Chapter 253: Grand Opening
January 21, 1983 is a memorable day for the Hong Kong entertainment industry. Because just today, a professional brokerage company was established in Hong Kong.
In the past, Hong Kong people didn't know anything about brokerage companies or anything like that, but after a series of reports during this time, whether they were insiders or outsiders, they had a general understanding of such a company.
For outsiders, after having an agent company, the stars they like will help them plan in the future, whether they are traveling and dressing, signing meetings, or showing their futures, so that they will not appear in front of the public. It seems that it helps celebrities a lot, especially those who have a lot of popularity, and their fans are very optimistic about the agency to create their favorite stars.
For insiders, especially those who will be contracted, the establishment of the brokerage company proves that they have a new channel for money, as long as they act in accordance with the contract, the brokerage company will work hard to arrange suitable contracts for them. For example, although Chen Long has not officially signed a contract, Li Mingbao sent a team of people to Mitsubishi to help Chen Long fight for an endorsement contract. Looks pretty good.
Of course, there are also many insiders who are disappointed, especially those actors who are more miserable, when the plan of the agent company has not come out before, they still think that something good will find them, so they have always been very positive before.
But who knows that after the details of this company were revealed, they only realized their previous thoughts, which can only be said to be wishful thinking. Those who should hit the street are still hitting the street, and those who can really get benefits are still those top actors, and even the agency didn't mean to sign a newcomer at the beginning.
Of course, this so-called newcomer is not a person who has just debuted, but those who have worked hard in the circle for a year or two and have not yet come out. The real newcomers should actually be those who are still taking classes in the training class, and those who are halfway out of the house are not considered newcomers.
Li Mingbao has a plan to sign a newcomer, and for Li Mingbao, the contract that earns the most profit will undoubtedly be generated from the newcomer contract, and the top stars actually don't have much money to buy, because they will actively fight for their own interests. Especially for people like Zhou Run, who is holding the contract by himself, when he signed the contract with the brokerage company, the first contract was four or six open, Zhou Yan four, and the brokerage company six, which directly broke through the maximum value of the three-year contract for newcomers.
And even if it is four or six open, it is also the first year of the contract, and so on in the second year, Zhou Yan is still eligible to raise the price, as long as his profit reaches the standard in the previous year, then in the second year Zhou Run's contract will be converted into five or five points, and in the third year, it will be six or four points, until seventy-three, this is still when Zhou Yan did not get the international contract, if there is a contract in Europe and the United States, the highest contract that Zhou Yan can get will reach ninety-one, that is, earn ten yuan, Zhou Yan can get nine yuan.
In that case, the company has Zhou Run's contract, which actually brings quite limited benefits to the company, but because Zhou Run's signboard is loud, it is also indirectly promoting the company.
What really makes a lot of money is actually in the rookie contract, especially for people like Li Mingbao who know which people will come out in the future, the rookie contract is simply fat. It's a pity that when the agency company opened, there would be no newcomer contracts, and the contracts that could be confirmed were all relatively high-end contracts, at least first-line actors, and even second-tier actors had not yet negotiated contracts with the agency companies.
It's not that those actors are unwilling to sign a contract, after all, if they sign a contract, their own company won't say anything, and they can get benefits for nothing, they have no reason not to sign it. The reason why this situation occurs is entirely because the agent company is not well prepared, and there are not so many agents who can serve the actors.
Even an actor like Zhou Yan does not have his own independent team in the current brokerage company, and it can be seen from this that the personnel of the brokerage company are nervous.
Li Mingbao began to prepare for the establishment of a brokerage company very early, and he worked for several months for this. If ten years later, this industry is very good, then no matter how much Li Mingbao expands, there will be no problem at all, and there are a large number of practitioners in other places who can be used for Li Mingbao's selection.
But the problem is that there are a lot of agents in Hollywood, but those who can really provoke the big beams have good treatment over there, and the cost of Li Mingbao poaching people is too high, especially for Hong Kong, the cost is a big problem, and when Li Mingbao's profits are concerned, a large part of Li Mingbao's profits will flow into the pockets of those agents, rather than into Li Mingbao's pockets.
Although Li Mingbao's main purpose for making such a company is to control the film and television industry figures in Hong Kong, it is not that he does not intend to make money, if it is really a project that does not make money, Li Mingbao really does not want to get involved. Therefore, opening this company to control actors is one point, and making money is another point.
It obviously won't work to go directly to Hollywood to poach people. In addition, Li Mingbao, the brokerage company, has a new idea for the company's planning, even if it is the top agent over there, it is inevitable that he will have to retrain when he arrives at Li Mingbao's side. So the actual relationship between the quality of the personnel over there is not very big. But after all, the people over there have to pay dollars, and the price is high.
Instead of poaching people over there, it is better to dig people over there, and then train them here in Hong Kong, with people from Hollywood as the backbone, and newly recruited people from Hong Kong as seeds, and then use the old to bring the new to form combat effectiveness.
If Li Mingbao had a preparation time or two, then the company would definitely not lack professional personnel, even if it trained a large number of people by himself, it would be enough. But the problem is that if Li Mingbao really wants to make a difference in this industry, he must be fast, otherwise after being robbed by others, Li Mingbao's company may not be so popular. So when Li Mingbao began to prepare for the training of professional agents, he began to public relations with major film companies.
First let Yongsheng come out of the top cylinder, but who knows that Yongsheng spends money and doesn't do anything, of course, it's not that he doesn't do things at all, but he does relatively few things, and important things need to be solved by Li Mingbao himself. In this way, in order to avoid news leakage, Li Mingbao had to speed up his pace, and finally let the major film companies in Hong Kong relax, but when he turned his head, the training of agents was lagging behind.
Although the status of Li Mingbao's company in Hong Kong will not be shaken as long as the company is established, the consequence of inadequate preparation is that there is no shortage of qualified brokers to be trained. If you want to sign a rookie contract alone, then it is not difficult for an agent to manage several actors, or even more than a dozen actors are managed by one agent. But if Li Mingbao wants to make the company famous, the first batch to sign a contract must not be a newcomer, otherwise others will still be Li Mingbao's strength.
And top actors, and first-line actors, no matter how experienced the agent is, they can't manage more than one agent, unless this agent has a lot of agents to share the pressure for him, or just rely on one person, he can serve two or three actors at once, and they are already top talents.
After all, actors at this level, they have too many things to consider, unlike new actors, unless there happens to be news about you, under normal circumstances, there are not too many people to pay attention to you, so there is a lot of choice on various issues. But top actors, whether they are food, clothing, housing and transportation, or filming films, they all need to have a detailed process, and even when filming a film, how to increase their exposure is an esoteric knowledge.
In this regard, the actors on the side of the big 6 in later generations did quite perfectly, just like the Cannes International Film Festival, they didn't have anything to do with themselves at all. As a result, you have to spend your own money, and then go to Cannes to walk around in front of the red carpet, regardless of whether the security guard will stop you, first ask your own people to take a photo, and then others love it, if you are not driven away, then stand for a while, and if you are driven out, then stand for a while.
Anyway, when I return to China, I find a few familiar newspapers, and then talk about how I became amazing and popular in Cannes, which makes people feel unclear. Even if you are the only one in Cannes, you have to say that you are the center of attention. This is to increase exposure and enhance fame, without a professional team, you want to play like this alone, it is impossible at all.
Although Li Mingbao's current brokerage company has not failed to reach this point, it is only because of the lack of manpower, otherwise Li Mingbao would have put such a copying method in the company's articles of association.
There is a shortage of manpower, and there are not enough personnel to sign the newcomer contract, and Li Mingbao is both painful and a little secretly excited. The painful thing is that I have been preparing for many months, and in the face of such a new company, I also seem to be unprepared, which is a bit of a slap in the face. As for the excitement, it's very simple, that's because this time Li Mingbao's agent company is completely in a netting rhythm.
If you want to open this agency a few years later, do you think you can still let so many Hong Kong film companies send their own actors over? Not to mention Zhou Yan Chen Long, even if you can let others deduct a few second-tier actors from their own company, it is quite difficult, because no one likes to put their money in other people's pockets for no reason.
And now Li Mingbao is playing such a time gap, when those companies have not completely figured out how the agent company should operate, to monopolize the Hong Kong actor market, if anyone wants to enter this market in the future, it depends on whether Li Mingbao agrees or not.
Of course, no matter how excited and depressed Li Mingbao was, the Global International (Hong Kong) brokerage company officially opened the door at ten o'clock in the morning with a crackling firecracker.
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