From being a host at Phoenix TV to starring in a TV series and two popular movies, Zhou Xingchi saved more than 300,000 yuan in savings. However, Zhou Xingchi's family still lives in an old house. He is planning to save another year to buy a house to manage and buy a car for himself.
Zhou Xingchi is quite introverted and can speak eloquently when he is a host. He is taciturn as soon as he leaves work. After several years, he has made friends with Mao Shunyun and Wu Mengda.
If it weren't for Wu Mengda who forced him to play cards today, Zhou Xingchi would have been staying at home and watching TV alone. He felt that he was not familiar with Zhang Guorong and Anita Mui, so there was nothing to communicate with.
After playing cards for several hours, it was almost dark, Anita Mui kept them at home for dinner, but Zhou Xingchi insisted on going back.
Wu Mengda had no choice but to drive Zhou Xingchi home. The Chinese New Year will be held tomorrow, and it is difficult to take a taxi at this time.
Zhou Xingchi's family only has his mother, an older sister and a younger sister. As for his father, when he was a child, his parents divorced after Zhou Xingchi said something. At that time, Zhou Xingchi said to his mother: "I saw my father hugging a woman in the cinema..."
"Axing, there is a gentleman looking for you. He has been waiting at home for a long time." Zhou Xingchi just returned home when he heard his mother Ling Bao say.
Zhou Xingchi was a little troubled by the reporter during this period and said in a low voice: "Mom, why are you leaving people at home?"
Ling Bao helped Zhou Xingchi take slippers out, pointed to the living room and said, "It's a person from Jiahe Film, and it seems to be a big shot."
What are the people from Jiahe doing?
Zhou Xingchi doesn’t think that Jiahe is here to poach people, because the penalty for digging him is too high, and even Zhou Xingchi feels that he is not worth the price.
Cai Yongchang was sitting in the living room drinking tea, and from time to time he gave some stories from the movie circle to Zhou Xingchi's sister. As for Zhou Xingchi's sister, she was married.
Seeing Zhou Xingchi come in, Cai Yongchang stood up and shook hands with Zhou Xingchi and said, "Mr. Zhou, I'm so embarrassed to take the liberty to bother you."
"Are you?" Zhou Xingchi didn't know which character Cai Yongchang was.
"I am Jiahe Cai Yongchang." Cai Yongchang handed him a business card.
Zhou Xingchi took a business card and then put it in his pocket, asking, "Is there anything wrong with Mr. Cai looking for me?"
Cai Yongchang smiled and said, "That's right. Our chairman admires Mr. Zhou's talent very much, so let me visit you."
Most of the withdrawn people are more sensitive, and Zhou Xingchi is like this. When he was a child, he never played with his friends. He just stood alone behind the iron window and looked at the pedestrians on the street, and then he thought about it all in his heart.
Cai Yongchang only mentioned it slightly, and Zhou Xingchi heard that the other party wanted to recruit him. He said in surprise: "Mr. Cai, my contract is more than nine years."
"The liquidated damages are not a problem, so we Jiahe will naturally find a way," Cai Yongchang took out a check and said, "As long as Mr. Zhou comes to Jiahe to develop, the 3 million will be yours. To be honest, since DreamWorks was banned, there will be no future for actors like Zhou Xingchi to stay there, because no one will ask you to make movies except DreamWorks. How many movies can you make a year with DreamWorks? At most two movies will be the best. DreamWorks' resources have to be left to other actors, which is very unfavorable to your development..."
Cai Yongchang's eloquence is indeed good, but he relied on the money offensive when he was digging Cheng Long. Cheng Long was just an actor who had never seen the world before. He fainted with a string of zero checks and had not counted clearly for half a day. (At that time, Cheng Long only got 1 million, and the rest was taken away by Luo Wei as a redeem money)
Zhou Xingchi was also a little dizzy when he saw a string of zeros on the check. His hands began to tremble, and an impulse tempting him to follow the check.
It’s 3 million, there are all luxury houses and luxury cars.
Calm down, be sure to be calm!
Zhou Xingchi took a few deep breaths, swallowed his saliva and looked at the check again, and resisted the impulse and asked, "Mr. Cai, I wasn't that before, why did he come to me?"
"Haha, Mr. Zhou still underestimates himself," Cai Yongchang smiled. "There are few movies with a box office of over 30 million in Hong Kong. Judging from the current situation of "The Gambling Saint", the box office will definitely exceed 30 million. It would be a pity for an actor like you to stay in DreamWorks and be banned. If you come to Jiahe, you will earn at least twice as much money as DreamWorks every year."
Zhou Xingchi must be grateful to Kang Jianfei. Kang Jianfei promoted him to be a host and a TV series actor all the way, and has finally become a big movie star. But apart from gratitude, Zhou Xingchi is not loyal to Kang Jianfei and DreamWorks. 3 million is enough to touch his heart.
Carefully weighing the gains and losses, Zhou Xingchi's mind became more and more confused as he thought about it, while Cai Yongchang encouraged him to change jobs from time to time.
A few minutes later, Zhou Xingchi, who felt dry mouth, took a sip of water and said hesitantly: "This, you can talk to DreamWorks first to see if you can put it there."
Zhou Xingchi signed an agency contract with Oriental Entertainment. Compared with later generations, many of this kind of agency contract is actually equivalent to overbearing terms. Within ten years, Oriental Entertainment Company was responsible for packaging and promoting Zhou Xingchi. Zhou Xingchi wanted to make movies, produce records, and receive announcements. All of them were handled by Oriental Entertainment Company. Zhou Xingchi was not allowed to privately accept any advertisements, movies, or record contracts.
This is the agent contract of a young actor. If you like to sign or not, you will get out. There are countless people waiting to sign such a contract. As for Alan Tam, an artist who is already famous for his skills, his agency contract is much more free, so he is so casual when termination.
In addition to the agency contract, Zhou Xingchi also signed a ten-year movie contract with DreamWorks. The power and obligations of both parties are to shoot at least one movie at DreamWorks every year. This contract also has a trap because the final interpretation right is DreamWorks. If Zhou Xingchi has no box office value, then DreamWorks will just let him be a supporting role and fulfill his obligations. If Zhou Xingchi becomes popular, then Zhou Xingchi must be the protagonist to be considered a film for DreamWorks.
Anyway, the contract is all kinds of dirty and illegitimate, and it is all tinkered by lawyers from DreamWorks Legal Department. The young actors have no right to raise objections when signing the contract, so you can only choose to sign or not.
Zhou Xingchi was trapped by two overlord contracts with nine years left. If he wanted to switch to any company, the total penalty for liquidated damages would exceed 10 million, which was definitely a sky-high price.
I have to say that Kang Jianfei's heart is still very dark. He can't control himself, and any celebrity he trained himself will definitely have to pay the corresponding price if he wants to betray him.
Not to mention Zhou Xingchi, even Wen Bixia’s current contract is this, because it has not been changed since it was signed.
Seeing that Zhou Xingchi was moved by his words, Cai Yongchang continued to persuade: "Mr. Zhou, if you want to terminate the contract with DreamWorks, you must agree to this first so that we can arrange for the lawyer to do the remaining work. If you don't trust us, you can accept this check first."
Zhou Xingchi was very cautious in character, and finally resisted the temptation of a huge sum of 3 million yuan. He smiled reluctantly and said, "Mr. Cai, I will consider this matter first."
Cai Yongchang smiled and said, "Of course, before the Spring Festival holiday ends, Mr. Zhou has a lot of time to think carefully."
After Cai Yongchang left, Zhou Xingchi walked around the room anxiously, and Zhou's mother called him to eat without any response.
After more than three hours of anxiety, Zhou Xingchi called Wu Mengda.
"Hey, who's so late?"
"Brother Da, it's me, A Xing."
"What's the matter? It's a little early to greet you, so let's talk about it tomorrow."
"Brother Da, I have something to ask you for advice."
"Well, why are you polite to me? Let me tell me if you have something to do."
"If, I mean, if someone comes to poach me with 3 million, what should you do?"
"Who is crazy to dig you, two contracts are more than 10 million."
“I mean if.”
The other end of the phone suddenly paused, and then Wu Mengda's voice came: "Is there really someone who can poach you? Jiahe or Xinyi City?"
"Oh, don't ask so much, do you think I should leave?" Zhou Xingchi said irritably.
"The Gambler" also made Wu Mengda famous. He felt that it was appropriate to play with Zhou Xingchi, but he was unwilling to lose a good partner, so he naturally had to try his best to keep him. He said, "You are crazy. DreamWorks just made you famous and then changed jobs. Will Mr. Kang let him go?"
Zhou Xingchi said: "If I had to leave, Mr. Kang had no choice but to sue the court and someone would help me pay the penalty for liquidated damages."
"Mr. Kang will sue you in court? Just ask someone to kill you!" Wu Mengda began to intimidate, "He promoted you in two consecutive movies. Where will he put his face when you leave? Mr. Kang has money and doesn't care about your liquidated damages of more than 10 million yuan, but he will treat you as a rebellious person for the rest of his life. When you leave at this time, you will be looked down upon by anyone when you go to any company."
Zhou Xingchi said: "I live my own, and no one needs to respect me."
Wu Mengda said funny: "If you go to Jiahe or Xinyi City, I dare to be 100% sure that if Mr. Kang doesn't find someone to kill you, he will use all means to ruin your reputation. As long as you can withstand it, you can just change jobs."
Zhou Xingchi seemed to be really scared and held the microphone for a long time without saying anything.
Wu Mengda continued: "Besides, when you go to another company, which director can tailor-made a nonsensical comedy for you like Mr. Kang? Don't regard "The Gambling Saint" as your credit for being alone. Think about it carefully, I'll die first."
Zhou Xingchi was even more confused when he held the phone and didn't know what to do.
Chapter completed!