"Mr. Chen, who do you plan to let play the role of Ma Xiaoling?"

In the ATV TV building, Xu Xiaoming, then senior vice president of ATV TV, found Chen Qiming and asked who would be the heroine of "I Have a Date with a Zombie".

Xu Xiaoming was not a manager at the beginning, he started martial arts in elementary school, and later became a martial arts instructor, and joined Lidi in 1973 and began to be a director.

Many of the classic ATV TV series in the memory of the post-80s generation were directed by him, and now he is definitely a master director.

Such as "Chameleon", "The Kindness of the Earth", "Huo Yuanjia", "Chen Zhen", "Huo Dongge", "Traveling to Tiger Mountain Again", "Chinese Husband" and so on, are all this director.

His status in ATV is equivalent to TVB's Wang Tianlin, and he has a high status in the company.

His wife Li Fengming worked as an administrator in a large organization in Hong Kong in the early days, and in order to prevent his wife from giving up his career, he became a father and gave up his career for many years.

This year, after Chen Qiming became the president of ATV, he carried out a major reshuffle of ATV's senior management, and Xu Xiaoming was also invited by Chen Qiming to come back as senior vice president.

Chen Qiming is looking at the planning book of "Idol of the Times".

This first project initiated by Chen Qiming after becoming the president of ATV has been in preparation for a long time, and it is about to enter the recording stage.

"I recommend Wan Qiwen, the first sister of the company."

Without thinking about it, Xu Xiaoming said his recommendation.

After a pause, he began to say the reason for his recommendation: "I read the script, the character of Ma Xiaoling in the play wears a short skirt for a long time and is a standard long-legged goddess.

And Wan Qiwen is known for her long-legged hot girls, and she is very suitable for this role. ”

As the only two TV stations in Hong Kong, it is not for nothing that ATV can compete with TVB.

TVB has a wireless training class, and there are Hong Kong sisters selected.

ATV also has ATV training classes and Miss Asia.

Wan Qiwen made her debut as Miss ATV Asia.

In 1989, she participated in Miss Asia and won the second runner-up, and immediately won the praise after signing with Asia Television.

In the same year, he participated in the first work "Driver Boss" and achieved success, and then starred in "Cello and Point 38", "The Winner is King", "Blue Blood and Blue Sky Pearl Flag" and other dramas, and became a first-line actress of ATV, known as "ATV's first sister".

During this period, she was basically arranged to perform in important dramas, and was regarded as a pillar of ATV, and was known as the golden boy and girl of ATV TV along with another pillar of ATV, Lu Songxian.

Chen Qiming put down the planning book in his hand and couldn't help but smile: "Your thoughts are actually the same as mine, and my plan is to let Wan Qiwen take this role." ”

"But ......," Chen Qiming stood up, "although I would like her to play the role, she may need to audition with other people." ”

"She still needs an audition?" Xu Xiaoming was stunned.

He really thought it was a little incredible.

Who is Wan Qiwen?

ATV's first sister! In recent years, there have been four or five popular TV series starring in not ten.

She is now the queen of ATV.

is such an existence, and now he actually has to audition.

"Because I will be the male lead of this drama, many actresses from the outside world want to appear in this drama.

Zhou Huimin and Qiu Shuzhen are interested in starring.

In addition, another actress of the company, Yang Caini, also intends to compete for this role.

You know, all three of them have a lot of work in the film industry, and they are A-list actresses in Hong Kong, and I need to consider their feelings. ”

Chen Qiming explained aloud.

Chen Qiming starred in "I Have a Date with a Zombie", which caused a stir in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Among them, it is not only the media that is paying attention to this TV series.

Even the actors.

Smart people know that Chen Qiming's appearance has made "I Have a Date with a Zombie" half of the success.

Maybe even more than half.

With "I Have a Date with a Zombie" almost certain that it will be a success, many actors naturally covet the characters in this play.

Especially the actresses.

After knowing that there is a heroine with a very heavy role in this play, many actresses have submitted resumes to the crew, and Mao recommended herself to appear in this TV series.

A large number of actresses want to star, and Chen Qiming is naturally not easy to choose directly.

At the very least, give these people a little face and let them audition.

"Qiu Shuzhen actually wants to act in this TV series? Didn't she catch Shen Jiawei's line? ”

Hearing that Qiu Shuzhen was on the list of people he wanted to play, Xu Xiaoming looked surprised.

Just last year, Qiu Shuzhen and Wang Jing parted ways.

When the two broke up, they once dominated the headlines.

As a result, not long after breaking up with Wang Jing, Qiu Shuzhen was rumored to be with Shen Jiawei, the boss of a Hong Kong fashion company.

Who is Shen Jiawei?

He is the second largest clothing boss in Hong Kong after Chen Qiming.

His IT company is currently worth 400 million Hong Kong dollars and is a well-known fashion and clothing company in Hong Kong.

Because of catching up with a billionaire, it was once rumored that Qiu Shuzhen was about to retire.

"I don't know, maybe I like acting!"

Chen Qiming said nonchalantly.

Actually, he probably knows why.

Although it has been rumored that Shen Jiawei does not like Qiu Shuzhen to show up, the actual situation is that the current Qiu Shuzhen and Shen Jiawei are just in love.

Qiu Shuzhen is not a fool, how could she retire before she has even returned.

If she retreats, what if Shen Jiawei doesn't want her?

Therefore, any smart woman will not retire immediately at this time, but will continue to be active in the entertainment industry to maintain her fame.

It wasn't until after marriage that you decided whether to really retire.

"You can arrange it here, send invitations to all actors who are interested in starring in "I Have a Date with a Zombie", and we will hold an audition party this Sunday."

This time the TV drama actors, Chen Qiming does not plan to directly decide, but plans to invite outstanding actors to audition by way of audition.

At the end, Chen Qiming suddenly spoke again: "By the way, I plan to give ATV's actors a long salary, what do you think?" ”

"Wage increase?" Xu Xiaoming was dumbfounded, "Big guy, you're not kidding?" ”

Raise wages!

Whoever says this will not surprise Xu Xiaoming, but a TV station boss like Chen Qiming will make him feel incredible.

It is said that TVB's Sir Shao is stingy.

In fact, ATV's previous boss Lin Baixin is also not inferior to him.

Why do many Hong Kong TV actors go to Treasure Island to act in TV dramas after they become popular in Hong Kong?

A big reason is that the two TV stations in Hong Kong are the same and never raise their salaries.

In order to make money, but after not getting the opportunity to act in movies, these people have to go to the treasure island with a higher film plan to develop.

In Xu Xiaoming's thoughts.

After Chen Qiming became the boss of ATV, in order to save expenses, he should continue to pay low wages to actors as usual.

Unexpectedly, he didn't expect that now Chen Qiming actually took the initiative to raise the actor's salary.

He thought it was incredible.

"Yes, a wage increase!" Chen Qiming nodded: "I have recently basically understood the company's operation mode.

The company's system is indeed huge, from the shooting team to the actors, to the military command to the logistics support, the company has everything.

This kind of big factory model is really cheap, but in my opinion, it is easy for companies to become complacent.

If you look at the TV stations in Baodao, they basically use the outsourcing system, outsourcing TV dramas to professional TV production companies.

A large number of TV drama production companies have emerged, which not only makes the industry fiercely competitive, but also makes good works emerge in endlessly.

My idea is that in the future, we ATV can also choose to outsource the project to other TV drama production companies, and we will only be responsible for broadcasting.

Of course, it is not a complete abandonment of independent production.

It's just that relatively speaking, it is necessary to give more opportunities to those TV drama production companies, which can better stimulate the industry and make the series more exciting.

As for the actor's salary, what I think is that if you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse grass.

In terms of cultivating newcomers, we can't compare to TVB.

But we can increase the salary and poach TVB's talents. ”

In fact, Lin Baixin has done this matter of raising salaries and poaching people.

In the early 90s, Lin Baixin had just acquired ATV.

At that time, ATV had been pressed by TVB for several years.

In order to fight TVB, but also to make itself stronger.

At that time, ATV set off a wave of poaching frenzy and poached a large number of talents directly from TVB.

Among them, there were many popular TVB actors at that time.

Speaking of poaching, Chen Qiming couldn't help asking: "Which actors in the TV industry are the most popular in the past two years?" ”

"A lot." Xu Xiaoming pondered for a moment and said: "TVB, Gu Tianle has a high popularity in the entire Chinese-speaking region with the role of Yang Guo, and he is one of TVB's trump cards.

Then there is Huang Rihua, who has just re-signed with TVB.

The other is Zhang Weijian, who became popular with "Monkey King", but it is said that he did not negotiate a contract with TVB and was sealed by TVB again.

Then there is Chen Haoming, his role as Duan Yu has been widely acclaimed, and recently he replaced Zhang Weijian as the Monkey King, which also has high ratings. ”

"Zhang Weijian?" Chen Qiming's eyes lit up, "Send someone to contact him." ”

Xu Xiaoming hesitated, "Zhang Weijian has a bad reputation, and it is said that the reason why he was banned by TVB was because of the fire of "Monkey King", and he took the opportunity to raise the price, so he was banned by TVB.

Moreover, you should have heard about him before, and the fat cat is also his benefactor, but because the company can't pay for the debt, he sued him, we ......"

Without waiting for him to finish, Chen Qiming directly interrupted him.

"Let's not talk about his character, what I value is his ability, as long as the drama he plays is watched, why not raise his salary?

Moreover, when people act, they have to be paid, which is a matter of course, and the fat cat itself is not authentic.

The company's debts are the company's business, what does it have to do with him as an actor, and he actually used other people's chips without authorization. ”

Zhang Weijian's reputation in Hong Kong circles is not very good.

This is mainly because he fell out with his owner twice because of money.

The first time was in 93 when he sued the fat cat for wage arrears, which caused a stir and became big news for a while.

Although the outside world has been criticizing Zhang Weijian with this incident, in fact, in Chen Qiming's opinion, there is really nothing wrong with this matter.

Back then, the fat cat Zheng Zeshi saw that others made a lot of money investing in film and television companies, and he was also moved to open a company with his friends.

But the film company is not so easy to run, and within a few years, he lost all his money due to investment failure.

What's even worse is that his friend saw that the situation was not good, so he secretly absconded with the money, leaving Zheng Zeshi with 80 million arrears.

Because there were too many arrears, Zheng Zeshi was unable to repay them for a while.

In order to repay his debts, he privately stacked Zhang Weijian's 2 million remuneration for acting, and dragged it out to Zhang Weijian for various reasons.

In the end, Zhang Weijian could only sue Zheng Zeshi in court after several failed attempts to ask for money.

Subsequently, Zheng Zeshi publicly accused Zhang Weijian of taking revenge, exaggerating, and misinterpreting Zhang Weijian's complaint as Zhang Weijian did not know how to repay his kindness and returned the favor to take revenge.

This incident once made Zhang Weijian's reputation fall to the bottom.

And the second time Zhang Weijian fell out with his old club because of money was last year.

In 1996, Zhang Weijian became popular because of the release of records on Treasure Island, and was selected as one of the top ten idols of Treasure Island, and then was invited by TVB to come back to shoot the TV series "Monkey King".

After the broadcast of this TV series, the ratings reached an astonishing 40% and became a hit.

After the TV series became popular, as an actor, it is natural to hope that the salary will rise.

This kind of thing is what all actors are doing, and after the first work of the starring role becomes popular, the second part will inevitably ask for a salary increase, which is not strange in the industry.

As we all know, it is very difficult for TVB actors to add a chicken leg.

Not to mention a wage increase.

Therefore, Zhang Weijian's move was naturally inevitably rejected.

Moreover, he was also directly pointed at his head and scolded by TVB's senior management, "If you have no hair on your face, then you are worthless." ”

This sentence really broke Zhang Weijian's heart.

Because at that time, Zhang Weijian played the Monkey King in Monkey King, and his face was covered with monkey hair.

From the perspective of TVB's senior management, he may think that he is just a monkey, and whoever sticks monkey hair is acting, so he pointed at Zhang Weijian and scolded such words.

Because of this scolding, Zhang Weijian directly shaved his head, and he was bound to be Zhang Weijian, who was worth money without hair.

"I see." Xu Xiaoming nodded, "Zhang Weijian's contract with TVB ended in the second half of last year, and he seems to have gone to Treasure Island recently.

However, it is said that the development is not too good.

I'll contact him here to see if he'll come back. ”

"Forget it, you don't need to contact, I'll contact him." Chen Qiming thought for a while and said.

Zhang Weijian still has a lot of contact with him.

Chen Qiming's first movie "Truant Biography" starred Zhang Weijian.

At that time, the two of them could talk quite well in the crew.

Later, the two also kept in touch often.

Moreover, Chen Qiming felt that if he called in person, Zhang Weijian should be more likely to believe that ATV was willing to give him a chance.

"You go and deal with the 'I Have a Date with a Zombie'! Remember to tell Wan Qiwen and let her come for the interview as well.

You can tell her vaguely that the character is still her, just let her go through the motions. Chen Qiming explained.

Waiting for Xu Xiaoming to leave, Chen Qiming thought about it and called Zhang Weijian directly.

(End of chapter)