Broadcast Road in a high-end apartment.

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 visit 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 Oriental Entertainment's share has decreased, but that the actors who ran out and flew solo suffered losses.

In the first half of this year, the output of Hong Kong films reached another peak, with an average of more than 8 films released every month, and sometimes even 12 films released a month. With such a terrifying production volume, there is a huge 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 for more than half a year by skipping tickets. 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 will waste a few months of time and energy, and they will earn more than that. What's even more unfortunate is to encounter the underworld/will be the producer. It's good 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 the disharmony between relatives and friends, not only did they not make money. I don't even have to be a good friend.

If it is signed with Oriental Entertainment Company, it will be different, 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 the beginning, I still negotiated with the gang members, and in the end, Oriental Entertainment Company didn't spend that much time and directly paid for the actors' salaries. And then blacklist that film company, and the entire core team members of that show, from the director, to the cinematographer, to the makeup artist. These people don't want to take orders from Oriental Entertainment Company in the future.

The most ruthless thing is that Oriental Entertainment Company also announced this blacklist, which made everyone in the entertainment industry known, so that these people were isolated and couldn't get along. I had to 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 weren't forcible to do so, there would be no director willing to cooperate with the club to make a movie, and even if he wanted to make a film, he would first get the salary funds in place, or simply not invite the signed artists of Oriental Entertainment Company.

Oriental Entertainment Company is the nanny of the artists, as long as they are signed under the banner of Oriental Entertainment, the 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 the dinner everywhere.

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

Oriental Entertainment has also absorbed some of CAA's successful experiences, such as "betrayal costs" or something, so that when the company's agent leaves, he can't take 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, and maybe one day you will have the opportunity to take over 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, and 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 star when it feels that it has potential, and when a star has a scandal, 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, and photographers, the number of signed artists registered by Oriental Entertainment Company has reached 412, and there is a shortage of professional agents in the short term.

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 poach 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 isn't the division of '28 open' a little 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-seven, only Fa Ge and Honggu are nineteen-open. 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 lawsuits don't 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 for the money. ”

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

Now that all aspects of the Oriental Entertainment Company have been institutionalized, the newcomers and the company are divided into five and a half, that is to say, 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 or 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 points.

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. ”

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 events is an opportunity to show his face. It's a pity that Rong Yilun promised the semi-finals, if he was 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 will snatch the position of "old man" all of a sudden, how hateful it is, it would be good to be able to host the semi-finals of the beauty pageant.

"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 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 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 if they have the opportunity and ability?" Huang Xingxiu said without thinking about it.

Huang Xingxiu was a TVB Hua Dan at 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 sign a long-term contract 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, had a net worth of 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, 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 bankruptcy, he not only paid off his debts, but also earned a net worth of millions. As a result, this gambling is too heavy, and last year's stock market crash once again turned his savings into negative numbers, 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 the most important thing now 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 the other signed hosts of Oriental Entertainment Company are also fighting for their heads, and the fierce competition is no less than the struggle between beauty pageants. (To be continued......)