The next day, just in time for Sunday, there was a group of seven meeting.

In the morning, Xu Guanwu first found the eldest brother, third brother, and fourth brother to discuss the adjustment of salary.

Whether it is the Xu Brothers Company or the Superstar Manager Company, there are many more personnel than before the earliest. The original compensation system could not motivate employees more, so it was time to make adjustments.

Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanying, and Xu Guanjie also have little opinion on adjusting wages, the Xu brothers have been born in poor families since they were children, and their education is also to be poor and happy, and to be rich is safe, not to say that they must be billionaires and rich in the world.

What's more, the Xu Guanwen brothers originally made movies to satirize the rich and speak for the poor people, and they also regarded themselves as ordinary people in their bones, so they didn't particularly care about money. Especially in the last two or three years, the company has made a lot of money.

In particular, Xu Guanwu opened up the American market, and the films of the Xu Brothers Company sold in the past, and they all had a box office of several million US dollars, which was more than the total box office of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest in a year, so they also had the capital to pay more wages to employees.

"Second brother, is the salary increase generally increased by a few percent, or is it disposed of separately according to the different division of labor?" Xu Guanjie asked.

"Of course, it is handled separately according to the division of labor, and my suggestion is that the salary of the behind-the-scenes staff should be increased by 20%, and then the three more important jobs of screenwriting, editing, and dubbing will be divided according to the box office of the movie." Xu Guanwu proposed, "In addition, the original salaries of producers, directors, and leading actors remain unchanged, and they are also given the right to share the box office." ”

"How much is the right divide?" Xu Guanying asked, "If the behind-the-scenes workers of screenwriters, editors, and dubbing are as many as producers, leading actors, and directors." I'm afraid that these producers, directors, and leading actors will be unwilling. ”

"Screenwriter and editor are divided into one percent. The number of dubbing is a little larger. It's two percent. Xu Guanwu thought for a while and said, "The producer, the starring, and the director are three percent each." How about this distribution? ”

"In this case, they account for 13%, and we only account for 17% of our hard work and salary." Xu Guanjie said immediately.

"Yes, the margin of our concession is too big, if a drama has a box office of 300,000 Hong Kong, then we will get a total of 900,000 Hong Kong dollars. After removing the costs, we don't even make any money. Xu Guanwen shook his head and said, "And box office dividends are not easy to handle, especially like overseas box office." For example, in the United States, if a drama costs three million dollars, they can get hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. In this way, they will become millionaires and multimillionaires if they can't make a few films. When the time comes, as soon as the contract is terminated and we spread our wings and fly high, we will be empty. ”

"Yes, we make profits, but we can't make such a big margin." Xu Guanjie waved his hand. "In my opinion, it is only divided into Hong Kong's local box office, foreign box office or sales port copyright income. We will no longer be divided. ”

"Yes, what Ah SAM said makes sense, second brother, we can't suffer too much." Xu Guanying said, "The salary of other companies is not as high as ours, and we agree to share the box office in Hong Kong." ”

Xu Guanwu nodded when he heard this, the plan he had considered before was to refer to the style of Hollywood in the United States. Over there, both screenwriters, directors, producers, and actors can participate in the film's share, and the proportion is quite large.

Tom. Cruise received a huge dividend of hundreds of millions of dollars in one fell swoop with his share in "Shijie Wars", and Keanu Reeves also received a box office dividend of up to $300 million for his performance in "The Matrix", which sounds like a fantasy.

Let these staff in front of and behind the scenes participate in the film sharing, not only to reduce the investment cost of the film, but also to make it more cohesive, so that the staff can pay 100% of their hard work and efforts for their own interests.

However, when Xu Guanwu drafted the system, he forgot to refer to the current reality in Hong Kong. Not to mention the Shaw Brothers, who have long been dying and known for slamming the door, even Golden Harvest has not been generous to its employees.

Don't look at the information that says that Golden Harvest adopts the satellite company system, supports talented people to set up companies, gives them investment to make films, and participates in box office dividends, in fact, it is all a lie.

Many people who cooperated with Jiahe back then fell out when they came to Zuihou without exception. The reason is that Golden Harvest's box office account is a mess, and the films that originally had a very high overseas box office only had a few cents on the ledger.

Xu Guanwen has made so many blockbuster films for Golden Harvest, and he has received a pitiful share of the box office. The trouble was so much that Zuihou asked Chen Jieying to go to Golden Harvest to check the account books in person.

Hong Jingbao is even more pitiful, he has stayed in Golden Harvest for at least ten years, and it stands to reason that the eighties are definitely more beautiful than Cheng Long, "Five Lucky Stars" series, "Rich Train", "Ajihua", "Overlord Flower" series, "Mr. Zombie" series, "Ghost Fight" series, etc., are all blockbuster films, with a box office of more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

It is said that he can eat and drink without worrying about relying on box office dividends alone, but the reality is that Hong Jingbao is a lot older, and he still has to fight for life and death on the screen, huh? ! It's because Golden Harvest's dividend bill is a mess, and many blockbuster movies don't pay any dividends.

Hong Jingbao did not tear his face at the time, but in retrospect, he was still indignant.

In addition to Xu Guanwen and Hong Jingbao making a lot of unhappiness when they left Jiahe, Wang Jing also made a lot of conflicts when he left Jiahe. There are many blockbuster films directed by Wang Jing, such as "The Ten Tortures of the Manchu Dynasty", etc., which have not had a penny at the box office in Taiwan, the main grossing market for Hong Kong films. After Zuihou's accounting, Wang Jing owed Golden Harvest more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

Wang Jing is not a kind person like Xu Guanwen and Hong Jingbao, and he will suffer a loss if he suffers, after all, he has had the friendship of guests and hosts before, so he didn't make too much noise after leaving. But Wang Jing was very angry, just in time for the demolition of the original Axe Hill Road set of Golden Harvest, and the government specially prepared another piece of land for Golden Harvest in Tseung Kwan O in order to make up for Golden Harvest's losses.

However, although this land is for Jiahe, it cannot be given clearly due to the view, so a bidding meeting was held, but the conditions set were very harsh, and it was clearly designed according to Jiahe's template.

Wang Jing naturally didn't want Jiahe to stand on this big bargain. So one company was not qualified enough, so I recruited a few more companies to bid together. Finally, the tiger snatched the land of Tseung Kwan O. The loss of Jiahe's own cinema is equivalent to the Red Army losing its base. All of a sudden, even the foundation was gone, and the whole company quickly collapsed.

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After listening to the brothers' explanations, Xu Guanwu also knew that he had set the share too high, so he also referred to Xu Guanjie's opinion, and only considered the local box office in Hong Kong, and the overseas box office was all owned by the company.

In this way, in fact, the employees are not less scored, and a drama has a box office of millions. At least tens of thousands of dollars can be distributed, which was already considered a high income at that time, not to mention the basic salary.

After determining the standard of salary, Xu Guanwu put forward the film planning system he thought about.

The so-called film planning system is to make a systematic plan for the number of films to be filmed each year, the type of films, and the release time in advance, so as to avoid the situation of the same type of films being staged together.

In fact, if a movie like "Loser" is not competing with "Lu Acai and Wong Fei Hung" during the Spring Festival, the box office is likely to exceed 3 million Hong Kong dollars, reaching the level of 4 million or 5 million.

And like "Li Sanjiao's Shock Hell Gate" was released together with "Drunken Fist". is also implicated because it is also a kung fu comedy, otherwise it is still okay to have a box office of more than one million.

Therefore, the film planning mechanism was introduced in advance. lest your own film rush the schedule, hit your right hand left and right, and zuihou will suffer from herself.

In fact, a similar system has been implemented in Hollywood for a long time, and although the eight major film companies are in competition, they actually meet every year to discuss the issue of film production.

This year I want to make a few action movies, a few aiqing films, a few song and dance films, and a few science fiction films...... When will it be released and who will star...... There is roughly a plan, the purpose is to avoid a crash caused by the release of movies of the same genre, and no movie in Zuihou will get a high box office.

Hollywood movies generally have high investments, and once they fail at the box office, the production company will face extremely serious problems. So everyone wants to minimize the risk factor, and no one wants to go bankrupt because of a big investment movie that fails at the box office.

Xu Guanwu implemented the film planning system, in fact, there is another important purpose, that is, to find an opportunity to promote it, so that Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers and other film companies are included in the planning.

This can not only avoid car crashes between companies and movies of the same type, but also curb the problem of malicious followers.

If Hong Kong's major cinema companies form an alliance, all companies that dare to violate the planning system will not be allowed to release films in Hong Kong, and at least 70 or 80 percent of the film companies will be suppressed.

Of course, this is still a long-term ideal, and now not only will Shaw Brothers not talk to him, but even Golden Harvest will not accept Xu Guanwu's suggestion.

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After listening to Xu Guanjie's suggestion, the three Xu Guanwen brothers reacted very differently. Xu Guanying thinks that this is a good idea, and if it is implemented according to the plan in the future, then the company can run very carefully like a gear.

However, Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanwen disagreed, and the opinion they gave was that filming a movie is an artistic creation, not assembling a car in an automobile factory, and it will be completed in a few hours. Sometimes you can shoot several scenes a day, but sometimes you can't find the feeling for half a month, and you can only wait there to run-in.

Therefore, it is stipulated that it will be completed in a few days and a few days, and it will not be possible at all when it will be released, and it is purely a layman to guide an insider. The quality of the film is simply not high.

Xu Guanwu didn't expect that he would propose so much, but he was rejected by the eldest brother and fourth brother so much, and said that he would be a layman to guide an insider, and he couldn't help but be a little depressed, "Then don't set the rules on when and when the filming will be completed, but when it will be released after the filming is completed, it also needs to be planned separately." ”

"That's okay, so that movies of the same type are not released together, and it will also avoid the problem of rushing the schedule." Xu Guanjie nodded.

"And the number of types of films shot each year should still be planned in advance, so as to avoid too many similar films being released in a year, which will lower the audience's desire to watch movies." Xu Guanwu said again.

"But if there is a haode movie theme, if we don't make it, other film companies will do it. Won't someone else rob the money then? Xu Guanying asked.

"Yes, take the Gulong movie that our company is making now as an example, if we stipulate to make two Gulong movies this year, and the one before the year was very popular, everyone is crazy to follow the trend and rush to shoot. If we still insist on two films a year, won't the money be made by others? And if there were too many Gulong movies released that year, which made the audience sick to their stomachs, we made two more Gulong movies the next year, but they still couldn't sell at the box office. Xu Guanjie also gave an example.

"It's useless for us to do this by ourselves, unless we bring together Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Xieli, First Pictures, these large and medium-sized film companies, and make a unified plan." Xu Guanwen also said.

"They won't agree to this jihua, anyway, as long as they have money, they will go up, so they don't care what they plan or not." Xu Guanjie waved his hand and said, "If the Gulong movie really sells millions of box office, it is strange that they are willing to abide by the rules and not shoot it." (To be continued......)