Chapter 252: The First Step to Build a Superstar
Therefore, this on-site signing ceremony has multiple roles for Li Mingbao. The first role is to let the outside world see the strength of the brokerage company, what is the strength? In Hong Kong, if you don't say you're very powerful, then you're very powerful.
Strength is something that needs to be recognized by everyone in order to be considered your real strength, otherwise, others will never care about the strength you say. And the best way for an agency to show its strength is to let others see which famous artists are under their company.
There is no way to fake such a thing. After all, who is signed by your company, others know that if you have to sign a third-rate actor as a first-class actor, you are slapping yourself in the face, and you won't have to mix in this industry in the future.
Li Mingbao naturally has no such concerns, with the support of the three companies of the Shaw Brothers Golden Harvest Golden Princess, Li Mingbao can get his hands on the characters, there are really not too many. If it weren't for the fact that there can't be too many kings and queens, which affects the price, the actors who signed the show on the spot would definitely not be a small number.
And at this signing ceremony, the person who is marked will become a benchmark, and Li Mingbao will have to praise them for at least a few years, so this person needs to be carefully selected. But there are a few people, Li Mingbao will never let go.
For example, the Xu brothers, maybe many people born in the 90s don't know them very well, but in fact, their brothers are quite awesome now. Wenwu Yingjie, except for Xu Guanwu, who is behind the scenes, the other three people are all in front of the stage. When it comes to scenery, they are the most beautiful at this time, Xu Guanwen is the most famous comedy star in Hong Kong before Zhou Xingchi, and the title of cold-faced laugher is definitely not given for nothing.
From 1974 to 1981, his films won the box office of the year five times. When filming comedies this year, the first thing that comes to mind is Xu Guanwen. He has won the Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor once, six Academy Award Actor nominations, two Best Screenplay nominations, one Golden Horse Award for Best Director, and an Italian Lifetime Achievement Award.
Looking at such an award-winning experience, you can know that Xu Guanwen is definitely not an idol, but a real strength. If only Xu Guanwen is famous among their brothers, then it will be fine, but as long as they are in front of the stage, they basically mix quite well. Xu Guanwen is good enough, but his younger brother Xu Guanjie is even better. In the long history of Hong Kong, there are actually only two singers who are truly recognized by the public, one is Zhang Xueyou, and the other is Xu Guanjie.
Even Tan Yonglin has never received such a title, and his brother Zhang Guorong also does not have it, and the titles used are all other titles. Although it cannot be said that the popularity of these two bigwigs is completely inferior to Xu Guanjie and Zhang Xueyou, but judging from the title, it is clear that there is indeed a gap between them, otherwise, there are not only two famous singers in Hong Kong, but four.
Compared with his brother Xu Guanwen, who emerged on TV, Xu Guanjie, as the fourth brother, his focus is on the music industry, and he has won awards since 75 years until 2005, and in 30 years, he has won 27 individual awards. This is still an award that has gradually retired since the 90s, which is basically equivalent to one award a year. The title of the god of song is absolutely worthy of the name. At least if he is in this year, or even three or four years later, if he competes with Zhang Guorong on the same stage, then he will definitely get more flowers than his brother Zhang Guorong.
Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie are the two best mixed among the four brothers, but the other two brothers are not too badly mixed, Xu Guanying can be regarded as the gold medal supporting actor in Hong Kong supernatural movies, as long as he is acting in this type of movie, the box office is quite good. This is still something that started in the 80s, and in the 70s before, Xu Guanying was a big name who acted in movies and released records. In the end, except for Xu Guanwu, who was behind the scenes, was a little worse, and the other three brothers all mixed quite well.
These brothers can definitely represent a certain part of Xiàn's top film and television circle in Hong Kong. So except for Xu Guanwu behind the scenes, the other three, Li Mingbao all signed a contract. Of course, there are only two of the four brothers who can enjoy the on-site signing, Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie, as for Xu Guanying, it is still a little worse, although he is a gold medal supporting role, but he is not a golden partner like Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda, so there is no such treatment, but because they are brothers, although they can't show their faces on stage at the same time, but in terms of contract, Li Mingbao also gave great preferential treatment.
No, no, these brothers' contracts are in their own hands these years, without the company's exploitation, Li Mingbao doesn't mind being generous.
In addition to the Xu brothers, the actors who were able to sign contracts on the spot, there were Chen Long, Hong Jinbao, and Yuan Biao on the Golden Harvest side (Yuan Biao's box office in Japan at this time was higher than Chen Long). As for the actresses, there is none.
The people who can sign the contract on the spot on the Shaw Brothers are Zhou Yan (although Zhou Run's movie contract is actually in his own hands, except for some trouble in the TV series, Zhou Yan can now be regarded as a free man), Zhao Yazi and Zhong Chuhong. As for the other actors, Li Mingbao really doesn't know who he can sign.
Although Li Mingbao is the most coveted for Shaw Brothers' resources, the problem is that there are really not many actors who can get Shaw Brothers at this time, and it happens to be in a situation where there is a shortage of talents, so that even if Li Mingbao wants to sign someone, there are no two people on the Shaw Brothers side who are qualified to sign a contract. Although at this time, among the actors, Zhou Xingchi, Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, Huang Qiusheng and so on. Among the actresses, Liu Jialing, Zhang Manyu, Zeng Daqian and other beauties are now also studying in wireless.
But the problem is that these people haven't come out at all, although the characters above will be in the industry in the future, but now their status is actually not much better than curry coffee, even if Li Mingbao has the heart to praise people, it is impossible to praise people who have no status to the sky, right? That is completely killing these actors, there is no benefit, but there are a lot of disadvantages.
So the people who can sign contracts on the wireless side are quite embarrassing, it seems that the number of people they have signed is about the same as that of Golden Harvest, and it is also three, but how many talents are available on the wireless side, and how many people can be used on the Golden Harvest side? As long as you are a person who understands, you know what such a signing rate means for wireless.
Even when Li Mingbao gave this contracted person to the sixth uncle, the sixth uncle complained that Li Mingbao didn't get two more? They have so many talents, but Li Mingbao just chose three people who have a lot to do with him, isn't this partiality?
Li Mingbao didn't want to be partial, but after seeing the people recommended by the sixth uncle, Li Mingbao felt that if he wasn't partial, he was really digging a hole for himself. The actors that the sixth uncle said were able to sign contracts on the spot, Li Mingbao was most familiar with only Jiang Dawei and Di Long, and even the sixth uncle pulled Li Xiuxian out in order to make up the numbers, God knows whether Li Xiuxian made more movies or made more TV, such people are pulled over, and the sixth uncle does not dislike him for not being famous enough?
As for Jiang Dawei and Di Long, Li Mingbao remembered that these two people were going to sweat. These two people are indeed very popular, even red to purple, but they are all old yellow calendars, at least in the past two years, there are very few people who like to watch them make old martial arts movies. In addition, these two buddies who were originally good enough to wear a pair of pants have now parted ways for a long time, even if Li Mingbao creates a combination, these two people may not buy it.
Di Long is still slightly better, and recently relied on "The True Color of Heroes" to turn over as a salted fish, completely undiminished the prestige of the year, saying that being the protagonist is being the protagonist. However, due to the fact that Di Long's potential is not great, he is already an old actor, and it is difficult to sign a direction if he wants to tap his potential, unlike Zhou Yan, whose career is on the rise, although he is also an old actor, but the older he gets, the more valuable he is.
As for Jiang Dawei, it is a complete tragedy now, if he could be regarded as a popular student two years ago, then even if he is an uncle in the past two years, he has no part in it, which is basically equivalent to a shadow. In the 80s, he also made several movies, but as soon as the 80s passed, there was no role for him for several years, which was even worse than Di Longlai.
At least Di Long can be regarded as a salted fish turned over, and he is now completely a salted fish, his previous popularity has been completely lost, and there is no new movie to create a role. In another two years, maybe only insiders will know that there is such a character.
Such a person, how could Li Mingbao be willing to give face to the sixth uncle and let them sign a contract on the spot. That's just making yourself uncomfortable. Li Mingbao doesn't know how much effort it takes to build these people with a lot of money, because there are not too many of them in history at all, and it is too difficult to support these people, even if they are praised, it is the sixth uncle who makes a lot of money in the end, and Li Mingbao doesn't have much money at all.
So no matter how the sixth uncle coerced and lured, Li Mingbao still only opened three people for the sixth uncle. Because Li Mingbao feels that the wireless side is qualified to sign a contract now, it seems that except for these three, there is really no one else, and the other people, either old or small, are completely out of line with this grade.
Although Li Mingbao has always felt that the number of signed actors is larger, and it seems that the company's strength is stronger, but after the selection, Jiahe chose three people, and Shaw Brothers also chose three people, and the last New Art City seems to be no exception, otherwise some people will say favoritism. So on the side of the new art city, Li Mingbao also chose three people to sign the contract, Zeng Zhiwei had a chance to come to power, and Li Mingbao was also optimistic about him, but because there were already three giants on the side of the new art city, it would be more difficult to add another Zeng Zhiwei, plus Zeng Zhiwei was also transforming into a director recently, so in the end, Zeng Zhiwei had to give up.
The three major companies, three people in each company, are quite balanced, plus some singers, Anita Mui, Chen Baiqiang, Lin Tsaixiang, fifteen people, basically half of them have sung, and they all have a bit of a noisy taste.
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