But now with the emergence of Sun Dahai, Honggu's financial situation is much better than in her previous life.
Although the living expenses of the actress are very high, Suiuijinghao has been paying dividends since this year. Judging from the development trend of Suiuijinghao, Honggu can receive more than one million Hong Kong dollars in shareholder dividends every year, which is enough to support her daily expenses.
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Speaking of which, Fa Ge's income is not very high. After "A Better Tomorrow" broke the box office record in Hong Kong and removed him from the label of "box office poison", his nominal salary has exceeded one million Hong Kong dollars, but this is all
It's a fictitious thing, meant to increase one's worth and deceive investors outside the circle.
If someone from the real industry approached him to make a movie, it would be considered good if they could give him 50% to 60%. Moreover, most of this money was taken away by his agency, Wireless, in the form of commission. Fa Ge could only get a small amount.
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This is why Wireless can’t retain people. The management contracts issued by Wireless are too overbearing, with long deadlines, heavy tasks, and high commissions. Most of the artist’s income is taken away, leaving only the artist.
Next, some soup, soup, water.
Therefore, when TVB's long-term contracts expire, qualified artists will leave one after another and will not renew their contracts with TVB.
However, TVB has TVB in its hands, and their star-making ability is really strong. Whether they use TV dramas to hone their acting skills, or entertainment columns to help promote and increase their popularity, newcomers grow very fast in the early stages of TVB's development.
Therefore, they don’t care too much about whoever wants to leave Wireless. They have developed a business model, just like harvesting wheat, cultivating and harvesting new people one crop after another.
Fa Ge also has a very ambivalent attitude toward wireless.
He came from TVB's artist training class. TVB has made every effort to train him since his debut. Various film and television drama resources have been continuously tilted towards him, making him quickly become a well-known first-line actor from a newcomer.
However, TVB's agency contract has now become a shackle restricting Fa Ge's development. Long-term and high-intensity shooting has made Fa Ge exhausted physically and mentally.
He needs to earn money to support his family, and at the same time he needs to rest, accumulate, settle and think to improve his acting skills. However, rushing to the scene day after day makes it impossible for him to do what he wants, and he can only endure like this.
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Ren Kuanxi transferred his management contract to Youlian last year. When he was with a few of them, he told them the main terms offered by Youlian and how loose and liberal they were, which made everyone stunned.
At that time, Leslie Cheung said that he would consider transferring all his management contracts to Youlian. Everyone has shares in Youlian. Although it is not much, it is still more or less his own company.
It is definitely impossible to say that Fa Ge is not moved. But he is a person who has a beginning and an end, and has already made a decision in his heart.
At a party not long ago, Sun Dahai mentioned this issue again. Leslie Cheung had already joined the reorganized Youlian Brokerage Company with Sister Fen.
Fa Ge made it clear to Sun Dahai that he could join Youlian, but he would have to wait until his contract with Wireless expired in three years before joining Youlian in a down-to-earth manner.
Sun Dahai knew that in history, Fa Ge also left Wireless TV after the end of his contract. Because Sun Dahai had no doubts about Fa Ge's commitment and was only waiting to welcome Fa Ge's arrival in the 1990s.
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As a literary and artistic film, the crew of "Autumn Fairy Tale" was able to receive such a large red envelope in addition to the agreed remuneration, which can be said to have set another record in the Hong Kong film industry.
Fortunately, this time the red envelopes were distributed quietly. Sun Dahai didn't want to become the public enemy of all the bosses and investors in the Hong Kong film industry, so he didn't make any announcement about it, and everyone kept silent about making a fortune.
There are no secrets in the film and television industry. Everyone who needs to know about Youlian's big red envelopes is aware of it. But since Youlian doesn't publicize it, others are tacitly aware of it.
There is an unwritten rule in the Hong Kong film industry. When everyone takes on a role in a literary film, their salary is basically halved.
The big stars are even worse. After their remuneration is halved, they have to get another steep discount. The remuneration that Fa Ge and Hong Gu received from filming "Autumn Fairy Tale" are not as large as the red envelopes that Sun Dahai is giving out now.
Sun Dahai said that he would invest 8 million Hong Kong dollars to complete "A Lang's Story". This was not bragging.
Historically, this film announced an investment of HKD 6 million, but the actual investment was less than HKD 5 million.
Sun Dahai's investment of eight million Hong Kong dollars is definitely real. The part of the money he specially added will be mainly used for post-production and publicity.
Since the box office results of the two movies he invested in before were much higher than those in his previous life, Sun Dahai is ready to continue to carry forward this tradition and let "Alang's Story" break the box office record for literary films just created by "Autumn Fairy Tale".
As for the remuneration for this film, the actors will still be cast in a reduced salary in accordance with the custom of literary and artistic films. Sun Dahai has no intention of breaking the tradition, otherwise he will not take advantage of the development of the film.
Literary films have their own way of survival, but due to a narrow audience, a small number of people, and generally poor box office results, the overall investment amount is not very high.
Currently in Hong Kong, the investment for a literary and artistic film is mostly between one and two million Hong Kong dollars, and there are also many literary and artistic films with an investment of less than one million Hong Kong dollars.
"Autumn Fairy Tale" was passed over by Sun Dahai because the investment budget was too high. A literary film worth 3 million Hong Kong dollars needs a local box office revenue of more than 10 million to be able to make back the money, so many film companies have backed down.
Zhang Wanting and his wife are not asking for an exorbitant amount of money; the budget has actually been severely compressed.
The key point is that many scenes in the film need to be shot on location in the United States. Most of the crew and equipment, and the round-trip transportation expenses are not small. In addition, the filming cost of 3 million Hong Kong dollars, at least
Half of it was spent on this.
Sun Dahai was rich and willing to go to great lengths. Not only did he accept the offer, he also took the initiative to increase the fee to four million Hong Kong dollars.
When the crew was in the United States, Sun Dahai entrusted Zhu Lihua and Chen Xi to give them a lot of substantial help there, so that when the film was finally shown to the audience, the effect was much better than the historical version.
But except for Sun Dahai, who can cheat, who else in the world dares to invest heavily in literary films? When soliciting investment, I am afraid that even Zhang Wanting and his wife could not guarantee that the film would be able to recoup its investment after it was completed.
Now, Sun Dahai's investment is even bigger, eight million Hong Kong dollars. None of the mainstream big-budget films in the Hong Kong film industry can reach this investment scale.
Huang Baiming has been in the industry for many years and is familiar with the inside story. Nowadays, when film companies promote their movies to the outside world, they will exaggerate, and there is a lot of water in it.
Nowadays, there are several movies claiming to invest tens of millions, but in fact the real investment is only five to six million. People in the industry know this well.