Chapter 37 The company wants to build you into a limited group trident
Dai Huiyun, assistant artist director of Chaoyin Culture, is eloquent in promising various benefits:
"The company values you very much and plans to make you, Wu Junchen and Liu Yichen into the trident of a limited group. By then you will be the top players in the country."
Wu Junchen and Liu Yichen are very popular now, and they have a faint tendency to become top-notch.
According to the popularity of "Tomorrow's Star", if nothing unexpected happens, Wu Junchen and Liu Yichen will debut as a group as the champion and runner-up, and they will definitely be promoted to top traffic stars by then.
If it were any other trainee, hearing that Chaoyin Culture wanted to make him, Wu Junchen, and Liu Yichen into a limited-edition trident, they would probably wake up from their dreams with laughter.
Dai Huiyun felt the same way, so she omitted the part explaining the contract.
After drawing the cake, he pushed the contract and the signature pen in front of Fang Xing, and pointed at the signature position with his manicured finger: "Sign here, and the company will notify Wu Junchen and Liu Yichen later to ask them to take more care of you.
"Next time we perform, we can arrange for you and Wu Junchen to team up. There will be a professional music production team to help you create performance songs."
After hearing the cake she drew, Fang Xing felt that it was unreliable.
Oral promises do have legal effect in name, but when they are actually implemented, it is difficult to prove.
Moreover, the verbal promise is now made to an assistant to the director. Is it possible to find an assistant to fulfill these promises?
However, out of courtesy, Fang Xing decided to take a look at the contract.
When looking at the contract, the main thing to look at is the artist's share ratio and the restrictions the contract places on the artist.
Seeing Fang Xing start to read the contract, Dai Huiyun urged impatiently: "You don't need to read the contract. Don't worry, the company will never treat you badly."
Fang Xing only glanced at it a few times and then stopped looking at it.
In this contract, the artist's share is 20%.
In other words, if an artist takes any job, he can only get 20% of the money.
For example, an artist accepts an announcement and the announcement fee is 10,000.
Then Chaoyin Culture will take away 8,000 yuan, and the remaining 2,000 yuan will be distributed to the artists.
However, this is not over yet.
The artist's manager also needs to participate in the share. The manager usually takes another 10% to 20% from the artist's share.
In other words, of the remaining 2,000 yuan, at least 200 will be distributed to the broker.
As for makeup artists and artist assistants, it depends on the company's specific arrangements.
Artists can only share 20%. I guess ordinary people will want to curse after seeing it.
However, this is the real situation in the entertainment industry.
28 points is considered a normal ratio, and some brokerage companies will even offer a ratio of 19 points.
Some people may ask, are celebrities so miserable?
That's not true.
Popular stars are different.
An artist, if he is lucky, becomes famous.
Then the entertainment company will usually take the initiative to change the contract and give a more generous share.
Of course, the entertainment company cannot suffer losses. While increasing the share, it will also increase the contract period.
For example, the contract period is extended to ten years.
How to sign a specific contract depends on how to negotiate.
When a star wants to get a top-level contract, the most common situation is that the original management contract is about to expire, and the company wants to renew the contract, so it will provide more generous conditions to retain the artist.
Even some attached conditions, such as someone competing for the championship of a variety show, this kind of promise can also be used as a bargaining chip for contract renewal.
Of course, these benefits have nothing to do with Fang Xing.
Because Fang Xing is just a trainee in "Tomorrow's Star" and has not even made his official debut.
After Fang Xing briefly read the contract, he determined that it was a very harsh contract.
The contract stipulates that the artist and the company will split the accounts 28%.
Artists must obey all arrangements of the company.
Moreover, this ratio of 28 points covers all economic activities.
Even if an artist relies on his own connections to get an announcement and the money he earns has nothing to do with the company, he still has to give 80% to the company.
The entertainment industry is so real.
As for the performing arts resources promised by the other party, they were all verbal promises, and none of them were written in the contract.
Fang Xing is not a fool. He has long known the rules of large companies, so he is not surprised at all by this contract.
If you were to sign this kind of contract after being reborn, you would have to be crazy.
Fang Xing refused directly: "I won't sign this contract."
Dai Huiyun showed a surprised expression on her face and said: "This is the company's standard contract. Wu Junchen and Liu Yichen signed this contract. Theirs is even more harsh. This is the treatment I specifically requested from the boss."<
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Fang Xing had no doubts about the first half of her sentence.
Wu Junchen and Liu Yichen were recruited by Chaoyin Culture as trainees when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.
He was trained in the company for a few years, and then sent to participate in the draft, and then he slowly became popular.
Therefore, Wu Junchen and Liu Yichen could only sign the lowest-level trainee contract, and they did not have any right to choose.
Of course, when their contracts expire and are up for renewal, they will be eligible to make demands to the company.
If it were other trainees, they would not have the right to choose if they were in the current environment.
Fang Xing is different. Although he can't choose a better contract, he can choose not to sign: "I won't sign this. I'm sorry, I have other things to do."
After saying that, I wanted to get up and leave.
Dai Huiyun's face turned cold and she threatened: "You have to think clearly, if you don't make up for this contract, you will be eliminated from the next performance."
"Whatever you want, I don't care even if you withdraw from the competition." Fang Xing strode away without any hesitation.
Even if you are eliminated from the program, you can still continue to make music without any pressure at all, and you can even go back to school to continue studying.
……
In the afternoon.
Dai Huiyun appeared again, pulled Fang Xing to sit down in the small conference room, took out a new contract, and said breathlessly:
"Fang Xing, you have to thank me this time. I begged the boss for a long time to help you get this high-level contract.
"Look, the treatment is much better than that of Wu Junchen and others.
"You must never tell Wu Junchen and others that you signed a high-level contract, otherwise they will definitely have trouble with the company.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry up and sign it. If the boss regrets it, he will miss the opportunity."
Fang Xing has finally seen through this artist director's assistant. He talks a lot about falsehoods but doesn't tell the truth.
It was impossible for her to ask for the high-level contract. It could only be that she went back to report to work and her boss decided to open the high-level contract after serious consideration.
Fang Xing opened the contract and glanced at it a few times, with a helpless smile on his face.
This new contract is indeed better than the previous one.
The artist share has been increased to 30%, but other conditions have basically remained unchanged, and the contract period has even been increased from 10 to 15 years.
If you are a trainee who has not debuted, you are lucky to get such a contract.
But such a contract, except for the higher share, is actually no different from a slave contract.
As long as you sign this contract, you have to do whatever the company wants you to do, otherwise you will be prepared to file a lawsuit to pay liquidated damages.
The liquidated damages in this contract are an astronomical figure, a total of 10 million.
