Inside a high-end apartment on Broadcast Road.

TVB popular actress Huang Xingxiu brewed two cups of coffee, put them in front of the guests and her husband Chen Baixiang, and smiled: "Mr. Rong, please use it slowly."

"I'm tired." The guest nodded in thanks.

At this moment, the guest at Chen Baixiang's house is the famous agent Rong Yilun of Oriental Entertainment Company, and the purpose of his coming is naturally to poach Chen Baixiang.

In recent years, Hong Kong films have become more and more prosperous, but all actors who are a little famous have become sought-after, and they don't worry about not having film contracts at all, so that Oriental Entertainment Company has artists who terminate their contracts from time to time. The reason why these people terminated the contract was just to monopolize the salary, and they felt that it was too much of a loss to give Oriental Entertainment Company a brokerage share.

However, the termination fever of Oriental Entertainment Company has disappeared in recent months, and some actors who have left before also want to return to the arms of Oriental Entertainment Company.

It's not that the share of Oriental Entertainment Company has decreased, but that the actors who ran out and flew solo suffered losses.

In the first half of this year, the production of Hong Kong films reached another peak, with an average of more than 8 films released every month, and sometimes even 12 films released in a month. With such a terrifying production volume, there is a great demand for actors, and at the same time, there are many dragons and snakes in this circle.

Those actors who ran to pick up the film by themselves were either cheated and couldn't get paid, or were killed by people who jumped tickets for a drama for more than half a year. Celebrities are all public people, and they are embarrassed to shout loudly if they are deceived, and it is troublesome enough to start a lawsuit, not to mention whether they can win or not, even if they win the lawsuit, they waste a few months of time and energy, and they will earn more than that. What's even more unfortunate is that it is the producer who meets the underworld/society, and it is fortunate enough to be able to finish the movie safely.

These people rely on relatives and friends to pull the relationship, and when something happens, it is often a disharmony between relatives and friends, not only did they not make money, but they didn't even have to be good friends.

It's not the same if it's signed with Oriental Entertainment. From the signing of the film to the completion of filming, the whole process is participated by a professional lawyer, and there will be basically no messy things.

The artists under the Oriental Entertainment Company have also encountered gangs that make movies without paying. At first, I still negotiated with gang members. In the end, Oriental Entertainment Company didn't have to spend that much time. directly pay for the actor's salary, and then put the film company. and the entire core team members of that drama were all blacklisted, from the director, photographer to makeup artist, these people don't want to take the list of Oriental Entertainment Company in the future.

The most ruthless thing is that Oriental Entertainment Company also announced this blacklist. It is well known in the entertainment industry, so that these people are so isolated that they can't get along, so they can only leave Hong Kong and go to Taipei and Singapore, or they are willing to degenerate and stay in Hong Kong to make some garbage movies.

Your club gang is very draggy, right?

I can't cure you, and I can't cure the directors and cinematographers who work with you?

Now if it is not forced, there is no director who is willing to cooperate with the club to make a movie, and even if he wants to make it, he will first get the salary funds in place. Or simply don't invite the signed artists of Oriental Entertainment.

Oriental Entertainment Company is the nanny of artists, as long as they are signed under Oriental Entertainment, artists only need to have a good relationship with their agents, and other companies will naturally come forward to solve it. You don't have to look at people's faces to accompany you to dinner everywhere.

The way Oriental Entertainment operates is somewhat similar to that of Hollywood entertainment giant CAA, but it is very different. This is mainly due to the difference between the entertainment environment of Hollywood and Hong Kong, and the CAA is backed by the entire North American entertainment market, with countless film companies and TV stations. Hong Kong is different, there are only two TV stations, and one of them is not doing business with Oriental Entertainment Company at all, which dooms many of CAA's business methods to be unworkable in Hong Kong.

Oriental Entertainment Company has also absorbed some of the successful experience of CAA, such as "betrayal costs" or something, so that when the company's agent leaves, he can't take away his artists lightly. There is also the use of the overall advantages of Oriental Culture and Entertainment Group, as well as the insecurity brought to artists by the invasion of Hong Kong gang forces in the entertainment industry, which brings a double attraction to artists.

Putting these aside, at least staying in Oriental Entertainment Company has more development prospects than relying on your connections to go out and mix, maybe one day you will have the opportunity to take on a film from a big director. Even if you don't mix well in the film industry, you can go to the TV station to shoot dramas, shoot commercials, be a host, receive variety show announcements or something, no matter how bad it is, you won't starve to death.

The most important thing is that Oriental Entertainment Company has a professional behind-the-scenes team, which will package and promote a certain star when it feels that it has potential, and when there is a scandal in the star, it can quickly carry out crisis public relations, or even take the opportunity to hype, which is something that the star himself cannot do.

Especially after Kang Jianfei became Paramount's second largest shareholder, Oriental Entertainment Company is even more attractive, because there are rumors that Paramount and Oriental Entertainment have signed a cooperation agreement. In the future, Asian actors with weight in Paramount movies will be recommended by Oriental Entertainment to participate in auditions.

Although Hong Kong has the title of Oriental Hollywood, which Hong Kong actor doesn't want to go to Hollywood to get out of the way? The current Oriental Entertainment Company has become a powerful springboard for insiders to enter Hollywood.

In just a few months, the number of signed artists of Oriental Entertainment Company has soared, and now counting all professions such as actors, directors, screenwriters, photographers, etc., the number of signed artists registered by Oriental Entertainment Company has reached 412, and there is a shortage of professional agents in a short period of time.

Rong Yilun is the agent who joined the Oriental Entertainment Company the year before last, and he has worked well in the past two years, and now he is sent by the company to dig Chen Baixiang.

"In other words, if I sign it, the brokerage contract belongs to Oriental Entertainment Company, and it has nothing to do with Phoenix TV and Macau Satellite TV. But 'twenty-eight open. [,！ Isn't that a bit too much?" Chen Baixiang looked at the brokerage contract that the other party brought and asked.

Rong Yilun explained: "Mr. Chen, the twenty-eight account is already very reasonable, many popular stars are three or seven open, only Fa Ge, Honggu and a few of them are one nineteen. As long as you sign into our Oriental Entertainment Company, you will find out how worthwhile these three accounts are, packaging, publicity, hype, order-taking, and litigation do not need you to think about it at all, you just need to make a good show, do a good job as a host and wait to collect money."

Rong Yilun worked very hard to sign Chen Baixiang, and in the future, 15 of the money Chen Baixiang made belonged to the company, and 5 belonged to him as an agent.

Now all aspects of the Oriental Entertainment Company have been institutionalized, and its newcomers and the company are divided into five accounts, which means that the salary for filming is 100,000, so the newcomer actors can only get 50,000, and the rest belongs to the company and the agent. And the artists who have become famous are basically three seven open, such as Chen Baixiang, who is very famous is two or eight open, and only when they reach the top level is one or nine accounts.

Don't look at the small share of the account, but this kind of star makes several times more money to the company than other actors, and now among the more than 400 signed artists of the Oriental Entertainment Company, there are no more than ten people who can share the account.

Chen Baixiang asked: "If I make money Oriental Entertainment, can I really play the second male lead in Mr. Kang's new film?"

Rong Yilun said with a smile: "Not only can I star in Mr. Kang's new film, but the semi-finals of the Miss Oriental beauty pageant will be held soon, if Mr. Chen signs early, maybe you can be the emcee in the semi-finals."

Chen Baixiang's eyes lit up, the ratings of Hong Kong's two major beauty contests are frighteningly high, and being the host of the two major competitions is an opportunity to show his face. It's a pity that Rong Yilun promised to be a semi-final, if he was to be the host in the beauty pageant finals, Chen Baixiang might have agreed immediately.

But it's impossible to think about it, no matter how famous he Chen Baixiang is, he is also a "newcomer" in the past when he jumps ship, and he snatches the position of "old man" all of a sudden, how hateful it is, it would be good to be able to host the beauty pageant semi-finals.

"I'll think about it again and give you an answer in three days." Chen Baixiang said that he is a little undecided now, and the treatment after changing jobs is very attractive to him, but the wireless station is also good to him, not to mention that he also has many friends who work in the wireless station.

"Of course you can, but Mr. Chen had better do his best, because Mr. Kang's new film is already in preparation, and maybe one day he will change his mind and change to other actors." After Rong Yilun finished speaking, he didn't persuade again, got up and said goodbye and left.

After Rong Yilun left, Chen Baixiang asked his wife: "Ah Xiu, do you think I should jump to Oriental Entertainment?"

"Jump, who doesn't want to leave TVB?" Huang Xingxiu said without thinking about it.

Huang Xingxiu was a TVB Hua Dan at about the same time as Chen Yulian, and later left TVB to make movies after the TV contract expired, and went to Taiwan for two years. After the decline of Taiwanese films, Huang Xingxiu returned to Hong Kong again to join TVB, but only filmed one TV series and retired due to injury.

TVB saw that Huang Xingxiu was popular again, and immediately wanted to make an appointment with her, but Huang Xingxiu chose to marry Chen Baixiang and be a full-time wife.

"Then jump." Chen Baixiang finally made a decision, he has only been married for two or three months, and now the economic pressure is huge, and it is a good thing to be able to make more money.

It is said that Chen Baixiang is also very business-minded, at the age of 20, he started with the 40,000 yuan he earned from singing at night and working in TVB, opened three garment factories in three years, was worth more than 10 million, and bought five luxury cars.

It's a pity that this guy was unlucky, and encountered the chaotic period of Hong Kong's economy during the Sino-British negotiations, and the factory closed down and owed a lot of debts, and even the money for filing for bankruptcy was borrowed from Alan Tam - it was still Alan Tam's purchase money.

With Chen Baixiang's ingenuity, in the years after going bankrupt, he not only paid off his debts, but also earned a net worth of millions. As a result, this gamble was too heavy, and last year's stock market crash once again made his savings negative, and now he is so busy all day that he almost can't even pay off the mortgage.

"Mr. Kang's new film still has a while, and now the main thing is to win the emcee of the beauty pageant semi-finals." Chen Baixiang said to his wife.

The emcee of the Miss Oriental beauty pageant is not only what Chen Baixiang wants to do, but also the other signed hosts of the Oriental Entertainment Company are also fighting for their heads, and the fierce competition is no less than the struggle between beauty pageants.

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