While Xie Shutong was narrating, Yang Chun and Cen Yulu listened quietly and enjoyed the food and wine.
There is actually quite a distance between Beijing Foreign Studies University and the entertainment industry. Even if some senior students go out to make quick money, there is a social level between them and the stars in the entertainment industry!
Because, don’t look at the small and medium-sized actors who are shouting that they don’t make money, which is equivalent to big stars. For ordinary people, they still make money. For example, if you take a movie with three or four roles, maybe half
If it's done in a month, you'll get four to five million.
Mr. Xie couldn't help but interjected: "Lao Jing, don't rush to let Shutong continue to complain. With the current state of the entire industry, your method of training newcomers doesn't seem to be working? The audience doesn't recognize the newcomers' faces.
Phoenix Films now has theaters under its name, as well as the Internet portal iQiyi, but what about the TV stations? How can you sell so many movies and TV series you produce?"
He was somewhat curious.
The entertainment industry!
The level of his current circle of friends is slowly rising. Because his father Xie Wangzhen is in charge of one of the top five real estate developers in the country: Xia Shang Real Estate. Even though his father is only a manager and holds a small amount of equity incentives, he and Vanke
Like Yu Liang, the resources controlled by this identity are huge.
In the circle of the younger generation of second-generation ancestors in the capital, except for the circle of children of aristocratic families, he is almost a second-tier rich young man.
In fact, if we want to talk about chaos, the entertainment industry, such as the financial industry, the capital industry, and the rich second-generation circles are all in chaos. Maybe industries with a large number of handsome men and beautiful women, or industries with high incomes and high consumption are also in chaos.
Friends in the entertainment circle occasionally taste the quality of seafood and bring them out to attend the small stars in the entertainment industry. But most of them are Internet celebrities. As for the kind of popular actresses, their circle can eat a lot of them.
many.
He is still very interested in the star-making mechanism. Maybe he can recommend the girl next to him later.
Jing Gao said with a smile: "I really don't know the details of selling a drama. Let Shutong explain it to us first." As he said that, he looked at Xie Shutong, who was bright and majestic across the round dining table.
Xie Shutong looked at her brother with disdain. She was still very familiar with her brother's virtues and said sharply: "Brother, you want to ask how a little girl gets into the industry and how she develops after becoming a star, right?"
Xie An smiled and raised his right hand to deny Sanlian. His current girlfriend Zou Ruoya was sitting next to him and said: "I didn't, I'm not, don't think nonsense."
"Giggle..." Several girls laughed again. Young Master Xie had clearly guessed what he was thinking.
Jing Gao couldn't help but laugh. He had a position before to persuade Mr. Xie to restrain himself, but now he has no position at all. Wasn't the reason why Zhang Jiazhen's incident happened was the photo of him and An Xiaoqian?
Thinking of An Xiaoqian, the famous and beautiful mature woman, Jing Gao suddenly missed her a little. He didn't know how she was doing in Shencheng, and how her relationship with An Yi was handled. This was all his "karma"!
In his relationship with another beautiful mature woman, Zhang Ting, the moral responsibility was borne by Zhang Ting. She took the initiative to seduce him. At the time, he said no, because his body couldn't bear it. In the end, he couldn't hold it back. But with Xiao Qian
This bond was completely his fault! He carried Xiao Qian to the bedroom very forcefully and had sex with her. Of course, Xiao Qian did not resist, but willingly and obediently gave it to him.
Xie Shutong ignored his brother's excuse, turned to Jing Gao, and said: "Brother Jing, what we are currently implementing is a model of selling dramas with one drama, two stars + Internet platform. Based on the output of our Phoenix Films in TV dramas, in fact, more than half of them are sold every year
The dramas are backlogged.
Especially now that traffic stars are very popular. When TV stations buy dramas, they have to have traffic to buy them. When Phoenix Films sells dramas, they also negotiate with various satellite stations, local stations, and Youaiteng.
For example, a costume idol drama that I worked as a producer before had a production cost of 15 million, which was considered very sophisticated. I left a sufficient budget for the service. But because there were no stars to join, I borrowed the Phoenix Films brand
, bought two satellite TV stations and Tencent, and sold them for a total of 8 million. They were sold at a loss. The company's profits were made up from the contracts with actors' agents.
I'm doing pretty well. I've finally sold the drama. My colleagues have a lot of dramas that are backlogged and can't be sold.
Brother Jing, this is actually the third question I want to talk about. When we producers produce a drama, we need the company to make up for it from other places. This means that although we producers have authority and status, we have no salary or benefits.
It is completely incompatible, let alone compared with actors. In the past year or so since I changed careers, I have seen a large number of knowledgeable people leaving. This has further reduced the quality of the producer team and further affected the creation of film and television dramas."
"Yeah." Jing Gao nodded thoughtfully, asked the waiter to bring a pen and paper, and wrote down all three suggestions made by Xie Shutong. First, it is very difficult for producers to attract investment. Moreover, TV dramas are more difficult than movies.
.Even if he is willing to do projects like "crowdfunding for film and television copyrights" in an upright manner. Secondly, the power of producers is restricted by the stars. This makes them uncomfortable, and stars are difficult to manage. Thirdly, the efforts and rewards of producers
It's not proportional. It's hard to sell a drama.
Seeing that Jing Gao was serious, Xie Shutong stood half-standing, leaned over and looked around, and couldn't help but said: "Brother Jing, let me make one more opinion, it's just my personal feeling. Are you not stipulating that there will no longer be unspoken rules within Phoenix Film and Television?
We also don’t accept the business of artists accompanying us for drinks. However, this cannot be prohibited at all.
When a producer goes out to solicit investment, it's better for me to tell him my father's name. At most, he will be asked to drink a few glasses of wine. Some producers are not treated like this. Then, more often they will be asked to take over the company.
I can't stand it when celebrities, especially stars who play this drama, go out for drinks. Who is a serious person willing to do pimping?
I really hope you can solve this problem of soliciting investment. At least not on such a large scale! Our producers at Phoenix Film and Television don’t have a good reputation outside now. If you ask for it, there are performance requirements and beggars.
Almost. It’s not like I have a high-quality project and recommend it to my clients.
In the past two years since I entered the industry, my mentality has become older.
Brother Jing, just now you mentioned that you need to cultivate new talents on a large scale. If you really create a large number of artists and become extremely involved, I suspect that our circle will eventually follow the old path of Korea.
After being rolled up, the boss of the agency takes the artist to drink with the executives of the production company that controls the capital and the company that controls the distribution channels. If you don't accompany them with drinks, you can't get ahead. In fact, the people who buy movies for TV stations are middle-aged and older women now.
So it was the actor who went to drink with her."
Jing Gao could feel the ideological struggle contained in Xie Shutong's words. He looked at her with pity and said, "Shutong, I will change everything."
After saying that, he got up, walked to the railing of the second floor terrace, bathed in the autumn sunshine, called his assistant Feng Wan, and asked: "Wanwan, is Phoenix Film and Television organizing teacher Wang Hailin today?"
Are their writers discussing increasing the status of writers in production?”
"Brother Jing, yes." Feng Wan said in a gentle voice, as tender as water. Brother Jing accompanied her and Zheng Xiaobing last night, which made them very happy. Now her heart is filled with his presence.
Jing Gao said: "I will go there in the afternoon to attend. Please inform Fang Shaofan."
"Okay. Brother Jing..., brother, I miss you." Feng Wan said softly on the phone, her tone of voice was gentle and tender.
Jing Gao couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. Wanwan is such a beauty. He said warmly: "Wanwan, come to Phoenix Film and Television to have this meeting with me."
"Um."
Jing Gao smiled slightly, hung up the phone of the gentle and beautiful lady, walked back to the dining table, and said: "Well, young master, I can't chat with you in the afternoon. Shutong, we will go to the headquarters of Phoenix Film and Television to attend a meeting later.
At the meeting, discuss some issues and try to deal with them as much as possible."