Chapter 74: Dragon Entertainment Agency
The comic version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" benefited from this publicity.
As soon as the inaugural issue was launched, it sold as many as 100,000 copies, becoming a best-selling comic that can be compared with "Dragon Tiger Gate" under Yulang International!
The only regret is that the comic adaptation authorization of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" was obtained by Huang Yulang in exchange for the equity of Yulang International Company.
Zhang Shaojie was not able to get a share of the sales of the comic version.
Of course, comics and novels are mutually reinforcing.
Some readers of Hong Kong comics, after reading the comics, will also be curious about the original work.
Therefore, when the comic version of "Datang" was launched, the sales of the first episode of the novel version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of Datang" in Hong Kong have exceeded 170,000 copies, and the other episodes are basically more than 130,000 copies. And the average sales volume of each episode has reached a new high of 150,000 copies
In this way, Zhang Shaojie's manuscript fee for each episode of "Datang" adds up to one million Hong Kong dollars!
Zhang Shaojie has achieved phenomenal success in the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets, and Hong Kong is now the most economically prosperous and media-developed region of the Asian Tigers.
Therefore, Zhang Shaojie's name has also spread to various Asian countries with the media.
Later, as Zhang Shaojie's fame spread more and more, the Asian media talked about Zhang Shaojie as soon as they talked about high-income writers in Asia!
"xx dared to say that his manuscript fee was high, and Zhang Shaojie laughed!"
-- This sentence is not only widely circulated among Southeast Asian writers.
Even in this region, Europe and the United States, there are many people at least, there is a magical young writer in Asia, who has not been debuting for a long time, and the monthly manuscript fee has reached one million Hong Kong dollars!
In this era in Chinese mainland, the news media are relatively strict in political control, but they are very lenient in reporting strange things overseas!
Zhang Shaojie can sell 500,000 copies in Hong Kong and Taiwan per episode of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and can earn nearly 2 million Hong Kong dollars a month.
In the early days of reform and opening up, amateur writers could earn a few yuan a month for people's manuscript fees, while professional writers could only earn dozens to hundreds of yuan for manuscript fees!
It is precisely because writing can earn some manuscript fees that it attracts poor students and urban employees in the mainland to pick up their pens and climb the grid and submit articles everywhere.
Of course, the vast majority of lattice climbers, just hobbyists, can't make any money. So for those who can make huge profits by writing, this poor era is definitely the idol of tens of millions of young people!
Hong Kong writer Zhang Shaojie can earn 2 million Hong Kong dollars a month for manuscript fees, and in China, it is basically a mythical monster!
In the early 80s, China's reform and opening up was first of all a cultural reflection. In addition, writing to make money is more reliable than making money by engaging in computers and programs that most people have no concept of.
So, the most admired thing by young people these days is not Bill. Businessmen like Gates and Jobs, but families like Ba Jin and Ai Qing.
Zhang Shaojie writes martial arts novels, although in the mainland it is the same as Jin Yong and Qiong Yao's novels, it still belongs to [***] for the time being.
But it does not affect the worship of young people in the mainland for Zhang Shaojie!
Although few young people in China really have the opportunity to read Zhang Shaojie's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", this does not affect their admiration for Zhang Shaojie through inspirational reports in news newspapers
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The Mei family is relatively strong, although Anita Mui's mother is a little stingy and greedy for money, but Zhang Shaojie's 50,000 Hong Kong dollars can't send Mei's mother away, at least she can't let Mei's mother be kind to Zhang Shaojie for a mere 50,000 yuan.
Coincidentally, Zhang Shaojie didn't look at Mei's mother very well, the two characters restrained each other, and the people whose aura repulsed each other coldly held each other.
"This is already the case, Amei has signed a contract with Longteng Entertainment Brokerage Co., Ltd., as a contracted artist, she is a work arrangement and a company decision." Zhang Shaojie proudly announced to Mei's mother.
"Longteng Entertainment Brokerage Co., Ltd., cut, you coax me? Why haven't I heard? Mei Mu said.
"Well, look, this is a signing document, a signing document notarized by a law firm!" Zhang Shaojie's emotions against Mei's mother did not decrease.
Mei's mother was so angry that she choked. However, under Mei Aifang's persuasion, she was able to hold on and did not beat anyone.
"You are really, my mother will be angry, her surname, if you don't let her, she will be half angry!" Anita Mui also complained.
"It's okay, the old man can be angry, it is good for his health, and he will live a long life! No one is angry, it's really depressed! Zhang Shaojie smiled.
Longteng Entertainment Brokerage Co., Ltd., this is a company that Zhang Shaojie has registered for a few days.
The company's main business is naturally star brokerage, discovering newcomers, packaging newcomers, and praising newcomers into stars. Before the newcomer is not popular, the brokerage company pays the newcomer's salary, and after the newcomer is trained, filming, advertising, recording, concerts and other projects that can make money must be contacted and negotiated by the brokerage company, of course, the brokerage company is to extract 5%~20% of the brokerage fee, and the rest of the income belongs to the artist himself.
It seems that the artist suffers a loss by signing contracts with film, music, and advertising companies through the hands of the brokerage company, but in fact, without the hands of the brokerage company, with the artist's own connections and relationships, a lot of money cannot be earned. In addition, famous artists need to focus on their careers, and some chores that interfere with their personal energy need to be handed over to their agents to deal with.
At present, Hong Kong's entertainment industry, film, TV series, and record industry are still relatively developed, and well-known artists do not need to go through a professional brokerage company to sign an agreement with a record company or a film and television company.
Later, the film and television and music industries were in a recession, and the income from celebrity endorsement advertisements began to exceed that of films, records and other industries. During that period, the Hong Kong entertainment industry saw the emergence of Emperor Group, whose main business was entertainment brokerage, packaging, and popular celebrities, and earning intermediary fees related to celebrity advertising endorsements, movies, music, etc. This model is more profitable than traditional models such as making movies and making records.
Although Zhang Shaojie was not satisfied with the unspoken rules of the boss of Emperor Company.
However, I have to say that entertainment brokerage companies, with packaging and popular stars, do have a higher efficiency than traditional film and record companies!
Of course, now Anita Mui is the company's first artist, and the movie "Modern Bodyguard" is also cooperated by Longteng Entertainment Agency with Golden Harvest Company.
The company's brokerage commission for Anita Mui is as high as 20%, which she does not object, and she regards it as supporting the company's career!
In fact, Anita Mui is also one of the shareholders of the company. Caochuang's Longteng Entertainment Brokerage Company currently has three shareholders, Zhang Shaojie holds 70% of the shares, and Zhang Shaohuai and Anita Mui each own 15% of the shares.
The registered capital is only 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, and there is only one artist under it.
However, Zhang Shaojie knows that after the release of the "Modern Bodyguard" movie, Anita Mui will become popular, and Tenglong Entertainment Agency will definitely resound in the Hong Kong entertainment industry!
At that time, those girls who have not become famous and are eager to become famous will not rush to run?