest, New Art City, and Asia Television. That's all for now!"
During the whole process of Wang Zheng's narration, Shao Daheng did not interject, but just sat there with his brows furrowed and pondered.
The reason why he took out the artist contract of later generations was to repay Shao Tycoon's trust and value to him, and second, he couldn't bear to see the decline of Shaw Brothers Pictures, a film kingdom, and many of his future goals would have to be completed by Shaw Brothers Films, even if Shao Tycoon did not take a new contract proposal, he could not watch Shaw Brothers Films decline.
"You put these suggestions together and write me a formal artist contract proposal, and I'll have a meeting with the board of directors in the near future. ”
Shao Daheng, who had been pondering for a long time, slowly spoke, Shaw Brothers artists can't go out to shoot other companies' dramas, this rule is an iron law he set, with this iron law, Shaw Brothers artists are all obedient, and also because of this iron law, some talented people who have revenge are forced to leave and go out to form their own film companies to compete with Shaw Brothers.
"Okay. ”
Wang Zheng agreed, but in his heart, he was slandering that he was just a special director of the Shaw Brothers, and now he even had to do the work of a secretary.
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Shao Daheng has all the shares of Shaw Brothers, and everything is up to him to decide. Although the tycoon is now the largest shareholder of TVB, some things can only be decided after the shareholders have a meeting.
After Shao Tycoon slowly delegated power to TVB in later generations, TVB's senior management began a long-term infighting in order to fight for power, followed by media revelations and complaints from TVB artists.
"Wireless does not let employees rest, the system is inhumane", "sign unequal treaties" and other shady scenes were leaked by the media, but a number of wireless executives seemed to avoid taboos, and had to prevaricate with the old Cantonese saying "eat salted fish to be thirsty", which literally means that salted fish is salty and you will be thirsty if you eat it. If you want to eat, you must be thirsty, and if you have signed a contract, you must have the obligation to fulfill the contract.
The artist was completely enraged by such words, and more shady scenes broke out one after another. Artists are forced to socialize, in addition to doing their duty to shoot dramas, once high-level or high-level relatives and friends open stores and publish books, they all require artists to support the scene, and sometimes they have to eat and drink to socialize. was forced to sign a contract, in order to deal with difficult artists, wireless will dispatch at least three high-level executives to hold the contract in the room for the artist to sign, and if they don't sign, they won't let them go. No matter how famous you are, Wireless believes that it is all about the company's influence that makes you who you are. Zeng Zhiwei, the producer of "72 Tenants" produced by Shaw Brothers Films, later broke the news that the wireless artists who made cameos only accepted red envelopes and wrote "wordless gratitude" notes to offset their salaries, and the largest red envelope was only 4,000 yuan.
Although wireless has brought achievements to many artists, there is no perfect system to contain it, and the company's top management excessively squeezes artists, and the final result will lead to excellent artists being forced to leave, and the rest are crooked melons and cracked dates, and the reputation of Shaw Brothers and wireless will no longer exist.
Wang Zheng made these pros and cons into a plan, and after handing them over to Shao Tycoon, he didn't pay attention to them, he said everything he had to say, and how to change it depends on the tycoon's choice.
Although he hopes that the Shaw Brothers can continue to prosper for a long time, if the tycoon insists on going his own way, then Wang Zheng can only make other preparations, fortunately, he only signed a special director contract with the Shaw Brothers at the beginning, and there are not too many restrictions.
After all these things, "Crazy Stone" is about to start its full release.